Last days (in the universe [of cosmos -of people-])

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260 (or two houndred and sixty) words are quite enough to say some last words; some dude said to the guys who were executing him "come closer; it's easier that way"; some general said to his soldiers, who were at battle at the american civil war (civil war is a comic by mark millar: captain america defeats iron man, apparently... i don't know, i haven't read it yet), "those guys [opponents] can't shoot an elephant even if it is in front of them", right before an enemy soldier blew his head and brains and more cute stuff; some old lady, who was sleeping, woke up and saw a lot of people around her, and she asked "what, am i dying or what?"; Humphrey Bogart said "I should never have switched from Scotch to martinis".
Naturally, im not dying, just finishing this blog. Is nothing personal, but i dont like any subjects of university... but i liked the blog, though, its funny.
My english need to improve in the talking, and i plan to get it better by talking to myself, which is sometihing i do quite often... you know, to improve my talking; besides, sometimes i talk with english people at chats and stuff. 
ok thats all, nothing personal: bye.

Is not christmas yet

People say that is a good thing to be precise in what you do, so:
-Good things that have happened in your life: I don't really now. Is not like I won the lottery or some festival or whatever; not even my pitch won in the main class. Is not that I'm sad, however. Aw, now I remember that I watched a lot of great movies and tv shows: John from Cincinnati, Take Shelter, Hal Hartley's filmography, Mysterious Skin, Last life in the universe...

- Situations that did not go so well: Some shootings with some fights... University time is sooooo boring: is dead time, actually.

- Your achievements in 2014: Go to point 1...

- Things you did not do / have not done yet / still have to do this year: I really have to go to the hippodrome, 'cause there is the future, my future; also, I have to work, I need money to bet on the hippodrome and some other stuff.

- Important news / event you would like to highlight: This is the year that Philip Seymour Hoffman died. Germany -the best country in the world- won the world cup and humilliated Brazil in the championship road.

- Any other comments: 2014 is a year like any other year; 2014 will soon be gone.

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I don't really like to talk about money, but I guess I have to if I wanna pass this. I'm not even mad, that's great in someway I can't really explain. I'm here just to write incoherences, like the title of this post: is Cincinnati above us? is Cincinnati, actually, a word for heaven? John took Shaun to Cincinnati, and both say that Cincinnati is above: there is a Cincinnati above you, baby. Ok, let's talk about money: is important to me? Let's see: With money I -my parents- pay for my studies, so money is kinda important, but there is something: I don't care about studies, so money can't be important that way. Anyways, I think money is important in some way: with 100 dollars you can have a great hour, yeah. Details? What for? Life needs mystery; besides, I don't really have money: the few coins and bills I have goes to buy some milkshakes with friends. Now I think I'm gonna save a little because I wanna go to the hippodrome 'cause there is the future, I can feel it -some dreams told me that: there's the future, your future-. Shaun will soon be gone. Sorry, there's a Johnny Monad waiting to be free. I try to manage my money wisely, and since I'm wise -"if my words are yours, can you hear my father?"-, I'm a good manager. If I was a millionare, I'd use it in animal shelters and some organizations to protect them, specially dogs, but all animals deserve hope and happiness. Human kind? Well... Besides that, I'd use that money to make films. And maybe I'd buy an island to myself; a tsunami-proof island. I'd pawn absolutely nothing, because all possessions I have are important to me, except for the stuff that reminds me school and university, which are directly thrown away to the garbage, where it belows. Bye. The end is near -the end of all world or just Stinkweed?-.

