Diarios de motocicleta
I saw the Motorcycle Diaries tonight at Flicks. It’s a movie about the young Ernesto “Che” Guevera and his friend Alberto Granando taking a 12000km trip through South America, initially by motorcycle and later by foot, boat, hitch-hiking and whatever other means were necessary. It’s a very interesting movie. The two main characters are interesting and the story is subtle, but engrossing.
Thoughts, in three:
- there are a lot of movies based on real life, because real life is interesting. leading to…
- I should write more about my life, particularly a memoir of my time at MIT and the quasi-autobiographical road trip screenplay that I started
- I really should learn Spanish. If you’re in the Bay Area, you’d understand. I’m not naturally gifted at languages, but there’s no reason I shouldn’t work at Spanish (and later: Zulu and Afrikaans).
March 7th, 2005 at 11:56 am
You should definitely work more on that screenplay. I’ll write the soundtrack for it. It’ll be rad-tastic.
March 7th, 2005 at 12:35 pm
Doesn’t Granando remind you of Devin of “Night Rally” fame?
March 7th, 2005 at 7:45 pm
Yeah, Granando does remind me of Devin. Know who else reminds me of Devin? The guy from Aqueduct.
How are those Night Rally boys doing, anyway?
March 7th, 2005 at 8:03 pm
They seem to be in hiding the last 6 weeks or so. They’ve got a steady diet of shows booked starting this Friday, though. I think they were quiet because they were finishing a record, a split 12″ I believe.
Motorcycle Diaries was great. The “swim” was moving.