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WOW Celine Again!!

Dec 9
I received a call from Mr W, who had a spare ticket to go see Celine Dion's "Taking Chances World Tour" at Mexico City. Just awesome! Great songs, great audience... Couldn't ask for more. Gracias Celine!!
... Thanks W, I'll never forget it. :)

Favorite Tour Tracks:

• Eyes on Me
• To Love you more
• The prayer
• I drove all night.
  

The Missing ones: That's the way it is, One heart.

The Fall by Tarsem

Since I saw "The Cell" I was haunted by Tarsem's imagery, I became an instant fan. The carefully designed frames, the perfect color and motion. It was like watching a Dream evolving right in front your eyes (or a Nightmare, as you may see it). Then I knew through imdb.com that he was directing another flick, The Fall.
Regularly I would check on the status of the project and navigated through the net in search of any clue. As the time passed by, The date was set, the screening process and the awards, but the movie was never released to any 'mortal', just to the movie business folks.

Just when I thought I would have to abandon the idea of ever watching this film, it was shown on some screens around USA. As every trip to the USA i took, i could never find a Movie Theater nearby with The Fall showing. It was when it was released on DVD that the anxiety rushed down, and just waited for the proper time to buy it. And that day came on November the 13th.

The Fall. Tarsem. 117 Min. (Careful, minor spoliers!)

I totally agree with Roger Ebert when he mentions that it is "an extravagant visual orgy", and partially agree with some reviews about the weak argument the whole movie is based on, but clearly this flick shows the geniality of Tarsem. Shot in more than 8 countries in the lapse of 4 years, this movie takes you into the wild and vivid imagination of Alexandria, a 5 year old Romanian Inmigrant, that is recovering from an injury in her left arm after falling at the Groves. She is just a plain girl who has suffered the loss of her father and moved to another country with her mother and sister, who don't speak English at all, and loves to throw oranges at the Priest. Set on Los Angeles in the first decades of the 20th century the story revolves around Roy, a heart-broken-suicidal stunt man, who has jumped off a Bridge with a horse to impress his-then-girlfriend, but only to loose her at the movie's main actor (to whom he is stunt-doubling); He lost the movement of his legs and he is confined to his bed, bitter and lonely. He meets Alexandria and through storytelling he manages to convince her to bring him drugs, so he can finally commit suicide. Just as the Wizard of Oz, the characters that take place on the story are linked to "real" people in Alexandria's world. Her father, Nurse Evelyn, even the Ice-man have their parts on the story that is carefuly told. Just as the story goes by, a slight resemble with Ende's Die unendliche Geschichte, as the teller and the characters blend into one stream of action with catastrophic consequences.

Remarkable is Catinca Untaru's naive and fresh performance (As she was told it was a documentary of Roy and the actor was really paralized), and of course Tarsem's unique aesthesis brought to life.

Forgot to mention that The Fall is a remake of "Yohoho", a Bulgarian film by Zako Heskija.

PS. Googly Googly, go bad critics away!!

Quick Update

Quick Update




I just received the copy of the Album "Party Crasher" by Per Gessle (Of Roxette fame) I pre-ordered back in October. This is the second English album by this terrific songwriter. I'll review it as well in the next Blog.

Crazy November

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Well, first I want to thank to the people that are reading this blog for losing their precious time on reading my rants and thoughts... Second, let's review my last few weeks, shall we?

Well, During November I traveled to Las Vegas to see Madonna in concert... What can I say? Just Wow!! Not only she has the best show but she IS the best performer, not voice quality, but on Attitude and Self Commitment. After the concert me and my friend went to a Gambling spree that lasted roughly 3 hours... anyway, now I can sing like Sheryl Crow's Leaving las Vegas. Hehehe

Two weeks afterwards I went to see Celine Dion to Anaheim, CA. To the people that know me, they'd find strange me going to see Celine Dion, and they might be right except for the fact that is one of my Guilty Pleasures no-one-knew! In fact, it was the best self-treat I'd ever given to me! :D

During those two trips I visited the Virgin Megastore and some Libraries. I bought a very precious item: The Fall, by Tarsem, which I'll review in my next Blog.