http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scYs-a8LXUQ&translated=1 dont know if anything new is said.

He's basically going on about the theme of disappearance in Octahedron. He cites what happened to those kids from El Paso who disappeared, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Jimmy Hoffa, the Bermuda Triangle...a lot of Omar theorizing going on. He also talks briefly about the idea of not knowing things that are outside of human understanding, like death and the afterlife, and how that ties in with the concept of disappearance.

It would take me forever to do a full transcription. And it's really nothing we haven't heard him talk about in English interviews...

figured

Thanks for the summary !

what i managed to catch with my vague understanding of spanish:


he talks about not knowing what happens when someone dies, like when jeremy died. it depends what you believe in and some people think he could be in the sky with god with the white beard, or in the ground. but if you don't know, then you can imagine a thousand things much more horrible that that.

also mentions some famous people who've disappeared like oscar zeta acosta.

and about how emotions disappear, like a couple who've been together for thirty years and have three kids decide to leave each other one day.

SUPER FUERTE HAHAHA I LOVE IT

"y que carajo se yo..."

I lol'd

What did he say about Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas?

He was referring to Oscar Zeta Acosta and his disappearance. Sorry, I should've been more specific. :)

Cool! Yet another artist I love in whom Omar is interested as well! I wrote my English BA Senior Seminar paper (kinda like an undergraduate degree thesis) on Oscar Zeta Acosta and his works. Anybody read Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo? Fabulous. Critics shit all over it back then, though, mostly because Zeta Acosta was not only a self-celebrated Chicano (he was really active in MEChA) but a member of the drug-addled counterculture movement. Awesome book. Dumb critics.

Also, in my research I was surprised to find that Hunter S. Thompson stole the style of "Gonzo journalism" FROM Zeta Acosta! When he then tried to sue Thompson, Thompson used his production company to offer Zeta Acosta two book deals to settle the case. That's how Autobiography got published. Fucking white male thieves...geez.

He also says he had a friend named Tarzán in high school.

Interesting.

Yeah, looks like he's talking about his friends who disappeared again (which some stuff on Octa is based on). It'd be interesting to read a translation, since I think he only specifically talked about this in one other interview.