Tarde de Agosto

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Desde el 2 de Agosto que no escribo. La verdad ya tenía el blog un poco olvidado y con el cambio de laptops (old fart por Vikram) no tenía mi contraseña.

Por el momento estoy más que nada concentrado en aplicar a las Universidades y después de la fecha límite publico aquí mis ensayos.

Los dejo con José Emilio Pacheco: (http://www.leergratis.com/stag/una-tarde-de-agosto-jose-emilio-pacheco.html)

En español

Mi primer comentario en Español... emocionante.

Pues este verano decidí que la mejor opción para mi será estudiar Cine y Ciencia Política.

¿Pero Berke que tiene que ver cine con ciencia política?

Tiene todo que ver pequeño Timmy.

Una sabia mujer una vez me dijo: "Aquel que estudia ciencia política, se gradúa, entra a la política de cualquier país y se da cuenta de que el sistema es corrupto y no puede aplicar lo que aprendió... el juego viene con reglas diferentes. En cambio un cineasta puede transmitir ideas, hacer cambios, demandar mejoras." yo le contesté: "Un artista hace más política que un cineasta".

Por otra parte les cuento que decidí comenzar un show por Internet con la señorísima de Mucha a.k.a. María Antonieta llamado Sauerkraut Express en donde expresaremos sátira política, cultural social, racismo, ideales radicales y otras cosas en las que creemos y en las que no creemos. Cuando tenga el link del blog se los pasaré por aquí.

Prometo escribir más seguido.

Spanish is sexier... if only I knew portuguese

You'll see, when I first started this blog I tought it would cover a wider range of people if it was written in English, however I have decided that since I haven't lots of followers (or at least they don't ever manifest) it's pretencious of me to try and write in english...

So, since I write this blog to myself more than to the public of the interweb I have decided to switch to Spanish as the official language of this gorgeous blog.

Also Clara del Valle from Allende's novel 'The house of spirits' insisted teaching english in Latin America was a waste of time... beings form other dimensions insisted in communicating in spanish and esperanto. Since I don't know any esperanto, Spanish from now on.

P is for... Platypus, Propaganda

It's funny how any kind of media can take a poisonous-semi-aquatic-egg-laying-mammal that does NOTHING and turned it into something everyone loves. Like perry the platypus... that platypus that really is secretly agent P now has action figures, t-shirts, swimming shorts and basically all kinds of merchandise (and of course I HAD TO buy all of it).

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)