[ Thursday, February 27, 2003 ]
Innocent Saints or (put alejo's random idea here)| By reading the reviews posted on some intellectual blogs of some also intellectual friends, I was pushed to go get and read "Gala: Musa o Demonio", which I was lucky to find lying in the sidewalks of the 7th Avenue in Bogota's downtown, beside "El codigo penal" and "El Almanaque Bristol". I paid 2000 devaluated pesos for my copy, which had a light cyan cover with white tipography, which framed, in a counterfeited (chibiado) environment, my reading of it. After hours of reading, I got inspired to record some songs that could fit the feeling of the book in some situations, like a soundtrack to it. The result is here in Amazon. Go, give it a try (I recommend the "Aguita 'e coco" sample), then buy it, and read "El gala" again, I'm sure you'll find the experience even more realistic and, why not, "Iguaza". Just like watching the last scene from "2001 Space Odissey" while hearing "Echoes" by Pink Floyd, or reading "Vivir para contarla" (by Gabo) to the rhythm of vallenato, I'm sure Javo and Sergo's "El Gala", with the music I composed, will be the ultimate ñero experience. |  |
Here you can appreciate "El Gala", counterfeited edition, being offered on the streets of iguazoland in a very special package with "el almanaque bristol".
Hernán [8:20 PM] -
[ Thursday, February 20, 2003 ]
Lots of Windows 1.0/ME people in this world
Which OS are You?
Now, combine this with the loneliest number
and you get closer. Is not a sane combination.
Hernán [10:13 AM] -
[ Tuesday, February 18, 2003 ]
The number of the beastI am the number 1 I am the loneliest number _ |
this quiz by orsa
There you go vulpecula. Happy? :)
Hernán [10:01 PM] - Of what sells
Various things that captured my attention this last week:
 1. It's incredible how "resourceful" is the people at canal caracol. As you know, Pedro el Escamoso is one of those soap operas that begins as a hit because there's something unusually funny about it, in this case a dancing iguazo who happens to have sex appeal because of his iguazo-ness. We all have seen Pedrito Coral Tavera dancing "El pirulino", but damn! Just when everybody's tired of it (because of the stupidity hit soap operas become just to make some more chapters and keep people there watching commercials), I've seen this TV commercial announcing Pedro Coral dancing "el baile de la orejita", in some jail, wearing nothing more than a chingue (the iguazo version of a bathing suit -tanga- for men), during a beauty contest for men. That's our television. The interesting thing is HOW IN THE HELL DID THEY GET THERE? Will & Grace havent been able to get to the first accepted gay kiss in I dont know how many seasons... (thanx God for that) | |
2. We all know you cant stop at a semaphore's red light in Bogota without being bothered by some ñero-speaking dude trying to wash your car's windshield. The hate-charging thing is they dont even ask, they start washing it (with dirt-water besides) and then they knock at the driver's window to get their pay. That happened to me and my father, and he says "Next thing, some company sends anything with a money order for you to sign and send!" That's possible, in fact, in the USA what they do is sending cards, already charged, for you to go "save" by spending! Fuckers. | |
3. I've been net.approached by my friend Der Steppenwolf, through ICQ or something (whatever), announcing me the new release by Massive Attack, "100th Window". I visited their site and damn! you got to get to the "command line" section (if you can find it -damn cryptic flash interfaces-) and then type "Window3". Creative (and electronic-constructionist) way to show tour dates... |  |
4. I didnt know about some venezuelan actress called Roxana Diaz (from "Juana la virgen", I've seen on google..) who made her home (and so personal) porn video with some other actor. It was found, and there they were: Pamela Lee's case, or more pathetically, Lully Bosa's case, but in Venezuela. Availaible illegally on the streets of Caracas, and Kazaa :P. But this one's much more hardcore than the others (and you dont get to watch Tommy Lee's weapon for almost the whole video *whew*). Clocking in at about 1 hour 27 minutes (and 586.086 Kb) this video shows much of Internet's availaible material through Roxana Diaz' (sick, lusty or honest, you judge) acts. Hardcore hardcore, it has in it: very bad breast surgery scars, bottle insertions, double insertions, dance with slutty lingerie, blowjobs, anal, oral, even a prostate gland exam (she inserts her thumb blah blah blah...), etc, etc, etc. All sorts of terms the Internet enlightened us with. Just bringing some hardcore to the Evil list. And let's hope someday we see something from Geraldine Civic, heheh. 0:) |  |
