August 2005
BYE BYE
Hello;
And now I gone…my heart cannot take it any longer. It is too much, too much emotion and … I cannot carry on writing because I have just seen people that I really fell lots of love for and it had to happen. I was not going to see them for a while to realise that my heart is once again jumping in my chest trying to stay here forever. Perhaps is that he is going to stay here forever and in my way to Europe my body will create a new one. I know it is a legend but perhaps it is true and sometimes that happen. My heart will stay here free and happy and I will be heartless for some weeks, my body and my brain will find another love and then will like cellules create another heart to support that love.
But now I have said goodbye really fast. I have not spent more time doing silly things in wardrobe, I have not joke with Roger and Ron and Meredith and Jenn in make up, I have not had another chance to talk with Tim in his office or being bullied by Mark before I go to the stage or tell Brigitte how pretty she is or talk in Spanish with about our problems with the big corporation that we are working at the moment.
My heart is happy now, I think that is lost in the corridors and draws and sits of the Zumanity theatre but when I closed the door the last time I was empty but liberated for new adventures. I had been happy hear and there has not been a dull moment thanks to all of you so … keep my heart safe and happy and have fun and go and do other things as soon as you can.
Have fun.
MOTEL 6
Hello friends,
I have been travelling through the California coast for the last days and I can tell you if you already do not know that it is fantastic.
I have been sleeping at Motel 6. I have used it in many different towns. They all are like immediately off the motorway and they are very convenient and cheap. I have to say that I have enjoyed them and I recommend them to anyone that does not want to spend too much money in accommodation while you travel. But what I wanted to say to you is that it is a little bit horrible that no matter where you are you find a Motel 6 that makes you fell like if you could be anywhere in the world. You are in Motel 6 in Santa Monica and the one in Paris, Texas is almost exactly the same. I would love that this will not happen. I am sure it is part of the problems of globalization but I am not going to talk about that here.
It would have been much better that Motel 6 has a different Motel 6 in every town and you would be whishing to make it to Santa Monica Motel 6 because it has such an special decoration, or the one by the San Francisco Airport that has the shape of a suitcase and all the doors have zippers instead of a door, or the one in San Diego that is by the exit to the Zoo in the shape of Seal and all the blankets, curtains and napkins and even the toilet paper have little seals printed.
Yeah, I know I could have used a more expensive hotel and I could have got all those things but why travelling has to be so expensive? Why just people with money can do it? Well, I am stopping now because I have open the Pandora's Box and this will never end.
Have fun.
THE 40 YEARS OLD VIRGIN
Hello my friends;
Just a couple of things; I used some of my free cinema tickets that MGM kindly gave us and I took my dear wife to the movies. I did not have to pay but I bought lots of popcorn and spent the same amount of money.
I was not very sure of seeing this movie on the first place but I went for it because I like comedy.
It is very difficult to believe that someone at 40 is a virgin and it is not a priest of some religion. The guy that plays the main part is great actor. You probably have seen him before in other movies or even at the American version of the British comedy “the Office”. The first time I saw him was in a Jim Carey movie called “God All mighty”. I hated the movie but he was the best thing in it. Then I remember seeing him in “The Anchorman” and I did not like him very much so I was a bit reluctant to go and see him again.
I loved the movie. I laugh a lot all the time and the actors and the script are very funny. Some times I was laughing so much that I was having tears. He is very convincing so you believe that he is a virgin and then everything is simple. His friends found out that he is virgin and try to cure him. Look for that moment because is also great.
I am not going to say more, it is not possible without revelling some of the things that happen in the movie.
Have fun.
PACKING
Hi, hi;
I am packing. I was packing yesterday and I will be packing tomorrow and I will be packing until everything is pack. And that day I will have to pack the things I forgot to pack and then the day I go to the airport I will have to pack those little things I am not going to pack today so… do not ever move you have to pack all the time and I find it very boring.
I try to make it very exciting but anything that is more or less the same and that you have to do it all the time and is basically the same thing, filling bags and boxes with staff that you have collected for a period of time and you want to have in the place where your life is taking you next, and that bores me. In order to make it well you have to be methodical and organise and I am not. You have to decide where the summer clothes go and where the winter ones and the kitchen staff does not get mix with the things that belong to the toilet and I get bored. I get so bored like when I painted the rooms of my house. You have to be methodical for that too and I will start in one wall and I will get bored so I will go to another one, or I will get bored of using one brush and then I will get another and tried to paint another more exciting looking wall of the house. After three days painting all the walls of my house were full of shadows and my lovely wife was pissed off and every time she wants to humiliate me she tells the story of the painting of our house. Now she has two stories to say one about the painting of the house and another about packing to go back to Spain.
Have fun.
