'Seguridad' in Brazil... Chile's a 'safe' country

I met a new student from Brazil yesterday.  She told me that seguridad in Chile is much better than in Brazil.  For example, in the São Paulo region while it is safe to live in a flat, it is unsafe to live in a house.  Here in Chile she can live in a house!  I would imagine there are many parts of São Paulo where no one would walk around alone, let alone a single female or at night.

I'm not surprised that Chile is safer, I considered such things when I thought about moving to countries like Mexico or Colombia, but obviously my feelings on safety in Chile are a little bit different to hers!

I think this is as funny as fuck.  Seb's pretty much saying 'I'm a celebrity, get me out of here,' the brother's saying 'I'm Negro Piñera, but in no way am I using my brother, El Presidente de la República de Chile, for publicity, I released a pop single in 1983 and obviously I'm with this woman for my intelligence and wit', and she's saying, 'I left him in 2010 and he famously hit me in a presidential residence in January 2012...  But I'm Argentinian and therefore tall compared to a Chilean... and pretty to boot!  Negro's inadvertent 'Cheech' impressions have done well to put me in the public eye and on the market for my next husband!  The press in Argentina, and especially Brazil will well land me a European!  Castles don't crumble just 'cos the economy's doing shit!'

Not duplicated/copied on Facebook, but....

I saw this on a friend's Facebook page.  I dare not comment. I'm pretty fucking drunk, but I still didn't comment.  It's still here, though.

My first comment was 'I'll have this at my memorial service.'  Even being drunk, I was able to work out that that was a bit of an extreme reaction.

Ha ha (or ja ja) 'Repost this if *you're* that 1%....'....  Well, I've put it up here!

I'm far too old for the pretty boy/girl reaction.  I don't mean I'm old, but I'm not an American high school junior (+/- a year).  It's a good message, even with its error, but forgive me for not repeating it on Facebook.

I hate you all

Oh, how I've wanted to put a message up on Facebook solely saying that.

I don't literally hate everybody, all of the time.  That's just how I feel at the moment.



I wouldn't've started this blog if I didn't feel hate, vitriol or occasionally schaudenfreude some of the time.

In fact, I've got too descriptive on this blog.  I started it with the intention of only writing stoned (ha ha, stupid near impossibility in Chile) and/or drunk, the things I couldn't say on Facebook.  I've not been fucked enough when writing this.

I also need to write more when depressed, which I naturally am enough in recent weeks anyway....  I must use this more as a forum to get those sorts of feelings out, as that's what I originally started this blog for!

So, on that note, fuck you all!

New music January 2012

So, I have to thank Chris M for selling me a Sony mp3 player cheap, which leads to me discovering new music and finding a new way to discover new music.

The Sony mp3 player has a feature built in to record music off the radio.  (It's also got a voice recorder, which I've thought about using to record myself and practise Spanish, but that's for a future date....)  Due to my impeccable taste in music (I'm joking... more like I KNOW what I like) I've recorded a few songs I've heard playing on the radio, and last week I went back and searched the lyrics to discover who the songs were by.  Two of them, Of Montreal and The Decemberists, I've heard of for years.  I'd seen the name 1990s floating around before, but I'd never heard of Chester French before.  (I saw a note I made about liking another Of Montreal song some months ago... I must check out more!)

So, the four songs (five if you include Nuevacosta, whom I've already mentioned on this blog) are:

Chester French - She Loves Everybody
Of Montreal - Disconnect the Dots
The 1990s - 59
The Decemberists - The Sporting Life

Surprisingly, they're all American, bar The 1990s, who are Glaswegian, which is not surprising at all!

¡Que buena iniciativa! El cine móvil

http://www.latercera.com/noticia/cultura/2012/01/1453-424791-9-pantalla-de-cine-movil-recorrera-40-comunidades-de-peru-chile-y-bolivia.shtml

Mobile cinema screen to visit 40 communities in Peru, Chile and Bolivia

The tour begins today in Arica a has been planned to reach more than 20 thousand spectators who ordinarily can't enjoy the cinema.

Its principal objective is to use cinema as a tool of social integration and cultural interchange that will encourage the critical consciousness and the estimation of the immense cultural and social riches of Latin America.

This song is so last year... but I've now got it on repeat

From Chilean 'alternative' (???? ... not my label) rockers, Los Bunkers, with 'Quien Fuera':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFhPknjnvTM

Most beautiful women in the world, ever

I laughed at this poll that came up with the most beautiful women in the world, ever. Check out #4:

Yes indeed, in Men's Health's Hottest Women of All Time (http://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/hottest-women-all-time), in which Jennifer Aniston came out #1, beating Angelina Jolie (#10), Britney Spears, pictured above, came out at #4.

Britney beat Ursula Andress (6), Christie Brinkley (16) and Catherine Denevue (13).  And even Pamela Anderson (8) and Jane Fonda (9).  

I'm going to stop trying.  I could easily outshine #4 with a bit of makeup.  Easily!

Jokes for the New Year

I asked a pretty, young, homeless woman if I could take her home, and she said yes with a big smile. The look on her face soon changed when I walked off with her cardboard box.

The definition of irony: Size 20 skinny jeans. (Not for the fainthearted!)  Lily Allen called her baby Ethel Mary. Looks like the first two had a lucky escape.

Happy Bloody New Year

So, it's now 2012.  2012 can't be any worse than 2011.  If it is, I won't stick around to see 2013.

I'm disappointed I haven't checked out more of the Top 50 songs, Top 10 films or whatever or 2011.

And, I'm coming up on 61 hours as a non-smoker.  And I've hated pretty much every moment.  Why am I doing this again?  If I don't make it back to the UK I have no reason to want to prolong my life.  Of the three reasons I can think of, better skin and whiter teeth are two of those reasons.  (Saving money is the third.)  Antisociability and smelliness never affected me.  In fact, in my circles of friends, being a non-smoker is more antisocial.  I never gave a shit about having to go outside!  I don't care what anyone thought of me as a smoker, never felt like my health was worsened, and don't have any immediate family members/friends with cancer or other health scares.  I feel like a sucker, to be quite honest.

But hey, I'm entitled to a sleep, and at least 72 hours will be the first milestone (fewer cravings, even if detoxing could bring pain for some weeks yet).  I've felt downright depressed, missed work yesterday due to feeling too depressed to get out of bed and was nearly in tears several times.  I'm honestly asking myself why I'm bothering to do this, do I even want this enough?  Maybe I'll stick with it just to be contrary.



Happy Bloody New Year!