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Jul. 19th, 2009

NYC: the picspam Crossposted

So I'm doing this before I do the rest of NYC and Baltimore because I wanted to show you how the aforementioned obsession began.

While in Times Square, only two thing were clear, Harry Potter in theaters July 15 and WICKED!!!!

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Wicked

We're not in Kansas anymore or the obligatory Wizard of Oz reference )

So all in all it was wonderful.

The next morning sis and I were wondering around town and we came across the theater were they showed Les Misérables. We went to that show 10 years ago, for my 15th birthday ...*sighs*

On My own pretending he's beside me...


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And that's it. So there, obsession explained :P

Cancun: The picspam Crossposted II

Okay, so due to losing our Washington-Cancun flight (btw,thank you for that American Airlines) AA had to rebook us and we ended up connecting in Dallas Fort Worth, which is the prettiest airport I've been in. That led to us arriving in Cancun at about 11:55 pm, which suck because this is what we missed for an afternoon :

Whoa, these are big and I don't know how to resize them so under a cut they'll be )

Cancun: the picspam Crossposted

Okay so more Chichen Itza, a Cenote, the Hotel and Downtown Cancun, note that we didn't actually party in Cancun :( (next time, and there will be a next time I'll swear I'll go to Coco Bongo). But we did go to the Corona bar because it was empty and they were offering free beer to the ladies because they wanted to lure the gentlemen in, so in exchange for 2 beers I had to give up my dignitydance on the bar.


chichenitza



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And now Downtown Cancun or what I like to call South Beach, Miami with Jalapeño. )


Whoa I still have a few more, and a confession I, erm, accidentally and quite stupidly broke a bottle of tequila I won. snifff and grrrrrrr.

Jan. 7th, 2009

Apocalypsis

Ha! LJ is not working, I hope it's not the final sign of the Apocalypsis. Mehh much as I don't hate IJ, I'm too used to the LJ layout.

Sep. 15th, 2008

So everyone who hasn't see this post: whiskeys-place.blogspot.com/2008/09/vampires-and-women-why-fantasy-has.html raise your hands.

The thing is It's made me think. Not about vampires  and  how women are portrayed in television or vampire's masculinity or what have you. It's made me think about the way we force texts to say things that aren't there . The way people make arguments based on nothing but opinions that aren't supported by the object of the criticism.

 disclaimer: I'm only going to talk about the first and second paragraph. Trust me it's enough.

 I saw True Blood on friday, I had never heard of the books before last week and Other than Spike I don't think of myself as a vampire groupie,so when I read this  blah blah blah "True Blood" the story does touch on the popularity of the current "romantic vampire." I think... this guy is going to talk about a  stereotype and its going to show me how this new show is reproducing it... OK I'll bite. Show me.

Then the article goes on to the second paragraph and I go o.o??


Which is scary. Because of what this particular form of vampire shows about what Hollywood is peddling as a romantic fantasy for women and girls, and the market for it. The problem is, the current vampire fantasy is a highly aggressive, violent, testosterone fueled man who will be meekly under the romantic and sexual power of the female lead. This is both a huge departure in the vampire fantasy as it formerly existed, and disturbing in the messages that inevitably push women and girls towards bad choices that they are already prone to make
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First advise of the day: stick to a subject. you want to criticize The vampire Stereotype as portrayed on TV or you want to criticize and judge women's  choice in manly stereotypes? or what you think those stereotypes are, anyway.

So now the guy's afraid of Hollywood, which could be valid considering the horrific movies they come up with (Hostel, Saw , etc), but oh no he's so considerate, he's worried about what Hollywood is doing to our poor wittle women minds what with all the fantasies. Spare me. And let us never say that Movies and TV  encourage men's unrealistic fantasies. But this isn't and anti-man rant. so let's not go there.

Now he  goes on about   those evil  agressive vamps that Hollywood gives us. Ermmm... aren't' we talking about that new Show called True Blood? well correct me if I'm wrong but weren't the punny humans the violent ones in the pilot?  Ok granted we don't know who th killer is, but who was it beating the main character at the end? Who were the ones being rude to vamps? who were the ones bleeding the vamp? who was calling the girl he was fucking a whore'??? all humans.

So my second advise is this: if you want to talk, critique, or criticize something that's wrong with people, society women , men or human kind in general, then please choose a text that actually allows you to do it. For  his little tirade of yours  True Blood, so far in the story, doesn't work.  Nor does your future Reference to Buffy.


 The he goes to say he likes the Vamp stereotype of yore, which is nothing, nothing at all dammit! like the vampire stereotype of today.


