2.10.11

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Un sentimiento ardiente, que  me encuentra dormido, en un sueño que de repente se esfuma y se desvanece de mi memoria. Transformandose en uno nuevo.

Velas en un pastel. Muchas de ellas, todas encendidas y ardiendo.  Con un flujo de humo saliendo de ellas mas alla de lo normal. Como si estas fueran las chimeneas en un fabrica.  No hay sonido. No escucho nada.  Solo veo el pastel y las velas  en una inmensidad de oscuridad.  Las velas son toda la iluminacion que hay. Las flamas empiezan a tintilear.

Las velas se van derritiendo como si fueran cubos de hielo al sol de un dia en la playa. Ahora ya no hay rastro de las  velas, solo lo que parece un charco de cera sobre este pastel sin una definicion concisa.  El charco ahora esta burbujeando como adquiriendo vida propia.  Y igual que como en cierta escena de Terminator 2. Se levanta, solo que en vez de obterner una forma humanoide, es ahora un numero.

Un gran 33.  Tan grande que opaca el pastel, y sin embargo no lo aplasta.  Los numeros se tornan llamas.

El 33 es ahora un numero hecho de fuego.

Y con eso despierto. Me toco la frente, esperando sentir que tengo el numero marcado en ella. Pero veo que el 33 hecho de fuego sigue ahi flotando en frente de mi. Todavia estoy soñando.  Cierro mis ojos de nuevo en esta pesadilla despierta, ansiosamente queriendo brincar hacia otro sueño. Pero nada. El numero sigue ahi, sigue ardiendo. 

Las llamas bailan, palpitan. Todo ello viendose invitante.  Decido tratar de alcanzarlo. Tratar de agarrarlo con mis dos manos.  Cuando por fin lo toco, siento y veo instantaneamente como el fuego corre por mis brazos hacia a mi. El fuego me ha envuelto.

Me estoy quemando. Despierto. Esta vez, realmente despierto.

“Feliz Cumpleaños”  pienso para mi

- Feliz Cumpleaños –  me digo en voz alta.

Un año mas.  Mas velas encendiendose, otro sabor de pastel. Un numero mas quemandose dentro de mi cabeza.

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The burning feeling that comes with the pass of every set of 365 days.  Founds me while in-dream and whatever was that I happened to be dreaming, just vanishes out of my memory.  Transforming into a new one.

Candles in a cake, lots of them, all light up and burning. A unnatural flow of smoke coming out of them as if they were smokestacks in a factory.  No actual sound. I hear nothing. Just the cake and the candles in a pitch black void. The candles are all the illumination that exists. The flames then starts flickering.

The candles melt away like ice cubes at daylight while on a beach. Now there no trace of candles, just a puddle of wax on the surface of this still non-defined cake.  The puddle begins to bubble, acquiring a life of it’s own.

And just like in a certain scene of Terminator 2. It rises, just that instead of forming out a humanoid form, it is now a number.  A big 33.  So big that it overshadows the cake, yet without crushing it.  The number starts to burn.  The 33 is now a number made out of fire.

And with that I wake up.  I touch my forehead waiting  to feel the number carved out. It is not.   Yet I see 33 made of fire floating in front me. Am still dreaming.

I close my eyes in that waking nightmare anxiously wanting to jump into another dream.  Nothing.  The number is still there, still burning. The flames are dancing, are palpitating.  All about it looks so inviting.  I decide to reach for it. To try to grasp it with my two hands. 

When I finally do touch it,  I instantly feel and see the fire running up my arms.  The fire has engulfed me.  Am burning.  I wake up.  This time for real.

“Happy Birthday” I think to myself. 

- Happy Birthday - I say at loud to myself.

One more year. More candles lightening up, another flavor of cake. Another number burning up in my mind.

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10.6.11

From The Hype Of Music To A Bubble Of Tech

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One of my habits in the wee hours of the night (I am a insomne, it is ok) is to check out what has been updated at Hulu.  I happen to use the Hulu Desktop app as I can also then use a little Media Center bridge app in the case I want to watch Hulu in the TV fed directly fed from my Laptop.  The way you scan for new stuff added in Hulu with the desktop app is to check out slots at the “Recently Added” section of the UI and the guide yourself by the thumbnails, names and little write ups as you pass them around.

I don’t mind doing that every other given day because it reminds me to searching through records (movies, books, etc) at stores.  And nowadays this is the closest to get that same feeling you can possible get afterall without that hassle of traveling lots and lots of kilometers in the city.  Just that now you can say you are just scavenging a corner of the internet sitting at a datacenter somewhere in the world. 

And while I was doing that, I saw that the movie section had just added Hype! (1996) and it was free to watch without any Hulu Plus subscription getting in the way. I remember watching it back in (1998) thanks to having found it in my still favorite local weekly open market. Back then I remember liking it a lot but at the same time it didn’t felt like I was watching the documenting of something old enough for me to really really pay mind to it. Now on the other hand, it has been well over 12 years since I first watched it, 15 years since it was released and what it documents is from 16 to 24 years back in the past. So now I find it not just good, but great given that it strongly projects a sense of nostalgia.  

Well, the movie is about the USA northwest rock explosion (a.k.a Seattle Scene or Grunge Scene) that had its biggest heyday from 1988 to 1993.  The rise of Sub Pop, the rundown of a war of hundreds of bands that are now mostly forgotten thanks to those 10 big bands that are remembered and became legends of that scene by now.  So if you once liked the music from that time and part of the world or you still do. Then Hype! is the documentary you must watch. Right now I would put it as essential as Wild Style.  You can even watch it here at the end of this post if you want.

What struck me as so incredibly amusing about the movie now that I am older and living in “the future”, is the part where the Seattle depicted and talked about in the movie now not only no longer exists, but  that at the end of the movie (Spoilers ahead) they, the protagonists of that phenomenon are looking at it as “it  then just turned in to this modern but not that important city that now will be just like any other city” kind of way which is hilarious.

Because if this was filmed in 1995, the next big thing in Seattle was already happening as Microsoft became Mainstream and Massive thanks to the release of Windows 95 and the Dot Com bubble started growing and with it all kind of companies appeared and started rising from Seattle, with the specific notables of Amazon and Starbucks going on their own world domination plans from there on.  And all about the movie and the timeframe in the 90’s it digs in to, truly puts in perspective the then and now where it went from being about the physical experience of things to the digital experience of things and from the individual or grouped and contained thinking to the socially interconnected.  It didn’t stroke me as obvious back then because I was already online by late 1993 and i was already doing things the same way as now everyone does them by 1999, while at the same time doing and living  the things the way they were done back then.  So if you were a kid of the 80’s and a teen of the 90’s, this movie should serve as the perfect vehicle to a memory trip full of nostalgia. And also the realization that most of those in the movie were just whining without any common sense and just angst for angst. Basically your classic Generation X postured 90’s in that old reality called the 20th century that now seems so far away into the past.  Good stuff.  

Linkage

Hype! (1996) at Hulu

Hype! (1996) at IMDB

1.1.09

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The first day of a new year is indeed like starting anew. even if there is no such things erase and start from zero. but starting anew year allows to reset a personal perspective and correct it at ease if needed.

I want 2009. to be exactly that for me. a new perspective, a new focus to act upon.


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