Well, poor mortals, the birth of my first drabble finally has come; my most sincere excuses if it's not as gothic as I promised a few posts ago ---when the visit counter reached the 1000 visits---, but I think it's at least in a great degree of own reflection mood... Its title is The Dark Corridor and I hope you will like it!!
So, I'll be waiting for your first impressions, suggestions and complaints for each drabble I offer you, my dear Death Road Transients, in form of comments hehehe. At last, I have to say that this drabble word counting has been executed in NeoOffice 2.2.2 ---the native mac OpenOffice port--- and it returns exactly 100 words.
I walk alone through a dark corridor. It's strange, I'm seeing the bright outside through a wall of unbreakable glass but there's no light over me. I can see people; my dear people: family, friends, those special girls... I can hear them, and wow! They can hear me!!! I'm talking with them, I'm accepted in this outer world!!! but I cannot achieve them. I'm reaching the pleasure of being loved but I can't taste nor touch this gift. I'm in a prison of feelings, I'm like a gargoyle: life and friendly in isolation, but exiled in the light of sensations.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
drabble: The Dark Corridor
Sunday, March 23, 2008
CD Review: Time to Be Free (Andre Matos)
After several months from the first (and unique till now) review of Dark Passion Play CD from the finnish metal band Nightwish (a very heavy review, I admit it, but this album is not as good as the previous ones of these finnish people, and not only 'cause of the change on the leadsinger; you can see it here), there is now my second CD review of an album that I'm fallen in love with it, released the past august but only in Japan. Now, from February the 25th, this cd is on european stores.
The album is Time to Be Free, of the brazilian genius Andre Matos, and it's his first album on his new solo projet after his strange conflicts with his two previous bands, Angra and Shaman.
Section 1. Introduction
As fan of power metal and fan of those metal styles combining metal with folk instruments or even orchestra and/or choir (that means, metal bands like Rhapsody, Kamelot, Epica, Sonata Arctica, Helloween... from Italy, Finland, Germany overcoats), I must admit that in the last recent years only a few bands has marked a real difference in style, composition and capabilities, that is, nowadays there are a lot of bands that are clonics of another bands, with low amount of quality, or even no quality :S I.e., I'm referring to bands like the ucarinian Conquest or the italian Kaledon: good bands (I have their discographies in my iPod, indeed) but with no real personallity.
However, there are bands with a lot of spirit at its own. For example, Aquaria, a recent brazilian band with some Angra influences but with its own personallity. Another good bands appeared recently would be Irencros, from Italy, and Serenity from Austria, the two both with no innovations but with lot of perful energy (the spirit of Irencros, e.g., is its leadsinger, Giulio di Gregorio, an authentic wonder of voice with respect to its icnredible versatiliyy: gutural voice, lyric style, violent screaming and awesome high-pitched ranges; listen to The King is Dead for a taste); and another example would be Cellador, extreme power metal from Nebraska, USA, in the line of Dragonforce but without keboards... a very good band, where the oldest member in the recording year was 23 years old!!!
Nevertheless, there is a name who travels through some brazilian bands, an authentic magician of singing and composing: singer, compositor, pianist and orchestra conductor, he's brazilian and his name is Andre Matos. When he went out from the band who rose his name to the Heaven of Gods of Voice, Angra, he formed with the Mariutti Brothers another good brazilian band, Shaman. But again, a lot of differences with the members of the band provoques a separation, and now, Angra and Shaman are actually living bands but without Matos (although with its brilliant compositions...).
Now, maybe tired of so much music differences with musicians, he has started his solo project, that receives his name, of course. Again, the Mariutti Brothers are with him, and with Andre Hernandez and Eloy Casagrande, a versatile 17-year-old drummer. And this album is the real proof of that power metal is not died yet!!
Why? It's easy to explain: 10 songs (+ 1 splendid Menuett introduction connected with the first real song), each one different of each others, each one with its own soul and energy, each one perfectly composed by Matos himself, each one with this kind of melodic lines that only Andre can sing in so awesome way... in one sentence: Andre Matos in state of grace and total freedom. Because of this, the title album cannot be better: Time to Be Free.
