I'm here with Manolo and Sofia

Sofia is such a bad friend, I have told her twice today that i had to finish writing on my blog and she didn't remind me that today was the last day to write on it, of course is just kiding but now i have to write quickly.

So i'm here hurrying up to finish the blog, having dinner at the same time and thinking that i'm not going to finish it with so little time. Mmmm.... let's think...too much homeworks and the exams coming close that i forget about the blog...think think...write write...

Ok i've got something, yesterday I saw for the second time AVATAR, again i had the same feeling that i had the first time i saw it, is incredible, a whole new world to discover, now i'm thinking that i going to buy it on blu-ray when i have the money..

We are having for dinner "arepas", is a typical venezuelan food made of corn flour.

We were going to see a movie now but because i remember that the last day to write on this little thing called blog was today i'm here writing as fast as i can instead of seeing the movie, but hey it's a new experience, you have to sabour every little thing that life throws to you, if life give you lemons then make lemonade...sorry if this is getting tedious but i'm throwing everything directly from my brain to the blog..

My birthday is coming soon, it's in May 17, obviously with the exams so near , i'm not going to celebrate it but hey don't worry for me, i plan to celebrate it big time with the end of examns, so that doesn't worry me too much

The sad thing of all this, is that i that... i'm getting out of time nooooooooooooo... let me write a little bit more pleaseeee.. well i'm going to keep writing and if it doesn't count, well at least i tried it...

Dont worry about a thing, cause every little thing is gonna be allright-- thats what the song "three little birds" of Bob Marley says, good song. The phone rings, i don't have time to answer, they will call me later, now i'm busy.

Well as i was saying the sad thing is that i pretended to finish the blog tomorrow thinking that the final date was the day of the exam but apparently it wasn't, now it will be good to have a Delorean like in back to the future or the ability to control time like Hiro Nakamura from the Heroes series...time travel what a paradox haha, crazyyy..

Blog, blog, blog what do i write on you, let's see i think that i have more than 4000 words already but i'm not sure..

I think i going to leave it here, the movie that we are going to see is The imaginarium of Doctor Parnasus, i think is going to be a phycodelic ride, that what i was told about it, people that have seen it, said to me that is a crazy film, with the word crazy they mean crazy really, not crazy good, lets see if it's both, crazy and good..

So let the show begin!

Impresions after SOS 4.8

The expectations were very high and boy, they were fullfilled and more.

The day started like any other normal Friday exept for the fact that i was ready to go to the music festival SOS 4.8 in Murcia, and knowing that it was going to be one hell of a weekend. A car aproched the students residence were I live emiting sounds of SOS, loud people screaming my name at the rythm of Crystal Castles had arrived, they were my friends calling me to pick me up, so we could start our journey to phycodelic land.

The first thing we did was to fill up the tank of the car and pass by Valencia to pick up another friend that lives there and them we were ready to go. After a long trip of silly things, expresions like: SOS is gonna blow our minds off, Who is hotter on this magazine, what the first thing that i'm going to do when i arrive is going to take my pants off, that together with some chicken dances and stuff like that, after losing ourselfs in a road that wasn't the right and following later some girls caravan that knew exactly where the festival was, we at last arrived at Murcia at 17:30.

The first concert was going to start at 19:45 so we had to hurry a little bit to eat something, drink a par of "copichuelas" and of course the magic touch...get dressed as 80's aerobics instructors. With people staring at us we started to put our eye-destroying colored tights, headbands, really short shorts, wristbands and sneakers and of top of all that some home-made 3d glasses, we were ready for everything. Walking towards the festival people wanted to take pictures with us, do some little aerobics, this was going to be fun.

As we entered the festival we saw a zone were there was a lot of people dancing to the music of a DJ, behind then a little pool nearly empty, whithout looking at each other we knew exactly what we should do: we took our shoes off and entered the pool, at first everyone was like what are they doing but a few minutes later, everybody was doing aerobics figures imposed by us, their aerobics instructors, all of this at the rythm of the music. It was a moment to remember.

After the inicial crazyness we went running to see the first concert: The Sunday Drivers. There was a lot of people allready despite being the first concert. Sings holded by people in the crowd displayed messages like: Love me, Shit happens, Marry me, Im useless, you get the idea. When the concert was over and because the next group on stage didn't attracted us very much, we went outside to grab some dinner.

