The Grammy Wrap

The grammy were on sunday.

This is my review on that matter.

I am glad they are over.

Many things happen.

The first thing I saw was Kanye West tribute to his mother and having MAMA writing on his head was nice [as a son honoring his mom not as a trend, thank you]. The duo of Beyonce with Tina Turner was spectacular. Tina still haves the damn moves and jumping around on those heals I trully admire her just because of that . Love the what Kanye did when they put the music while he was talking. I always say that is lack of respect. I know you are running out of time and all but please stop that, damn it. Makes you feel like shit and dont want to be heard like we dont care what you have to say so move out the stage. I know there are some times you REALLY have to do that, but come on, please. Kanye well done kid, well done you have my blessing. [check this link to see it]

I didn’t saw the whole show but I think I missed the part of some kid singing Let it be from The Beatles and I missed that. So I went to youtube and OMG!!! that kid kicked ass big time with that song. Of course I saw that is the same kid that is on the movie Across the Universe. This movie haves an amazing soundtrack. The kid name is Timothy T. Mitchum and the lady names is Carol Woods. [Told you it was good. Check the video. It seems that after uploading this got messed up so the lady isnt lip singing ok hte videos is just behind] Foo Fighters also did a great job on their performance outside the Staples Arena and won the Best Hard Rock Performance with The Pretender. Very powerfull and loud one joined with the Grammy Philharmonic Orchestra —led by Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones.

Other great performance was Ms. Winehouse. I know she is a junkie [but honestly the beatles, the doors, all that people were junkies too so come on… dont forget whitney houston] but she deserves a chance. She was nominated for 10 grammy and won 5 of them. Brilliant her performance. She performed via satellite from London cause her visa didnt made it to the date of the event. God Bless technology. I enjoyed pretty much her performance cause people she does got the voice and the skills to play it in anyways she cans or likes. Thing that most young singers cant do not even on her good days. I just hope that she sees that she can do it and really attend rehab and put her husband far away from her. I sure hope to listen from Amy Winehouse more and more on the years to come and that she doesnt end up like Janis or Jimi. Oh! Loved her face of pure surprise when Tony Bennet and Natalie Cole announced her as the winner of Record of the Year. Her face was priceless she couldn’t believe it. Her mums beside her and all very happy gal. Also said something about Camden but didn’t knew what it was until today that it seems that some fire burned up some houses and people were left homeless. Good girl gone bad for real Amy.

Many surprises like a jazz album won album of the year and that didnt happens in like 43 years. So congrats to Herbie Hancock and his “River: The Joni Letters”. The Joni mentioned here is Joni Mitchell. She is a songwriter with a great and unique voice. I knew about her existance thanks to the movie Love Actually. This album was against “Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace,” Foo Fighters [rock], “These Days” Vince Gill [country], “Graduation” Kanye West [hip hop] and “Back to Black” Amy Winehouse. Very mixed up the category.

By the way I have to say that Puerto Rico got two Grammy that night also. Black Guayaba won Best Latin Rock for their “No Hay Espacio”. the other nominees for this category were Jarabe de Palo “Adelantando”, Panda “Amantes Sunt Amentes”, Rabanes “Kamikaze” and Zoé “Memo Rex Commander Y El Corazón Atómico De La Via Láctea”. About time guys and congratulations. I hope this helps other local bands to keep dreaming and working hard to make rock en espanol made in Puerto Rico what it was before GREAT. I cant wait to see more bands on that category.

Calle 13 won Best Latin Urban Album for their “Residente O Visitante”. The ohter nominees for this category were Akwid “E.S.L.”, Daddy Yankee “El Cartel: The Big Boss”, Tego Calderon “El Abayarde Contra-Ataca” and Fulanito “Vacaneria!”. Congrats to the winners I am happy for Calle 13 cause even with all the hate they get from regeton fans or whatever they do make lyrics that you can apply to all latino america like in Pal Norte even when we dont have to cross the border with so much trouble we can relate somehow to the issues cause we are latinos and even with the “advantage” of being a colony of US some dont like us. That is the truth like ir or not. But this subject is too long so anyways… Congrats and keep making such good music.

Congrats to all the winners and those that didnt made it hey remember you were a nominee that is just as cool as winning so don’t be sad and dont make a drama about it. I just cant wait for the Grammy Latino. I hope I remember to watch them. [haha]

Polaroid’s Suicide

By MARK JEWELL
The Associated Press
Friday, February 8, 2008; 4:54 PM

“Polaroid Corp. is dropping the technology it pioneered long before digital photography rendered instant film obsolete to all but a few nostalgia buffs.”

Polaroid is closing factories in Massachusetts, Mexico and the Netherlands and cutting 450 jobs as the brand synonymous with instant images focuses on ventures such as a portable printer for images from cell phones and Polaroid-branded digital cameras, televisions and DVD players.

The company stopped making instant cameras over the past two years.

“We’re trying to reinvent Polaroid so it lives on for the next 30 to 40 years,” Tom Beaudoin, Polaroid’s president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer, said in a phone interview Friday, after the company’s plans were reported in The Boston Globe.

