Yay, The World Cup is about o start and… honestly I don’t give a crap

*Warning: explicit language

I don’t get it. I just really, really, really, REALLY don’t get it. I have nothing against those people, who enjoy, but football soccer does absolutely nothing for me and I don’t know why.

Maybe is because my father traumatized me with his constant yelling when I was a kid, maybe is because I met a lot of soccer fans during my life who were total assholes with me and I learned to hate them because of that, or perhaps I’m just a pussy… well, whatever the reason, I just don’t care.

And I know what you’re thinking: If he doesn’t care about it, why is he dedicating an entire post about it? That’s just stupid. And you’re totally free to believe that, even I think that I’m a humorless douchebag sometimes. But my point is: Why this thing is supposed to be important for me; the answer, if you’re not figured out already, is: It doesn’t.

But, if I think about it, the sport itself it’s not the thing that bothers me. Seriously: why am I supposed to hate a bunch of brainless guys chasing a ball with their feet during 90 minutes? The thing that bothers me is this:

I'm pretty sure that this is the image that inspired Pablo Picasso to draw Guernica... I've seen nests of rats more organized than this.

The stupidity of the football players is nothing compared to the average “intelligence” of a football fan, even Jon Snow knows more than those imbeciles. Of course, I’m not talking about ALL the fans, there obvious exceptions. I’m talking about those uneducated, trash-talking, Cro-Magnon shitheads that constantly beat the crap out of each other in order to prove who the superior team/club/country is.

I mean, I get that competition it’s something that belongs to human nature and to be fair, the idea of supporting your team and be with your friends enjoying a sport game it’s a very funny activity. But, come on, could football fans be any more racist/supremacist when it comes to talk about the other teams.

It’s kind of disturbing to me see the people of my country preparing their hate speech against Brazilians, Spanish, Argentineans, or whatever. Part of it is because I hate my own country. I think I live in a land of arrogant fart-smellers and ultra-nationalist twats who think they’re the British’s of America. The British’s of America? Give me a break.

And the worst part is that these people teasing everybody about how good they are. Even people from the same country like me. If I don’t love my country then I’m a horrible person. Well, you know what? Yes I’m a friggin’ monster because I don’t like this stupid country and I don’t give a crap about pretend that I need to feel superior to the other countries. I’m not exactly a huge fan of Adolf Hitler for your information.

Getting back on track, here’s my question: Does win the world cup is going to make any difference about how the rest of the world sees us? Well, my answer is a big, fat, redundant and despicably obvious NO. So stop nagging people about it.

To finish this post I declare myself not a football and proudly scream: Screw you guys, I’m goin’ home.

Class #8: There's a lot of Dog-lovers in this world... thank God I'm not one of them.

Jesus christ, I can't stand them. Dogs are the most annoying species in the animal kingdom, they're gross, annoying and extremely stupid animals. I don't care what people say about them. Either dogs are loyal or friendly or all that overly-sensitive nonsenses that I don't get it and, most important, I don't care.

This is the greatest sign I've ever seen in my life.

The reason of why I'm saying this is because I used to be afraid of dogs. When I was a little kid I was traumatized by one one those when, walking with my parents on the street, a big Douberman come closer to me and barked me. Since that day, I learned to hate them with all my heart and soul.

And the worst part of it, is that my cousins used to have a lot of dogs in their house. All these years I've been forced to live around them, hearing people talking about how cutsy-loyal-friendly dogs are. Give me a break. I just don't understand the appeal. Seriously, how is it possible that people want one one those little monsters lying in their houses?

Although I've overcome my phobia, I still don't want to have them close to me. But, because I'm part of the 1% of the world that despise them, I need to accept it. Good grief.

If you like them, that's fine, more power to you. But I'd rather die in a car accident before donate money to a dog's shelter. Now please, don't overreact and tell me that I'm a heartless bastard because I don't like dogs. I've spent my entire life ttrying to avoiud them and yet they're constantly appearing in every place I go.

Over and out.

