A movie I recommend

Whiplash

I really like watching movies, it's hard to me to recommend only one but I believe that everybody in the world MUST watch Whiplash. The plot its basically the story of Andrew Neiman a first-year jazz student and drummer of a prestigious Conservatory in New York and the relationship with his abusive, sadic and famed teacher Terrence Fletcher.  In the movie you constantly see Andrew stressed trying to improve his skills as a drummer while he is taken to the edge by his teacher.

The ambient is very tense and thrill, you dont know what is going to happen, you always think in any moment the main character will freak out and this keep you staring into the screen.

There are good things you can learn from the movie, like hard work and being constantly but it makes you thing about how much far you can go to keep improving and doing things better? Terrence test the limits of his students to see what they really can do, that's his philosphy of improvement, even *spoiler not spoiler* in the end of the movie, Andrew gives the right to the teacher when he plays the solo drumm like if his
 methods where always right.

I really, really really recommend you this movie if you think you are not doing enough at something or if you need some motivation in your life. Its a whole experience to watching it :)

A Great Festival

I have been to a lot of concerts in my life, from big festivals to small concerts of unknown bands in my town. Last year, on September 27, I went to Santiago Gets Louder festival one of the most exciting experience in my life. The festival  brought together most of the national and internationl iconic Heavy metal and Alternative metal bands like Gojira, Lamb of God, Deftones, System of a Down and Faith No More. The event was on hangares Suricato in the Cerrillos ex-airport.

 

 
The festival have an asistance of 40.000 people and more than 14 hours of live music. I didn't know too much about all of the bands at concert, personally I really wanted to see Deftones, Lamb of God and System of a Down on stage

System of a Down is an Armenian-American alternative metal. The band's currently members are Serj Tarkian, Daron Malakian, Shavo Odadjian and John Dolmayan. They came to America after a civil war in their country and this influence their topics on lyrics. Theirs style is often oblique anda dadaist, and their music have a lot of critic to society, politics, drugs and sexual intercourse.


Deftones its also an alternative metal band from USA that consist of Chino Moreno, Stephen Carpenter, Frank Delgado, Abe Cunningham and Sergio Vega. Deftones has a very unique style, sometimes their songs can be rude and agressive, and sometimes soft and slow with a very dark atmosphere.

On stage, that day Deftones was kind of lazy, their show was too short and they only played the slow songs in a speed and energic context of music, maybe that show was a "pause" to relax and take a breath in that place. On the other hand System of a Down gave everything they had on the stage, a great performance, great music, everybody was so excited and they could share all of his energy. A great surprise I had was Lamb of God, I didn't knew too much about them until I saw them live, a powerfull trash metal music.

I didn't go alone to the festival, I went with one of my best friends, but at the moment that we enter to the enclosure there waere so many people that we lost each other and we couldn't find each other until the end of the day :(

A country I'd like to visit

Some day If I had the chance or the opportunity, I would like to  visit Japan.

If you don't know it, Japan is an island located in the far east of Asia, neighbour to China, South and North Korea. I really love the japanese culture, their perception and sensibility of nature and the way they see the world. Also they have weird manners and traditions, like the kabuki theatre, the sumo fight and of course the food. There is ball-shaped snack takoyaki, it consist of wheat flour, batter cooked in a special moulded pan filled with octopus meat, its really tasty and it's special because there in Japan you can buy it from street vendors. I would like to be in a  teahouse ceremony, it's kind of spiritual experience in a small house of tea. It would be interesting to live and work there, but very difficult because of the language and the habits they had there.

 We always said that asians are always experts on everything they do and mostly of the time it's true, thats because they used the method of Kaizen. Kaizen its an expression of self improvement, the word literally  means "change for better", but in their culture is deeper than that, it's about being constant and practice everyday on whatever you want to do or be, everyday a bit of work. As an architecture student thats very important for me to be a better profesional and it's something I really admire of Japanese culture. Japan also has really good architecture that's another reason  I want to
visit the country.