Last week was a blast, a breath of fresh antarctic wind on my sweaty face. Last wednesday I found out that i was going to be published in the mexican literary journal DOS FILOS, set in Zacatecas, Zacatecas. Its hard to describe what I felt like when I read the little email that the editor, renowned writer Jose de Jesus Sampedro sent me to inform me that the short story i submitted was worthy of publication. I felt happy, I felt lucky, a strange feeling in my chest that i can only say felt like a sudden burst of joy. My father had a lot to do with this moment. He has always read all my stories since I was young, and always has told me what he thought of them, but most importantly he has always encouraged me to keep writing, and he believed in me enough to do me the favor of sending the story through the mexican post office while he was in Zacatecas in a work trip. I also owe debts to my great-uncle Miguel Donoso Pareja for he was the one that recommended DOS FILOS to me and told me he thought this particular story was going to be published. Needless to say, i feel very encouraged now to keep writing and reading, ill also post a picture of the magazine itself when it gets to me
http://www.excentricaonline.com/libros/images/uploads/dossfilos.jpgThat same wednesday I also found out that an editorial I wrote for a small independent newspaper from St.Augustine was going to be published. The newspaper is called The Watertown News and is mostly a sort of civic protest kinda thing, with the main political articles written by Lee Malis, the editor. Lee Malis has had a lot of journalistic experience all over the world, covering wars and events like pinochet's demise in chile. The newspaper is pretty new but its already at 8000 copies per release so I'm guessing its doing pretty good and Ive noticed its getting a lot of local support from sponsors. I like the newspaper a lot because i think its main articles are quality investigative reports on the injustice that prevails in the shitass but pretty town of St.Augustine.
Then this weekend I went to Atlanta with my girlfriend Stephanie and saw Devendra Banhart and the Grogs live. The show was in this little movie theater that was converted to a venue called the Variety Playhouse, in the area of Little 5 Points. The area itself is very cool and we had some pizza and beers before the show. The show was amazing, flawless. The set list was great too because it had the best songs from all of his albums. After the show I talked to him and Stephanie took a picture of my talking in spanish with him (devendra wasnt able to talk much cus of all the groupies but he bummed a cigarette from me, a shitty miami made 305 and he said to me Callate Huevon! when i told him how much fun my life had been with his music). He was very high, but very polite. Then i talked to his best friend and awesome musician Noah Georgeson for a good 10 minutes and we talked mostly about caetano veloso, how they had gone through favela adventures together in Brazil and how crazy it was. I didnt talk to Greg Rogove that much but he was the tallest of the bunch, and he looked like a gentle, hippie by way of bro giant. Me and Stephanie both think it was a lot of fun.
