Wednesday, February 25, 2009


"Masses is a herd term - unacceptable, insulting, degrading. When I see a crowd, I see a collection of free individuals: each a unique person; each a king or queen; each a story that would fill a book; each an island of human dignity."
- Frank Capra
I wish I could believe you, Mr. Capra. What a beautiful representation of a crowd. But what I see, living in a place like this, is far from your romantic vision of society. I don't really know if we're really free because we are constantly fed with that kind of statements. Maybe freedom and individualism are really vague terms, open to an infinite number of interpretations. Definitely, for me, they are lost values absorbed by late postmodernist trends. I wish I could see a collection of free conscious individuals, but the only things I see are blind masses.
Who knows? Maybe the blind one, after all, is just me...

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Bienvenido a L.A.
Y así inició. Comencé a dejar las tildes en mis textos. Me acostumbré a ver accesorios de vestir con la firma de Ed Hardy. Aprendí a lidiar con la gente de una verdadera metrópoli y a ser paciente en un sistema de carreteras sin final. Me hice la idea de que no soy especial por no ser de aquí, pues aquí, nadie es de aquí... Me convertía en un ser ultra-conciente y anonadado por vivir algo que sólo idealizaba... Me convierto lentamente en un angelino camuflajeado en un mar multicolor, multisabor; consumido en el consumismo y la rapidez de la vida que pasa mientras estamos ocupados en otras cosas...