JAMP
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Writing, Translation, Narrative Designing, Editing, Correcting, and Beta-reading |
| Location | South, by the Mediterranean Sea, Spain |
| Introduction | Born in Spain, with half the cigar already smoked, MA in English Philology (University of Granada), high school English teacher, writer, translator, narrative designer, editor, and beta reader, married, two sons, under development and late bloomer. I love cohesive world building, nature, complex social systems, folklore, pop culture, history (both modern and the antique civilizations like the Egyptians), moral quandaries and ambiguity, female protagonists, non-Western weird settings, bizarre dystopia, choices that challenge beliefs or values, the beyond-human condition, and the across genders and species. |
| Interests | Videogames, Baldur’s Gate, Fallout, Elder Scrolls Skyrim, Dragon Age, Sid Meier’s Civilization, Red Dead Redemption… Paintings Pieter Brueghel Kermesse, The Screams, the Hands, and Madonna by Munch; Everything by The Greco, Velázquez, Goya, and Dalí; all Romantic painting like Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Friedrich. Arts Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo Da Vinci, etc. Theater Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Tempest, Henry V, and else by Shakespeare These classical works, Don Quijote de la Mancha by Cervantes, El Buscón by Quevedo, Ivanhoe by Walter Scott, War and Peace and Anna Karenina by Tolstoi, Crime and Punishment by Dostoievski, The Metamorphosis by Kafka. Reference The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers by Christopher Vogler and The Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell, Theory of Fun by Ralph Koster, Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell, Creating Emotions in Videogames by David E. Freeman. The Bible, Confucius’s Analects, Laozi’s Tao Te Ching, Herodotus’s The Histories, Cicero’s “In Catilinam” (and opera omnia), Seneca’s Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Selden’s A reader’s guide to contemporary literary theory, Ética para Amador by Savater, Sophie’s World by Gaarder, Sapiens by Harari. |
| Favorite movies | Both Book and Film, Blade Runner (1982), One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), The Godfather (1972), The Name of the Rose (1986), Robocop (1987), The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, The Exorcist (1975), … Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (1925) and Modern Times (1936), Metropolis by Fritz Lang (1927), It’s a Wonderful Life by Frank Capra (1946), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers by Stanley Donen (1954), The Searchers by John Ford (1956), Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Vertigo by Hitchcock (1958), Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Apartment by Billy Wilder (1960), Spartacus (1960) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Kubrick, Planet of the Apes by John Dexter (1968), The Wild Bunch by Peckinpah (1969), A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick (1971), Straw Dogs by Sam Peckinpah (1971), Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Wars series by George Lucas (1977), Grease by Randal Kleiser (1978), Invasion of the Body Snatchers, remake by Philip Kaufman (1978), Alien by Ridley Scott (1979), Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola (1979), The Shining by Kubrick (1980), Radio Days by Woody Allen (1987), Robocop by Paul Verhoeven (1987), The Untouchables by Brian de Palma (1987), Forrest Gump by Robert Zemeckis (1994), Matrix by the Wachowski sisters (1999), Ex Machina by Alex Garland (2015), The Arrival by Denis Villeneuve (2016)… |
| Favorite music | The Beatles, Supertramp, Dire Straits, Queen, Loquillo… Songs of my life and time (the 80’s on), then Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin… lately, Impressions of the West Lake by Kitaro. Almost all musicals, Jesus Christ Superstar by Norman Jewison (1973), Cats, Les Miserables, Nine to Five, etc. Poetry The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer, Dante’s Divina Commedia, Langland’s Piers Plowman, John Bunyan’s The Pilgrims Progress, “Milton’s Paradise Lost, Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets and “Full Fathom Five,” John Donne’s “The Canonization,” Quevedo’s “Amor Constante, Más allá de la Muerte” and else, Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Percy B. Shelley’s “Ozymandias” and Prometheus Unbound, Coleridge’s Kubla Khan and Christabel, “The Second Coming,” and else by Yeats, T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock” and The Waste Land, Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “Mending Wall,” Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish,” Robert Lowell’s “Skunk Hour,” Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” Ezra Pound’s “The River Merchant’s Wife” and “In a Station of the Metro,” Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man,” William Carlos Williams’s “Red Wheelbarrow” and “The Dance,” “Los Milagros de Nuestra Señora” de Gonzalo de Berceo, “Coplas por la Muerte de Mi Padre” de Jorge Manrique, las Églogas de Garcilaso, Campos de Castilla de A. Machado, Romancero Gitano y Poeta en Nueva York de Lorca, Sobre los Ángeles de Alberti, todo Mario Benedetti, Les Fleurs du Mal de Baudelaire, many, many poets. |
| Favorite books | In Search of the Castaways (or Les enfants du Capitaine Grant), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, Michael Strogoff, and others by Verne; The Jungle Books by Kipling, Treasure Island by Stevenson, Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, Le Petit Prince by Saint-Exupéry, Paradise Lost by Milton, all tales of magic, horror and mystery by E. A. Poe, War and Peace and Anna Karenina by Tolstoi, Crime and Punishment by Dostoievski, The Metamorphosis by Kafka, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle,” “The Open Boat” and “The Blue Hotel” by Stephen Crane, This Perfect Day by Ira Levin, Dune by Herbert, Solaris and others by Stanislaw Lem, Vinge’s A Fire upon the Deep (Zones of Thought), The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein, Cien años de Soledad by García Márquez, short stories by Asimov, all Borges and Cortázar, Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces, La Tabla de Flandes, El club Dumas and the Alatriste series by Pérez Reverte, The Jackal and Odessa by Forsyth, Patria by Aramburu… |