My favourite books and films

Despite I'm not the kind of person who's always reading a book, I really enjoy the Stephen King's books and some poetry books (specially from Mario Benedetti, my father loves Neruda; but I think that his poems are very sad). The first time that I've readed a King's book I was fifteen, it was "The Mist" I really like it because the horror and fear sense that it made me feel was amazing. I mean, I wanted to stop at the same time that I wanted to continue the story while some kind of awful events were happening. After that book I bought "Cell", another masterpiece for me that I ended in three frantic days; and the last book from King that I read was "The Shining". Sometimes I wonder why I enjoy the psychological terror, but why stop to think when I can enjoy it? I recommend that kind of books, it catches you with the plot till the end.

I have many movies to pick, so is very hard to choose one of them. But if I should choose one, I guess that it would be reservoir dogs. I really like Tarantino's films, but this have a special place in my personal ranking. I saw it with a friends some time ago (I don't remember exactly when), and the story that tells and how it is narrated is fascinating. If you're one of those who enjoy an evening in the living room with a good story to see, you'll enjoy reservoir dogs. Another movie that I'd recommend is 2001: Space Odyssey, that is one of the movies that you really MUST see at least once in your life.

One of my favourite photos

Many photographs have been taken from me since I can remember: some summer camps, the typical nude baby photograph that our mothers ALWAYS have in an ancient album, with friends, birthdays celebrations, and others.

But this photograph is one of the specials for me, because it have an important meaning for me. I was in a scientific camp in Patagonia (specifically in Karukinka natural park) at the beginning of my "adventure" to discover what was my "purpose" for the future. I was passing by a very difficult moment in different meanings, so that camp helped me to relax and enjoy the nature itself in other ways.

It was taken by one of the teachers who led this camp in collaboration with some scientifics from a wide diversity of areas, and with whose I became a good friend. We, and other fourty four persons more, were standing at the top of the tallest hill of the sector (which name, sadly, I can't remember) then I wondered: So that's how it feels to achieve the highest goal when I decide to reach it. Then I thought that it should be good to save that moment in a photography, looking down to the hard way that I had to travel before my reward. And which place is better for a photography than Patagonia? So that is, I guess, the meaning of this photography for me now that I look it after three years: Work hard to get the biggest rewards.

Music In My Life

When I was a child I remember some songs of Chayanne, Marc Anthony or Elvis Crespo that my mother heard in those days, now I'm very distant from that kind of music: I think that is boring to listen the same music style for a long time. Despite this, my favourite style is thrash metal; it's aggressive, with powerful guitar riffs and drums that came directly from hell. Nah, just kidding; but I like the speed and the frenetic environment that thrash creates, it's a good motivation for moshing and put a fist in someone's face.

In my darkest past, I listened reggaeton only because it was a trend in my classmates and, obviously, I wanted to fit in the group. With the time I adopted the idea of not being one more of the group but a leader of that group, I don't wanted to be another sheep that blindly follows what other people say; so I took my own musical way to the metal. While I was developing a better sense of music, I learned to play the guitar, I learned to enhance my taste of different styles and how to enjoy them with the company of my guitar "Manuela" (a good name for a better mate): cumbia, salsa, rock, jazz, other kinds of metal, even reggaeton, pop and romantic songs (this was a good weapon with women when I had the time to spend in my guitar).

The most of my friends plays an instrument, violin, drums, bass, guitar, ukulele, piano, and others variations and some exotic instruments. And within my friends I can find a very big variety of music: metal and many of its variations, reggaeton, bachata and cumbia, even K-pop.

I've changed of favourite band a lot of times: at the beginning I liked Metallica, then I liked Judas Priest, then Sodom, then Pantera, then Slayer, then Testament... Currently I'm between Exodus and Slayer. Because, damn it's Slayer and Exodus! There's no other reason. Choose between one of them it's just like choose between a tasty choripan or an italian completo.

In the movies, the song that I most remember is "The Eye of the Tiger" from Rocky. That was the first song that I learned in guitar.