Changes, ongoing

August 30 2008 | Uncategorized | Comments (4)

The people who will build the studio came this week and are about to start the job. In the good hand, Its not really expensive. In the bad, it will take them until december. Thats right. Three full months.

So I thought I could get my album ready by december? not quite. I’ll do as much as I can to prepare things so maybe january? who cares. I might open a youtube channel and post my rants there. You know, about life being miserable. LOL.

At Cublo we’re finishing this big fucking game for the Frank Miller’s Spirit movie. Yah. Big names, rings a bell? It seems like the higher you climb the ladder, the dumber the people gets. My friend Jeff from Hybrid just told me it gets worse. Its a returning point for me so after this project is wrapped, its likely to be the last one.

Ariel and I are preparing our game engine to release stuff for Cublo Games. Thats what Im doing this weekend (besides chatting with 200 girls online). Cublo Games is scheduled to go live by mid October, along with cartoons and other stuff we’re doing. Im mildly excited. I’ll probably get a lot more excited after september 13, when we’re wrapped from client work and get to build our own thing fulltime.

The new office still looks like crap, kinda, unorganized. Ping pong table didnt come yet. Nor the 50 inches plasma. Some of our people are having a hard time to adapt because now we’re fancy - the new office used to be an art gallery, our new tables are made of glass, Im getting extra monitors for everyone, that modern smelly vibe. I’ll post a few pictures when we’re settled.

Anyway, back to music, coding, and girls.

Burn baby, burn

August 21 2008 | Uncategorized | Comments (5)

Lots of things going on.

We moved to a new office. Im going to build a recording room there. So far I’ve been recording at home, or at the bathroom, or at my living room. Im going to have a real one now, and plan to use it intensively as soon as its done to finish the what, 60 songs that are waiting for me now? lets say one at a time.

Also I’m killing my old biz, cublo “services”, and turning it into what it was intended to be. Sort of a warner + sony model were we release products for people to consume. So far we’re been doing almost exclusively client work, and its time for a role inversion and do products, then client work (if any) in between projects.

Cublo music / pictures plays a role in there. Also the games portal. Anyway. Sometimes its too much.

Fear pushes me forward. I trained myself for. I see a lot of people paralize there. Heck. Even here. Things get scary when you displace from your comfort zone. A comfort zone that was scary as hell at the beginning too, but people don’t like to remember that. Whatever is good now was a pain to obtain at first.

So its a scary time for everyone around me and it gets lonely, and I enjoy it because its forward. Forward and up.

Burn baby. Like that phoenix. Raise from nothing. Get some glory. Then burn to nothing. And reborn. I wonder how high I will get this time. At some point it should be final, right? will it be this time? will things go right? I don’t give a damn.

Also Im getting a ping pong table for my new office. I dare you to beat me. Biatch.

Ahi donde los gritos suenan como campanas

August 5 2008 | Uncategorized | Comment (1)

“There where the screams sound like bells”, another poem from 1996. Wrote it while hanging out with the guys from Literaberinto

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Que voy a tomar una espina de mi propio sufrimiento
para hundirla en tu hombro

de la poca sangre me har

Mine to waste

July 27 2008 | Uncategorized | Comments (7)

Here is the draft for “Mine to waste”. I made it during the weekend. Its based on an old song from my first band (1994), so there you go, and criticism is welcome

[audio:Yohami-mine-to-waste.mp3]

Lyrics:

Im a free bird, Im a lion
So I stand up unafraid

Im a failure, that feels good
Im not longer one of yours

And I can justify all my crimes
But I cant justify what I am

Because Im mine to waste

Waste it my way
Twist it my way
Spend it my way
Break it my way

An I can reach the sun
On my own

My name is Yohami

July 18 2008 | Uncategorized | Comments (4)

So lets go by the facts.

I was born in Milan, Italy, in 1976. Then moved to Venezuela as a child, and then to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I have literally spent the past 5 years.

I’m a Pisces / Leo / Dragon. I don’t really believe in the zoodiacs, but from time to time it serves as a reminder of what am I and where I’m going. Kinda.

I decided to be a writer and a musician when I was 19. Then I started to design and code when Flash arrived, back in 1999. Then became a businessman. I’m actively doing all of that.

I created my company, Cublo : Culture Blocks in my intent to own a medium ruled by something else than money. The aim of Cublo is to release books, movies, music, games, content, and tools.

I have died about 20 times by now.

Despite the incredulity of a lot of people surrounding me at the time, I learned to sing, play instruments and record / mix / master.

I don’t know a single cover. Well, maybe Angie and Knocking on heaven’s door. Just the chords.

I own a decent homestudio. I’m always recording, and slowly I’m putting myself together to come with an album. I’ll play everything in there.

I like live shows. Specially when I’m the one on the stage.

I’m usually pissed off. Or happy.

I don’t party. I don’t hang out. I don’t drink. I don’t waste time. I’m not nice.

I’m a dominant male.

I like to think deep about things, yet I like to act violently and without much thinking.