The time had come next in the other scenary(there were too stages) was the turn for Crystal Castles. This was one of my favorite groups to be on the festival, so we ran to the stage to be first in line when the concert started. I only have to say that it was the craziest concert I ever be on. People were jumping all the time non-stop, the sound was incredible, Alice Glass the singer jumped towards me and in the fall made me loose my glasses, under a microclimate of warm sweat and pumping adrenaline with the singer screaming on top of me, this was insane. When the concert was finished, whithout glasses, whithout cellphone! What the... and, with my t-shirt at the height of my nipples and having no clue were my friends were i got out of there and start looking for them with the increased difficulty that there were thousands of people in the festival and I didn't had cellphone.

Finally i catch up with them, at the end of the concert we ended all in every corner of it. There was no time to rest, next was Franz Ferdinand on the other stage, we ran to the other concert...this was the rutin of the festival, it was glorious haha.

After another three or four concerts the festival was reaching the end of it's first day. It was 7 o'clock in the morning, we went to McDonalds to get something to eat, we and everybody in the festival, I think McDonalds made their year that day. We party a little bit on the parking lot and then went to sleep in the car.

Next day. Saturday 11:05 I wake up with my tights still on and the skin-melting sun in my face. We were inside a car-form sauna. We went out of the car poured ourself a little water on the heads and seeing the space we had, we thought that playing soccer was a good idea, we took a ball out of the car trunk and started playing. It was a strange picture, 8 men semi-nuded with tights playing soccer..

The sun was hitting us in the head like a hammer, we needed to take a shower. So, we head ourselfs towards the car-washing machines haha, there with a pressure hose we took our bath, refreshing. We changed our clothes, today we weren't going as aerobics intructors again, today we went "normal".

Inside the festival, we lied down on the grass with nice dj music next to us. After some time, the sky starts to get darker, then the first water drop, then a tiny rain, then it was like god open its fridge in top of us. Hail started to fall, we ran to the cars in attempt to flee from the white meteorites that where hitting our heads. Already in the cars we prayed for a change in the weather and apparently it worked the sun begun to come out again...Yes, the climate conditions of the festival apparently were crazy as the festival itself haha.

With a less asfixiation-inducing temperature we went back to the festival. And here we go again, mega great concerts one after the other, dinner and finally he was ther waiting for us, he was FATBOY SLIM. God turned into dj that until 7:00 o'clock in the morning kept us dancing and screaming. Norman Cook (his real name) said goodbye and a opera music begin to sound. People knew it was over but they, we included, kept dancing ballet at the rythm of the music. The organization of the festival told us to move out, the big mass of people marched towards the exit.

SOS 4.8 was over.. another great experience to our memory...but it was not really over there was one little surprise wainting for us in the car..

When we woke up everything looked pretty normal, a car full of junk food, bottles, people slepping in strange positions reaching the capabilities of a circus contosionist, but when we are going to head up to Castellón again and try to start the car, nothing happens, we ran out of battery. Our physicians minds made this clever thought dont worry the other cars are going to have battery and with that we can revive ours. Well, this was even more strange that the entire festival haha, all the cars around us were batery dead too haha. Aparently, music and lights on all day doesn't seen to do well with batery life.

There we were waiting for the crane to save us. And here is where this story ends, the crane came and we were all rescued. We head back to Castellón, and here I am writing on this blog. That was the last great pary before exams, now its the turn of study, go for it!

A night at the Roxbury!

As i told you in a past entry, i was going to throw a theme party based on the movie "A night at the Roxbury", so lets first talk of the movie so that you can understand better the style of the party.

This movie it's a movie based on two characters from a comedy show called Saturday Night Live, they are the Butabi brothers: Steve and Doug Butabi. The two brothers make an unusual pair, they dress with colorful suits, gold chains and oversprayed hair styles. They like to storm every disco in the city and aproach every girl on sight even if the girls dont feel the same "love" as they do, i have to mention that they aren't very nice at picking up woman maybe it's mainly because their seduction technique is, how can i put it, "special". Their seduction tecnique consist in:

1.-While staying at the bar, move your neck from one side to the other at the music rythm (if the song is "What is love" from Haddaway, better)

2.-Take a look at the panorama...choose a girl

3.-Go and take her out for a "dance"

All this you could say its pretty normal, but if i tell you that the dance part consist in grabbing and moving your pelvis against her like a horny dog then thats when this technique becomes special, haha

After telling you a little about how they are, lets talk more about what's frustrating them lately. As i told you earlier, they love discos so their dream is to be able one day to get to manage one of their own, but their father doesn't understand this, he think it's a silly dream and he wants that they take the family bussiness when he is gone, a fake plant store, haha. Another thing that's driving they crazy is the word "Roxbury". The Roxbury is the coolest club in town
and of course they can't get in. So when they accidentaly crash against a famous tv actor with their car and as an apologie he lets them enter the Roxbury, the story begins to take another course...

