Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Internship At Def Jam Records

The Voyage Out, I present my house




There. It's over. I returned home, I returned to my home. The sabbatical is over. If I wanted, I ask? Yes and no, there are mixed feelings. Yes, because it was sung that had to go back, I finished silver and mentally then you better get used to the idea and not to torture. I like my house, I love my city, I come to hell.
No, because I've seen that creates new worlds and added, to know. I can not now make a great reflection what were these 355 days, but I know I've been extremely happy, My blood has boiled, which I loved, I've cried with joy, and all I've worked hard has been to pack more than 100 times, I hated it!, but if that is a problem are all well.
I'm back safe and sound, one would expect. Every time I have ever designed a company with full conviction I unconsciously covered in a patina that protects and allows me to save me from all evil. Only then explained to me that you had a thousand experiences and only two or three stories unfavorable. Never ever would have imagined that everything was going to leave as well and in part I owe to you, readers, who have accompanied me and endured for this time and I have made this journey much easier. Thank you all and kisses.

just the journey, not the blog
As you will understand there has been a lot of issues that have not been addressed. A few weeks ago had decided to finish the blog today, with the return, but then I considered doing a series of epilogues (one a week, no more than six) of data, photos, reflections, I like to introduce. So we continue to see. Another kiss.

Monday, April 7, 2008

We The People Zodiac 2010 Price

Until then, America, back



It's 7:38 a.m., in half an hour taxi comes to pick me, I called him yesterday and I agreed a price and at ten hours local, I have to be in the window to take my ticket. Tuesday morning landed in Madrid. I say goodbye to America and its people, all of it from Alaska to Ushuaia. It was exciting. Our steps will meet again, anywhere.


Ontario Temporary Driver's License

Come to Buenos Aires, is Relinde!

Indeed, a large city, the first few days reminded me Avd Madrid ... July 9 (La Castellana), St. Elmo Square (Plaza Dos de Mayo) but no two cities are the same, no, no, no. Buenos Aires is unique and current autumn has nothing to do with us, nor the humidity of the walls, and the letters that label the streets. Everything is different and yet remember ...
within five days missed and which could go from Iguazu to place ... other ... ... more ... but I passed, Olympian. I decided to return to Buenos Aires, home of Sylvia and Alejo, where and I stayed during Holy Week. In that first time I visited just something - Puerto Madero, up and down, "I was much at home and if I moved was for a social commitment. This second week if I made a daily trip around town, St. Elmo, La Recoleta, La Boca. Three quarters, three stories, one
city.
Silvia and Alejo, the romantic couple
Both local pint, pint so ... Italian surname, but nothing else, they are from Argentina, from feet to cabeza.16 years of marriage and even embrace as lovers recently, he had it all daily breakfast in bed, "is that it costs a lot to wake up" early-morning voice told me not to bother. I did not know, I came here because a mutual friend AdG put us contacted and they offered me his Buenos Aires home. I accepted, although not like a lot of people go home, but when I entered the palace living knew I would find it. They offered me bed bathroom and internet. Lie, I gave a lot more, actually they invaded the home. Sorry, was busy and had to finish it. Silvia is
guild, art director tanned in a thousand magazines, we have only talked about design, about Argentina itself, sometimes with differences of opinion, has an unusual pace of work, working two weeks at full blast and the rest ... will not . End I caught her in a magazine land, Chakra, at the time of the strike of the field came home exhausted, turned on the tv, a cigarette and his eyes said, at last, my peace!
Alejo, singer-actor, actor-singer, warbling voice, has a combo. The beloved , sing Latin American music of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Music that never dies, give it a spin and do a show, dinner theater kind of romantic, dress up and make your game seem fun. In Spain have been and return in the autumn, will have to see.

Puerto Madero, luxury homes barn to store a
financial center. In rats instead of carpeted space. The change was "before yesterday", in the early nineties, a riverside area that was old at birth. Almost 100 years has been abandoned, buildings, structures, and died one hundred years, with the advice Barcelona City Council decided to change it, not throw, but remodel it and make a modern space with a basis for a century. Great job, to learn and teach. There is no point to throw everything, not always necessary, I saw in Portland, I see it here: there are elements that can be recycled and serve, with the elegance of the old, the necessities of the new society. Functionality and beauty are not to be separated. Congratulations, BA.

La Boca, Buenos Aires
Vallecas Barrio, proletarian suburb, always. The houses near the port are a multitude of colors, today's well configured and maintained. The story is very simple migration zone, port, arriving ships, repaired, painted, painting and plenty of hustle it takes to isolate and paint your home, as only traces of other color paint elsewhere. The result is a melting pot of colors, beauty director of art, a perfect combination of colors. Were Genoese, stored in conventitos living, residential community. They even tried to become independent but not BA Argentina and created the Republic of Boca, lasted a couple of days.

