Wednesday, December 8, 2010

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10 books of Innocence and Evil

saw something in the Medea blog about the books of the year a pure mode of plagiarism, I will do the same. Despite how busy they keep me, ay me constantly complaining of the short time I have to write or do anything, I can not stop reading. From childhood he took the habit to my dad, and I can not let go, and any number of letters, whether of a novel that caught me a week, or anything written on a card in college.
And this year, as all I have read a lot. I continue my obsession with Latin American literature, but as I've gotten a little more English books I'm reading the Americans and the British, and I save the sloth that I get to read them translated. But let
what we came for: I present 10 books of fiction and nonfiction that I read this year and I can not recommend. They have no definite order of ranking, because I can not say one is better than another, well, that depends on the reader's eye.

1. Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
Salinger is one of those writers with whom I have always had problems. Although there is a huge cult of his work, and may be listed as one of the best American writers of the last century, there was always a kind of barrier between him and me. I knew there was a message in his work, but I was not able to descifrar.x Trying to do so, bought everything I could be Salinger, with a collector's desire to get it in Colombia and is a kind of ordeal. But although I never quite understood Catcher in the Rye and Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey was a total literary experience. Questions, concerns, and searches of this pair of brothers, so human, so postadolescents and so tormented, makes this book an incredible journey.

2. Kamchatka - Marcelo Figueras Figueras
is one of my favorite film and literary critics. I followed a lot in his blog at Elboomeran, until it closed, but I found out I had several novels, but never saw one of his books anywhere. Kamchatka found myself at a fair in the Javeriana University in Bogota, where I found it lowered prices by an unknown author. I bought it without thinking and I had settled a beautiful story, about a boy during the dictatorship in Argentina, and what he has to live in the persecution of their parents. He is at the point where there is no child or adolescent, then your eye has a very particular shade of innocence and understanding but at the same time, while relating his life and circumstances with what is the culture of the time, television cartoons and a game similar to Risk. Is primarily a teaching of how much that sometimes we need a place like Kamchatka

3. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
When I saw this book in English I found out that Orwell was a volunteer in the English Civil War, where he was to fight against the fascists. Quickly came to Barcelona and became a member of a leftist party and enrolled for the front and fight. It chronicles their experiences and their perceptions of the war, the future of Spain, his platoon mates and the absurd things that can happen in a conflict of this size, an army of volunteers and political situation and very particular historical and something unknown.

4. Strange Fruit - Leila Guerrero
Speaking of reviews, I can not fail to mention Leila. She is a writer who contributes regularly to Argentina my favorite magazines, understood Soho Leopard, The Malpensante and Black Label. Strange fruit is a collection of chronicles, with subjects ranging from Chinese supermarket where Leila manages the purchase, through the Argentine clone of Freddy Mercury, commenting on stories from Patagonia to the reconstruction of Teatro Colon and another bunch of profiles and rare story, but for some reason are connected to our understanding of reality.

5. Wild wood - Santiago Gomez
local talent. Santiago Gomez is a writer, filmmaker and critic of Colombia, Medellin. I met him in a film appreciation workshops, and the time I saw her book I bought. Do not know what to expect, since I know James only critic, but I really liked the book. It is the story of himself, tinged with a touch of fiction, and his youth and what he does for his dreams, his group of friends in those uncertain years of college. Women, drugs, travel and lessons learned the hard way. All framed in a city hard, hard, aggressive, but at the same time warm and friendly, as is the Medellín that both makes us feel

6. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
could not miss a classic in the list. Ishmael labor, we get fully into the world of whaling and the sea, which is an excuse to tell a story about the human obsession, and beluga whales that we get into our heads and lead to destruction. Do not stop reading. As Medea says, this can be done online for free then no excuse for not reading

