I've been really terrible lately about updating this blog. I have no excuse, I've been caught up in some stuff which shouldn't really take precedence but is more immediate. The days have passed in a haze of classes, Facebook apps (they can get pretty damned addictive, can't they?), and attempts to reconnect with my guitar playing, which has never been exactly good in the first place. And mental stuff I can't really share and don't particularly want to anyway. Mind trips, yes, but damned pleasant ones at that. I figure I owe regular visitors something new by now, so this will have to do as an update until I can really create something new. What's up with Enrique these days?
Films. A few days ago I watched the films "Across The Universe," and "Star Trek." Both gave me intense enjoyment for different reasons. It's no secret that I'm a Trekkie, though I probably shouldn't mention it too often, and it's no secret that I love The Beatles. Both movies did have something in common, though, in that both were revisits to old ground, but with a makeover along the way. There's just something totally irresistible to me in the combination of the old with the new. So my mind wanderings lately have been oscillating between daydreams of space adventures, and brooding on some of my favorite Beatles songs.
Music. The Beatles, mainly, especially the "secretly-love-them" ballads which I like to deny that move me. "I Will," "Here, There, and Everywhere," "In My Life," and "Till There Was You," to name just four. I mean, they just cycle through my mind to the point where I have to grab the guitar and play them. But after playing those songs with a faraway and dreamy look on my face (I assume) over and over again, my mind and fingers really wanted to play my stuff too, so I started playing my songs as well. That made me realize that I really miss playing for people, which gave me an idea to record some of these songs with just me and my guitar; just go into the university studio and lay down tracks and see what happens. Then I thought, hey, if I'm going to start writing harmonies for some of these tracks, why do it all myself? Especially considering two things: first, my voice is just plain shot to hell by now, and I sound like crap; second, I have a few students who sing, and sing damned well. So I will probably ask some of them if they would do me the honor of lending me their voices for some tracks. So there I am.
TV. Still watching House whenever I can catch the new episodes. I have to thank that show for making intelligence attractive again, it's been a while since natural selection bred for that trait and I was pretty sure we were on our way, as a species, to defining ourselves in terms of image exclusively. So that's a plus.
School. It's my favorite term, May to August, because I get to teach Intercultural Communication again, and my students get to dress up as historical characters and put on a usually huge stage production which we all enjoy tremendously. Or at least, I do.
So that's where I am right now, still a geek, still trying to be cool, still dreaming of alternative universes where the impossible might actually happen, dreaming of time travel and trying to find words.
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Films. A few days ago I watched the films "Across The Universe," and "Star Trek." Both gave me intense enjoyment for different reasons. It's no secret that I'm a Trekkie, though I probably shouldn't mention it too often, and it's no secret that I love The Beatles. Both movies did have something in common, though, in that both were revisits to old ground, but with a makeover along the way. There's just something totally irresistible to me in the combination of the old with the new. So my mind wanderings lately have been oscillating between daydreams of space adventures, and brooding on some of my favorite Beatles songs.
Music. The Beatles, mainly, especially the "secretly-love-them" ballads which I like to deny that move me. "I Will," "Here, There, and Everywhere," "In My Life," and "Till There Was You," to name just four. I mean, they just cycle through my mind to the point where I have to grab the guitar and play them. But after playing those songs with a faraway and dreamy look on my face (I assume) over and over again, my mind and fingers really wanted to play my stuff too, so I started playing my songs as well. That made me realize that I really miss playing for people, which gave me an idea to record some of these songs with just me and my guitar; just go into the university studio and lay down tracks and see what happens. Then I thought, hey, if I'm going to start writing harmonies for some of these tracks, why do it all myself? Especially considering two things: first, my voice is just plain shot to hell by now, and I sound like crap; second, I have a few students who sing, and sing damned well. So I will probably ask some of them if they would do me the honor of lending me their voices for some tracks. So there I am.
TV. Still watching House whenever I can catch the new episodes. I have to thank that show for making intelligence attractive again, it's been a while since natural selection bred for that trait and I was pretty sure we were on our way, as a species, to defining ourselves in terms of image exclusively. So that's a plus.
School. It's my favorite term, May to August, because I get to teach Intercultural Communication again, and my students get to dress up as historical characters and put on a usually huge stage production which we all enjoy tremendously. Or at least, I do.
So that's where I am right now, still a geek, still trying to be cool, still dreaming of alternative universes where the impossible might actually happen, dreaming of time travel and trying to find words.
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15 comentarios:
wow it is interesting how you did it seem so easy, counting everything that goes through your mind and what you sense these days and talk to yourself a hidden intent to give an explanation or excuse because of their thoughts ;)...
Thank you! It did twist my mind in circles, but then I'm used to it these days :)
profe, en si qe es lo qe qiere qe hagamos con la exposicion de contracultura?
una Interpretacion(obra de teatro) o simplemente ir vestidos y explicar de qe se trata la contracultura elegida?..
Lo segundo, lo de la obra (o cortometraje o lo que sea) es del tercer parcial.
hi! hola querido profesor pulgarcito° que bueno qe cambnio su look se ve mas sabroxo qe nunca, sin su collar de batman y sus camisas negras porqe parecia brujo asi le decian en varios salones, ahora es embrujador pero de corazones! galanazo...
atte. su fansss
p.d.usted alimenta mi ego
p.2 viva la familia!
iA dEjAlo En paZZ m0rra, ProffE b0rRe esAs kozas n0Maz lo kIern v0lar, jhajajhajajahja
Cómo tienen tiempo libre, evidentemente no les estoy dejando suficiente qué hacer...
Aunque si no fuera por ustedes no tendría comentarios, así que gracias por comentar ;) y buen día,
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y a tii qe te importa morraa anonima deseguro qieres a el profe pa tii sola y como vez es de la comunidad universitaria, asi qe si nosotras solo somos sus fans eee, admiramos su persona su personalidad y su buuuennisimoo...sentido del humor pfffffff
profesor, tengo una duda.. podemos hacer una pequeña interpretacion para la contracultura, obviamnte que valla explicandola.. ??
(El profe voltea hacia otro lado para atender la petición de una alumna SERIA)
Dudosa: claro, como les dije, no hay reglas en cuanto a la forma que ustedes decidan darle a sus exposiciones; individuales o por equipos, alineadas a un movimiento o dos o más en oposición, lo que sea funciona si 1) prepararon bien el fundamento teórico general, y 2) pueden incrustar a su movimiento elegido dentro de la teoría. Suerte,
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profe, que guapo se veia de elvis. qede super facinada, ese look le favorece mucho aunque se vio que no batallo mucho, pa vestirse asi!
saludos.
jajjajaja , profe como me rio de los comentarios y peleas !! q pasan x aki !!
jajaj
q tenga un buen dia!!
atte alumna nice XD
que ridículas que barbaro pero bueno, el profe aunque está soltero ya tiene casi dueña xD nisemocionen
Heeeeeeeeeey...
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