Thursday, May 27, 2010


Icelandic bands are very particular. This music have an original style, because use several instruments create by Icelandic people (xylophone, flutes, etc; all this instruments are made of rocks, piece of woods, stem of plants). These elements produce a singular sounds, typical melodies of Iceland. Sigur rós is the better example of this description. This band is composed by four members: Jònsi, Georg, Kjartan and August. Sounds of Sigur rós represent the melancholic landscape of their country, full of volcano, deserts, glacier and lakes. They have six albums until now and one picture movie, where present different songs in different places of Iceland. This movie is Heima, which has beautiful natural images. The majority lyrics of this band are write in Hopelandic, a type of language without meaning very similar of crying or laments. Their style is post-rock, although usually the band incorporates several kinds of music, for example jazz, rock and folk. In Heima presents all their albums, and show the construction of the principal instruments, (guitar, violin, xylophones, flutes, etc.) Is impossible process all their music immediately, its important listen with care and slowly for understand the enormous message. This band never come to Latin America, I really want that!

Thursday, May 20, 2010


My favorite technological object is the Computer. I don’t care what kind of computer is, I like all type of computers. My first computer was a present of my parents; I get it eight years ago approximately. This computer was very old and only can to play some games and write works or tasks. Even so, I like it, because I learn several computational activities, useful for school life and the university. Then this computer was damaged, and we never repair it. Later, I don’t have a good computer, but then I get one, which a keep until now. This artefact is useful for write anything (works, tasks, personal things, etc.), I can save images of my travels, parties or sunsets, I can save much music and listen to songs of my favourite bands. Also, is useful for communicate with different people, like relatives in other countries or friends which lives far away from my house. I use the computer every day after class, and I can use it for several hours. I like this technological object, because I enjoy the activities that can do, for example; load pictures, write some texts, watch movies and listen to music. My life would be very boring without the computer; also I can’t work such fast.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Radiohead, Ok.

Radiohead is a band from England, born specifically in Oxford. It is composed of five members, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Phil Sellway and Ed O'Brien. The band has over twenty years experience and seven studio albums. They have won several awards and have become well known, but their inner lives remain outside the public domain. His first two albums (Pablo Honey, The Bends), show the youth of their experiences (both existential and musical), being remembered for the strength of his guitars and violence of the lyrics. From OK Computer, the band's music takes a turn and combines rock with electronics. This third album makes known worldwide and to the surprise of the public, this seems to piss them off. After this, the band goes through bad times, the singer (Thom Yorke) stops writing songs for a while and stop producing songs. After this bad weather, released Kid A, their fourth album, more experimental work of the group. With electronic sounds, guitars and melancholy lyrics chaotic, they try to get away from fame and focus on a small group of fans. Amnesiac published soon, where band consolidated its reputation for quality. Hail to the Thief, the sixth album, attempts to recover ancient sounds whilst still experimental sounds, unusual instruments and the lyrics of a political nature. In Rainbows is the band's latest album is divided into two parts, which could be downloaded from the internet (even free). At this point no one disputes the quality of the songs, or poetry. Radiohead has shown that their intentions are not to be known, or sell many records, but focus on making good music.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Actually there are many pages of psychology that can be used to study and collect information for the work. Without doubt one of the most useful web pages for me and my classmates, is the e-course. However, we have recently started using the site www.u-cursos.cl which provides information concerning the different subjects. In this website you can also find the texts we read class to class, there are also some notes on our latest tests. Anyone can upload any text or comments, leave your signature and suggestions, without being anonymous, which is very important to avoid misunderstanding. This page is very useful for obtaining the necessary material and to communicate with aides for each subject, asking some important things. I visit this page at least once a week, to be aware of my duties. I like this site because it is very tidy and is a useful way to stay informed and communicate with others, it is also possible to open a personal account on the page and create their own profile. I hope that people who do not know this page, you can join and share with everyone soon! Goodbye


Actually I do not admire anyone. The admiration is to another as a superior and that does not exist. However, I like some characters who are interesting and redeemable. One is the philosopher Karl Marx, who dedicated his life to social theory, strongly questioning the capitalist society of his day and proposing ways of achieving an egalitarian society where the people had involvement and better living conditions. Marx was born in Germany, specifically in Trier, in a large family of Jewish origin. He studied law at Bonn University, then studying philosophy in Berlin. It is influenced by Hegel and develops concepts such as, work, alienation, social class, consciousness and communism. Along with Engels, is the father of scientific socialism, which meets the basic principles of his theory. Marx is interesting because it is able to recognize many flaws in the capitalist system and tends to debunk the image of social structure. The accuracy of his observations is really surprising, is also able to use the philosophy and science, to coordinate their postulates. In his critical acumen and methodical observation, Marx is unsurpassed.