Well i'm not going to tell you the whole movie, just wanted that you made an idea of it so i can explain what was the party about.

First let me tell you that i live in a universitary residence, where my "home" is a mini-apartment, a room with a mini kitchen all in the same space and a bathroom. So having this space at hand i told to myself what can i do to turn this room in the club from the movie, the Roxbury. Ideas started to came to my mind:

1.-I need to have music, what kind of music, music like the movie, 80's/90's style. Internet, download, checked.

2.-I need that music to sound like in a club, a big guitar amplifier, checked.

3.-Now that i have the music, i need ilumination, lava lampa, black light on the wall and a disco light shooting color light in every directions, checked.

4.-I have to make this room look like a club: big printed letters "R O X B U R Y" in the entrance and in the room, checked; party posters on the walls, which i already had, checked; "A night at the roxbury" printed photos as decoration, checked; and last but not less important a dancing stage, how? well, taking out my bed and letting the table where it stands as a dancing stage, haha.

5.-Add a little alcohol, confeti and glowsticks here and there with people dressed like in the movie.

And voila!, here you have THE ROXBURY!

After all of this, i don't need to tell you that the party was an incredible success, everyone was amazed, and boy they partied, haha, they and me of course. And again, i don't need to tell you that after this success, more theme parties are on the coming!

So lets declare the new 359 (the number of my residence room) club open and lets celebrate with sparkling shining champagne in the name of "A night at the Roxbury", and this new theme party journey that i'm about to start, haha.

Now i have to go, i need to plan the next party(and study english of course, haha)

Bye, bye. What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more..

FC. Barcelona vs Real Madrid

After seeing the title of the entry, you already know what this is going to be about.

Let me start saying that i'm neither a follower of FC. Barcelona nor Real Madrid but i'm a great fan of soccer in general so lets say that i talk from a objective point of view, and lets keep clear that the first reason why i'm here writing is to talk about what this soccer match means and maybe at the end i'm going to give my opinion on who is going to win but, i want to focus on the meaning of the game.

First we have to have in mind the fact that this particular match is going to be seen by millions of people worldwide(including people that don't follow soccer). This game is an enourmous event in the world of soccer because two of the biggest teams if not the biggest(with the respect of the others) and "enemies for life"(they are like Homer and non-alcoholic drinks) face each other in the field. If that is not enough, we have to add the fact that they reach this point of the "Liga Profesional de Fútbol"(LFP) both with the same points, so this particular match can be decisive to win the league; FC. Barcelona has won everything last year, so the Real Madrid wants revenge in some way; this is the only competition in where the Real Madrid is alive, the only one that can prove that the vast sum of money spent in bringing some of the better players of the world to this club was worth something; both teams have the best players of the world, Cristiano Ronaldo(Real Madrid) and Lionel Messi(FCB) are 2008 and 2009 respectively winner of the "Ballon d'Or", "The Golden Ball", referred to as the European Footballer of the Year award, so we can expect one hell of a game.

So, having that said and seeing what this soccer match brings with it, lets talk about what i really wanted to talk, the impact on the spanish culture.

We can say that this game is so attached to the spanish culture as the "tortilla española" or the "paella". In the week before to this game, people,television,radio dont talk about other thing rather than this, maybe i'm exagerating but you know what i'm talking about and you can picture it. You know it's going to be the biggest event of the week even if a bomb makes dissapear, i dont know, Venezuela for example haha.

That's a week before but then there is the day of the game, in this day, the streets are desolated like in the Wild West, the country is paralized, where is all the people? The answer is BARS or their houses, and they are seeing the game of course haha, its a soccer country, you know. This happening can only be surpassed by a soccer match of the Spanish National Team in the Worl Cup, or if one day pubs decide to give alcohol for free, haha, that would do it too. Everybody wants to see the game, even if you are from another team, like me, or don't like soocer as much because you know you are going to have a good time with friends. If you are like me then you enjoy, apart from a nice soccer match, to laugh at your friends face, haha, its the best!, because whoevers win the game, you dont care, you only mess with them, and annoy them when the other team scores and stuff like that haha, you get the point.

