The corner.

My last day of high school, it was very rare, but very fun.  We went with my friends to the corner outside the school; where usually we went to drink beer Fridays after classes, for celebrate the end of the scholarship. The owner of liquor store sold us beers with school uniform and the police never pass. So it was the paradise, very relax and cheap for us. I remember that my friend nico, it was very drunk and try to dance Ska In the middle of the street, but without much success.  My other friend Pablo started to burp with every sip of beer. It was hilarious, but not for the neighborhoods, who protested against us and threatened us, if my friend Pablo didn’t stop burp, they call the police. We said, it was our last day of school and we never comeback to this corner again. They saws us with a pig face, and said: no mores burps and no problem. We said Ok, and that’s what all. The problem was I didn’t attach when I put my backpack, because when I took it, it was full of dog’s shit. It was very disagreeable, but I thought:  shit happens.

I went to bought a few more beers, I don’t remember how much really, but it was Baltica. In their time, I drink a lot Baltica, the beer of my youth. In retrospective, their corner with my friends it was my doom and my salvation.  The school sucks, but with a few good friends and the right corner, everything it’s easier.  

Faith in chaos.

In my sixteen birthdays, my cousin Felipe give me a lot of DVD’s with movies.  That movie was: Pi. A little name for a great movie, of the now acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky.

This film shock and impact on me, because the movie was made in black and white (later for me, the movies in black and white only was old and boring), but the editing of the film was very accelerated, constructing a claustrophobic atmosphere who remind me to metamorphosis of Franz Kafka.   

The history is about a mathematician called Maximilian Cohen, who thinks what the nature of the numbers is mathematical. He’s very lonely a suffered attacks of migraine, that’s very important in the curse of the movie, because the migraine increased with the search of the perfect numeric combination.  This combination is the combination of the number: Pi.  His mentor studied this number and almost went crazy (in the curse of the movie went crazy). That’s affected my conception of mathematics, because when I was a teenager I didn’t understood it, and thought was boring and useless.  However I respect it, because the Mathematics is world in him and the people who studied going crazy.  

The obsession until you lose yourself, it’s a very interesting topic what Aronofsky exploited to do it a masterpiece in his first movie. He made a few good movies, like Requiem for a dream and the wrestler, but he lost the independent charming of his first productions

Orale Wey.

Mexico it’s the one of the more interesting places to travel in the world.  There’s a process of cultural hybridization, very important between natives and colonial Spanish influences and affect to this days. Their capital:  Mexico’s city, it’s the capital and lives over eight millions of people. I knew Mexico’s city for the Chilean-Mexico writer Roberto Bolaño. He wrote a book called: The savages’ detectives. In this book, he told his teenager experience been a foreign teenager and the history of his poetical friends, especially of his best friend: The poet Mario Santiago Papasquiaro (in the book called Ulises Lima), It’s the history of a group of a young men’s in seventies, but also the history of an entire generation, who grow past the world war two but lived the Latin-Americans dictatorships. In the book they spent a lot of time in the Bucarelli Avenue, they go to theirs coffees shop and spent a lot of time, doing plans to destroy the poetical empire of Octavio Paz. I know the Bucarelli Avenue, it’s not the same Bucarelli Avenue of Roberto Bolaño, but I think the spirit stay.

The other place I like to know and live for a while, it’s the territory of Chiapas, especially the Zapatistas communities. Because I think the process leadership by Subcomandante Marcos, it’s one of the few processes in the world who can combat the unconditional advance of capitalism, and return the territories and dignity of natives.

In the festive part, I love the spicy food, so I have to go eat chili peppers, enchiladas, tacos and Tortas de jamon, like said Chavo del ocho and of course, drink Tequila and mescal, because the plant of agave only grow in Mexico. 

I hate work, because I’m a lazy guy and prefer spent my time reading, watching movies or other stuff. But I know that, I can’t live of air and lived with the money of my parents always. Because, I want to live alone and didn’t be a louse, all my life.  Such, if I have to work, I would like a job in cinema, filming documentaries or fiction movies, in the south of Chile, if I can.

 How study to be a film maker, I want to do in the future, my own movies, so live doing cinema. The difficulties are plenty, because in Chile, the industry is smaller and you have to make contacts with influential persons for progress, that’s sad. Really, very sad.  But, my project it’s doing a production film company, who support the projects of young and unknowns filmmakers, specially of far away cities, helping to decentralize a little bit of my country.  

I think, if you’re good doing your work, and you enjoyed, the money comes to second place.  I prefer have some quality time, then be a millionaire, who works all week , only win money, but didn’t enjoy.