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Sunday, December 24, 2006

Greet your enemy


ok tonight is christmas eve, I can't fight against getting all sentimental. Well I can.
Yesterday I was gaining my little space in the ficticious heaven we are told to believe in, I was giving away christmas cards, it was just an excuse to see my friends and to hug some people of course, well I was on wheels, I had the car for the afternoon, then somebody, this could only happen to me, crashed my car while it was parked and ran away like most people would.
To make things worse I have no car insurance so this means I have to pay the mechanic with my NEW YEAR PARTY FUND. So there it goes my trip to Trinidad.
Well the point here is that it is really interesting how we have turned to be irresponsible in all we do, I haven't yet met a person that is honest 100% of the time, values (although I do not want to accept it) are really being forgotten, like they were overrated.
And around this time of the year our lack of these fellows becomes more obvious, hipocrecy is in the air just like good wishes and the smell of fruitcake and panettone; it is ok to send a card to that annoying neighboor or even to that relative that never remembers your name, all out of courtesy, but I have seen a lot of sworn enemies shaking hands and greeting eachother just to pose in front of the cameras, this happening between politicians, bussines men and even mothers-daughters in law.
Why do we start acting like we are different around this days? I accept it now, we humans are totally imperfect and capable of the best and worst according to the moment, does christmas then bring out the best or the worst in us?
Changing a little bit the slightly antisceptic/antibiotic/bug-killing hand soap I want to use in each of these hipocrites' mouths before speaking to me, to a more nicely-faked thank you smile I have to say I am sinning too, I am just as bad as those who while hating others go and judas-kiss them. Aren't we all?
In the end it is our fault that society and goodmanners teach us to be polite at all times. I have found recently some people turning into really productive and nice society eople, it is interesting what the perspective of university does to people my age, some of us just plainly keep it cool and others freak out. A lot.
But i shall focus on the good feelings of people that actually care about this time of the year, yeah christmas can be nice, can be beautiful and hope-full and I wish I could just not think about this ugly parts of people, but once again, as positive as I want to be, there's always room for a little angry grinch-like fantasies of ruining and stealing christmas. JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT.
Am I going to go to my fake/invented/ficticious hell?

Friday, December 08, 2006

Calm like water?

So hello kids.
Last night life gave me a pleasant surprise; I went for the weekend (I am still in my weekend) to Santa Cruz to visit my family, well life, time, and the awesome Cochabamba weather made my day, made my week, made my year I think.
I am totally obsessed with the elements (fire, water, air, earth, etc) and last night was WATER'S night.
I cannot say I was reborn like what whappened before. But man did I feel like I was high? yeah I did, it rained a lot, literally a lot, the roads were like pools, if you walked for about 3 sec under the rain and you would be soaked, I am not exagerating, It also GRANIZO qhich is the closest thing we have to snowing... I was listening to my music as loud as my ears could stand. (Panic!) out of masoquism you would say I was tempted to dance and get soaked, did I do it? yes! yeah, everybody just looked at me with the weirdest faces ever, but i didnt care.
This time my communion with the elements wasn't as pure as the last one, I didn't let myself be one with the element, but did i dance...
Just for you fellows, to understand the magnitud of the rain... there are some somewhat-like-.tunnels that go trough the bridges that sourround the river, well they are like 4.5 mts high and they were flooded to their tops... like gigantic ponds, the river overflowed and the water in the streets went as high as about 60 cm flooding everything in it's way. It only rained for about 40 min.
Four people died last night because of the rain.
I hope inocence and that increidibe-sometimes-plein-creepy way of mine to log off reality never leaves me... never leaves none of the ones that have them.
When i go back to cocha i promise i have something really interesting to write about, so please patience.