The Great Gatsby

Yesterday sudden events led me to a movie.Who am I kidding, making it all fancy, I was bored again.

The Great Gatsby starts off very well placed with original book references flowing either through your eyes in written words or by the mouth of Nick Carraway, portrait by Tobey Maguire. The environment is amazingly well constructed so within minutes you feel right in the epicentre of the glamorous New York City of the 1920, or at least how I imagine it. Everything is golden, expensive and futile and the pieces rapidly come together as it would be expected. The scenes are as enriched as the people and probably as the mind blowing soundtrack, which by the look at the features, can't be even be putted together on a Emmy Award Show. Camera movements makes you regret for a good cinema experience but they're maybe a bit "GCIed" even for an animation enthusiastic as myself. I pretty much enjoy the first part with the mist in this unknown Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) that everyone apparently knew only rumour about and this Nick Carraway, a new neighbor in the post WWI Long Island shore, that is mysteriously invited to one of his extravagant parties.

But suddenly there is a break in the mist. Turns out, everyone knows Mr. Gatsby after all and this apparent minor God of flamboyant house parties it's just a man with feelings.

Feelings not very well resolved for Mr. Carraway's already married cousin, Daisy Buchanan, who Gatsby met as younger boy and has to abandon in war duties. So the "already married part" makes all the drama by itself. Not going to over spoil it, but the story grows as beautiful as any classical greek tragedy. 

Not let's tall performances. I'll skip the minor roles.

DiCaprio is DiCaprio. Great interpretation, not as exaggerated as it would be expected from this type of role, but not last coke on the dessert. Classy and minor god like ambitious, Leonardo made this one count for his resume, even though I got more impress with his last Monsieur Calvin J. Candie in Django Unchained. When it comes to Tobey Maguire, this got a bit more out of hand. Not that he was bad in the movie but Tobey always has this presence that is depromoted of life and always makes me want more. I have to admit I think he was a nice Peter Parker but a Red Bull now and then never hurted anybody.

As for Carey Mulligan as Daisy, the part was well putted. Soft, adorable and cute make the film even more desirably and paradisiac. I felt in love with the fact that this so naive young girl comes out as 90% of the cause of all the tragedy. It's a nice touch, Mr.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald!

Lora Zombie

So today I was rambling around on the internet as domestic shores were a subverted invention that radioactive dementors used to control the world, when I ended up on my old deviantART. I never knew how to write this word properly, so everytime I need to use it, I have to go on a full review my personal beliefs and conclude that Google and God, are probably synonymous. And when you think about it, they are kinda alike, at least semantically. Like those words that have distinct paths of evolution. Anyway I always have a foot behind with mass corporations so when I get a proper "deviantART" as the creators intended to be written, I close google and I pretend that I did all by myself. It's amazing how easy it's make my brain thing that Google it's my bitch! And everything is fine again.

Well "long time no see" that old account and I got soaked with a huge wave of memories that soon become fragments of an no so distant, try to be rebel adolescence.

I always have been secretly pretentious with my sketches. The thing is, that actually doesn't last long once I start browsing for a wallpaper or just for the thrill of afternoon boredoms like this. It's amazing the artwork quality that one can find just in a five minute search on deviantART, Tumblr or even specific pages on Facebook. So Lora Zombie was a perfect example of what small things can lead you to jaw swapping, deep failed "artist" depression, followed by a very, very late acceptance that not everybody is born with the artist gene.

This early 90's borned russian girl has a unique watercolor, conceptual twisted style that always swipe my floor out of the ground. Comics, rainbows, and pretty much any piece of conceivable fantasy serve as an excuse to bright up your eyeballs and drown you in beautiful harmonic worlds. The messy watercolor swatches mix within canvas and droplets of ink often drip within gravity's will, giving to each and every artwork an unmistakable mark of singularity. Lora has been awakening general interest in fans and experts worldwide, by showing her work collection in exhibitions in Los Angeles, Toronto, New York and Russia. 

I strongly recommend a walkthrough in Lora's galleries and I can promise how easy it is to lose yourself in color and mind of this young artist.

After admire these artwork for an hour and a half, I went back to my piece of shitty deviantART page Two seconds later, it's like a invisible download bar popped up in face telling me "Your file shame.this it's ready. Please click here to install it. Although it's pointless if you don't. It will start automatically in 5, 4,...". And there's is no Task Manager that can save you from self embarrassment.

AM

Sorry for the late posts about this that came like years ago. Not my fault. One of the perks of being new here is that you get to talk about almost anything, just for no reason.

