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What kind of Fuckery is this?

And so says Amy Winehouse. So much going on, so much indeed.

I am starting some freelance work for an up and coming internet site. I traveled with them to cover the Noise Pop Music Festival in San Francisco and had to heartbreakingly turn down a job at Coachella. Soon you'll hear much more from this site.

Then, I'm going to be an RA for high school kids this summer. At least I think I will. I guess I will come full circle, spending my last months at BU living in Warren Towers. Karma came back, and bit me for never living there before.

Then, I move to Los Angeles, and the next chapter of my life begins.


oh dear.

BSG

FRAK ME.

Battlestar Galactica, once again, blew me away. Officially my favorite show of ALL TIME.

Updates

Niiiice. My Mac is now twice as powerful, twice as fast. Now running with 2GB of Memory, my baby is flying. I just installed [well Nick did] my brand new memory, and upgraded from 1GB to 2GB. Since I don't use my computer just for IM and e-mail, I needed this upgrade. I usually have Firefox, Adium, Newsfire, Aperture, Illustrator and Photoshop running most of the time, sometimes all at once, and while a pretty fast beast, my Mac sometimes had some trouble, especially with Illustrator and Aperture. The photo program was the most frustrating one, as it was the one I use the most, and sometimes it is slooooooooooow. But, I am ecstatic to say that it is now smooth as butter. I cannot wait to play around with it more; it's almost as if my Mac got a second, sexier life.


On other things, I spent the weekend in San Francisco, a year to the date from when I was there for the first time, working as a videographer for Ourstage.com, attending many events in the NoisePop music festival. I left Friday @6am and was on a plane back to Boston on Saturday at 11:30pm. It was a whirlwind trip that included meeting, Golem, among many other fantastic independent music acts; a party at the Diesel store in downtown San Francisco DJed by the guy from the Dandy Wharhols and the best damn Cosmos I've ever had; our neighbor in the hotel being escorted out in handcuffs by the police; too much free alcohol; some great food; and an awesome expo in the heart of the Castro.

If anything the trip made me even more excited and anxious for my upcoming trip to San Fran in June with Liam Bob and Clint. San Francisco might be my favorite city in the continental USA, with it's amazing people and air-conditioned climate.

Also, in the past 48 hours I've been thrown job offers all over the place. Not like, after-graduation-jobs-for-life, but more of the freelancing type. Sadly, I've had to turn them down due to Spring Break plans and general super-busyness of my life. Still, it's exciting to think how things are looking for my future.

Ok, I had a spurge of inspiration so I needed to write. Now I need to do laundry and read 150 pages of a "Entre visillos", which I've actually been intrigued by regardless of my professor's insistance of it being 'blah'. If it was so 'blah', why make us read it in the first place, right? RIGHT?

Predictions / Desires

Ooh it's a night all about me! At least that's what I enjoy preteding. Either way, here are what I think will/shall win tonight:

Leading actor: Whitaker....second choice Gosling
Supporting actor: Eddie Murphy.... second choice Alan Arkin
Keading Actress: Judi Dench.... oh but Penelope gettting it would make me so happy!
Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson.... she's the one I want hands down, yet seeing Abigail Breslin thanking her agent or God would be amazing

Animated Feature: Happy Feet

Art Direction: Pan's Labyrinth. [this movie deserved more noms]
Cinematography: Pan's Labyrinth
Costume Design: Marie Antoinette? I dunno.

Directing: Martin Scorsese.... as much as I love Alejandro Gonzales Iñarritu, Babel wasn't that great.

Documentary: Inconvenient Truth....only one I saw anyways

Editing: Children of Men hands down. The car chase sequence and the final tracking one shot of the war was absolutely brilliant.

Foreign: Pan's Labyrinth

Makeup: Pan's
Score: Pan's

Song: I need to wake up - An Inconvenient Truth

Screenplay - original: Pan's.... but Babel will likely take it
Screenplay - adapted: The Departed

Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean
Sound Mix: Pirates
Sound Editing: Pirates?

Short film [live]: Eramos Pocos
Short film [animated]: The Little Matchgirl

Best Picture: The Departed [but Little Miss Sunshine could so get it]

As long as Babel doesn't get Best Picture, it will all be ok.

De 8,035 Dias

I guess I'm old now,
Still feel like Oscarito,
Don't want Mr. Oscar.

