I love my cat

Tomás sitting on my belly, apparently asleep. I start to stroke him.



Tomás wakes up, he's going to do something. Mad cat!

Gaby @ Dr Alderete's I am Nobody

This was some time ago, but anyhow I really wanted to publish that I've been featured in Dr. Alderete's new illustrated book,"I am nobody"/Yo soy un Don Nadie". Published by Black Bones Editions and introduced in September 2008 in Mexico City, Paris and Lyon,  the title ironically points out the low brow celebrities that have built Mexico City's underground scene at Foro Alicia. 

Let me tell you a little about this place. Started back in 1995, the Alicia was one of the very first that organized counterculture shows in Mexico City. Back in those days, mainstream and big record labels highly controlled the way music was going to be listened and consumed in Mexico. Let me remind you, young kids, that there was no internet, no myspace, no facebook. And of course, along the big names and bands, there was a small scene that was generating in the city, against the trend of the city's listener who used to (and still!) spend the wage at a cover bar. This subterranean scene embraced then-unknown styles such as surf, garage, hip hop, punk and metal. This is where Alicia broke through, opening an alternative space to shelter the non broadcast music, the unpopular sounds and guitar solos, the screams and the soon-to-be legends several years later: Los Esquizitos, Sekta Core, Las Ultrasónicas, Lost Acapulco. Inside, colorful paint murals bear witness of thousands that have played in the venue, the aisles that keep secret encounters and innocent kisses, beer clinking, laughs and disputes. Besides being a musical venue, Foro Alicia is a record label and studio: Grabaxiones Alicia: Música contra el Poder (Music against Power) and has published several records through the years. 

THE TEN CAKE @ Foro Alicia / 2001

I remember well the very first time I step in at Alicia. It was the debut of my brother's punk rock band, The Ten Cake in 2001. This was the very first time I visited a rock venue like this. Some years later, I decided that the place would fit perfectly for a presentation for INVASION!, my co-founded fanzine with Alejandra Espino. Little I knew that some years later I would take the scenario with Dagger, Occulta and The Sweet Leaf. 

Dr. Alderete's book feature aesthetically what you would encounter in the place: sharp color palettes and shiny silver motifs that fill Lucha Libre masks which now stand for one of the most popular genres in Mexico: surf rock. Some say that kids that attended wrestling matches at the Arena Mexico some blocks near from the place, would later head to Alicia still wearing their masks. The book's portraits speak of each particular soul: there's Ultrasonicas's drummer Jenny Bombo posing with her characteristic tough attitude, there's Ali Gua Gua unveiling her big sweet heart, there's Nacho Pineda, Alicia's head man, captured with that respectful and calm air. When Dr. Alderete asked me if he could take a picture of me for a new book project, I just smiled shyly. 

Back from Hel's house - the Feral Dagger Woman arise

fe⋅ral   [feer-uhl, fer-] 

–adjective
1. existing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated or cultivated; wild.
2. having reverted to the wild state, as from domestication: a pack of feral dogs roaming the woods.
3. of or characteristic of wild animals; ferocious; brutal.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/feral


It's been ages since I don't post anything in this blog. Wow, November 16, 2007! So many things have happened in one year, it makes me shiver, it actually gives me goose bumps! I was just visiting this morning and realized that I really like this blog. Even more than myspace's. Many times, I have planned to terminate it due to the lack of visitors and comments... Now I wonder who reads these words on the other side? And who's been reading it. It has, so much memories kept in a dream case, so many ideas lost in the process, people who have gone into another dimension, people who have just vanished from the surface. . . Overwhelming.

After our debut EP, The Mean Machine, Dagger has stopped rehearsing and playing. The very last time we performed was at the Indie O Music Awards at Polyforum Siqueiros, Mexico City. We sucked so much! I guess, I was driven by some pointless distress at the time, turning everything to a poisonous and fatal stab against me.

Now I realized that our real debut was long time ago. We kind of stuck on the fact that an EP album is the key to correctly and officially present your work. But now that I think about it, we gained some kind of reputation from our very first demo back in 2005. I still receive from time to time emails of people asking for that CD. The thing is that I have no time to print it right now (even though the solely work involved is hitting some Fedex Kinko's and print the damn cd label and booklet). Now things are different. Pablo left the band months ago (even though he tells me he might be joining again for some reunion gig soon), Ericka is still playing in Occulta, and Valeria, our recent bass player, is just holding there asking me desperately when she is finally playing live with us. But Dagger is having a break now. I am considering this period for a time to rest, to calm down, even that The Mean Machine EP won Best Metal Album Award, even we were performing better than ever... Sometimes you can't oversee when the time has come for some dear siblings to die. Sometimes you have to give things a rest.

