Happy Birthday Baka Neko...

Wish you the best little bro, now and always... you rock!

On a day like today...

• 1184 BC - Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse.
• 1792 The French national anthem, ''La Marseillaise,'' was composed by Capt. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
• 1961 - Bob Dylan earned a $50 session fee for playing harmonica on Harry Belafonte's "Midnight Special." It was his recording debut.
• 1967 - Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1, when the parachute fails to open. He was the first human to die during a space mission.
• 1990 - Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of anthrax after 48 years of quarantine.
• 1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope.
• 2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

...once again... boredom + wikipedia = this post...

What I'm listening to...

click on the title to listen to the song

"Sell My Soul" by Our Lady Peace

How do you feel?
How do you hate?
How do you wake up with
That smile that's on your face?

Out on the moon
If I was an astronaut
Could I get back to you?

I’m out of my head
I’m out of excuses
so I’m staring at the bed,
and it's you,
it’s you

I hold on, I hold on
I can't let go
And you don't know how I feel
Hold on I hold on
I’d sell my soul
And you don't know how I feel

I’m losing my heart
I’m losing my pride
I’d burn our initials
In the sun if it would shine
I need a fresh start
‘Cause I was in heaven until
This world fell apart

I’m out on the run
I’m out in this empty space
Since all of this begun
Well I tried, I tried

Nothing seems to help
Nothing seems to work
Nothing is as beautiful
I’m old enough to take
all the blame
For all the mistakes
All the games and
All the faces
I’m bleeding by myself
But I’m okay

I just can't stop thinking about you...
and you don't believe me...

1983

Ok being bored out of my mind and not being able to sleep, I found curious stuff that happened in the year I was born... here are some:

• January 19 - Hikaru Utada, Japanese singer and songwriter is born
  
• January 26 - Lotus 1-2-3 is released for IBM-PC compatible computers.
  
• March 1 - Swatch introduces their first watches.
• February 13 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims 1983 "The Year of the Bible" (*sigh* what is wrong with these people?)
• March 8 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire." (and I thought that only Bush and Fox where the "leaders" that made dumb comments)
• March 23 - The Apatosaurus (once known as the Brontosaurus) is made the official state dinosaur of Guam (I didnt know this could be possible, so what's our official state dinosaur? ;P jeje)
• April 15 - The first non-American Disney theme park opens in Japan as Tokyo Disneyland (one of two disney parks not owned by disney)
  
• May 9 - Pope John Paul II retracts the ban on Galileo Galilei (it took them quite a while)
• May 16 - London police begin the use of wheel clamps on illegally-parked vehicles.
• May 25 - Return of the Jedi opens in the United States.
• June 13 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system.
• July 15 - The Nintendo Entertainment System goes on sale in Japan
• July 25 - Metallica releases their debut album Kill 'Em All.
• September 27 - The GNU Project is announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups.
• October 25 - Microsoft Word is first released.
• October 30 - The first democratic elections in Argentina after 7 years of military rule are held.
• November 17 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded.

Unknown exact date:

• McDonald's introduces the McNugget.
• The De Lorean Motor Company ceases production.
• Kellogg's introduces Crispix cereal.

So there you go, now you can check out your date of birth in Wikipedia and see what was happening... anywho... enjoy!

from point a to point b

Lets start with beer and see where it takes us...