SAN FRANCISCO - LAS VEGAS
Hi,
That is done in one day. I say to Miren as we were leaving San Francisco in our car. It looks like a very long distance but you can do it in one day. We are going to go down south to Bakersfield and then go east to Las Vegas on the I-15. We left at 6 in the morning and we arrive to Las Vegas just as the sun was setting and we had enough light to see if the pool was green or not.
Everything started some days ago while we were on holydays with some friends from Spain. We were going to drive from Las Vegas to San Francisco by seaside and visit all the beautiful places that are in the way. While we were in Monterrey I received a call from Petra's state agent saying that the buyers where going to do the walk though the house and if we could go a cut the grass and check the state of the pool. I told him that I was in Monterrey and that I was not going to back in Las Vegas until some time. He said is fine I have another phone number to call.
A day later we received a call from Elke, Stephan's wife asking about the pool chemicals in Petra's house because the pool had gone green. This made jump all the alarms about the state of our pool. We had planed to be around the San Francisco area for a little bit more but as soon as our friends left we decide to go back to Las Vegas. It was going to be a little bit of challenge because it looked in the map that we were going to need two days at least. Once we were on the road we realised that we were going to have to drive quite fast but we could make in the day. On the outskirts of Bakersfield we stopped for lunch and then we headed towards Las Vegas. I had never done that drive before but I really liked it. It was like being in location for a cowboys movie.
When we arrived to Las Vegas you could hardly see out side. We rushed to the pool and it was yellow, in need of a good amount of chlorine but not green as we expected.
Have fun.
STARBUCKS
Hellof
There are many of them all over the place that thou they are not like being at home that makes us fell home. I have been going all over the country and every time we see one we have to stop to get a café. It is true that I am a little bit special with the cafés I have and I will rather do not have café that have a bad one. So after many tries now I know what is the coffee I like in Starbucks. If I will be in Spain I will ask for one café con leche but in the rest of the world, I should take our of the rest of the world France and Italy, I go to Starbucks and I ask for a double espresso and a little bit of hot milk. It does sound for all of you like a very easy and reasonable request but if you add to my bad English my strong Spanish accent the you gather a very dangerous cocktail that sometimes makes impossible to get what I want.
Most of the time the beverage is very good and it tastes exactly as you like it almost anywhere in the world but sometime you find some king of people that do not have it, that they probably do not drink coffee so they just do it and then you get the wessy wassy black liquid that they call café but it tastes really bad. Of course I cannot say anything because that is what it is and if you do not drink or like coffee there are not differences but for me there are.
It is not my intention to go against to that big company, they have save all of us café drinkers from the bad anglo-cofe and now this is just a constructive criticism.
The problem starts now that they are ready to do business in a full one corporate world but that is normal when even cirque du soleil does it. I hope what they are trying to do with the music will never be successful.
Have fun.
CALIFORNIA CULINARY SCHOOL
Hello;
I am still in San Francisco, making time to go to visit Alcatraz with my friends from Spain. We thought of going there the first day we arrived here but there are so many tourists that it is impossible so three days later we will be visiting Alcatraz in the afternoon.
It is cold here and it is the middle of the summer. It is upsetting when you come from Las Vegas to go anywhere that has not got the warm of the city. We are not going to be here very long so we will manage.
We are visiting Union Square in the middle of the hills of San Francisco. It is mainly a shopping centre but because it is sunny is very nice to be here. On one side of the Square there are some people with t-shirts of Ben & Jerry and they are selling them to make money for charity projects. The people that come by a white t-shirt and then they have the possibility to decorated like the ones that the founders of this company where in the logo of the ice creams. It makes me think that I have to mention this to Cirque. They could make so much money with that.
Time to go to Alcatraz. We have seen it before but with this weather it is going to very nice to be there in the middle of the San Francisco bay looking at the Golden Gate and getting the sea breeze in our faces. At the end of the day our faces where completely burned for the time with spent with the sea breeze.
It is a very tetrico place but amazing at the same time. It does not mean anything to me apart from the fact that we have seen so many movies about that place.
I wander how things use to be when there were no movies.
But my favourite place in San Francisco the California Culinary school. I have been there twice, as many times as I have been in San Francisco and every time we have been eating there. The first time we went there we like it so much that we went to eat there the next day and the next one. The only difficult thing is that they do buffet on Thursdays and it is not as great as menu.
I wanted to remember what I eat but I have lost the menu that I kept but it does not matter because it was very good anyway. We always go for the three courses lunch with pair wines. It is a little bit more expensive but worthy.
The restaurant is in an old building that has like big ballroom that they have converted into the main dining room and then all the walls are made of glass and there are kitchens and rooms where the cooks learn how to cook. You fell a little bit gin epee but they food is really delicious.
Have fun.
MAVERICKS
Hi,
Whale watchers and weight watchers, I am confused what is exactly what they mean? It sounds the same to me. If you go to weight watchers is because you are fat like a whale so why do they not call the whole thing whale watcher?
