George Watsky - Nothing like the first time

The first time I ate avocado was so amazing that I came
And that was the first time that I came so the only thing I could compare it to is the taste of avocado. Pretty much the same
The first time I got high, I ran into my friend’s bedroom and I hung onto each corner of the mattress because I knew that I would be flung into space if I didn’t hold tight
Two years before that I went to my first concert. I was high all night. And the first time someone clapped for me on stage I floated three inches off the pavement walking home
Only one girl has ever really wrapped my stomach into pretzels. She didn’t give me butterflies. She gave me pterodactyls I’m talking terrible internal bruising and the first time I kissed her was like the first time I saw fireworks, which was like the sky first kissing me in the eyeballs
In high school the self-defense counselor taught us that to defend ourselves against a rapist, by sticking a thumb into the corner of his eye socket and popping it out like a grape Babe, for the chance to be with you, I would pop my own eyeballs out and say, "Here. I only have eyes for you." So everywhere you went you’d carry me around in your pocket and every time you pulled out a handful of loose change I’d get to wink at you and a thousand miles away you would think of how charming I am— me— weaving blindly through LA traffic. You— in some bullshit other place
But you shouldn’t leave first times until the end of summer Because you went off to college, years passed, and I realized I was the only one calling anymore And that first kiss hardened into the last. My love : retarded, preserved, a pterodactyl in a tar pit, the music over before it started, a lost guitar pick I’ve stopped trying to match it, searching for that magical attachment
Because marriages are not fucking Disney Bad marriages are sandcastles Good marriages are McDonald’s hamburgers You can leave a good marriage on a plate in the sun for fifty years and it stays pretty much the same
They key, I hear, is to fight routine— to make the smallest moments gleam and mean something
And if you ever feel yourself fading, face paint your old and aging creased-up cheeks gold-plated with a jar of first-time and if you need a youthful spruce-up just grab a tube of that new juice and lube up and if you’re hurting just rub the good stuff where you’re burning
But a word of warning The first time tends to make the bad times worse There’s the rub It doesn’t make things better, just louder It amplifies a murmur ... er-er Great is greater. Greater is greaterer. And broke ...is broker. Bone... is boner It’s not a perfect formula
But the first time that I kissed you, the door of your crappy Civic already half-open, you said "I’m glad you did that." And I have a feeling that, for you, it wasn’t a first-time It was a "this one time." But I will remember that moment for the rest of my life, even if I have to arm wrestle Alzheimer's for it
And if I ever get a chance to kiss you again, you know, a second time, I'm gonna stick my tongue out and lick you right across your face. Because I’ve already kissed you. But I never licked you And you’ll say, "Ugh. Why did you do that?" And I’ll say, "Hey sexy. Did someone slap you across the face with a banana slug or is that a big shiny trail of first-time on your cheek. Maybe we can go back to my place and gets some first-time on the sheets."
It’s worth it After all, there’s nothing like the first time The first time’s always perfect

Cowboy Bebop - ("God's Gonna Cut You Down" Song By Johnny Cash) AMV

Y con esto voy a tener que volver a ver toda la serie.

No que me esté quejando, por supuesto.

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Joe: So, you guys like to tell jokes, huh? Gigglin' and laughin' like a bunch of young broads sittin' in a schoolyard. Well, let me tell a joke. Five guys, sittin' in a bullpen, in San Quentin. All wondering how the fuck they got there. What should we have done, what didn't we do, who's fault is it, is it my fault, your fault, his fault, all that bullshit. Then one of them says, hey. Wait a minute. When we were planning this caper, all we did was sit around tellin' fuckin' jokes! Get the message? Boys, I don't mean to holler at ya. When this caper's over - and I'm sure it'll be a successful one - we'll get down to the Hawaiian Islands, hell, I'll roll and laugh with all of ya. You'll find me a different character down there. Right now, it's a matter of business. 

10/10

Tarantino.

Y en Blu Ray. No puedo decir mucho más.

The Amazing Spider-man (2012)

Ben Parker: Peter? I'm sorry for what happened earlier. I know things have been rough for you. I think I know what you're feeling. You've been going through a lot of difficult things, with not having your father and all. Well, take it from an old man. Those things send us down a road. And I know that whatever road you'll end up on, you've got great things waiting for you, son. So, come on home, Peter. You're my hero, and I love you. 


