Vids in english

Hi everyone. This time I’m going to show you an in-English vid quite humorous… I felt the more common jokes in English are referred to the same language (like The Annoying orange and the “to-may-to” joke, for example (I hate The Annoying orange anyways)). Personally I don’t watch many videos where someone talks in –unless they were movie trailers or video-tutorials-. Well… I saw this when I was a child and it can’t be translated. So here’s the original Slappy Squirrel and Skippy performance at the Woodstock festival. Enjoy it! (And “Who” is on stage)

In second place, I’m going to show you a very new vid (not). Searching in my favorite list on YouTube I found this excellent trailer: Trainspotting (a Scottish film about drugs and life). I think this trailer is so amazing because the narrator tells you all over the trailer the standard rules of life and the choices you can do while you are living (he starts whit “choose life, a job, choose a career, choose a family…”), then he shows you all the stupid social things people usually do and, finally, he shows you the ironically way you’re going to die (“Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself, choose your future.”). Well, the movie is about some junkies and they own world. So, they don’t choose life; they chosen something else, and that is the movie. A very strange way to describe a great movie. Here’s the trailer:

Finally, I give you this bonus track. Is a music video released last month I guess. Die Antwoord and their typical strongly bad English. I really enjoy their conversations.

Cheers!

Some correction...

Hi, today I’m supposed to correct a Paulina’s article. So I choose this “The Lion King” article she wrote. The red words are the bad form and the green words are my corrections. I hope my correction is well.

The article:

Hello everyone! It’s time to talk about your favourite movie. In this opportunity i I will talk about "the lion king" (  ) film, this is one of my S favourites movies, (  ) the other S films that i I love is "avatar", but my classmate Pamela wrote is writing about it. The lion king is a movie produced T for by Walt Disney pictures, directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff

λ It’s  (  ) talk about ?M the tragedy of Hamlet in Shakespeare ???. The movie (  ) opened had its premiere in 1994, and i I saw it a couple of S years later, when i I was 10 years old.  It is one of my favourite S/P movies because λ is it’s really cute for S childrens and WE leave gives you a teaching about S to be being a supportive person and not selfish.
The story is about Simba, a lion cub, T W.O successor to the throne and the throne successor of from his father Mufasa, his father (the lion king). His uncle Scar killed (  ) to Mufasa, and Simba S run ran away to the jungle because T of for feels feelings of guilt. A couple of years later, Simba -now adult- came back T for to be T a the new lion king, but T in at this moment his uncle Scar was the king. Simba, after λ talking with many friends (timon, pumba and rafiki) and λ after WE saw talks to WW in the heaven the spirit of his father who appears in the sky, demand his throne to Scar and obliged him λ to tell the true about (  ) on his father's death.
After a battle, Scar was killed and Simba takes the throne.

Corrected version:

Hello everyone! It’s time to talk about your favourite movie. In this opportunity I will talk about "the lion king", this is one of my favourite movies, other films that I love is "avatar", but my classmate Pamela is writing about it. The lion king is a movie produced by Walt Disney pictures, directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff.

It’s about ???. The movie had its premiere in 1994, and I saw it a couple of years later, when I was 10 years old.  It is one of my favourite movies because it’s really cute for children and gives you a teaching about being a supportive person and not selfish.
The story is about Simba, a lion cub, and the throne successor from Mufasa, his father (the lion king). His uncle Scar killed Mufasa, and Simba ran away to the jungle because of feelings of guilt. A couple of years later, Simba -now adult- came back to be the new lion king, but at this moment his uncle Scar was the king. Simba, after talking with many friends (Timon, Pumba and Rafiki) and after talks to the spirit of his father who appears in the sky, Simba demands his throne to Scar and obliged him to tell the true about his father's death.
After a battle, Scar was killed and Simba takes the throne.

Fight Club

I have many favorite movies; I think I have one of almost each genre. But there is a movie I really like: The Fight Club. This is a 1999 film directed by David Fincher, based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel with the same name (1996). I don’t remember when I saw for first time, but I remember that I watched it for second time in the philosophy class in about 3th middle. At that age I couldn’t get hooked but I ask the teacher for a copy. A couple of years later I saw it again and I started to get all the things that make this film a masterpiece.

The film is the history of “the narrator”, a guy who had a well-paid but bored job. After a job flight he realizes his floor had exploded, he calls Tyler Durden, a guy he met on the plane and they started to live together. Tyler and the narrator started a Fight Club where people met to fight after work. Tyler’s plan is to make the people enjoy its life out of consumism. He creates a vandalism group to break people's every-day routine, but one of them was killed by a policeman. The narrator tries to stop this group and he realizes that he and Tyler Durden was the same person, Tyler is his brave alter-ego, a guy who will make things the narrator will never do.