. . .

But that doesn't mean I have a rock and roll break, I have joined The Sweet Leaf, a doom/stoner band formed in the nineties (more info soon to come). I was thinking, what if I open a new blog dedicated to TSL? But, it's going to be interesting to see what develops from now on and make a whole story out of all my musical work and projects. Anyhow, you can still visit Dagger's myspace and listen to some old classics, and one new track called "My Eyes Are Bleeding" which I entirely recorded myself some months ago.  

Cheers and Happy New Year all!

The Pleasure Seekers

Woo! Son las 4:14 am y no me canso de escuchar a las Pleasure Seekers. Banda conformada por Suzi Quatro, Patti Quatro, Nan Ball, Marylou y Dianne Baker durante los sesentas.

Y aquí va la letra, ehem, plena identificación! Y escúchenla en el player. El princpio está pedorro porque lo grabé de un show "Wild Wild Sound" en Garagepunk. Salud!

That I love you, baby, I'm telling you right here
But please don't make me decide, baby, between you and a bottle of beer
And, baby, come on over, well, come on over to my side
Come on, baby, my side!
Well, I may not live past twenty-one, but woo! What a way to die!

Your loving fluctuates, baby, and everybody knows
But the temperature always stays the same on an ice-cold bottle of Strohs
So, baby, come on over, a-come on over to my side
Come on over, honey!
Well, I may not live past twenty-one, but woo! What a way to die!

When I start my drinking, my baby throws a fit
So I just blitz it out of my mind with seventeen bottles of Schlitz
And, baby, come on over, a-come on over to my side
Come on over!
Well, I may not live past twenty-one, but whoo! What a way to die!

You got the kind of body that makes me come alive
But I'd rather have my hands around a bottle of Colt Forty-five
And, baby, come on over, a-come on over to my side
Are you coming or not, baby?
Well, I may not live past twenty-one, but woo! What a way to die!

FELIZ DIA DE LA MUJER/ women's day

Sólo tengo una cosa que decir en este día, a pesar de que en México, cuando caminas por la calle te "saboreen" como carne cruda y te griten y te insulten...

Me voy con la Dúrcal, y dice:


La chica del dia viste pantalon
bebe vodka puro sin limitacion
cuando busca un medio de locomocion
mas que un deportivo prefiere un camion
que quiere esa chica
esa es la cuestion
canta protestando
abre los pulmon
ven lo que esa chica
tambien esa chica
esa buena chica tiene corazon
y si alguien me porfía
que no que no que no
yo le contestaria que si que si que si
que son inteligentes, alegre y consecuente
con voces indecentes ellas son asi
y si alguien me porfía que no que no que no
yo le contestaria que si que si que si
tal vez son diferente pero seguramente indiscutiblemente
tienen corazon
Así son las francesas las suecas las inglesas
y las senegalesas todas son igual
lo mismo que las rusas y las
las chicas andaluzas
todas son igual

Pink Wig

Wig, originally uploaded by Daggermx.

On January 20 we played at Plataforma Puebla 06 Festival in the city of Puebla. This is the third Dagger show in this city, we're getting pretty used to it. This is a pic from the backstage, I'm already obsessed with this wig but I know I will soon let it go, as it always happens to me.

Need Pain Killers

I've been ill for about four days now. I got this terrible flu out of nowhere, as I had no contact with any other ill person, but maybe that sick air that twirls Mexico City is the cause. If you get out to the street, you see all these people coughing. Here's a pic of all the medicine and pain killers I've got. Today I was so stoned by these, including a Tylenol Sinus pill I decided to take just to get out of the bed and finally do some Xmas shopping.
Hopefully tomorrow I'll get rid of these damn viruses as Dagger will be playing at UTA.

PARTY ANIMALS

I celebrated my birthday last saturday.

We partied all night long, and finished at 6 a.m. Today, we received complaints of our neighbours because of that. Hell, I guess you can't party at least once in a year? ONCE?

Anyway we had a blast!

And we are ready to still party next saturday night at UTA Re-Evolution downtown Mexico City. I will be posting a review for sure.

