Zombie Walk 2013!

Yesterday finally the Zombie Walk 2013 was make in Santiago. According to the official counting of the organization there were more than 30,000 infected people on the north road of the Alameda. The walk begun in Plaza Italia and went through almost half of the Alameda and the course end in Parque Almagro, there, the people could enjoyed some live music (Chancho en Piedra and other great bands) different kinds of food (like thematic cupcakes, zombies, vampires and scary stuffs) ,and entertainment. This year thematic was Circus (we all know that clowns can be very scary, imagine a zombie one) but you could go like any kind of zombie, even as a resistance member (with big guns and everything.) The people that went dress up like a zombie also act as one, for example, people that went to the Zombie Walk just as an observer or member of the press, they scare the hell out of them. Growling and screaming at them. 

These are some of the pictures that I took that day 

These guys went dress up like Harley Quinn and The Joker, zombified! 

This Zombie Clown scare the shit out of me, it was my favorite!

There were many children, this shows that was a very fun family activity!

Race for the second place: Matthei, Parisi, and ME-O

A few days ago the ANP (Press National Association) debate held in Coquimbo with some interesting things that I want to talk about. First of all the absence of Michelle Bachelet, the soon-to-be next president of the Republic of Chile, she says that he has some agenda problems and once again we couldn’t heard her proposes on a national debate with all the other candidates, a pity. Secondly, and what I think is the most remarkable thing about the debate, there were many disputes between the candidates that are fighting the second place in the elections: Evelyn Matthei, Franco Parisi, and Marco Enríquez-Ominami. ME-O interpellate the role of Evelyn Matthei as a minister of the Sebastian Piñera government and how she is going to do all the things that she promise if she succeeded as a president but why she didn’t do it as a minister? Matthei answer in a very ironic way if she will going to ask help to Parisi in the eventuality of a ballot, she said that Parisi is not going to be anywhere. Finally Parisi said that is very hard to believe all the promises that Matthei and her party made if they don’t even accomplished all the promises that the Piñera government made. The race is on!

Lollapalooza Chile and the Chilean mentality

Many years before there were very few concerts in our country, milestone like Rod Stewart performing in the Amnistia International concert in 1989 or the magnificent concert that gave Michael Jackson in 1992 are some examples of events that have a national repercution, therefore, the Chileans have a I-won't-miss-it-for-nothing-in-the-world mentality that we have till’ today. This situation allows to the national producers of musical events such as T4F, Bizarro, etc. take advantage of this situation and charge ridiculous prices for a locations in the event. Many times the same amount that the minimum wage or even doubled it. The most recent case of this situation are the pre-selling prices of the Lollapalooza event, at this date, there still no line up and not even a single band has been confirmed for the event, the prices reached the $100.000 Chilean pesos (more than 200 dollars) and the prices will continue rising. We can say that no one in its five senses would buy these tickets, but the Chileans went in mass to buy the first tickets and almost 60.000 persons have theirs. What conclusions can we make about this situation? I think that Chileans (or almost most Chileans) still have a very third-world-esque mentality, we goes bananas when we know that our favorite band is going to come and sell everything we got to go there, even if nowadays almost all the bands come to Chile, and not only once like before, but almost all the bands come many times in a very short round of years. What can we expect in the future? We do not known, just praying that the Chilean people change and the musical event producers have mercy with our pockets.

Lollapalooza 2012

Lollapalooza 2013