"Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending. "

 Hi my dear readers. How are you today? Hope you're doing fine.  Today I'm going to write about my favourite movie in the whole world: Limelight by Charlie Chaplin.

 

Limelight was one of the last films that Chaplin directed, wrote and played the leading role on it.Charlie began to produce this movie when he was exiled from the United States of America because of his alleged communist sympathies. He was expecting that this was his last production.

The story begins showing us Calvero (Chaplin), an old artist that was a great comedian in the past but now he-s trapped between failure and alcoholism. He arrives to the building where he lives and smells something really strange. The, He discoveres that a young woman was trying to suffocate herself. Calvero saves the young woman and takes her to his apartment. The name of the young gilr is Terry. She wakes ups and they both begin to talk about what had happened. Terry tells to Calvero that she was reallly depressed and wanted to die. She was a ballet dancer that couldn´t walk. Calvero decides to take care of her and to help her to see how great and beautiful life can be. Calvero made Terry stand up and continue her dancing carreer. Terry fell in love with Calvero but he tells her that It's impossible, cause He was a really old person and his life was ending while Terry's life was just begining. Terry is succeeding on her carrer while no one needs Calvero`s talent, so Terry decides to prepare a tribute show for Calvero. Calvero participates on his own Tribute show and everybody is applauding him. When Terry is going to dance, Calvero suffers a heart atack and dies on the middle of the dance.

This is my favourite movie because it has one of the most fantastic artistic seings I've ever seen. The dance, the music and the theatre mixed in the same production. In 1972, twenty years after the film’s first release, Chaplin and his musical collaborators Raymond Rasch and Larry Russel were awarded an Oscar for Best Original Dramatic Score.

 "Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending. " - Calvero

My Favourite Picture

                  Hi people, how are you doing this week? Hope you all are fine. Today I'm going to talk about one of my favourite pictures (the one you can see up). 

                This picture was taken in London on a agoust's sunny day on 2010. In that moment I had made a trip to England. I was staying in Oxford's city because I was learning English Language in a summer program.One weekend, my classmates and me visited London. I guess it was saturday. I had a german classmate that wanted to buy an Abercrombie & Fitct's cologne. We were walking down the streets for four hours aproximately. It was a really nice and awesome long walk because we crossed for really interesting places. For Example; The Hyde Park, Amy Winehouse's apartment, Isaac Newton's home, Abbey Road Studio, etc.

                  No one knew where the A&F's shop were and I felt really tired, thirsty and hungry but then a miracle happened to me; We found A&F's shop. My friends on Caracas always told me about that shop and his products; "Oh Rodrigo, their shirts are cool" or "The cologne is so delicious". I think that entering to A&F's shop was one of the weirdest expriences of my whole life (and I was just sixteen years old haha). When I went into that place the first thing that I saw was a male top model (yes... I'm not kidding. I swear by God there was a young man with no shirt and really big muscles at the entrance of the place). Then, when I entered to the place everything was dark and the only thing I could hear was techno music playing on really high levels of sound intensity. I decided to wait outside. A few minutes later, my friend left the shop telling me that the cologne was really expensive and he didn' have so much money. So I thouth "you made walk for 4 hours just for telling me you didn't have money". Then We both began to laugh. Thanks to him I met a lot about London. 

                I haven't told you about the picture yet, please forgive me. I had bought a coke because as Itold you before, I was REALLY thirsty and when we were going back to the meeting point we both saw that sculpture on the picture. I told to my friend that I would forgive him for having made me walk so much for nothing If he took me a picture sitting on it. So I just posed and Voilà, there you got it! I was really happy that day, because I met some new places and I felt really independent.

                 When I went back to Caracas, my history teacher and good friend of mine told that those who were with me on the picture were F.D Roosvelt (32nd president of USA) and Winston Churchill (Prime Minister from England on 1940-1945 and 1951-1955). I didn't know that interesting piece of information. Then he told me that I should be Stalin (mmm Stalin with a coke haha). 

                 Well, I guess that's it, have a nice afternoon. Bye!!!

My favourite piece of technology

Hey people, how are you doing today? Hope you're all fine. This week I'm going to write about my favourite piece of technology. I was not sure at the moment to decide between my Blackberry (cellphone) or my laptop. My cellphone let me communicate with my familiy and friends and doesn't need WIFI for using internet. But my laptop let me communicate with my family and friends too and I can do more things with it that my Blackberry can not do. For example; Downloading music, wathcing videos, recording music, keeping  more information than cellphone, reading books that can not be found physically, etc. So I decided to choose my laptop as my favourite piece of technology.

