one lonely success

the best part of a SoCal winter is the early morning’s vanilla sky. if you wake up at just the right time, you can catch the morning sun at its most vulnerable. it’s good to know that nature can find its way through all the modern-day abuse long enough to say hello.

 ’vanilla sky‘ was a good movie but the original ‘Abre los Ojos‘ was amazing. penelope cruz stared in both versions, but cameron crowe took a few too many liberties from the original for my taste. nonetheless, the end scene is the thing that film school courses are made of…you can watch it here.

there are a handful of films that i prefer to watch in their original spanish versions: ‘abre los ojos’,  ’maria llena eres de gracia’ (maria full of grace) and ‘diarios de motocicleta’ (the motorcycle diaries). if you’re interested in learning spanish and you’re taking a spanish class you should drop out right now. NOW. instead, spend your tuition money on an immersion trip to spain or spend the same amount of time watching the aforementioned movies and telemundo.

Also, you should find a person who speaks fluent spanish and insist that they never speak english to you again. this will piss you off, but you’ll learn more than you ever thought possible…but it will really piss you off; in fact, you’ll probably hate them for it in the beginning.

my spanish-speaking-friend graduated from medschool last year and now she’s a neuro surgeon resident on the east coast. she taught me how to speak to patients in spanish and how to translate the paxinos neuro atlas into spanish.

these days, i’m looking for a local who will refuse to speak to me in english and reprimand me for my sloppy spanish. if you’re interested, you should apply.

also, i will probably end up hating whomever volunteers for this position.