Pigdeon Lighthouse on the contrary is a very famous place in the California coast, already quite close to San Francisco where you can watch whales and then you will be a whale watcher. It is an amazing place, like I imagine “the lighthouse at the end of the world”, a place at the end of a road that has a light and attracts everybody, ships and sailors looking for a place to land. The rocks will be there so they will crash and all the guys would be dead and the things in the ships would go to the natives-aka pirates.
A little it further by the coast reality and mythology get together and become one. There is small place, bigger when Poseidon wants, where some of the biggest waves in the world live. It is not so long ago that humans can surf them or better said they have dear to do it and in such a short period of time the number of casualties is big, too big.
The place is called Mavericks. A big rock at the end of a beach that goes up and come down on the other side ending a beautiful place called Half Moon bay.
500 metro away from the coast the wave gets born every time it breaks and just few surfers get enough courage to go there and ride it. Today the wave is not there but worshipers of the wave have gone out to pay respect. We look from the top of the hill and like if nature was trying to tell us something the sun disappeared behind some clouds and everything got dark.
We live Maverick and go into San Francisco. First is first and being this touristy season we go to get tickets to visit Alcatraz but it is not going to be possible until next Thursday. We go to the hotel and we hear on the radio that a dead whale has been found at the beach of Half Moon Bay. Perhaps she is another victim of the surfing world? I wander.
CALIFORNIA COAST
Hello,
There is a lot of fog all over the coastline. We have heard that it is not really fog is something similar that it has another different name in English.
And we were driving along the 101 from San Luis Obispo to Monterrey and as the traffic stop we thought that it was going to be another traffic jam full of people going on holydays. How wrong we were, there was a young bear on the freeway. A police car has stopped the traffic and two guys were pulling from a rope to try to put the young bear in the police car. He did not want to go, of course, nobody wants to go into a police car. I am sure the poor bear had left the house to get something to eat to get ready for the winter and then he got lost and then he arrived to the big road that his parents had told him never to go and end of story. I do not know what these guys would do with him. In California there are radicals that protect the animals but the other have of the state is cowboys land and they do not give a shit.
We drove for some more ours until we arrived to Monterrey. This is a town by the sea that has lots of sea lions living in its port. I could spend days looking at those funny animals. They spent their days showing off and being wild and fighting with each other's and jumping in the water. They remind me from when I was young. I looked like a sea lion.
Have fun.
DISNEYLAND
In the middle of the Main St at Disneyland a man with glasses and with a very serious expression, really he was Indian looking and he was very friendly because as soon as he saw that we were trying to make a picture he offer himself to take it as long as he did not have to move a millimetre.
He was waiting for the fireworks and at the same time he informed us with that he looked back to the direction of the magic castle where in something like an hour and half later there would be what it seemed an impressive displayed of fireworks.
What strake me the most is that he was going to be waiting for one hour and a half to see a displayed of fireworks that he had already seen. Also those fireworks are not incredible so it makes me think about how different we all are.
I saw Kate Blanchet. Yes, she was in Disneyland with who I think is her husband and his little one. We would have love to tell her how great actress she is but we were shy and embarrassed about playing the part of the fan. We told our friends that we had seen someone famous and they did not believe us so when we saw her again we tried to make a picture and we fail and then she discovered that we had recognised her and…well we left really embarrassed. I like her a lot as an actress.
I left Disneyland ready to not come back ever again. My kids will come like I did when they are able to pay their own ticket. I did not like the place at all.
Have fun.
PEOPLE
Hello,
Why grown up people do not sleep as much as us? Why? I can stay forever in bed and my friends that are grown ups they do not need to sleep so much.
My friends from Zumanity called to my mobile so early that I could not believe that they were already awake. That takes me to my point; I think that grown up people do not sleep as much as young people or to make a point better they sleep lees than the people that have not managed to grow up or they decided to stay in youth.
I do not know why but I have a theory and I am going to tell you now. First I thing that people that do not want to grow sleep more because they want to be in dreamland. No, do not think about Peter Pan it is a different thing.
We sleep more because there is time for everything. The day starts by itself and then you meet it when is the right time. Grown ups on the contrary they are in hurry to meet the day and take control of it. You do not believe it but it true. Look at kids they sleep when they need and then they are awake always at the right time. And then look at their curiosity and enthusiasm with everything and they never stop, they do not waist any time. So let me tell you that you should wake up when you do and enjoy the bed and your time at sleep. The thing is to have your priorities right and take your time for everything.
Have fun.
CALIFORNIA
Hello;
Here I am in the middle of California, Los Angeles, but the thing is that I have come to see just the nice things that are in this big city. Last time I was here I was with my parents, they were really intimidated with the immensity of this city. Now I am with my friends we have taken a small place in the south of Los Angeles and we are going to visit the city and then we are going to visit the big infamous place of Disneyland.
But I want to tell you about the Cathedral of our Lady of Los Angeles. An amazing piece of arquitecture that is very majestic and very impressive. All the Cathedral builders of the world new that to impress the people with the word of God the man had to do a big example of his power, which one the God's power or man's power? I wander how for centuries we have been so stupid and believe in something like that instead of believing in each other's. I love that place is very majestic and fantastic if the weather is nice.
Also you have to visit the Disney Hall. Frank Gerry had done it. All of us call it the Guggenheim because Gerry did a building in Bilbao for the museum so now every time we see a building of him we call it like the one in our town.
Then we just went to down town. It is very nice downtown L.A. because you fell you are in a familiar place. I have seen it on the TV and on film more time lately than the city of Las Vegas.
For me the worst thing of going to LA is not getting in a traffic jam. So when the time to leave comes you are ready and you fell yourself of patience.
We drove south and it was fine. We drove fast and before we knew it we were in a small hotel full of people getting ready for the weekend ahead of them.
Welcome to Disneyland.
Have fun
THE STRATOSPHERA
Hey¡¡¡
I went to the Stratosphera. It was yesterday, not in the middle of the day, no, it was like at the end of the day. It is a fantastic view of Las Vegas. I had seen something similar when I went to the top of the Rio Hotel but this one is certainly more impressive.
It is really nice because Las Vegas is really flat and you can see almost everything from up there.
We arrive there a little bit after down and already there was a big cue off people to go up. When you live in Las Vegas you forget that it is a turistic city so I was ready to say I will come another time. My friends were visiting and they say no, we will see it now and it is true in no time we were in the biggest cue to go up on the lift.
The lift is really fast. You go trough something like 125 floors in no time and when it arrives to his destiny it does one of those stops that makes your stomach bounce.
Now the top of the Estratosphera tower looks like a small adventure park. There four attractions that people can go in and play. As far as I am concern they are really scary and I have no desire of try them. You see people stepping down from the machines where their faces either white or whit a happy face like the ones of cracy people.
When you come down the have made picture of you and if you buy the whole set you get two key rings and two small pictures and a big one. We bought them and we look really stupid. The picture is dome down stairs and then photoshoped into the back ground of the view of the Las Vegas.
Have fun.
SHOPPING
Hello;
I am sick. I got sick in this country. Before I was sane and I could live my life with no problem but since I arrived to this country I health has changed.
It was not suddenly. It has been a long process. It all started in a very casual way. When I arrived to Las Vegas I went out to see the town, for all of you that follow the blog and do not know the city there are shops everywhere. Not just normal shops those ones are very few, almost all the shops are great. Perhaps they are all very similar as Petra said but they are all very similar in the way that they are great. That is my opinion.
The first moment when you walk around everything looks unreal, more like something that has been put there to look good more that a place where you can get your wallet out and buy yourself a nice shirt. Everything looks really flashy and expensive and the people that work in the shops looked more airhostess and plain pilots than what they really are. If you go in with your jeans they are dressed in the most amazing suits and it is very intimidating.
Little by little you start to get more confident and start to go in and touch things and perhaps if there is something on sale you may buy it. And that is the beginning of the end.
The moment I realised that I was sick was today. I had to go to the doctors and on the way in I felt a little bit distress and when I had seen the doctor, it was a dentist I still had that felling inside me so I stopped at the outlets in Charleston and I got my self a jacket and then I was fine. I am sick but doctor; let me ask you, would I ever be normal again? Would I ever be able not to shop? Or even shop normally?
Until them shopping centres and shops of anything would be my private hell.
Have fun.
OVERWEIGHT
Hello;
I took Petra and Toby to the airport. They both were ready. I arrived to pick Petra first at her house. The image was quite sad; the last pile of rubbish outside and she waiting in front of her house with three huge suitcases. You know which ones I mean the ones that are 20 dollars. She was proud and nervous. Her eyes were shining with a small film of water. She did not stop looking at the house while I was putting her luggage into my car. As we drove off she said good-bye.
We were on the way to Toby's house when Petra get a call, is Toby; he has crashed the car against his house by accident. He was completely stress out. He did not only crashed his car and made a big hole in his house, all the left side of his car was bend and he was about to deliver it to his new owner. Thanks God he was Adrian, a friend.
Well the situation had started really good and now the whole thing seemed to be really bad. It is like nature you are having a real sunny day and suddenly a big storm appears and you are wet like a lettuce. Now we were late in our schedule but we were not in danger of missing the plane.
We drove to the airport and I dropped them in front of the departures, terminal 2 and I went to park the car. Between both of them they had so much staff that no way they were going to be able to carry everything back home for free. This that I have just said it does not mean that Petra was not going to try to get everything for free.
