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Mr Betman

Hola.

About Me

I´m floating around Cochabamba in Bolivia right now. I should be looking for a house but i seem to be spending a lot of time either dancing to Shania Twain or sleeping in the middle of the day! If anybody from Cochabamba reads this please give me a job or a house!

My Interests

Likes: Marmite, avocados, dancing, sleep, friends, red wine, toothpaste, baths, manatees, trying to dance like a peruvian, speaking to people i miss, buying christmas presents in cusco, mate, old Argentinian people, Argentinian dogs, Pimienta (of course), nice taxi drivers!
Dislikes: Woodlice, those olbas oil cough sweet things that taste like tar, essays, people who spit, food in puerto, rats by my pillow, air conditioning in internet cafes, old wooden crutches, rude taxi drivers.
Also, the old bus station in derby!

I love taking photos. In fact, recently i´m enjoying photography more and more thanks to this Southern boy i know! If you would like to see any pictures there are some here. www.flickr.com/photos/bethanberg (buy me a pro account! buy me a pro account! yep... nope...)

I'd like to meet:

Monkeys. Lots of them (please note that since writing this a Peruvian spider monkey sort of smashed up my camera! Oooops. Weirdly, this was shortly followed by a Bolivian alpha male kapuchin thing nabbing my new camera. Cursed?)Billy is the best!
His interests included stealing tampons, trying to shut people in animal enclosures, pretending to smoke and chasing ´Turkey´, the slightly crazed man-hating bird who i once, accidentally, nearly killed.
I like meeting people on mountains!
Dogs in South America are amazing. En serio!

Music:

The Evens, City on Film, Jeniferever, Neutral Milk Hotel, Hefner, Le tigre, Fugazi, Mirah, Aberfeldy, Bob Dylan, Cat Power, Islands, Little Wings, Iron and Wine, Jeffrey Lewis, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Randy Newman, Kings of Convenience, Manu Chao, that whistley song they always play in Bolivia, Architecture In Helsinki (i like other schtuff too)
Oh yeah, Catagram for life! Or something. I wish i knew how to get that picture back....

Movies:

Being John Malkovich, Amélie, Lost in Translation, Goodbye Lenin, Les Jeux D'enfants, Mean Girls, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Cinema Paradiso, The Royal Tennenbaums, Cuidad de Dios, Maria Llena de Gracia... and some others tooooo (i've no idea where the rest of my pretty pictures went?!)

Television:

hollyoaks, neighbours, the mighty boosh, futurama, simpsons, coronation street, no going back, faking it, 120 minutes, the OC, america's next top model. it used to be daytime DIY shows... these days it's all about the antiques!

Books:

The Blind Assassin, Tender is the Night, Wide Sargasso Sea, Trainspotting, To Kill A Mockingbird, the really good one Sam lent me with the title i no longer remember - i don't often read a book that i really really like and most of them seem to be about women going crazy!? Hmm, i just don't read enough in general. I should probably write the names of the authors down too really...
Some comicy things.

Heroes:

This is my dad and he is GREAT.

My Blog

No mames!

I`m home really really really soon. Today i have lots and lots to do but instead of getting things done i`m sitting on the internet talking about the fact i`m leaving and all the things i should be do...
Posted by Mr Betman on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:30:00 PST

PANCAKE DAY...

...was not forgotten in Argentina! At least not by me. I went on a shopping mission to buy all the ingredients yesterday (although i guess pancakes are pretty simple to make so perhaps i shouldn´t rea...
Posted by Mr Betman on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:10:00 PST

It´s just that dogs are really good aren´t they?

I think so. Got him in a headlock now! I have so many more dog photos but it seems to take an age to upload them and i already spend far too long on the internet.... One day i will make some ...
Posted by Mr Betman on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:00:00 PST

Bolivian updatey thing....

helloo there, i´m not really sure where to begin?! i´ve been in Cochabamba, Bolivia, for a month now and i think i finally settled in about a week ago. lots of stuff has happened. i went to the jungl...
Posted by Mr Betman on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:37:00 PST

happyhappyfeliz

Estoy muy feliz! Not that i´m not normally happy but today i am extra happy. I´ve spent the last two days with Pepe who is lovely and tall and ace and makes me laugh and tries to speak lots of e...
Posted by Mr Betman on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:26:00 PST

Updatey thingggg.

I´m gonna do a proper one of these tomorrow on my rambley livejournal thing. For now though, umm, everything is good! Although a spider monkey broke my camera. He was trying to be like king kong on my...
Posted by Mr Betman on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 04:03:00 PST

Phew.

After going a bit mental for a few hours i sort of feel normal again now! Argh, the last year has been so horrible and weird (nice in parts too!) it just seems so daunting that it's finally about to c...
Posted by Mr Betman on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:10:00 PST

I got a bit snap-happy...

Hello everybody! Here are the photos i took last night... quite a lot actually! I feel quite ill today. Oh dear. Sam in a tunnel! If looks could kill eh Missy May? this wasn't intended to be a...
Posted by Mr Betman on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:30:00 PST

Strange(ish)!

It's like Sam's there... but he's NOT!? Spooky.
Posted by Mr Betman on Wed, 10 May 2006 03:29:00 PST

CAT.

Today i got bored. I love how fluffy Rosie is. I wasn't trying to eat her as this photo would suggest. ...
Posted by Mr Betman on Wed, 03 May 2006 09:22:00 PST