Democracy now! To those critical voices that hold the truth and nothing but the truth... It is easy and comfortable to talk abiut unjustice, evilness of the politicians and anybody that has some kind of power. From the civil servant at the tax office to the Prime Minister.
The thing is. Will you offer a nice solution to all this, or you will simply nag and nag about it. I can tell you something. The solution is really easy, burn down everyhting, assume and contribute to the resurrection of a new society by putting an end to your mumbo jumbo and use your ashes to fertilize the new fields.
Am I going to far? Do you know feel afraid? Then, face up to it and do something.
Why not thinking before talking?
And if you liked the song and the video, don't be lazy and look for the lyrics. I will not copy and paste them for you!!!
Back again we are, I mean the three of us like one. A trilogy of one mind, three minds at once!
Well I have had a short nap, a it was short indeed for me!
Now I wake up slowly, turn on the radio and hear that we'll have to "pay" for plastic bags in 2009. The price will have to be in the ticket and if we do not take them we get a "discount".
Perfect and a great idea. Plastic is the enemy of our time. Plastic is something new to me. We critisize plastic and write about it using a pen made of plastic, or a keyboard made of plastic.
But that is something we probably cannot change. The important thing and my reflection is this:
-When there is a big problem in the world that affects the big powers, we the people have to pay for it. And lately this "pay" is literal. If the banks are about to collapse because they have misused our money, we have to give them more money. If there is a big environmental problem, like plastic and the waste our society generates, the idea is to make consumers pay for plastic bags. Have a look around your house, in your kitchen, in the bathroom, in the supermarket and pay attention to the amount of plastic that the products we buy have. Packets are basically layers and layers of plastic and metal. A packet of ground coffee has like three layers of plastic and aluminium paper, a carton of eggs is anything but carton, a bar of soap comes protected for a nuclear attack, etc., etc.
Nobody has suggested penalizing the companies that use packaging in an irresponsible way, or recommend customers to buy those products that are more conscious about the environment.
Some yoghourt brands say that if you buy their product they will help children in the third world. In the end it is our responsibility to help those children in the third world...
I am specially angry, as you can see. I am tired of being a consumer without right and a mountain of responsibilities.
It was Hallowe'en, and I forgot! And believe it is my favourite celebration! My brain is almost dried. I do not know if it the left or the right side, but it is drying! That's what getting old brings as a present.
Brain Lateralization Test Results
Right Brain (60%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain. Left Brain (48%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain
But if I have to believe these results I have a brain of a 108% capacity, and Virginia a 92%. I do not think it is fair she has lost a 8% of the brain and I am getting that 8%. How could that happen!
Hallows Eve. The day before the hallows, the day of the Jack'o Lantern, but also the Celtic tradition and also Sleepy Hollow, the story written by Washington Irving. This good and honest man who also wrote my own story. The same man who fell in love with The Alhambra and whose wife moved to California and name a huge property she bought after the moor palace in Granada. All these little things that connect our existences and give us the opportunity to live after life. Like James Wilkinson, choosing a name as a game, but then that name means something for Across the pond, but then he is also a scientist and maybe the pizza guy too. Who knows!
The day before the hallows and three weeks before Thanksgiving. A clean and pure name. Give thanks. Originally to the native Americans, but after all the westerns and the genocidal campaigns it mught be better to thank god. That's what people really do. I have never seen anyone these last centuries thanking the native americans (or can I call them the Indians?) for helping the pilgrims to survive that first winter in Plymouth Colony, Massachussetts. You know I know the area well...
Nobody has thought about combining both celebrations. We could have a Thanklloween, in which people could dress as Indians and scare everybody. That would be enough to justify killing all of them, don't you think?
The left brain would structure the killing, give tasks to every group involved in the genocide, and the right brain would work on creative and original ways of performing it.
