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"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato

Thursday, July 2, 2009

παληάνθρωπος, μου παληάνθρωπος

!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!
This is not an ordinary entry. It's not going to be a letter written for the man who broke my heart, it won't be a paragraph quoting a song, and trust me, it isn't a poem or and excerpt from an old notebook.
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You know how in times of depression and emotional decay, us, as humans, tend to look for role models or experienced people who can somehow teach us that it really isn't the end of the world, or maybe that there's an answer to your problems that you haven't considered, or perhaps that a cliché such as "everything is going to be alright" has a deeper meaning than the one everyone thought of?

It sure is nice to find your light at the end of the tunnel, and of course most people reach it by the predictable and boring way typed in the paragraph above.


Well, I didn't! (Meh...if you can't laught at yourself...)

But, instead of finding a super hero who would take me to the other side, I rediscovered, after years and years of having them burried in the back of my brain, a couple of characters that didn't teach me a valuable lesson on how to heal a wounded heart, or how to move on in life, or what to do to become a stronger person. They just brought back memories from happier years (ironically, since most people might consider them disturbing, stupid, repulsive, disgusting, annoying, unhuman, and overrall AWFUL) when I would use them as alter egos to shield my young, silly personality from what I considered "the real baddies", and they accomplished this just by playfully telling me..."It's so easy when you're evil".

Alex DeLarge
Alex isn't so bad. He loves cool glasses of fresh milk early in the morning or in the afternoon, and of course, without a thing spoilling its impecable white color. He also listens to Beethoven, mostly the 9th Symphony, which is pure inspiration for him. The one that makes you lose your senses. Alex loves to dress in immaculate white as well, and wears a fancy top hat, has beautiful eyelashes and always has a perfect smile on his face.

If it wasn't for the senses thing...right in the middle of his climax, he might also lose his cool every now and then, and go a little too far with his own energy. You know, like hitting an old person, or stealing from a homeless guy, or sodomizing an artist, or stabbing a colleague, or murdering a woman at her apartment at night with a gigantic plastic penis. Or, simply, just jumping off a window that is located a bit too high.

Sensitivity and destructive energy, those are the two faces of Alex DeLarge. Period. Although there are others who have another theory in this society that doesn't understand him - just like Stanley Kubrick tells us in Clockwork Orange -: they just want it all to work like a clock, mechanic and perfect, with no soul at all. A clock, without poor Alex's soul, who isn't that bad after all...right?


Professor Ratigan
Out of all the Disney villains, this is probably the funniest. This guy is so egotistical and so diabolical that he takes the cheesecake. Not only is he an evil genious, but he enjoys every single moment of it, giggling and laughing all the way. His voice is so absolutely soothing and deep and perfect that mixes blood crapping rage with givingness and joy.

He's so evil that his picture actually smiles once you've mentioned his name...!!! Now, that's a baddie!

What makes this character so great too is that he tries to hide his inner raging beast with all his class and sophistication, but by the end, he's is just as psychotic as any other power hungry monster.
If you werent' afraid of rats before meeting Ratigan, you certainly will be after.
Ratigan, oh Ratigan...evil never looked so good, and bad, at the same time.

X.o.X.o.

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