Greenness

Today I have to talk about how green I am, green meaning how environmentally friendly I am. I have lived almost all of my life in the country side, therefore I have had a bond with nature and animals for a very long time. Environment is something I care about, I´m going to explain some of the things I do in order to not make it worst. At home we separate the trash in organic and non-organic trash. The organic trash is everything that comes from vegetables and fruits, with that we make compost. The compost is a very good fertilizer, that makes your soil better and help your plants growing strong. With the non-organic trash we make a separation too, with the plastic we make ecological bricks, how? we put all the plastic trash into 1 1/2 liters plastic bottles, and when they are ready you can build structures with them. We recycle the aluminium, the tetra pack and the paperboard. So that´s more or less everything we do at home with trash.

Also in an individual level I became vegetarian around 3 or 4 years ago. One of the main reasons I did this was the environment, this is a fact not a lot of people know, the meat industry is the bigger polluter of water and air.

Nowadays I think that the environment is a big problem but we cannot focus only in that, because we are not going to change what is going on with it if we don´t change the production system. The production system in order to survive needs to pollute, so I think that the environment is just one thing within this bigger problem that is the capitalist system.

ART?

I believe that art is important because you can communicate your ideas, you can give messages with it. So I see it as a tool for change, I think through art you can make people more conscious, of course you have to complement it with a lot of other things in order to change things, but it is part of it. 

I enjoy art a lot because of it´s beauty, and it´s creative potential. I mean, I value creativeness and the way art breaks, in some cases, with the standards and the hegemonic conceptions of itself. 

  

I like to visit art museums, but I don´t do it very often. I think a couple of times a year it´s a reasonable amount of times to visit a gallery or a museum.

My favourite art expression is graffiti and muralism, because it is out of the academy and it is, in general, a collective learning process in the street. It is true that tags are not pretty, but there are a lot of other kind of graffiti that it is worth knowing. Another thing I like about graffiti it is that this art expression is a way of civic disobedience and it is, most of the times, against the established and hegemonic social order.   

Future Job

When the time comes, I don´t really want to work to perpetuate this system, because I believe that it is unfair and exploitative. This is the main reason I want to work in a ghetto, hopefully in my commune, because that´s the territory I identify myself with. I´ll work for and with the people who live there in order to create a collective project where everybody will do things for the welfare of the community and try to make people conscious about the others´ problems. This won´t get me any material profit, so in order to survive I think I´ll sell stuff based on free association between individuals.Trough self management in the community I expect to get the basic needs for everybody, including myself. I could go deeper in this but I have write about other things too.

I not even close to think about working for the government or a big company while both promote the segregation of the exploited class and the repression against the people who organize looking for better conditions to live. I would like to work in the education area but in the ghetto employing a different educational project, an inclusive, non-patriarchal, horizontal and based on interests education. This because nowadays all institutionalized educational establishments teach the kids to get prepared to the market, they indoctrinate them in order to be one more number in the database. 

Today I´m studying anthropology because I didn´t know what else to study and it seemed interesting, but the way the classes are done still generate a feeling of repulsion to me. I mean I can handle being in a class room for a while, but having three hours long classes is not something I can stand. I have thought to dropped university as I did with high school, because of this and other things, but there is something that doesn´t let me do it yet. But we´ll see what happens. 

Another World

Dreams are quite something for me, I have had a lot of conversations and I have thought a lot about it. The situations in my dreams are things that could happen in a normal day, because of that I have a theory about dreams. I think that maybe we are living more than one life right now, in different timelines or dimensions and dreams are the bridge between the different worlds. 

The other day I dreamed that I babysat three of my cousins and my sister. In that dream we took pictures and recorded some videos. Like a week after I dreamed I was waiting for some friends on a football field and turned on my computer. The weird thing about it was that in the computer I started watching the pictures and video I took and recorded in the other dream. When I woke up that morning I thought that my theory might be true and when I am sleeping there is another "me" awake and through dreams I can see some of the things that are happening in the other life. Maybe the other "me" has the same experience and when I am awake he is sleeping and dreaming about stuff that are going on here in this timeline. 

Be careful with the succubus...

Okupa, Punk and Fight

The best vacations I have had so far is when I went to Barcelona last year's June. I went on my own and I was supposed to stay at an uncle house, but the first day I got there I went for a walk before getting to the house. I was wondering around when I walked in a Armenian ghetto. I didn't notice until three guys and two girls, all Armenian, started to talk to me( they spoke Spanish) . They were between seventeen and nineteen years old and at first they were kind of aggressive but when we started talking they changed and treated me well. They were kind of a punk gang but they didn't wear typical punk clothes, they looked pretty regular. After talking and laughing for a while they asked me if I had a place to stay, I said no and they invited me to stay with them. They took me to their okupa house and told me to leave my stuff there, the house had pretty cool graffiti on all of it's walls. It was kind of dirty but it was evident that they worried about their place and tried to keep it "decent".

So I spent the hole week with them and they took me to ska-punk gigs every night at the different ghettos. It was my second time in Barcelona so I already knew all the touristic places, therefore I just spent my time there dancing every night, fighting sometimes and drinking. The best thing ever about it is we fell asleep every morning listening to the Velvet Underground song Heroin at a small square (The Velvet Underground - Heroin there you have the song). 

And that is pretty much everything I did there, it is the best holiday so far because it was specially different, I met cool people, went to punk gigs. The thing is that I did things that I wouldn't have done in a touristic visit. 

Childhood?

There is this humid smell that makes me remember my basement where I spent so many days playing with all kind of stuff I could find there. We have a television and a VHS reproducer down there, I remember pretty well specially one day I spent in the basement, I remember I found a video about one of my grandpa's good fella, in that video, that I manage to play it on the VHS reproducer, appeared this fella torturing somebody. I think that was the first traumatic event I experienced.

One of my first memories takes place at Calera the Tango, where I live now, I must mention that it is a big piece of land. I was about four or five years old. I was a happy boy digging a hole in the yard, when I found a corpse, it was putrefying. I took it's skull and crash it with a shovel and I saw it still had some brain pieces inside. I remember I run as fast as I could back to my house and locked myself in my room. I spent around two hours there in silence staring at the wall. 

As a child one of my favourite activity outside school was climbing trees and once I was high close to the top I used to talk to them. Yep... I talked to every kind of tree.

The psychiatrist office was something usual when I was a kid, because of my tormented mind...

Dreamed Place :3

Imagine yourself in a deep rain forest taken from a dream. Walking through it with a shaman, who is taking you to a psychedelic journey, to a journey that is going to free your mind. Believe it or not, there is an actual place where you can get to do that if you have the right contacts.

Perú is a wonderful place, where you can visit the old buildings and the most well known cities, but there you can find one of the most beautiful natural habitats in the world, and not a lot of people are aware of it: the Amazon rain forest, the world´s lungs, the place that has the widest biodiversity in the world. I have heard from a couple of friends who went there that the beauty, the giantess are stunning, that the whole place makes you feel small. I think a natural environment like that is a must visit and that you could have a once in a lifetime experience there.

I would like to go there to have a spiritual journey with the well known drug called Ayahuasca. I have been told that it´s an outer space experience. I would love to go there on a week-long visit and take part of the shamanic ritual that implies the consumption of the natural drug. I´d live with the community, wonder around the rain forest, learn about medicinal plants and enjoy myself in such a perfect place.

So I´m getting in contact with the shaman to do this, if you want to join me just let me know, I´ll be pleased to go with you.