martes, 8 de marzo de 2011

Presunto Culpable: Hasta para quitar una pelicula el gobierno esta bien pendejo

"Chingarnos al sistema" a como me caga tanto esa frase, no por el mensaje que contiene, si no por las personas que la usan, personas que repentinamente se la quieren dar de "Revolucionarios Romanticistas" en busca de un pais mejor, cuando en realidad solo siguen a los demas y repiten frases que otro cabron dijo, exactamente como lo hacen las personas que existen en ese dichoso sistema que tanto odian. Pero bien, antes de todo analizemos bien la frase, chingarnos al sistema que nos quiere dar a entender esto? derrocar un sistema fallido o cambiarlo?

Para algunas personas estas dos opciones no tendran diferencia alguna, pero hay un mar de diferencias. Para los corderos revolucionarios "Chingarse al Sistema" implica levantarse en una oposicion (violenta probablemente) en contra del Sistema Gubernamental esperando derrocarlo e impartir uno nuevo y mejor. Esto puede escucharse muy guerrero y epico pero ¿funcionara?, Levantamos una revolucion contra los españoles, levantamos una revolucion contra los franceses, levantamos una revlolucion contra los americanos, levantamos una revolucion contra nosostros mismos y estas han funcionado?. Pues no mucho, no importa cuanta gente matemos, cuanta gente muera, este metodo simplemente sigue dandonos los mismos resultados, seguimos siendo oprimidos, controlados, juzgados y condicionados bajo un sistema.

¿Saben Por Que?

Por que esa es la tarea de un sistema, un sistema se hace cargo que todo este controlado y en orden, que todos sigan al que tengan que seguir, que informacion compremetedora o "peligorsa" nunca salga a la luz, que compres lo que el pais necesite que compres. Esto se puede escuchar muy Orwelliano pero es la verdad, y otra cosa, el sistema no puede ser chingado, no puede ser derrocado, por que mientras exista una sociedad y una economia, un sistema siempre existira, el precio de la civilizacion es una pequeña gran porcion de tu individualidad.

Ahora ya aprendimos que un sistema siempre va exisitir y siempre tratara de controlarlo todo, pero la verdadera pregunta es: ¿Que tan culeras son las personas que ejecutan el sistema?



"Culpable hasta que se demuestre su inocencia" ... bastante culeras.

Presunto Culpable es un documental que narra el procesamiento judicial de Antonio Zuñiga al haber sido acusado de homicido y a pesar de tener todas las pruebas y evidencias logicas a su favor para comprobar su obvia inocencia, la corte falla en su contra y es sentenciado a 20 años en prision.

Hablando filmicamente el documental tiene una excelente calidad y una edicion casi perfecta, pero eso lo hare de un lado.  A pesar de ser un documental excelente es un perfecto vinocular que nos ayuda a ver las lamentables y horribles fallas del Sistema Judicial Mexicano,  y los efectos que causan en un individuo, una familia e inevitablemente en una sociedad.

Y todo esto lo podemos ver en la comodidad de un Cine.

Son sorprendentes los datos y estadisticas que se nos presentan cuando vemos el documental. Es inevitable que el publico generen odio, enojo y verguenza pero creo que lanzan estos sentimientos hacia algo equivocado: "las leyes". Mientras veia el documental, en una parte una familiar de Antonio dice: "¿Por que las leyes no las hacen bien?" a lo que mi hermano dijo: "Las leyes estan bien hechas, son los jueces los que son unos pendejos" y esto es completamente verdad. No odien a las leyes, las leyes de la Constitucion de Mexico son casi perfectas, no me creen, leanla, lean la constitucion de 1917 y se daran cuenta de que son los articulos, garantias y leyes mejor diseñadas que veran en su vida. Las personas que la aplican son una historia completamente diferente.

Pero es hasta ironico que la ineptitud de los jueces, policias y encargados de los sistemas judiciales en realidad no son nada mas que el reflejo de nuestra misma sociedad y de nuestras mismas actitudes, nosotros nos castigamos a nosotros mismo por las ineptitudes, pereza e ingnorancia a las que nosotros nos hemos comformado. Una horrible entidad que se auto-castiga a si misma por lo horrible que es, algo bastante hermoso.

Pero la ineptitud no se detiene ahi.

El dia de ayer, el documental fue removido de las salas de cine de la nacion, ya que Victor Manuel Reyes Bravo (primo de la victima asesinada del documental) realizo una demanda judicial a esta, justificando que el argumento de la aparicion en el documental a afectado su imagen, honor y sus intereses personales.

