We are plenty of reasons
By Fernando Mexia - society - 08/07/2010
I write from the stomach, because it is visceral. From the disbelief of the unimaginable and the enthusiasm of the novice, but with endless hunger for victory fueled by years of football frustration. I write for the record, for all those times I ended up choking on my enthusiasm because of some phantom goal, an unpardonable fault in the small area, some sung inexplicably missed a penalty at the wrong court and arbitration of duty. I count to banish that silly face that seemed paid each quarter-finals. I do not know if it will be a combination of the Zodiac, an octopus guess, a matter of chance or mere superiority Balompédica, but the Spanish team is on the verge of a miracle mundialístico that even at this point I find it so incredible as that of turning water into wine.
On Sunday in Johannesburg the taste of victory is guaranteed. After passing the match against Paraguay agonizing any outcome is a success. Crush the Germans at the next meeting did nothing to sweeten the sweet. The final against the Dutch is a gift that makes historical justice. Miss the opportunity to lift the World Cup would, however, a capital blunder. We will not again have so egg. Read the rest of this entry »
The World to the rescue
By Fernando Mexia - Economy , Society - 08/06/2010
World is back, finally. A joy for football fans, even from the sofa, which comes with bread under his arm. And that is the most important sporting event on the planet, with permission from the Olympics, will be a relief for the troubled economies of the developed countries, especially for politicians. That's a fact.
Once you start the ball rolling on 11 June in South Africa, the global media machine will put the crisis in the freezer to fill grandiolcuentes holders, freaks and devastating in equal measure, to invite citizens to focus their anger and illusion when the ball touches the back of the net. If faith can move mountains, football can move the world, at least a little.
The country will win the coveted cup half GDP growth of 0.7 percent over the previous year, according to figures from a report published in 2006 by Dutch bank ABN Amro after studying the economic impact of this competition different countries throughout history. Read the rest of this entry »
The black smoke from Lost (Lost) in Iceland?
By Fernando Mexia - Shows - 18/04/2010
Got something to see the black smoke of the volcano with black smoke from Lost?
The origin of the black smoke of the volcano dates back to the distant past, black smoke from Lost too.
Like Lost, it is a black smoke trying to get out of an island where few people live and unless you do not go by "accident" (how many know who have traveled to Iceland?).
As Lost warns, if the smoke comes out of the island, the brown bundles.
Lost ends in a month, take it black smoke also disappear entirely a few weeks.
Lost has a lot to do with the aircraft, what is happening now.
In Lost creates two alternative realities is not known how they communicate. Like the smoke of the volcano, or you're in Europe or in America, you do not know now how to get from one place to another.
If someone had said that a volcano in Iceland was going to Europe by air lock for days generating unprecedented chaos, we were considered as a crackpot. The same had to happen to the creators of Lost when they thought a story of a lost island in which the villain is a black smoke.
If you think this makes sense is you're so hooked like me ...
3D, such as cholesterol
By Fernando Mexia - Film - 26/03/2010
The 3D has become the "drug" of fashion in Hollywood. A "substance of design" with high potential for addiction and "placed" both spectators and studio executives, who beyond the visual effects, experience a 'high' box office that is leaving "junkie" to more than one of directors. Everyone knows what happens to the "junkies" who do whatever it takes to get a dose, although the drug is adulterated, cut or modified in postproduction, which comes to be the case.
