martes, 3 de enero de 2017

A Day to Remember

It was friday. I don't remember the date, neither if was in September or October, but was the last year, 2016. It was ten o'clock, at night in this campus. We were drinking, laughing, and singing. Recently I had started to speaking with Fernando (Nando). Days before, I started to know to Sebastián (Wario). The last one, Nicolás (Wario), I knew about three years. Came the moment in that we joined in a group in the "cenicero". Began the attitude to go out from this place. We want to go to eat, we had hungry. Then we went to McDonald's, in front of Portal Ñuñoa.

I don't know how but each word that one of we said was funny, amusing, entertaining, comical. It was just comical. We enter to McDonald's. There had a large file for buy. That didn't stop our laughs. Important details, we hadn't under drugs effects, we had clean. We arrive to cash register and Nando ask for a "Doble Rodeo King" and a "Sorbete Letelier". Salinas, Wario and me follow his joke with other stupid orders. We explosed in laughs, even the cashier laughed a few. We went to eat, while each one said a black joke.

Until midnight we stayed in that place. After we accompanied to Nando to take the bus with destination to La Florida. Salinas walk toward his pension and Wario and me take the bus with destination to Maipú.

That night was born a group currently consolidated, where joined other guys (Lucas, Matías, Franco, Sergio and Ricardo), a great group of dudes, of buddies. That night was born the fraternity of "La Comedia".

A subject that I've enjoyed.

Hello. Here we go again.

A subject that I learned enough and I liked so much. It be name Economía y Relaciones Internacionales. The teacher was Rodrigo Martínez, who had had redaction class in the first semester. But Martínez, in the middle of the semester, he requested his resignation, according to him, for health problems.

The first part was discussed of Economics: Its impact in the society, because it is variable, dinamic and how this have infliences in the prices of possesions and services.

The second part was about the International Relations: Understand the global order and what are the reasons, who are the richest countries, the poorest countries and because exist dispute territories, for example, why Yugoslavia or Soviet Union disappeared.

I like more the International Relations, it is interesting, the history is very important for understand it. One of the classmates was about United Nations: was founded in 1945, was discussed in Yalta's Conference and it objectify after Second World War.

How is necessary know a few of history, I like it more. However, I respect Economics, I don't like it so much, but I respect it and I think that is necessary for the life. With Economics be can understand, for example, the bread's price.

martes, 13 de diciembre de 2016

An Expert in my Field

Hello there. I feel that you will go to disagree.

When I started studying journalism, I realize me that I left school without know write. The worse it is that I didn't realize until my first course of redaction in the career, with miss Carolina Muñoz. Althought it was very, very difficult in the start, and his method is very complicated for following, I identified my errors and I started to write relatively good.

In this ocassion, I will speak about Carolina Muñoz, who is a redaction teacher at the Institute currently. The few that, in fact, I know is:

She was married and separated. In her marriage she had a daughter, currently an adolescent. Also she lived in France and knowed people that died in the attack to Bataclan Theatre in Paris. Currently she live in Santiago Centro, close to Plaza Yungay. And before to be a redaction teacher, she was the journalism career director at Universidad de Santiago. In effect, she get her journalism degree in the same university. She declarate her publicly a feminist.

My liking to her is because she learned to me too much, the most important in this profession is the writing, and also who accept without problems to be my assistant in the monograph essay for get the Bachiller degree. According to some of my partners, she is too complicated, she have a method very hateful, she is too specific. So how I learned to write, also I could respect her. In the end, I believe that she is a very good teacher.









 

martes, 6 de diciembre de 2016

My Favourite Musical Artist or Band or Whatever

Hello again

Kurt Cobain or Eddie Vedder? Damon Albarn or Rivers Cuomo? It is complicated for me. I loved various artists and various bands, how Stone Roses, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Weezer, Stone Temple Pilots, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, etc. Also Lucybell and Los Tres in the chilean spectre.

But in this occasion, I will speak about Scott Weiland and Stone Temple Pilots. Weiland died the last year, in 3rd December 2015, under an overdose, after a drug adiction that he never could leave.

He was the singer of Stone Temple Pilots. This group was founded in 1989 in San Diego, California, United States, with Robert DeLeo in the bass, Dean DeLeo in the guitar, and Eric Kretz in the drums.

Actually, his vocalist is Chester Bennington.

This group follow the sound of the ninetees, at the same time that the Grunge (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains etc.), sometimes been considered inside the Seattle Sound.

Stone Temple Pilots released six discs under the leadership of Weiland: Core (1992), Purple (1994), Tiny Music and Song From the Vatican Gift Shop (1996), N°4 (1999), Shangri - La Dee Da (2001), and after a brief separation between 2003 and 2010, Stone Temple Pilots (2010).

My favorite song is, absolutely, Plush, from the first disc. This song is the first that I learned to play in my guitar. I have its a special affection.

