19th Rage rocked the house last night!

Last night at don pablo in old San Juan was the debut of the industrial electronic group 19th Rage. It was an awesome show with people dancing at the beat of the music. Also DJ Wanker playing the best of industrial, ebm and goth music. It were a couple of months that haven't been on a show with bands or djs. Well i'm back and for some more soon. Also Veronica was there too with a friend of her and the rain that fell all night long that caused some roads to become flooded. Yikes!

Y hoy cumple años la hueva

¡¡¡Felicidades maldita so hueva!!!!

¿Mel Gibson un cabestro?

AGENCIA EFE

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Los Angeles.- La policía de Los Angeles detuvo hoy al actor, director y productor Mel Gibson bajo la sospecha de que conducía borracho.

El arresto se produjo a las 2.36 hora local (9.36 GMT) en la autopista de la costa del Pacífico, en el área de Malibú donde, al igual que otras muchas estrellas, tiene su residencia.

Se trata de la segunda detención del ganador del Oscar por "Corazón valiente" por conducir bajo los efectos del alcohol.

El primero tuvo lugar en la década de los 90, en Canadá, cuando Gibson rodaba junto a Diane Keaton "Mrs Soffell".

El actor habló en numerosas ocasiones de lo que definió como problemas con la bebida que superó gracias al apoyo de su esposa, Robyn, madre de sus siete hijos, y a su fe religiosa.

Tras su primera detención, Gibson, de 50 años, comenzó a recibir ayuda de Alcohólicos Anónimos.

El director de "La pasión del Cristo" quedó hoy en libertad bajo fianza de 5.000 dólares y el caso se está investigando.

En la actualidad Gibson ultima el rodaje de "Apocalypto", película rodada en lengua maya para su estreno en diciembre.

Se trata de un mal mes para las estrellas y el volante.

La semana pasada Haley Joel Osment, protagonista de "El sexto sentido", tuvo que ser ingresado tras fracturarse una costilla y lesionarse un hombro en un accidente automovilístico en Pasadena, al este de Los Angeles.

Además Daniel Baldwin, hermano de Alec, Stephen y William Baldwin, fue retenido, aunque no arrestado, por posible conducción temeraria después de que chocara su Ford Thunderbird contra dos vehículos estacionados mientras viajaba a 160 kilómetros por hora.

Cabestro, el guiar borracho no la hace. Al menos que seas un artista de Hollywood. Pero puej...

Ineabelle gana oro y Adrian pierde. sniff sniff

CARTAGENA, Colombia.- La boricua Ineabelle Díaz volvió a ganar oro en los Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe al vencer hoy, jueves, en un alocado combate a la mexicana As'sulayyil Madrigal Pineda.

Díaz, una de las atletas más exitosas de la delegación puertorriqueña, derrotó a Madrigal Pineda en la categoría pesada por el criterio de "agresividad", después de que el combate finalizara empate 2-2 debido a un arbitraje ineficiente y descarado de la árbitro colombiana Sandra Magalis Peña.

La puertorriqueña llegó a tener más ventaja, pero sin razón aparente Peña le restó tres puntos. El último fue justo en el último segundo cuando acabó el tiempo reglamentario. En la prórroga no le contaron varios contactos que propinó. Finalmente se fueron a las votaciones de los jueces, quienes reconocieron que Díaz se merecía la victoria.

Por otro lado, en general Puerto Rico no tuvo tanta suerte hoy como el miércoles, cuando cosechó cuatro medallas. Los otros dos participantes boricuas, Aurora Román y Adrián Puello no pudieron avanzar a las rondas de medallas.

Román sostuvo un acalorado combate con Cherryl-ann Sankar de Trinidad y Tobago. Arrancó al frente 2-0, pero no pudo evitar que le empatara la puntuación. Finalizó el tiempo reglamentario iguales a 2-2 y en el tiempo de prórroga recibió Sankar acertó una patada para finalizar el combate.

Mientras, Puello se midió ante Víctor Almonte de República Dominicana en su primer choque del día. El dominicano picó al frente, 1-0, con una patada limpia. El puertorriqueño puso presión y lo empató 1-1, pero la agilidad de Almonte fue más al final para acertar un último punto que le dio la victoria.