7. The kid who ruined the photos - Hernan Casciari
uqe I talk about things online for free, we must talk about this book. I'm not very fond of reading on the computer, and although my house is a Kindle, yet not catch the shooting ebook. What if I read a lot are blogs, and a recommendation, I reached the blog of Casciari, and has been one of the best blogs that I found in a long time. Casciari, is a master of the genre and has explored the blogs for literature, which has already proved with a book called "A Little Respect I am your mother. For editorial commitment, Casciari was to deliver a book. And one night, 3 years rereading what he wrote in his blog, found a real and personal history so powerful that at the point of editing and minor changes, the became a book. The book is reading pa free internet in pdf. Despite the long lazy to read on computer, I finished in 2 nights. The Free down Orsai

8. Missing - Alberto Fuguet
Another of those books that I looked and looked and not found until I went to Argentina, where he was the first thing you see upon arrival at the Ateneo. I heard about this book by a recommendation of Figueras, and confirmed that I like so much as a critic. Missing is an intensely personal novel, which looks for his uncle Fuguet, lost in the continent called America, and which has no news for years. Claim is a history of family and obsessions with the past and shows us that things are never as we believe, or as we count them. As someone said, a road movie made book.


9. Heart of Darkness and Other -Joseph Conrad stories
never read Conrad. And do not understand how I could go so long without it. The stories he presents in remote areas and face what we call civilization with the wild, are stories that touch deep fibers and also make us question deeply, are the intense attraction of the unknown and the wild. As an anecdote, Conrad was Polish, but there are few authors who can write so brilliantly in English like him.

10. Drops Ink - Luis Tejada
A Colombian literary gem. Lost one of those books that a group of insiders (or rather geeks) looking to exhaustion, and that when found, they die of happiness to the astonishment and questioning of ordinary mortals. Luis Tejada is the largest Colombian writer of all time, he lived since he lived only 26 years and died in 1924. A child of his time, dazzled with modernity, but sometimes writes things that sound so current, it is hard to believe that in 100 years this country has changed so little. This book I got on with my confidence antiquarian bookseller at Book Festival, the same bookseller who years earlier had recommended me. When I got it, John David that of Pinocchio Agency, almost died of jealousy and every time he sees me, asks me how I'm going to read.

There are the pick of which I read in the year. If you can read one, do not stop. You who read good this year?

Saturday, May 29, 2010

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Year

A Norwegian photographer made a series of photographs, which, while disturbing me, leave me a malaise and questioned me about humanity.

But you'd better see them yourself. It is an impressive artistic work force. You can see on the website of the Peruvian magazine Etiqueta Negra

Friday, April 30, 2010

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The desire of silver

ever, Soho magazine reading, I found an article in which the writers wrote from their own city. Curious, I looked hastily to "I hate Medellin to see what was said and how much it would offend people who believe that there is no place in the world as the valley (Oh delirium regional superiors' O proud legacy ! Oh Chauvismo Paisa!). In short, the author paisa * criticized in the context of the strength of our land, is the ugly habit of making money above all, despite everything, doubling the law, highlighting the "living" and no respect at all. To illustrate his point, the author takes the example of the blatant commercialism that has been the center of the city, where famous buildings of downtown as the seminar or the old courthouse are converted into low-level mall full of contraband .

must say that this is right. The center of Medellin for commercial endeavors has lost immense value as architectural, aesthetic and tourism. Because they care more about money made since the long-term benefit. Whores win silver.

But mercantilism paisa is what drives me to write this post. This time is the desire of silver of "some businessmen vallunos" and quotes because the know and so they have referred to the media. Only they do not undermine the cultural legacy, or against the urban aesthetic, architectural conservation or against. Undermine the place of reproduction and breeding of a species in danger of extinction, humpback whales.


Being an engineer, I understand that human activities are construction and associated environmental impacts. Cooking, bathing with hot water, buy things, transport, write, to build a dam or buy a car, all your account goes some way to the environment. But that does not mean we should stop them. One can say all the pretty lies you want, but environmentalism from the perspective of improving the future of human life, we remain first in the dirlist importance. If in fact we care about other species, we do a mass suicide. But as we also want vivre, care for the environment. Inside me there's a treehugger , but I understand that every environmental problem needs to be analyzed rationally, so that the cure is not worse than the disease. But what happens in Bahia Malaga is precisely the rationale that there is economic fundamentalism.

