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“I got hit in the head once while I was living in New York,” he says, making a tidy segue while on the topic of injuries. “It was 1983, and I was trying to make it as an actor and working at a restaurant in the garment district. It was Sunday afternoon and very quiet. I had the Times in my hand and I was crossing the street when a car ran through a red light and hit me in the hip. I shot into the air and the newspaper went flying, then I got hit in the head and then I had no feeling. It was very dreamy and I thought I was paralyzed. I was lying on the street, bleeding out of the back of my head, when a wino bent down in front of my face. He smelled like strawberry wine and his hair was greasy, and he put his hand under the back of my head and said, ‘Feels kind of mushy.’ Then he looked around and said, ‘I gotta go. Korea.’ And like an apparition, he was gone.”

“You must have thought, ‘This is it.’”

“I did,” he says. “Something like that makes you pay attention to your surroundings. As an artist you observe the world. Sometimes it takes an accident to make you appreciate why you’re here, and you ask yourself, ‘What can I do to contribute to the world."

It's from this article: https://nuvomagazine.com/magazine/autumn-2007/viggo-mortensen?srsltid=AfmBOoorvv5018lCt8-VhnXLFwghBsHn9Vchr0-Lr8ZdKCDN2NFHFCDI

The whole article is very good!

I was reading the entries from 2012-2013-2014 and I realized that they would write each other nearly every day, not only to comment football matches, but also to tell each other their everyday experiences, while reflecting on literature, cinema, music and life in general. I’ve seen that the last posts are from 2022, but from 2018 to 2022 almost all posts are written only by Viggo. I’ve seen some recent interviews of Fabián Casas, who recently released new collections of novels, and he reflected on the fact that he basically stopped watching football and following the championships almost totally, because it was an obsession that gave him anxiety and that had too much influence on his life. Still, Viggo continues to be a football fan and one of his closest friends, as Casas recalled in a recent interview. I wondered if the blog is no longer updated because Casas lost his interest in football, but it would still be amazing if they continued since their cultural suggestions were pretty interesting.