(Sorry too much warren ellis)

So The loca has been ridiculously busy, what has she been up to?

Let's start with the fun stuff

Le CINEMA!!!
Movies

So far I've seen quite a few but the two that stand out are

Steamboy and SIN CITY.

They are both delicious and good.

Steamboy is the magnus opus of one of the masters of the anime field. He who brought us the neo-apokalyptic rage of a post modern Tokyo full of mutant evil children, bombs and specially fast motorcycles now brings us a whimsical little story about a boy and his source of ridiculous energy.

You can see why some people would be upset with Steamboy. It's not quite up to content par with Akira. Not even close. In Akira we had an interesting political and social satire of the times and the future we are headed towards. In Steamboy we have a heavyhanded overtly parodied would be coming of age story about the energy crisis and global economy. We have oversimplified views on the scientific paradox of the purpose of science in relation to the human condition. It also has a very unfulfilling romance for a fucking anime considering the pair is just a little boy who at the starts seems sweet on a cute nice girl but ends up spending most of the film with the spoiled icky rich girl.

Suffice to say that content-wise Steamboy is lacking specially if you place it against Akira. In spite of the fact that Akira has far more fantastical nonsense (arguably really) like the aforementioned MUTANT EVIL OLD CHILDREN, Steamboy still comes off as the more naive silly film. Really a hard feat again considering Akira had ridiculously physics laws defying motorcycle races.

None the less as a piece of pure anime art nothing is on par with Steamboy (At least not in the last couple of years) The animation is a true visual delight perfectly mixing one of the most iconoclastic styles of our age (Anime) with excellent and judicious use of CGI (computer animation) The art is easily on par with much of the Disney stuff (who are after all the masters of animation)

The style of the anime while still in the simple vein of Akira (nothing like say the fanciful pretties of Sailor Moon or the ridiculously amazing detail of Ghost in the Shell or the awesome fucking Mecha of Evangelion) benefits greatly from the setting of Victorian England with beautiful period costumes and backgrounds. The drawings of the Victorian Expo are specially marvelous.

If a fun silly time watching things go kablooey and pretty drawings is what you're after then Steamboy is recommended. Ironically the credits are the best part with simple painted panels telling far more story and giving us what looks like also a more interesting story.

The second film is SIN CITY. Frank Miller's Sin City.

I loved it. I fucking god be damned just completely and utterly loved it. I worshipped it. I could build monuments to this fucking movie.

It was over the top and cartoonish and felt like reading the comic does for me where it's everywehre and in everything. I can not imagine seeing this on anything but a huge ass movie screen with my best friend by my side squealing eagerly at all the good bits like Hartigan blowing the bastard's nuts off.

Look some people will say the female leads are all cheap floozy damsel in distresses. What fucking ever. Seriously, what ever. Every film ever has some stupid girl being the damsel in distress, master Mexican comedian Adal Ramones did a hilarious send up of this one time in his American Movies Monologue. The fact is from Casablanca to Star Wars the purpose of the female character is to be a stupid person who gets in trouble and gives the guy a chance to feel all macho and save the girl.

If anything, if anything, this movie at least allows some of the girls to give back as good as they get. The fact that the whores get to blow the mafia bastiches to shit is amazingly cool and does more in my opinion to justify this movie going in to the good to females category than watching something more sedate.

All right besides that there is the acting, arguably some of it's over the top and silly. They are comic book characters, they are acting as comic book characters in a very genre specific film. If you expected anything else besides over the top acting you're smoking the crack. Rather the characters are specially brought alive by the overacting and what were once two dimensional characters come alive before us.

Look Sin City it's a hate or love. Me I loved. Why? Maybe because I had background with the source material, maybe because I'm a sucker for noir, maybe because anything with blood and guts and an underdog hero who has to fight an impossible fight against agents of evil and power makes me giddy and squealy.

That was the movies.

The life.

I've been working like a dog, but when I get home I find the things that you do make me fear for my lifeeeee.

These past weeks I have been working exceptionally hard because they had a few extra hours available and I needed the money. Now I find that I have a little bit of cash, but that I am completely and cruelly without time to spend it in because between full time school and practically full time job I am timeless.

This of course sucks the balls. But that went without saying.

Meanwhile the Loca was studying and working like a neurotic mule I find that the world has gone asscrazy. (Yes too much equine reference for my taste too)

(Equine, Porcine, Bovine, Canine, Feline, look at me I know my animals!)

Ahem. The world has gone crazy. When I was a child I lived under a regime of terror whose purpose was a concentrated attack against me. Why? I do not know, I believe they envied my naturally tan good looks. These people let us call them evil Republican sons of bitches for all intents and purposes hated the demographic group I am stuck in. Therefore they hated me.

They did many cruel nasty unspeakable things. They attempt to make it illegal for me to receive an education, medical attention, legal attention and protection and many of the other serives that one would think my taxes were paying for.

After a brief but fruitful battle in which they were handed their asses the evil villains were defeated.

Or so we thought!

But they have returned again and this time they are armed and dangerous. Quite literally.