For days it has been said Colombia needs a port in the Pacific with more depth. Given the proximity to Buenaventura, has been proposed for this purpose Malaga Bay. Ever since in 1915 there was a discussion for this purpose. But in the end, Marco Fidel Suarez decided not to move the port there. Good move for the environment, considering that, as I have understood (because I have the fortune to know) is a natural paradise. However, the deepwater port is still needed.

Thinking that the port will bring no negative environmental impacts, and that if you bring will be manageable is one sins of dreamer. On the one hand, the ports in Colombia are handled in the absence of a better adjective, very "punks" where the technical criteria are very few and not many people trained in port issues. This can be evidenced in the fact that Colombian engineering has been devoted to domestic issues, leaving the port and coastal engineering aside. Furthermore, because a port such magntitudes brings many people, and knowing the processes of adaptation of the territory in this country, the end result is a social melting pot, where violence and lawlessness is the order of the day. Would you like someone to replicate the social situation in Buenaventura? At least I do not.


What to do then? Well due to the country's economic needs should be considered again Malaga Bay for possible port, studying the market, look at the technical feasibility, environmental impacts, agreement with the communities. And finally, do all the studies caesarean.

The Transport Ministry says it is not viable and Malaga Bay area said the public interest. The military says it is not possible because it would interfere with the operation of the military base. Environmentalists do not want for the ecosystems, marine and mangrove, and the emblem issue, the humpback ballenaz. The local community is opposed. Even the most important scientific organ of the country, Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural sdijo it was imperative to make a national park there.

And with so much study, the Ministry of Environment began to do their job, and started the paperwork to the national park natural No 56. Everything was ready, the director of parks was euphoric, and only lacked the signature of the minister. However, this firm did not arrive anywhere. The minister says ( Week Online ):

Existing technologies allow us to do calculations that deepening the access channel to Buenaventura and increase the carrying capacity of the port are more profitable than building mega ports. These investments are already being monstrous in the port of Buenaventura. It makes no sense for current demands of competitiveness, ride morning a port in Bahia Malaga.

economic pressure, however the "Entrepreneurs in the Valley" is very strong. At the end of the day are a powerful lobby in this country. These pressures continue to delay the declaration of the park, and there were even need to hire an international expert to do further studies. Although it has not delivered its final report, in his introductory remarks the expert confirmed what everyone had said, that port is not feasible.

But if all environmental studies say no, nor the technical studies, the military, no, no and community experts who do not ... Why "Valley entrepreneurs" are engaged in it? Perhaps the best reason given by a journalist for El Espectador, by way of gossip.

Some sources have explained that this whole controversy is reduced to a 'confrontation' in which regional vallecaucanos are committed to the fight so that if the Government decides to another port on the Pacific that will compete at Buenaventura, this is do in Malaga Bay (Valle) and not Tribugá (between Choco and Antioquia), as has also been raised. Pure

envy. In other words ... pure fucking win silver.










* The author, Dr. Alberto Aguirre, one of the great people who gave Medellin. Sadly it is virtually unknown to younger generations, and I knew him to make the micro-research for this post, where after your article I found his obituary in the journal Soho. Is this kind of people that make the proud country is justified, although nobody can remember. The same thing happens to so many anonymous heroic horsemen
** The photos in this post were taken from flikr. Http://www.flickr.com/photos/35871397 @ N03/3317236828
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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Tell me I'm a fucking hippie comeflores or whatever. Insúltenme to have political views they want. Clasifíquenme without justice in some faction of society they despise. Same would be nothing different from what I've felt in a Colombia that it hurts so much (tanto!) in recent times.

In this country, "the happiest country in the world", which is hate breathing. And I think it's hatred that has fueled our history, and has permeated all. Hatred between federal and centralist, liberals and conservatives, chulavitas and birds, drug traffickers and civilians, guerrillas and paramilitaries, guerrillas and civilians, paramilitary and civilian, army and guerrilla armies and paramilitiares, military and civil, civil and liberal and conservative civil, and opposition Uribe, Uribe and the courts, Uribe and Chavez, civil and uribe, chavez civil, civil and saints, civil and Mockus ... all against all, all against one, one against all, in the same way and in the opposite direction.