5. There's some TV show called "Fastlane" I never bothered to watch, but that all changed when I beheld some commercial when I was at las Vegas, who showed a lesbian kiss between Tiffany-Amber Thiessen and Jamie Presley scheduled for January the 17th. Yesterday night I finally saw it! Now I can finally stop watching fastlane looking for the abovementioned kiss. :D ...Why do we, straight ones, find lesbianism "titillating" when we are not needed there? Cute lesbians sell. May that be said by Alyssa Milano, Sara Michelle Gellar, Neve Campbell, Denise Richards, Kylie Minogue, Carmen Electra, Michelle Williams, Jennifer Aniston and so many others who have found a lot of bucks for them and for their executive producers by kissing a resembling specimen at the expense of our own impotence. Lesbian kisses on TV networks deserves a whole blog update.  | |
6. The pigiblog is back, and Atari's right. I should get any woman to be my girlfriend, so I could get the rest of them. I've been there too: With girlfriends comes pretenders, when alone, no hay ni miércoles, carajo. Girls sell to girls. Speaking of Atari, I've managed, once again, to stay home waiting for his call to do something on saturday night, "some things never change"... | |
7. My most ambitious musical project for this year is near. Born from the twisted mind of my friend Pyngwie from artico records, it will involve famous figures from national underground rock. The plot? Proggresive Rock, as usual. I'll be helping with electronic ideas, the chatter begin this weekend. I hope someday it sells too | |
Sell to you later, weak fagts.
Hernán [10:01 PM] -
[ Sunday, February 09, 2003 ]
Those who dont know history are doomed to repeat it?Well, this is not the case here. We all know what Pablo Escobar tried in Colombia through terrorism in the late 80's (to make people distrust the government, and divide them in fear so they stay quiet in submision?), and we know what methods he used to get it (cowardly bombings, taking down of planes, kidnappings, extorsions, the pay of "vaccines", corruption of political figures, etc). Maybe people here is not that indiferent, maybe the problem lies in fear, cause we all prefer to remain quiet instead of getting killed. Our behavior has its origins, and it has happened through history a lot of times:
- In those times of the drug cartels, you just couldnt go into any taxi expressing your thoughts to the driver because, as we know, taxis were the cartels' information networks in the cities. "Ah, you dont like us, then you die".
- In the times of "The violence"(TM), the war was between Liberales (red) and Conservadores (blue). There were red and blue towns, and you couldnt even think about visiting a different colored town, or you got killed. "Ah, you dont like us, then you die". There were executions of whole towns because of its color, so Stalin-ish...
- The spanish colony times were good too at keeping people silenced, no rebellions against the real crown or face execution. So many indians killed, decimated is not even the word. Submission in all its forms. "Ah, you dont like us, then you die".
Colombia takes another dose, we're back at bomb time, the narcoterrorists use the exact same formula as Escobar. And there's no doubt the bombings could have been much worse... and many more. Those who know the outcome of history, know what to do to achieve their objectives. The terrorism is here to stay.
You know, as I've been saying this last days, is not fear what I feel after what happened to El Nogal (place I respected and admired and had the oportunity to be). One can find death in any corner. The real feeling is rage. The guerrilla militants are so incredibly coward, they're so coward that bombs have exploded in their hands, so coward to set bombs and get the hell away, and when everything's messed up they dont even attribute the actions to themselves, they dont make any check-mate statements, they dont have a reason. IT IS JUST FULL HATE. "Why!!!" you say, "How come there is people so evil to do things like that!"... They're simply animals, they dont think. They are the offspring of our violent history. We've been in war forever, when a faction ended another one came...
Besides, guerrilla is not what they are. Guerrilla is Fidel Castro's or M19. They are narcoterrorists, the worst type of international criminal. It's time the world recognizes those savages as what they really are, coward narcoterrorists. How is it possible that other nations give them democratical refuge and all the space for dialog, and keep their money in bank accounts helping finance narcoterrorism?