When I arrive to the cue there was already quite a lot of people. We went through the x-machine and we were ready to face the music. Petra in her best charming way explained the lady that we have spent the last two years of our life working in Las Vegas for Cirque du Soleil and that we were finally going back home while she placed her first suitcase on the scale. That was 121 pounds by itself. The girl behind the counter did not laugh but look at the other three suitcases that she was going to check in and said, “You are going to have to make it wait just the 70 pounds that is allowed”.
So there we were, the three of us swapping around clothes, papers books etc from one suitcase to the other or to the boxes that the lady has given us. Specially the box for Petra' brand new bicycle was full of everything. Later when she arrived to England and she took the box to the local bicycles shop the found a personal item inside that create an embarrass situation when she went to pick the bicycle.
Toby had to wrap the metals box for the pasta to his hang luggage, do not ask me why he decided to take the metal pasta box with him, and many if the different things in a big box that they got. The whole thing finally got in and they were ready to go.
As I was saying goodbye while they were going in I had the felling that the first step off my leaving Las Vegas had passed. I drove home and I went in the pool for a swim.
Have fun.
POOLS
Hello;
I have finished my morning swim and it feels great. I am having such a great time. My friends Toby and Petra are getting ready to leave and my time here flies. I have sold my house my things are starting to get pack and I am visiting this town as a tourist once again. It is fucking incredible.
Let me tell you that I can not wait to come back here and work in my own show but in this incredible town. Why are we leaving? That is my question. That is the question I ask to myself since two days now. I am sure I will find the answer soon, in a couple of months.
But when I think in all the people of the show, well I am not happy that they do not want to come to work with me. After two years I think we have created a great team and the fuckers who run the Cirque are not being able to see it. There is always just one opportunity and perhaps we all missed this one.
I am going to have another swing in the pool because it is getting too hot and I do not want to be outside.
Like Arnold in Terminator the only thing I can say is “I will be back” well, I don't think he said that, “hasta la vista baby”
Have fun.
UNEMPLOYED
Hello friends;
At 6 o'clock I thought about all my ex-colleges, and I realise that I do not have to go to work ever again to that place. It is a real strange felling, it is not bad but I am sure that the fact that it is new it does make it fell weird.
I am happy and for the last four or five days I have been missing all my friends. I can fell the void in me. I do not wander because I am very busy doing things for my near departure to the old world, to my apartment in Spain. Perhaps the whole thing in a while it is going to be like a big dream.
It is almost 6:30 and I cannot believe that I am not doing the show tonight. Weird¡¡ very weird¡¡ being completely honest the last four days without doing the show things have been estrange. I do not regret the decision of leaving at all but I always develop a sense of ownership with almost anything that surround me. That was my show, good or bad it was mine and I wanted to be mine forever.
It is almost seven and I am in the pool and I am not going to make it. I am going to write myself at the office of unemployed people to see what happens. And I wish the best to the show that was mine. Well, it belongs to cirque but it was mine.
Have fun.
GIVE ME THE CIRCUS I.D.
Hello people;
Today I had visited Red Rock Canyon. It is probably my fifth time and I always take everybody to the same places. I never bother to stop at the visitor's centre. A year ago my wife bought that pass that allows you to go to all the National Parks during a year without having to pay again so I just go straight on to the firs balcony where you see the red walls of rock.
There I get out of the car and I make everybody to try to go down a little bit while I tell him or her about the first time I went there and while were walking under a very hot sun we saw a snake. Well she saw us first and escape because she was scare. That little silly story makes the whole thing more epic and usually nobody wants to carry on walking down. So after some pictures we get on the car and start the whole circuit at very slow pace.
It is funny but while we look at the landscape the conversation always drift to friends that we have not seen for a very long time or events that have happen in our town and are not important enough to be in the papers but are very important for the people in our town.
When we arrive to the highest point of the panoramic drive we stop again and we make a picture in a Joshua tree that has a beautiful view behind him. Then we get the car again and 99 per cent of the times I have been there we go back to Vegas for lunch. People get satisfied with that, at least most of my friends. Perhaps is that they do not dear to tell me I want to stay more? I do not know.
They told me that I have to give my circus ID back. I lost it a long time ago so I could not returned I did returned the New York New York card and the keys for my locker.
Have fun.
YOU WILL NEVER DO THE SHOW AGAIN
Hello,
That's it, we are done. We are here and we suppose to be here but the other people are doing well so there are no reasons for us to be around and it is very clear that we are not needed ever again. So please do not come back everything is much easier for us if you just leave in silence and let us carry on with our lives and our work. You have made your choice and we have also made our choice so piss off.
It did not go like that but it did. Everybody has been so kind with us and there is a genuine felling that nobody wants us to leave. We have to go thou, we have many things to do and in Zumanity everything is already done. Perhaps the fact that people like us leave make the whole thing change and for a while the job becomes more exciting.