Ay que mal. Adrian perdio contra un dominiqui. Carajo esos dominicanos nos estan comiendo el culo. Hasta en volibol femenino nos ganaron. Arriba Adrian que aun hay mas medallas que ganar incluyendo la medalla de oro que ganó en Costa Rica.

Y en noticias relacionadas al tae kwon do...

CARTAGENA, Colombia.- El boricua Juan Sánchez, ganó la medalla de oro en la categoría ligera al vencer 4-1 al colombiano Luis Castiblanco.

Para Sánchez fue su primera medalla en sus primeros Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe.

El joven de 20 años venció a los representes de Cuba, Trinidad y Tobago y República Dominicana para llegar a la final.

Por su parte, Raúl Pacheco, ganó bronce en la categoría minimosca y perdió la oportunidad de buscar la medalla de plata, al caer ante el haitiano Jocelyn Joseph.

Plata y bronce en taekwondo femenino

La puertorriqueña Carla Cotto se alzó con medalla plata en la división ligero de taewkondo hoy, miércoles, en los XX Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe.

En su primer combate de muerte súbita, Cotto venció a la venezolana Melvis Contreras, 3-2, para pasar a disputar el oro.

Pero la boricua falló en su intento de conquistar la presea dorada cuando cayó ante la mexicana Edna Díaz, 3-0.

Por otro lado, la también boricua Zoraida Santiago se llevó la medalla de bronce en la categoría mini-mosca, al vencer a Elisa Tang, de Aruba.

Santiago perdió la oportunidad de buscar la medalla de plata al caer, previamente, ante la cubana Yenitse Alvarez.

Y tambien hoy en la academia llegaron unos reporteros de Univision grabando material de nosotros peleando en tae kwon do y en hapkido como parte del torneo llevado por el United States National Taekwondo Federation que se va a llevar en Carolina. la primera vez que este torneo se lleva aqui y yo estare alli tambien. El vietaje saldra la semana proxima asi que si logro grabarlo para luego pasarlo por youtube.com. lol

Y para terminar mi papá esta hospitalizado desde el lunes por unas palpitciones fuertes en el corazon. Que te mejores pronto.

Puerto Rico gana el certamen de Miss Universe

LOS ÁNGELES.– Zuleyka Rivera conquistó el quinto título de Miss Universe para Puerto Rico con su gran dominio escénico, en una insípida ceremonia realizada anoche en el Shrine Auditorium de esta ciudad.

Con su victoria, la salinense ha convertido a la Isla en el país con mayor cantidad de coronas después de Estados Unidos, que es en donde se origina este evento.

La boricua aguardó el resultado final de la mano de Miss Japón, Kurara Chibana, quien se convirtió en la primera finalista de este evento. En segundo, tercer y cuarto lugar resultaron, respectivamente, Miss Suiza, Laureane Guillieron; Miss Paraguay, Lourdes Arévalos; y Miss Estados Unidos, Tara Connor.

Al concluir la conferencia de prensa de la ceremonia, la nueva reina universal se desmayó de la emoción. De inmediato, los paramédicos se apostaron en el lugar para asistirla.

Lark Anton, portavoz del certamen, indicó a PRIMERA HORA que Zuleyka se encontraba estable. Asimismo, le atribuyó el desmayo al calor y a lo ajustado de su vestido.

La ceremonia

El certamen inició con el recorrido de las 86 delegadas en trajes típicos mientras se presentaban individualmente. Este desfile fue previamente grabado.

Luego las aspirantes se mostraron en vestidos de cóctel plateados, realizando una coreografía en un escenario que en todo momento careció de color o de algún elemento vistoso. Es éste, quizás, el año en que más deslucida ha estado la ceremonia, a pesar de haber sido realizada en una de las ciudades en donde se trabajan las producciones más sofisticadas del mundo.

Tras la presentación de los anfitriones de la noche, el puertorriqueño Carlos Ponce y la animadora de televisión Nancy O'Dell, y un resumen del reinado y corta entrevista a la soberana saliente Natalie Glebova, se llamó de inmediato al grupo de 20 semifinalistas, elegidas secretamente desde el pasado martes, tras sumarse las puntuaciones de la competencia preliminar y las entrevistas con el jurado.

