elmachi

God Damn it!. After 2 months in Bolivia and a very stressful end of my MPhil in Cambridge I'm back. Still adjusting but back. So hi to everyone!

Ok people, sorry for not updating my stuff in a while. It has been a hectic 2 weeks and it ain't over yet.

So, I'm going to keep this short and let the videos do the talking.

As some of you know two weeks ago now I went to KOKO for a Kid Koala concert... It was CRAZY, I loved it, Kid Koala will be...
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HOLY FUCK!!!

So.. the story goes like this... as many of you know I come from Bolivia, down in South America, from La Paz... I come from a middle class family that was really wealthy 2 generations ago but that, by the time I was born, had fallen from grace thanks to my uncles mainly who were just... plain stupid. But well.. the point is...
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Another week passed.

I havent been feeling very good. It is of course hard to explain, I just feel that I am really socially inept. No, is not that Im awkward talking to people the truth is I dont have any problems meeting new people, I do it continuously, is just that I get bored so fast. I was never fond with social conventions, and...
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Yo guys, me again. Yesterday I got invited to a 100% cuban salsa party. Now, I'm definety the antithesis of the typical latino, but I have to admit that yesterday was really fun. Strangely, the people who invited me didn't show up (well, not that strangely, people are generally lame) so I was there kindda alone doing my thing (which is of course a little...
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Yo people, what up? again another week passed, spending my little money in keeping me well fed and going to the gym and working a 12 hour shift in Cambridge University's basement at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research... archaeology is such a glamorous career!!

In any case by brain is fried, I spent the whole week reading cultural ecology, from Julian Steward all the...
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PFfff... I can't believe another week has passed, I have sooo much work, I still haven't finish this stupid presentation, I got stuck thinking about why is my work important at all!!! I still have to apply for another 2 grants and send some stuff to Berkeley, I dread so much talking to the director of the project,...grrr...I need a vacation, and someone to cuddle...
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More randomness, among some of the albums I got last month following my 2 year craze into classical music was Igor Stravinsky's Firebird. I am a complete ignorant on ballet, but I really liked Stravinsky's Rite of Spring so I thought about giving his "breakthrough" a shot. Today I finally had some time to spare, worked on my bike and during lunch I decided to...
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Once again, bumped into a really weird paper about Kayapo ethnobiology. .... some useless information for those who read this (does anyone even read it?)

the Kayapo recognize ... two mythological entities that illustrate how beliefs can function as ecological concepts. One is "Bekororoti", the spirit of an ancient shaman unjustly killed by fellow tribesmen while seeking his inherited right to certain parts of a...
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I have to prepare a big presentation on my research and ended up reading about the ecology of the amazon, I found this bit. I couldn't fit it on twitter so I decided to put it here...

"a situation that can only be likened in human terms to a darkened room full of jostling people among whom, or else lurking in cupboards and recesses which...
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