Xdistante

Living in cuba has some advantages (ouch!), and this is certainly one of them.

¨Xdistante" is a saturday evening tv show they put on
cuban tv.
It's about anime, animation and everything related to comics on screen. The thing is the guy who runs the show doesn't give a damn about copyright, so he just puts on whatever he likes or thinks must be put on tv.

Man I can't tell you how long do I expect during the week for the Saturday to come. You recall some anime title? You name it, and it's probably shown already.

[ more or less comprehensive list of anime stuff]

So the next thing to think about is. What happens to a tv channel when audience just doesn't matters? Well two things can happen:
- The guy on the show is a real geek / fanatic / trekkie whatever the tv show is about. What I've saw is it's the only thing that matters in order to get a pretty good show going on. And I mean it. I've seen the better tv shows ever here in cuba, and that's because of the enthusiasm of the showmakers. They just loved the topic they are making the show about, and they don't care about copyright, son they just put on what they thing has to be put on.

- The guy on the show doesn't care / the guy on the show is being forced to do the show / there are "hidden reasons"... And now you get real crap, but it's a minority, and it's also a "crap" you can easily identify and avoid.


Final conclusions: audience doesn't really matter. Those shows which just have an enthusiastic guy at the controls, gather some really good audience anyway. Maybe no "30%" of share but, what the hell??? which is the point of something that 40% of people is watching at the same time??? The truth is: there are very few things that we all like the same but sex, lies and stuff like that, so that's what happens when audience drives every standard goes deep down until it finds what we 100% have in common, so we can watch at the same time: animal stuff.

Moteros

Tener una mujer fotógrafa tiene sus ventajas.


En la habana

existe un club de motos clásicas , y lo mejor de todo, en la habana hay moteros de corazón que cuidan sus motos con cariño y dedicación, que se reúnen, y que han creado un ambiente de familia.

• Richard: Guajiro Natural estuvo con nosotros en casa. Pañuelo en la cabeza, manos engrasadas, cuero a montones y una mujer "motera" también. En su tiempo libre? motos. En su tiempo no libre? mecánica, cuidar la huerta, cuidar los animales. Guajiro 100% y agradabilísimo en todos sus aspectos. Olé tus cojones, Richard!!! cuanto me alegro de haberte conocido.>
  
  


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  Luisito: Inventor, "Inventor", gerente y gentil, urbano y conversador. Motero por casualidad y motero de calidad. Le gusta el café y también me brindó una linda conversación. Quedó pendiente una futura "blues session" con motos y demás.



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  William: El "boss" indiscutible, 50 años en la tienda donde trabaja, 30 años de moto, 20 años cuando está sobre la moto. Duro y espartano .


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  "Harley Man": Born to be a harley driver.
  

Estos señores son un pedazito de los USA que lleva "LatinAmerican" en gigantescas letras a la espalda y una bandera cubana en su escudo.

Gig / Blues En Centro habana

Acabo de volver de la casa de cultura de centro habana, una antigua casona que obviamente se derrumba.
Allí tuvimos la "peña del blues", al mando de Miguelito de Oca, bluesman por excelencia en cuba. Puede que sea el único sitio en la isla donde se pueda escuchar buen blues, y ya empieza a haber gente que lo sabe.

El movimiento de rock alternativo en cuba ha estado durante mucho tiempo polarizado hacia el rock "duro",. Es de justicia añadir que es un auténtico movimiento "underground": porque es movimiento y porque es underground.

Como nota "geek", entre los asistentes me encontré con la versión cubana de "faye", de questinablecontent, :

Sólo que no se llama faye, y no vive georgia, sino en "Santi Spiritus", en cuba, pero en fin, nadie es perfecto y si no, que se lo pregunten a faye.

Miguel y yo empezamos la peña hace ya 5 años, y se gestó el grupo "sociedad havana blues". Este mes es el aniversario, y pude tocar algunos temas con ellos, joder que tiempos, hacia tiempo que no pasaba un rato tan bueno.
Mi mujer hizo algunas fotos para el que quiera verlas, y si todo anda como se debe, tal vez miguel y yo comencemos un nuevo proyecto de blues acústico. Que los Dioses nos oigan.

Webcomic

I've been doing some research on this awesome thing called "webcomic".
I just can't figure out where is the need for "printed" comic.
It's a full world of comic out there, Dude !!!
I really mean it, it's a neverending world, and it's not just "geek stuff" all the time:

• Nine planets without intelligent live. Not too often updated, but a real "must". The solar system is populated by nothing but robots, you can't miss it.
• Flaky Pastry. The lanlord is a multi shaped dragon, and the roommates are a tall warrior elf, a short pseudo lesbian one, and a catgirl! everybody else in the comic is plain human.
• UserFriendly standard geek comic among standards. it had to be here
• Starslip Crisis: I do like this kind of future!!
• it's kittybot!!! ultra fine art in an addictive & original sci-fi story.

And now some spanish comicstrips. This is not strictly "webcomic", but If you know some spanish, these are for you man!!!! (For the record: I'm obviously not english, and I don't know what the hell I am doing posting this in a so low q english, you'll have to forgive me...)

• TiraEcol spanish geek power!!!!
• La legión del espacio ultra sci-fi spanish geek power You can not miss this
• Raulito el friky. Spanish linux freak
  

anddddd!!!

QUESTIONABLE CONTENT

But of course you was already aware of that ...
[UPDATE]

• Errant Story, acid anime elf story, two years old, good dialogues.
  

Calle Infanta

Me gusta mucho, mucho caminar por Infanta.
Entre El Vedado y Centro Habana, grandes soportales donde refugiarse mientras se camina.
Bocaditos, refresquitos, fosforeras, discos piratas, negros, blancos, chinos, grasa y gente con prisa.
También gente triste, quebrada.
Me gusta mucho caminar por Infanta.

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