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I have updated my music list, now I have 4155 albums. Tell me if you want any.

http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~jramos/l1.pdf 

I'm going I'm a few hours to the Caribbean (Cozumel and then Cancun). I'll be back in one week.

I'll post the pictures. Hope everybody is doing well.

I have to go to take an exam. More later.

Adios.

1.  Ryan Adams “Cold Roses”: Well, I think we all agree with this one.
2.  M Ward “Transistor Radio”.
3.  Rocky Votolato "Makers".
4.  Devendra Banhart "Cripple Crow".
5.  Damien Jurado “On My Way to Absence”.
6.  Bonnie "Prince" Billy/Matthew Sweeney "Superwolf".
7.  Ryan Adams “Jacksonville City Nights”.
8.  Kathleen Edwards “Back to Me”.
9.  Bright Eyes “Digital Ash In a Digital Urn".
10.  Karl Broadie “black crow callin'”.
11.  Son Volt “Okemah and the Melody of Riot”.
12.  Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 “Tick Tick Tick”.
13.  Richmond Fontaine “The Fitzgerald”.
14.  South San Gabriel “The Carlton Chronicles”.
15.  Sufjan Stevens “Illinoise”.
16.  John Vanderslice "Pixel Revolt".
17.  Peter Bruntnell “Ghost in a Spitfire”.
18.  Bright Eyes “I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning”.
19.  Deadstring Brothers “Starving Winter Report”.
20.  Rogue Wave "Descended Like Vultures".

1. Ryan Adams
2. The Jayhaws
3. Neal Casal
4. Son Volt
5. Ben Harper
6. M. Ward
7. Bonnie "Prince" Billy
8. Golden Smog
9. Devendra Banhart
10. Bright Eyes

• Best Picture: Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• Best Actor: David Strathairn for Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
• Best Supporting Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal for Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005)
• Best Supporting Actress: Michelle Williams for Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• Best Director: George Clooney for Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
• Best Adapted Screenplay: Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• Best Original Screenplay: Crash (2004)
• Best Animated Feature: Corpse Bride (2005)
• Best Foreign Language Film: Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage (2005)

Well, it's too late and tomorrow I have two exams, but I always ended up doing other things besides studing, I hate computers too much. Ok, folks! Hope you are okay, don't forget to leave any comment.

Good Night and Good Luck!.

I was looking at a forum in www.imdb.com and they were talking about the best movies by decade, so this is what I think:

1920's: Ok, this is very easy; we are probably talking about the golden age in movies and generally in art. Here we have a clear winner and one of my favorites: German expressionism. I like F.W. Murnau a lot, especially his movies Nosferatu and Faust, but I guess my favorite director is Fritz Lang and my favorite movie Metropolis (1927), this movie is a master piece and its ideas have been copied in many other movies such matrix. But this happens all the time, nowadays there are not original movies. You may find people that think that, for example, Donnie Darko is very original, that's because they didn't see "Harvey". I'm not saying that Donnie Darko is a bad movie, I really like it, but is not so original. Look at Tarantino, he is a genius but he didn't introduce anything new. Also, I would like to mention the movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari(1920), another master piece of the German expressionism and one of my all time favorite horror movies along with Nosferatu, the video Otherside from the Red hot chili peppers is a copy of the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Also, Fritz Lang has The Three Lights (1921) which I saw few days ago and I really like it. And in case you don’t know….yes, in the 20’s there was no sound, so this movies are silent, you don’t need sound to make a good movie. Metropolis is a lot more complex, entertaining, and original than Matrix and doesn’t need any special effects.

1930’s: In this decade, we continue with Fritz Lang, in 1931 he made the best Thriller that has been done so far better than Seven, Saw and the other famous crap. The movie is call M and is one of my favorites. Here we also have to talk about Frank Capra, the Steven Spielberg from the 30’s and 40’s. I really like him and is also one of my favorites directors. He made his best movies in the 30’s: It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)… but my favorite is Lost Horizon (1937), is not so famous because some parts of the movie are missing but I really love this movie.  

We can’t forget here Charles Chaplin, he was awesome, my favorite is Modern Times (1936) but you should also check City Lights (1931). In this decade, they were also made Frankenstein and King Kong.

1940’s:  ok, here we have a big change….the Hollywood golden era. The best movies in this decade were made in US (Hollywood). Many people will argue that this was the golden age in movies. We have many good directors such Orson Welles, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder or Alfred Hitchcock. My favorite is still Frank Capra, in 1946 he made It's a Wonderful Life which is a great, great movie. There are so many movies that I just going to mention some: Casablanca (1942), Citizen Kane (1941), Double Indemnity (1944), The Great Dictator (1940), Notorious (1946), Laura (1944), Ladri di biciclette (1948), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, another great Capra comedy).

1950’s: In the 50’s we have basically the same directors doing more great movies. I have to mention Stanley Kubrick who started in the 50’s, my favorite from this decade is Paths of Glory (1957), another war movie that I liked from the 50’s is the Russian Ballada o soldate (1959). Also, 12 Angry Men (1957) was the first movie that I saw in B&W, the movie takes place the whole time in the same room but is very, very entertaining. In this decade we have to mention the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, he did his best movie in 1954, The Seven Samurai, one all time classic that everyone shoud see. He also directed Rashômon (1950) and Ikiru (1952). Other good movies are: Sunset Blvd. (1950), Vertigo (1958), All About Eve (1950), Some Like It Hot (1959), Touch of Evil (1958).