En este cuadro entraron Puerto Rico, Zuleyka Rivera; Trinidad y Tobago, Kenisha Thom; Estados Unidos, Tara Connor; Bolivia, Desirée Durán; Japón, Kurara Chibana; Dinamarca, Betina Faurbye; Suiza, Laureane Guillieron; Colombia, Valerie Domínguez; Etiopía, Dina Fekadu; Rusia, Anna Liitvinova; Canadá, Alice Panikian; Brasil, Rafaela Zanella; Suecia, Josephine Alhanko; Tailandia, Charm Osathanond; Hungría, Adrienn Bende; Paraguay, Lourdes Arévalos; India, Neha Kapur; Argentina, Margali Romitelli; Ucrania, Inna Tsymbaliuk y México, Priscila Perales.

Este grupo comenzó a ser evaluado desde cero, con un nuevo panel de jueces integrado por Amelia Vega, Marc Cherry, Claudia Jordan, James Lesure, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, María Celeste Arrarás, Patrick McMullan, Santino Rice, Sean Yazbeck, Emmit Smith y Tom Green.

Las 20 aspirantes mostraron sus cuerpos en trajes de baño al ritmo del tema "Cha-Cha", del novel vocalista y bailarín Chelo, quien llegó hasta el escenario con ocho bailarines.

En este renglón se destacaron las delegadas de Puerto Rico, Suiza, Colombia, Japón, Brasil, Trinidad y Tobago y México.

Aún luciendo sus trajes de baño, el jurado eligió a las diez más destacadas de la noche. A este importante grupo ingresaron Canadá, Trinidad y Tobago, Bolivia, Japón, Puerto Rico, Estados Unidos, Suiza, México, Colombia y Paraguay.

Con la música del tenor italiano Vittorio Grigolo de fondo, las representantes fueron evaluadas en vestidos de gala.

Las delegadas que más se destacaron fueron Puerto Rico –con una versión mejorada del traje que Carlos Alberto le confeccionó para la prueba preliminar–, Bolivia, Japón y México.

En este momento se premió, además, a Miss Fotogénica (la filipina Lia Andrea Ramos), Miss Amistad (Angela Asare, de Ghana) y mejor traje típico, galardón que se llevó Miss Japón con su comentada indumentaria de samurai.

Las cinco finalistas de la noche, las representantes de Suiza, Paraguay, Japón, Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico, conversaron informalmente con los presentadores y luego respondieron una pregunta formulada por las mismas candidatas para que el jurado pudiese evaluar su elocuencia.

Zuleyka Rivera respondió la pregunta formulada por la reina saliente, Natalie Glebova, pidiendo la definición de éxito.

"Para mí éxito es la satisfacción de un ser humano al alcanzar todas sus metas... alcanzar todo lo que ha trabajado sin importar los obstáculos que se encuentren. Esos obstáculos son una prueba para saber que uno puede seguir hacia adelante y que uno es fuerte", dijo la nueva soberana.

El certamen fue pobremente transmitido por Telemundo, pues confrontó problemas de sonido.

Felicidades a Zuleyka Rivera por haber ganado la corona. Y para terminar traigo una ñapa del video de Yasuri Yamilet considerada como la proxima estrella del regueton, jaja pero esta vez citicandola por su musica. Carajo el regueton no es musica chorro de venezolanos brutos. Ay perate si aqui tambien caemos en eso. El link aqui pal que quiera entrar.

Luc Besson retires from filmmaking

The long goodbye

France's most successful living director is retiring from film-making. It's a young man's game, Luc Besson, 47, explains to Xan Brooks

Xan Brooks
Friday July 21, 2006

Guardian

The Luc Besson leaving do is a quiet affair. Tea and water are the only drinks on offer, and the sole guest in attendance is me. It is a curious experience: a case of hello and goodbye, welcome back and sayonara. On the one hand, Besson is in town to plug the two films he will be unveiling in 2006. On the other, he is here to discuss his imminent retirement. I feel as though I should have brought along a carriage clock.

