Wishlist

Material stuff for the material side of me.

**NOT IN ORDER

• Velvet Underground singles (66-69) [http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&navAction=jump&id=18860577&search=true&isProduct=true&parentid=SEARCH+RESULTS&color=000] in vinyl
• David Bowie: Space Oddity in vinyl
• A voyage to India
• Geek glasses
• Cheese
• A lifetime supply of movie rentals
• Someone writting my biography
• A dog named Getulio Vargas
• A scolarship at Brown University
• A sock monkey (and then I can burn it)
• A cool video camera
• A cool photo camera
• More time
• Elixir for eternal life
• A good dictionary
• Huis Clos (No Exit) by Jean Paul Sartre
• The entire Björk discography
• A vegetarian café close to my house
• Free takeout
• A screening room in my house
• Un Chien Andalou in DVD
• All the 30 Rock dvd seasons
• An exhibition at some gallery
• A Victrola machine
• Retro clothes
• A time machine
• More Cheese
• More free takeout
• A pizza
• Better bullet designs
• A gun
• Sharper knives
• My own TV Network
• Another Top Chef season
• A better government
• Henry Kissinger's autograph on my "Diplomacy" cover
• A star named after me
• A certificate of authenticity of myself
• More Tupperware
• Wings
• Warmer socks
• More free takeout
• Sheldon's wardrobe
• Free paint
• Avocado
• Exciting shit happening
• To visit the Original Kitchen Colosseum in Japan
• Latin ascendence
• A Sita sings the blues dvd
• A jazz club
• Tina Fey as my slave
• My own witch coven
• A fun job
• Art
• Knowledge
• LOTS OF DVDs
• My own theatre
• My own small ship
• Travels
• A printer
• A Mercedes Benz (so I can burn it)
• A color TV
• Plaid toughts
• To wake up in Manchuria
• A calendar that has a register of historical dates and dictators' birthdates
• A fun wig
• A crazy look
• A band
• More free takeout

Like a virgin... touched for the SECOND time

Ok, so you could call me a magazine virgin since I have never been able to get all the way with one.

Every time I start reading some magazine I grow tired of all the lies and the fake take on real shit.

The first exception to this was Andy Warhol's INTERVIEW... great magazine but sometimes too long. I really liked the design and everything but I simply couldn't get myself to subscribe and read it every month.

NOW I randomly found a Barcelona based magazine called "HISTORIA Y VIDA" (spanish for "Life and history") and its AWESOOOOOOME. I want to subscribeeee!!! It has primary sources, art related to history, book sugestions, science and i dont know it is just awesome. If you can get ahold of an issue I strongly recommend it.

Things I don't like

Do you remember the list of things I like? Well, here's the antagonist...

• Pink Highlighters
• Most Fruits
• Holes in socks
• Wasting paper
• Fanatism
• Lou Reed/Bob Dylan as old people (unlike David Bowie, he keeps his cool)
• Crappy ending in books or movies
• Posers/phonies (i lnow, very Holden Claufield of me)
• Colored paper
• The weird giant pitcher of Kool Aid
• Long commercials
• Yellow, American cheese
• Math
• Bureaucracy
• Days over 30°C
• When the Barefoot Contessa doesn't make dessert
• Blondes (But there are exceptions)
• Summer
• Finals
• Short paragraphs
• Short stories that are too long
• Liars
• The current Dalai Lama
• Israeli foreign policy
• Preppyness
• Fake artists
• Under-rating of some movies, books, cuisines
• Littering
• Humans that believe humans own the world
• Mondays
• Green pens
• Itch
• The sky with no clouds
• Underestimation of the youth
• "Cather in the rye"
• Hollywood
• Art being so expensieve
• The weird things on the toothpicks they put in sandwiches to hold them together
• Cheese (Just kidding)

Award week

"To be seen from above"*

Last week I won three awards (I know Im awesome)...

I won the first place in a short story contest with a work called "El tango de la mariposa" or "The butterfly tango" it is based on a tango by Carlos Gardel with the same name only applied to the fact some artist dedicate all their work to LatinAmerica and she gives back nothing.

Also my short film "6:oo AM" got the first place, and my painting "Para ser vista desde arriba" or "To be seen from above" got the third place on the painting contest... however I got a complaint:
The contest was called ExpresArte which transmits the idea that they seek for paintings in which you truly express something or some shit like that. The point is the first and second place were both pencil drawings with REALLY GOOD TECHNIQUE but that were a copy from pictures from the internet THEY DIDNT EVEN TAKE THA PICTURES. Now I know they are looking for picture copies, so next semester the work I send will be a Xerox copy from some picture or something... ARTISTIC STATEMENT MUCH?

*Thats how they displayed it.
In theory you should see it from above.

Multiple personality

Lately I've been believing of my personality as double: I feel there is the "organic, natural, strongly influenced by Asia" side of my personality and also what I call the Grotesquely Urbanized side. The first one is pretty clear, and the second one is such an exaggerated way of adhering to laws of urbanization... so straightforward, so blown up it even mocks urbanization itself.

I have some installation ideas for an exposition based completely in this ideology.. i guess ill upload some picture once I have them.

For now I leave you with a picture of John Waters' mustache: