Movies

Today I’m going to talk about movies; I have seen The godfather and Psicosis, both of them, just great, excellent, the story and the acting, images, music, perfect.

I don’t so really often to the cinema, because I live in Curicó, and there we don’t have a real cinema, for a lot of years, like 4 years ago, a cinema arrived to Curicó, so it’s something very new there, the last time I go, was here in Santiago, like a month ago, with a friend I watch Inception an excellent movie by the way, I don’t rent a movie since 2005, because they are too expensive.
One of my favorite films is The dark side of the heart, is an Argentinean movie, is just great, is about a young poet living in Buenos Aires, and the hole movie he search for the one (women) , but the one who can fly (literally), I seen it a lot of times like 4, I don’t think the movie has a weak point, is amazing, has a lot of interesting stuff for example the presence of the death, in the movie the death is a woman, who follow the poet and appears anytime bothering the main character.

And of course I recommend it, is really amusing, it absolutely worth it, I rate it like a must see. One of the things I like the most, is that the movie use just a little of visual effects, but the story and actors are so great that, doesn’t matters. I think Chilean movies have to learn about it.

Santiago

I don’t know Santiago very well, because even when all my family is from Santiago and I was born here, I only live just a year in Santiago and then my family moved away to Curicó, and now life just take back to the place y born. Now it’s my third year in Santiago, I don’t know what places are the greatest for a tourist, and I think my knowledge of Santiago is very limited, but, I think that Santiago has so many things for see and do, is an amazing city, but sometimes it’s really hard to know.

I think a tourist need to see Patronato because is a extrange place where many different kind of people are forced to live side to side, and make a weird and freak place for go, but it’s great all the stuff you can see, like coreans market or Chinese store or brasilean restaurant.

- Other place for visit is “Paseo Ahumada” such a weird place like patronato but much more beautiful I think because it has an old arquitechture, Paseo Ahumada have all kind of stores, and also a lot of spectacle in the streets like actors, or musician-

- Santa Lucia is another great place to be, has a great place for buy crafts and a hill very important, with wonderful things for enjoy.

- There a lot of park in Santiago, one of them is the Forestal park, is very nice, and have a lot of things for enjoy like jugglers, actors, artist, etc.

-The “Liguria” is a restaurant with a lot of history and any tourist would love to go, because is a ver y tipical place, and many nights have lived music, and their walls are literally covert in memories of this country.

Music

For me, music is a vital part of my life, I can’t imagine my life without music, when I travel one of the things that I more miss is my music, is very useful for think in something else, for escape reality, it makes me feel free.

I listen a lot of music of all kind, but I preferred rock and also grunge, they are my favourite, because of the meaning of the lyrics, the voice, and the power of the guitar. I don’t really dislike any kind of music except maybe reaggeton (just for listening because for dancing is fine) and death metal because I hate the guttural voice.

My favourite singer is Layne Staley of Alice in Chains, because his voice is perfect at least for me, because of his strength and quality is unique, and he always has sang great even when he was over the effect of drugs or sick.

I have been to 4 concerts and I have seen a lot of live music, and I love it every second, listen to live music, can’t compare to listen recorded music, the feeling of being between thousands of people singing, and listen to your favourite musicians just a few meter of you it’s unforgettable, sadly I can’t never see Layne Staley because he die of a overdose a few year ago.

I live in Curicò and there they are just a few radio stations and they are usually boring so I listen a lot more my own collection of music, I was made this collection by downloading music of the internet, or with the help of friends who also love music and borrow me their collection, When I really love a band I always try to buy their original cd, but only if I can, because in Chile music is very expensive.

I play just a bit of guitar and I can’t read music but, make music/noise with the guitar makes me happy (:

Finally I think music is so important for people because give the opportunity of escape reality and dream, think, and fly in the middle of reality, it’s a great way to “travel” without drugs.

I really want to go to Italy, because I heard so many histories about it, and how fascinating can be, it’s a great country with a lot of history and marvelous places to see. Italy is famous for so many things, like the production of some of the most perfect car in the entire world like Lamborghini or Ferrari, Italy is also famous for the food, spaghetti, lasagna and raviolis are all from there. Italy is very important in the world of art also so, if you go there there’s plenty of wonderful paintings and sculptures, and the music of course, a lot of the best places for watch and listen Opera are in Italy.

But in all Italy the place that always attract mi attention is la Toscana, it’s the country of Italy, it’s a very peaceful place, far away from the big cities, and it look wonderful, I want to go there to travel, work, study or live, I really don’t care, for me it seems like one of the better places in the world, so I hope I can go there and see if it’s truly nice and great like a lot of people, movies and book said.