Those narcoterrorists just cant kill someone, they have to do it in the worst way possible, they are never satiated, they love blood and carnage. They're like state-of-the-art resentment. Some Slayer for you.
Pissing your common sense away
When you draw first blood you can't stop this fight
For my own peace of mind - I'm going to
Tear your fucking eyes out
Rip your fucking flesh off
Beat you till you're just a fucking lifeless carcass
Fuck you and your progress
Watch me fucking regress
You were made to take the fall - now you're nothing
Payback's a bitch motherfucker
And something from D.R.I. comes to mind when I think of paramilitares:
Violent pacification [2x]
Forces united the choice is yours [4x]
Violent pacification [5x]
We'll force you to be nice to each other
Kill you before you kill each other
This country is doomed.
Hernán [11:05 PM] -
[ Tuesday, February 04, 2003 ]
A matter of geopoliticsWho would I be in LotR you ask? well. That one's easy. I'd be some guitar playing elf who lives in Aman, north of the Undying Lands, far from war, not even noticing it. "Why, is there a war in the middle-earth? oh terrible! ... ok, I'll keep playing this guitar from the Ainur, I've yet much to learn my fellow elves, now if you'll excuse me...". Horse days from war, not much really... Think about it, we all are some elf learning something far from war. The day we feel forced to enter war then the United Nations will intervene with full militar power, and will try to force the end of the guerrilla war. But not yet, because NOT ALL OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE HUMAN REGION OF COLOMBIA ARE INVOLVED IN THE CONFLICT. We, sons of the bourgeoisie, are not involved in it, right? Do we give a shit about it? It's not our interests at stake. YET! Colombia, blame us for most of this bleedings.
%#$&#@.
Hernán [12:08 PM] -
[ Monday, February 03, 2003 ]
"Music. What is it good for?"This is the long answer (not as long as it could get - a whole year of explanations?) to the question "what are your musical influences?", organized by the most influencial album from a most influencial band, in chronological order of appearance in my life. I havent forgotten nothing! So this is the final review, in my own way, of my top 25:
| I. Bogotá School: (1991-1993) | ||
 | 1. Rust In Peace, Megadeth (1990) - Thrash Metal Learned: rock guitar playing and soloing. That simple. Ah no? palm muting, power chords, lots of pinky finger exercises. Also pentatonic, arabian and chromatic scales. Beats all thrash albums. | |
 | 2. Testimony of the Ancients, Pestilence (1989) - Death/Thrash Metal Learned: my base guitar riffs and keyboard ambients. Rhythms based on the bass note-plus-the-octave, and based on minor 3rds, that is, the bass note plus its third, and the fifth plus its 3rd. Easy huh? | |
 | 3. Reign in Blood, Slayer (1986) - Thrash Metal Learned: fast guitar playing (16th notes) without breaking wrists, and dark (satanic) musical colors. What's that? open 6th string of the guitar, with ocasional power chords inserted in between. | |
 | 4. Beneath the Remains, Sepultura (1989) - Thrash Metal Learned: To play faster (in triads of 16th) and faster pentatonic (and palm muted) figures. The band Death with "Spiritual Healing" (1988) falls into this category as well. |  |
 | 5. Psalm 69, Ministry (1992) - Industrial Metal Learned: to open my head to guitar and voice samples. First thoughts about using different types of distortion. | |
II. Cali School: (1993-1995) | ||
 | 6. Alice in Hell, Annihilator (1989) - Speed Metal Learned: more fast tricks (like being playing and suddenly skip 12 frets), power-chord artificial harmonics, and new uses for scales. | |
 | 7. Shepherd Moons, Enya (1991) - New Age Learned: to give soul to melodies, minimalistic keyboard technics, and freestyle tempo (ala nocturne or barroque music). | |
 | 8. Killers, Iron Maiden (1981) - Heavy Metal Learned: to play loosely in tempo (began losing thrash metal dexterity, but what the heck), and the famous Iron Maiden figure (melodies using major and minor 3rds), double guitars, and fast trills. | |
