January 30, 2004

• We are really looking forward to watching La Leyenda de Una Mascara which has just arrived from Amazon.

  Following the death of popular wrestler El Angel Enmascarado (“The Masked Angel,” played by Hector Bonilla), a sports journalist, Olmo Robles (Damián Alcázar), investigates the hero’s true identity.

  Eddie remembers catching some of this on TV (three years ago when we were in a hotel room in Mexico city) and he remembered it looked interesting. I’ve also read a review somewhere that Leyenda de Una Mascara is like the ‘Citizen Kane’ of masked wrestler films. Thanks to Oscar for recommending this!

  Sensacional! Mexican Street Graphics Exhibition in Pasadena. If it’s anything like the book, it will be awesome. We’re going to check it out this weekend.

  Gene Deitch screenings next month at the Egyptian Theatre.

  Random Links:

  SubCultures: The Art of the Action Figure (Pity it’s in Florida)

  

  Wasstronics novelties – click on the “NEW” link for the World of Wasso animated landscape (above). Haven’t played any of the games yet.

  world66.com is described as an “open content travel guide” – anyone can register and contribute travel tips and photos. (Note: this is a very slow loading beta site)

  This quote from Rolf Potts’ vagablogging.net strikes a deep chord -

  “The paradox of nomadism. You keep moving because you’re searching for a place to stay. Once you realize you can live in other countries you can never quite settle anywhere again. You can never feel quite content.” –Sahra, in Geoff Dyer’s Paris Trance (1999)

  I don’t see this as a negative statement. “Home” has always been a slightly nebulous concept for Eddie and me, seeing that our legal home-countries are England and Malaysia respectively, yet we’ve lived most of our lives in Australia… If anything, we’re not ready to feel content anywhere yet. We have this urge to keep moving…

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