8/10

Well, now this was a surprise. Realmente me gustó todo. Lo único que le baja puntos es la música. Realmente muy genérica y olvidable.

Danny Elfman, volvé, te perdonamos.

The Avengers (2012)

Loki: I have an army
Tony Stark: We have a Hulk.


10/10

Poco puedo expresar lo mucho que disfruté esta película. Tanto, que pagué por verla tres veces. Es Joss Whedon. Es realmente muy difícil decirle que no.

Pero lo valió. Lo valió tanto...

Facing Ali (2009)

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.


He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.


A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.


I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

8/10

Si bien los quotes no son de este documental, son de Muhammad Ali en persona. Este documental es realmente muy bueno, te cuenta la historia de la gente que peleó contra el, incluido el clásico Frazier. Genial para cualquier amante de este deporte.

Además, los que me conocen saben que lo respeto muchísimo a Ali. Es un placer verlo pelear en algún que otro video.

Shame (2011)

Sissy Sullivan: We're not bad people. We just come from a bad place. 


9/10

Wow. La verdad que me voló la cabeza. No esperaba que fuera tan buena. Eso sí, hay que verla con mente abierta. No es una película para cualquiera.

#DIRTYLAUNDRY

Marvel, te he dado mi dinero repetidas veces (y luego de Avengers, you have my soul), pero por favor, dame una película más del Punisher con Tomas Jane.

Te doy mi primogénito.

Please.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford (2007)

Ed Miller: I was with a girl once. Wasn't a squaw, but she was purty. She had yellow hair, like uh... oh, like something.
Dick Liddil: Like hair bobbed from a ray of sunlight?
Ed Miller: Yeah, yeah. Like that. Boy, you talk good.
Dick Liddil: You can hide things in vocabulary.
Ed Miller: Maybe you and me could writer her a note, send it by post?
Dick Liddil: See, all you gotta do, Ed, is predict her needs and beat her to the punch.
Ed Miller: Well, this girl, she had a real specific job.
Dick Liddil: Specific?
Ed Miller: We's only together once. She's afraid of lightning. She came up into the wagon and just cuddled right up to me. She gave me a kind price, too.
Dick Liddil: Well I be! That is specific.
Ed Miller: Yeah, sure, she been with other people. But the kinds of things she said to me, people just don't say unless they really mean it.
Dick Liddil: "My love said she would marry only me and Jove himself could not make her care, for what women say to lovers, you'll agree, one writes on running water or air."
Ed Miller: My God that's good. Let's write her that.
Dick Liddil: Naw. Poetry don't work on whores.

9/10

Holy fucking shit. Brad Pitt te amo. Pero posta, te amo mucho.

Ghostbusters (1984)

10/10


Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Mayor: All right, all right! I get the point!


La tengo en bluray, y la veo cada tanto tiempo. Una de mis películas favoritas de toda la historia.

Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2 (2003-2004)

9.50/10

(Tomo a las dos películas como una sola)


The Bride: [voiceover narration] As I lay in the back of Buck's truck, trying to will my limbs out of entropy, I could see the faces of the cunts that did this to me and the dicks responsible. Members all of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. When fortune smiles on something as violent and ugly as revenge, it seems proof like no other, that not only does God exist, you're doing His will.

Bill: How do I look?
The Bride: You look ready.

The Social Network (2010)

10/10

Mark Zuckerberg: You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

Alien (1979)

9/10


Ripley: final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting. The other members of the crew, Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash and Captain Dallas, are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.

Lost in Translation (2003)

9/10


Charlotte: 25 years. That's uh, well it's impressive.
Bob: Well you figure, you sleep one-third of your life, that knocks out eight years of marriage right there. So you're, y'know, down to 16 in change. You know you're just a teenager, at marriage, you can drive it but there's still the occasional accident.
Bob: It gets a whole lot more complicated when you have kids.
Charlotte: It's scary.
Bob: The most terrifying day of your life is the day the first one is born.
Charlotte: Nobody ever tells you that.
Bob: Your life, as you know it... is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk... and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you will ever meet in your life.
Charlotte: That's nice.