 | 9. Necroticism, Carcass (1992) - Grindcore/Death Metal Learned: intrincate structures and guitar rhythmics 3 full tones below normal. Original uses for the augmented and diminished scales. | |
 | 10. Awake, Dream Theater (1993) - Progressive Metal Learned: (whew...) to combine different metrics in one song, to dare to try unison melodies, more tricks in solo playing and planning, and the need to make conceptual albums. This band helped expand my musical spectrum. Too much to list. | |
 | 11. Domination, Morbid Angel (1995) - Death Metal Learned: insanity and darkness through music, plus dark chords and many innovative rhythm technics. The most honest band of this list, so I guess honesty and respect to one's style. | |
 | 12. Icon, Paradise Lost (1993) - Gothic Metal Learned: sadness through music, and simplicity. The band Tiamat, with "Clouds" (1992) falls here too. |  |
III. University: (1996-2001) | ||
 | 13. Animals, Pink Floyd (1977) - Progressive Rock Learned: to create ambients and colors through musical experimentation. The other band that bends the musical spectrum forever. Too much to list (2). | |
 | 14. October Rust, Type O Negative (1996) - Gothic Metal Learned: seductive darkness through music, and to play really slooow. The impact of a real frontman, something I'll never be. | |
 | 15. Astro-Creep 2000, White Zombie (1995) - Industrial Metal Learned: that great sound (noise) comes from layers of the same. Nine Inch Nails' "The downward Spiral" (1994) fits here too, where electronic production is God. |  |
 | 16. Whoracle, In Flames (1997) - "Death" Metal Learned: to balance changes from heavy riffs to acoustic bridges. This is not pure Death metal. Known in its time as Scandinavian... err... uhm... something. | |
 | 17. Time Machine, Joe Satriani (1993) - Instrumental Rock Learned: soloing, scales, and much skipped musical basics. Rock music that actually can make you feel happy. This guy introduces anyone to blues, funk, boogie, rock ballad, even thrash. | |
 | 18. My Arms, your Hearse, Opeth (1998) - Gothic Metal Learned: to put a different chord on top of another. This band was doing what I was trying to do at the same time. Some (some!) of my music sounded like them without even having heard them. | |
IV. Post University: (2001-2002) | ||
 | 19. Nothingface, Voivod (1989) - Progressive Metal Learned: the richness of 6th note-based chords, and disonance in general. | |
 | 20. Surrender, Chemical Brothers (1999) - Big Beat Learned: to combine the too old with the too new, and more colors. Basics of nowadays eletronic music. How to mix, when to mix, what to mix, and how to get to the next song. | |
 | 21. Discovery, Daft Punk (2001) - Disco Learned: music in layers, and the production taken to the detail. The science behind vocoders, and where to get the perfect sample to mix. | |
 | 22. ComputerWorld, Kraftwerk (1981) - Electronic Learned: that perfect timing and FM sounds can sound great too. The godfathers of techno pop. | |
 | 23. Windowlicker EP, Aphex Twin (1999) - Ambient Learned: to take perfection to the micro-detail. I also learned what I wont be able to do in terms of production. And detail. Too meticulously difficult! | |
 | 24. Moon Safari, Air (1998) - Retro Learned: that old sounds generate great ambiance. This makes you wanna learn the history of synths (moog and stuff like that), just to get the right instrument for each melody. | |
 | 25. Tempovision, Etienne de Crecy (2001) - Chillout Learned: the lounge sound and feeling, and more electronica tricks. | |
I like: The Doors, Obituary, Underworld, Black Sabbath, Old Metallica, Cradle of Filth, ArchEnemy, Steve Vai, Cassius, Virgil Donati, Soda Stereo, Pantera, Rush, Testament, Eric Clapton, Modjo, Jamiroquai, Anthrax, Napalm Death, 60's-70's Raphael, D.R.I., Deicide, Jimi Hendrix, Yngwie Malmsteen, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Depeche Mode, etc.
...but never got into my head the way the other artists did.
That's all. Hopefully this blog will beat azul's in terms of the MOST PAINFUL BLOG TO DOWNLOAD! :) Hate ya in a few days.
PD. Demoness still rules.
Hernán [11:04 PM] -
