Favorite Music Band: Portishead

One of my favorite music band it is Portishead. They came from Bristol, England. In the early 90's, the electronic and hip-hop music became in other way to do music call trip hop, who it's original from Bristol, and mix element from both genres creating a fascinating sound who explore the exceptional and mysterious atmosphere with poetic and sensible lyrics. In this way, the vocalist, Betty Gibbons, has inspired in greatest poets like Sylvia Plath and give mesmerizing performances with an incredible voice and interpretation.

With Betty Gibbons in the band, they are also two great guys: Geoff Barrow (co-founder) and Adrian Utley (guitar).

Between their songs, the most famous are Roads, All mine and Glory Box. About the music itself, they song are unmistakable because the sound it’s really unique.

Before them, there are another band who its pioneer in trip hop called Massive Attack, also from Bristol and singers like Tricky.

I choose them between a list of favorite bands and singers, like David Bowie, Beastie Boys, Queen, Pulp, Mogwai, Bjôrk, etc.,  and I really don`t know which one choose, so I just flip a coin.

I listen for first time at high school (2005) and I really love it since them.

In the link below you can listen one of my favorite song, call Wandering Star. 

Enjoy!

Oddest movie's: Buddha Collapsed out of Shame

One of the oddest and beautiful movies I've ever seen it's call Buddha Collapsed out of Shame (2007), by Iranian young director, Hana Makhmalbaf.

The movie talks about a six year old little girl call Baktay, who fights for an education in a society where women are not equal, in many aspect, to men. Motive after saw her neighbor reading the alphabet, Baktay –who have to take care his little sister while the mother go to work- has to sell 4 eggs to buy a notebook and a pencil. However, her journey became into an odyssey when the eggs fell out and a group of boys hostage her, ussing the methods of American forces who fight againts talibans.

I saw the film in 2010 and immediately became one of my favorite movie of all time, not just for the plot but also the way how the director treats  the subject, make use of minimal resources to treat such a huge issue and dazzle by the bizarre and challenging context. Consequently, I recommend the movie to understand the important of equal rights and the power of a minimal story with a very impressive script can be better then superheroes and Hollywood’s movies.

All about.-

Hello there, 

For everybody it's a problem write a descripction and talk about itself. However, I`m going to tell you a few thing about me.

First above all, I`m Ignacio and I`ve 24 years old. Also, I`m in third year of Librarianship at Alberto Hurtado University.

I had been working at university libraries and documentation centre from second year of collage, so in this moment I have a better perspective about the areas of professional development that I can explore in the future.

About my interests and hobbies I can say: ciclism, food and cinema are three things escencials on my life. Since I can remember, the first time I ride my Little Blue Bike I don`t fall off and my father always says “You were born with that technique, it’s like a superpower!”, but from the second ride I fall off the bike several times. Now I’ve a fixie and enjoy travel from my house –in the south of Santiago- to the downtown and fell the freedom of that chains.

On the other hand, cinema had several meanings for me through the years: Neorrealism, chilean 60's filmmakers, french and russian filmmakers and others movements and directors are very important to me. One of my favorite movies of all times it's "Valparaiso, mi amor" by Aldo Francia. The camera follows four orphaned brothers who walk around the streets of Valparaiso searching for a better life -after their father go to jail for steal some food-: one died, two became criminals and the little girl a prostiute.