Welcome Words, Last Post ("Wait... what?" you might be confused)

Today we had the last class of English level 4, it was a really funny class. But it was also a quite sad goodbye. This song came to my head (so much melodrama hahaha).

Teacher told me that there was one entry missing on my blog. So this is it, the one that talks about who i am, and what is this blog about. It should be the first post, as a presentation, but it may be useful for someone who will find my blog now. So here it goes:

My name is Jaime Ignacio Molina Gómez, i'm the third Jaime Molina in a row, my grandpa was an architect and my father works in construction too, i spent all my childhood dreaming about becoming an architect too (i wanted to be a paleontologist too, i thought that i could be both, i loved dinosaurs).

I grew up, i used to draw a lot, i didn't paid atention to any class through my whole school and highschool. I did a lot of stupid comics, some bad animations (made with paint and powerpoint hahaha), then i started to write stories. I was really proud of them, i am, but something was missing, it was sound and movement, light, image. So i decided to become a moviemaker. Television raised me, the simpsons educated me and made me the clown of the class.

I am a lover. I've been on solid and long relationships, i am in one now, it's just the best thing i do (but i've made some awful mistakes(just a pair (i'm not that messy))). Everyone think i'm crazy, even i do. Actually i love it, but, sometimes it's hard to be so different.

I have many good friends, mostly in Talca, my hometown, where almost everyone in my family lives too. My awesome girlfriend lives there too. Not talking about Talca, it wouldn't be a good description of me. I grew up on the country, near Talca, i get to the city when i had 11 years, i used to ride my bike all day, i know every corner of the city (but now, it's all changing so fast). It's not a beautiful city, it doesn't have many atractive places or buildings, but it keeps my story, and the story of my loved ones, friends and much more. If you wake up early and if you climb El Cerro De La Virgen, you'll see an awesome view of the valley, of Claro river through that awesome forest.

"I drive on her streets
'Cause she's my companion
I walk through her hills
'Cause she knows who I am
She sees my good deeds
And she kisses me windy (...) 
At least I have her love
The city she loves me (...)"
(Under The Bridge by Red Hot chili peppers)

It may be random, but this is a summary of who i am. This blog is really emotional, because some of the stuff here written comes from the heart and old memories. If you want to know me better, reading this blog will make half the work. :)

My English Language Challenges

I think i'm good at writing, at least in the informal way. I have been chatting with people around the world since a few years ago, and i have made a couple of friends doing it. I also have a friend (my best friend in the world), she is Chilean as me, but we chat almost everyday in English. It's really weird when we chat in Spanish.

Once i met a man on "Chat roulette" (a web page where you can chat by webcam), i was with a friend of mine. It was a really funny chat, i told him i am studying cinema and he said that he was working at movies in USA (he said that he was helping on the second "Night at the museum" and such). His girlfriend was sleeping in the back and she was asking him to shut up and to go to sleep, we were all having a good time talking so he tried to do less noise. Then he took some strange white dust and he sniffed it, it looked like cocaine, he was drinking and smoking weed. He told us that he was doing it just for teaching us to avoid drugs and behave. By that time my friend was asleep and morning sun was coming in.

I suck at speeches, i just don't have done the practice for doing it well. I've been having a lot of trouble with the videos, i never had a (large/real) conversation with someone whose mother tongue is English, or with someone who can speak it right. Although i can sing, i'm able to rap some really hard lyrics from Red Hot Chili Peppers (like "Can't stop" or "Around the world"), my greater challenge is to be able to talk naturally with someone in English and not having mistakes or feeling shy.

My own Fears

Everybody shows a brave side of self, but the truth is we are ALL afraid of something. Some fears are rational issues, but some others aren't.

I was a really shy kid and i used to be afraid of everything: fire, dogs, heights, the ocean, bugs, robbers, darkness and many other things. I was especially afraid of horror movies, it took me too long (it was really late) to realize and accept that those stories were all fake. 

I grew up in the country. There were many bees and other flying insects, they loved to bite me and no other one: i was bitten by bugs almost everyday of my childhood. I can't let go of that fear. I love animals, but i can't get close to bees and wasps. I knew, later, that spiders liked to eat flying insects. Today i love spiders, i had a few as pets, i like them to walk on my hands. I hate when they appear on my face with no warming though. 