Pulp Fiction (1994)

9/10


Mia: Don't you hate that?
Vincent: What?
Mia: Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
Vincent: I don't know. That's a good question.
Mia: That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.

Y lo peor es que nunca entendiste esto.

Fan Theories Part I

Rugrats:


Ever wondered just how Angelica could talk to the babies? Angelica is the only one who can talk to the babies because they are a figment of her imagination. She is spoilt, sad and lonely, because her Mother is constantly working and has no time for her. Her relationship with her Dad is superficial and unsubstantial, no real love is ever shown to her.
So how did it come about that Angelica would have to imagine these babies? Tommy died soon after child birth, a fact reflected by Stu never leaving the basement, inventing toys that his son will never play with. Chuckie died in the car crash along with his Mum, also reflected in the actions of his father; the crash has made him a pathetic nervous wreck most of the time.
Most interesting is Phil and Lil. There never where any twins, there was just one baby. However this baby was a still born, and Angelica never knew the sex of the still born, so she invented twins of different genders.
Sadly, Angelica never uses her imaginary friends to comfort or entertain her, instead she is mean and nasty to them. She has invented this relationship with these babies so she can vent her frustrations of being a spoilt, lonely brat who has seen much hardship from these unfortunate parents; frustrations that can't be satisfied by a typical childhood relationship with a doll, albeit a Cynthia one.


Why Batman can't kill the Joker:



They are fighting an ideological battle for each other's soul. They are both two sides of the same coin:
Two individuals who, because of a horrible day in their lives, became insane and decided to take on the world and make it in their image.
The joker was a shitty comedian with a pregnant wife, a nice guy. On the day his wife died in a random accident he was bullied by mobsters into committing a crime, fell into a vat of chemicals and ended up alone, in pain, and scarred for life. The overall pain was such that he snapped.... realized that the world is cruel, unjust and random and decided he was going to destroy all fabric of the attempted, false, self-delusional order of the world and break everyone down to his level. He believes morals, ethics, are hypocritical nonsense. You can refer to the Dark Knight movie, in which he says "I'm just ahead of the curve." He spends the entire movie putting everyone in front of him in situations where, to survive, they will have to break their moral code. Even the henchmen of the black guy... there are two. For no reason other than to break them, he says he will hire the one who will kill the other.
This is what the Joker does, he lives to prove to people that he is the avatar of who they really are : he just refuses to lie to himself.
Batman watched his parents be murdered, went insane also and developed several obsessions, he fights to bring justice to a world he feels is essentially good and plagued by the unnatural disease of crime and evil. He believes in justice above everything else, he does not kill.
So what happens when these two men face each other? The Joker's ultimate victory is for the Batman, the strongest enemy of his world view, a person who refuses no matter what to break down to his level, to kill him. He wants the Batman to kill him. He can't wait for Batman to do it. It will prove his point: anyone can be broken into evil, just like him, if their pain or their reasons are strong enough.
Meanwhile the Batman is facing someone who is the epitome of cruelty and senseless crime. He HAS to beat the Joker according to his rules, to prove to himself that his rules mean something, that they are absolute. And this is a decision he has to face every time he catches the Joker: do I kill him? How many lives will I save if I just kill him? He always escapes Arkham.... I will be doing a good thing by ridding this world of this supremely deranged psychopath. If only he could break his morals in this one case.... this one time... for the greater good....
The Joker knows this. And he laughs. And he hopes.
But he also has to deal with the temptation... without the Batman he would be virtually unstoppable. Even in the world of DC Comics where there is Super Man, other supervillains fear him. They steer clear of him. He is too unpredictable, chaotic, and cruel. If only he were to kill the Batman, there is nobody out there who understands him enough to be able to stop him. If only he could kill the Batman... everything would be so simple.
They are fighting a deeply personal, deeply ideological war. They each represent what the other one hates the most, and they each depend on the other to stay alive until the other bends to his will.
The last each one of them wants is to kill the other.
It is poetic.