I dislike humanity, yet I love the human spirit. I don’t see both together often, but when I do, I still jump like a child.

I’m not afraid to die, yet I don’t plan to.

I am here.

que pierdes al crecer

July 13 2008 | Uncategorized | Comment (1)

“what do we lose when growing”. An old msn conversation with a girl friend, talking about nocive learnings and so, back in 2003. My nick there is ZERO.

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sk8r girL:
pero entonces
que pensas qe perdiste? que cosas dejaste ir?
(o dijiste enemigo por tama? )

ZERO:
si, tama habla “con la voz del enemigo”
pero esa voz nos habla a todos
dice: rindete, sometete, dejalo ir

sk8r girL:
ahora entendi…

ZERO:
el fracaso no es tan malo, la belleza no existe
etc

sk8r girL:
yo no se si es que deje ir ciertas cosas, pero se que hay cosas en las que me parece ridiculo seguir creyendo…

ZERO:
por ejemplo?

sk8r girL:
el fracaso es malo siempre y cuando no aprendas algo

ZERO:
al aprendizaje puede ser tu enemigo tambien
no todos los aprendizajes elevan

sk8r girL:
me siento una roca… quiza con el acercamiento a deather las cosas vayan cambiando, pero me siento muerta
hoy me dio asco pensar en tener una pareja, me siento desconfiada, fria, incapaz de amar

ZERO:
en que te parece ridiculo creer?

sk8r girL:
todas esas cosas siento que las perdi, y que las puedo recuperar
creer en que puedo volver a recuperar la inocencia que tenia… es como que te destapan los ojos, ves al tipo que mueve los titeres y despuescuando ves los titeres ya sabes el truco
siento que eso pasa cuando creces
perdes ilusiones, esperanzas… te dejas ir…
(al menos yo)

ZERO:
eso es papa noel

sk8r girL:
es papa noel y varias coas mas
mira
y ocuando era chica
y veia a mis viejos, creia que la gente podia seguir amandose como el primer dia despues de20 a

The radio player is up

July 13 2008 | Uncategorized | Comment (1)

I just finished the coding of my radio player. I loaded all of my 2002 and 2006 demos there since I don’t have any of the new recordings ready yet, but I plan to start posting new songs soon. So if you had some sort of sick nostalgia for my old stuff (yeah right!) you will be pleased. Cheers.

Everything I want is already mine

July 12 2008 | Uncategorized | Comment (1)

So I have this boy, a little boy who was brought. It’s here, inside, looking through my eyes, pulsing with my pulse, curious and playful about everything that’s shiny. He’s been told to be good. He’s been told to wait for things, wait for his turn, his chance, to express desire and cry for help.

Surrounding that boy there’s the man. A shape made through this world, sometimes adapting to the mold and sometimes breaking it, like a tree that grows against everything on his path.

And sometimes life tells I’m just a piece being removed from the board. Like when you enter a new game that says “it’s over” and you’re supposed to eat your dust.

And my boy gets in pain: Hey, all that stuff that I want. Why does nobody care to give them to me?

And I say: There’s pain, pain has to move, so make your world move.

Everything I want is already mine.

The boy only understands about the love he gets. But a man is given nothing. When somebody loves a man, he’s been told: Come here and take me. Come here and make me yours.

Everything I want is mine to take.

Years ago I was into this dramatic spiritual contemplation, strongly feeling this desire, deeply connecting with everything I was and letting it flow, doing nothing about it. So much emptyness. So much zen. So much energy that I could heal others with my hands. So much pain. Because the universe gave me nothing, and the world was such a horrid, sad little place.

But when that pain gets in motion, anger, gets in motion, the universe surrenders so easily.

Even the higher, unreachable fruit is at my reach when I climb to that tree. When I throw a stone and take them down. When I look for a ladder. When I. When its on me.

Everything I want is already mine. When I.

The boy freaks out.

How am I going to know what’s for me if nothing is given to me? He says. How am I going to know what I have to do if there are no rules? how am I going to make decisions, how to know what’s worth it, if everything is to be earned on my own?

My answer: Because I want it. What I want is what is worth it. It starts here.

But ain’t that just going random? He says. Shouldn’t there be something that was made just for me, something that chooses me, something that says, I am for him? Something that surrenders. Something I don’t have to pay for.

My answer: What I want is what is meant to be mine. What was born made to be mine, is what I was born made to want. It starts here.

The universe ain’t testing us. It just shaking smoothly. With its beautiful treasures and blowing it’s trees to the wind. And its all ours. And I’m not shaking with it.

Everything I want is already mine.

La rosa

July 10 2008 | Uncategorized | Comment (1)

My very first poem, written when I was 17 years old and still going to highschool (1993). I ended up writing about 30 poems on this style and entered a poetry contest that kinda changed everything after getting some mention on it. Funny how things turn out.

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El desierto.
La oscura noche es el techo de mi sue

Seria hermoso morir ahora

July 10 2008 | Uncategorized | Make a Comment

“It would be beautiful to die now”. My second or so poem from 1993. I scared a lot of people with this. I didnt mean to.

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