We used to have really happy holidays, with a huge family together on Christmas, but, facing Santa Claus on Christmas eve, it freaked me out to think about it. If you were a child: Wouldn't you be afraid to meet a really fat old stranger in your house, in the middle of the dark?  

Anyway, i grew up and i embraced my fears. I started to enjoy some pain and feelings i used to run away from. I started to love the dark, for example, i went to places my cousins and friends were so afraid of getting at night. I found peace in those places.

When you realize that you could die any day, you stop fearing death. And your fear centers in other stuff like "What would happen to my dear ones if i die today?", "What have i done in my life?", "What if i loose my loved ones?", "What if the world is based on lies and hate?", "What if i'm alone in the universe and nothing has sense?", "What if i'm not good enough for this world ?" or "What if i'm not good enough for this person?", etc... 

One last thing... I can't fully enjoy roller-coasters and the thought of getting on an airplane may help me pee. Hahaha!      

How green i am?

Am aware of the damage humanity is doing to our planet. The main problem, in my opinion, it's that  people think there is nothing we can do, or they think that what they could do, doesn't really helps enough, so: Why should we bother?

The truth is that everything we do is related to our planet and we can make a huge change if we change some habits. People around us will get it, i'm sure some of them will start making the same actions.

An awesome drawing. It contains most of the things we can do. (Not mine, copied from Google Images)

I have an enemy. I find it the worst thing ever created, and society has made it normal. People even do it proudly! I am talking about cigarettes. Factories and cars can make a lot of smoke, but, at least, they do it for a reason: people need some products, people needs to go from a place to other in the city. Smoking cigarettes is the worst thing because is something very childish, and publicity made it look like a sign of maturity, succes and class. It's bad for the environment because:

1. The smoke coming out from cigarettes, doesn't simply goes away. It contributes, with other gases, to destruction of the ozone. It also gets stuck in clothes, walls, or other places, and it keeps making bad to our health.

2. Cigarettes are made of paper. They had to cut trees to make them and for making the box too.

3. Smokers aren't really concerned about where the cigarette butt ends. It has many chemicals that won't deteriorate without harming the earth. they throw it in the street or anywhere, because they think it's normal, they don't see it as something gross, they wouldn't like to see me throwing boogers everywhere, don't they?!
Smokers need to grow up, i think. They can be people of success, sometimes very wise, sometimes they are aware of the damage they are doing. They have a lot of silly excuses. For example, they say that they started when they were dumb and young, and they are addicted now, that's why they can't stop. We can be addicted to many things, in fact, i think we could get addicted to everything that makes us feel good, the problem is that you may stop when it had become an habit that hurts other people. And cigarette does.
Almost everyone in my family is a smoker. My girlfriend smokes in parties. Many of my friends who used to think as me, started to smoke in parties and now they became smokers. One thing i do is explain those things to them. I wish they would listen more.

There are other tiny things i do to do my part. I ride a bike and a long board, i go on these every time i need to go somewhere and i can do it on it. I try to reuse the cans, the boxes and the plastic bags other people would just throw away. I work and live in the country on summers, i work with plants and i would like to fill it with trees.

We can help with the small decisions we take everyday, it isn't hard, you just have to start. You can be your hero.

"So far away" - Avenged Sevenfold- Music Video

When we were all teenagers, we discovered  many new things, inside us, and outside us, and suddenly the world can be fascinating, but it can also be dangerous and confusing. That's why we feel alone, even when we're surrounded by friends and family, but you may notice that no one understands life exactly how you do. In this state of mind, arts could be the answer, because they talk to you, as they don't command you to believe on anything, you are able to read the message anyway you want.

As many other teens, i discovered comprehension in music. I found in some bands, lyrics that seemed to come from my inner thoughts and not from the distant world. I came to find Avenged Sevenfold (meaning, as taken from the bible, "avenged seven times"). Five man from California, they started playing when they were attending to university on 1999. I grew up with them. Since 2006 i listened to every song of them, i even dreamed with knowing them someday, i tried to sing and scream like them, and felt like they were friends for me, they played for me and i heard his music for them. But eventually they changed and so did i.