As a consumer believe 3D cinema, I can not help wonder at the proliferation of "camels" trying hard to sell four pesetas, as we say. But of course today you can not claim to be "cool" in a blockbuster Hollywood premiere old-fashioned, like Ridley Scott will make his version of "Robin Hood", which seems a mix of "Gladiator" and "Braveheart "which is not bad mix, indeed. Read the rest of this entry »
Myanmar: Lost Election
By Fernando Mexia - Columnists , Juan Palop - 23/03/2010
Juan Palop, Asia continues his blog here
Everything moves in a blur of gray range. Nothing is black or white. Elections and democratic guarantees are no exception. Since the requirements to be a party to the delimitation of constituencies, through the allocation of seats and the construction of the census, all can make the result in the institutions is not a true reflection of popular will. Some countries are close to white, relatively even-handed election laws and voter-friendly, others abuse their power verging on black and organize electoral pantomimes are a vile mockery of citizenship. This is the case of Myanmar. Read the rest of this entry »
At the Oscars for work
By Fernando Mexia - Film - 12/03/2010
Oscar passed at last. Undoubtedly the major event of the year in Los Angeles and work for which multiply report on the mecca of cinema. We have an agenda so full of events and interviews that anyone would say that we are nominated to a tuxedo-rental-$ 70 to enter the perimeter of the Kodak Theatre where every year they delivered the statuettes. Elegant as ever you'd think a party is going, but nothing further, one goes to gigs with "glamorous", but at gigs.
This year I hit the red carpet, which is more fun to be in the press room, but lacks its service "catering". You do not get no water for the approximately three hours and a half is waiting for a pass in front of their noses the cream of the big screen to steal a lasting impression and, of course, find the name of the outfit concocted couturier shift of the beautiful celluloid. The men would have to walk around in underwear for someone to pay attention to his attire, which continues to be an advantage. It has to be a torture to think that the press is going to crush the next day you should not get it.
Beyond actors, actresses, directors, etc.., I was curious to see the Apple founder Steve Jobs, walking the red carpet as they come, or even a Spanish politician who was a little out of place in the biggest party film, especially when the invitations to the Oscars scarce as water in the desert and many of those who worked to make the films candidates for the awards event are left out for lack of room. There, each with their own reasons and with his conscience. Surely there would be more non-industry names "infiltrators" among the hundreds of attendees, but I did not keep their faces. Read the rest of this entry »
No wonder Alicia
By Fernando Mexia - Film - 28/02/2010
Alice returns to Wonderland in the hand of a Tim Burton decaffeinated met the challenge with dignity but not flashy. The Disney film studies is hardly transgressive, slightly dark, slightly risky. It seems designed for a much more childish than we are accustomed Burton.
Particularly disappointing is the aesthetic contribution of a film that lent itself to give a twist to the Pandora's "Avatar" and marvel at the scenery, but the end result, though good, was not great. The 3D could have saved it. Burton said the stereoscopic effect in post-production and volume to the film managed to breathe, but that really catches the viewer.
"Alice in Wonderland" remained a far cry from "Avatar" in showmanship. Fans of Cameron's film will disenchanted Wonderland, perhaps because of it and the script was decided to down a peg to the place invented Lewis Carroll in the second half of the nineteenth century and that was reflected in the novels "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland "and" Through the Looking-Glass ". It turns out that this mysterious land called "Underland" or "Underworld" and what of "Wonderland" was simply a misinterpretation of his name did Alice. Do not forget that the star was very young when he first visited these places strangers. Read the rest of this entry »
The alley cat
By Fernando Mexia - Economics , Journalism , Politics - 13/02/2010
In our world there are cats of all kinds and conditions, but recently it has seen a proliferation of sucking the boat, usually wasted and purr and scratch at their convenience to keep their beds starched and warm. Fortunately, despite what the proverb says, in this jungle we not all cats are gray, which is also inhabited by the dead. A cat shows his teeth against the outrages that are cooked and enriched under our noses, an animal of journalistic writing, disinherited of complex, difficult to silence and lives on the shelf. The alley cat , a watchful eye from the vantage the Internet. Read the rest of this entry »
History in pictures of the Hollywood sign
By Fernando Mexia - Film , Entertainment , Society - 12/02/2010
The famous Hollywood sign, an icon of Los Angeles and emblem of the American film industry was born in 1923 as Hollywoodland, a term that was used to crown the budding city that seethed at his feet where he lived fever in storytelling big screen. Still there was no missing the Oscars and glamor, but the weather turned this place in Eden California area to produce movies throughout the year, especially those that started to become fashionable at the time, adventures in the jungles of Africa or the known westerns. 
At that time the Hollywood Hills, a name that has its origin in the Florida summer home of the wife of founder of the city, Daeida Wilcox, was a land with little use. Read the rest of this entry »
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