Class #7: It's not easy being green (but sometimes it's really helpful)

I admit that, for me, this topic it's kind of hard to talk about. I mean, I know that help the enviroment it's important and stuff. But, the thing is... I never really stopped to think about it. I'm not even sure if Global Warming it's something real, and I spend most of my time watching TV and movies and therefore I use a lot of electric energy.

So, yes I'm not exactly a mother nature's son. But... Does that mean I do absolutely nothing to help the enviroment? the Answer is: No... that means that I do things to help the enviroment...

All the thing I know about the enviroment, I learned from these guys...

Every time I buy a juice in a glass bottle, I dropped it in the glass can, same thing with the aluminium and plastic. I'm not sure if I'm the only one who do that in my university (probably not and I'm overreacting) but I'm glad to say that I take recycling seriously, at least inside the place where I study.

My family always buy these enviromental-friendly light bulbs who are really deficient and don't light up like... AT ALL... and they're really hurtful for the eyes. But if it helps the enviroment I guess it's worth to get blind in order to save the world for an energy crisis.

My father does not have a car. Well, he used to have one, but it get crashed, and since then we use public transport or simply we walk to our destinations. It's a shame that hybrid cars are too expensive for middle class people who neede the most, because I'd buy one of those if I could... but my family ain't the Rockefeller/Murdoch type so I guess it's better get used to the regular CFC producer cars...

And because the water it's another important resource to Mother Nature, now I'm taking shorter showers and spend the least amount of water possible. Personally, I'd like to NOT take a shower every day and instead and stay in my bed all day long. But even that it's considered dangerous to the enviroment. Afterr al, we're not vegetables.

But all these things I said are just nitpickings. I have no problem with help the enviroment to survive that abomination formerly known as mankind. It's easy being green, but sometimes we forget how important it is. To remind ourselves the importance of clean your enviroment, the only thing we need it's have common sense about it and don't be preachy of very smug when we spread the message. That's all.

In the end, we’re all Kevin Finnerty

Well, I’ve just finished the 86 episodes of the HBO crime drama series “The Sopranos” the last week. It was an awesome show with great writing, memorable characters and a groundbreaking style that left his mark forever on television history. But, there was one thing that left me thinking because it didn’t came clear to me. And no, I’m not talking about the ending. I’m referring to the meaning of Kevin Finnerty in the dream of Tony Soprano.

Tony sitting in the bed of the hotel wondering what would Gary Cooper do...

First, a little bit of context. In the season 6 premiere called “Members Only”, Uncle Junior shoots Tony due his deteriorated mental state. Apparently, he confused his nephew with his old enemy Genaro “Little Pussy” Malanga who was killed in the pilot episode. Tony, who got shot in the stomach made a call to 911 before get unconscious.

In the next Episode, Join the Club, Tony is in a comatose state and has a dream-like experience in which he is a business-man not related to the mafia while in the real world is visited by his family and friends. In the dream, He awake in a hotel room with the wallet and briefcase of a man called Kevin Finnerty, who is physically similar to him.

Through the entire dream, Tony tries to locate this man without any success. He talks with every person in the place; has a business problem with two Buddhist monks who claim that he accost them with a deficient heating system and falls from the stairs and is diagnosed with Alzheimer during his operation.

In the end of the dream, he finds out a flier for the Finnerty family reunion with the address. He goes to the place and is greeted outside the house by a man who physically resembles his dead cousin Tony Blundetto who was murdered by him in the last season.

The more I think about it, I conclude that Kevin doesn’t really exist within the dream. It’s a new identity that Tony invented to escape from his mobster life. I mean, he has struggled all those years against his panic attacks due the pressure of this work as a mobster. All the people that he has executed all the traumas with his mother, all the issues with his wife and kids made him create a differ persona that manifested as a missing identity.

The way he tries to find out where’s Kevin is a journey of self-discovery.  The Buddhist monks represent the problems from the past who still haunting them. They try to locate Kevin because Tony knows that those issues from the past are going to be there as a reminder of his previous mistakes. The facts that are Buddhist monks it’s just an irony.

