People that say "I like music, I like all kinds of music" doesnt understand you when you say that you couldnt live without music.

Exam!!!

Next Wednesday we have the Lithuanian Language exam and I can tell you that I almost don't know anything.

Time to study!

Curiosidades Lituanas / Lithuanian Peculiarities: Vol IV

Curiosidad nº 4: Los baños

Todo aquel que visita Lituania y sale por la noche, más tarde o más temprano se encuentra ante la complicada tesitura de elegir una de las dos puertas que dan acceso al servicio. En todo el mundo parece existir una especie de consenso por el cual el baño de los hombres se encuentra identificado con un monigote, una foto de un tío (Humphrey Bogart es muy socorrido) o, en los bares más patibularios, un dibujo de una polla, mientras que en el baño de las tías el monigote tiene falda, en la foto sale Marylin Monroe y en el caso de tratarse de un bar que tenga una polla dibujada para señalar el de tíos, casi podemos estar seguros de que no va a haber baño de mujeres...
¿En todo el mundo? No, una pequeña nación resiste al invasor y por ello utiliza un triangulo con un vértice mirando para arriba o para abajo dependiendo del sexo del usuario.
Estoy completamente convencido de que si yo ahora pusiera una encuesta preguntando si consideráis que la figura de la derecha indica sexo masculino o femenino, la mayoría os equivocarías porque la respuesta es que ese es el símbolo para el baño de mujeres, mientras que en el de hombres la punta mira hacia abajo.

Peculiarity nº 4: The toilets

Everyone that comes to Lithuania and goes out during the night, at some point has to face the difficult situation of picking between two doors that leads him/her to the toilet with no other help than a triangle that could be looking up or down. And I'm sure that if I asked you if the figure that is at the right represents the male or female toilet, most of you would fail because that one means women toilet.

Buenos propositos

Me comentaba Santi que no pone comentarios en el blog porque:

• No le sale de la polla
• Las entradas en ingles son mas sosas

Ambas son razones poderosas y estoy de acuerdo con ambas. Dado que lo que le salga o deje de salir de la polla no es, en principio, responsabilidad mia, solo puedo intentar mejorar lo segundo. Para ello voy a intentar escribir dos versiones de casi todas las entradas, pero esta vez no traduciendo directamente (¡es un puto coñazo!) si no dejando que mi simpatia y natural gracia se desborde en la version en castellano.

Este blog va a ser una rision a la altura de Los Bingueros, ya lo vereis.

The heroin diaries. A year in the life of a shattered rock star - Nikki Sixx

What a great book!! If you like Motley Crue or you as just interested in rock'n'roll stories this is a must-read. Right from the start (Nikki Sixx left in the garbage because people though he was dead) till the moment he dies for a couple of seconds one year later, this is a non-stop of drugs and, sometimes, sex and violence. Yeah, and also the creation of the "Girls girls girls" album and its following tour.

I could tell soooo many things about this book, but I think I'm going to leave it here because I wouldn't know where to start.

From the band Sixx A.M.

Let's listen to some nice music II: Alice Cooper

Under my wheels from Killer


He's back (the man behind the mask) from Constrictor and written for the movie Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives


Bed of nails from Trash (yes, the album which starts with the song that you have heard millions of times Poison)

Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris

I just finished this novel which is entertaining but nothing more. Maybe is because I read it in English and I had to be looking for words in the dictionary all the time and trying to remember the movie they made based on the book but I didn't like Thomas Harris' way of writing even when I think the plot was ok.

One thing that I didn't remember from the movie is that the first part of the action is set on Lithuania. Actually, even when it's never said, is very likely that Lecter is Lithuanian since he spends his childhood there. It's funny to read about Vilnius or Klaipeda now that I know a few things from the country.