Violence in Tarantino's movies:



It's well known that all of Tarantino's films take place in the same universe - this is established by the fact that Mr. Blonde and Vince Vega are brothers, everybody smokes Red Apple cigarettes, Mr. White worked with Alabama from True Romance, etc.
As it turns out, Donny Donowitz, 'The Bear Jew', is the father of movie producer Lee Donowitz from True Romance - which means that, in Tarantino's universe, everybody grew up learning about how a bunch of commando Jews machine gunned Hitler to death in a burning movie theater, as opposed to quietly killing himself in a bunker.
Because World War 2 ended in a movie theater, everybody lends greater significance to pop culture, hence why seemingly everybody has Abed-level knowledge of movies and TV. Likewise, because America won World War 2 in one concentrated act of hyperviolent slaughter, Americans as a whole are more desensitized to that sort of thing. Hence why Butch is unfazed by killing two people, Mr. White and Mr. Pink take a pragmatic approach to killing in their line of work, Esmerelda the cab driver is obsessed with death, etc.
You can extrapolate this further when you realize that Tarantino's movies are technically two universes - he's gone on record as saying that Kill Bill and From Dusk 'Til Dawn take place in a 'movie movie universe'; that is, they're movies that characters from the Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, and Death Proof universe would go to see in theaters. (Kill Bill, after all, is basically Fox Force Five, right on down to Mia Wallace playing the title role.)
What immediately springs to mind about Kill Bill and From Dusk 'Til Dawn? That they're crazy violent, even by Tarantino standards. These are the movies produced in a world where America's crowning victory was locking a bunch of people in a movie theater and blowing it to bits - and keep in mind, Lee Donowitz, son of one of the people on the suicide mission to kill Hitler, is a very successful movie producer.
Basically, it turns every Tarantino movie into alternate reality sci fi. I love it so hard.

Another World (1991)

Se hace difícil que un juego me impresione. Estoy tan acostumbrado al medio, que cuando algo me sorprende, es porque es algo realmente innovador, algo decididamente único. Los Uncharted lo lograron a su manera, los MGS también, entre otros pocos.

Pero nunca jugué algo tan decididamente... único y especial. Another World es un título tan increíblemente particular que me sorprende haber tardado tanto para jugarlo. No es increíble a nivel gráfico (comparado con los standars de ahora, por supuesto), no tiene música, no tiene diálogos, no tiene texto. Es simplemente un juego increíble que cuenta la historia de Lester Knight Chaykin sin utilizar más que cut-scenes cada tanto.

Difícil como la concha del mono, pero no puedo creer que algo como esto existe. Me compré la edición de Aniversario, por simplemente 6 dólares. Los mejores dólares invertidos en muchísimo tiempo. La puta, cómo me gusta esto.

Quizás algunos de ustedes lo sepa (hablo como si hubiera más de 1 lector acá), pero yo conozco el medio desde los 5 años más o menos. Lograr que me emocione al hablar de un juego es algo que realmente pocos han logrado. Another World es uno de esos.

Definitivamente pruébenlo.

Roger Waters - The Wall LIVE

Porque cumplí un sueño. Porque vi la obra cumbre de la idea detrás del Rock Opera. Porque escuché en vivo un disco que me marcó como la puta madre. Porque la puesta en escena jamás será superada. Porque escuché "Comfortably Numb" en vivo.

Por todas estas cosas, te dedico esta imagen.

Luego subiré algunos videos (míos y no tanto). Y creo que la mejor frase que me representa con esto es:

"No explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive, in that corner of Time and the World".

Gracias, Roger.

Gracias a vos.

Quilmes Rock 2012 - Foo Fighters

He visto a Smashing Pumpkins. He visto a Velvet Revolver. He visto a Soda Stereo. He visto a Chris Cornell. He visto a Roger Waters (el cual se merece post aparte).

Pero nada, nada en la vida podría haberme preparado para Foo Fighters.

Muchísimas gracias, Dave Grohl, por el rock. Gracias por representar que se puede ser Rock sin caer en la caricatura. Que se puede ser exitoso, sin ser una mierda de persona. Que se puede dar el mejor recital de la vida, sin caer en sentimentalismos pelotudos y oportunistas, sino dando lo mejor de uno.

Gracias, de todo corazón.

Nos volveremos a ver cuando vuelvas. Promesa.

Scarface (1983)

9/10

"What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be? You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way! "


Amo esta película. Verla en el cine es algo que realmente se debe hacer antes de morir, aún con las imposibilidades físicas de conseguir lugar. Al Pacino es definitivamente uno de los mejores actores de la historia del Cine, lejos.