I hate pigeons: no-pigeons supremacy; Whisper Supremacy: Cold Hate, Warm Blood and Emaciate

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(this was written to be read with an irish -real irish from the real Ireland, not that fake (north)"Ireland"- accent, so have fun)

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How green am I, or how green my valley is, or how green my city is. I do not have the answers for the second and third question, but I do have the first one: I guess I'm kinda green, but in my spirit and not really in my actions: I'm a traitor of the planet. The only thing that makes me a little bit green is that I'm vegetarian, but I don't know many environmental friendly practices; just the common ones: don't put together plastic and other materials, use the trash can and not the lawn or lakes, don't waste light and energy and water, etc. I learned that stuff in TV, I think, I'm not very sure where I get my information from... of anything I know. I have not really incorporated the environmental friendly practices into my life, which is kinda lame, because I prefer nature over asphalt. Anyways, and this shows how contradictory I am, I don't use bicycle because I don't like them -thank you very much for that, father-: I use a car. Sometimes I use my legs, when using the car is too complicated because of the parking lots, always at full capacity. I have not joined any eco-organization, but I support them; somebody has to protect this planet in a proper and serious and professional way. I would like to support those eco-organizations, like Leonardo DiCaprio does, but I don't have any money for that matter. I'll just try to be as much eco-friendly as I possibly can: first, get some information; then, do something that I can do. In the meanwhile, I'll just rest, which is a way of no-contamination. Santiago is no very eco-friendly, but what can I do: I'm just a citizen.

Living in oblivion

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Big news!: Kim Kardashian, that woman who had the bright idea to marry Kanye West, the not less brilliant mind rapper, owner of a beautiful music, in fact, the best black musician of the entire human history, so, so god damn brilliant that he couldn't get the "fish tick" joke and made a big deal about something that little, yeah!, that woman, listen carefully to the BIG BREAKING NEWS!, that woman who had a baby with that genius named Kanye and called the little creature North (West, last name of the good Kanye), that woman who become a mother, forgot, precisely, her baby in the hotel she was staying in Paris, the city of lights. She was about to leave the place and suddenly she noticed that something was missing: the little North. She tried to explain herself, but I have already wrote too much, so let's finish quickly:

It occurs in Paris, involves two people (Kim and North, I guess the staff doesn't count, and where is the father -Kanye-?), is kinda shocking because a baby would have been abandoned in a luxury hotel in Paris (it didn't happen, thank the lord), and it will not affect in any circumstances my community, city or country. Why? Nobody cares.

The piece of news I would like to hear/read/watch/ignore is one where some guy beat the hell out Kanye for being such and idiot.

God acts in mysterious ways. BTW, watch Mysterious Skin by Gregg Araki.

Ok

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Sadly, yes, I'm in some university, and I don't get paid for that. I'm pretty sure this is not a major (I guess majors are better than this), and I won't get one after I finish what I'm doing. Why would I? I rather stare to the f%@/"! birds than study more years (and I hate birds). I don't think filmmaking is a job if you make the films you want, if you don't feel under pressure. I wanna be a filmmaker, but I prefer to stay calm and cautious about that, because is kinda hard to make films in this country; besides, in a world like this, first you have to survive, then whatever you wanna do for living (your real wish, though). So I think I want to work, in the meantime, in some kinda job that demands the less amount of time and work, and pays fairly for my services. That would be the aspects to consider the choosing of my "job"; the aspects for the real thing I wanna do for living depends. Interviews are so boring (unless you're a vampire, and even so...), but I think I would say that my strengths are (I) I don't care what I have to do: I do it without any whining; (II) sometimes I get good ideas and (III) I'm a good worker, because you know, I want my money.

¿Weaknesses? I'm kinda shy, but I can make an effort and act like most of the people. Everything for the money job whatever.

Awesome Doormat or the pretty nice and cool australian on a gamer forum

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I don't really know what a friend is, besides, the word is overused in this world, so by these times, I think it has lost the real meaning. I know people, but I'm not friend of all of them. Anyway, I do have pretty good friends and I enjoy the time with them (when they're in a good mood, otherwise I rather be alone: better that way than with bad companies). I don't think is fair to choose one of my good friends, so I'm gonna pick two of them: Nacho and Cristobal. I met both in this lame institute and it has been two and a half men years since then. The first one is a good friend because he is respectful; not refined or something like that, because we are kinda vulgar sometimes and talk about tasteless subjects, but in the sense that he respect you as a person. And it's pretty cool that he's not arrogant, same thing with Cristobal -the image is a self portrait of him-, who's pretty nice and is easy to talk with him -both, really-. Actually, this is the blog and account of Cristobal, and he doesn't know I'm using it, hahaha. He never will. In a few words: they're good people, as simple as that -in addition, I think Nacho and I share pretty similar ideas of what films has to be in order to be great; with Cristobal I have a different point of view and taste, but it's cool-.