Section 2. The album review: the ''standard'' part
The album begins with a classical introduction, a Menuett that will evoque some remembrances of Unfinished Allegro, the intro of Angels Cry, the opera prima of Angra 15 years ago. The Initial orchestra tuning, and then, violins, cellos, trombones and a harpsichord performing a precious melody that connects perfectly with the first masterpiece of the album: Letting Go. Still with the orchestra performing a Vivaldi-esque tremolo melody, the drums enter the scene with the cymbals in a fast correlation with the string tremolos.
And then, the piece itself begins, with a solid guitar riff, a brazilian-kind drum bridge, and Andre begins to sing. Really, this song can be compared to the classical song and masterpiece Carry On (the connection with the previously mentioned Unfinished Allegro on Angels Cry), like Here I Am, the first song in the first cd of Shaman (Ritual), after the tribal new age introduction Ancient Winds: motivative melody, incredible high-pitched notes in the B section of the main melody, and a long chorus section, impecable but worse than the melodic lines itself. Even the song structures of the three songs equivalent: ABABCDECC, being C the chorus section ---although in Letting Go is really ABABCDEFC, proof of the incredible compositive talent of Andre Matos---.
Church Organ and violins join the double drum bass and the guitar solos in a perfect way, and the diversity of tempos in the almost 7-minute-song (including Menuetto) builds an authentic masterpiece, the best song of the album (in composition career, with the album-titled song, Time to Be Free).
After this fast song, a mid-fast-tempo is offered on Rio, a very good song with the so loved for Matos brazilian tribal instruments in the interludium. A powerful song, simple but effective with that terrible guitar riffs and with an awesome chorus section, and a splendid high-pitched melody on the end of Matos part, minute and a half to the end of the song, preludium of the powerful fade out ending between violins, guitar and drums.
On the next, my favourite song in the album, Remember Why. Here Matos returns to pipes (as he already did in the Shaman album called Ritual, on Time Will Come) to construct a beauty melody at the beginning of the song, repeated by the guitar in the interludium. A fast power metal song with a beauty melody and one of the most precious chorus section I've ever heard (and pay attention to the church organ on the background chorus, with Bach-like chords composed and performed by Matos himself... simply AMAZING!!!), and another awesome high-pitched final melody almost impossible to perform (I've tried to sing that, and I have not enough air for the final note XD what a pity!!). Pay attention too on the guitar solo in the middle of the song, with baroque notes beautifully chosen. Deffinitely, another splendind song, complexly structured as ABBCADEFC.
The next song is How Long (Unleashed Away), more closer to heavy than to power metal. Newly again, evocative melodies emanated from Matos lips are offered to our ears after a strange breathing introduction with a powerful guitar riff and a mid-tempo drum rythm section. Maybe this song is so short (4:50 minutes only, when the mean song duration in this album is 6 minutes), when the intro and the outro of the song offers so much not-advantaged possibilities!! However, another excellent song :)
With Looking Back a different song is again sounding. A mid-tempo acoustic guitar rythm with a fast guitar solo with violins in the so classic interludium in almost each power metal song. I'm wondering why this song has this strange ending (it seems to continue but not... the song is over :S), in my opinion this provoque a cutting effect on the song. However, I ignore the aim of Matos, and he is the master :P It's true that this kind of ending, joined with the beginning of the ballad of the album, the next song, titled Face the End, stays quite well, but it's still so rare :S
This ballad is very beauty, overcoats in the second repetition of the melodic line after the first chorus section, with violins and guitars performing a stacatto background atmosfear more proper to soundtracks than to a metal song. And Matos, perfect as always. Beauty melody for a beauty song :)
Section 3. The album review: the ''experimental'' part
Now the second part of the cd starts with the eigth track of the cd, the album-titled song, Time to Be Free. Until now, Matos offered us great songs with his personal career on composition, but standard on the metal music. From now, the experimental section begins. Time to Be Free is a long song (8:30 minutes) that offers low tempo and fast tempo sections as well, separating the melodic lines, chorus lines and interludiums. It's the most complex song on the album, it's trying to offer all the Matos facets in a single piece. Great song, not easily nice in the first listening, but a good song; this is because the structure is very peculiar: AABCDEBFCD, being D the chorus section. The final high-pitched note of Matos chorus line at the end of the song is simply awesome, during almost 20 seconds!!
