By Arturo Celine @ginnakane
Illustration: Marco Pinto
Editor's note: Zonagirante.com begins integrate young Latin American columnists, who will tell us everyday stories (and others not so much) that, in their own way, will contain a close relationship with the music we listen to every day. These stories will help us broaden our textual scope and, we hope, connect us even more with our followers' reading desires. With you, a new section called Love and Supermarkets.
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Antonia is not a scholar, nor a music lover, nor a music critic. He also doesn't know the names of the members of the dark wave bands in Belgium. It doesn't have the complete discography of classic bands like The Beatles But she lives her life with a background soundtrack. White noise. A succession of moods and experiences that, without any pretentiousness, They fill their lives.
When Antonia goes to her job, an NGO that deals with land distribution and conflict issues in Colombia, She often feels that she is doing a purely mechanical job. Her task this week has been to call roughly 200 people to confirm their attendance at a forum. As she sits at her desk, she listens Career opportunities from The Clash. Despite her preference for perfume Rush From Gucci, she still feels like an anarchist and, for that reason, while continuing to review databases, she decides to listen to her favorite song, Spanish bombs. She likes that song so much that she then decides to look for a cover version of it. Tijuana no.
Antonia is a nostalgic person, generally She looks for music from the 80s and 90s that makes her feel like she's a little girl or teenager again. He doesn't care if the music is mainstream or underground. Around five in the afternoon he usually listens to songs like How deep is your love o I want to know what love is. When his workday ends, he gets home and lights a joint, looks for his cassette of cover songs Bauhaus –which he has kept since he was 14– and after listening to it from both sides, he compares the version of Passion of lovers from The Shroud with the original.
Over the weekend she goes to her buddy's house – who is an expert in traditional music – and, despite themselves, They listen to salsa, bullerengue and classic vallenatos. They usually buy two bags of cocaine. After several lines and several beers, Antonia takes over the YouTube party: Blondie, Supergirl and the Romantic Boys, Front 242, Human League, Siouxsie and the Banshees. Three in the morning is dub time, four is drum and bass time, and then jungle. At six in the morning, Nino Bravo.