Polaroid failed to embrace the digital technology that has transformed photography, instead sticking to its belief that many photographers who didn’t want to wait to get pictures developed would hold onto their old Polaroid cameras.

Global sales of traditional camera film have been dropping about 25 percent to 30 percent per year, “and I’ve got to believe instant film has been falling as fast if not faster,” said Ed Lee, a digital photography analyst at the research firm InfoTrends Inc.

“At some point in time, it had to reach the point where it was going to be uneconomical to keep producing instant film,” Lee said.

Privately held Polaroid doesn’t disclose financial details about its instant film business.

Polaroid instant film will be available in stores through next year, the company said _ after which, Lee said, Japan’s Fujifilm will be the only major maker of instant film.

Polaroid got its start making polarized sunglasses in the 1930s, and introduced its first instant camera in 1948. Film packs contained the chemicals for developing images inside the camera, and photos emerged from the camera in less than a minute.

Polaroid’s overall revenue from instant cameras, film and other products peaked in 1991 at nearly $3 billion. The company went into bankruptcy in 2001 and was bought four years later for $426 million by Minnetonka, Minn.-based consumer products company Petters Group Worldwide.

Meanwhile, Polaroid is seeking a partner to acquire licensing rights for its instant film, in hopes that another firm will continue making the film to supply Polaroid enthusiasts.

INFO taken from : washingtonpost.com
photo below taken from: www.wildcalifornia.org

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Reavel’s Personal Note on this Subject:

I can’t believe this. I knew they will come to an end but not so fast. Come on we all love that old looks on the photos. The excitement of waiting the burden when it came they way it wasnt expected, the funky hues the film made. I just fell in love with the idea of having one after seen lots of polaroids photos of some websites. I still want one so i will have to hurry up before people buy them just to have one. Some people might do that. At least we will be able to buy the films anyways. But no more cameras that is sad. I wonder what the fashion industry will say and do since many used them for many things. Also on XMas and Three Kings Day season… the kids wont be able to get the photos with them to keep as a memory that is sad, breaking a childs dream of having a pic with Santa, Gaspar, Melchor and Baltazar. Lets see what happens and I do hope somebody buys the lisence from them. Polaroid will always be part of us. Ohh the good old things are fading away and some could care less. Damn you digital world… 😦

For this Valentines day

For this Valentines day…

To: You
From: Me

Honey, you can’t buy my love on Valentines day. But get me the chocolates –❤–
check the floating kisses [well that was the idea to represent chocolate etc.. bla bla]

Happy Valentines 2008 people and have fun.
[gosh I hate this day…] *sigh*

Grammy Amnesia*

When I came online this morning I saw that MSN had a list of 21 people that were forgotten by the Grammy. Thing is that Grammy turns 50 this year and they are celebrating it the only way it can be celebrated, BIG. But this article is good and got me reading actually an MSN news cause it is true. Those artists were forgotten by the academy and guess what they are the most loved artists by the people and today even when some of them have died we still talk about them and listen their music. I noticed that most of the left behinds were eternally loved rock bands. Strange, right? Not so. The academy [for what I see] didn’t liked that so much [rock music]. I think cause when I saw the list they put up they left the biggest rock artists of the world. There are like just two that doesnt really fit in but well what can I do.

I have to be honest. I dont like too much the grammies this days. I being a latina never understood how in the world none of the latino artists ever won a tropical music category and if they did ever won in the latino category they never made it to the stand they always show it on a little side/corner of the TV after of before the shows stars after the commercials this here is NOT fair. Thanks God we have latin grammys and we can talk in spanish or we can’t but we dont’t care about that [HAHA!!] The catagories for the latino audience are Best Latin Pop Album (Vocal or Instrumental.), Best Latin Rock Or Alternative Album, Best Latin Urban Album, Best Tropical Latin Album, Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album, Best Tejano Album, Best Norteño Album and Best Banda Album.

That is another thing I never ever understood. Latin pop, Ok. Latin Rock, Super OK. Latin Urban they won that so yeah Ok. Now Best Mexican/Mexican American Album, Tejano, Norteño and Banda. What the hell? Those are four categories for only one latino audience mexicanos. What happen to Merengue, flamenco, salsa, musica de trios, ballenato, cumbia and all that. I bet they still believe that despues de mexico everybody sings mariachi and guess what NOT true at all. I dont blame mexicans cause they have nothing to do with this. I just blame the academy. Besides there are many styles of latin music like the one from Spain, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Cuba even Mexico they left the mariachis out of the nominations. Maybe that is why they gave us our won grammies but before they actually recognize we need our own side. What happen? That will always be a mystery.

Anyways back to the topic and sorry but I had to write that down before I forget it. Here is the list of the artists the academy forgot. Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, The Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Allman Brothers Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, James Brown, Queen, Diana Ross, 2Pac, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, The Doors, Rolling Stones, Madonna, Bob Marley & The Wailers, 50 Cents [wtf?], Jessica Simpson [again, wtf?] and The Byrds.

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*amnesia: [A noun] 1. amnesia, memory loss, blackout