This is on the waterfront in Hoboken. My mom said it reminded her of Buenaventura, the village where she grew up in Colombia.
Ciao,
Erik Barragan
29 April 2011
Wednesday with my Mother
My mother and I spent the day together on Wednesday. Our mission was to arrive early at the INS in Newark for her INS interview. Along the way, we encountered old friends, laughed at funny stuff and took pictures.
Ciao,
Erik Barragan
Ciao,
Erik Barragan
28 April 2011
Immigrants by Pat Mora (1986)
wrap their babies in the American flag,
feed them mashed hot dogs and apple pie,
name them Bill and Daisy,
buy them blonde dolls that blink blue
eyes or a football and tiny cleats
before the baby can even walk,
speak to them in thick English,
hallo, babee, hallo,
whisper in Spanish or Polish
when the babies sleep, whisper
in a dark parent bed, that dark
parent fear, “Will they like
our boy, our girl, our fine american
boy, our fine american girl?”
feed them mashed hot dogs and apple pie,
name them Bill and Daisy,
buy them blonde dolls that blink blue
eyes or a football and tiny cleats
before the baby can even walk,
speak to them in thick English,
hallo, babee, hallo,
whisper in Spanish or Polish
when the babies sleep, whisper
in a dark parent bed, that dark
parent fear, “Will they like
our boy, our girl, our fine american
boy, our fine american girl?”
26 April 2011
Free Drink Tickets for Cinco de Mayo
Damas y caballeros,
Cinco de Mayo at Pianos is gearing up to be a happening. Because of this, the first fifteen people who arrive for New Madrid will receive a ticket for ONE FREE DRINK.
I repeat: The first fifteen people who arrive for New Madrid get a ticket for ONE FREE DRINK.
So come in, turn on and drink up.
Ciao,
Erik Barragan
Cinco de Mayo at Pianos is gearing up to be a happening. Because of this, the first fifteen people who arrive for New Madrid will receive a ticket for ONE FREE DRINK.
I repeat: The first fifteen people who arrive for New Madrid get a ticket for ONE FREE DRINK.
So come in, turn on and drink up.
Erik Barragan
Axelito's Surprise B-Day
On Saturday night, we got together at Von on Bleecker Street to celebrate Axel's birthday. It was a surprise party hosted and planned by Isa Nicole (our manager) and Anna Finke (our dear friend). Here are some pics taken by awesome chic Paige Maxwell. Check out her blog, Underground Biz, for a review of our new single La Araña.
Pisala! Pisala!
Anthony posing with Paige Maxwell.
Los hermanos.
Ciao,
Erik Barragan
22 April 2011
New Madrid Battles the Bands
Damas y caballeros,
The Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands beckons, and New Madrid has heard the call loud and clear. Your must help us. Vote for New Madrid. Then tell your friends to vote for New Madrid. Then tell your mom to vote for New Madrid. It's simple: click on the banner below; vote for us. Booyah!
The Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands beckons, and New Madrid has heard the call loud and clear. Your must help us. Vote for New Madrid. Then tell your friends to vote for New Madrid. Then tell your mom to vote for New Madrid. It's simple: click on the banner below; vote for us. Booyah!
21 April 2011
Updated Website
Señoras y señores,
We burn the candle at both ends. Pa' que dormir!? Check out the face-lift: www.newmadridmusic.com
Ahora si, pa' la camita. Ciao-ciao.
Erik Barragan
We burn the candle at both ends. Pa' que dormir!? Check out the face-lift: www.newmadridmusic.com
Ahora si, pa' la camita. Ciao-ciao.
Erik Barragan
19 April 2011
New Madrid has a Blog
Welcome to the New Madrid Blog. Here, you'll find info on our shows, recordings, general musings and most importantly, we'll entertain you with tales of our lives.
Lately, we have been sequestered in our lab mixing new sounds, exploring different rhythms, peeling layers of our psyche in order to bleed ourselves into our music. Dramatic? Si. Worth it? Siempre.
Come visit us whenever you want. Make sure you listen to our new single La Araña, conveniently located on the "Musica" widget to the right of our posts.
Ciao
Erik Barragan
Lately, we have been sequestered in our lab mixing new sounds, exploring different rhythms, peeling layers of our psyche in order to bleed ourselves into our music. Dramatic? Si. Worth it? Siempre.
Come visit us whenever you want. Make sure you listen to our new single La Araña, conveniently located on the "Musica" widget to the right of our posts.
Ciao
Erik Barragan
New Madrid at Pianos!
14 April 2011
The Enigma of the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812
Continental North America's greatest earthquake sequence struck on the western frontier of the United States. The frontier was not then California but the valley of the continent's greatest river, the Mississippi, and the sequence was the New Madrid earthquakes of the winter of 1811–1812. Their described impacts on the land and the river were so dramatic as to produce widespread modern disbelief. However, geological, geophysical, and historical research, carried out mostly in the past two decades, has verified much in the historical accounts. The sequence included at least six (possibly nine) events of estimated moment magnitude M ≥ 7 and two of M 
8. The faulting was in the intruded crust of a failed intracontinental rift, beneath the saturated alluvium of the river valley, and its violent shaking resulted in massive and extensive liquefaction. The largest earthquakes ruptured at least six (and possibly more than seven) intersecting fault segments, one of which broke the surface as a thrust fault that disrupted the bed of the Mississippi River in at least 2 (and possibly four) places. (http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.earth.24.1.339)
…it is a riddle wrpped in a mystery inside an enigma.
-Winston Churchill
8. The faulting was in the intruded crust of a failed intracontinental rift, beneath the saturated alluvium of the river valley, and its violent shaking resulted in massive and extensive liquefaction. The largest earthquakes ruptured at least six (and possibly more than seven) intersecting fault segments, one of which broke the surface as a thrust fault that disrupted the bed of the Mississippi River in at least 2 (and possibly four) places. (http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.earth.24.1.339)…it is a riddle wrpped in a mystery inside an enigma.
-Winston Churchill
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