Y si claro, quitan una pelicula mexicana que a generado una de las mejores taquillas en la historia solo por que el primo se fue a quejar, para empezar el documental no violo ninguna de sus garantias ni derechos, por que las partes en donde es grabado, es en el ministerio publico, y tu puedes grabar lo que quieras ahi por que es (como su nombre lo dice)  publico, hubiesen cometido un delito si lo hubieran documentado en su hogar pero ese no fue el caso.

Para que nos hacemos pendejos, el gobierno quito la pelicula por que afectaba seriamente la reputacion de los funcionarios del sistema judicial y ya... pero que pendejos son me cae de madre.

Hasta para detener un docuemental son unos pendejos, al remover el documental de las salas de cine, lo unico que estan haciendo es promover el documental aun mas. La gente sabra que fue removido por que expuso las verdades del sistema judical y les dolio y con mas razon la gente lo vera, MORBO, amamos el pinche morbo y ahuevo que la gente lo va a ver.  En que pinche era el gobierno cree que estamos, ¿realmente creen que por quitar una pelicula del cine ya nadie la va a ver jamas?  ¿en que años creen que estamos, 1920?

Estamos en la era de la informacion y gracias a dios, todos poseemos en nuestro alcanze la mayor y mas grande herramiento que la era de la informacion jamas pudo a ver creado:

LA PIRATERIA

Se que esto va en contra del deseo del mismisimo director del docuemental, pero la gente necesita ver eso y chinge su madre yo amo la pirateria.







Eso es todo y recuerden: El sistema no puede ser chingado, por que si lo chingamos, nos chingamos a nosotros mismos por que todos somos parte de el. Esto no es el problema, el sistema no es el problema, si no toda la sociedad que esta atras de el, esa sociedad no podemos chingarla, pero tal vez, en futuro increiblemente improvable, cambiarla.............................................. jaja oyesamamada.

Bueno eso es todo, Gracias.

sábado, 19 de febrero de 2011

The Best Progressive Rock Album of the Decade

In this post I'm reviewing an album that I seriously consider to be the greatest progressive rock album of this past decade (2000 - 2009), I don't claim to know every single prog rock album released in this past 10 years, but I have listen to many and I think this the one.

Progressive Rock emerge in the end of the 60's and beginnings and first half of the 70's, since then Prog went pretty much underground and that's how we like it. Over the years, since its "Fall" Prog Rock has been adapted to a lot of other genres, such as Jazz, Fusion, Experimental and especially Metal. I consider Progressive Metal to be the greatest gateway to future generations to get in to Progressive Rock.

I love Progressive Rock, because is such an adaptable style of music, you can mix it everything Symphonic Music, Jazz, Techno, Metal (every subgenre of it), Pop, Experimental, Canterbury, Avant RIO, Latin Music, EVERYTHING. Is such and adaptable and experimental style. And makes it more powerful because the more it grows the more genres it has and the more experimental it gets. It just absorbs and grows and grows and grows, its crazy and beautiful.

In this last decade Prog Rock really emerge once again since its hiatus in the 80's (well Neo-Prog took its place, but Neo-Porg just wasn't the same). Progressive Metal emerged in the 90's with such bands as Dream Theater, Fates Warning, Queensryche, Pain Of Salvation and more. And I think that helped Prog Rock to emerge once again in the 2000's.

Now lets talk about this New Wave of Progressive Rock (2000's and forward) what I like the most of the new bands is that they all know and respect the classic 70's feel of Prog Rock and convine it with their own style or other styles making their music and the genre evolve at the same time.

The main bands of the NWOPR (yea that's right NWOPR!!!!) would be Phideux, Beardfish, Spock's Bread, The Mars Volta, Pendragon and Ayreon. But ironically this album that I gonna present to you is not from any of those bands. This is what I consider to be the greatest prog album of the last decade.

Birds and Buildings - Bantham To Behemoth (2008)



Whaaaaaaaaaaa... who the hell are these guys? Birds and Building are a pretty unknown band from Washington and in 2008 they release their debut album name Bantam to Behemoth which, the best way to describe it is... A Progressive Jazz Metal Fusion Symphonic Masterpiece, yea these guys are pretty big. And this album is even bigger.

