jueves, 10 de noviembre de 2016

POST 8: SUMMER HOLIDAYS



Hello everyone! This week I'm going to talk about my plans for my next summer holydays.

To be sincere, I seldom plan my panoramas for my holidays. I always end up improvising. The last summer, for example, luckily I went to the beach for 3 or 4 days. I spent the rest of the time watching movies and series, usually in the early morning, until 4 or 5 AM. It's not a big deal, but for me it's fine.

However, for this summer the things be a bit different. With my dear friend Alejandro we plan to go camping to some hil for one or two weeks.We still don't know exactly which hill, but we will probably go to San José del Maipo. The truth is that I have not been camping since I was a child, so I have to admit I'm a little anxious. Getting away from the comfort of my house is not something I do often. In spite of that, I have the faith that it will be an unforgottable trip, and more especially if I go with Alejandro, who is a great person.

On the other hand, when I'm back in the city, I plan to attend "house concerts", many "house concerts". Some people say that music is a fuel for the soul. Here, in Santiago of Chile, there are a lot of masterful musicians (some of them of a world class, in my opinion) that are presented at very cheap prices and in front of very few people. It's a waste of talent.


Well, that's all I have to say.
Bye!




POST 7: FILMS

Hello everyone! This week I'm going to talk about the films that have impacted me the most and the movies in general.
 
Usually I don't go to cinema or rent DVDs.
The films that you can find there are habitually very commercial. Instead of that, I prefer to download it on my computer and see it in my house. Sometimes I meet with my loving friends in the house of Daniel and we watch movies all night, we drink soda and eat cookies. Yummy!

I like dramatic movies and animations. Some of my favourite directors are David Lynch, Sharunas Bartas and Pete Docter.

The last movie I saw was and iranian mini-documentary called "The House Is Black", which is about the life and sufferind of a leper colony. It's a really disturbing work but quite recommendable. You can find it in youtube.

On the other hand, the worst movie I've seen this year (and probably one of the worst I've seen im my entire life) was "Deadpool". I wish I could forget it.

Also, I think talking about only one favorite movie is ridiculous. I have seen many good movies that are not comparable to each other, so I couldn't tell you which one is better than another. However, "Sill Life" (2013) it's one of the most shocked me in the last time. The protagonist, John May, is a very corteous man. It's about a lonely man who is in charge of contactig the realtives of people who die in lonesomeness. I like this movie because it has a good ending (which I will not tell you for not to ruin the story). In spite of this, I've only seen it 2 times. I know pleople who have seen their favorite movies 10 or 15 times... Is not my style. I recommend it to you with eyes closed. It's a masterpiece.

To finish, one of the movies that I would like to see again is Up (of Pixar), one of my favorite childhood films. It simply fascinates me, drom beginning to end. The story, the dialogues and the characters are fantastics.

Well, that's all I have to say.
Bye!

viernes, 4 de noviembre de 2016

POST 6: POSTGRADUATE STUDIES


Hello everyone! This week I'm going to talk about a posgraduate course that I would cosider taking in the future.
 
Among my main options I consider studying sociomusicology.

As I said in my other posts, the music for me is a magical and amazing thing. Without it my life would be empty. And when I realized that there was a subfield that combined sociology with music, I felt like I arrived to heaven. It's as if it had been created for me.

Among other things, the sociology of music is responsible for studying the social aspects of musical behavior and the role of music in society.

Some of the most important exponents of this subfield are Georg Simmel, Alfred Schutz, Max Weber and Theodor Adono. The latter focused his studies in jazz and classical music.

Personally, I'm interested in studying Latin American folklore and the evolution of Cueca (national dance of my country) over time.

Here, in the faculty where I study,
there is a course about sociomusicology taught by professor Rodrigo Baño, but unfortunately it's only an introductory course. If I intend to delve into this subfield, I will have to leave to study elsewhere.

For the same reason, I would like to take this posgraduate course outside Chile, ideally in USA or Europe, because in my country is a very underdeveloped matter. Besides I have never visited other countries, so I think this would be a very good opportunity to leave. Also, I would like to have classes in a room, mainly to share with teachers and students from other cultures.

Well, that's all I have to say today. 

Bye!