A few years ago, France's most successful living director announced his intention to quit while he was ahead. He would, he said, make 10 films and then get out of the game. At the time few people took him seriously. But with Angel-A (out this month) and Arthur and the Minimoys (set for release at Christmas), he has reached his limit. He says cinema is a young art form and he has now outgrown it. He takes his kids to the pictures and their schoolmates have only the foggiest idea who he is. He sips his tea with a world-weary air. At the age of 47, Besson manages a fair impression of a jaundiced old fogey with one foot on the golf course.

"Ten is a good number," he explains. "If you have 10 bullets you are much more careful about what you shoot. And I would rather stop too soon than too late. I've seen so many directors make a few too many films, and it's sad. So a few years ago I said, 'I wish I could make 10 films that I'm proud of.'" He shrugs. "If you make 10 films and you like them, it's not so bad, no?"

It is significant he uses the criteria of personal pride as opposed to worldwide acclaim. The director may bridle at being described as an auteur - seeing it as symptomatic of all that is wrong with French cinema - but that's precisely what he is. For all their populist leanings his films stand as flamboyant personal expressions, from the stylised action of Nikita and Leon to the exotic sci-fi fantasies of The Fifth Element. Even his most high-profile misfire, 1999's Joan of Arc, is an oddly endearing calamity: a lavish jumble of clashing accents and historical anachronism that led critics to re-christen it 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'. Like it or loathe it, it could have been made by no one else.

I fear that he may have similarly shot himself in the foot with Angel-A, an indulgent redemption song about a small-time hustler who is rescued from suicide by his guardian angel. One might describe it as Besson's remake of It's a Wonderful Life, except the angel is a peroxide vamp who offers to solve the hero's money worries by prostituting herself in the nightclubs of Paris.

As played by newcomer Rie Rasmussen, Angela proves a very Bessonian figure: leggy and lippy, a grungy euro-chick with a heart of gold. She could be the younger cousin of Ann Parillaud in Nikita, or Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element. Parillaud, incidentally, was Besson's first wife; Jovovich his second.

You definitely have a type of woman you like, I tell him. But the director is having none of it. "Mathilda [in Léon] is 11 and dark. In The Fifth Element she's red-haired. Angela is super-tall and blonde. Isabelle Adjani [in Subway] is very bourgeois and Chanel, and Rosanna Arquette in The Big Blue is very natural. So, no. I always love the characters I create for different reasons, but I never try to describe the women I would fall in love with." He gives me a baleful stare. "I don't know where you are going with that question."

He is more comfortable talking about the film itself. Angel-A is a micro-budget, black-and-white production that darts around the Paris streets in the manner of A Bout de Souffle. Besson explains that he conceived the movie as an antidote - not just to the grand canvases of The Fifth Element and Joan of Arc but also to his lengthy preparatory work on Arthur and the Minimoys, an epic children's fantasy that blends live action with computer animation.

"That got a little frustrating," he admits. "As a director, I'm used to putting my hands on the engine. Talking, screaming. Then all of a sudden I'm spending three years sitting at a computer with a nerd and a mouse. And the nerd doesn't even say hi to you." Besson shakes his head. "He doesn't know who you are. He doesn't care. He's 17."

With an effort, the director puts these indignities behind him. "So it's true it made me envy the other way of making films. One actor, one actress, one camera: Go! This film is obviously smaller, shot in black-and-white, with unknown actors, and I know it's not going to beat The Fifth Element in terms of money. But I don't care. The logic is not to go bigger and bigger. The logic is to follow every road."

Much has been made of Besson's own road to the summit. He was raised in the resorts of Greece and Yugoslavia, where his parents worked as diving instructors for Club Med. Besson's ambition was to become a marine biologist. He only turned to film as a fallback plan, following a near-fatal diving accident in his late teens.

