USA, the empire

Hi Vivi, I want to talk to you about this, because I know that is not the type of thing that you are going to listen in the US, even that some citizens make proper efforts to explain it. I grew up 3.500 miles away from the US border and 20 miles away from a US military base. Today the US has 800 military bases outside their territory, the rest of all the other military bases outside the territory of their country combined is 30....

April 14, 2023 · 1 min · Papá

Rick's Crybaby Backstory

Hi Vivi, Rick and Morty is one of the smartest and funniest tv shows. In the season’s 5 final episode they reveal the background story of Rick, and how he lives with a different version of his daugther after his own wife and daughter were killed by a different version of him-self. The reveal is done beautifuly with a sci-fi background music with no lyrics and a montage of his memories....

September 16, 2022 · 1 min · Papá

Arrival (2016)

Hi Vivi, This is one of my favourite Sci-fi movies, is intelectual and emotional. They play with the concept of first contact, language, math and time. But for me is about acceptance of life, and doing the hard things, not because they are hard, but because they have purpose. Je t’aime, Papá

November 18, 2021 · 1 min · Papá

Litany Against Fear

Hi Vivi, “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” Litany against fear from Dune...

November 15, 2021 · 1 min · Papá

The Time Travelers Wife

This is the book that I gifted to most people. It touched me, it made cry, laugh at loud. It’s about a relationship were the man has a genetical problem, he travels through time involuntarily. It’s a great setup for situations of conflict between a couple, talks about relationship and family sprinkled with time travel theory. You can read it as a teenager but it will have a deaper meaning after you’ve had some relationships....

October 29, 2021 · 1 min · Papá

Interstellar (2014)

I love this movie, and it’s the first one I’m choosing to share with you. The impact and significance of it has change for years, when I first say it I didn’t had you, so the I was mesmorized with the cinematography, the scale, the script… as of today it’s more of a hope movie, the adveture of a father through time and space looking to go back to his daughter....

October 27, 2021 · 1 min · Papá