La Recoleta, pardon! The Buenos Aires
France, Loire type mansions, tree-lined avenues, terraces on the street and a cemetery A grand cemetery, not Evita, but for the good collection of art displayed there. Is the creme dela creme of Buenos Aires, buried and represented. No niches, vaults only (mausoleum). The figure of the angel is honored and I thought how many people in my life I said "You're an angel," and suddenly gave me trembling and saw the angels rarely go together in life, always to the death, burial are full and Baroque painting the cherubim help with their blows or bracines ascension to heaven, but where are the angels that bring us to tell people "You are an angel."

Santelmo, the Trail Aires
For reasons I do not understand I walked through this neighborhood three times, as the three times was a holiday, the Defense street was cut off and the circulating varied audience is a flea species, but more elegant, there are many musical performances, some of great quality crafts all, and the shops open their doors, especially antique how crazy again retired gringos. Perfect for street rod or Sunday for a walk, have lunch and then go home and kick you nap. It's holiday!

Confirmed, Maria help!
and not just cancer patients with chemo, no, also the healthy, to all mankind. I do not know if any of you have seen any movie or series in which a character smokes a spliff, I suppose. How it is, what are the stereotypes, which expresses his face. Responses: one, smiling, 2, relaxed and graceful movements and 3, happiness. Yes or no. If we paint, why then I want to fuck that magnificent smile. I say this because I have confirmed scientifically, at different heights, sea, land and even air, in the jungle and the desert cities and the countryside, at home and outside the boiler is good, very good, and none of that to escape from reality and do not know what the dead child. Nonsense. I say to create, for fun, to get the camera ready to take on the world, without any inhibitions you go the pot. Showing.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Free Fall Feeling On Roller Coaster

Falls. Argentina

As I got closer I knew that I would like it, was to enter the province of Misiones, north of Argentina, and recognize the landscape, the earth. Green, red. I already had previously lived, mainly Green, for many months. With one big difference: population. Well here we live better, we're in Argentina. Better houses, better cars, no mangy dogs are emaciated and die under age children do not die ... there is infrastructure.
I got off the bus in Puerto Iguazu after 19 hours and a splendid smile took over me. I suddenly knew that part of the world want to live: hot and humid areas ... the tropics, subtropics. On the way to foot to the hostel, 7 minutes, I went through my mind the whole trip was a time machine, I knew why I could not live in Chile, by the wind, in Bolivia, for dismissing the height ... I went places. And by the same process defining where I would spend my next years ...
I sweated in that short distance, was rich, I was pleased, each drop a memory, each step 100 km. America, the Caribbean, the Amazon turned to me, is made present. The sweat, the smell after rain, getting wet are chill, the skin tan, relaxation habits. light and shadows. The day, night ... warm, beautiful. What a great final adventure. Perfect, Iguazú, wild side, Buenos Aires, urban side. What I was looking town and country, nature-polis. This duality, this complementarity, this need of mine to the two environments. Falls and BA. Two perfect places to end this long.

Iguazu large water
Nature has endowed this corner of the world with two rivers, Iguazú and Paraná, A Land subsidence in the first allowed to flow at different levels ie, through a waterfall, magnificent, huge, endless. Getting over the waters, feel the fine drip onto the skin, the cloud of rising water 70 meters to cool to the visit is a gift that nature offers us and we must not despise. animals are gone too, helicopters and tourism, which did not fuck the rest, please, it's so cute and yet so accessible it's scary. The Falls Iguazú is another jewel of the Earth, by volume of water, extent by the noise they cause, by the surrounding landscape is a feast for the senses. Access is a path of butterflies of different sizes and colors, accustomed to humans will land on the hands or arms. To them on the tour, flirt with the visitor up to the Garganta del Diablo, the largest of the waterfalls and spectacular part.

target no mistake!
If you come around here stayed on the Argentine side, Puerto Iguazu, 30 000 inhabitants and a haven of peace with a noisy disco for the night. Side Brazil, however is a large mole, with skyscrapers, 300 thousand inhabitants and security rather dubious. What's visit, the two sides of the waterfall, Brazil and Argentina, change the perspective, change the look. Argentina are at the top of the falls, I splashed, from Brazil you go away and win in perspective.

Three Borders,
many races I've ever said my morbid fascination for this type of locations. Argentina and Brazil Paraguay separated by two rivers. Three countries that can go in an hour, if the Brazilians let you pass. Three cities, three worlds, lots of movement. Ciudad del Este, Commercial full of Brazilian spending-the second highest level of trade free-busy world, striped and exhausting; Foz de Iguaçu giant, Lebanese, Chinese, German, Japanese and Brazilians make up its population naturalmante, Puerto Iguaçu, the quiet, can not grow in the regulations prohibits major buildings that the height of trees. Thanks.