I consider this the best modern prog rock album, because it combines so many genres so well, it shifts between Skillfully Jazz to Kick ass Metal to Progressive streaming passages to sentimental symphonic moments and to odd imaginative scenarios, everything I could ask for, and its also conceptual, well at least musically, lyrically aaaaaa I'm not sure.

Now a brief description of the Album tracks

1.- Birds Flying Into Buildings (9:12)

This is a fast pace, balls to the wall symphony, when I listened to this song for the first time I couldn't believe how well Jazz and Metal could go together. The Sax in this song is on fire, really is brutal, is even more brutal than the guitar, and the keyboards are skillfully perfect, an excellent introduction to this masterpiece.

2.- Terra Fire (3:33)

It stars like a calm reflexive ballad and turns in to a Hard Rock Progressive rush, it would have been an excellent single.

3.- Tunguska (6:33)

This one, as the last one stars really calm, some keyboards patters repeat from the first song, after that it turns in to a well structure progressive allegory with a lot of King Crimson influences.

4.- Caution Congregates and Forms a Storm (10:51)

Ok these three next songs, are just the greatest composed paces of music that I have heard in this lasts years, these three are definitely the highlight of the album.

Caution Congregates... stars as this beautiful melancholic symphony that stars to cheer up in a more reflexive note and suddenly jumps into this Eclectic Prog scenario but without leaving the symphonic fell behind, the songs stars to get a little bit darker and darker in to transforming in to this Progressive Jazz Metal passage, culminating in a redeeming guitar solo and piano passage. After that, a really nice acoustic moment and the song ends with a really reflexive passage created by the Bass, Piano, Flute and Synthesizer.

5.- Chronicle of The Invisible River of Stone (9:17)

Following up, almost starting with the same notes, begins Chronicle... it quickly creates a  peaceful and mysterious atmosphere followed up by a beautiful female singing, after that, a brief Eclectic jump and the singing returns. And when the singing is over, then reflexion materialized into music, that's it, there's not other way I could describe it.

6.- Yucatan 65: The Agitation of The Mass (10:38)

Yucatan stars with this awesome acoustic introduction jumping to a dark arabic movement very well written jumping into acoustic, eclectic and symphonic it's just beautiful, all the pieces fit perfectly, the feelings to: Reflexive into Anger into happiness into more Reflexion. The song, then constructs this wonderful unison between the guitar and the keyboards culminating in an awesome kick ass riff accompanied with a keyboard solo.

7.- Chakra Khan (5:57)

Very aggressive and dark, an angry metal eclectic jazzy adrenaline party.

8.- Batallion (9:57)

You can call it the climax of the album, stars with a really fast paced bizarre singing, jumps quickly in a Jazz movement with a lot of parts from the first song and chronicles. The quick singing returns and then everything culminates in this large passage jumping in to eclectic, melancholic, symphonic, heavy metal, orchestral, reflexive, progressive, everything just goes crazy.

9.- Sunken City, Sunny Day (3:23)

A calm atmospheric acoustic epilogue for this album.

If you wanna know more about them here, you should really check them out:

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So, please check this album and comment what was your favourite prog album of this past decade.

This is the opening track of the album







well that's all, see ya.

miércoles, 9 de febrero de 2011

Top Gear Mexico Scandal From a Mexican Point of View

I'm from Mexico, I don't believe in patriotism, thus I am not either proud or a shame of my country. Because countries are just spaces of land and that's pretty much it. You live in this space of this land and I live in this space of this land and that's it. Regarding of the independent culture of every country, well sure every country has their own culture and traditions but that doesn't makes us a different race of people, we all are humans, we all are sometimes shitty people,  we all are sometimes good people, we all are sometimes loving people regarding what fucking nationality we are. We all are from the same race and we all pretty much live in this same space that is divided into lands.

We live in a big world, thus there are a lot of countries with a lot of cultures, and just with this is enough for stereotypes to rise.  I don't hate stereotypes because they really not worth hating. Stereotypes are just simple satirical cartoonish jokes... and that's it, they are just a work of satire, and satire is what makes this cynical world so beautiful, and if there's someone who doesn't love satire... well then those people really are missing a lot and don't appreciate this weird ugly/beautiful world for how it really is.



