Return of the .........?

Watch this space for a return of at least one blogger. I'll be back soon to pour out some stuff from my soul. A lot has happened and I'm still trying to put things together to get started again with this blog. Until next week, adios.

Huomio!

It seems to me that this blog has been left to die by its creators. There are three reasons:

(1) Two of the creators are travelling around the world and have therefore, created their own blog to communicate about their travels.

(2) One creator is too busy with work that could not have time (not even when at home) to add anything to the blog. This is a terrible shame.

(3) I felt that it was becoming more my blog. Since this goes against the original idea, I decided to create my own blog where I could freely express my own things without taking over Electric Vihta.

Thus, I don't know on whether this mini-communiqué will reach any one of the contributors. Neither do i know if anyone else would write something afterwards.

I've tried almost my best to remind Nygard to write something, but it's too busy and stressed with work that forgets other nice things that come with life. This blog could only survive if someone hears my pledge.

Another Soft but Electrifying Whipping

The Obama effect has gone beyond the scepticism. Let's all have a share of joy at least for the next few days.

The Sconek-T

This is the video from that Mexican acoustic band that I introduced to this blog during September.

I found this great website: CatchYouTube: http://www.catchyoutube.com/Default.aspx. In case you haven't come across it (probably i'm the last person on the planet to learn about it)... it converts any YouTube videos into any format you may want to download to your pc or mobile device. Super handy.

Hope you can enjoy the video in this post. It is an excerpt from a tv show in Canal 40, and it includes an interview in Spanish in between two songs. The first song is a cover of 'Música Ligera' from the Argentenean band Soda Stereo. The second cover is from 'Pachuco' from the Mexican band Maldita Vecindad y Los Hijos del Quinto Patio. Both songs are from the 1980s Latin American rock era.

If interested this is the URL for the band's website: http://www.myspace.com/thesconektnsamble

Two News from Mexico in the British Media: the Wedding of the World's Fatest Man and the Capture of the Infamous Cartel's Capo

Right, to begin with, sorry for leaving that horrid image of the pierced brain for too long. I'm trying to keep on with my other blog, which i had to fix.

Well, this morning, as I usually do, i was flicking through the online editions of the newspapers, and basically on the front page of The Independent, they had the image of the Mexican man (supposedly the fatest in the world in 2007) on his wedding day, and then the news that one massive Capo was caught.

In the Mexican news, obviously, the most important thing has been the capture of Mr. Arellano Felix (the cartel boss). However, i'm very surprised that such news made it to the British media, considering that most important than that has been the sensationalistic image of the weding of that massively obese man. Maybe this was of some relevance to give continuity to a documentary that was shown a while ago either in Channel 4 or Channel Five about that guy. I did watch the documentary just because he was Mexican, not for other reason. I'm always curious to learn about the discourses of 'the other', especially when that other is Mexican.

In England, I've rather found the view of 'the other' as rather scary, and very defensive. I say this with full awareness that this is only a similar case to the majority of the countries in the world. Needless to say that in Mexico they do the same. For example, the representation of the indigenous people as 'the other' is way to denigrating.

Now, coming back the the subject of this post. The representation of the Mexican (as the other) and potential meanings. We know that Mexicans eat chilli, take siestas -probably on a cactus- which should mean that we are very tough people. Who could ever sleep on a cactus for goodness sake? Only super strong armoured backs could take it, unless the ponchos they wear are very very thick. Or course, cannot forget the ponchos and the sombreros, which are probably used to lie in the cactus. You see, there is much logic into this idea of the Mexican.

Unfortunately, the Mexican has work hard to acquire many more meanings in the past thirty years or so. Some examples include, becoming the worlds' fatest/obese people -challenging the Americans-, being drug dealers and traffikers of anything possible, and being inherently corrupt. These meanings haven't yet perpetrated the minds of the common people around the world (who don't know what goes on outside the little worlds). Nonetheless, it saddens me that these things take place with little inner recognition by the Mexican society (at large) and lack of acceptance that much needs to be changed from within.

To close this post. On a superficial and cynical note, and based on those two news headlines, I perceive the -other- Mexican as partaking in a circus of wedding extravaganzas, seasoned by corruption. How could I perceive them differently without further knowledge?

BRAIN PIERCING? Is this for real?

First i want to begin with the image, which on its own shocked me.









Ok, having shown this, whether you are a piercing enthusiast or not, you must wonder (maybe) about the safety of this procedure. I've heard that many piercing procedures are risky and entail any negative consequences should they go wrong. But this, this, is gone a bit far. Think about it, perforating your own skull? What the hell is that?

I know, some women get their clit pierced and some men get their pennis head pierced too. Should be used to that fact by now, but i'm not. It still shocks me.

This is the reason why that sole image will remain in my head for interminable nights, as a horror. Well, you see, I like imaginary horror, so maybe wasn't so bad to see it first thing in the morning.

Me, mental masoquist; others, physical masoquists. There is space for all of us.

A Brief on the Recent School Killing in Finland

I am deeply distrubed by the news about the recent event of a killing in a Finnish school. Things would not get any better, that's the message that i perceive from it. As if needed i reminder. Yes, I'm a pesimistic, but just on the surface...

For what it's worth. I could only send my thoughts to my friends who are obviously affected, as it is well known that 'these kind of things don't happen in Finland'. That's what we talked about over last Novermber's first killing. You see, people there don't kill each other in such an American way. Yet, it appears to me that some individuals intend to change that internal structure within the Finnish way of life.

The way i see it is based on my loss of hope and faith in Mexico and the Mexicans. As I have mentioned in this blog, things go only from bad to worse in Mexico. I, in my most natural and instinctive way of being, try to cling on the idea that there are places where people can still feel safe and be, in spite of financial turmoils. Observing the event of today from afar, I can only feel that despair expands through me, and that individual acts, while they are only that 'individual', can have a massive effect on the people that may share my point of view. Perhaps, I am quite wrong, and I may be only expressing my gutt feeling. I definitely don't intend to insult any one's intellect.

I could not begin to grasp the feelings of my Finnish friends. Earlier today, I spoke with one of them, and she told me that it was too early for her to know how she was feeling about it.

TheSconek-T, A Mexican version of Apocalyptica?

My brother told me about this band, which he recently found while strolling around Mexico City. I think they sound great, and hopefully they'll rock for long!

The song that they play here is a cover of 'Música Ligera', a song from the Argentenean band Soda Estereo.

After they play the first cover, they have a very brief interview in Spanish, where they explain their intellectual education in classical music. Furthermore, their motifs for playing rock music is because they are also children from the generation when Latin American rock fluorished from the early 1980s until late 1990s.

At the end of the interview they play a fragment cover of 'Pachuco', which was created by La Maldita Vecindad, on great Mexican band.

Sorry for the archaic facilities for video viewing, I'm working on it. In the meantime, you could copy-paste this url in your browser to see the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ldxEnYku7w

This video is great quality because the sound is proper from a TV studio. I hope you enjoy it.

What do you think?