Tupac Amaru Shakur & The World We Live In

July 10th, 2009 No comments

A couple of nights ago I had the opportunity to find and watch a documentary about Tupac Amaru Shakur. Being a mostly-rock music type of guy (me), I really had no good idea of who he was but I was intrigued enough, and I decided to watch it online on NetFlix. The documentary was focused mainly on the fact that Tupac was indeed a good man and also the fact that he had to face a lot of  “reality” in a little short of time during his short life: no wonder he got violent at some point. But what really caught my attention was that, even though him and I are VERY different, I also found each other on the same side of the “grass” on many other aspects including justice, helping other to succeed, and mainly worry about others as much or even more than you could worry about yourself. Read more…

When We Limit Ourselves

June 27th, 2009 4 comments

Have you ever gone through a moment in your life when you think you can’t do or don’t want to do more than you are actually doing? We have all experienced such “stages” at certain point in our lives–consciously (”I’m not good for school”) and/or subconsciously (”My job gives me everything I want. I don’t need to learn anything new”). Whichever situation you have found yourself into, it is always limiting ourselves from doing more with your life–and in mine too some time ago.

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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke – The Clock

June 19th, 2009 2 comments

I just got this link from Radiohead’s singer Thom Yorke’s song “The Clock.” He is definitely a great musician, and one of my inspirations and influences as an artist. His guitar skills are very clean, and I totally dig his voice whether he is with Radiohead or not! Check it out…