When I was 16 years old I was doing a class work that covered a lot of information on the computer. I needed to bring this information to the class and the classroom didn't have a computer, so my pendrive was a little bit useless this time. Then my mom decided to give me as a present a laptop for work. I'm not sere what she does mean with "rok" because actually I use laptop for everything; fun, homework, communication, etc.

I use my laptop most of the days of the year for a lot of activities. For example; writting to my friends that live in another country, investigationg about classes'topics, reading the news and checking facebook and twitter. I'm a musician, so I have to listen a lot of music everyday. At University, teacher show us new musical pieces/artists/musicians everyday and I search this information on Internet. I love to read and in nowadays books are really expensive and hard to find. Laptops/Computers are a really great tool to search some texts that are scaned on some blogs.

My life without my laptop would be a little bit complicated because I would have to depend on cybers or another person computer to do the things I'd like to. I think that I shouldn't so dependent on technology but that's another point that I'll write about it any other day. Good afternoon my dear reader.

My Favourite Band

Hi my dear readers. How are you? I hope you're ok. Today I'm going to tell something really important about me; my favourite musical group.; Queen.

Since I was 12 years old Queen has been my favourite rock band. Queen was a british rock band formed on 70s constituted by Freddie Mercury(vocals and piano), Brian May (lead Guitar), John Deacon (Bass Guitar) and Roger Taylor (Drums).

I grew up listening to Queen's music because It was my mom's favourite band too. I remember when I was a child She used to sing to me "Love of my life" before going to bed in the night. When we were going to school and I felt sad she turned the radio on and put "Don't stop me now". That made me really happy. Most of the bands/artists I like were influeced by Queen. For example: Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, George Michael, etc.


When I began to learn music I used to listen Queen every day because I wanted to play the piano as Freddie Mercury or composing a guitar solo as Brian May.

As I told you on my last post, I am a musician and I think that Queen is a band that every person that plays an instrument or works on music should listen Queen. Why? There are a lot of reasons:

1- First one, They were a band that exprimented with many popular music's genres; classic rock, punk, rockabilly, Rock opera jazz and blues. For example: Bohemian Rhapsody (rock opera), My melancholy blues (jazz), Sheer Heart Attack

2- Queen's Musicians were great. They had really big knowledge of musical theory and harmony.

3- Their song's lyrics are very poetic and deep. For example: Love of my life, White Queen, In the Lap of Gods, Dear Friends, etc.

4- In my opinion, Freddie Mercury has been one of the most important musicians on popular music. His voice was one of the most powerful voices on the world of rock (and one of the most beautiful too) and his piano's skills were awesome.

5 -Rollign Stone magazine said that Brian May was one of the best rock guitar players. Brian may designed his own guitars and created his own personal sound (something that few 70s musician used to do). Brian May is a multi-instrumentalist artist. He plays guitar, piano, harp, etc.

When Freddie Mercury died a lot of artist did a Tribute Concert playing the most important songs of the band (Tie your mother down, Bohemian Rhapsody, I want to break free, etc). Some of those artist were: Elton John, Axl Rose, Robert Plant, Slash, George Michael, James Hetfield, etc.

I could be talking about Queen and "Why do I like Queen" the whole day. I think this Band's music is completely magic, full of energy and I would like that everyone could appreciate that. Well, that's it. Have a nice day!!! =D

Nice to meet you my dear reader

Hi my name is Rodrigo and I'm a 17 years old sound egineering student and musician, I love what I do and study. I study at "Universidad de Chile" (Santiago, Chile). I was born in Caracas, Venezuela but I moved to Chile one year ago because the carreer doesn't exist in my country.

My hobbies are playing the piano, guitar and a little bit of harmonica, reading and writting poetry and watching movies. My favourite artists (writters/musicians/movie directors) are: Queen, Elton John, Charlie Chaplin, Woddy Allen, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde.

I created this blog for working on my English classes. I hope to improve my vocabulary and my writting skills with my the stuffs I write here. I decided to call this blog "Greatest Hits" because I was thinking about you (the reader). You probably said "Hey! What kind of Greatest Hits is this guy talking about?", I just guessed It was a creative name.

That's it, you may know me a little more reading me. Well, bye and Have a nice day!