As we all know, Top Gear a British TV Show, made racist and stereotypical jokes about the mexican culture, and that really cause a great controversy. But what many of us (mexicans) didn't knew at the time, is that, this is the type of humor that this guys like to roll with it. They love universal satire, they had may fun of Germans, Romanians, Homosexual people, Mental people, the British Prime Minister even their own fans.  http://bit.ly/fq6Zmw

And now it was our turn. In my personal point of view about the video, i really didn't care, i though some of those jokes were funny, but i really didn't care, because let's face it, this country, our country, our piece of land is falling apart, this country is falling deeper and deeper in the shit we have created and we must accept it. 2010 was the most violent year in Mexico's history since the fucking revolution back in 1910.

So yea, my country is in a really shitty situation right now, we must accept it and at least try to do something about it, at least try to make Mexico a little safer and peaceful place. But what do we do instead: we defend our fucking pride.

OF COURSE

Inside this country are mexicans killing mexicans and not one single mexican does anything about it. Uffff but if a foreign  just makes a satirical commentary about our culture, uffff we want his fucking head. What the fuck is wrong with us? Our country is falling apart and we are concerning for what a bunch of british hosts said about the mexican culture.

But this is the interesting and funny aspect about most of us. We love to say shit about our country, we love to say shit about ourselves, we even love to stereotype ourselves. I love to say stereotypical jokes about my country and so as my friends, and so as most of the people in here.







If a Mexican throes shit to Mexico, is OK, is fine. But if a foreign says exactly what another mexican said about his culture, we most kick his sorry ass.  That is just how it is, is sad, sad but true.

Which is ironic because we love satire, we love stereotypes, we love to make fun of other people, other countries, other cultures we love racist humor.







So yea, honestly, is ridiculous seen so many people whining and whining about this kind of humor when we love it to. We must stop whining about what other people says and start caring about our own situation and forget pride, forget that shit, pride is useless such as dumb patriotism, if you really love your country, you will do anything possible to make it a better place that is real love for you country.  Instead of whining of what other people said because it hurt our pride, when we have some much more important shit to deal with.

viernes, 28 de enero de 2011

When American Film Dies, TV Series Will Rise

9:52 Posted by EmanuelOBHT , , , , , 1 comment
By Emanuel Vasconcelos

I decided to make my first post ever about a topic that I have been witnessing for the last couple of generations, the phenomenon of modern american TV Series and the decay of modern hollywood. As we all know Hollywood has suffer a  tremendous lack of imagination and originality for the last couple of years, but now this has gone to the extreme. Literally almost everything Hollywood produces nowadays are sequels, remakes, TV series adaptations, books adaptations, comic books adaptation and even video games adaptations, everything must be base on something else specially in Hollywood Blockbusters.

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Only few directors try new and original things such as Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, Darren Arononfsky, The Coen Brothers and a few others, this guys are the only ones that make Hollywood still respectable in this horrible times.

[caption id="attachment_19" align="alignnone" width="300"] No oscar nomination? and this is how they thank you?[/caption]

The lack of new stories is not what scares me, but the lack of quality in the story-telling is depressing, THE QUALITY, that's the problem. It seems like Hollywood doesn't know how to create or tell stories anymore, fuck it, hollywood is not even interested in creating stories anymore. My point is that the quality of writing is almost dead in this business, story doesn't matter in this business...which is sad because after all, a movie is nothing more than an expensive story.

Well yea Hollywood is in decay... blah...blah...blah, yes we all know that. And I will not talk about that anymore, what I will talk about now is the sudden rise of extremely well develop American TV Drama Series in the last couple of years , technically a new phenomenon. TV Dramas with better stories, better dialogues, better story-telling and better acting than many Motion Pictures, isn't that one of the most bizarre things ever? Imagine that you are living in the Golden Age of Hollywood and somebody says that in the future TV Shows will have better quality than hollywood films, is like if somebody says today, that in the future independent mini-games like Plants VS Zombies or AngryBirds will have better quality than console games like GTA, Metal Gear, Halo or Call Of Duty; it seems highly improbable, but the future will always be a mystery.

I will divide this blog in 3 segments: TV Dramas that are now classics, Modern TV Comedies and TV Drama Series right now.

TV Drama Series that are now classics

I don't know who started this movement, it definitely started in the 90's but I don't know what series did this remarkable jump, my two bets are either Twin Peaks or The Sopranos.  But because Twin Peaks has like a soup opera feeling I will put The Sopranos on top.

