Thursday, March 29, 2007

In two days holidays!!!

Hi classmates!!!
It's near, tomorrow the second term will finish and we will have a week holidays!! I need it. We have just planned some things we want to do during these days. This term has been very succesful for me, I hope that the third will be as good as this or better.
The last two days I have been in Barcelona. On tuesday we went to two expositions. The first was in the Fundació Miró, it was a crazy exposition with strange scultures. The second was in the MNAC (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya) there we saw works of art which we studied in class so we understand some of them.
And yesterday I went to Barcelona because I had to go to the football doctor. It's very stressing going there because you have to wait a lot. I have to go again in two weeks.

This summer a Simpsons movie will come out. I like The Simpsons very much I see them every day because they are very funny. They exist since 1987 so since 20 years!! Incredible. And nowadays they are still very famous, more than never I think. But it's since 1989 that The Simpsons exist as an own TV programme because before they were only made as short films for a programme. So after 20 years they decided to make a film, here you can see the trailer of it.
Byee

Friday, March 16, 2007

Iniesta

Hi my friends!!

Today I will talk you about a player which I like very much, he's Andrés Iniesta, player of FC Barcelona.
I think that Iniesta has become a very decisive player for Barça in the last years and he is now one of the best midfielder of Europe. He's incredible because he makes the difficulties into easy things playing in a simple but decisive way, he nearly never lose a ball, he's technically a great player and some of his passes are amazing. The only thing which lack him is to score more goals.
I hope that he will play for much more years in "Can Barça" and to make happy the Barça fans, like me. jeje
I leave you a link to a video with one of his best goals and passes:

Have a nice weekend
Bye

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Modern Spanish Rap

Hi!

I think that people in general have a bad view from hip hop. They think what they see in TV or jokes about it, but this isn't true at all. Normally people see rap as a unique style of music but there are many types of rap. And people should relate rap to "Gangsta rap" which I personally don't like. I think that this general view of rap with the image of "bad boys" in mind makes that this type of music has a bad reputation.
But this view is wrong, specially nowadays. I see everytime more rappers who talk about society problems and other problems which people has in general. This is very important in my opinion because the unique way to express onseself and to make arrive the message to the people is through the music, and nowadays I think that rap is the only type which does this. Modern rap (I call it so) is every time more characterized by rappers who reflect about their situation and the society in general. So these songs are every time more letters with an important message behind.
An other general problem is that people, who don't listen rap nearly never, don't catch the message of this song because they don't listen it well. They only listen the rythm and only catch the insults, and the rest? the importance of the text? And after listening the song and without catching the message they critize this type because they consider it something stupid (according to the insults they have heard). With this situation I can only laugh about them and I have to say that the stupids are they because they are not able to understand a text with rhymes and which transmit an important message. They are to be used to listen music that during all the song only say the same and every single talk about the same things. This show me the general view who has the majority of people in our society.
In conlusion, I think that rap is every time more and reflection exercise for people and I think that people who hasn't any idea about rap shouldn't critize it. To critize you should know the topic which you critize and this is a general problem in our society, many talk about things according to what they have heard from one way but things should be studied more to be able to give a reasonable opinion.
Frank-T is the perfect example of this type of rap which I like. Next you have the video of "Optimista y soñador" from the album Sonrían por favor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=360bL4ptPWI&mode=related&search=

Next you have the text. I reccomend, if you watch the video and listen the song, that one time you should listen the song reading the text. Remember it's the important thing more than the rhytm. Byeeeeeeee