"I was never polluted by the world of cinema," he says. "I didn't even have a TV until I was 16. My expression is a reflection of the world I have seen, and in that world everyone was barefoot in bathing suits, following the order of the sea, the natural order of sunrise and sunset. I never went to the cinémathèque. I didn't know much about the masters of world cinema. A film like The Fifth Element is a reflection of my life as a young boy who was into Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, comic-books and Kurosawa." Yet what Besson sees as his strength, others regard as a failing. He has, by his own admission, never been a favourite of the French critics, who dismiss him as a cultural philistine, a peddler of homogenised produce for the multiplex crowd. Inevitably, it was The Fifth Element that served as a lightning-rod for these attacks. Besson shot the film in English, with an American (Bruce Willis) and a Brit (Gary Oldman) in the leading roles. When it went on to become the most commercially successful French production in history, many were quick to claim that it wasn't, in fact, French at all.

Besson shakes his head in bemusement. "It is a stupid argument, no? Look at the Van Gogh painting, Irises. Where does it come from? Van Gogh is from Holland. The irises are in a field in France. And the painting is in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. So the specialists say, 'Oh hold on? What nationality is it?' Who cares? Just look at the painting."

He pours himself more tea and says he has no big plans for his retirement. More than anything he wants some time to spend with his friends and family. Film-making is such a demanding mistress, he laments. There are so many things it prevents you from doing. "You pay hard," he sighs. "It makes me sad, in a way."

Besson's sincerity almost has me convinced. It's just that the longer he talks, the busier this life of leisure turns out to be. He will still write screenplays, he admits. And of course, he will still produce. His company, EuropaCorp, is developing plans for a studio complex near Paris so, yes, he is also heavily involved in that.

The tea is drunk and Besson cracks. Out of the blue, he explains that he envisages The Minimoys as a trilogy along the lines of The Lord of the Rings, which naturally means he has a further two instalments to shoot. "And you know what?" he exclaims brightly. "Maybe in two years I will do another movie after all." I leave with the impression that the man is destined for as many comebacks as Frank Sinatra. On balance the carriage clock will have to wait.

Witchblade issue #100!

Yesterday i got the 100th issue of one of my favorite comic book heroines( and not from the DC or Marvel universe) Witchblade. It's a double sized issue with concludes the battle Sara Pezzini with her former police partner Jake who was possesed by a demon from other realm. After she defeats Jake(which unfortunately kills himself due that the evil spirit who possesed his body) finds her new partner at the force and after they are reunited Sara spells the big bang....shes pregnant!!!

Holy smokes, looks like the next issues of Witchblade are gonna be interesting and also looks like there might be a new bearer of the Witchblade.

New ep from Leaves' Eyes

This week i bought the new ep from celt/goth/metal band Leaves' Eyes. I already have their second cd and there's also another cd which was their first album. Frankly this new ep with six tracks(one is a extended track of the first track) truly sounds great. Anyway i'm glad they released some new material and hope they start working on their next album. Their lead singer not only sings beautiful but looks lovely.

2-day's WTF?

Today's wtf? comes from some country possibly in central or south america. Some teenage girl has created an anti-regueton movement featured on her website. Check her website. I don't have any words to say but....lol!

Reservoir Dogs video game and another fucking remake!

Holy shit Mr. Tarantino, your first movie has been adapted to a videogame hitting Xbox 360, PS2 and also for Mr. console lamer Don Vinny from pulsofuck.cum, it'll also be available on PC. Take that you PC gamer hater, hahaha! Here's a preview of the game.

And in other news looks like the Tinseltown remake train keeps railing like a fucking crazy train and not the one Ozzy is in. The korean monster flick The Host is getting an american remake. Yup you saw it on The Ring, The Grudge, Dark Water and Battle Royale who will also get the american remake. Fuck it with the remakes and start creating something original. Looks like originality in Hollywood is D-E-A-D! Here's the link to the story.

My nephew's seventh month!

Well i haven't written anything new or interesting but yesterday was my nephew's seventh month old and guess what...he already spoken his firts word. Yup, he said da-da. And also i'm feeling very pissed off due that i feel like a loner. I feel like trash, it's boring when i go out and also i don't date very often. I don't know what to do. Looks like i need to find professional help pronto!

Yup...another tae kwon do belt!

Recently i received my new belt in tae kwon do. Now i'm officially green point blue and only five more belts to reach black belt. Never though that i could make it far!

p.s. this is my first post at my very own blog.