Author Archives: Berto
About Berto
Hi! This is my blog!I Will No Longer Press 1 To Speak English
Here in the wonderful United States of America, we are well on our way to declaring English to be our official language. Senate Bill S. 2611 passed 62-35, and now needs to pass the House of Representatives. Having lived in Texas and Los Angeles, I almost thought we’d make the official language Spanish. But I was wrong.
So let me tell you how infuriated I get when I have to do extra work because … Read the rest →
Guest Writer Brian – Music Review: Dark Tranquillity – Fiction
Tonight I’ve decided to post the first of a few different rants from my friend, Brian. We often discuss music and sports via e-mail, along with the usual conversations about Life, The Universe, and Everything.
Before we get to the review, here’s some background. Dark Tranquillity is a melodic death metal band hailing from the death metal capital of the world, Gothenburg, Sweden. Soon they are releasing their 8th studio album, Fiction, and … Read the rest →
Concert Review – Blackfield – The Knitting Factory – Hollywood, CA
Note: Talia has sent me pictures! I am including some of my favorites here. Click here for the entire slideshow.
Last night, I had the honor of seeing one of Blackfield‘s seven US concerts on their tour to promote Blackfield II (reviewed at this earlier blog post). The sold-out show at the Knitting Factory, a small venue on the edge of the Hollywood Blvd. strip, was fetching tickets for up to 4 … Read the rest →
Dear Spammers: Give it Up, I use Gmail
I’ll keep this short. My primary e-mail address is a gmail1 account. I get about 10 legit e-mails a day, and 75 spams a day.
I haven’t seen a single spam for well over six months. Not one. Gmail’s spam filtering is that good. I don’t know how, and I don’t care. It works phenomenally.
So spammers, why do you even bother? With the click of one button, all of your garbage is gone. … Read the rest →
The Undoing of Lindsay Lohan
Throughout the early stages of her blossoming film career, Lindsay Lohan lived a relatively normal and peaceful Hollywood teenage life, if such a thing exists. However, in 2005, something happened. She began making headlines and was continually involved in negative news articles. After arduous thought, I have finally put a finger on what happened to cause this shift in behavior. I have found that Lohan was confronted by a force in her life that shook … Read the rest →
Five Years Into the Future
These past few years have been pretty wild for me. I had the best of my college years, graduated, traveled Europe, moved 1400 miles southwest, and then moved another 1400 miles west.
Sometimes I contemplate this path. But rather than just think “How in the hell did I end up out here?” I prefer to jazz things up:
I often find myself in really weird situations. And when this happens, I like to imagine this … Read the rest →