Finally he does the stupid thing he does not only say that women are naturally incline to make bad choices in life partner, and doesn't that taste of bitterness? but he also believes us stupid enough to not be able to differentiate reality from TV and be pushed to follow the fantasy world.

Now I'm speechless, my advice would be ermm don't antagonize half of your public by insulting it. But also seek help, you're one disturbed character who needs to work on his woman- hating issues.


 now I haven't been able to read the rest of the article, it depressed me on the second paragraph, oh but I will finish it dammit. even if the BS is too much for me to take.
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Aug. 18th, 2008

The joys of language, spelling and translations

In my last post I asked myself and the world WHY? in spanish as  you can see.

 I wrote the words ¿Por qué? about 20 times, notice  the fact that they're 2 words and the second has an accent. Side-note: When you write porque as a single word and without the accent, you're saying because. Should be pretty basic for any 'hispanic' right?

 So then, writing in Spanish, this commenter comes out saying hi.Okay so far so good,but then he asks ,giving off judgmental vibes btw, why oh why I write in English on this journal if I call myself hispanic.

So first I feel defensive and go all WTF? thinking 'the hell? why shouldn't I write in English' Then I actually start to think of the reasons, one of which is the fact that Buffy and all the other fandoms  I involve myself make No f-ing sense in spanish -no matter what  latin-american  networks want to make me believe with  that dubbed programming that's invading my TV like is the last Coca-cola  in the dessert- (see how that coca-cola comment makes no sense in English, unless you stop and think about it?) . Anyway, so yeah fandom4me= English. And with fandom comes  F-list  and let's be honest most of you are North American, English and European and all of you speak English.

Okay so before I get off track, yes English in LJ= good, which commenter dude probably doesn't know, but here's the kicker, he comes all self-righteous and defender of Spanish and hipanic-ness and he can't even spell properly the most basic question of the Spanish language.

 Dude if it wasn't clear from my last post  you spell it like this :

¿-p-o-r q-u-é-?  with the questions marks and everything. ::nods::

ETA:  [info]kaworu_chan  just pointed out something else ... erm... dude: English=Inglés.  Ingles = the pluralized form for the part of the body where the thigh meets the lower abdomen aka The Groin. 
And no I don't write in the groin.

Jul. 24th, 2008

Here are some pics from last saturday's concert.


This one's actually the one with the worse qt cause i took it at the end with my cell since My batteries died half an hour before. But still , it's the whole band after they bowed and I love it.



Final Vow


More pics with commentary this way---> )




Okay, I'm off to the weekly teacher's meeting of hell. You have fun.
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Mar. 6th, 2008

Trading Fandoms

I came home this afternoon to find mi sister in front of the computer, she turns to me when she sees me and screams
Spoilers for La Lola and BtvS 8x12 )

mehhh Debido a tanta joda por el copyright Youtube se ha vuelto una farsa. ke tristeza.

Tengo tantas cosas por hacer y tan pocas ganas de hacerlas que estoy al borde de escribir Spuffy en español en donde Spike , obviamente tiene un sexy acento argentino y Buffy es como costeña, porque asi seria divertido.

mmm Spike argentino.............

en fin en este fic, Spike le diria que se entero de lo de ella y Satsu y la invitaria a que ampliara sus horizontes en la mansion playboy con él, asi como por joderle la vida pero esperando en el fondo que la vieja le dijera que si..

Dieu, se nota el sueño y la incoherencia del dia. Ignorenme

Mar. 5th, 2008

Stiring up fandom

ohhh so anxious to see all the "Buffy isn't gay" fights. of course she isn't... she is a lesbian. bwhahahaha

Honestly though after spuffy I can't emotinally engage in any of her relationships so I will just refrain from feeling anything about it. It doesn't upset me nor it makes me happy, but gave up on the idea of the comics making me happy long ago.

ION. Colombia is in a pre-war state. Now that's upsetting, because I really really don't want Chavez trying to take over and the whole situation is going to fuck up Colombia's economy and leave some people in Venezuela without food. There's a petty part of me that would like to have Colombia cut off Ecuator's power though.... I don't think I could go with it though.

ETA: Better Satsu than Xander. God! I'd forgottent that depressing image.
ETA2: meeting up with an ex-flig while he sees you making post about the comings and Goings of Buffy is never fun. Specially that ex-fling

Dec. 7th, 2007

Xmas time Picture time

Pictures from tonight with my family cause it was candles day !!!

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Oct. 18th, 2007

Living in Bogotá is like living in a giant refrigerator... a rainy refrigerator...