And one day, my cousin, my friends (many of them started to listen Avenged Sevenfold) and i, we read the new : The Rev (James Owen Sullivan) was found dead in his house. He had cardiomegaly, it means that his heart was way too big (What a metaphoric disease, huh?). so he died of overdose, but not because of drug abuse, because those were medications. Avenged Sevenfold was recording his last album when this happened. It was a really sad time, not so long ago, on december 28th, back in 2009.

It was way more sad for the members of the band. they were all childhood friends, and The Rev, he always was a happy person, he always was doing jokes and making everyone laugh. That's why they loved him so much, and they released this video, later on may of 2012. The song was written by Synyster Gates (main guitarist) and it was a tribute to his friend.

the lyrics are so sad but beautiful. He spokes about how much they miss him, and how much he was always supporting him and he always will. He hopes his friend isn't all gone and tries to find him somewhere in his mind, in his memories.

Never feared for anything
Never shamed but never free
A life to heal the broken heart with all that it could

Lived a life so endlessly
Saw beyond what others see
I tried to heal your broken heart with all that I could

Will you stay?
Will you stay away forever?

How do I live without the ones I love?
Time still turns the pages of the book it's burned
Place and time always on my mind
I have so much to say but you're so far away

Plans of what our futures hold
Foolish lies of growing old
It seems we're so invincible
The truth is so cold

A final song, a last request
A perfect chapter laid to rest
Now and then I try to find
A place in my mind
Where you can stay
You can stay away forever

How do I live without the ones I love?
Time still turns the pages of the book it's burned
Place and time always on my mind
I have so much to say but you're so far away

Sleep tight, I'm not afraid (not afraid)
The ones that we love are here with me
Lay away a place for me (place for me)
'Cause as soon as I'm done I'll be on my way
To live eternally

How do I live without the ones I love?
Time still turns the pages of the book it's burned
Place and time always on my mind
And the light you left remains but it's so hard to stay
When I have so much to say and you're so far away

I love you, you were ready
The pain is strong and urges rise
But I'll see you, when He lets me
Your pain is gone, your hands untied

So far away (so far)
And I need you to know
So far away (so far)
And I need you to, need you to know

Visually, the video it's great, because it shows them when they were younger (of course, those boys are actors, BUT THEY SEEM SO LOOK A LIKE!), remembering every age they lived together. It also shows them playing sad. The vocalist, M. Shadows seems so much melancholic.
After this life resume, many real videos start to appear, and we can see how he was, how his friends remember him, as a fun guy, as a real close friend. I can feel it, i believe it, i feel their pain too. That's how this video makes me feel.

RIP foREVer.

Vampire Chronicles

My favorite books in the world it's every vampire book written by Anne Rice. You may know the best seller "Interview with a vampire". Anne Rice created a whole universe where vampires live among humans, they are from different ages, and places. Armand was converted on the renaissance, Pandora comes from the dawn of Rome, Louis from Nueva Orleans on the last years of XIIX century, and so on.

The stories are narrated by some of the vampires, that's why we are immersed in their brains, we feel their pain and doubts, their fears, passion and sense of power. Everyone of them can't escape from the fact of thinking as they are thought by their own age context. Some of them seems to be so strength that they will live for ever, even if they don't want, they can't fool fate.

I've learned a lot about history. I've read about ancient Rome philosophy, Medieval times adventures, Constantinople, Louisiana and the black slaves... all the way to our age.

The main character is Lestat De Lioncourt, he tries to be good, but he believes he is a god. It's one of the strongest vampires and he can't be destroyed (as we know, as he claims). He has million of fans because after writing some books, he joined a band, he was amazed by rock and today's trends.

The Vampire Chronicles are 12 (Anne Rice, will release the number 13 on October this year). She also made Lives of The Mayfair's witches trilogy which is related to Vampire Chronicles.      

The Guardian Article: Secret Cinema launches the Secret Hotel

I'm doing a summary for an article that appeared on The guardian's webpage, professor asked me to write
two hundred words, so i'm filling with my own opinion about it, and information i found on the internet (otherwise it would be the same article in other words, because it's kinda short).

"Secret Cinema" It's an organization made by Fabien Rigall. He wanted to bring movies to life by making themed restaurants, music halls, cinemas, and now (well, the article was written two years ago), Secret Cinema made an Hotel hidden, somewhere in Central London (But, today they have many more, all secret).

