A More Real Barcelona

AKB48

Unbelievably, this song has become a great seller, more than one million copies sold,


A bit more hip-hop than this ultra-sweet teenage soft porn video,


No wonder why some of these girls ends up making adult movies

Lost in Translation

Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes spelled mamihlapinatapei) is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word", and is considered one of the hardest words to translate.^[1] It describes "a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that they both desire but which neither one wants to start.". (from Wikipedia)

This is how I feel sometimes...

A Homo Shopping Christmas Carrol

Yesterday I saw an interesting documentary about the planned obsolescence. The idea can be summarized by saying than most of things which surrounds us basically break because they have been engineered to break at a precise moment, as it is explained in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2KLyYKJGk0. They showed some examples of this, such as an Epson printer that stopped working after a certain number of printings, the nylon stockings, which had to be made weaker so they broke earlier and more stocking could be sold.

Buying-throwing, buying-throwing, that was the cycle we were supposed to follow, like cows munching grass in a stable. Is that our purpose as a species? as a being? as a citizen? I find it very sad that we are not up to more important and interesting things. Christmas had just finished and as a mental diet starting after the winter binge, with a great deal of hypocrite remorse, TV showed us a maybe more clever way of thinking. Too late for some. We are all too fat, too silly, too helpless to start thinking cleverly and critically, it is not cool.

From Homo sapiens to Homo shopping; from living in the savanna to dwelling in malls. A monkey could do that.

A Fishy Curse