The Apple Worm

"You can't blend in, when you where born to stand out" Everyone who knows me, knows I love Apple, to run, the flash, star wars, to write and to analyze movies. This movie is one of the reasons I give when people ask me why I love to go to the movies so much: I believe movies are one of the best ways in which people can realize that the world around them is SO much bigger than they realize. Movies should take you places outside reality but also prove to be real in the emotions you feel when you experience their plot (no matter how fantastic or authentic it is). To get into the movie, lets start with the big and obvious ones: the acting was GREAT to say the least. Jacob Tremblay really sells you emotion through the make-up he is in; he knows how to embody someone who is as outcast as August (main character). Isabela Vidovic (yeah, I had to google her name too) was really good to express her eclipsed character in the story. Owen Wilson was a MUCH better compliment to bo...

Yeah I saw it too! If you haven't GO WATCH IT NOW  and then come back to read this! I got into comics and superheroes through DC, everyone who knows me knows that. Flash is and will forever be my favorite superhero because of how much I connect with him and on how many levels. But the Avengers initiative starter about 10 years ago and I never in a million years expected to love and get to know so many Marvel superheroes as I do now. You see, from Marvel I only kind of read Spiderman, Daredevil, X-Men and Fantastic4; that was it. I had heard and seen a little here and there of the universe of heroes Marvel had to offer and thought they were and still are cool but that's all. When the Marvel Cinematic Universe began I was impressed, I thought they would pull of nice hooks into the next movie with the post-credit scenes but nothing more, I do not think anyone could have predicted the MASSIVE success they are today, TODAY with this Infinity War trailer I felt the tingling ...

When we’re kids we want to grow up. When we grow up all we want is to stay young. When you’re in school they warn you about high school. When you’re in high school they warn you about college. When you’re in college they warn you about “real life”. When you get a job they warn you about being married and having a kid. When you get a kid, they warn you about having kids… All those "warnings, equations, recommendations, guidance formulas…” to how to manage a successful life, how to find success, how to live well…  And yet your life isn’t a  pencil drawing made from the lines from one of those guidelines to the next. It’s a painting that you make from the shades and mixtures of the primary colors you decide to use every day. It’s not about coloring by staying in-the-lines, it’s about realizing that the canvas has the shape and size that you need it to have. As this year is beginning to end, I want to remind you that I know, so far: You might have ha...

Happy Thanksgiving! As this marks the beginning of the end of the year I want to give you guys a little filler behind a previous post to be thankful. I am thankful for my parents and family and in this specific behind the scenes post My Mom. Every story has an untold truth behind it... This is the one behind the amazing time I had when at Interlochen Music Camp that I shared previously with you guys in the entry titled: MUSIC: a happy short story . My mom figured it out early enough, I was, am and will always be a hyperactive kid inside. When I turn 90 years young, I will continue to be that same crazy kid that one day decided music was everything to me, that I wanted to direct orchestras, compose ensemble music, perform in front of hundreds and thousands of people. I learned how to read music and the alphabet at the same time, that is how lucky I was to discover passion in music at a young age, and I do not take that for granted. At first music was an exhaust, a decompressing w...

Yeah... I finished this series and have LOTS of thoughts to get through. The upcoming AppleWorm Podcast will be about the second part of Justice League thoughts and the thoughts on the Punisher because of how much I need to get my thoughts out on these 2 amazing marvel and DC productions. Ok now the real and serious stuff: One of my best friends from Denmark and I were talking about why we hated Iron Fist, why we are growing tired of the CW soap opera way of depicting superheroes in Flash and Arrow and how or if that had something to do with why we loathed Suicide Squad. Many of you guys out there might have many reasons, and so did we: bad character development, monotonous tone, horrible editing, poor/lazy writing of the plot, etc. etc. So since we could not find one specific reason, we went more general, thematic, resolute with our reason to dislike on different gradients the series mentioned before (excluding Suicide Squad which is a movie). And OUR conclusion was: The g...

Yeah, it is called FOOTBALL NOT SOCCER! And it is most definitely the biggest sport in the world. And since all 32 countries for the 2018 Russia World Cup have been decided I wanted to start a series of AppleWorm Rants about why football is important to me. Every time people ask me about Costa Rican culture I tell them the two "official religions" in our country are christianity and football. If there is ONE thing that brings the country together like nothing else it is the national football team. Walking outside ANYWHERE in the country on game day you will be visually INUNDATED by red football t-shirts, which is something that gives you hope even on hopeless games (for example in the 2014 world cup, Costa Rica had to play Uruguay, Italy and England and even when the world was almost laughing at Costa Rica, we held hope, and if you don't know the rest of the story I invite you to watch the linked video ). 3 experiences mark my football-loving life more than anyt...

A little context first: I love where I live. My grandfather was one of the most important people in my life and he gave each one of his sons and daughters a piece of land that he owned so that they could hopefully live there. That land is up in a mountain with really nice view, calm neighborhood and fresh air (not to be taken for granted in the smoke-world we live in). Recently, my mom and I had a small “tech-crisis” if you can call it that. A very serious rainy day with lightning and thunderstorms hit and one of the many lightning hit close by, frying the house’s AppleTV in the process… Wow, we did not know how little cable TV we consumed compared to streaming and subscription services. So I thought to tell you guys what I pondered those days I was AppleTV-less. One week is all my mom and I lasted with no AppleTV, and here’s the worst part: the TV has a smartTV capability, and it is Horrible to use: bad quality apps and image quality.  I have said in the past that t he ...

I am sorry, I did not mean to change my mind. But here's the deal, the reviews are out and unfortunately or fortunately the online celebrities/reviewers whose opinion I most trust made me realize that this is THAT year... Yeah, I never thought this time of my AppleWorm life would come but it is here: This is the year where I wait to upgrade my iPhone and don't just buy the new iPhone ASAP. Ever since the iPhone 5 I have upgraded my iPhone to the latest model without a second thought, and by the time I got to the iPhone 6s Plus I thought to myself "one day I will have to stop and meditate my decision". The moment did not happen in deciding between 5c and 5s, 6 and 6Plus, 6s and 6sPlus, 7 or 7Plus... But now, the decision between 8 and X (I call it "X" and not "Ten") has signaled that time I new would come, I am holding back with my 7Plus for some time. Let me explain why this decision was made and why I changed my mind (if you already heard the...