Rescue is the next song. In my opinion, this is the most progressive song on the CD, with a 7/4 tribal flute section in the interludium and a non-standard drum composition, combining snare with cymbals and bass. I adore this song, because of the versatility of metal tempos joining tribal sounds and violins (more strange than in Rio, but but also more complex than in the second song), and a powerful chorus melody ascending in a single octave range on the repetition :P And even with gutural vocals!!!. This is, with no doubt, the most Shaman-like song in the album.
And now, the most geek song: A New Moonlight is the most complex and experimental song on this album. Arranged by Andre himself when he was 14 years old, and rearranged and reconducted now for this album, this song is an arrangement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata with vocal sections closer to the well-known british rock band Queen, with its habitual choral sections also used in some Edguy songs, the german jesters of metal. Nine minutes length for tasting this authentic proof of talent.
And the last song is a splendid ending called Endeavour, a 7-minute-length song with two clear parts, the first one so fast and full energy, with great chorus melody, and final one, a real grand finale in a long fade out, consisting in a mid-tempo drum rythm with Matos executing incredible high-pitched melodies until the end of the song.
The Japanese edition includes also a bouns track, a cover song of band Journey, called Separate Ways. It's not a song made by Matos, and this can be easily advertised. The worst song in the album, but not a bad song at all.
As an overall review, I'm sure that this is the best album of 2008 (although it was really released on 2007 in Japan). I know that there are some months left for finishing this year, but I think it will be impossible to find an album so complex, so emotive, so beauty, so plenty of energy, and with a so much huge own spirit inside than this album of Andre Matos. All the CD is a masterpiece at all. A must-have album, simply brilliant.
Tracklist (1:09:33):
Pros: everything.
Cons: only 69 minutes XD.
Best Track: in composing career, Letting Go; but for emotive and affinity, Remember Why, with no doubt.
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Sitges 2007: the aftermath; Experimental movies (volume 4 of 4)
Finally, the moment has come!!!! After more than six months, and a huge and heavy tidiness, I will finish the Sirges 2007 Film Festival chronicles :P I apologize for this lag of time again, but I'm trying to update my chronicles and experiences to nowadays as so fast as I can... :P
After terror and gore movies, noir and epic ones, and the animation chapter, now it's the turn of the experimental movies: those movies unclassificable because of its strange spirit.
Hence, this final chapter includes, besides the Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic Blade Runner in its Final Cut Version, (remasterized and including again the unicorn scene but not some voice-off reflections from Deckard'd mind) and the Rodriguez-Tarantino duet, Grindhouse, (including the fake trailers!!), and the most supriring asiatic movies, i.e. the Takeshi Kitano autodestruction as film director, the new fantasia from Park Chanwook, the first non-animation film of Katsuhiro Otomo, and the surrealism of a western in japanese feudal age by Takashi Miike :D
So, let's go with the most funny chapter of this Sitges 2007!!!
* Chapter 1. The USA experiments... a sci-fi classic reedition and a tribute to classic terror.
Is there anybody that didn't know what movie is Blade Runner?? I can't imagine it, it's possible that somebody hasn't seen the movie, but at least he/she knows about this film. This classic of cyberpunk (Blade Runner started this kind of philosophy in films) made by Ridley Scott, with that legendary soundtrack by the King of Experimental Music, Vangelis, is a masterpiece of sci-fi movies.