¿Best memory? I don't know.

Anyway, I don't believe in the figure of the best friend or that friendship -or anything- last forever: nothing last forever. I had to write it twice. In any case, nice people, and friendship has to last what is has to last.

No Title, No Labels

There is only a few concerts that I've been in my life. Less than five, I think. Blame the money, or the lack of it, to be more precise, not me, the poor victim. That don't makes me sad or angry at all, but sometimes I think that it would have been great going to some concerts that I couldn't afford. Nothing really bad, though. But I better go to my point, to the concert I enjoyed the most.
It was last year, and the band of a classmate, a friend, came from south to the big city to play for the urban audience, so some friends and I went to his 'concert' (I wouldn't call it a concert: was smaller and cheaper). It took place in some kinda destroyed and abandoned house in I-don't-remember-the-commune. I enjoyed it because I like the music, it was great and I was with friends (I think it wouldn't be so great if none of my friends were there).
Some other details: before my friend's band played, me and another friend went to play ping-pong in some store near the house. And that was the only detail. It was a good afternoon.

Thai or American?

Well, it's pretty difficult to say what is my favourite movie, because there are a lot that could perfectly be the special one. But, as the instructions command, I must choose, but it's not gonna be just one, only two: Last life in the universe (2003) by thai filmmaker Pen-ek Ratanaruang, and Trust (1990) by american Hal Hartley.

I must say that I like Hartley's filmography more than Ratanaruang's, and I can say that almost the whole filmography of Hartley is full of masterpieces, but these two films I chose for the post are absolutely beautiful and made me feel like the most lucky guy in the world, because the emotions in each one are real and you can almost touch them, breath them and feel them in your interior. If there's a feeling that rest in your spirit after watching these films, that would be desolation and, even if it sounds crazy, happiness.

Both films, one set in Bangkok and the other one in some city of USA, to say it quickly and easy, deals with lonely characters, people totally abandoned from others, wondering around the world with no one that can understand them: the most absolutely solitude: not only physical but also spiritual. But these loners meet one another and start an atypical relationship where doesn't really matters if it gets carnal, because the most important to them is not being completely alone again.

I like these films because they're both a pleasure, a joy, a delight for mind and spirit. And I completely agree with the pessimistic vision of Hartley, wich says that everything is horrible, just like the real world: your desires won't become real and, eventually, everything is destroyed. Ratanaruang is a little more optimistic, but his film also deals with the violence of others getting in the middle of honest and pure relationships. Both says the same thing: only a few people can live in the reality, cruel and honest as it is, and the rest of the world is an illusion.

Martin Donovan, Adrienne Shelly, Tadanobu Asano and Sinitta Boonyasak are perfect. Great films both of them.
Here is a video of the thai film. And here is a tribute to Hartley.

A dog and some stolen cheese

Well, I think the country I would like to visit is Finland, the one right next to Sweden, Norway and Russia. I don't know exactly why I like this country among others, such as Germany, Italy or United States; it's just a feeling, something like that.

I know very few things about Finland, most of them thanks to The Dudesons, a group of guys that I really like, even admire; things like they have a special weather and beautiful landscapes, which would be one of my reasons to visit the place: enjoy and relax.

In Finland I would like to live, just live, not study or work (I hate both), you know, just spend the time... in other words: do nothing (well, watch movies, tv shows, read books and swim a lot). It would be a peaceful life, with a few occasions of going to metal festivals and get really, really mad. If I live in Finland, I hope my life won't be like an Aki Kaurismaki's film, because that guy says that Finland sucks and is a terrible place to live.

