the city of the future

When i was a child i spent a lot of time drawing citys, maps and all i could imagine, the same way that Mr. Simpson drawn his "Victory City". I remember that when i drawn my citys i felt a power man, some kind of god, the "big architect" like use to said the architects.

i think diferent now ,i don´t believe in a big arquitect or designer, if some ask me how i imagine the city of the future, i don´t think in a big city, i want live a small town far away of the big citys. I prefer the spontaneous of the small communities with all the necesary to have a good live, but this is always relative, what are the most important things to have a really good live?

i think that everyone sometimes in his life want design his own city, think a better place to live, a city to be happy and so is good, but this kind of things almost always don´t work because everyone want make his own city.

Ricardo Piglia, a argentine writer, he has the idea that every citizen have his own city, that we can chose where and how live our citys, that city that relate with the other citys and create a big story, a lot of short storys.

Will Oldham, the new bob dylan.

i wanna talk about will olhman (aka bonnie "prince" billy), an artis that i discovered maybe the last moth, wherever, it was enough with the first time that I heard for what I liked. Olhman is a kind of folk songwriter, he´s part of the "new weird american", a kind of new folk, a little bit psychedelic or freak, definetly hippie.

My favourite song in this moment, has been playing all day in my ears is "Strange form of life" to "The letting go" album, recorded in 2005. Is a folk song playing with a girl in the second vocals, and the play between these two voices is one of the reason because it like to me so much. A sad and melancolic image of the deep america like jack kerouac used to say, like a image of the chilean patagonia i think. Oldham is like a kind of gaucho for us.

"The letting go" is for the moment one of my favourite albums, soft, deep, with slow sounds, perfect for the sounds of winter, perfect to sleep. And obviously talks about love as almost all the major records, but no like the typical romantics fools, these kind of latin lovers. did you know them?

and this is the lyrics of the song.

a strange form of life
kicking through windows
rolling on yards

heading in loved ones' triggering eyes
a strange one

and a hard way to come into a cabin
into the weather
into a path
walking together
a hard one

and the softest lips ever
25 years of waiting to kiss them
smiling and waiting
to bend down and kiss twice
the softest lips

in a dark little room
across the nation
you found myself racing
forgetting the strange and the hard
and the soft kiss
in the dark room

and a strange form of life
kicking through windows
rolling on yards

heading in loved ones' triggering eyes
a strange one

how to learn english or not waste my time in the web

I can imagine that bbc´s people asked himself how to make a site where everyone who wants can learning english in a easy and funny way. A site where we can think the english in diferent ways.

As a site to learn i think is a good place, as a site learn about to what´s happen around the world, i think that they stays in the surface common to the all big mass medias what have to objetive reaching as much public as they can, therefore they stay in the general or in a light vision of the real life . I confess that i don´t like these kind of thing too massive, even so, i like can learning in a diferent ways, more dinamics and interactives.

I found remarkable the note about the english guy who traveled by bike from england to chine roundtrip. I wish to take a trip so long too, indeed, be a real journey.