[caption id="attachment_5" align="alignnone" width="300"] For me, they started this[/caption]

So yea, im sure that im not the only one that says The Sopranos were the first succesful TV Drama Series that started everything. It was smart, it was entertaining, it was a little bizarre, it had one of the greatest cast and characters ever, it had terrific dialogue, it was original and it is the perfect example of a TV Drama Series, since then HBO had produced numerous succesful and well develop (and nearly perfect) dramas like Six Feet Under, The Wire, Deadwood, Boardwalk Empire. And lets not forget the really first Drama that HBO produced Oz, which in my opinion, is one of the most underrated TV Series of all time. I could just talk about HBO all the rest of the blog but I will also look at other genres.

Science Fiction and TV have always work well together since The Twilight Zone, Dr.Who, Star Trek, The X Files, but what about more modern times, well we only have the most enigmatic series of all time: Lost

[caption id="attachment_6" align="alignnone" width="300"] Not just a TV Series it also a TV Puzzle[/caption]

Mysteries, Metaphors, Philosophical Questions, Religious Themes, bottom line Lost has the most complex and large mythology ever in a TV Series and that's what makes it immortal.

[caption id="attachment_7" align="alignnone" width="275"] Life On Mars[/caption]

I know is not an american tv series but is still worth mentioning inside the science fiction genre. Life On Mars is the greatest merge between science fiction and police thriller, if you like either of this two genres you should check it out because, is simply one of the best series of this last decade.

TV Dramas have evolve not only in the development of characters but also in the innovation of story-telling and a perfect example of this, is the now classic political thriller 24.

[caption id="attachment_17" align="alignnone" width="300"] TV Series in real-time, bitch[/caption]

Modern TV Comedies

Moving on with, the comedies, .........oh my god, here in comedies is where you really draw the line between the quality of a comedy show and a comedy movie.

[caption id="attachment_8" align="alignnone" width="211"] For me, the most innovative comedy sitcom of this generation[/caption]

I hate comedy movies, specially the new ones; I love comedy shows, specially the new ones. Is amazing how good, funny and smart some modern comedy series are, just like: The Office, Two & Half Man, Malcolm In The Middle, The Big Bang Theory, and my new favorite Modern Family. And how horrible and disgusting the new comedy films are: All those fucking god-forbbiden films that ends with Movie,  everything with Adam Sandler, every American Pie, everything about Dogs. It's incredible how this people have so good comedy in a Tv and so insulting comedy in a Movie Theater.  And if you don't believe me just watch the Little Fockers and then watch 2 or even 1 episode of Modern Family and just tell me were you laugh the most.

[caption id="attachment_9" align="alignnone" width="300"] Ha! that's what I thought[/caption]

TV Drama Series Right Now

Now at last, lets take a look at a few of the most recent and succesful TV Dramas  right now, Mad Men, Breaking Bad and Boardwalk Empire. This series are as stylish as hollywood was in its golden era.

[caption id="attachment_11" align="alignnone" width="300"] See what I mean?[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_12" align="alignnone" width="300"] See what I mean?[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_13" align="alignnone" width="300"] See what I... oh well, let's make an exception[/caption]

But seriously, just take a look at this three series that I just mentioned, and you will see so clearly, how the quality of writing, character development and story-telling in a Drama Series has surpass modern american cinema, but why is it?

Why TV Series today have become so much powerful and better than Hollywood, why TV Series have evolve some much and Hollywood doesn't? Well, is a really easy question to answer.

Because Hollywood doesn't need to evolve, Hollywood doesn't need to take risks, Hollywood doesn't need to try new things,  because they know they can sell you the same story over and over again disguise as a sequel, a remake, a reboot an adaptation and you will accept it. That's why the quality in story in Hollywood Films have stayed so low for such a long time, that now, TV Series have finally surpass it.

TV Drama Series in the other hand, are new, they need to try new thing if they wanna succeed, they need to have great characters in order to involve them with great stories in a large period of time. Maybe this sounds like a disadvantage for the creators of TV Series but is actually an advantage in terms of story-telling, you have a better chance for develop your characters in a long period of time and try numerous thing with them, you also have a better chance for developing your setting and expand it more and more as the series progress, and the best of all ,if you had great characters then you have given your audience characters that they have expended time with, characters that they have seen grow and evolve in the lapse of time, characters that they love or are really interested about, that they have been following them for years (or maybe decades) and that is the truly powerful aspect of a TV Series, something that a movie will never achieve.

And just for finish this blog I gave you the greatest series finale of one of the greatest series of all time.







Well that was my first blog, thanks for reading and please comment if you like it or not. Well see'ya.