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Andres

Champagne for my real friends. Real pain for my sham friends.

About Me

What to say? I am a fairly relaxed, patient, happy person. I have a little dream to have a cafe/music venue somewhere in the Grampians where I would also be able to do martial arts instructing on the side. I like philosophies of happiness. 'Tis good. Oh yes, I love life. I find way too many things fun and interesting. Part of the reason I am so patient comes from that, in fact. I often wonder at how others can not see all the wonder and beauty that is all around us. Reminds me of a quote: Happiness isn't having what you want, its wanting what you have.

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My Interests

Coffee and martial arts.There are few things in the world that are greater than coffee (both the making and drinking of). I have recently been given a wonderful book of coffee recipes. Yum! Although, I must add that I have not yet actually tried any of them. I have been busy practising coffee roasting. Has been very successful so far. mmm, nothing like a coffee that you have made yourself from freshly roasted beans, that you have roasted yourself. You should try it.

I'd like to meet:

This is what I would like to be able to do:This is what I can at the moment:

Music:

I LIKE EVERYTHING. Probably my favourite styles would be jazz fusion styles, all types of Latin music and classical.I am currently sorting through my collection of roughly 150GB of mp3's. This is made difficult because a large number of the songs are not labelled with either artist nor song title. Fun fun.Favourite Bands:Inti-Illimani - A Chilean band that has been together for a long time. They primarily do latin styles but sometimes incorporate classical. To date they have released 49 albums (not including live albums or compilations). Over the last 10 years or so, the sound of the band has changed quite a bit with the introduction of a few new memebers and some of the older members have left.Mahavishnu Orchestra - Led by Jazz guitarist John McLaughlin. They do a very unique style of music. They blend styles from around the world and play them with a large string section and rock-type instruments. My favourite song of their's has a duel between an electric guitar and electric violin to a very uncommon time signature.Elizabeth Morris - A wonderful singer from Chile. Occasionally performs with Jose Seves from Inti-Illimani.Antonio Restucci - Another Chilean. Mandolin and guitar played to traditional Chilean rhythms.Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - A ska band from Argentina. They have a wonderful collection of energetic songs that cover a fairly wide range of styles, but mainly ska.Some of the playlist's songs dont work at the moment, I will fix that at some point. If you have any suggestions for songs that I might like, send me a message.

Movies:

I like comedy and martial arts movies mainly. Although i havent seen nearly enough movies to give myself a good idea.Favourites: Comedy: All the Monty Python movies.Martial Arts: The movies Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer are great in a funny, let's-make-fun-of-martial-arts-movies kinda way. For the martial arts and choreography definatly the Police Story movies with Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Bao. For the movie in its entirety, Hero with Jet Li.Other: I really liked the movies A Beautiful Mind and As Good As It Gets.I have been getting into Peter Seller's movies recently. They are very silly, its great. I think I now have the entire Pink Panther collection.

Television:

Red Dwarf. Monty Python. Ripping Yarns... British comedy in general. Futurama. Family Guy. Azumanga Daioh!I just got the last few episodes i needed to complete my Red Dwarf collection. I have been steadily watching them, a few every week or so.

Books:

Terry Pratchett, Robert Rankin, Douglas Adams, Robert Asprin... Lots of fantasy/humour kinda stuff, although, recently I have been reading in other areas.A few days ago I started re-reading the Harry Potter series, before reading the new one. I am just starting the new one today, should be finished tomorrow. After this, I am going to re-read a masterpiece of an autobiography called "Shantaram".Only a couple more books until I have the entire Terry Pratchett collection.

Heroes:

Norman Hartnell (Not to be confused with the other Norman Hartnell).

My Blog

The blog after the last one....

Well, I couldnt do it. I tried. I failed. Giving up blogging on myspace is really quite difficult. Tired. Sleepy. A little, umm... Im not really sure what the word for... lets see... even though I fee...
Posted by Andres on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:02:00 PST

The blog.. dies

Sad sad.  Sadness and tears. *sniff* Hello All, the time has finally come.  *sniff*  Although it has been a fun time blogging here on myspace, i have found a new and exciting blog partn...
Posted by Andres on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:15:00 PST

All work and no play makes Andres... something something

Helloee All! Well, this is just a short blog (as I should really be in bed) to tell you all about the wonderousness of my last shift.  Basically, started at 0800 on the 28th, worked til 2100, sle...
Posted by Andres on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:31:00 PST

Emotions, arent they crazy?

Helloee All! *This blog was written in installments.  Two halves on my laptop and then little additions added when I posted it on the net.  The additions I have marked with these: * I am at ...
Posted by Andres on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:48:00 PST

The crazy randomness of it all.

Helloee All! How are you today? Back at work again, tis wonderful. On the weekend, Jason and I drove down to Adelaide and back, spending a day there.  Was a good fun road trip.  More about t...
Posted by Andres on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:04:00 PST

Back in the red

Good Afternoon All! How are you all?  It is a wonderfully bright, warm and sunny day here in Alice.  Perfection. Well, it seems that not a lot has changed in Alice since I left.  I didn...
Posted by Andres on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:59:00 PST

The no-keyboard blog

Helloee All!Well, this is a little interesting.  I am typing this up on my new laptop.  Funny thing is that I cant actually connect to the internet here in Macclesfield with this latop yet (...
Posted by Andres on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:36:00 PST

Andres, the happy chappy

Helloee All!I hope you are all well and happy.  I am sure you all are.I have been looking at prices of laptops today.  I might be getting one.  Exciting!That, however, has nothing to do...
Posted by Andres on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:17:00 PST

Do de do de do... something something... do de do

Happy whistling. *whistle whistle whistle*Helloee All!Ahh, adelaide, tis the only place where I have easy access to such music.  That isnt because it is a great place for music, but because my da...
Posted by Andres on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:42:00 PST

Another one of them crazy surveys

Helloee All! This was a little survey that I noticed on the bulletins and I could not help myself.  I will do a proper blog tomorrow.   Maybe. Anyways, without furthur ado, here are the...
Posted by Andres on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:10:00 PST