Óscar Marín 🏴

I’ve always been astounded at the sheer diversity of landscapes in Spain, given it’s relatively small size. You have steep, snow-capped mountains, arid deserts, lush forests, rolling hills, volcanic islands, and beautiful, white sand beaches. Spain really has it all.

There’s live TV, and then there’s Beastie Boys tearing through “Sabotage” on Letterman in 1994 like they were trying to blow the roof off the place.

Apurando al máximo la temporada de nieve 🫣

@AdresanSoso Par contre j'ai retrouvé Keziah Jones avec ce moment de grâce. Une reprise de Jimmy Hendrix. John McLaughlin lui tient le micro. Stephan Eicher n'a pas dû toucher une guitare pendant quelques mois.😉 x.com/i/status/16866…

A inicios de los 80 el heavy estaba en alza y sus artistas llenaban estadios y vendían millones de discos. Pero casi todos hombres. Hasta que llegó ella a demostrar que el heavy podía tener nombre de mujer. Hoy, en #LaHistorietaMusical, la Reina del Heavy Metal: Doro Pesch.

"Ordena tramitar la petición de suspensión del decreto de forma cautelar, por la vía ordinaria, para lo que da 10 días a las partes para que informen a favor o en contra."

@verdadsmolestas Y los políticos más baratos son los que arden

«La energía más barata es la que no se consume. Quédense en casa, no conduzcan, no usen electricidad.» Dice Ursula von der Leyen. ¿Próximamente? «Los alimentos más baratos son los que no se comen».

@InesSainzOf Menuda nuez tiene. Cada vez que traga saliva suena como si tiraras de la cadena.

Por aclamación popular... ¿A que este no le teníais en el radar? 😜

Queridos periodistas, aquí os lo dejo por si ya lo ha borrado. Spoiler: tengo muuuuuuuchos mas.

Here’s another #MoodyMonday shot. I drove to Cabo de Gata at dusk, parked where the road stops and walked the rest. The Arrecife de las Sirenas doesn’t announce itself, it just appears around a bend and suddenly the lighthouse is there and the sea is doing everything at once and you set up the tripod and wait. This is what was there.

“You’re spending 50% of your disposable income on a house a postman owned in 1917.” Rory Sutherland just delivered a brutally funny takedown of London property madness. He pointed out that people with good jobs are now paying enormous sums for a three-bedroom house in Fulham that’s essentially a boring, low-quality building — the real value is almost entirely in the land and planning permission (about 90% of the price). Meanwhile, we live in an incredible technological age where you can buy jet skis, hot tubs, and amazing consumer goods — but most of our money goes into owning a “shit house” in a good postcode. Rory’s friend has a flat in the Barbican and he gets that — it’s actually an amazing place to live. But most London housing? Dross. Rory’s friend has a flat in the Barbican and he gets that — it’s actually an amazing place to live. But most London housing? Dross. It’s like paying £60,000 a year for the parking space while driving a 1970s Ford Cortina. What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve seen people spend huge money on just for location?

Which rock guitarist has the most instantly recognizable tone? You hear one note and you know exactly who it is.

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. where octopuses dream. where elephants return to the bones of their dead and stand over them in silence. where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. where flowers bloom...where crows remember human faces -especially those who were cruel to them - and pass that memory on to their young. where ants build entire cities. where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.

@MistaFrank_ @floridabadboy69 @PeterSweden7 With all due respects to both of you and the victims: Personal experiences are not enough, but the aggregation of personal experiences from all the people you know is far better than "trust the science" headlines in a world where media is controlled by so many actors in power.

First of all, I'm so sorry about your friends. Also I'm not dismissing your personal experiences at all because when something happens to people around you, it feels very real and understandably raises concern. But the issue is that personal observations, even when they feel overwhelming, can't reliably show causation or prove a broad conclusion. We all know in any large population, illnesses like cancer or strokes do occur, and during the same time period you can also notice groups of cases that feel connected even when they aren't. So that's why I'm saying if we want to reach a solid conclusion, we still need structured, independently verified evidence rather than relying on personal impressions.

This should be headline news EVERYWHERE. A Pfizer insider who was former head of toxicology in Europe has just come out and said something that many "conspiracy theorists" suspected. He estimates that 20 000 to 60 000 people in Germany have died from the c*vid vaccine. This was said at a parliamentary enquiry commission in Germany. So why isn't this massive news being reported everywhere? Is the mainstream media that has recieved millions in funding from Bill Gates deliberately covering this up... 🤔

Desde el desvío de Zabala, ya de lleno en la primavera con los últimos retales de la temporada de nieve.

@davidalvarezdlt Después de 14 años de coworkings (N=1 pero T=14 😂) Prueba various antes de comprometerte, porque el punto de venta de un coworking siempre ha sido "somos diferentes". Ahí lo dejo ... Y una biblioteca pública fichada no está nada mal para los días que busques alternativa.

Para los freelancers que vais solos a un coworking… lo recomendáis? Hay “vida social” y conoces gente que ves a diario o cada uno va a su bola? PD: sí, a partir de junio seremos empresa full remote.

Casi dos años desde que se cerró la línea C9 de Cercanías que une Cercedilla con el Puerto de Navacerrada y el Puerto de Cotos, seguimos sin saber una fecha de reapertura.