Well after saying all this, and leaving clear that this game is more than just another soccer match, i'm going to get my feet wet for a little and say that FC. Barcelona is going to win, i leave it there.

Talking about soccer, i have to go now, im going to play it with some friends now, haha. See ya

SOS!

I was sitting here eating some cookies and i felt like to write, so let's get to it.

I wanted to say that despite of having vacations this entire week, i'm more excited about the weeks to come after this one, i don't know if it is because i don't have a big plan for this week or the reason is that the next weeks, for example: i have planned a theme party of "A night at the Roxbury" that's going to be a blast or the little detail that the SOS 4.8 music festival is coming near as i write this lines. Of course, as much fun as the party is going to be, the big event is the music festival, so let's talk about it.

SOS 4.8 is a music festival that's going to take place in Murcia. I find its slogan curious, its slogan is: "Are you wierd? What means to be weird? What is wierd? Are you brave, exagerated, twisted, fun, attractive until extravagance? Are you capable to see from the other side of the mirror?". Well, that was in fact wierd haha, so is this a music festival for wierdos? noop haha, its only that it's different. This festival is all about indie,alternative,electronic music. In two days of festival, April 30 and May 1, im going to enjoy the live performances of groups like Crystal Castles, Madness, Franz Ferdinand, We Are Standard, Fatboy Slim, The Sunday Drivers and many more, only for the price of 35 euros. I'm pretty excited not only because i'm going to this concerts but also because of all that a music festival brings with it: The ambient, the people, the party. The simple fact of being in the ambient of a music festival and to sleep in a tent with parties by night is something to be excited about, and if you go with friends of course you have an extra plus.

Well as i was writing this, the plan that i didn't have came out for tonight so see yaaaa haha. Let's see if next time, i talk a little more about the Roxbury party that i mentioned earlier.

HERE COMES THE SUMMER!

It's been a while since i wrote my last entry in this blog, so to reanimate it, i needed something to make me write on it, and that thing is the heat. The heat? what i mean with the heat is the weather change that we are suffering little by little but its already noticeable and it's really great. Only the fact of going out only with a t-shirt with no need for a jacket makes me want to go out and in a really good mood. Last night i went out that way with only a t-shirt and its a silly thing but boy its great haha. Everything changes around people go out more and you can smell a diferent essense in the air (well im getting too far here haha).

Another thing that this climate brings, its the return of the BEACH, this afternoon i went with some friends. If theres a thing that only with its presence makes me happy its the beach haha. I love the beach and everything that it embraces. To hang out with your friends in it, play soccer, surf, swiming in the sea, blah blah. Theres a lot of things you can do in the beach its amazing, i dont know if i'm getting too philosofical but only seeing a sundown in the beach its worth it. This place with sand and sea basically has something that makes me feel new everytime i come home after going to it. Now that theres a good climate i think im going to make it weekly.

Stop reading this and go to the BEACH!

MTV WINTER!

Now that the next MTV WINTER it's around the corner, I'll like to talk about it. The first you have to know about it is that it takes place in the fururistic and vanguardist La ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias a recint designed by the famous architect Santiago Calatrava located in Valencia and it's not a typical music festival. MTV WINTER is a music event that brings the best international music groups of the moment and does it for FREE. Yes, as you read it, you can go crazy in concerts delivered by the hand of artist like The Cure, Franz Ferdinand, Mando Diao, etc., and I can only mention few groups mainly because it's a young music event, it only has had two editions until now; the first one brought The Cure as headliners, HIM and From First to last all of them basically punk rock artists; the second one had as headliners Franz Ferdinand and them followed by Mando Daio and Starsailor again all of them of the same music style, indie rock. This year the group that has confirmed it's precence is Artic Monkeys that also play indie rock music and as you can expect after seeing what happened on past year editions they will be acompanied by two other groups of similar style. The date stablished for the concert is February 12.

At this point you should notice already that is basically a rock festival. I have gone to the two past concerts and if I'm saying that I can't wait for the next one you should see that it's a big and impresive music event, I still don't know how an event of this proportions and quality can be for FREE and that takes place near me every year!, I'm still astonished. For all the music lovers and followers of groups like Franz Ferdinand and Artic Monkeys this should be a mark on your calendar and an event that you shouldn't miss.

See you in February 12! Yeah!