With a great bakcground of a decadent society really defeated by its own ambitions and creations, this movie offers a sad future where it's always raining and the sun can't achieve the floor of a cybernetic world (plenty of marketing, indeed XD cocacola, atari... incredible, it's not subliminal, it's literally shown in the movie!!! :P) where the mankind has created a set of servant androids, called replicants, with powerful habilities but without empathy, little detail that is the borderline between the humans and the replicants.
They are useful for Extraterrestral Hard Works in the past but deprecated on Earth in the present of the film because the replicants have exceeded their creators (the humans) capabilities and they wanted to make a rebellion.
'Cause of this, there are special cops, called Blade Runners (Deckard is one of them) must arrest every replicant hidden on Earth Society.
What can I say about this movie not said before? An incredible mixing of classic noir films (police, criminals, a femme fatale...) with philosophical background reflections and science fiction with cyberpunk, with a lot of different versions due to the differences between Scoot and the Production Enterprise (e.g.: the unicorn scene, Deckard being or not being a real replicant...), with incredible music (performed with only a real saxophone and a huge amount of synthesizers by Vangelis itself mixing futuristic ambientation with classical noir music notes and leit-motifs), now remastered with the aim of offering the best quality possible nowadays.
Deffinitively, a classic and immortal movie born in 1982, with Ridley Scoot in state of grace (opposite on the recent years of Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven, but reborn with The Matchstick Men).
And in the other side, the incredible tribute to 70's horror movies made by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, Grindhouse.
The bizarre and bloody massacre of Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror provoqued by a lethal virus that transform people into zombies (Does anybody remember Resident Evil saga? XD) and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, the splendid stunt-tribute starring Zoe Bell, the stunt-woman of Uma Thurman on Tarantino's dual masterpiece Kill Bill, already projected on cinemas, but now joined in a single-experience and with the fake trailers not enjoyed outer USA.
And what trailers!!!! Besides the already-seen Machete, trailer directed by Robert Rodriguez, [...]
[...] I was able to see the splendid ideas of three well-known names in this industry: Don't!!, by Edgar Wright (amusing and hilarious tribute to horror clichés XD), [...]
[...] Thanksgiving, the incredible bizarre fake-movie by Eli Roth (director of Hostel saga), [...]
[...] and the Rob Zombie signature on Werewolf Women of the SS, clear tribute to Jess Franco starring Nicholas Cage as Fu-Manchu XD simply amazing XD.
* Chapter 2. Otomo is back! The beautiful surrealism of Korea by Park Channwook.
When I saw that Katsuhiro Otomo filmed a real-person film, I was very impatient for seeing this film, that receives the name of Mushishi. But in my opinion, the final result is a strange movie, with an awesome environment of Nature invaded by a special beings, like Mononoke Hime's kodamas, only able to be seen by a reduced number of persons, called Mushishi (Master of Mushi ---these beings are called Mushi, that means bug---).
The scenography is incredible, the atmosphere is impeccable... but the film is not great, maybe because of the nullity on its story. This film is based on a famous manga also called Mushishi, and it's possible that Otomo wanted to gather too much spirit of this manga: the result is a mix of independent adventures of Ginko, a young boy capable of seeing this strange spirits, the Mushi. It's true that the experience of the movie is powerful in terms of mixing natural and sobrenatural worlds, but the movie itself is empty of meaningness, and when it finishes, you have the feeling of a incoherent sequence of beauty images.
Being Mushishi a film by Katsuhiro Otomo, the creator of the japanese cyberpunk masterpiece Akira, this movie called Mushishi is beauty and magical but poor, meaningless and empty of feelings.
In the opposite side, however, there is the last film of Park Chanwook, the genius creator of the Trilogy of Violence (consisting in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Old Boy, and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance), is this brilliant comedy called I'm Cyborg but that's OK, a film about a young girl inside an asylum that believes in being a real cyborg. Proof of that is that she doesn't eat normal food but sucking alcaline batteries (this is seen in a nice scene in the asylum's dining room). This movie also counted with the presence of Park Chanwook in the projection auditorium, and he announced a new film for 2008 and a projection in the next Sitges Festival!! I hope this will be true :D I can't wait for this new film, with more violence, in the sense of his mentioned above Trilogy of Violence!!!
