I Want My MTV... And They Want Me Too!

It’s been a while since a blog update, but things have been pretty good here in Buenos Aires. Since the last update Aura and I have gotten a pet hamster called Motas (or “Motas!” as I like to call him), I’ve started working on a new version of Elevation (in C++ using the PopCap framework and which is the subject of a future post called “I Love You, I Hate You”), I’d done a lot of thinking and talking about the opportunity I mentioned in the last post and it’s looking more interesting everyday and today Aura, Ximena and I did castings for a show on Latin MTV.

It was another episode of my misadventures with Spanish and while I knew the show was searching for Argentina’s hottest dancer it turns out that by “hot” they meant “HOT” and when I thought Isabella from MTV was saying “Remind the girls it’s just dancing, not a striptease”, she was actually saying “Remind the girls it’s a striptease.” Well, luckily we were the first people to get screened, out of 135, a process that will take six and a half weeks, so everyone was really great, friendly, patient and not bored from the whole thing. Before long I was being interviewed in front of a huge green screen in Spanish about pets, my style of dancing and my favourite country in South America, to which “Colombia” elicited gasps from everyone in the room but Aura and Ximena, who were laughing. The words, “…but I love Argentina too” seemed to fix things up but I’m thinking if I don’t make “the cut” the only possible reason it because of this. Incidentally all this occurred while wearing a silver shiny belt, a black vest, a felt hat, gaudy sunglasses and, most shockingly of all, a tucked in t-shirt. Sean Paul’s “I’m Still In Love With You – feat. Sasha” started up and before I knew it I was dancing, gyrating and losing articles of clothing at an alarming rate. I ended up shirtless, with unbuckled jeans and only resisted dropping my pants because the large “Calvin Klein” printed on them would have given me a pixilated stomach. I have to say, I found the whole experience very enjoyable and feel I now have another option if the time comes for a career change.

The show airs some time in November, so keep an eye out of MTVLatinAmerica for us!