Tal cual

Por eso un amigo me recomendaba no leer comentarios en redes. Cuanto sectarismo, intolerancia  y agresividad veo en la mayoría de respuestas. Gente que habla del daño que hace “el odio” siendo los que mas odian! El haber cuestionado algún punto de la polémica ley trans no me hace transfobo, el plantear que las actuales políticas sobre violencia de género no están funcionando como debieran, al ver subir cada año las víctimas, no me hace misogino, el haber hecho una pelicula en clave de humor sobre la ascensión de un facha al poder, sacando en ella a personajes de todo pelaje e ideología, no me hace facha. Yo soy de izquierdas, pero no de esta izquierda divisora, censora e intransigente, amiga del boicot, que insulta e intenta denigrar al que se sale un milímetro de vuestra doctrina y militancia ciega. Soy mas de una izquierda dialogante, inclusiva y conciliadora. Por suerte la gente que suelta aqui su bilis no es representativa de toda la sociedad, así que aun me quedan esperanzas. No veais La Revuelta si no os apetece, por fortuna, aun estamos en un país libre.

Rick Rubin: "I've met very few billionaires who are happy" "I don't look at the outside very much. I look inward. I try to focus on what do I feel, what am I seeing, in the hopes that by sharing what's going on in me, it resonates with someone else. I can't predict what someone else would like. And I don't think anybody can. So if I'm authentically true to myself, that's the best chance of someone else liking something." Rubin explains the paradox of acceptance: "People want to be accepted. And I'm suggesting that the best way to be accepted is to be yourself. It's not to change yourself to what someone else thinks. First of all, you don't really know what someone else thinks. And if you're not genuine to yourself, nothing is there. It's just a projection or a mask. It's not true." On what makes something interesting: "In a sea of information, the more yours is personal, the more it's not like hers or his or theirs, the more it's yours. If we're all thinking the same thing, it's boring. Why would we make anything if everyone thinks the same thing? What makes us interesting are the differences. Even the imperfections. The imperfections are what make us human." Rubin shares what captures his attention: "There's so much middle of the road, and it doesn't interest me. I want it because it's louder, quieter, softer, harder. It's pushing some boundary. That's why I take notice. It's not more of the same. It's the one that makes you stop and think: did I really hear that? Did I really see that? What's going on here?" On what success actually means: "If I like it, that doesn't mean anything. That's what people think. Just because I like it doesn't give it any value. But as an artist, if you like it, that's all of the value. That's the success. It comes when you say, 'I like this enough for other people to see it.' Not 'other people like it, so it's successful.' That doesn't mean anything. Because other people liking it is out of your control. All that's in your control is making the thing to the best of your ability." Rubin reframes what greatness means: "I came to realize recently, it's all an offering to God. And if you're making an offering to God, you're not thinking about the budget, or hoping this segment of the audience is going to like it. We don't think like that. It's a higher vibration. We're making the best we can make, to the best of our ability, out of love and devotion. That's what it is. There is no higher form." On criticism and reviews: "Most of the artists I work with don't read any criticism or reviews, good or bad. The ones who are the strongest in who they are can even read a terrible review and laugh at it. Because when someone gives you criticism, it's telling you as much about who they are as what you've made." Rubin explains the only real competition: "The idea of the Oscars or the Grammys, where we're saying which album is better than another, it doesn't make any sense to me. Because it's always apples and oranges. The only people we can honestly compete with is ourselves. Is this the best I can make today? Have I gone further than I've gone before? That's all we can do. That's the only competition that makes sense." On the obsession required for mastery: "Many of the artists that are great at what they do are great for one reason: they fall in love with this thing, and they just want to know everything they could possibly learn about it. I'm working on a documentary project with comedians now. One of the things they talk about is their commitment; when other people are going out on the weekend, they're going to perform every night they possibly can. For a period of 10 years. Having bad performances. Having people not like what they do. Banging their head against the wall. But that obsession with breaking through, and when I say breaking through, I don't mean to the audience. I mean with themselves." Rubin shares a hard truth about dreams and jobs: "Maybe your purpose in life isn't related to your job. Maybe your job is your job, and the job is the thing that supports you. And then the rest of your waking hours are devoted to your purpose. Don't let following your dreams undermine your ability to support yourself. If you decide 'I want to be a comedian and I'm putting all my eggs in the comedian basket', the pressure of having to support yourself will change you as a comedian. Not for the better. You want the stability of being able to take care of yourself in the world to be free to do whatever your passion is." He challenges the mythology of genius: "There's a mythology that the people who make things that we love are special people, the people on Mount Olympus, magic people who are geniuses. And then there's the rest of us. That's not the case. We're all just people. We're all doing our best. We're all good at some things, not good at other things. We're humans. And sometimes we find a way to make something beautiful." Rubin shares his most vulnerable moment: "The call came: 'How do you feel? You have the number one album in the country.' And I remember saying, 'I've never been more unhappy in my life.' We mistakenly think some kind of outward success is going to change something in us. And it does not. It may make life more comfortable. But it doesn't change who we are. Any hole in ourselves that we're hoping to fill does not get filled." He explains why successful people are often unhappy: "If you spend 20 years of your life working towards a goal that's going to solve everything, and then you finally achieve what you've been trying to do for 20 years, and nothing changes, that's when you get hopeless. It's not uncommon to see very successful artists who are very unhappy. I'm sure you've met many very successful business people. Billionaires. Very few of them are happy. Very few. They've accomplished their dreams and are unhappy. Because we don't know what we want. We're trying to fill something that maybe can't be filled through material or public success. It's something else. Some internal thing." Rubin closes with this: "Don't do things just because you think you're going to get something for it. That's not why we do things. Do what's interesting to you. Follow what's interesting. Don't worry about the outcome. We can never predict the outcome. Follow your own inner guide. It might not make sense to anyone else. It might not even make sense to us. And that's okay. The wisest thing we can do is know enough to know we don't know. Anytime you think 'I know how it is' your world just got a lot smaller."