Well, about this cybernetic film, it's composed by two clear parts. The first one, a delirant comedy, offers to the audience the asylum in its own splendor: the most hilarious kinds of madness and dementia enter the scene while the main character of the young cyborg girl walks around this world of insanity, and it's possible to know her past (her grandmother overcoats, also in madness) and her present, and why she is confined in this mental hospital; simply amusing :) The second one, however, is a real drama with a beauty background of a love story between the cyborg and another mad confined boy. In this part is proofed that being mad and being idiot are not the same: the only aim of the boy is to transform her sad life in the asylum onto a beauty world where she is really a cyborg.
And is in this second part where Park Chanwook demonstrates that he is a master of filmmaking... it's really one of the most emotive films I've ever seen without the typical clichés of romanticism. Very recomendable.
* Chapter 3. The two mad minds of Japan: Kitano and Miike and their insanities made film.
I've reserved the most peculiar films forthe last ones. The reason is simple: it's almost impossible to see any movie as geek as the two following ones; one is the last creation of Takeshi Kitano, the King of the Kitano's Castle (humor amarillo in Spanish Television), and the creator of great films like Sonatine, Zatoichi, Kid's Return or the most recent Takeshi's, the initial masterpiece chapter of Kitano's autodestruction films. So, the second chapter of this autodestructive saga is the movie I want to talk about: Glory to the Filmmaker! Kantoku Banzai!
My humble opinion about this movie is simple but also strange: it's an authentic masterpiece hidden in a really bad movie XD If you don't see this movie you maybe cannot understand this sentence, but I will try to do this task easier. This film is something like a fake chronicle of Kitano itself as your role of ruined film director. Through the entire film, you have the sensation of being into different movies inside the film itself, each one of a different style, even a tribute to old japanese styles (the Retirement fake-film is the best gag I've ever seen in Kitano films, even better than the sumo battle in Sonatine or the eyes scene of Zatoichi, and with the detail that Retirement is apparently serious XD).
It's really a comedy, you will laugh very much in some scenes I won't tell about for don't act as a cruent spoiler :P I will only say (and it's not an spoiler itself because this is one of the most famous film snapshots :P) that the plastic puppet of Kitano receiving a medical analysis is incredible XD
I only can say: it's a must-see film, an incredible journey through asian film history and an autodestruction of Takeshi Kitano. Simply incredible, a must-see movie for cinematographic art lovers :O
And for the last, the last film of the Demigod Of Gore and Bizarre Violence... brrrrrrrrrr *drumroll* Takashi Miike, the creator of the famous torture scenes in Audition and Imprint, and the creator of geek (and too miuch strange :S) saga Dead or Alive (not related with the famous videogame :P).
This time, in Sukiyaki Western Django Miike offers us a real spaghetti western like the Bud Spencer & Terence Hill ones, but located in the Feudal Japan Age. And trust me: it's incredible how real seems a western ---with its typical hats and guns and saloons--- in a japanese mountain with japanese traditions.
The argument is poor, but... what's the matter with the story? Look at this promotional poster of the movie : traditional costumes, guns, shotguns, and the terrible western hats on japanese men XD So, who is concerned about the story when you are able to see this strange things? XD
And oh!! I almost forgot this important detail: all the movie is spoken in the worst english you will hear on a film XD Only for this handicap, the movie is really amusing :P But the most important hot shot for this movie is the special appearance in the introduction and in the second half of the movie of the USA most peculiar talent, also mentioned in this review (chapter 1): Quentin Tarantino!!! Yes, Tarantino appears as an actor (and he performs an important character in this film!!!). You can view a cut of Tarantino intro sequence in the following picture :)
This is another bad movie (really it cannot be considered a good movie at all), but it's an awesome experience for asian film fanatics :) Japanese people talking in english (or something that seems english XD), performing good saloon duels, with incredible and nice gags (Miike is the God of Blood, but with Kitano and Johnnie To, they three are experts on adding surrealism in a serious scene :P a clear example is in Sukiyaki Western Django, when the leader of one band is showing the other members his incredible hability on halting a thrust made by a katana... hahahahahahahahahahaha impressive XD). Also, very recomendable as a geek experience and for Miike entusiasts.