Itaipu Dam, the singing stone
That means in Guarani. I will put aside all critical environmental and humanitarian-that she should have and there are thousands, and focus on the work as a paradigm human being. The Itaipu dam, which contains the waters of the Parana River, is considered one of the seven wonders of the modern world, next to the Panama Canal and Golden Gate in San Francisco. It is not a joke, is a massive engineering project, the largest producer of hydropower in the world, a monster that supplies 95% of energy from Paraguay and 25 of an economic giant like Brazil. When you're at it again perceive the guy who is the man and the greatness you can create.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Mi Paste Side Effects

the ultimate destination remains unchanged. War between rich

Farmers are to whistle against government export tax to impose on soybeans. It is an employers' strike which has been supported by the small landowner and countryside in general. And while the whole society anti Kirchner. Cristina Fernández, president and wife of former president, at first laughed at them, despise ... dismayed and then back to a speech salvapatrias pulled their guns and armies of the Peronist trade unions, already pass the bill in the coming months and around it and the homeland. Today unemployment has subsided and there have been a one-month truce. The expectation, Argentina does not change. It's a war on my balls

Jokes Argentine evil
All we know any or heard any, but we do not ask for any of Chileans and Colombians. We would not know. Mexicans, maybe. To try to redress this injustice I searched Google " Chilean jokes" and the first link that appeared on the list read as follows " Argentine Jokes." No comments.
They know it and the sweat is part of his being, to laugh at themselves is a great gift. A friend told me that the Argentines out are much more unbearable because she has to show the world how good they are, but fighting indoors against millions of compatriots who are like him, then ... err, you know, no!

The "Bönisch porteños
The first time I heard Argentina in my life was in 68 or 69, at the age of 8 or 9 years that a family of my cousin or uncle father came to visit to Spain. Came from Argentina and last name, like my father, I spoke ... different, "do not know how to pronounce the" ll "I told myself then, because of his throat came a scha, scha, scha, saying instead Bönisch Bonilla. Since then I kept the song, yet it still seems strange that Buenos Aires way to pronounce the LL.
I visited some of the Bönisch locals and never ever have said that they are relatives of mine, I looked for features, gestures, a something which we interact. Nothing but the blood. They are engineers, doctors, veterinarians and all well placed. Well situated. Palermo bourgeoisie. I called a cousin of my father, Susan, and she called on several members: his youngest son, a cousin, to his young uncle of 93 years, Angel, brother of my grandfather and his son Angelito. Bonilla was also a no, but as if it were, was a friend from childhood and had eighty-odd years. A coffee and a roulade of Passover. We teach photos, Susan and I paper my ipod. We talked about family, talk of politics: they had all voted for Zapatero, another cousin called me from the U.S. to congratulate and talk with me, we did a long time. They were delighted and I, to deny. Also, my dad was very happy.

English elections in Argentina
The city continues to posters, the Prime Minister held until a few days ago the entire facade of a downtown building inviting to vote. 260,000 votes, the forty province of Spain in the number of votes after La Rioja Argentina is called. These are potential Voters who live here. Decide in some cases governed by a Galician town mayor, are more than the same people, despite never having been in the homeland! I do not understand. Ok, have the same rights as all but what they know English in Spain, have ever been, what unites them, should be determining their votes. They are Argentina, their tastes are Argentines, their speech is from Argentina, they think, talk and gesture as Argentines, pay their taxes in Argentina, but what they are voting in Spain. I do not understand. Me personally, if I saw you in that case would give up the vote and I am Argentine, che. With Italy is the same. Although never give up my English passport ... just in case ... but vote!

I witnessed, and they lived happily ...
I found again in BA with two friends of this blog, Julian and Anna, the Nicas, since "scha" come to work in this vibrant city. I phoned them and we met at the English Consulate, should be witness to their certificate of domestic partnership. No images of the act because the English officials confiscated my camera for security reasons and despite my letter of request to immortalize that moment there was no way, and that we had been with the consul and went to the cooperation from senior English in Argentina. Impossible. The law is the law. Read All the best, they'll have fun, are in Buenos Aires.

One night bohemian night Tango
A popular local in La Boca, must reserve is an exclusive club. Table for 12, then we will be 14. The appointment of Alejandro and Silvia had closed, with whom I live. Symbolic entrance, dinner theater and dance: 4 euros. Mean age, 50 years. Bohemian is a social club, sports and culture for people in the neighborhood, the most picturesque La Boca, which is an honor to partner and go on weekends to dance a pride. Where one moves to the rhythm of tango, chacarera and milonga ...
They welcome all the guests that night, especially to foreign audiences, six are, and suddenly I hear my name over the loudspeakers: earth swallow me, I thought, I get up and greet you in general without looking at anyone, no, not just health but I have to leave the center of the track, "he said," so Bajina, profane, anger me, I feel an awful fool to my companions and asked why I have not been warned. I want to die. As I see you are calling out to other outsiders, I relax. On the track, we devote a few words, that the nerves do not remember, and give us a pennant. The crowd applauded, we sat down and the evening continued. Lindo. Nice night.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Black Circles On Lcd Tv

Buenos Aires 2. First pictures, not words