Speaking in soundbites.
3crookedhearts interviewed me.
1. Do you see yourself staying in Buenos Aires forever? Or do you plan on moving back home?
No, and absolutely not. Colombia is somewhere I will find myself visiting every couple of years because it's where most of my friends and family are, but I could never go back there to live. Barranquilla as a city is a creatively and socially stifling environment of superficiality and hypocrisy. Colombia, as a country, has characterized itself by a long history of political, artistic and economic mediocrity. The people are, for the most part, incredibly annoying, and I certainly don't see myself staying in Colombia in any capacity other than visiting friends and relatives for a couple months every few years. That's it.
As to whether I'm staying in Buenos Aires forever, I don't think so. As much as I love the city, its concurrent political tumultuousness and incessant civil unrest has gotten more and more irritating in the last year. I will finish school and realistically will probably get my first few filmmaking gigs here-- either as a part-time crewmember or an individual contributor to a writing staff (which would interest me a lot more). But I'll probably head north after that if I really want to get my stuff produced and head into the limelight. Maybe in the States. I hear Austin's got a great indie scene.
2. What made you want to go into film school?
Well, originally I wanted to be a writer. I knew it had to be something creative because I was so disinterested by everything else. I used to write extremely long and complex fanfiction about my favorite superheroes and anime characters when I was a kid. I used to watch a lot of movies, too. But only towards the end of my junior year at high school did it dawn on me that film school could be a possibility. After that it was all that I could think about for myself professionally. And here I am.
3. What's one thing you never leave your house without?
My first instinct is to say my big black book. I have a huge black book that serves as a sort of journal, sketchbook and scrapbook where I scribble and doodle and paste whatever catches my attention at any random moment. It also serves as a dream log and daily scheduler. I've had one since I was sixteen, and have completed four of them. It's always a trip, looking at the first few ones and remember where I was and what I was thinking when I drew this or wrote that.
Anyway, this isn't exactly accurate since I don't carry it around with me all the time. Realistically, the one thing I never leave the house without is probably something really boring and mundane. Like my wallet.
4. Tom Waits or Elvis Costello?
Oh geez. See, this is the kind of stuff I think about way too often. They're both incredible songwriters and performers and, in my estimation, the two most talented artists making music right now. They have both written two of my favorite songs ever-- "Tango Til They're Sore" (Waits) and "Man Out of Time" (Costello). But which is better? I don't know. Tom Waits has the ridiculous, depraved dadaist tendencies as well as the old-man european folksong and neo-beatnick, jazzy world-weary globetrotter styles down. Elvis has been the angry young intellectual punk rocker, the forlorn, lovesick crooner and the deranged mad scientist. Both artists have gone through an incredible musical transformation, touching several different styles along the way.
But though Elvis has the most variety (country-ish folk rock on his first album, a more refined punk rock on the second, New Wave on Punch the Clock, full-blown country ballads on King of America, chamber music on The Juliet Letters, indie rock on When I Was Cruel, classic jazz in North, ballet on Il Sogno...), Tom has the most heart and his craziness makes him slightly more appealing to me as an artist. Elvis is still a close second, though, and I insist a collaborative record would yield incredible results.
5. Tell me something about you that i'd be suprised to know.
I went through scrotal surgery back when I was around 13 to remove a cyst. Essentially, they cut my ballsack open, removed the nasty little fucker and sewed it back up. I was incapacitated for weeks, and still have the scar to show for it. I've been told it's appealing, though. If I'm asked about it, I usually start the story off by saying I used to date this girl named Lorena...
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1. Do you see yourself staying in Buenos Aires forever? Or do you plan on moving back home?
No, and absolutely not. Colombia is somewhere I will find myself visiting every couple of years because it's where most of my friends and family are, but I could never go back there to live. Barranquilla as a city is a creatively and socially stifling environment of superficiality and hypocrisy. Colombia, as a country, has characterized itself by a long history of political, artistic and economic mediocrity. The people are, for the most part, incredibly annoying, and I certainly don't see myself staying in Colombia in any capacity other than visiting friends and relatives for a couple months every few years. That's it.
As to whether I'm staying in Buenos Aires forever, I don't think so. As much as I love the city, its concurrent political tumultuousness and incessant civil unrest has gotten more and more irritating in the last year. I will finish school and realistically will probably get my first few filmmaking gigs here-- either as a part-time crewmember or an individual contributor to a writing staff (which would interest me a lot more). But I'll probably head north after that if I really want to get my stuff produced and head into the limelight. Maybe in the States. I hear Austin's got a great indie scene.
2. What made you want to go into film school?
Well, originally I wanted to be a writer. I knew it had to be something creative because I was so disinterested by everything else. I used to write extremely long and complex fanfiction about my favorite superheroes and anime characters when I was a kid. I used to watch a lot of movies, too. But only towards the end of my junior year at high school did it dawn on me that film school could be a possibility. After that it was all that I could think about for myself professionally. And here I am.
3. What's one thing you never leave your house without?
My first instinct is to say my big black book. I have a huge black book that serves as a sort of journal, sketchbook and scrapbook where I scribble and doodle and paste whatever catches my attention at any random moment. It also serves as a dream log and daily scheduler. I've had one since I was sixteen, and have completed four of them. It's always a trip, looking at the first few ones and remember where I was and what I was thinking when I drew this or wrote that.
Anyway, this isn't exactly accurate since I don't carry it around with me all the time. Realistically, the one thing I never leave the house without is probably something really boring and mundane. Like my wallet.
4. Tom Waits or Elvis Costello?
Oh geez. See, this is the kind of stuff I think about way too often. They're both incredible songwriters and performers and, in my estimation, the two most talented artists making music right now. They have both written two of my favorite songs ever-- "Tango Til They're Sore" (Waits) and "Man Out of Time" (Costello). But which is better? I don't know. Tom Waits has the ridiculous, depraved dadaist tendencies as well as the old-man european folksong and neo-beatnick, jazzy world-weary globetrotter styles down. Elvis has been the angry young intellectual punk rocker, the forlorn, lovesick crooner and the deranged mad scientist. Both artists have gone through an incredible musical transformation, touching several different styles along the way.
But though Elvis has the most variety (country-ish folk rock on his first album, a more refined punk rock on the second, New Wave on Punch the Clock, full-blown country ballads on King of America, chamber music on The Juliet Letters, indie rock on When I Was Cruel, classic jazz in North, ballet on Il Sogno...), Tom has the most heart and his craziness makes him slightly more appealing to me as an artist. Elvis is still a close second, though, and I insist a collaborative record would yield incredible results.
5. Tell me something about you that i'd be suprised to know.
I went through scrotal surgery back when I was around 13 to remove a cyst. Essentially, they cut my ballsack open, removed the nasty little fucker and sewed it back up. I was incapacitated for weeks, and still have the scar to show for it. I've been told it's appealing, though. If I'm asked about it, I usually start the story off by saying I used to date this girl named Lorena...
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Because we all know we like to feel more interesting than we really are, reply to this entry with a comment "Interview me!" and I will reply to it with five questions for you to answer in your blog
In other news, Oasis have a new song out and, surprise! It still sounds like The Beatles.