Now I have nothing against people excercising their right to freedom of speech and saying a lot, and I mean a lot, of nonsense stupidity and insanely ignorant garbage. That after all is the right for which Patrick Henry rotted away in a French jail while the American government denied that the man of the famous "Give me liberty or give me death." Statement ever existed. (Okay they didn't quite do that but they did silence him quite quickly post revolution as his rabble rousing abilities where no longer needed.

Anyway. If you want to talk smack, be my fucking guest. We all do it at some point or another. Say completely ignorant idiotic things that if we stopped to think, or if we were educated instead of being systematically brain fucked by the complex machinations of a group bent on global domination, we would of course be rightfully embarrased, or at least I hope we would.

But talking and acting are sepparate things. Talking is a harmless if annoying pastime. (Well most of the time except when you say things like "Give me liberty or give me death") But riding around like a bunch of inbred moronic half dog, half worm fucktards with guns and whatnot is not acceptable. Nothing gives you the right to hunt other humans down for your own pleasure or sadistic needs or idiotic beliefs. Nothing gives you the right to deny people access to due process of the law and the entirety of their legal rights as living human beings trapped by the economic disasters caused by the very people you are proud to support.

These fucking tiny dicked moronic Minutemen would be better off campaigning against the corporate wealth that has raided our country and has held Latin America hostage for centuries now. They would be better off campaigning against the global super powers that for years have destroyed any chance of economic self sufficiency Latin America could ever have.

These are not impoverished war torn desert countries in Africa as much as people would like to act like they are. These are countries with infrastructures and vast natural resources that could easily become independent wealthy sovereign nations.

Unfortunately this is not to the benefit of the powers that be in the United States.

For many reasons, economic, racial, social, etc.

So they kill any leaders that might make a difference, see Allende Chile.

They threaten and bully countries into ridiculous treaties and aggreements and are nowhere near being mutually beneficial (see Mexico's inability to grow it's own corn (yes that's right the home of the Mayas the empire that thrived on corn and believed themselves to be created from cornstalks), Bolivia's legal inability to grow it's own wheat, NAFTA, CAFTA, etc)

If these idiotic Minutemen actually wanted to affect change then they need to target the reasons why their is such ridiculous immigration to this country. Trust me it isn't the friendly intelligent people.

More over the Minutemen need a long and in depth history lesson. Such things as why Mexicans and PuertoRicans are allowed to be anywhere in the US. (Puerto Rico is the fifty first state, not quite legally yet but soon enough) Mexico had half it's country taken by the US. The entire thing was not annexed because as the senator said at the time (paraphrased) They're half breed people having mixed with the barbarous natives. (Gotta love the use of the word barbarians in describing natives when originally the barbarians like the other neat word Vandals where European people)

Anyway long story short the treaty that gives the US the Mexican land (California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Colorado) AKA the Treaty of Guadualupe plainly states that Mexicans (and Americans) would be allowed to cross the border freely and at their own leisure. Meaning technically you could work in LA and go home to your beach house in Acapulco (my secret dream, there or San Miguel de Allende the legendary beautiful town often shown in novelas) Or you could work in DF and go home to Houston.

ETC.

Moreover in regards to the profoundly stupid Minutemen we are also disgusted to note many people of hispanic descent in the group. People with the fucking NOPAL en la frente (Nopal en la frente means Cactus on the forehead and refers I believe to the Mexican Emblem of the Cacti with the Eagle and the snake between it's claws which in turn is an allusion to the infamous Aztec myth in which the god (Quetzalcoatl?) promised them (Mexica?) a land to call their own and form their empire on where they saw the eagle land on a cactus with a snake between it's claws, moreover the cactus is an inherently Mexican plant that is even consumed there in a delicious little salad but more delicious for me are the fruits known as 'Tuna' that are to die for specially the green variety chilled. Also available in the US as 'prickly pear')

Anyway these brown Minutemen need to come to terms with who they are, they need help. Psychological and more. They need to find their cultural identity and understand that there is no need to be ashamed of the deep cultural wealth that they have. They need to not be afraid of the white minority and accept themselves as Mexicans, or people of Mexican descent.

(Of course this would be vastly aided if the Mexican government and people were more accepting of their sisters and brothers trapped on this side of the goddamn border)

Truly the only solution to this difficult problem is for large massive stereo systems to be placed through out Arizona and the delicious little Molotov ditty "FRIJOLERO" to be played until everyone understands each other and becomes friends and holds hands over the mesas and deset plains of Arizona like a bad dream speech. OR they band together to shut that infernal racket off.

I was going to write a very long rant on how inspite of all this, I don't feel very hispanicky lately. Like I've disconnected from my people. But that's mostly due to the fact that I can not interact properly with young hispanics my age. But upon further introspection I realized that I do not interact properly with people my age regardless of race. I am a fucking weirdo who require very delicate handling and much bowing to my inate supremacy this doesn't allow for much variety in the kind of people who can tolerate me long enough to turn vague polite acquaintanship into something more.

Well the Loca is quite bored now and wants to cash her check so she may buy ridiculous amounts of comicbooks, food, clothes and electronic devices. (In that order)

Love,
La Loca.

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