Secret Cinema has made experiences based on very known films like Prometheus, Brazil, Lawrence of Arabia, Ghost busters and The Shawshank redemption. Check out this awesome video about the time they did Blade Runner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqNTzcPnHq0.

Secret Hotel its for those looking for adventure and mystery. It will transport you into a carefully curated world inspired by our secret production.

That's what the web page  reads(http://www.secretcinema.org/hotel.html) . You may notice that this isn't a very luxury hotel. Dorm rooms may be shared by up to ten persons. And with other things as well, you won't know until you live the adventure there. It costs £30, which means $28.583 Chilean pesos. That's nothing for such a big production. I wouldn't doubt about staying there. To this first hotel experience, attended around 80 persons per night (The previous productions received among 250 people).

They did The Grand Hotel Budapest experience this year! I wish i was in UK now. Maybe someday they will make one of my films come true. Hahaha am dreaming too high.

Check in for Grand Hotel Budapest: http://www.secretcinema.org/grandbudapesthotel.html
The original Article from the guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/oct/23/secret-cinema-hotel-themed-movie-night

   

My Dream Job As A Filmaker

Cinema isn't something you do alone. Since usually you need cameraman, sound production, and such, you are never working alone, and if you do, you must know that cinema it's done by the audience too. The realization begins in your heads and ends in the viewer's heads. And it doesn't really ends there. Good movies move. It means they create own worlds, making new changes in this world we all live.

I want to move people, make them feel alive, and make them realize they are not alone.

It doesn't sound like a job to me. I know it has schedules and responsibilities, but it's a game and an adventure, and this is what i want to do the rest of my life.

...

Or i would like to be a woodcutter, it sounds awesome too.  

My Fauvorite Food? :S

I do love food, i can't stop eating. I try to eat healthy but most of the time i eat crap, because i live alone and i don´t have a refrigerator, or even an oven. But that's okay with me, i try to eat a lot of fruits, milk, bread... I do a mix of oats, cereals and stuff wich i eat later with milk every morning.

Sometimes i buy peanut butter... Huge mistake, it doesn't last a week hahaha. Am basically a monkey because of all the peanut and banana i eat.

I love sweet stuff, chocolates, cookies and such. My girlfriend, she studies nutrition so am aware of all the things that aren't healthy. I said am aware, because we are aware of it, it doesn't mean we don't eat a lot of those things every time we meet hahaha. There's a study that says that happy couples get fat together, hahaha, that's probably true.

If you ask me for my favourite dish, i don't have any. But i love the "pollo al pilpil" my mother-in-law does. It has chicken, shrimps, mushrooms and garlic. We eat it with french fries.

I like the pourée my sister does and the "papas rellenas" my mom does. During the summer, my friends Diego and Bruno cooked for us and they proved to be the best chefs in the world. 

Okay, am hungry now, so we'll meet next time reader!

I would Love To Visit Finland

 Ok, There is plenty of great places around the world. Some of them are really close, am sure there are some secrets inside the Andes.
Then why would i ever want to travel to Northern Europe? I'll tell you why. There's a country called Finland, am in love with its culture (i don't know much about it but i want to learn more, and visiting Finland seems to be the best way).

I've seen it in movies. I've heard it in music. Such a cold place, one of the coldest places on earth, and yet, the warmest poetry and scorching art you could find.

The people in here speak in Finnish (90%), some in Swedish (5%) but they say almost everyone in Helsinki speaks a little of English. You will always find a chimney or some place to escape from the coldest winter.
I've read about how differently they socialize. We Chileans, in everyday's life, we say a lot of things just to say something or to avoid awkward silences. In Finland this wouldn't be well seen, because they use words wisely, trying to say just what it is extremely necessary.

You can spend stormy, snowy winters and some sunny days in summer. You can see great forests and cool animals like the moose, the wolverine, wolves, the western capercaillier and many more, being the brown bear its national animal. You can zeize a non stopping day, that's why it's called "the land of the midnight sun". And you could be lucky enough to see the Aurora Borealis, probably the most beautiful night sky you would ever see.

 

I started to know about Finland when i knew that HIM, one of my favourite bands, it's finny. Just like many others (Apocalyptica, The Rasmus, Nightwish and Korpiklaani). One of my biggest dreams it's to go there and see all together in a festival.
   

I've just seen this band for the first time on Caupolicán's Theatre (01-04-14) :)