Oct. 2nd, 2007

Las me mejores fics que hay en el Buffyverse son de Spike, Buffy Wilow etc, cagandola, pero de verdad cagandola. Una historia que supone que si no fuera porque Spike es un Vampiro seria la tercera gueva de jesucristo O el gemelo de Juana de Arco no tiene nada que hacer en este mundo. Argghh El man era un Motherfucker de rpimera, aceptemoslo, y jugemas a que puede ser mejor y que la puede cagar, pero ni una palabra más de las "almas" que tienen los demonios y de las Auras ah y de Joyce siendo la Fangirl #1 de Spike.
Por favor lo ruego.
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Sep. 9th, 2007

The Shirtless Boys In comix collection.

Brought to you by my last post on the comics, since they made me ponder on Xander self-conciousness which then made wonder who else was shritless in all the Buffy/Angel comics I have in my Hard-drive.

So here Are my favorite shirtless cartoony moments.

Spoilers For Buffy S8, Spike:Asylum, Spive vs. Dracula and Spike:Shadow Puppets )

ETA: Ackkkkk!!! Forgot one!!

More Nekkid Spike! )
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Sep. 7th, 2007

No Future for You

Wow I'm Impressed. Not only did I not gag once while reading but this made me happy. For a few reasons. spoilers for part 6 like whoahh )
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Aug. 14th, 2007

mh I have le flu, I'm taking every med i have, from iboprufen to allergiy pill to tylenol pl ... and really really can't seem to focus on class. meh It's a horrible week. With tons of work already.

Aug. 5th, 2007

MMM

I do wonder when will the shit finally hit the fan over at livejournal, and what a drag I will be to make everything normal again if we all don't move here.

Jul. 18th, 2007

De los doblajes anoyantes y otros demonios

anoyantes : del inglés molesto, no no bravo, molesto si molesto,...Para evitar confuciones;por eso usamos y nos inventamos palabras en espanglish que suenan horrible y esperamos a que de pronto esten bien dichas en español.

Con todo y eso me disculpo por el uso de las palabra putas.

Queridos traductores de VH1 LA,

Expectation en español cuando se usa bien es Expectativa. La Palabra expectación sí se puede usar cuando se refieren al hecho de esperar con ansiedad algo o cuando se celebra el dia de la virgen el 18 de diciembre. Pero seamos realistas ¿quien dice eso? "mis expectaciones para este año son muy altas" O.o la única razón por la que usaron la palabra expectación es porque saben que la mayoría de personas que de hecho pueden pagar canales de cable saben que ese uso particular de esa palabra viene de expectation en ingles, es decir que uds asumen que su público ya habla ingles por lo que la pregunta que queda es, entonces porque diablos me tienen que someter a aburridos doblajes al español que además de todo muestran un uso pobre de la lengua misma????
(si, yo sé, miren quien habla...)
Lo mismo pasa con primeramente. Si, yo etiendo la palabra si existe pero que les cuesta decir primero que todo?? suena un poco menos horrible.

Ya perdí mi fé en MTV, no me hagan perder la fé en ustedes también.

Queridos Traductores (dobladores ?? jiji) de E!LA,

En referencia a lo anteror: ¿ por que me someten a doblajes de este tipo? :


"Esta es la E! True Hollywod Story: Angelina Jolie " Dijeron 3 malditas palabras en español ... ¿¿¿para que doblan esto???!! ¿Qué tienen en contra de los subtítulos? ¿Por qué me tengo que aguantar a un Tipo que habla en español y que sólo esta diciendo títulos de películas en inglés y tras eso mal pronunciadas ??? ¿¿¿por qué????


Querida gente de SETLA,

¿¿¿Que Putas??? no, en serio, que putas pasa con la programación ultimamnte?? ¿qué es eso de ya es medio dia en China?? ¿por qué ahora me tengo que mamar programas hechos en Venezuela, Mexico o Puerto Rico o en su defecto caricaturitas si ustedes fueron el canal original de las series gringas????

Jul. 5th, 2007

Fuck Las FARC!!!!
Outraged Colombians march against rebel kidnappers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070705/wl_nm/colombia_hostages_dc_1;_ylt=Ao2f898IZcXNOy1GEuek9oSwv7kA

This is The first Time - The Only time Ive ever seen something like this here. Hell Even I went out dressed with a White T-shirt to walk around.

We're 44 millions of people who are just sick of this and We've had it with Las FARC

Y me encanta La pagina de El Tiempo de Hoy ne Eltiempo.com

Jun. 26th, 2007

omg!! i just realized I get 100 free pictures HERE!!!

::flails::

Really, I love LJ but OMG!! Icons!!!
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