• Beer is the world's oldest and most popular alcoholic beverage, selling more than 133 billion litres (35 billion gallons) per year. Sales of beer are four times as much as wine, the second most popular alcoholic beverage. The moderate consumption of alcohol, including beer, is associated with better health and greater longevity than is either abstaining or drinking heavily. Beer, like wine, is hormetic.
• Hormesis is the term for generally-favorable biological responses to low exposures to toxins and other stressors.
• A toxin is a poisonous substance produced by living cells or organisms.
• Deadly nightshade or belladonna (Atropa belladonna) is a well-known perennial shrub, with leaves and berries that are highly toxic. It is in the nightshade family which it shares with potatos, tomatoes, eggplants, tobacco and chili peppers.
• In The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sally poisons Dr. Finkelstein with deadly nightshade on several occasions. In the film, however, the plant acts as a sedative and is apparently not fatal.
• In The Nightmare before Christmas, two toys that Jack delivers reference Batman Returns, the film Tim Burton had directing commitments towards at the time. One is an evil duck on wheels, which is the vehicle that the Penguin drives. The other is an evil cat doll, which has the same head as the mascot for Shreck's corporation.
• Many lauded Batman Returns dark atmosphere and intense characters; however, some others found the film to be overly dark and sadistic; McDonal's marketing tie-ins, including special cups and Happy Meal toys, were protested by parents' groups.
• The term Happy Meal is also a name given to an Ethernet adapter used in Sun Microsystems machines. The interface name is shown as hme when one views the interfaces via the ifconfig command.
• Sun Microsystems is derived from the initials for Stanford University Network.
• In Stanford, at any time, around 50 percent of the graduate population lives on campus. Stanford is home to three housed sororities and seven housed fraternities
• The terms "Fraternity" and "sorority" (from the Latin words frater and soror, meaning "brother" and "sister" respectively) may be used to describe many social and charitable organizations.
• Latin remains the official language of Vatican City.
• Vatican City has the highest per capita crime rate of any nation on earth, more than twenty times higher than that of Italy. In his 2002 report to the pontifical court, Chief Prosecutor Nicola Picardi quoted statistics of 397 civil offenses and 608 penal offenses. Each year, hundreds of tourists fall victim to pickpockets and purse snatchers. The perpetrators, who are also visitors, are rarely caught, with 90% of crimes remaining unsolved.
• Per capita is a Latin phrase meaning for each head.
• In many cultures, covering the head is seen as a sign of respect. Often, some or all of the head must be covered and vieled when entering holy places, or places of prayer. For many centuries, women in Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia, have covered their hair as a sign of modesty.
• Modesty can be controversial. An alternative term for modesty used by some critics is body shame or gymnophobia. Excessive modesty is called prudishness. Excessive immodesty is called exhibitionism.
• Gymnophobes may experience their fear of nudity before all people, or only certain people, and may regard their fear as irrational. This phobia often arises from a feeling of inadequacy that their bodies are physically inferior, particularly due to comparison with idealized images portrayed in the media.
• The term Irrational is used to describe thinking and actions which are, or appear to be, less useful or logical than the rational alternatives. These actions tend to be regarded as emotion-driven. There is a clear tendency to view our own thoughts, words, and actions as rational and to see those who disagree as irrational.
• Emotion is an intense mental state that arises autonomically in the nervous system rather than through conscious effort, and evokes either a positive or negative psychological response. An emotion is often differentiated from a feeling.
• Feelings are affective states of consciousness, triggered by physiological changes arising from both sensory perceptions and memories in comparison to internally stored norms or ideals.
• Loss of memory is known as amnesia. There are various types of amnesia. Global Amnesia is total memory loss. This may be a defense mechanism which occurs after a traumatic event and is a common motif in fiction despite being extraordinarily rare in reality. Anterograde amnesia is where new events are not transferred to long-term memory. After the onset of the disorder, the sufferer will not be able to recall events which occurred only moments earlier, once their attention has shifted to something else, some films like Memento, Clean Slate and 50 first Dates, show this type of anmesia. Lacunar Amnesia is the loss of memory about one specific event. It is a type of amnesia that leaves a lacuna (a gap) in the record of memory, this is featured in the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Ok, enough for one day, I hope you enjoyed it or at least learned something ;) once again, thank you Wikipedia

...i was a stranger, you took me in...

Miracle Drug - U2

Movies!

We'll here I am again, not much to say... I recently saw some movies... which in my opinion are good but some aren't to perky about them... anywho... here's the list and the usual curious facts that I find...

28 days later:

A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realizing that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them.

Horror novelist Stephen King bought out an entire showing of the film in New York City.

