Rosana is one of Marga’s favorite singers. She’s the only artist that Marga has followed at all through her ten-year career. If Marga had ever purchased a CD, it would have been by Rosana. Back in 2000, when my new Spanish girlfriend told me that Rosana was her favorite artist, I immediately [...]

By far the biggest success stories to come out of Spain’s reality show, Operación Triunfo (a cross between American Idol and Big Brother, as Wikipedia says) has been a young bloke named David Bisbal. He’s doing a good job of milking his fame for all its worth. He’s had five albums in five [...]

We had a long weekend. It was pretty evenly divided into three separate events, so I’m going to write three separate posts. The first event was a concert in Colindres on Friday night by Shaila Dúrcal.

In sort of a combination of my tea cup and guitar posts this week, I have continued to alter reality a bit with Photoshop magic.

The other day, I was admiring how shiny and reflective the surface of my classical guitar is and, like a good amateur photographer, started thinking of subjects I could reflect it in.

Tragedy struck here at Cactus Cam Productions last week. Our cameraman, my 6-year-old G4 Powerbook, had a severe stroke last Wednesday. He’s been in intensive care since then, and, I’m sorry to report, he passed away yesterday.

The good news is that I finally have a way to put audio files on my blog now. The bad sad news is that my little Casio camera is the best microphone I have, so, to get an audio file, I have to make a video anyway, and then extract the audio.

This is a simple little ditty that I’ve come up with recently. It sounds very “Pink Floyd” to me. Hopefully it will be incorporated into a longer song sometime.

It lasted two full days, but the first flower from the Cactus Cam project has finally bitten the proverbial dust.

For my post yesterday, I tried to upload, to Revver, the following video of the birthday trio blowing out their candles.