I love this movie because it shows contemporary society problems and it has tons of brilliant phrases, such as:

“Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.”

Music from another world

Hello world!

Mmm, is difficult to me talking about music in these days because in the last year I started to open my mind to listen a new kind of music. My father is a heavy-metal fan, he has an Iron Maiden tattoo, and we had always shared our music. When I was a child, he showed very good rock to me (heavy metal, punk, hard rock, grunge, etc.) and when I was a teenager I started to listen a lot of punk and hardcore. That was my “music formation”, always hating the pop and the “commercial” stuff. I play guitar and I started to make music in a hardcore-punk band around 2004, but in the last few years I started to realize the “classical” music (guitar, bass, drums) was over-capacity, so I started to listen synthetic music (synthesizers or computer-made music) and I discovered, literally,  a new world.

The things you can do with a computer controlling the physical formulas in the shape of the audio waves is totally amazing, is the new-era music. In this exploration of the electronic music I discovered the techno, the house and the dubstep. The dubstep took my attention for its extraordinary weird structure, the syncopation, the sub-basses and its waveforms taken from another world (or made with some new digital instruments).

Now is very hard to me to decide for a favorite band, even for a favorite kind of music. I still love the metal and the punk and the hardcore too. I think good music you can listen again and again and never get bored of (like Nirvana). But I’m very hooked with this new electronic music, because is fresh and you can give a good surprise in any moment, albums and EP’s come out almost every week, and the future of music is here.

Fuck the police!

Hello everybody. Well, I really love photography, I think photography is one of the easiest arts to love because you don’t have to have much knowledge about to start taking photos; today is like a natural draw of your environment and an easy way to keep your memories with you. One of my “child’s dreams” was to have a “professional” camera to keep with me (as least as a picture) all my great moments in a good quality. Last year I worked to buy one and I could start taking good pictures in fast moments (because I love “freeze photography”), so this is an example of what I’m doing. This picture was taken in the early months of this year after a student meeting at Pza. Italia. I took many pictures but this one in particular resumes all that morning. It’s very simple and shows the message of that day: “FUCK THE POLICE!”, because the meeting was unauthorized and the cops were very heavy.

I have some other images you can browse at my flickr: www.flickr.com/topletople, I’m always trying to actualize it to show the world as I see it.

Ahh, yesterday I was also taking pictures you can see at my flickr ;)

Cheers!

Technology in our lives

The actual home-technologic world is very strange. Nobody can predict how the technology will be, or where is going to. It’s true; technology has simplified our life, right? I mean… right? (yes, please think in that complicated software that is necessary to make “easier” your work. And think in the next version, that version which changes all you knew about that software).

My favorite dispositive: My laptop. Why? Because I can carry all my digital stuff everywhere and work on it. It’s just a portable PC (more expensive and gets more temperature because have less ventilation, but it’s OK). And that’s –for now- the objective of tech: portability. I can do the same things that I made on my old PC, but everywhere (even in the pool, as a teacher said). When do you think in high-end devices I can’t talk about smartphones or tablets, its power is far to be “decent” to work in hi-res video or even images.

Well, technology is here to stay, not to stay, to change continuously; and technology will not adapt to us. We must adapt to technology to be top of line in our professional field or even to be competitive. I don’t want to be pessimist, in fact; I love technology because (so-so) I understand it (I need to). But be careful, because the slogan of today is “Upgrade or die”.

Lyrics:

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it,
Charge it, point it, zoom it, press it,
Snap it, work it, quick - erase it,
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it,
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it,
Drag and drop it, zip - unzip it,
Lock it, fill it, call it, find it,
View it, code it, jam - unlock it,
Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it,
Cross it, crack it, switch - update it,
Name it, rate it, tune it, print it,
Scan it, send it, fax - rename it,
Touch it, bring it, Pay it, watch it,
Turn it, leave it, start - format it.

Technologic

Learning english

This post is about my perception of the BBC English-learn webpage (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/).

It’s a kinda strange for me to practice English in this way; I think I have some social
and cultural prejudgments when I’m learning something. My mind is asking itself
all the time what I’m doing and why I’m doing for; so, it’s different (to me) been
learning English at the time you see a movie or at the time you’re reading some
articles on the web than learning English in the BBC webpage. Maybe this sounds
a little paranoid, but I don’t feel fully comfortable with BBC’s free English course
(I been always thought the language is created by-and-to the people and it’s so
mutable and upgradeable that it can’t be “standardized” by organisms of any
type, because every different social, cultural or demographic group has they
own way to communicate).

Forgetting my paranoia, I think the course is very good (LOL). It has very good mechanisms
to bring the English to everyday situations and it has interesting and pleasantly stuff to practice the language almost as a way to distend. I strongly recommend it!

Good Bye!