Tonight: Hobbies

Well, if I’m going to talk about what I do in my free time, you have to know that I don’t have much free time. I’m a hyperactive person (maybe I don’t look like, but I am!), and I’m doing things all the time. Even when I’m sleeping I’m dreaming that I’m doing a lot of things, like chasing bunnies or killing vampires with pencils (I guess I’m sick…).  Well, that’s not the point. I’m moving all the time. That’s why I began to play drums.

I always loved the music, and I already played piano, but I felt it wasn’t enough. I wanted something more, and... That’s my story.

My favourite activity, as you maybe guessed, is playing music. I spend many time on it, but since I began to live in Santiago (and the classes started), I just stopped playing. A reason may be that my instruments are on my home in Talca...

I’m experimenting all the time. I’m thinking all day on what to do, or what I want to play, etc. At the age of 6 I began with a little keyboard. I didn’t play any song. I just used that as a toy, but when the years passed, I took it more serious. I bought a new keyboard (bigger than the old and prettier) and I began to play the song that I used to listen. My musical preferences changed, and I decided to learn how to play the drums, ‘cause I thought that it would help me to release all my energy. 

Currently, I play frequently the same instruments than four years ago, but if you ask me to play a song in something like... guitar, maybe bass. I can do it. I just have to learn the song and I’ll be playing the next day.

I don’t have the space to tell you all the groups that I like (I have early 740 discs on iTunes), but there’ll be time for it in the future.

Do you play any instrument?

Prices

Day		Place		Entrance Fee	Tube Station	Travel Zone
Monday	10.00 AM	British Museum		£0	Holborn	Montague St.
	18.00 PM	London Eye		£18,60	Waterloo	Westminster Bridge Road
Tuesday	10.00 AM	Tower of London		£19.80	Tower Hill	Riverside
	18.00 PM	Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum		£28.80	Baker Street	Regent's Park
Wednesday	10.00 AM	Natural History Museum		£0	South Kensington	Cromwell Road
	15.00 PM	Tate Modern Art Gallery		£5.00	Mansion House	Riverside
Thursday	11.00 AM	Kew Gardens		£13.90	Kew Gardens	Gunnersbury Park
	PM	¨		¨	¨	¨
Friday	10.00 AM	Camden Market		£0	Camden Town	ZSL Zoo
	PM	¨		¨	¨	¨
Saturday	11.30 AM	Hyde Park		£0	Lancaster Gate	The Serpentine
	21.00 PM	Booty's Riverside Bar		£15.00	Limehouse	Riverside
Sunday	12.00 AM	King Edward Memorial Park		£0	Shadwell	Riverside
	PM	¨		¨	¨	¨
			Total Costs	£101.10

Tonight: Gadget

This time I'm gonna talk about gadgets. No more, no less.

We all have our favorite gadget. In my case, it’s my cell phone. When I was a child mobile phones were just made to call. I remember the first cell phone that my father had. It looked like a brick. It was really big, heavy and the quality of the sound wasn’t the best. Also, the duration of the battery didn't last than 6 hours.

As time passed, appeared the SMS, the games, the accessories (like calculators, agenda, etc.), the color screen, the MMS, the mobile internet, the cameras, the Bluetooth, the music players, the GPS, the touch screens, the compass, the high definition cameras, the gyroscopes, the access to Wi-Fi, the laundry system (?) and many others.

Today, having a mobile phone is indispensable to survive in our world. I don’t know how my mother did it when she was young to locate her friends, or meet someone in somewhere. 

I like my phone (that’s why I chosen it), but in my life I had almost 10 different phones. I had the first when I was 10 years old. It was a Nokia 3390. Then, the things changed, the technologies did it too, and now, I have a Nokia C3. 

The principal use of my phone is, not obviously as I thought, to call people. Also I use it to listen to music, as a camera, and to access the web. Some people use their phone for anything except to call. I think that’s funny. I have a friend who has an iPhone, but I never see him calling somebody or receiving a call.

I don’t know what I would do without a phone. I guess… I don’t know. 

What do you do with your phones?

Tonight: Music

What am I gonna talk about this time? The answer is: Music

Right now, I'm thinking in two words: Daft Punk. This is my favorite band. Daft Punk is an electronic music formed by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. They are experimenting musically all the time. The duo released their first album called Homework in 1997. It was acclaimed by the critical, and it was a commercially successful production. Then, in 2001 they released their second album: Discovery. One of the singles of the album, One More Time, became a major club and mainstream hit. There was more successful singles, like Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger; Digital Love and Face to Face. 

 

In 2004 they released a new album: Human After All, which hasn’t got the same commercial success like its predecessors, but had two much known songs: Human After All, and Robot Rock. 

The last years, they just worked in little projects, like composing music for movies like Disney’s Tron: Legacy. The rumors say that they might be working in a new album, but it hasn’t been confirmed by the duo.

Their music is much known around the world (it’s the name of one of their mostly known songs). Their songs are frequently played in bars, discotheques and sites where electronic music is usually played.

Here’s what I consider their best song: One More Time. Enjoy!

Something about the NYT

The New York Times (also known as NYT) is an American newspaper founded in 1851. It has won many prizes (early 104 Pulitzer), and it’s the most popular newspaper website in America, receiving monthly 30 million visitors. Also, it’s one of the largest metropolitan newspapers in the world.

The New York Times talks about many things. It’s organized in three big sections (including a magazine). The first is the news section, which includes national, international, business, technology, science, health, sports and weather news. The second is the opinion section, and the third is the features section, which includes arts, movies, theatre, travel, home, and miscellaneous news. It’s important to note that the NYT doesn’t have its own staff editorial cartoonist. (I don’t know if there are puzzles in the newspaper…)

I like this newspaper for many reasons. One of them is the huge reputation that it has. It’s one of the most known newspapers around the world. Daily, early one million people read news in the NYT. It’s also published on internet, and you can access it even from your mobile phone! Isn’t that amazing? I guess it is.

Tonight: Movies

What am I gonna talk about today? The answer is: "Movies"

This is not my favorite movie, but I think is one of the most epic films of the 70's. It doesn't haves great special effects, or an internationally known cast, but it's... just awesome. I'm talking about "The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes". It is a 70's cult film directed by John de Bello, and is a spoof of “B Movies”

This movie opens with a message that says, when Hitchcock’s film “The Birds” was released, the public laughed about the idea of a birds revolting against the humanity, but when a situation like that really happened in 1975, nobody laughed. Then, there are a series of attacks perpetrated by tomatoes (including a man dying by drinking tomato juice made from a killer tomato). The movie ends with a carrot that rises from the ground and says "All right, you guys. They're gone now."

Here's a trailer of the movie:

Enjoy!

Why the Roadie #42?

Welcome to the Roadie #42!
Well, exactly what's the Roadie #42? It's the place where I'll be writing a lot of things... things that seems to be interesting, or just weird.
The name of the blog is inspired in a fake street on a fake country, where many weird things happen daily. It was created by Jon Buckland in 2004, and still exists.

That's all!
Have a nice day!