John Mayer compositor ,vocalista y excelente guitarrista, ganador de premios Grammys en el 2003 y en el 2007, es uno de los jovenes del pop-rock-blues que mas exito ha tenido en los ultimos 7 años.
De John Mayer recomiendo su produccion Continuum, que fue liberada en Septiembre del 2006 y que gano Grammys como mejor Album Pop y mejor cancion con "Wainting on the World to Change".
En su gira Summer Tour 2008, se estara presentando en Raleigh el 27 de Agosto.
Hace muy poco, el primero de Julio de este año, libero su mas reciente produccion "Where The Light is" que es un CD/DVD de un concierto grabado en Los Angeles el 8 de Diciembre del 2007. Al final de este post le pongo unos links de YouTube con algunos temas de dicha presentacion.
Espero disfruten mis 5 temas favoritos que les dejo en este blog y luego los links adicionales con otras presentaciones en vivo:
1. Gravity, grabado en Abbey Road.
2. Belief, tambiem grabado en Abbey Road.
3. Wainting on the World to Change, version acustica de su exito.
4. I Don't Trust Myself With Loving You, muy buen tema.
5. I Don't Need No Doctor, de Ray Charles y la toca junto a John Scofield.
Ahora los links para que continuen disfrutando temas de este joven artista:
Hace un mes y unos dias se cumplieron 40 años del asesinato de Robert Kennedy, hermano del tambien asesinado 35th presidente de los EEUU John F Kennedy.
Ese lamentable hecho ocurrio el 5 de Junio de 1968. Solo dos meses y un dia antes, el 4 de Abril de 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. era asesinado, un hecho que convulsiono la sociedad americana. Al dia siguiente, el 5 de Abril de 1968 en Cleveland Ohio, Robert F. Kennedy, presento un hermoso mensaje titulado " The Mindless Menace of Violence" . Considero que este mensaje, focalizado en su momento por el senador Robert Kennedy a la situacion de su pais, es un mensaje universal de reflexion sobre la violencia para todas las sociedades del planeta.
Este mansaje, que asumo se edito para acortarlo, fue utilizado en los minutos finales de la pelicula Bobby dirigida por Emilio Estevez y estrenada en el 2006.
Debido a la constante violencia que hay en el Mundo, en Latinoamerica y particularmente en mi pais de origen Venezuela, deseo que esas palabras de este ilustre personaje iluminen las mentes y acciones de los responsables por lograr una paz y el ansiado progreso que tanto requieren nuestros paises.
Los dejo con el mensaje " The Mindless Menace of Violence" en un video que localize en YouTube, y el discurso para su lectura, donde resalte las palabras del audio del video.
On the Mindless Menace of Violence
City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio April 5, 1968
This is a time of shame and sorrow.It is not a day for politics.I have saved this one opportunity, my only event of today, to speak briefly to you about the mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives.
It is not the concern of any one race. The victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are, most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed. No one - no matter where he lives or what he does - can be certain who will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed. And yet it goes on and on and on in this country of ours.
Why? What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet.
No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason.
Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.
"Among free men," said Abraham Lincoln, "there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and those who take such appeal are sure to lose their cause and pay the costs."
Yet we seemingly tolerate a rising level of violence that ignores our common humanity and our claims to civilization alike. We calmly accept newspaper reports of civilian slaughter in far-off lands. We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment. We make it easy for men of all shades of sanity to acquire whatever weapons and ammunition they desire.
Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach non-violence abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them.
Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies,but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is the slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.
This is the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men. And this too afflicts us all.
I have not come here to propose a set of specific remedies nor is there a single set. For a broad and adequate outline we know what must be done. When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies, to be met not with cooperation but with conquest; to be subjugated and mastered.
We learn, at the last, to look at our brothers as aliens, men with whom we share a city, but not a community; men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in common effort. We learn to share only a common fear, only a common desire to retreat from each other, only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force. For all this, there are no final answers.
Yet we know what we must do. It is to achieve true justice among our fellow citizens. The question is not what programs we should seek to enact. The question is whether we can find in our own midst and in our own hearts that leadership of humane purpose that will recognize the terrible truths of our existence.
We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others. We must admit in ourselves that our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others. We must recognize that this short life can neither be ennobled or enriched by hatred or revenge.
Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land. Of course we cannot vanquish it with a program, nor with a resolution.
But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can.
Surely, this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again.
El hipismo en USA, tiene todos los años dos etapas muy importantes. La primera comienza en enero por un periodo de 5 meses y medio con los caballos de 3 años tratando de clasificarse y batallando finalmente para ganar el gran clasico Kentucky Derby y los clasicos subsecuentes: el Preakness y el Belmont. La segunda etapa es abierta a todas las edades, tipos de pista ( arena, grama o artificial ) e inclusive esta abierta a caballos nacidos en otras partes del mundo. Se trata de la Breeder's Cup donde los mejores caballos de USA compiten con caballos europeos e inclusive de otros paises como Japon, Australia, etc. Normalmente la Breeder's Cup o campeonato mundial de criadores de purasangres de carreras se corre en Otoño, pero las carreras preparatorias y clasificatorias arrancan en Julio de cada año, con el llamado Breeder's Cup Challange, que este año seran 57 clasicos en las cuales el ganador clasifica automaticamente a la carrera en la categoria correspondiente. El resto de las clasificados se obtienen mediante un sistema de puntos. Este fin de semana el Challenge se inicia con 2 clasicos en el hipodromo de Monmouth Park. El calendario completo de esas 57 carreras clasificatorias lo pueden ver aqui.
Desde el 2007 la Breeder's Cup se corre en un formato de dos dias. El hipodromo seleccionado en el 2006 fue Churchill Downs en Louisville y puede disfrutar de este importante evento en vivo el 4 de noviembre , con 8 clasicos que sumaron en premios alrededor de $ 20 millones. En el 2008 y 2009 la Breeder's se correra en California en el hipodromo de Santa Anita Park. Este año especificamente el 24 y 25 de octubre. Seran 14 clasicos para mas de $25 millones en premios. Las yeguas estaran disputando 5 clasicos el viernes y los machos se mediran en 9 clasicos el dia sabado. Estaremos siguiendo con atencion este Breeder's Cup Challenge.
Los dejo con el triunfo del campeon Invasor en el clasico Breeder's Cup Classic del 2006, ganandole a otro impresionante campeon Bernardini conducido por el jinete venezolano Javier Castellano.
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