Pilot / 101

I’m starting this blog because I have received some messages on Twitter asking what do I do for living or what do I write about and, you know, those kind of questions.

I’m going to be brief about me: I’m a writer, I love art in its many forms. I love love. I’m constantly intrigued about human interactions, relationships. I love to travel. I have an alter ego on the internet who lets me bring up all my anger, sadness, vicious and frustrations… but you won’t be reading about him. At least not on this blog.

I consider myself a very lucky person. I have had opportunities in life a lot of people would enjoy having. I have had a lot of friends, many friends and now I have a very few-very good friends.

I hate this part because it sounds very shallow but here it goes: I enjoy going out, having a drink or two… OK OK sometimes too many. I like dancing to good house/dance music. I like going to the movies, watching American TV shows, chatting with strangers online (wait, is that me or my alter ego? -it’s hard to have two identities, ask Bruce Wayne), I like my white MacBook and I hate my job. I work for a multinational company, let’s just say that.

I’m very off Facebook right now and very into Twitter. I was wondering how much life is it left for Twitter to be replaced by another gadget (did any of you used ICQ?). If you think it through, all these devices are just a faster/simpler way to get in touch with people, to communicate, and that is the magic of all this. You have your family, your friends and you love them and you get along but you want more. You want to know more. What kind of life is out there? And believe me, I know that question a lot: I live in Chile.

Chile on the map

And since I am Chilean and the official language here is Spanish, please forgive me for all my grammar mistakes and misspellings.

Finally, I could say that I’m a very unprejudiced person, or at least I try to be. And talking about trying, I try to be a good person every day, I really try -you don’t know my boss. And one thing that has helped a lot with being a better person is the Kabbalah. I’m not going to sell any spiritual idea but if you feel kind of empty despite of all your success, you should give the Kabbalah a try. Man, I was a mean-mean, selfish person before I realized I had light in me.

I self-published a little book on the Internet containing short stories. Fictional. If you feel generous and want to help me launching my serious writer career, buy a copy or two. It’s written in Spanish though. The more my book is bought, the more less I will work for that multinational company and will focus all my creativity in my passion.

Thank you all for reading and I promise to make an effort and update soon.

Have a great Sunday evening.

Love,

@macpunk [on Twitter]

P. S. I chose the nickname MacPunk in 1998 when I got my first Mac. I then changed it to CrashOverride, Stan (for South Park) and many others. Now I’m back to basics, but pimped