I have gone to pick up my staff and from my locker and to see what is expected from me for now on, and it is really hard to believe that I have not had to say anymore the infamous words Glory, Glory but is true.
Have fun.
BLINGK BLINGK
Hi Yooo;
I have gotten a present from my friend Raven O. It is a big A made in a metal that looks a lot like silver. All around the shape of the A there a little pieces of glass looking like diamonds.
I have never had anything like that before and I do not know if I like it but I always wanted to have something like that so I would look really tough like some ganst rapper from LA.
The other day I saw someone on a friend's party wearing a watch full of little stones. The watch was huge and very ugly but it look really, really expensive. I thought it was really tacky.
So Raven gave each one of us one of the jewellery things and we went for the first time to see the show. Well, everybody had seen the show before a part from me.
I have to say that I was really nervous. One of the reasons why I had not seen the show before is because I did not think I was going to like it. But this day there was not other place I could go, I had to be on the theatre and I was going to see the show.
With my bling-bling and my Zumanitiny I went accompanied by my colleges to see the show for the first time. Add to it that the clowns were doing probably their second performance and have of the cast was out I was ready for a treat. I was scare and I was excited but mainly scared. I had been in that stage for the last two years and in that moment was my first time to see the show but also the first time the show was going to go with out me.
Let the lights go off and Hello Boys and hello girls, my friends are on the stage and they are ready to please me so …
Have fun.
GET ME OUT OF HERE
Hello;
Or I do not know what to say because my life is going really fast and slow at the same time. Many things happening and when you have had like big farewell party the night before there is not much that you can have to think about.
I have so many things going through my heart that my brain is not getting enough blood, I am going to collapse. Get me out of here.
Everybody was there yesterday, Alex, dear Alex came and went and now he is in Italy.
As I lay in the couch of my house and look through the window towards the pool memories of the party come into my head; Petra, at 6 o clock in the morning was doing rap and hi-hop and speeches about how much did she love everybody. Corinne she was singing all the time everything and Mel was playing the guitar for anyone that was ready to try to sing, Many was talking with Kieara, both really drunk and Tim Robinson was there also. He had to make sure that the whole thing was getting a very nice end.
Ouhhhg, my head is hurting and my friends from Spain have arrived and they are chatting non-stop by the pool while I am here ready to die. My head is full of little people that have decided to carry on partying. I am not going to vomit.
My friends, Toby and Stephan last time I saw them they were going strong and it looked like they were going to be partying forever.
I thank everybody for the great time. Everybody we love was there and I hope that we keep likening each other's for many years to come.
Have fun.
THE FAREWELL PARTY
Hello Zombies;
I am sure you all know by now that the party is at the Champagne Café so get ready and I will see all of you over there… If I am not too drunk or stone.
I am so looking forward to the party. We have been talking about making a fancy dress party and we have considered many options. I said that I wanted to go dress as Elvis but I did not make it at the end. I thought that the idea that all the people arriving there dressed like Elvis it would have been really funny.
There were other options like going in 70s outfits but I did not like that because it was going to be something very similar to what we have being doing all this last years. Also someone mention a party we gave in Zurich some years ago. We told everybody to bring a moustache and a candle and the party was a real success. At the end everyone try to get pretty and lets go party.
We all had arrived to the Café at the same time and there was a big buzz outside. People from many different shows and friends had arrived to celebrate our good bye.
Suddenly big commotion and I went out really fast and I asked what was happening? Nobody really knew but in the best style of L.A. Confidential I managed to gather a little bit of information; Alex had collapsed and was taking care by the paramedics and the police was there and everybody was really upset.
And I asked but what happen?
They finally told me, Alex's twin brother and his wife had a traffic accident and she was dead and he was in coma.
Alex is one of the best men I have ever met, very sensitive and full of fun and good feelings. It was really sad to see him like that in that moment. I love Alex.
We carried on with the party until early hours of the morning. I will never forget.
Have fun.
THE CHAMPAGNE CAFFE
Hello you;
Lately I am revising the way I related to my blog readers. I now for a fact that they are not too many so I have decided to be a little bit more personal, what do you think? I think it is going to make our small relationship stronger and now that I am in a very unsettled emotional disposition there are many things that may appear in my blog that some people would not like. You probably will call me bitter but I am not bitter, I think, is just that whenever you are in a borderline position, about to become unemployed for example, you get a special lucidity that allowed seeing things clearer. So please be patient.
And now let me tell you about the champagne café. This little old dive that makes Las Vegas a human place is the place where we are going to do our farewell party.
We discovered it thanks to Hailey Carmichael. She came to do Petra's part for 8 weeks.
Seduced by the name of the place one day after the show decided to go in for a glass of champagne, once in she realised that she was not going to be able to have champagne there but at least an ordinary and dignified vodka tonic. She talked to the barman Jerry and two or three days later she took all of us for a drink and that was the beginning of a beautiful relationship. I love using that phrase.
