How I fell head over heels with Manhattan, a photo gallery
Category: ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Miami beach: between Dexter and Sgt. Pepper
The condo where my friend was staying looked exactly like TV´s serial killer cop “DEXTER,” which is actually set in Miami. The feeling of being in Dexter-land was augmented by the headline I read on a local magazine my friend had lying around: “Bigger guns, no permits needed, Page 10.”
The nazi remark – Lars von Trier’s Cannes faux pas
“I understand Hitler.” Controversy sells. If Lars was looking for attention, this would have been the perfect way to do it.
The death of the common enemy – Obama and Osama´s head
Seeing Obama tell people to be happy because Osama had been killed felt exactly like one of those political meetings in 1984, where people enter into a hate frenzy against “the enemy.”
In Cuba and thinking of CHANGE
WHAT IS THE GOOD OF AN INTELLIGENCE
WHEN IT REASONS ALWAYS THE SAME WAY
AND ALWAYS REACHES
THE SAME CONCLUSION
A Genocide cannot be erased – April 24th, 2011
Hitler said ” Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” to counter the argument that it would be impossible to “get away” with wiping out the Jews. That´s what pushing a genocide under the rug will do; beget another one.
Catfish and The Social Network: No ode to Facebook
There´s no more reality on Facebook than on the Hollywood-style broadcast of the Irak war.
A beautiful voice (to Roger Ebert)
Though I knew little about Ebert and had never seen him, in my mind, he was not necessarily a “nice” man, more like a Neptune with his trident, letting films pass in front of him, and decreeing which ones would live and which ones would be sentenced to death.
Cherchez la muse
I have a friend who is obsessed with muses. She keeps saying, jokingly, “what did she have that I don´t?” referring to women like Gala, who inspired Paul Éluard, Max Ernst and Salvador Dalí alike.