Hi.
Although I think technology distracts you from life, I like it because you can use it in many ways… to destroy the world, for example… haha, so funny. Or… does technology control us?

Well, let’s get to the point: my favourite piece of technology is my laptop. I am not a geek, really; I hardly know how to use Photoshop. Besides, my laptop is an almost vintage Toshiba. In fact, I inherited it from my father two years ago (his job is to be a geek) …It’s even too big to fit in my handbag.

The funniest thing is that I don’t know how to do a DVD or even download a movie, because I don’t have a DVD burner and wouldn’t like to see movies in my laptop’s screen. What I know how to do is download music and I LOVE it! Because, before the internet era, you had to have money to buy the compact disc, if it arrived to the music stores, and when you got it, you listened to it and it could be a complete bore! Now, you can discover underground bands from all over the world. Well, that’s when I have an internet conexion, because in La Serena I do, but not here in Santiago, so everytime I travel there, I download a LOT of music.

If I hadn’t got a laptop, I wouldn’t carry ALL my music from La Serena to Santiago and back… And if I hadn’t got a computer, it would be so difficult to do all the university assigments and write my ideas. I often use it to do them, besides listening to music. That’s why I love it so much! My life without my laptop would be a complete disaster, it would suck even more and I would commit suicide, seriously.

Haha, thanks for Reading me.

LOST HIGHWAY (1997)

It wasn’t the first David Lynch’s film I saw-listened to. It was the third, after “The elephant man” (1980) and “Mulholland drive” (2001), so I knew I would experience something crazy. It was in VHS. The introduction (a travelling of a highway at night, David Bowie’s “I’m deranged” plays) just caught me. Well, of course the first thing about the movie that caught my attention was the idea of a married couple (Fred and Renee) receiving video-tapes that showed their own house… And then, when I was watching-listening that sequence, it didn’t dissapoint me at all… that mysterious atmosphere… I was loving it. Later, they receive other video-tapes, one showing them sleeping… Kind of terrifying, isn’t it? Then there’s that master ilogic scene at a party with the Mystery Man that I won’t spoil. You MUST see it.
Fred watches a new tape where he is killing his wife, he’s found guilty and, sentenced to death, “sent to prision, where inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life” (IMDB.com) Since then, you have to begin understanding this new order, but later… it doesn’t seem to be an order; the film throws itself and you can get exasperated but enjoying it. Lynch can make you feel it’s all an audiovisual experience… I envy him so much because of that! Nevertheless, I don’t aim to even try to copy him.
I take the highway as the life and, since Fred life mutates into another, I think there are identity problems… or, I don’t even know if it’s a “problem”. Well, “Lost highway” may refer to a “lost life”. Anyway, JUST SEE IT!