I drank sangria,
I drank mojitos by Bob,
that was Friday night.

We all blew smoke rings,
and I made a smokey brew,
it was quite the night.

On the next morning,
I could not wake up at all,
well, none of us could.

Puerto Rican food,
we ate and ate and ate till,
we just could not move.

That night, we played wii,
on a rather big tv,
and I could not drink.

I have a hard time,
with the haikus Liam loves,
but I'm going to try.

An Tua Nua was,
closed for all but us cool kids,
thanks to all who came.

It was the best night,
from all the nights I partied,
with all my best friends.

Today, the boys and I,
went out to brunch to finish off,
this great long weekend.

Thanks to all who wished
me a happy, great day, via
calls and messages.

A special thanks to,
Liam and Bob and Tasia and Clint,
for being there each day......... {i love you all!}

It wasn't my day,
without the call from my fam.
I wish they were here.

They called too early,
but that's what makes me love them,
they know I love today.

All in all in all,
I had an awesome weekend,
thanks to all who helped.

Dos mil seis. Pensamientos y Recuerdos

So here we are. Five months from the real world and at the brink of the beginning of a new year. I always think about time during the new year and how I don't really feel any different at 12:01am on a new year than I did at 11:59pm of the year before. But oh wells. Here's the greats:

Concerts:

1. Madonna, Confessions Tour: Bitch appeared from within a diamond encrusted disco ball and went on to throw the greatest disco party I've ever witnessed. Because you know...I frequent them.
2. Justin Timberlake, FutureSex Club Tour: HMA [that's Hottest Man Alive], destroyed Avalon with his new album and killer moves. Seeing a warehouse full of 20-somethings chanting "Cry Me a River" has never been so amazing.
3. Regina Spektor, Fidelity Tour: Cute, funny, and surprisingly foul-mouthed and melancholic, Regina made the whole crowd fall in love with her, and that moment came for me when she busted out the disco ball during "Us".
4. Shakira, Oral Fixation Tour: I was afraid that Shaki would sing mostly in English, but this 2 1/2 hour show was heavy on the latin, soft on the anglo; and for that I was thankful. A simple show that dazzled simply with the music and the fans' passionate love for this amazing woman. There were a million great moments, but I'd have to say it was a toss up between "Inevitable" and "Hips Don't Lie."
5. The Killers, Sam's Town tour: The funny mustachioed moment of zen: Brandon Flowers leading the army at his feet in the "I got soul but I'm not a soldier" chant. Brilliant.
6. Rufus Wainwright at Carnegie Hall: Gayest affair ever. But oh so worth it.
   

Best of the Rest:

• Saegloppur [sp?] during Sigur ros
• Dear Mr. President during Pink
• Stormy Weather @ Carnegie Hall, Martha Wainwright
• We are all in this together during Ben Lee
• What goes around comes around during Justin
• Laura during Scissor Sisters
• Accidental Babies during Damien Rice

Films:

1. Volver: Best film I've seen all year in a really crappy year for movies. But this was not my fav. by default. Its Almodovar, telling a simple, colorful story with such power and confidence that blooms through every frame of his camera
2. V for Vendetta: Visually, it was beautiful. Storywise, it was complicated yet thought-provoking. This felt like an apology for the crapfest that were the Matrix sequels. Apology accepted.
3. Little Miss Sunshine: This crowd-pleaser s so good that it still managed to be amazing even when I took Liam to an almost empty theater in NYC to watch it.
4. 2001, A Space Odyssey: So sew me I had never seen it until now. I still fucking loved it.
   
5. Borat: Naked wrestling has never been so horrifying. Yet it's great that it took sharp-eyed British comedian to show Americans some truths we 'foreigners' have known since forever.
6. The Queen: Possibly the funniest movie i saw this year. Can't really explain why.
7. Shortbus: Sex doesn't always need to lead to death, and this film finally showed that.
8. Dave Chappelle's Block Party: Seeing Erykah Badu's fro getting blown away by unstoppable winds as never misses a beat was special enough, but seeing Mr. Chappelle talking to people and being his crazy self was even better.
   
9. I still need to see a few that I think might have made my list. Dreamgirls, Pan's Labyrinth, The Good German, The Departed, etc. I saw barely any movies this year.
   