Ok, I have to go to sleep, I will continue another day with the other half of the century....

See you!

Ok,ok.... after having 4 exams this friday on saturday we had the beer game. It was simple:

• 24 people participating
• 1 shot of beer each minute
• you puke, you are out
• you don't drink, you are out

And what can I say.....it was crazy, more than a beer competition was a puke competition.

Luckily I was the first out with 34 shots. I ate too much, so when the game started my stomach began to fill with gas and I couldn't let it out so I had to stop becuase my stomach was about to explode (see the pictures!). Now I'm glad that I stop becuase if you see how the winners end....

First, I have to say that the polish won. The last 5 persons were polish. The spanish did really bad and manolo was the last one having like 70 shots.

Poland won in all categories.

In womens, my polish friends Justina and Agnieszka won, drinking 145 shot of beer. WOW thiat's almost 6 liters... they were drinking for more than two hours one shot each minute.

The winner was Pawel, my neighbour with 180!! shots, in second position my flatmate dominik with 179. Domink couldn't resit and on the 179th shot he had to puke my delicius spagettis that I had prepared....

So, check the pictures!

This weekend I will go to helsinki, there's a big party on the 1st may...let's see.

Tomorrow I have two exams, so I can't write more. The exams so far, so good. And my diploma work now is going well....

See you!

Ok, it seens that the party is over...

Friday I have 3 exams and yesterday I also started writing my diploma work, so in pretty busy right now...I'm just wainting for saturday to win the beer competition....

The weekend was okay. We played football, skateboarding,......

Tomorrow Javi is coming back to Mikkeli!!!!!. So, I can go again with him to roller to listen some rock'n'roll....

I have update the site putting two more albums: one with a bunch of pictures from Spain and other with some pictures from the last parties here in Mikkeli.

I can't write anything, I'm too busy!!!.

See you!

I leave a picture of Balu (Roberto's dog).......

Ok, so here it is, my first entry in my blog. I think I will just talk about what I'm doing right now and what articles I'm going to write in the next months....

First, my time here in Finland is almost over, it's funny how time passes by when you are having fun. The main problem is my fucking diploma work that is driving me crazy and I don't know if I will be able to finish it, maybe If it's posible I will have to come back here in june to finish it, becuase if I don't I will lose the scholarship to go to US next year, now I'm waiting to see if Kansas State University accept me for the next year.

Ok, now let's talk about my hobbies....

First, of course, music. I mean, rock 'n' roll. Maybe tomorrow Jukkis will bring his drums and amplifiers to my room to play I little bit.....let's see how it goes. About the music I'm listenning right now, some new albums I got are:

• In the Arms of God (COC): I was waiting for the new COC album but I have to say I'm disappoint with it. I'm more fan of the last album and this new one goes back to their hardcore/metal roots. So old fans will like this album but not me.
• Rubber Factory (The Black Keys): Nice band that I just discovered. Great songs. The funny things is that this band only has to members the drummer and the guitar player who also sings.
• You're a woman, I'm a machine (death from above 1979): Another good band that share something with The Black Keys. They also are two members, a drummer/singer and the bass player. So no guitar in this band.
• O (Damien Rice): This songwriter is quite good, I discovered watching the movie Closer. The album is okay but in my opinion he does some stupid things with the voice that make the song lose strenght.
• Show and Tell (Silvertide): Nice young band that I really like. Good rock and roll songs and nice guitars on the album. www.silvertidemusic.com

About Stoner Rock the last albums I got are the new dead meadow album "Feathers" which is really good, the new Hermano album "Dare I say" on which you can here John Garcia again, also they will be playing the 29th of may in Madrid in the Festimad. And also Nº 3 from Firebird which has some good riffs. For the people who doesn't know what stoner rock is check the address www.stonerrock.com . Like my bussiness teacher always says "always reference your sources" . I will write an article about stonerrock soon.

Also, the other day I picked some old albums thhat I was listening maybe 7 or 8 years ago. Like the first Bush album (very popular in the middle 90's) or Days of the New or Tool ( toolshed.down.net ).

About movies, now I've been watching a lot of oriental movies. The last one I saw was "The way home" this South Korean movie is about this 7 year old kid who goes to live for a while with his grandmother. The kid like all the kid is a selfish motherfucker who treats his grandma like shit, the grandma is dumb and there's almost no speech but those who where mean to your grandma like me are going to feel this movie a lot and a felling of regret will invade you, but kids are kids and are selfish of nature, unfortunately lot of people don't change that....

 I will write an article about oriental movies soon talking about the last movies I saw like On missed call od death Friend.

About Sports I have to say that I'm not going anymore to basketball training, now I don't have time but today I have talk to Matias and maybe we will buy a skateboard and try to remenber something from what we learned we we were young. So, if anyone in Mikkeli wants to join us....

So, that's all from now. I put also some pictures from the last trips and events like the great trip to Riga and Vilnius, the crazy Stockholm and the last sauna party and Slegding. So, enjoy the pictures!!! and feel free to leave any comments!.