Taking Sides: Patrick Hernandez vs. Santa Esmeralda

Hernandez had a great song and a walking stick, but SE had more gypsy temptresses on the record covers, which titillated me in a way I didn't quite understand as I was seven at the time.

Also, no points to aspiring tabloid headline writers ("Paela rubbish! Heh heh")

audiogalaxy for me tonight i think. this sounds pretty good

Santa Esmeralda all the way! I love the fact that they followed up a debut album that started with a 15-minute disco fantasia on an Animals song ("House of the Rising Sun") with a second album that started with a 15-minute disco fantasia on an Animals song ("Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"). Or was it the other way around?

I am so glad my Iberian flatmates finally moved out. They were great people but they spent the WHOLE DAMN DAY in the kitchen. Up at 6:30 AM making their five-course breakfast, and most days, in there until midnight as well. I couldn't even get in there to use the microwave most days! I understand this is a Mediterranean thing, being fantastically dedicated to the preparation of food in its most precise detail, I suppose I'm just more into the Anglo-Saxon utilitarian approach, for me 'food' is a painful duty and I would prefer to live on meth if I could. (Then again, having huge piles of elaborate delicacies served up in a restaurant or somebody ELSE's house is great! [Or *was*, when I still had teeth])