Since them we have spent there probably the most important events of the Spymonkey life in Las Vegas being the New Years Eve of 2004 the most important night. Now that we are about to leave this town I do not think there is a more Spymonkey place in Las Vegas that the Champagne Café.
I hope that you enjoyed as much as we have done it this last two years.
Have fun.
THE BOB X-FILES
(Think the music of the TV series X-Files)
The agents Moulder Gill and Scully Jude are in the middle of the night by the Las Vegas McCarran airport. It raining really hard and it does not look like it is going to stop soon. Thunder and lighting all around them it does not make their mission easier than usual. It is something they are use to thou, when they joined the cirque secret police they knew that the job was not going to be easy.
While Moulder Gill and Scully Jude get wet under their raincoats in another part of town a large group people sitting in a dark place are in silence looking to a big screen. What they are about to see it will change their lives forever. Do they know that it would change their lives forever?
The flashing of the lights in the movie reflects in the faces of the people and a big roar of laughter gets spread around the room. Now they are witness and they know the secret. As the projection continuous some people exchange glances at each others in affirmation, the whole thing is being a big success. They would have to make a evaluation later on, perhaps it is the alcohol or the fact that is late at night… they are having a very good time but we have to be realistic because people normally do not choose the path of fun so easily.
Moulder Gill and Scully have finally arrived to the door of the hotel. They have found the place where they non identified thing is happening. They hold in the palm of their hands a small mobile phone looking with red light that the closer they get to the Zumanity theatre bip faster and loudet.
“we are here and they are inside, lets get them now or they will conquest the world of cirque” and holding tight to their guns they get into the theatre. Leading to the staircase they see someone aprouching to them. It is Bob MacDonal. He is coming downstairs and when he sees them smiles broadly and greet them -Moulder¡ Scully, What are you doing here? We did not know you where coming. Everybody has left already. I am going home know. Good night- And he leaves our heroes there. They have won this time. Bob is going to Mystere and I am sure he will try something there so from now on we will shoot to kill.
Have fun.
SPYMONKEY BURGERS CAFFE
Hello:
Food is getting ready as we speak so please do come in and get ready for the best food experience of your life.
Gary the chief of carpenters in Zumanity has been telling me for the last three weeks that we have to make a food chain with the Spymonkey spirit. I have been thinking about it, not too much really and I think that it could be a funny idea. He has given us suggestions like the motherfucker burger with bitch fries as main course. Then I think we could have a nice salad and the interesting thing would come at the moment of choosing the dressing, cum vinaigrette or juicy cunt ranchero or even the famous dirty Sanchez vinaigrette with lots of mustard.
Then the desserts; and here the common ice cream asshole with white chocolate, classic pennies split with a pair of balls of ice cream, the cum sandy with a cherry, and the nuns nipples deep in hot chocolate.
Of course the drinks would have to be in consonance with the whole experience; it will go from pennies colada as martini to cum soda. And lets not forget the red velvet menstruation drink that it would be the favourite of young people because it does not carry any alcohol and they can afford it.
The question would always be, is the world that we leave ready to deal with such an extreme sense of humour? Would that be too much even for crazy people or starving people? Can we make a joke like that? Or simpler, at the end of the day would I eat it?
Have fun.
ANGELES CAMPOS
Hello guys;
Some of you might know her. She is from Spain and works in the documentation department of Cirque du Soleil. She is in charge of the shows Zummanity and Ka and O and probably Mystere too but she does not say it.
I met Angeles some time ago, probably like a year and a half ago. At that time she was working at the IT department. The first time she was introduce to me it was one of those things when a compatriot is close by and you have to have something is common because you are from the same country. I like her immediately; she is great but believe it or not for the first… I do not know how long I call her Soledad. She was not saying anything to me and I kept calling her Soledad on and on until one time she stopped me in the corridor of the boys dressing room and she ask me why do you call me Soledad? And I got red in my face and I said very stupidly because I thought that is your name. Well she told me is not, my name is Angeles. Still took me at least a couple of weeks more before I was able to call her by her name.
I love Angeles. In all this time that I have been working for this company I have not met many people like her. I am sure there are more like her but She is one of these persons that make the place you work or where you are great. Cirque used to have lots of them like her but now they are throwing them away and the company is getting a little bit ruined.
Angeles may get throw out of the company soon so enjoy her and her company before she goes because she is a great human being.
Have fun.
LA REVE
Hello;
I have finally seen the show. I got some tickets from one of the clowns in the show. He got us seven free tickets. He was really nice guy, his name is Shaun.
I have to say that I like show. I like it because is very human. The space is great and it makes the whole experience very nice and closer to the audiences. All the water running all the time is great as the Arabs know for centuries and use it in the Alhambra it helps people to fell relax and happy.
