Topic: "How green are you"

Today, environmentally friendly practices are learned by the people mainly in the school, with government and ONG's campaigns or the school program itself. Also, the mass media is giving a lot of information about the ecological practices, so the people learn from there, too.

Although I not separate my house waste by source, I still have other recycling habits. When something is not working or is broken, I try to fix it before disposal. Also, I prefer to buy used things, reusing it, rather than buying new items. Finally, I try not to discard anything without first seek a new utility. About the transport, I prefer the Metro because is less contaminating, and to walk, too, instead of take a Transantiago or taxi. I have not the bicycling habit, but I hope to use a bike on the future.

Another effort I make to care the environment is my diet. I am a vegetarian, and one of the reasons I have to be, is that the cattle industry, besides cruel, unnecessary and unfair, is currently the most polluting activity on the planet. So, not eating meat, I reduce my carbon print.

I'm not part of any organization or support directly to any, because two reason: first, because I don’t like the big ONG like Greenpeace or Oceana, because they have a very hierarchical and capitalist logical, which makes me distrust; and second, just because I have not taken the time to support local organizations, like Salvemos el Panul.

In my view, the problem with the environmental issue in the chilean society is the Culture: the society of consuming prioritizes convenience over sustainability, without worrying about tomorrow, when that comfort may not hold more

Rhapsody of Fire at Teatro Caupolicán

Today I want to talk you about the best concert I have been to: Rhapsody of Fire. The concert was on November 29 of 2010, in the Teatro Caupolicán, here in Santiago. Rhapsody of Fire is a very popular Italian band of power metal and of the so called “epic metal” because of its sound. They are maybe the most melodic band I listen, and the only related to the power metal than I like – because I listen to extreme metal, excepting for this band. 

The concert was as epic as the band.  The illumination was perfect, and the sound of the location was fine. The band played just as only they know.  The atmosphere of the event was so happy and the public chanted all the song from the beginning to the end. I felt like I was brother with all the other persons who attended to the concert. But I enjoyed this concert not only because the incredibly atmosphere, but also because the repertory of the songs, and because the band was in one of its best moments.

As anecdote, I remember the intro of The Village of Dwarves, when the bagpipe sounded, all the public began to dance like warriors drinking beer.

What is an Electric Guitar?

When a guitar work electrically - that is, amplifying the sound through speakers -, it's called Electric Guitar. In this instrument, the vibration of the strings doesn't proyected through the sounboard, like the Acustic Guitar, but it's captured by the pickups - sophisticated microphones for electric guitars than works through the piezoelectricitic effect - and converted in electric signals  

An Electric Guitar has many parts, but there are three basics. First, the Body, solid (not like the hollow body of the Acustic, but it can be semi-hollow) and stylish. Over the Body there are the pickups, under the strings, wich are mounted in the Bridge. You have some knobs in the Body, wich regulates the volume, tone, etc. Then, you have the Neck, and over it the Fretboard, in wich the frets (narrow metal parts) divide the surface in many parts. Each of these parts of the freatboard is a musical tone, putted in simply words. Finally, there is the Headstock, where there are the tuners to tune the strings.

The Electric Guitar offers new possibilities in respect of the Acustic Guitar. In particular, you can do a lot of techniques in the Electric Guitar that you cannot do in the Acustic . With the smaller proportions of the inter-frets spaces the digitation can be faster (han in hand with the picking technique). You can also use the tapping technique, wich has a very characteristic sound and increases your playing velocity, and other techniques like the sweep picking, picking arpeggios, etc.

That's all, I hope this post has helped you

France, the place I want to know

Among all the countries I want to visit, it's very difficult to choose just one, but I think it is France.

I know France is a very important cradle of Anarquism, with a lot of anarchists experiences in the past and, of course, now, so I'm very interested to be sorrounded by that environment. Then, the French culture, like any other that’s not mine, it is a strong reason to visit the gallic country. I love learning about other cultures and meeting people from other societies. Finally, I want to visit France because it's in Central Europe which, along with Scandinavia, is the biggest Metal music scene in the world.

In France, I’d like to, first, go to the local Metal festivals, like the Hellfest or the Xtreme Fest and, finally, attend to the Wacken Open Air, in the neighboring Germany. Then, I’d like to get around all Paris, and, why not, all France, if it’s possible, to know the culture, from the Versalles and the Lovre to the rural vineyards.

Of course, I’d like to live there, because it has a very comfortable political environment for me, not only for the anarchism, but also for the ideological thinking in the country, like tolerance to the gender diversity and the laicism. But, if I’d like to live and to go to Metal festivals in France, I need to work there! Maybe the best option is to be studying - Music – in France and, thus, live there.