A little on my identity/personality

My name is Nicolas Torres, greetings!!!
I come from a line of Spanish, French and Italians.  My favorite thing in the world is music.  Beside physics, chemistry and mathematics, another favorite subject I like, and would love to have more time for, is literature.  I like reading.  I enjoy the books I've read because I see it as art and an expression, or extension, of the author.  I'm basically a very knowledgeable person, and I enjoy this.

I'm that weird kid that enjoys studying (most times) and doesn't complain much about it.  Funny, when you think about it, mostly everybody enjoys studying, they might not say it though. But I enjoy the different topics I am presented with.  For me, music is the biggest expression of feeling.  Much like poetry, music can have many interpretations; both, music and poetry, require a lot of time to study and organized thoughts  My favorite genre is blues along with jazz.  Although I listen to a bit of everything, I especially like these because they employ feeling through the instrument directly.

My favorite artists are Stevie Ray Vaughan, an Texan blues guitarist, Eric Clapton, the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and many many others!  Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble is one of the best old school bands, by this I mean that Vaughan played with a drummer and a bass player.  Eric Clapton is an English that plays blues as well as rock.  Also worth mentioning is Andrew Bird.  I like him because he uses a lot of loops in his music.  What this means is that he creates a rhythm, or a melody, and he records it while he plays it so that he can create a loop where this recording plays by itself and he can create other melodies with this.

I am a shy, introverted, insightful, enigmatic, romantic and expressive.  Some good, some bad qualities, like all of us.  I can be very practical at times and take things literal, especially when it’s a joke (rhetorical things…).  I have this feeling that listening to a genre of music gives a person the qualities socially appointed to a genre.  Bur the reality is that I like the music, and the music; it might sound depressive, but a quote I can really identify reads the following: “Sad is happy for deep people.”

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a great book, one of my favorites. I liked it because I could sympathize with the protagonist Charlie.  I have to admit that reading the last chapter, I felt really confident, and was really motivated to just be alive.  In the last lines of the book, Charlie says that he doesn't know when he will send another letter because he will be too busy participating in life.  So, maybe you can see how "participating" is not something shy people do.

Here is a link on trailer of the movie based on the book.
-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vb2qrcPEEs

And here is a link on a cover or "It's Not Easy Being Green by Andrew Bird.
--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKkY7sdk6n0

Reflection on the movie about Billy Mills

So we watched Running Brave and there were various topics the movie played with;  some of the biggest elements presented in the movie were: prejudice and segregation, native american culture, passion and finding yourself.

The movie begins with the protagonist participating on a track and field race where he first meets the track coach of Kansas University.  Right of the bat in the first minutes of the movie we can see the prejudice this coach has towards the native americans, in this case, a young man from the Sioux tribe.  The coach immediately is disappointed and decides not to have him on his team.  Billy quickly convinces the coach that he will follow his orders and win races for him.  Billy is half white and half native american; this basically separates him from white americans and from native americans as well.  Although he suffers a great deal of conflicts due to his race, Billy is allowed to compete and live in both worlds, or societies.

Billy suffers from internal conflict throughout most of the movie.  He is unable to find himself in what he does.  Many a times Billy wonders why does he run. He can't seem to understand why does he need to win races.  The coach of the Kansas University team also plays part in this trying to throw Billy off by saying he needs to focus solely on winning which causes him to reflect on his character and attitude.

In the end, Billy finds a balance in his life. He gets to fulfill his dream of running in the olympics and win.  With the help of his wife, the coach, his family and understanding his culture as well as the american culture too, Billy is able to grow and become a successful man later on in his life.

Here are two links:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emyxFILkkPA   -- this a  trailer of the movie. Running Brave
2.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F5iCsymMj0  -- Billy Mills incredible win at the Olympics in 1984.