The theatre is great and very impressive because thou it is quite big it has an enormous sense of intimacy. The audience is seated around the stage and all the acts happened in the middle in the best cirques tradition.
The whole show is very genteel and there are not too many things that impressed me very much. If you work for cirque du soleil it is a little bit of the same thing all the time. All the acts you have seen them in other shows of cirque du soleil.
I love the clowns. They were very funny in particular Claudio that he is a monster. A little bit of a genius that every time he comes on the stage you could stop laughing. And also the other clowns because they are generous and they want to entertain you. The rest of the show is good but in the same kind of lame cirque du soleil style that never touches you completely.
Go and see it because you get what you pay for.
Have fun.
STEAKEHOUSE
Hello friends,
Today is one of those days where I fell the need to make justice.
Yesterday I was having dinner with Joey Arias, Rayvan O and Elliot.
I spent the night eating very nice food, drinking a very good wine and having a wonderful conversation with Joey Arias.
And I have to be fair in this place with someone that is amazing as an artist but also it is amazing as a human being. This person is Joey Arias.
He is great. Since I know him two or three years ago everything about him I think it is absolutely delicious and superb.
I do think that the show that we all do everyday does not make justice to him. Probably it does not make justice to any one of us either. But the sin is especially big with Joey.
I was having dinner in front of Joey and he was telling me stories about the old times. I should not say the old time when I talk about Joey I think I will say from now on the good times and I was just flabbergasted with the amount of people that is by now history that he has known or knows. To mention some of then so the people who do not live the Zumanity life can have a fair idea of who we are talking about here I will mention, Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Patty Smith, Jim Jarmusch, Led Zeppelin, etc
Also Joy is a fantastic storyteller. You could spend day listening to him and all the things that he has to say and if it happens that Raivan O is there then you are ready for treat. The both of them do a fantastic couple, one is the one that tells the story and the other one is his perfect sidekick.
I love Joey and I want everybody to love him.
Have fun
MOVIE
Hi¡¡
There are many things that you can do at night and one of them is to do a movie.
We did a little movie for Bob on his farewell homage
The story was:
Three gangster clowns are in the car listening to hip-hop music while they check how their “hos” are doing. As they pass the corner of New York New York they see Bob the cow fucking one of his “hos”. The car breaks and the guys drive back. One of the gangster-clowns tried to shoot with pistol balloon and it does not work. So they leave the car to give Bob the cow a lesson.
Open the trunk and they get a big slash hummer. One the gangster clowns hold the “ho” real tight while the chief of the gangster clown get ready to hit Bob the cow with the slash hummer. At the same time the third gangster clown take of his trousers and starts to take Bob the cow up the ass. Bob the cow fight for his life because he know he is about to loose it. He received the first hit on his head while he is getting pump up his ass. The scene is getting really cruel and poor Bob the cow does not stop muuing. He has received another big hit on his head and lots of white milk was starting to go out from his head.
Another hit in the head and the third gangster clown put up his trousers.
The “ho” cries desperately Bob cow is dying and nobody is going to do anything to save him. The gang of gangster clown have finished Bob the clown and in order to be sure that he is dead one of the gangster clowns tried to find his pulse. No there is pulse in Bob the cow and the chief of the gang takes his cirque du soleil bathrobe to cover their victim. But “this is your only one” and the chief of the gangster clowns answer “I have another one, I got it on e-bay” and the other gangster clowns said “we bought our second one from Terence” Ja, ja ,ja, ja, ja, ja ,ja, ja, ja, ja , ja , ja , ja, ja, ja, ja , ja, ja, ja, ja, ja,ja, ja, ja, ja,ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja
Have fun.
THE SHOW
Hi¡¡¡
I discovered something yesterday in the show, something that it could be very dangerous. Everything is going to be fine from now, once I reveal my discovery.
I was on top of the wings, those things that move back and forward that are on stage and get stuck many times when I realise that the show is not very good. I actually thing that is very bad and the only way the show keeps alive is because the people in the show are very good.
Well, I was thinking about that because It was Sunday night and there were not too many people and everybody was kind of doing the show and not giving everything. And them everything got really clear for me… let me explain, for the last two years this show was not good and the people who created came here telling us that it was amazing, that the audience loved it and that this is a success. No one of this people dared to tell us the reality of the situation, the show was fine as long as we were fine because that fact would have put them in the position of admitting they fucked up.
Now the show need to survive to be in that place were you have to save it from the flop, this is the same for every show but here is even more. In order to get that felling they have to come here and like good football manager slashed every body and kill their souls so they have something to fight for.
If the whole group get together like they did in the beginning the beautiful personalities of the performer would come through and the show may shine again.
I do not think this is going to happen because Cirque is a big corporation and they never tell the truth.
Have fun.
