Friday, August 17, 2018

I don't think there's a perfect song, I always get bored of them at certain point. Anyway there are some that are really special and mark something inside you for a long time, even when haven't listened them.

I couldn't talk about one single song I love.

After thinking a lot, I have made my decision. It's a song that I haven't listened in a long time, but it really meant a lot for me in a long time, and I had a lot of special moments with it. It's "Weird fishes/Arpeggi.

This song is almost perfect, the way it grows and gets into a big atmosphere, so simple but so expressive at the same time, with a lot of little sounds behind. It made me realize how much I like background string guitars making little sounds to make together beautiful melodies, crossing ones with the others, and almost confusing you but not being the central thing to pay attention in the song.

It was really hard to choose, and I don't think it's my favorite song, even less a perfect song, but Weird Fishes is something my ears will never forget.
I used to live in Isla Negra, a small town from the central coast. There are no more than 1000 people living there.

When I was 18 I had to move out and come to university in Santiago. It was a really big change in my life because now I live in the middle of the center and life rhythm is a lot of different.

I like the city, but I think it's because there are some things in cities generally that I like. But pollution, selfish people everywhere, the unavoidable noise, and a lot of other disgusting things are something I still can not get used to.

Anyway, the fact that I live in the center is a privilege, because this is a hard place to live if you have to move a lot. Spatial segregation is a terrible thing and the mess that has become the growing of the city makes it worse: people travelling one or two hours for getting their jobs in a transport where they don't fit in.

Santiago is fun, but it's hard, specially for people who don't have much money, like every place in this fucking capitalism.
She's Victoria well known as 'Toya'. We know each other because we both study sociology, but the fact that we have this subject together made us get closer.

We study sociology, but she loves theatre, and I think that's the one thing for her. She's an explosive and friendly person. I mean explosive in a good sense, she's always expressing her thinking and feelings in a very honest way, I really appreciate that.

She's emotional and intense, I think that's related to the fact that she's Scorpion haha.

She likes different styles of music, but she told me relaxing folk, rock and electronic music are the main ones. Once we talked about music and she discovered The Do, and loved them, I think that guides me a little bit about what she likes.

We talk and laugh a lot, we have become really close this year and I love it. We always talked about how closer we would be if we saw each other and the last year it's became real.

Friday, August 3, 2018



A movie that I like and a movie that I hate

It´s hard form me to choose one single movie I love to talk about, I like cinema but I don't have any favourite movie. On the other hand, if I know I will hate a movie, I just don't watch it. Anyway I'll try to pick up some good examples.

The last movie I saw is 'El hombre mirando al sudeste', and I loved it. I had seen it a few years ago but it impressed me again. It's an argentinian movie directed by Eliseo Subiela.
It's about a guy that gets into a mental hospital saying he's form another planet. He's finger prints were from nowhere, he didn't show any symthom of madness and his story was perfect; the only problem was the content of his lifestory. He wasn't even a human, he was a proyection from another place, that could speak, think, toch but not feel. His relation ship with a psiquiatrist is showed in the movie, who couldn't understand the nature of this new pacient. I like the way 'Ramses' tries to explore through the brain why we human beings allow ourselves things like poverty or torture, while we know and say they're not right. Things like this are intresting form the movie, and give you a lot to think about.


Resultado de imagen para el hombre mirando al sudeste

I don't have an especific movie I hate, it's hard for me to think about it. I don't even remember the last movie I saw that I hated. One movie I started to watch once and people (I don't remember who) told me it's good is 'The wolf of Wall Street'. I don't remember why excactly but I couldn't finish it, I just hated it.

Friday, July 27, 2018


My sister took this picture. There are many things behind it, and not just about the day it was taken. My mother always tried to make us do sports, so she liked going out with the two of us on weekends for running or riding bike.
I lived in Isla Negra, my mom still lives there and my sister now is doing a master in Paris. So this picture brings up a lot of memories. As you can see in the picture, our house is near a lot of beautiful places, the sea crashing the rocky coast and the evergreen  together make a beautiful landscape.
I still go to Isla Negra about every two weeks, but without my sister there it's not the same. I hope when she comes back we can do all those things we use to do a few years ago.
My favorite  piece of technology is my electric guitar. Maybe it's not the one I use the most, but it's the most important for me.
It's a Squier's Stratocaster, made in Japan in  90's. The Squier's Japanese series were really good in the 90's, almost as good as Fender's (Squier is a copy of Fender's guitars by the same company). It's not very technological but I love it.
I just play at home or with my friends, but when I do I realize I should do it all the time. Songwriting's been always difficult to me, however I've been focusing on it in the last few months, not very fast but I'm trying haha.
Without my electric guitar I would have to stop doing something I really like, I mean, I have the acoustic one but both give me totally different things.

Friday, April 27, 2018

Hi. Being honest, I don't remember a lot of dreams from my childhood. I just liked reading, drawing, and music. A few years later I started playing guitar, and I left behind drawing; my dream was being a musician, but I thoguht I wasn't good enough. 
When I had to choose what was I going to do after school, I was between anthropology and music. For a few months studying music was the only option, but I regretted and I decided anthropology. The thing is, my score wasn't enough for anthropology and I had to take sociology. Finally, I liked more this career and I stayed. I decided this because I can read and learn a lot of intresting things, and I still have time left for music. I've made a lot of good friends and learned things I like; in fact, I discovered that I can dedicate myself to art or music from the sociology and it's so intresting. It's a world I'm exploring now and I would like to work in something like that when I´m out ofe the university.



Friday, April 6, 2018

My name is Felipe, I`m 20 and I'm from Isla Negra, a small town in the central coast. Now I`m living in Santiago because I studty Sociology, I like my career, but it's not like the one thing for me.
I always lived in Isla Negra until I had to come for studying, 18 years in a town with no more than 1000 people living the whole year and now I live in the center of Santiago, where I see 1000 people every day. I like it, I have a lot of good friends, but it was a big change, and I still feel it.

I like music, a lot. I play a few instruments but the one I like the most is the guitar, which I play since I was eleven.

I think that's what I can remember about myself right now.

I don't think there's a perfect song, I always get bored of them at certain point. Anyway there are some that are really special and...