This is my cake, my brother cooked specially for me. It was made with a lot of Gansitos - which is kind of a chocolate twinky wonder, except it's tastier - and it was covered with whipped cream. I don't know what happened to his cake later in the night.

I was a teen too!

So gathering among my old class albums, photos, diaries, and checking out the hot-boy-from-the-class pics I took in secret, I found this mag.
Hey! I was once a teen too, and I used to think "The Party" was the coolest band in the world and I was totally in love with Joey from NKOTHB.
Check this out! So sweet!

I'M IN A DONNAS VIDEO!

Ok este video es de The Donnas como tributo a sus fans que les mandan fotos, hey! yo mandé la mía, y sí, chequen a Daggerlady justo antes de entrar al coro! wow!

Watch Daggerlady out before the chorus and shocking guitar fill starts!


Get this video and more at MySpace.com

Alguien recuerda estas caricaturas?

Hey!! Desgraciadamente soy victima de la noche y no me puedo dormir, si no recuerdo una caricatura que pasaba en Canal 5, en los ochentas (gulp) de un chavito y una ballena voladora. Habré alucinado de chiquita? -esos gansitos ochenteros sabian bienn!- Si alguien se acuerda del nombre de esta caricatura agradeceré que me lo envien.

Bueno, y buscando en la red, encontré estas caricaturas que ya no me acordaba que existían y eran mis favoritas! Alguien las recuerda tambien?
Ohh que bellos tiempos! Todo mundo como que recuerda a Don Gato, Remmi y se crea bien cool por decirlo no?? ya basta!! (haha)

EL PEQUEÑO CID
Recuerdo que en un episodio Ruy iba al cementerio y se le aparecía un fantasma, escalofriante, creo que de los episodios que me dieron más miedo haha!








SANDY BELL
Al principio la adoraba, pero al final me di cuenta que era una vil copia de Candy Candy








LOS SNORKELS
Tenía el album de colorear.








SHE-RA
Ohhh Madame! La novia de He Man!








VOLTRON
Weeeeee!! esta sí era mi caricatura favorita, tenía la lonchera que guardaba celosamente en el recreo! Me acuerdo que me encantaba Jeff y yo y mi hermana teníamos largas discusiones sobre por quién tenía que decidir, si por Ginger o por Lisa. (hahaha) kids..









THUNDARR EL BARBARO

Se acuerdan que esta caricatura decía que el mundo se terminaba en 1994? o 92?








BELLE Y SEBASTIAN
No había un perrito extra que se llamaba Poochie?








GIGI
Todos recordamos cuando Gigi crecía y se le veía la nalguita o no?? (haha)








LOS DINOPLATIVOLOS
Yeaa esta me encantaba!!! Aunque duró poco, grabé todos los capitulos en mi VHS. Además, los "malos" como el Tiranosaurio tenían una voz guarrona bien chida.








LOS DEFENSORES DE LA TIERRA
Wow!! esta la pasaban a la hora de la cena, antes de "Rosa Salvaje" (haha)








CALABOZOS Y DRAGONES
Oooooh seeee! recuerdo que a estos chavitos se perdieron en un mundo mágico en un parque de diversiones.








JEM
Claaaro! Esta fue mi primera inspiración para ser rockstar (haha)Además el grupo pesado se llamaba The Misfits!








ERASE UNA VEZ
Oh que buena caricatura, educativa, no necesitabas ir a la escuela con ésta. Recuerdo bien que los escritores no tenían peros en dar muerte a algun personaje.








EL VUELO DE LOS DRAGONES
Esta no la pasaban como serie, si no era una pelicula no es así?
Buena música hard rockera en esta movie.








LA ISLA DEL TESORO
De ésta tengo vagos recuerdos, pero me acuerdo muy muy bien de este Don!







Y FINALMENTE ENCONTRÉ LA CARICATURA, SIMPLEMENTE SE ME VINO A LA MENTE.. hace dos segundos
LA BALLENA JOSEFINA, ASI ES!
La historia se trataba de un niño, un poco geek por cierto, que tenía por amiga a una ballena que guardaba en un vaso de agua (!) alucinante!
Buscando en la red encontré que no soy la única que se malviajó tratando de recordar esta caricatura, y encontré que para aquellos que la vieron fue toda una experiencia, analizando los capítulos, parecía que el autor de este anime se metió algo más que Resistol!












Aaaaaah! Soy feliz, buenas noches!