The Alzheimer it’s another obstacle in his journey. Apart from represent his fears of inheriting the problems of his family (in this case the Alzheimer from his uncle), it’s the curse that keeps him as the old Tony. The one who just want to forget instead of accept himself and move on.

Finally, the house sequence represents the final step into his transformation to Kevin Finnerty. The party it’s the new chance of leaving his old self and complete this cycle. The man who greets him is represented as his cousin because he was someone very close to him, a person who can be trusted and can be forgive. The only thing he needed to do was leave the briefcase and wallet of Kevin (his fake identity) and join to the party as himself.

And that it’s my interpretation. I hope you had enjoyed and I see you soon with another post about what I think it’s interesting to talk about. See ya.

Post Dedicated to James Gandolfini (1961 - 2013)

Class #6: A Meaningful Moment Through A Meaning(less) Process (Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life)

*Warning: Explicit Content

The topic that I'm going to talk about today it's kinda... well... bizarre... VERY, VERY bizarre. I know that there's different tastes and different ways of viewing things, but this is odd and strange in a totally different way. But... I'm just run out of ideas and this is the most interesting thing that I can come up with. At least in this very precise moment. So I'm going to do my best to try to explain it the best way possible.

The Video is called: Shrek is Love, Shrek is life:

And the reason because I'm choosing this particular video is because the story behind it. Originally posted as green text in the image-board community site called 4Chan in January 14th of 2013. It became an internet meme that was spread all over the internet until it was adapted into a youtube animated video using a computer program from Machinma based on a Video Game vcalled Team Fortress. Who allows people to make their own creations.

The video narrates in first person the story of a 9 year old (however, in the video is a 20 year old man) that was a huge fan of Shrek (the main character from the animated film franchise of the same name), and their devotion was so big that he even pray for him every night. And because of that, his father called him a "Faggot", but the "kid" said he was just jealous.

So, one night the boy was sleeping in his bed, when suddenly Shrek appears in his room and whispers in his ear "This is my Swamp" and then Shrek sodomize him until his father walks into the room and find them in the bed. Shrek looks him straight in the eyes and says: "It's all ogre now" and leaves throw the window. the video ends with the "kid" saying: Shrek is love, Shrek is life and showing captions saying "It's not ogre", "It's never ogre" and "Shrek is Love, Shrek is life" along with footage of the house.

The Thing that I find interesting about this video is the music. The song used in this video is an instrumental called "A meaningful moment through a Meang(less) process" that gives the video a very dramatic atmosphere along with the awkward animation and the voice of the narrator, who is so serious and melancholic that totally contrast with the over the top bizarre story.

I don't know what was the intention of the person who made this video. It is suppose to be funny? It is suppose to be shocking? It's just bizarre. It's not a thing that you explain to another person, it's an experience that you must watch to get your own conclusions. Just watch it judge it youserlves.

And here's the link of the song if you are interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsJP19YhaLM&feature=kp

Five Seasons and no movie… Why, NBC, Why?!!!

*Warning: Explicit Language

You know, I don’t care if people don’t like the things I like. I don’t care if people don’t know the things that I like. And I care even less if they agree with me. But when these people… destroy, and smash the things I love so I can’t enjoy them anymore… well, guess what… it pisses me off.

So, I need to ask… Why NBC, do you really need to cancel one of the funniest shows… no, wait… things… one of the funniest things of all time? Was Community that hurtful for your ratings so do you had the need to get rid of it?

Just like a funeral, let this song play in your soul and convince you that (unlike Shirley thinks) there is NO God

I mean, I know that TV works with audience, but come on… these guys made a Stop Motion Christmas special, two season’s finale involving battles of paintball, an 8 bit episode, and a Pulp Fiction tribute, G.I Joe tribute, a Dungeon and Dragons tribute and tons of other stuff. They got the academy award winner Jim Rash, the SNL veteran Chevy Chase and the Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan as a guest star in one episode. This show was a HUGE deal.