Nada mejor que todo hubiese ido bonito, nada mejor que las sonrisas, nada mejor que tener a alguien. Nada más y nada mejor. Nada mejor que el escuchar, nada mejor que dibujar, nada mejor que disculparse. Y si cerrara los ojos e imaginara algo mejor, tal vez llorase al abrirlos, porque hay que ver cuánto dolor. Tan sólo una canción, un pensamiento, una oración de un rimador, más optimista y soñador. Nada mejor que todo hubiese ido bonito desde el principio de los escritos hasta el final del infinito. Nada mejor que las sonrisas de los necios ante las burlas de los sabios que a veces miran con desprecio. Nada mejor que el mundo hubiese sido plano, y con ello haber conseguido que el hombre fuera algo más humano. Con palabras de poetas y esculturas de artesanos, no palabras de mentira de un presidente republicano. Nada mejor que tú seas grande y yo pequeño, y luego estemos jugando a lo mismo, y en verdad, no sólo en sueños. Y nada más y nada mejor que preguntarle al señor. Odio si en el fondo de su ser reside el amor. Nada mejor que tener a alguien a quien llamar, para charlar, para reír, para abrazar, para llorar. Nada mejor que tener a alguien de quien uno pueda fiarse, y hasta en eso y muy de cerca hay que fiarse. Nada mejor que disculparse del error que has cometido si además el que ha sufrido es ser querido. Y nada más y nada mejor que a veces ser más optimista, aunque parezca ser ingenuo y soñador. Y si cerrara los ojos e imaginara algo mejor, tal vez llorase al abrirlos, porque hay que ver cuánto dolor. Tan sólo una canción, un pensamiento, una oración de un rimador, más optimista y soñador. Nada mejor que el escuchar aquellas letras de esas viejas canciones con sus refranes y lecciones. Reencontrarse con éstas al escuchar cómo tocaban y aplaudir aun más sabiendo que ese estilo ellos creaban. Nada mejor que dibujar toda la música de hoy día con los muestreos de aquellas viejas melodías. No quiero ser ni parecer un amargado nostálgico, es mi homenaje a aquel sonido tan mágico. Nada mejor que usar el beat para sentir, usar el rap para decir y bien decir si hay que decir. Sé que hay veces que es mejor tener el pico cerrado, pero con tanta tiranía no puedo quedarme callado. Nada mejor que esos momentos de esperanza, cuando resulta derrocado algún tirano dictador. Lástima que el que entra acabe siendo corrompido, y el futuro del pueblo siga tan poco alentador. Y si cerrara los ojos e imaginara algo mejor, tal vez llorase al abrirlos, porque hay que ver cuánto dolor. Tan sólo una canción, un pensamiento, una oración de un rimador, más optimista y soñador. Y si cerrara los ojos e imaginara algo mejor, tal vez llorase al abrirlos, porque hay que ver cuánto dolor. Tan sólo una canción, un pensamiento, una oración de un rimador, más optimista y soñador.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Filmstar :S

Hello!!!

Today we have done the catalan exam and the maths exam has been changed for next Wednesday. The exam which we have done today was easy I think, well, it was an exam which you didn't needed to study for.

Now I will talk you about a short film which my friends and I made last summer for the research project of my friend. His research project was about Dogma cinema which exist since 1995 founded by some Danish director's and so he had to do a short film according to the characteristics of Dogma cinema. You can read those characteristics in this site if you want, it's a interesting type of cinema:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma_95

The film is about 4 adult friends. Their friendship has become more distanced with the years so they don't see each other very much and the contact has also become bad. Then one night they met to play "Risk" ( a game which they played very often) and they were talking about their lifes in interesting conversations which shows that the 4 friends don't have a good contact with each other because they know many information from 3rd persons. The end is very interesting.
The director is Marcel because it's his research project and he also made the script but we had changed some things and added others too. Of course all of us don't like some details or some things which are sayed during the film, but I think that it was succesful and of course funny.
The actors were: Edu, Marcel, Jesús and me.
The cameras were: Núria (the sister of Edu) and Júlia.
And we also had a photographer who made photographs during the film and between the scenes: Franki.
I haven't seen it finished yet, I hope that I will see the film soon, I'm looking forward to it.

Bye, see you.

Saturday, March 10, 2007

The classic


Hi friends!!


Today is a very special day, do you know? I'm sure, today is Barça vs. Real Madrid.

In class we have made a bet. Every one has bet 1 euro and said a result and who will score a goal. I have said that Barça will win 3:1 and that Messi will score a goal. They should win because the elimination from the Champions League was very hard and this is a match to renew energies and to get again moral strongness for the rest of the Championship. I will see the match at my friend's house.


Well, see you


Byeeee

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Great film!!


Hi!! How are you?


This week is beeing very relaxing because we haven't much exams but the next will be very hard, we have every day an exam.

Today I will talk about a film from the director Peter Jackson (the same from "Lord of the rings"). The film is called braindead (I'm sure some of you will think what a disagreable name jeje) it's about zombies and it is in fact very disagreable but also very funny. I like this film very much because it's all very well done for this time (beginning of the 90s).


Here I give you a link to see a scene from this film (not avaible for sensible people XD)

PS: I'm not crazy, it's a really good film jeje


Bye

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Game Over


Hi!!


Well, I'm a little bit sad because yesterday Liverpool eliminated Barça in the Champions League. It was very difficult for Barça because Liverpool defended very well and they were more concentrated than Barça. But the Barça players dind't stop searching the goal which lacked for the classification, they fought until the last minute. It was also difficult because Anfield (the stadium of Liverpool) is one of the most famous for their fans who don't stop singing (the famous "You'll never walk alone") and celebrating during all the match, supporting their team and this is very important. Great fans considering that football is every time more defined for the violence of the fans than for their support. We all should fight against the violence in football because it should be a spectacle and not a war.
I'm in love with Anfield, jeje. I become hen skin watching this video. Watch it, I'm sure you'll feel the same.
Bye