Leonardo DiCaprio was offered the role of Jim (thank God he didn't get it).

Ewan McGregor was the original choice to play Jim (aw :( it would have been interesting).

Most of the film was made using digital cameras to give it the really real look (the final scenes in the cottage were shot on 35mm film). An added benefit of the digital filming was that the London shots could be set up and executed much quicker than otherwise possible which helped the filmmakers exploit very tight time windows to complete the scenes of an empty London because they were shot in the early hours of the morning on weekdays.

Danny Boyle (director) also made Trainspotting.

There is a sequel in production (this I did not know) more details go here.

And adding my opinion on this film... I think its a really good movie... I like that it keeps you on the edge of your seat... uses silence to cause tension... and gives the infected a realistic feeling (giving them the agility that a regular human has)...

The Italian Job

Based on a 1969 Michael Caine film of the same name, thieves plan to pull of the heist of their lives by creating Los Angeles largest traffic jam ever.

Lyle (Seth Green) claims he was the creator of Napster, and that Shawn Fanning stole it from him. It shows a flashback of Lyle sleeping, and a person taking a disk out of the PC that has Napster on it. The person is really Shawn Fanning, the creator of Napster. When he steals the disk, the bottom of a Metallica poster can be seen on the wall. Metallica were vocal critics of the original Napster.

Two electric-powered Mini Coopers, and one Mini Cooper S had to be specially built for the film, since gasoline-powered vehicles are not allowed to operate in L.A.'s subway system.

For the first time in cinematic history, the production shut down Hollywood Boulevard and Highland for seven days for the shooting, according to director F. Gary Gray in an interview featured in the DVD.

In the original script, "fine" stood for Fucked-Up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional.

The NetCom Cable van shows the phone number 1-800-555-0199. This is the same number that Al Pacino in The Insider (1999) and Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (1999) have.

It's a 2 hr mini cooper comercial... but I like it :)

School of Rock

Down and out rock star Dewey Finn (Black) gets fired from his band, and he faces a mountain of debts and depression. He takes a job as a 4th grade substitute teacher at an uptight private school where his attitude and hijinx have a powerful effect on his students. He also meets Zack, a 10-year-old guitar prodigy, who could help Dewey win a "battle of the bands" competition, which would solve his financial problems and put him back in the spotlight.

The idea for the movie came when writer Mike White (writer) moved into an apartment next to Jack Black. White would often find Jack Black running naked through the halls or blasting much of the music featured in the movie at full volume.

The rock band Led Zeppelin are notoriously hesitant to allow their music to be licensed for commercial purposes. Knowing this, Richard Linklater filmed a plea by actor Jack Black in front of 1,000 screaming fans, imploring the band to let the production use the "Immigrant Song" in the movie. The plea worked and the filmed request is included on the DVD.

All the kids really play their instruments, and the backup singers are real vocalists. Jack Black also played a bit of guitar in the movie (for example, when he is teaching "Smoke on the water", "Iron man" and other songs to Zach), but he didn't do the guitar solos. He was mostly taught by Joey Gaydos Jr. on how to play guitar.

If you are a fan of classic rock... you will dig this film... as always Jack Black makes you laugh and the music is definetly worth it...

Oh well... hope you get to see these movies... for now I gotta go now... be well all...

A new year is here...

Hello everyone, by now most of you don't stop by anymore, I don't blame you, I have been neglecting this poor blog for quite some time...

I don't want to make the same old promise that I will stay in touch and not keep it, so let's just keep an open mind that next time that you come around here you might find something new...

I started to take pictures again (this blog wasn't the only abandoned thing in my life) so that's a good sign...

Oh well... happy new year to all... I wish you the best...

by the way... the image is from a Dave McKean sketch

Long time no see

Oh well... I know its been quite a while since I've done something here... but being sincere there isn''t much to say...