And you decide to get rid of it just because it got shit ratings? Are you serious? It’s just feels so disrespectful to cancel a show THIS good just because of bad ratings. And you know what? It’s your entire fault NBC. Why? Because you decide to put it Thursday nights to compete with the fucking CBS train-wreck known as the Big Bang Theory.

And don’t get me wrong; if you like the TBBT, that’s fine, I’ve got no problems with people enjoy that show. But when you put this average sitcom to compete with a masterpiece like Community and it’s the average sitcom the one who sweeps with ratings. You know that there’s no chance to win the battle, so it’s practically like a suicidal mission. You killed the show when you decide to keep it the Thursday nights just because CBS moved TBBT to smash it in terms of audience.

And the thing is… people don’t care if a show like this got much better writing, much better characters, funnier jokes and an overall better premise. If a show like TBBT it’s popular because it’s easier to digest and people talk about it, you know you need to find a different strategy to try to keep it alive. NBC never cared about Community. And the saddest thing is, the rest of the world never going to care either because this show never got the popularity of that stupid, poorly written, shitty sitcom known as The Big Bang… oh, fuck that show.

So, yeah, I’m kinda pissed off because this is so unfair. This show got so many talented people involved in it and yet never got the respect that deserved. And you know what’s even worse? I used to watch TBBT. Before discovered Community I used to watch Big Bang just because my friends told me it was very funny. And even though I never dislike it, I can’t remember a single moment laughing out loud. And when I discovered Community it was so funny, so clever, and so light-hearted that I felt that all these years watching Big Bang were a waste.

Now I can’t count the reasons I should stay, I feel that one by one all just fade away. This is truly the darkest timeline and DEAN world it’s never going to CHANG.NBC Britted my life cancelling this show, and now CBS it’s streets ahead of you in term of popularity. And that’s not cool (cool cool cool) I mean: What the hell? This is a fight. WE are fighting.

Goodbye community, I will always going to proudly scream six seasons and a movie!!! for you ♫Troy and Abed say goodbyeeee♫ (for real this time) Good night everybody.

Class #5: (The Guardian Article) Goodbye Mr. Hoskins, you had a good run...

Due the recent death of the English actor Bob Hoskins caused by Pheumonia, I decide to make a summary of an article of The Guardian about him. And because I'm a Journalist, every news article has something to do with my career

But the main reason I choose this topic in partucular is because I love movies and this is my way to pay homage to this form of art.

The Name of the article is: "Helen Mirren on Bob Hoskins: 'A spectacular firework just as it takes off'" and it has 5 pictures of Hoskins acting in movies related to the 3 respondents and it's divided in 3 sections for everyone of them. (I'll put the link to the end of the post)

The article describes the point of view that worked with the actor during his life and describe their experiences and personal thoughs about him. The respondents are: Helen Mirren (British actress who worked with Hoskins in" The Dutchess of Malfi" and "The long good friday"), Shane Meadows (The director of Twenty Four Seven starring Hoskins) and Stephen Woolley (Producer of Neil Jordan's: Mona Lisa also starring Hoskins)

Mirren described Bob as a great actor and person who worked hard and showed a ton of energy in his performances. She said that he was very supportive while they were working on "The long good friday" praising his humility and pointing out that was an honor work with him.

Meadows praised his generosity for agree to work in his first feature film, but also the lessons about bussiness and the advices about being honest to himself. With the sucess of Twenty Four Seven, Hoskins and Meadows travelled to New York to promote the film. The director related how the actor refused to go beacuse Meadows was relegated to third class by the film company.

Woolen talked about the actors that he admirde the most during his life in Islington in the 60's in which he mentioned Bob as a man who performed "straight from the soul" and he opened the path to a whole new generation of actors with his performances.

And that was my post and tribute to Mr. Hoskins... I hoped you like it and as I promised, here's the link... take care...
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/30/bob-hoskins-shane-meadows-helen-mirren-stephen-woolley