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.

↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑Cincinnati↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑

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).