Blogging

I have to say that I don’t like the blogs. I always refuse to use fotolog, blog, myspace or something like that. I don’t understand why other people like writing on internet things that nobody cares. In spite of this, use the blog for the class was a great experience. I think that is a good method to practice the writing in English and with that, improve the level of grammar. An advantage to make it in class is that you have Henry if you have a doubt that WordReference couldn’t resolve. Another advantage to work in class is that you don’t use time after the university and in that way you don’t affect other subjects. Maybe a disvantage is that not always you have imagination to write and when the theme that you have to write is not good for you, you need to pray to God, Allah and Krishna for inspiration (like now, I’m waiting the Divine Light to inspire me) and is more difficult after a whole day of class.

Whatever, I think that this way is a good idea for work and improve the writing and in that way “thinking” in English.

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Cheryl, A Young Filmmaker

Before interview Cheryl I had to whait that she finished her speech . She was talking about Roman Polansky. After that, she acceeded to speak with me. Cheryl Marambio is a young cinema student. She is in the third year of her career at the Universidad de Chile. She lives in Conchalí, so she needs to travel from there  to Ñuñoa every day. In the trip, she likes listening to music. She says that she doesn’t like hearing the voices from the other people in the bus.

Speaking about cinema, she says that she has not a specific favourite genre of films, but her favourites filmmakers are Tarantino and Polansky. She likes the way that Tarantino tells the storys and, in the case of Polansky, she loves the topics that he treats in his films. 

Unfortunately, she wasn’t feel well and she had to leave, so I couldn’t ask more things. I know that you want to know about the future of this young filmmaker, but I just can tell you that she is working in a short film that is going to be premiered soon.

Contemplation and Blood

      Kim Ki-Duk is a South Korean filmmaker. He was born in 1960. At the age of 20 years he enlisted in the navy. Five years later he entered in a Buddhist temple and began to dedicate for painting.

He began to work in cinema at the late age of 33 years when he won a script competition. After this, he started a great career filming a new movie every year. He has participated in many important film festivals like Venice or Cannes.

Maybe his most known film is “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring” about a Buddhist monk and his apprentice. The long name of the film is because every season represent a part of life of the apprentice who started has a boy.

I really love how Kim Ki-Duk mixes different things, characters and atmospheres in his work. Quiet and contemplatives scenes with an extremely violence are mixed in a unique way. Other incredible thing is the use of the dialog in his films, like in 3-Iron, where the main characters never speak and we only hear the voices of second characters a few times.

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Keep walking
If you want to move to any place of the campus, you have to walk. Inside the campus there are a lot of paths to get to any faculty or any place to get rest, to think, to talk with friends, to sleep in grass, etc. Maybe It could be confusing sometimes, but If you use them everyday you will be OK to get everywhere in the campus. Also you can help to other people who is lost in campus and get a new friend perhaps. But the campus is not small. You will have to walk a lot. BUY A CAR. Inside the campus there are car tracks too.

Buying  Movies

Outside  of Faculty of Philosophy you can find a great stock of different movies to a low cost. If they don’t have the film that you want, you can ask the seller if he can search and bring you the movie. 

Tear Gas at Lunch

Sometimes the police get inside of the Campus looking for the hooded classmates. They throw small stones and hide in the Campus. To fight them, the police reply with tear gas. If you are eating, your food is going to taste more salted. When this happens, you dream with one of the few rooms with air conditioning. If you are lucky, you could be under arrest by a sweet police man.

                                                      

A Western With Katanas

One of the things that I love is watching movies and one of my favorites directors is Akira Kurosawa. He is Japanese, but his work is very special because he mix oriental and occidental things. One film that proves that is Yojimbo. Like many other times, the main role is in the hands of Toshirō Mifune.

 This film is like a western with katanas. This movie is about a rōnin (a samurai without a master) that wander with his sword like a mercenary. He arrives to a town where are two groups that fight each other for the power. Both groups try to make that the samurai fights for their side.

Like other times happens with films of Kurosawa, this movie was remade by the Italian director Sergio Leone in “Per un pugno di dollari” (1964) and by Walter Hill in “Last Man Standing” (1996), but obviously, the mastery of Kurosawa have not equal.

PC

I really love the technology things. All that things with memory, cables, chips and things like that. But one of my favourites is the computer.

I remember how much I dreamed with one when I was a child. When my father brought home the first computer I was very happy, but my dad used it to work, and I couldn’t use it to play games or other programs. With my saving and the help of my mom, like five years ago, I bought my own computer. Finally I could use my computer for what I wanted. Now I use it everyday I think, for speak with friends, works, listen music, etc. I can’t imagine my life without my computer or internet, 'cause thanks them, I can download movies and music, two things that I love.

If you are a caveman and don’t know the computers, I let you a picture of reference, because is not my beloved computer.

Dream Theater

Is not easy for me to choose one band or musician, but Dream Theater is one of my favorite band. This American band of progressive metal was born with the name of Majesty in 1985 and it was finally called Dream Theater.

One of the things I like of this band is that all of the members are virtuous musicians. John Petrucci, the guitarist, is considered one of the best guitar players. He has participated many times in the G3. Mike Portnoy, the drummer, is one of the greatest drummers and one of my favorites. Is incredible watch him, because his skills are amazing. Complete the formation John Myung, virtuous bass player, Jordan Rudess, the keyboardist that always innovate with new technology (like continnum or iPad) and James LaBrie in the vocals. They create long and complex songs or concept albums like “Scenes from a Memory”, where all the songs are connected and seem like all the disc is one song of 77 minutes. Even they discs are connected: the end of last song is the beginning of the first song of other album, so you can hear hours of music like it was one song.

One of my favorite songs of Dream Theater is Octavarium. I think this song allow to hear different sounds of the band (but not all) in one song and the disc with the same name is one of my favorite.

Recently, Portnoy left the band. This is very sad and a great lost for the band, because the ability of Mike in the drums and composition will be missed.

I left you with the song “A change of Seasons”. A beauty, complex and amazing song like only Dream can do. Enjoy it…

Auto-Biography

    My name is Ramón Madariaga. I live all my life in Maipú. I went to a school that I hated near to my home. The last two years of school I made it in another one. Actually I’m studying Cinema in the Universidad de Chile. . I live with my parents . My aunt and her family live close to my home. She is Jehovah’s Witnesses (I hate them)

    I have two cats called Chico and Gandalf. They love play with a laser light and sometimes they fight. In my free time I like going to cinema or watch movies late in the night. I like listen music too and I play guitar, or try to.