And that's all about Sitges 2007!!! Sitges 2007 is finally reviewed in its totallity!! (well, in my totallity, I didn't see all the movies, it's impossible!!) For people that hope a typical blockbuster movie, forget this two last chapters of this fourth volume of Sitges 2007. The pecualirity of this movies is the most attractive factor for wanting to see them. :P
I hope you poor mortals had enjoyed this huge review in 4 volumes, because I've enjoyed very much this writing experience, because of the remembrances of great moments in asian films... I can't wait for Sitges 2008!!!! But it will be on october, with no doubt... hence, I cannot do nothing than be patient... snif...
Bye bye poor mortals!!! See you in the Lair of Flamming Tears; and remember... being a geek is nice, except for those who aren't geek; so, please, however you can become a friendly spectacle be comprehensive in receiving confusion and distancing on passion affairs...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
1000 visits on Ignis Lacrima!!! The rise of drabblemania?
Oh My Gooooooooood!! This morning, on 10:20 am, the counter of this blog, Ignis Lacrima, has reached the magic number of 1000 visits!! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Since September 19th of 2007, about six months have passed, and this servant of Hefestus that is writing this note, has tried to share with you, poor mortals (as me), my experiences and those things that are interesting or curious, always in my humble opinion :)
Nevertheless, I've noticed that, 1000 visits in 6 months, the calculus gives a mean of 6 visits per day... I must admit that the beginning of 2008 wasn't the best for this blog, I didn't post until the end of february... this mean is... well, it could be worse, but also better :S however, I'm glad for this 5 persons (one of this 6 visits per day is the mine own XD) that likes this blog. Thank you very much!!! :)
By the way, and for conmemorating this event, and because of I'm aware of my usually huge texts, I will try to offer you, my dear visitors, a future set of drabbles containing my thoughts, my experiences, my point of view of philosophic principles... and you can think: what is a drabble? Well, a drabble is a 100-exactly-word short tale, so it's possible that you will be glad of this short texts XD
It's really a chance, because there must be exactly 100 words. But I will try this ;) Besides, I'm tired of this gothic appearance for this blog, as long as the posts don't reflect this very much. So, I think that some drabbles will be about some gothic and dark schemes or ideas. mwaaaaahahahahahahahahahaha!! I'll wait for your impressions, suggestions and ideas! And, of course, if someone wants to try to do his/her own drabble and wants to share it in this blog, he/she will be able to! :)
However, the usual posts I've posted until now will still make their appearance :P so, I hope you will read them :S:S
Again, thanks for the 1000 visits!!! That's all folks for now, please be tuned on Ignis Lacrima poor mortals!!!! And remember: life is like a rose; if you want it, you will prick with its thorns.
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Sunday, March 2, 2008
F1 Last Official Skills in the ''Circuit de Catalunya'': nyiaaauuuuuuuuu!!
Oh, poor mortals, this last monday, January the 25th, one of my illusions (although I've noticed never this was really one if my illusions :S) became reality: becoming deaf while F1 single-seaters were flying in front of my eyes!! XD well, I must admit that my ears didn't suffer very much although I didn't know that have earplugs was almost a must-have order :P (advice: the nyiaaaaauuuuuu word of the post title is trying to be the noise when a single-seater passes :P).
So, please pay attention to the F1 photographs!! There are not from internet, they all are made by Julia!! :) Her videos are better because, is it possible to focus easily a F1 single-seater with a standard digital camera? the answer is: nooooooooo :S, but the environment can be noticed :P Indeed, there are so much videos than simple photographs because of this :S
Come on, then, the experience begins...
* Part I. The 80th Oscar Ceremony
Really, all the day was very special, from the sunday-to-monday night until the end of the monday :P I couldn't go to sleep because of the Oscar Ceremony!!