Here is the Unplugged Show for MTV Studios, played in 1993
They played Crackerman, Creep, Wicked Garden, Plush, Big Empty and Sex Type Thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucolnyNScEU




martes, 22 de noviembre de 2016

My Favorite Photograph

I don't know who took this photograph. Surely it was took for a press photographer.
They are Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth's bassist), Beck Hansen, Dave Grohl (from Foo Fighters), Mike D (from Beastie Boys) and Zach de la Rocha (Rage Against The Machine's vocalist) and they are gathered in the context of "Freedom Tibetan Concert". They belong to select group of the most important musicians during the '90s. Under this premise, they (with his bands) was invited to participate in this music benefit festival that was "Freedom Tibetan Concert" in june 1996, year in that the protograph was took.

Tibet is a region situated in NE of Himalaya and it belong to Popular Republic of China, Asia. In the '50s, the tibetans require break free, for the genocide comitted by Popular Liberator Army these years. It's a constant struggle, that every years had added more victims by the government repression.

I love this photograph, because various rock styles converge, and for a good cause. The captured moment is priceless for me. They are an important part in the construction of my ideology and my identity and for any reason or circunstance is very defficult see them togheter in the real life.



    Kim Gordon      Beck       Dave Grohl              Mike D       Zach de la Rocha



               The Complete Line-up of the Festival.

martes, 15 de noviembre de 2016

My Favorite Festivity

Hello. One more time I share to you a related theme about me.

My favorite festivity is 'Oktoberfest'. It's simply awesome that exist a party for "beerlovers". 'Oktoberfest' itself is celebrated every year since 1810, between september and october, in the bavarian city of München, Germany. It's the greatest and most popular festivity in Germany, and the greatest beer festivity in the world. The visitors are about six to seven millions, and they come from other cities and countries, and all over the world.

The festivity beginning when prince Luis I from Bavaria was married Theresa from Saxony in 1810. They wanted to celebrate; they organized a horse racing and they invited all the citizens from München.
This was repeated every year, starting a tradition that it has been for more of two hundred years.

Currently, at twelve o'clock, in the midday, the mayor of München starts the festival, opening the first beer barrel. When he does, and after he exclaims "O zapftis ist" (It's open), he drinks the first beer pitcher. During these days, besides drinking and drinking local beer, there are typical costume parade and special activies as the Krinoline, a old carousel, the Schichtl theatre, place where present itself aproximately thirty performances, the Power Tower, a tower 66 metres in height, for enjoying a free fall experience (like the games in Fantasilandia) and the Olympia Looping, a roller-coaster.

I like it because I love the beer, specially the homemade beer, like Kunstmann, a Chilean brand, but a German recipe. If I have the oportunity to go to München, specifically to Oktoberfest, it would be a dream come true. I would feel in the paradise

  If you go, enjoy it, just enjoy it. 


martes, 1 de noviembre de 2016

Kurt Cobain

A young man, a bipolar guy, with many physical and mental problems. The voice of the Generation X. Father, husband, nephew, son, friend, a musician, a song writer, a charismatic frontman, the founder of Fecal Matter and Nirvana, the last classic band of the Rock N' Roll History.

Curtis Donald Cobain was born in February 20th of 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington, United States, town where he grew up and studied.

His parents divorced when he was 8 years old. The world was fell apart for him. It was just a nightmare for him. He began his erratic and rebel behavior in the school.

In his 14th birthday, his aunt offered the oportunity to choose his own present either have a bicycle or a guitar. He checked the guitar inmediately.

Between 1985 and 1986 he found with Dale Crover a brief musical project named Fecal Matter.

In 1987, he knew Krist Novoselic and togheter they founded Nirvana. Nirvana released four discs while he was alive: Bleach (1989), Nevermind (1991), Incesticide (1992) and In Utero (1993).

In 1992 he married Courtney Love in Hawaii. After some time she gave birth to their only daughter, Frances Bean. Before Courtney, Kurt had two girlfriend: Tracy Miranda, for about three years, and Tobi Vail, for a pair of months

He always had a stomach problems and a congenital depression. The fame exceed him and with his constant health problems, he resorted to hard drugs to cope with his life, specifically in heroin. He always was in a constant downward spiral.

In fact, in April 5th of 1994, after he came back from a tour in Europe, to his home (in Seattle, Washington) and according to expert's report, he committed suicide with a shotgun, under heroin effects. Toxicology report said that he was injected a lethal dose of heroin before pulling the trigger. However, the dissenting opinion believe that he was killed.

In Aberdeen, his hometown, there is a memorial in his honour. It was created in 2011, at 20 years of the release of Nevermind, the most popular disc of Nirvana, and their forward leap to fame, to Rock N' Roll History.

More than two decades has passed since Kurt Cobain's suicide, but the Reluctant Icon of the Generation X and the troubled voice of the nineteen nineties stood the test of time.