All those efforts to have a white America and in the end Obama becomes the president. That would be like having a rabbit as the Prime Minister of Australia, or is he a fox? Africanamericans and "we the people" seem to have spoken loud and clear. Like in any other place G. W. Bush will now try to pass as many laws as he can and leave things in a disaster. Let's hope Nacy Peloci can make things difficult for him (after all, and like Obama she was the first (woman) to become the leader and spokewoman of Congress). I imagine Bush has a 5% of left brain (do not ask me about the rest), and Obama is mostly right (ironies of life)!
Am I boring you now? Well here is some music and excellent lyrics to keep you busy, entertained or maybe not?
I have done something really bad today. I have written a comment on Jack's post "Rest in peace". It was not correct. I din't say what I mean, but I meant what I said. In the end I have deleted it. Beacuse I didn't like the post and thought it was low in quality I didn't have to say it. I was afraid a minor creature had taken his/her personality and was posting things with his/her name.
What I really think is that the comment's title had to be "Rest in pieces" and the worst thing is that I didn't finish my comment with "Carpe Noctum".
What can an old person like me do on a rainy weekend? Well, I went to the cinema. My choices were two: Brideshead Revisited and Solo quiero caminar.
Solo quiero caminar (Agustín Díaz Yánez) is a weak production of more of the same old ... It makes me remember too much of Nadie Hablará de Nosotras Cuando Hayamos Muerto, which was already clearly "inspired" and very much inspired in True Romance (Tony Scott (1993))
Nadie hablará... had a social background that made you feel close to the characters and empathise with them. Díaz Yánez says this is not a part two, but the similarities are too many... It is difficult to use the same characters and at the same time insist that this is something new and original (I know Jack, it is difficult to be original). But in this film there is too much Steve McQueen shooting style, too much Bonie and Clide background and too much of the genre. There is no reinterpretation or fine mixing of the ingredients to do something entertaining again.
If you are desperate to see some second-hand action go and watch it, but you have been warned!
Brideshead Revisited is another story in all senses. I was totally mesmerized by the actors, the script, the setting and the photography. It is like am Attenborough film or the most recent versions of Jane Austen's novels. This is not the TV serie and there is no intention to be it. No presence of the ever melancholic Jeremy Irons and his doppel-gänger Anthony Andrews. I really liked the role of religion and specially catholic integrism in society which is really crucial in the whole story. A must if you like quality cinema without exceptions.
Do not try to connect it or make comparisons to Atonement or other stories of the same kind. That is a waste of time, the story is self-sufficient and doesn't need any comparison or inspiration to justify.
I have been exploring some other blogs, and I have found some things very interesting. I have seen many blogs about the elections and I like this in particular. You can customize it to any friend of yours and send it to him/her.
It would be a good idea if you have friends in the USA to send them one like this.
You know that cinema and films in general are younger than I, but because of my age I feel better with old films and stories.
This weekend I was watching on of my favourites Battleship Potemkin (1925) by Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein.It is a classical film with a very modern story, in my opinion. Eisenstein copied some of the new techniques started by Griffith and did marvelous things with them. He was a geniuous of manipulation and creating situatuons with big contrasts.
My friend Jack in her/his pots about originality complained with anger about how unoriginal things were. Well, I have some experience, and originality is creation, and creation is making things where anything existed before. All the rest is wit and work. Using this fantastic thing of the Internet I found a good version of the famous Odessa clip of this film.
I hope you like it. I know that for some purists this things should not be done. They are like a sin. You may probably talk about the heresy they did with Metropolis (1926) by Fritz Lang. They remastered the film with a soundtrack by Queen conducted by the sinful Giorgio Moroder (I would leave him to you Jack!). Maybe you like it or maybe not, but you sure have an opinion. The new things people do with music are not really so new, plagiarism is somethig like Fran Perea copying Pure by Lightning Seeds, Hombres G copying At The Zoo by Simon and Garfunkel and many more very close to us. The reason for this..? Empty brains and big egos! It is more decent to sample and mash-up other creations as a simple tribute to the authors. The combinations of sound and notes exists very probably anywhere else, like in nature, but the first one who identifies it can be called the author, the rest is copying.