And I will seize the opportunity to congratulate Dario Marianelli (in the photo), the winner of the Best Score Composing Oscar for his music about Atonement film (hint: in Catalonia Atonement it's called Expiación). I'm very glad for announcing that, because my favourite candidates were Marianelli and my always-admired Michael Giacchino for Ratatouille (he is the composer for every J.J.Abrams creation, for Medal of Honor saga, and also for another Pixar production: The Incredibles).
And also, the Javier Bardem Oscar must be mentioned (although I didn't like him as an actor... but I cannot say that so loud because I would be in killing danger :P nevertheless, I didn't see No Country for Old Men, so I don't know his performance in the film, but he won an oscar, so he surely made a splendid performance...)
To finish this part, I will only say that I liked very much the performance of the conductor, John Stewart, the same who conducted the two-year-ago Oscar Ceremony. He really wasn't so clever and hilarious as in his previous appearance, but counting on the scriptwriters strike, I can't imagine a better Ceremony Scripting (it was ready in only 10 days!!), hence, congratulations John!!!
* Part II. The important thing XD
Let's go with the posting title-owner., the ultimate F1 Official Skills before the new season starting date in a few days :) After sleeping two "long" hours (XD), i woke and take the breakfast in my usual café (caffe-latte and bacon sandwich... ñaaaaam) and then, I was lead to Plaça Catalunya, the meeting point with Julia and Judith (F1 fans the two), and with Aida, our chauffeur :P Aida is a little crazy girl, but also a nice person: she doesn't like F1, but she drove the rented car (a terribly tiny Ford Ka, where I did some contorsions for entering in it XD) for allowing us the three seeing the F1 in the Circuit de Catalunya :) thanks Aida!! muaaaaaa
Well, at quarter past one p.m. the TTFK (terribly tiny Ford Ka :P) arrived in one piece (and believe me, it wasn't a easy task: Aida was possessed by a demon while she was driving!!!! she couldn't stop singing and dancing strange songs closer to satanic rites: Siniestro Total!! aaaaargh!!) at Circuit Parking. We lunched sat in stand chairs while Hamilton, Raikkonen, Michael Schumacher (yes, ihe is testing driver of Ferrari :P) and others were flyring over the circuit as so fast as possible. At this moment my iPod earphones were used as earplugs because of the huge noise of the cars, but they didn't do a good work... :S Also, I think the spanish driver... oh, what was his name, I don't remember it... well, I think he also was there... :P
After the lunch, we moved to the new chicane zone and there, I had able to discover the excellent engines of some of F1 teams, and the absolutely noisy machines from other teams :P with no doubt, the best engines are those from Ferrari, McLaren and Renault (w.r.t. the performance, not the speed capabilities). Ah! An annecdotic success: a Toro Rosso engine was broken in front of us!! OMG, what a pestilent stink!! XD Aaaaaaaand another breaking new!! I discovered at this place that Aida is ticklish! mwaaaaahahahahahhahahahaha
At 4 o'clock p.m., we took for a walk for the circuit boundaries, hearing and seeing whatever we could... the Circuit de Catalunya is really incredible, it was the first time I was there and I enjoyed very much! :) But the end of skills arrived at 5 o'clock, and then we four began the returning travel (so much quiet than the previous one XD we were tired, hehehehe).
* Part III. The multitask car :P
Taking the most of the TTFK, we went to Judity's family home for catching some things and carrying them to her new home :) And after that, we went for a napolitana and a caffe-latte for the tea time (although it was 7 o'clock XD). So, it was a complete day!! And, obviously, I slept soooo much weeeeeeeell the monday-to-tuesday night!!!!! :D
And this is all for now, the January the 25th arrived at the end :) It wasn't a bad day at all, I think ;) But that's not all, poor mortals!!! I will review soon the past wednesday, when I visited the Catalonia Television Building in Sant Joan Despí for research business :D:D So, stay tuned, and be quiet poor mortals: the compulsive impulses will lead you to the disaster!!!
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