And now we're in season, people as a force majeure, I decide I hate sweating all over. Become blind and mad, just respect for anything, and everyone takes their flags and defend at the point of poison on your tongue. If Facebook can become useful for measuring temperature social group of people around me, the whole day is spent in attacks and defenses that shows a social rift so great that I think we will eventually destroy. Very few people take the time to recognize the good of the candidates, and are in another "pole" ideological own. It sucks that you can not discuss politics without end by believing that this is a war to death, religion without accepting the beautiful things that each one of them, or Venezuela, but Chavez's name out in Instead of talking about Ayacara or beauty of its beaches.

horrible it is different is automatically bad. That there is no gray area. That the stranger is a danger before a brother and that the country is not a group of people who share identity, but all have in common is their mutual hatred.

But if I want to stop balls, this is just the opinion of a hippie comeflores, optimistic and idealistic, who believes that each person has something worthy and admirable, peace in a country where that is no longer used, overwhelmed by media, which has tried unsuccessfully to be apolitical, who cares about what he sees in his country, and has chosen to describe (with poor results) that sit on an evening marked by melancholy.

Stop fighting for sissies, but we want people who know and those who do not know ... it also nothing to lose. Sometimes I think that if more people listen to The Beatles, everyone would live better.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

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Hate !!!!! The South American Comic Relief

is difficult to explain the emotion I feel toward the games. I love, like all such sporting events. In a country that only lives and breathes football, the South Americans are a wave of freshness that comes.

Actually, I'm sort of autistic sports freak. When I can, I miss the Olympics, I was awake at 3:00 am watching Maria Isabel Urrutia lifted the weight of his gold medal for Colombia in Syndey, tantrums by the bad transmission of Athens, I enjoyed those Beijing even in the middle of my rumba (I saw the men's volleyball final half drunk in a building with people in the U.S.) and I've been watching the winter that just happened in Vancouver.

I must confess that I love because I wanted to be a top athlete. Breaking a brand, Citius Altius Fortius, the efforts to enshrine a clear objective, simple and ultimately futile, I find something beautiful, and worth ... is spiritual. However, I never had the talent to do so. Looking back I have had the future in swimming, but I always get sick of hearing. I wanted to dive but I was too old (he was 12, had to be started from 11) and went through a number of sports with more pain than glory.

But that does not mean that I can return a devoted fan. And so I like games that have come to Medellin, because they gave me the opportunity to enjoy a few games but did not know where the overwhelming majority of athletes, and my bar was more by nationalism than on sporting merit, enjoyed them a lot. I could go to some skills live, and there were many who saw it on television because of the very great reaction to it among the people.

was phenomenal, rather than be seen looking at or skills, it was because I could actually see what Medellin makes the city it is. I have always been paradoxical fact that while most touted of this city is the people are friendly, and the warmth of the deal and all that, one feels that in Medellín people try to shut more, spread more, leaving less the least populated and mixing with people from other city, either out of fear, whether by classism or whatever. Foreigners are always welcome, but sometimes I feel that the countries themselves more and more we parted.

In these games, sitting with a bunch of strangers on the side, and talk quietly of how she went to Maria Luisa, or comment on the beauty of any athlete, to seek explanations for the scores of Judo and the like, or even chatting with Peruvian player in the subway took me back a little of my faith in people. And if you live in a city is to live alone, but to talk to the one at hand, and never meet again.

For me, the best game that was. Being with the people of Medellin, the games they enjoy and feel part of the city. More than 144 gold in Colombia, more than the opening and closing, rather than new scenarios and more than the party atmosphere of peace and Latin American brotherhood.

about just now I saw, there was nothing like the road cycling. It is truly a national sport. I think I've never understood as usual. But this post is the must stay.