Anyways the summer is on and this year, this one, was landmarked by another outstanding single from Arctic Monkeys.

"Do I wanna know?"

Believe me, you do.

Alex Turner and the british lads are back and the first single of the album AM it's surprisingly beautiful and unsurprisingly different, as each album becomes as sui generis as the processor. That should be no different for AM which debuts on September the 9th. As an animation aficionado I cannot go on without mentioning the video. Intense and well calibrated, the video fuses with the sound in a perfect mixture that reminisce my electromagnetism classes where I had fun with an old oscilloscope. Alex Turner sings about the unknown feeling of reciprocal love while concludes with a shout of desperation. "Do you want me crawling back to you?" he says. It placed me right back at to the time when I watch them live for the first time. The crowd, the white cheesy moon. You know, that kind of gigs.Anyways it's amazing that one can still feel that electric vibe since groundbreaking tunes like Brianstorm, Fluorescence Adolescence or even more recently, Crying Lightning or Library Pictures.

And the summer was already perfect, thank you, media world, if not a week ago I found out about this new single "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?".

Another side, same story. If "Do I wanna know" it's filled with the constant persistence of calling some unresponsive love when "you had a few", this new single it's a smooth melody with sneaky rhythm where it becomes clear the perspective of an altered 3 am mind, almost making me missing the old "Bohemian Like You" from The Dandy Warhols.

The video it's amazingly constructed as it would be expected from a well matured british band like that.

Bottom line I understand if in future, Arctic Monkeys don't reach a Beatle status but they won't get to far behind. It's a generation band and I don't expect more than respect for it from future lineages. 

I can't wait for listening the all album. Whenever I think about it it's like awakening a sterical sixteen year old in a date with Justin Bieber, at Disneyland. Then I take a zanax and life becomes meaningful again!

I'll leave you with both singles. Cheers!

Louie

Tv Shows? Yes. I watch like a twenty different ones and sometimes it feels like a thousand. So when I ear "Returns this fall!" I usually ear a calling from my personal man cave, a cozy little place where the world can be muted, pause and played as I please. just for this thought I would think of myself as a lonely person, a "forever alone". But who can blame us, tv show cave "community", when we live in the peak of the golden age for this type of media?

Anyway the summer it's always a bit off and it's a shame because free time sprawls in every corner and a boy has to invent small things to do. Now and then, something nice and surprising that leave us picking up our jaw from the ground comes up.

This is the story of how I met Louie. There is nothing great about the story. I took the "I'm bored" internet road and I stumbled on it. I easily got intrigued what was the fuss about a forty year old american man that, by look of the outdoors, looked like an average nobody that nobody cares to look more than the strictly necessary. 

I mean right? Yes. 

Parallax? Maybe. 

How wrong was I? Completely.

Turns out, the shows it's a unique masterpiece where everything looks like it's put on the right place, for the right reason. Uncomfortable moments are due the seamless resemblance with reality and not the good old cheap "Oh my god here it goes bad actor line" that everyone makes a mental loop to avoid a early (possible?) misjudgment. 

Each show never resolves itself. You always end up where you were in the begin. The line between acting and simply existing it's so thin, that it wakes in you a constant doubt between documentary and show. The concept it's simple. Divorced guy, two ocasional kids due separation and a "I'm 42 and now what?" feeling that remains in every single corner of the Comedy Cellar in Manhattan. As a stand up performer, Louie expresses his doubts, feelings and thoughts about his life with the audience and you can even take a good scene out of it, when for instance, a espectador it's louder and he becomes insanely rude.

Not gonna lie. It's a guy show. Don't wanna be sexist but it is what its is. It goes the same reverse way for shows like "Sex in the City" or more recent "Girls". Anyway it's a good example of what a simple, low budget screenplay can revolts within you. 

It can be a little dark so build up your mood before watch it. Even the humor sometimes goes in the land of the embarrassment, so if too sensitive, please don't watch.

Bottom line, the good part it's that now I have 3 seasons to catch up so no boredom for me for a while!

Intro

Hello and welcome!

So this is a place for the present, intended to explore the current zeitgeist.

Once this is the first post I kinda feel the need to introduce myself. Although, I'm not gonna do it. I mean who cares, right? The real thing of doing a personal blog is share yourself  little by little, so if you care that much, keep calm, you'll get to know me eventually. I hope you have a nice time, I'll try to share mainly thoughts on movies and tv shows but once in a while I can shuffle it, for a change. Like in a parallax, not everything that you see it's real and let's be honest, it's funniest when you try to find the underneath of it!

Wish me luck!

The Spamer