Biggest Disappointment: Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Ugh...just...ugh.

Fav. Music of the year:

1. FutureSex/LoveSounds -> I can't stop listening to this CD. All the small interludes that follow a few songs border on transendental.
2. Begin to Hope -> Regina Spektor is so cute and so catchy and so honest and funny.
   
3. Crosses -> Jose Gonzales was my fav. discovery. Just listen to Heartbeats once. Just once.
4. He Poos Clouds -> I love him because he references the Legend of Zelda.
5. 9 -> Damien Rice bests O
6. I also discovered Joni Mitchell, Nina Simone, and Jeff Buckley. And now I wish I could go back in time and pretend I've known them my whole life.

Favorite TV of the Year:
Two thousand six was probably one of the greatest TV years that I can remember. So many quality shows pretty much sealed my future desires. And it doesn't stop now as I am watching right now the pilot for Heroes, late, but whatever, that's how I roll.

• 24, Day 5: Bauer's best day by far. Also the saddest, as Edgar's death warranted the silent beep-dong. I CANNOT wait for season 6, as 24 is probably the best party show ever created.
• LOST: from Ana Lucia's and Libby's shocking, SHOCKING deaths, to the fucking amazing season finale, this show keeps getting better and better. No matter what some stupid people who criticize its slow pace say.
• Scrubs: I have never felt more in tune or related more closely to the themes, characters, storylines and moments of a show more than Scrubs. Go figure, but it's true. I could watch the DVDs for days on end. This season was just as good as the rest, and I was increadibly happy to learn it wasn't the last.
• Grey's Anatomy: I started watching this show the day after the famous SuperBowl Ep. A day later I bought Season 1 at Best Buy. Another two days later I was hooked. Not a perfect show, but for one, it has made me cry more than once, and they fucking killed off the annoying Denny. And Sandra Oh kicks all kinds of ass.
• Nip/Tuck: Season 2 was absolutely amazing. Season 3 was a one note train wreck that held me in but felt bland once it was over. Season 4 was a return to what made the show great, the Troy/McNamara relations.
  
• The Office: Better, MUCH better than the British version in my opinion, as the US version has been given a chance to grow and spread its wings with more developed and interesting ensemble cast of characters. As nice as the Pam and Jim thing is, I look forward to learning more of Dwight and "monkey".
• Ugly Betty: Not better than the original, but still absolutely over the top fantastic. And gay Justin needs more screentime.

And finally the absolutely best show on television:

• Battlestar Galactica: No other show has gotten as good as this with each episode. From the awesome "Downloaded", to the greatest season finale i have ever seen on a serialized one hour show, BG had the guts to jump one year in time, and then develop and examine the circumstances of such a feat. I love Science Fiction as much as the next guy, but usually it's a big screen affair. Not so with this show. The moment when the Battlestar dropped into Caprica's atmosphere then warped back might have been the most exhilirating moment on TV during all of 2006.
  

Greatest moments o' '06:

• Wiiiiii! -> I got a Wii, and so far everyone who touches it falls in love with the quirky games and new style of gaming. Plus I got Tasia to play videogames. And she hates videogames. And my mom pwned me at Wii Sports.
• Twin Peaks -> I fell in looove with San Fran, and the best moment came watching the sun set by Twin Peaks, overlooking the entire Bay Area. Minutes later, it hailed. I kid you not. Of course now Liam and I are going to San Fran together after graduation. I cannot wait.
• July 6th 2006 -> Let's see: My sister was in Boston visiting me. Liam came back after 6 months apart. Madonna rocked our worlds. Pretty great day. The next day i bought a Mac.
• Macbook Pro -> Windows who.
• Turning 21 -> Huge house party with some awesome friends. Followed by a whole week of being drunk. Good thing I've stopped doing that.
• Spring Break with Danny -> first person I ever met at BU and we've already spent two spring breaks together. He'll be writing the movie I'll be making about our trip to Cali.
• The Vegas -> It was a hectic week with my family, but I got to see the Beatles LOVE show which was simply astouding.
• Rhinoceros -> everything about that experience with Liam was pretty interesting, and the final product was pretty worth it too.
• Ayy there's so much. 2006 was pretty fucking great i have to say. It had its ups and its downs but in all honesty what year doesn't? I'm sure 2007 will be just as interesting