But I don't really care the country if I have everything I want (movies, swimming...): just peace.

hi again

Hi, I think it would be nice to explain something before introduce myself: this is not actually my blog and this is not my account, but I couldn't make a new blog of english, and, for some reason, google didn't let me to make one, so I thought it was a nice solution to use another account, a friend's (he let me). So, that explained, I'm Felipe Díaz Zapata, I like to watch movies and tv shows, swimming, sleep and hang around with some friends.

I think one of my weakness in english is speaking it, because I think I can't talk it fluid (is that word ok?, don't know). Listening is not that bad if the person who is talking has an understandable accent, reading is easy and, I don't know, that's all.

For this semester I hope I get better at speaking english and improve my writing skills. Hope it won't be hard, but you never know. Must be ready.

Bye, and remember, I'm Felipe, not Cristobal (not my account).

EVER SINCE MY ACCIDENT

After all the strike thing, we finally came back to write, it's been a long time dear readers. I know it's the same for you too. I was too lazy to publish something here during the strike, and I missed some of the posts I had to publish, kinda embarrasing. So, dear readers, i don't wanna dissapoint you anymore, I will get over it and try to publish as many posts as I can right now and during the next days.

This is supossed to be the eight post, anyways. Well, today I feel like talking about something from the past, a thing that happened to me and you may think is kinda funny.

Well, one day, when I was like 12 years old, my family and I came home after watching a movie. It was really late, like 11 or 12 o clock. I wanted to make some orange juice because I was thirsty, but no one wanted to help me, specially my dad, who was really against doing it, I thing because he was kinda sleepy and he only wanted to go to bed quick. So, without the help of them, I started to take all the ingredients for doing it (you know, the sugar and the oranges) and put them in the table of the kitchen. And my dad started to get really mad about it, so he started to force me to not doing it. I said to him that it wouldn't  teke me much time doing the juice, but he didn't accept it. So, he took one of the sugar bags that I put on the table to fill the container, and hit me right in the head with it. All the sugar was spilled away and I started to cry. My cousin, who watch all the thing happens rolled on the floor laughing. And no one else cared. The worst part of the story was that the sugar bag was brand new. It doesn't hurt me at all, but for some reason it hurt my feelings in a strange way.

Well, that's all. Tell your friends, like on facebook and see ya'!

THE FUN MACHINE

That was printed at the sides of the box where it came. I remember my dad take us, me and my brother, to the mall because we wanted a videogame console really bad at that time, and he couldn't stand more time hearing how we beg him. It was a long time ago, I was like 12 years old. So we came to the shop and bought the last, really the last one! The salesman sold it to us very cheap, because he said it was discontinued at that time, due the new generation of consoles. That's how I had got my first videogame console ever, the Nintendo 64.

Isn't it cute?

It was originally released in 1996 by Nintendo, it was the succesor of the Super Nintendo and the first Nintendo console with 3D graphics. Man! I was amazed by the graphics of their games, even when at the time I bought it were consoles with better graphics in the market. It was my first videogame console! With 3D graphics!

Then I started to play games with friends, like Super Smash Bros. or Mario Kart 64. We used to hang out only for playing with this console all day long. And we didn't get bored!

I sitll have it now, and I keep collecting games and stuff for it. I think I won't sell it even for one million dollars, I really love it.

Well, that's all. See ya!

Free for all!

Hi guys! I hope you're doing well. Today I'm gonna talk about a videogame that really drove me nuts back in the day. I'm sure you may know it, but here I leave you a clue

The european cover of the game.

I'ts Super Smash Bros for the Nintento 64. I started playing it since I was 12 years old and it's easily my favorite game ever. So I can tell I have this game for almost a decade. I'ts really old but really fun to play. 

