Santiago - Day Forty Two

i just woke up in my friend GILDA cousin's home in SANTIAGO. last night after we dropped off BEN and PABLO at the airport i decided to stay in the city and visit GILDA who is here CHILE doing a graffiti tour with five other artists. the mural at THE HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP on DULUTH in MONTREAL that was done two summers ago was done by two of the artists on this graffiti tour. one of the those two artists is also GILDA's sister. they're really good people. i met GILDA and stayed with her family three summers ago in OTTAWA for a week while i attended the MAGNETIC NORTH theatre festival for a class i was taking at the time. her father and his brother's were heavily involved in the ALLENDE government but had to flee CHILE when PINOCHET struck. for me it's really interest and important to surround myself with this part of CHILE since my very large family from the coast is constantly tucking themselves in the bed of NEO-LIBERALISM.

last night we stayed up late talking about each other's projects while the house dog, who was abused when it was a baby, kept barking and wanting a strange kind of attention. finally we went inside to get away from the barking and continued our conversation with her very wonderful cousin at the dinner table. her two cousins are taking care of this large house in LOS LEONS because their grandfather past away and in order to sell they need the signature of all ten brothers and sisters. since everyone is spread out all over the world, it's a objective to obtain. her cousin at the table had a soprano ukulele. with a big smile asked for it and started to play for a bit. when he saw i had an idea of how to play it, we excitedly started to geek out talking about the difference between the baritone and soprano. i told him about the MAGNETIC FIELDS and how they use the soprano a lot in their songs and he smiled back replying "i'm going to download their songs tonight."

that's one of the thing that i am most excited about when i come back to MONTREAL, getting to see my boyfriend STEPHEN MERRITT live again.
it's been too long.