Buuuuut... I do have a list of interesting concerts that shall be happening around this time... so take a look you might find something you like ;)

• October 18: Placebo @ House of Blues, SD.
• October 21: Dashboard Confessional @ COX Arena SD.
• October 28: The Killers, The Mars Volta @ Vegoose Las Vegas.
• October 29: Fiona Apple, Ben Folds, G.Love & Special Sauce @ Vegoose Las Vegas
• November 18: Zoe @ Desertica festival Mexicali
• November 19 y 20: Zoe, Gustavo Cerati and Los Tres @ El Foro. Tijuana. (no tickets yet)
• November 21: She Wants Revenge @ House of Blues, SD.
• December 1: All American Rejects @ Sports Arena, SD.
• December 8: Primus @ Rimac Arena UCSD, SD.
• January 12: Incubus @ Soma, SD.

enjoy!!

Hiraaaaaaam!! :)

Lizardo

Maye y Ocar

Ocar, Lizardo y Maye

Ocar

Maye :)

Joven Hiram

What I'm listening to....

When I get home, I turn on my computer, I open iTunes and just push play so it would randomly select a song... today... it hit a nail... Drugs or me by Jimmy Eat World... and im not talking about the drug thing... but that song has certain phrases that get to me...

here are the song and lyrics... enjoy....

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"Drugs Or Me"

Stay with me... You're the one I need... You make the hardest things... Seem easy

Keep my heart... Somewhere drugs don't go... Where the sunshine slows...

Always keep me close...

If only you could see... The stranger next to me...

You promise... you promise... that you're done... But i cant tell you from the drugs...

Don't let go...Well dig a great big hole... Down an endless hole... We'll both go...

You're so blind!... You can't save me this time... Hope comes from inside... And I feel so low tonight...

If only you could see... The stranger next to me...

You promise... you promise... that you're done... But I can't tell you from the drugs...

I wish you could see... This face in front of me...

You're sorry... you swear it you're done... But I can't tell you from the drugs...

(take me) I need your help (so far away)

To pull me up... take the wheel

(take me) Out from me

(so far away) Out from me (Take me)

If only you could see (I need your help)

(So far away) The stranger next to me (To pull me up take the pain)

(Take me) You promise you promise that you're done (Out from me)

(So far away) But I can't tell you from the drugs (Out from me)

(Take me) I wish that you could see (I need your help)

(So far away) This face in front of me (To pull me up take the wheel)

(Take me) You're sorry you swear it you're done (Out from me)

(So far away) But I can't tell you from the drugs (Out from me)

Keep my heart... somewhere drugs don't go... where the sunshine slows... always keep me close

Well hello everyone...

After working late and sleeping very little, seems like I finally finished my proyects...

Things here are good, I have made new friends and all goes well...

Im sorry that I have been abandoning this site and my camera due to work, but Ill try to take pics from time to time...

Right now Im listening to music and trying to relax while my games are being tested...

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon...

OH!! and before I forget!! Get ready!! on October 11th!! D'VINTAGE in Espacio Leve!! Ill have more details soon!!

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♪ si nada me ha matado ♪

♪ se que ya pasara ♪

Weekend Update

Alguna vez has estado tan comodo en un espacio que desearias que el tiempo se congelara? Alguna vez has tenido tan formidable compañia que deseas que no tuvieran que partir? Este fin estuvo lleno de ese tipo de sentimientos, de encuentros y despedidas, amistades nuevas y aquellas que duraran el resto de tu vida...
Llamadas telefonicas que no esperas y te hacen sonreir...

Entre tantas cosas que sucedieron este fin, fui a cenar el sabado al depa de Hector y Alonso (aunque el andaba en Ensenada), Isra y Hector hicieron ramen (les quedo muy muy rico!!) mientras Maza (el bartender oficial) nos preparo bebidas improvisadas (tambien muy ricas!)... al fin se me hizo ver el Viaje de Chihiro y Ronin (solo que me quede dormida al final *blush*)... anywho... les presumo la cena:

Yummy!!

Para cerrar con broche de oro mi fin de semana... me dio gripa, jajajajaja... oh well... ni modo...