Super Smash Bros it's the first game of the series, it's a fighting game full of dynamics, and the fun fact is that it reunites most of the Nintendo videogame characters in one fun game, ready to kick ass to each other. I spent most of my childhood at that time playing it with friends, we were like five or six guys but everyone could play it easily because it alloys up to four players to play. So we hadn't to wait so long for our turn to play. 

At that time I was really addicted to Nintendo stuff. And discovering a game like this just get me super excited because of the characters. I really liked to play with Pikachu or Kirby and kick my friend's asses. 

As I said before, it was the first game of the series. Two years later, in year 2001, Nintendo released Super Smash Bros. Melee for the Gamecube. And later than that, in 2008, was released Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Nintendo Wii, the third game of the series. I have all of them at the moment, and all of them are really fun, but I still prefer the first, it gave me a lot  of fun memories. And I still keep playing it!

Here I leave you guys the introduction of the game, it still gives me goosebumps.

See ya!

Ya' know fellas...

Today I'm gonna tell you about a person I don't exactly admire, but I really like his work and style in films I've seen by him.

Spike Jonze is a north american film and music video director and producer. He has directed plenty of music videos by bands I like, like Sonic Youth or Beastie Boys. Also, he has directed various shortcuts and a few documentaries, like Amarillo by Morning. He was also creator of Jackass, and he produced the show and the movies. 

I started to like him after discovering he directed some skateboarding videos I liked a lot, like Lakai's Fully Flared and Yeah Right!. What I like about his style is that he combines fantasy, humor and sometimes romance with attractives characters in every of his films, that results very enjoyable to me. Even in his skateboarding videos he puts some of this fantasy, something that's not very common on this kind of videos.

Well, that's all for now. Here I leave you guys some of his stuff.

See ya'!

CHILLIN' WITH OFF!

Hi everyone, it's me again. Today I'm gonna talk about a freaking amazing band I discovered two years ago, hope you like it as I do.

The band I discovered was OFF!, and I'm glad I discovered at that time.
OFF! is a punk rock supergroup formed by ex members of Redd Kross, Burning Brides, Rocket From The Crypt and Circle Jerks lead singer Keith Morris. They formed in late 2009 and started kickin' ass since then.
Their style of music is similar to Keith's past bands Circle Jerks and Black Flag, characterized by fast tempos, screamed furious lyrics and songs that don't last more than two minutes.
I discovered them by a Red Hot Chili Peppers video, where Anthony Kiedis and Josh Klinghoffer set a playlist of songs by differents groups they liked, where OFF! was amongst them. Then I watched the video of their song "Darkness" and I absolutely liked them since the very first second of the song.
I liked them because I think they are doing a lot for refounding was punk rock was about. It's not about Fashion, it's about bringing raw to the music and shows, about simple song structures and about the attitude a band must show throught them.
And for finishing, here I leave you my favorite song by them played live. It's called "Full Of Shit" and it only lasts 35 seconds, but I guarantee they will be the best 35 seconds you'll spend in your life.
Enjoy and listen to OFF!

                                            How you like me now!?

This is what I look

Now that I have your attention, I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Cristobal Lopez, I'm male, Chilean, vegetarian and I own this blog. 

I was born at a clinic in las condes, on february 9th, 1993. I think I was a cute baby, but I can't remeber how much. 

Later, at age 6, I started with my Elementary education at Chilean Eagles College, located in La Florida. I was a fidgety kid and I used to get punished by school's authority, for biting classmates and doing noyhing during classes.

I cursed Secondary school at the same school. At this time I was much more quiet and I used to do my homework and skate after classes with friends. I hated school.

I finished school at age 17 and I took a year of preparation for the PSU. That was a real bore year. I used to rest a lot and get up at three or four o' clock in the afternoon. Now that I think it over it was not that bad, I colud sleep a lot. 

I started studying Cine y Televisión at age 18 at the Universidad de Chile and now I'm on second year at the third semester. 

I like food, ducks, listen to music and watch movies. I have a dog named Scott and I love him. He's my favorite dog in the world.