Something about the song A Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. Maybe this is a song "From Hell". The legend says that it is deeply conected and influenced by Jimmy Page, a firm follower of the occultist Aleister Crowley. Jim bought Crowley's mansion in Foyers, Scotland by Loch Ness. In that house died John Bohham, the drummer of the band. It is said that the stairway really exists hidden inside the house. Maybe a visit would make all clear.
Life was different before I fell sleep. Now I see people doing so many strange things!!! always hurrying!!!
I take a taxi and the taxi driver and I talk, and talk. It seem we are friends. The the driver stops and I have to pay. I was just a comedy, a willing suspension of disbelief for some minutes. I give the driver the money and we do not touch. I want to hold that hand. The hand of a friend.
Feel the blood inside the veins, the sweat in the palms! Make it real, take the farce further...
You will have to excuse me, but a person of my age that has slept in so many theatres has some culture of films.
I insist the Burn After Reading does not honor the name. It should be "Burn after watching". I did my homework and went to see the film this weekend!
The story is ok, the actors not bad, but why do they have to finish all the story in three minutes of conversarion when they still had time for more film?
I returned home and watched "No country for old men". Just to make me feel better.
By the way Mr. Bean, some bad or weak films with Brad Pitt in it:
Less than Zero Contact Interview with the Vampire The Mexican Spy Game Seven Years in China
I am surprised our mutual friend Jack has been so imprecise this time! I imagine that when he talks about cinema and Louis and Auguste Lumière, he refers to that December 28 in 1895 (technically the 19th. century but the invention was part of the movement to the 20th.) in the Salon Indien in the Grand Café in the Boulevard des Capucines. Louis and Auguste didn't try to create entertainment. They wanted to show the world theis invention: the cinematograph. Simple scientific difusion, no business or killing time. In fact, five years later the brothers abandon de the invention. But, George Méliès, how was in the Salon Indien in that day (with our friend Jack I imagine) immediately talked to Antoine Lumière (the father of the inventors) to try to bay a cinematograph. But he didn't succeed.
George Méliès, owner of the Houdin Theatre in Paris, was a magician and an illusionist. One of those that, like Jack was mesmerized by the possibilities of the invention from the point of view of creating magic tricks and making people believe lies. Méliès films are pure theatre and magic shows. No science and seriousness like the work of the Lumière brothers.
George bought a copy of the cinematograph in England. Bad days for the patents that Edison knew how to profit!
I have slept so many years that I have dreamed almost everything that can be dreamt or filmed. New films based in old stories just want to entertain and mesmerize simple minds. The cinema exists because our retina does not work correctly.
If you have interested in the Lumière brothers experiments you have to watch their first ten films which are less than 15 minutes long all together.
I am happy you like cinema Jack, I am happy.
Let the game be played and the players roll the dice!
Some people think that they have a lot to say and talk a lot. Some people think they do not have nothing to say and do not talk, or talk very few things.
I have lived-slept so many centuries that nothing can surprise me. I think I know you before I do. You make me think of other people I have seen.
Some of you are just like little Billy Budd Sailor, some others seem to know everything (you know who you are) Much Ado About Nothing, and some others make me feel I am back in Walden
It is very interesting I have found you. You say more about yourselves than you think. It is a great game to see you in class, and try to discover the guilty look.
"He looked round for his gun, but in place of the clean well-oiled fowling-piece, he found an old firelock lying by him, the barrel incrusted with rust, the lock falling off, and the stock worm-eaten."
What we think is different, old and useless is very frequently the same old thing, and still useful. Do you think we need to throw the objects we do not use for some time or we must keep them?
Sorry I'm late! Better sorry than late! I just woke to find myself in the middle of this. It seems I'm always late. You know that. I'm even late to choose a name for my blog!
