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02:14 am
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Choose your own way of changing the world:
We should really record what art pieces make us feel. The other day I was talking to my friend dzalreck, about the "Choose your own adventure" books we had read when we were kids and what recollections we had of them. It was amazing, their stories are so alive still in my head... I find really depresing that all of those images and moments will die with me. Even if someone reads one of those books, he won't experience them in the same particular way I did... And all of our stories, the real, and the fictional should live. Forever.
Now changing the subject, the Google 10th anniversary contest of changing the world is probably the best thing since... well, ever. I'm definitely sending some ideas, because even if I don't get to the final (and I'm gonna do my best to be there), I sure will hope to raise the bar, which again is a way of helping to create a better world.
Current Mood:  thoughtful
Tags: life
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01:41 am
[Link] | ( Dogville again... )
Current Location: Dogville
Current Mood:  pensive
Tags: dogville, life
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03:09 am
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Time to face the past
As some of you might know, yesterday was my birthday. I didn't do anything really interesting besides splashing my face with sea water in the beach (a sort of night baptism into a new year of my life).
The main reason I didn't do anything is that I spent most of the day in the entrepreneurship program I'm taking right now. The good thing about the program is that it's opening some really new and amazing horizons in my life right now (the sky is the limit as they say). The bad thing, is that it's making me realize how much time I've lost those last few years with the state competition examinations.
I also by pure chance met in the street one of my old studies companions, one who still hasn't taken his exams. We talked a little bit about what he was going through and that helped me to see clearly how I've really moved on from that stage of my life. I guess I should be happy about that.
And I am. Somehow a new day is finally beginning.
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I'll probably be doing something to celebrate my birthday this weekend at some point (dinner maybe). So if anyone is interested just let me know.
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On an unrelated note, I must say that I saw REC and Hot Fuzz, and that I loved them both. Watching REC made me fail several helplessness and self checks (I reckon that the cameraman was called Pablo didn't help), but that's just what all great zombies movies should do . An american remake is on the way, but I think one should be done for every european country. Highly recommended viewing for those who want to feel really scared, specially in you live in a catholic country.
Hot Fuzz was great fun too. I think I liked Shaun of the Dead a little bit better, but HF was hilarious nonetheless (specially its climax).
Now I just have to find time to see Beowulf before it's off the cinemas. And probably the Golden Compass too (although again I'm a bit unsure of this one, I think I'll wait for some reviews before).
Current Mood:  calm
Tags: life
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02:30 am
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Still walking through the Penumbra:
Whew! I've been quite for way too long. In case you wonder why it's been mainly because of the studies. The first (and hopefully not last) of my exams to get a permanent job in the State's Justice Apparatus is this Saturday, so as you can guess, things have been a little bit hectic on that front (and by that I mean that all I do is pretty much study all day).
Although the studies have hardly left me time for anything else, I've done quite a few interesting things in the last weeks :-):
* I finished my last assignment for Nosolorol: Editing an "Ars Magica"-style game set in the Ancient Rome called "Arcana" and written by the talented Adrian Rodríguez Afonso. If you want my opinion is the best wizards game since the aforementioned "Ars Magica" and it's very original and unique in lots of ways, but by far its best virtue is the setting. The games takes place during the time of the so called reign of the "Three Imperators", and its full of plot ideas which make the most of the fascinating historical characters (Septimius Severus and Julia Domna are right now my favourite historical couple :-)).
* I've also been listening lately to "Guano Apes" like crazy, and I definitely can say that I love the band. It's been a late discovery for me, but Sandra Nasic has an amazing voice, and I also find her gorgeous in a "POE-esque" sort of way. The lyrics of their songs aren't that wonderful (I'm afraid, that's because they being german, suffer from the classical: "English isn't my home language syndrome"), but they work the trick.
* Somehow last month I found time to perform in an amateur theatrical production, called "El Sueño de la Vida", based in Garcia Lorca's posthumous work of the same name. I had a very short role, and I'm not that happy about my performance, but I'd love to get hold of any of the video recordings of the play to share it here.
* And finally, I can say, that because of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mytholder's fault I'm starting (or trying to start) a Nobilis game. He graciously shared with me two of his Nobilis CON scenarios "In at the Deep End" & "The Primrose Monarch" which I both loved, specially "The Primrose Monarch", which as the author brilliantly says in the scenario introduction can be described as "Jane Austen meets Nobilis". What else can a man ask for ;-D?
Oh, I should also say that today one of my epiphanies, and realized that I'd love to learn medicine and be a Doctor, but I still have to give it more thought, I think...
Current Mood:  amused
Current Music: Guano Apes - Living in a Lie
Tags: gaming, life
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