April 09, 2008

"Serenidad, Yulma, tu peor enemigo puede ser el miedo."

Help, my home is being invaded my Mexican memorabilia
or
how I learned about Lucha Libre and Kaliman, el hombre increíble.

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November 13, 2007

A visit to the SF MoMA - Aesthetical Ecstasy

Also, I finished reading Yasmina Reza's Plays. I love "Art":

The comedy, which raises questions about art and friendship, concerns three long-time friends, Serge, Marc, and Yvan. Serge, indulging his penchant for modern art, buys a large, expensive, completely white painting. Marc is horrified, and their relationship suffers considerable strain as a result of their differing opinions about what constitutes "art." Yvan, caught in the middle of the conflict, tries to please and mollify both of them. -- summary by the wikipedia.

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October 04, 2007

Superman lies among men disguised as the journalist Clark Kent; as such he appears fearful, timid, not over intelligent, awkward, near sighted (...) From a mythopoetic point of view the device is even subtler: in fact, Clark Kent personifies fairly typically the average reader who is harassed by complexes and despised by his fellow men; through an obvious process of self identification, any accountant in any american city secretly feeds the hope that one day, from the slough of his actual personality there can spring forth a superman who is capable of redeeming years of mediocre existence.

--Umberto Eco, Il mito de Superman e la dissolozione del tempo (1962)

*****

This made me want to watch Unbreakable again.

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July 13, 2007

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May 05, 2006

I'm Not Your Sweet Baboo!

Went to Charles M. Schulz museum in Santa Rosa, California. As most cartoon museums do, they hang cartoon strips on the walls, exhibit art inspired by Peanuts and keep the office of the cartoonist like it was a shrine and nothing else much.

A lady there made sure she told us everything she knew about Schulz and his family and each time we'd say "Thanks" and made that classic body move of someone who wants to go on with the visit, she'd come up with some new anedocte until some other suckers, ahem, tourists drawed her attention. One of Schulz's daughters was on Ice Capades so I guess that's where the idea for "Snoopy on Ice" came from :-).

Highlight of the museum: Snoopy's doghouse wrapped by Christo.

+++++

And this post wouldn't be complete without this:

Which Peanuts character are you?

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