My Hand

Here
it is, my hand

In
it I can see a lot of things

My
past, my present, my future

It
is all there

My
past shows me birth

My
present shows me boredom

My
future shows me rebirth

Here
it is, my hand and in it I see a lot of things

Eraserhead (1977)

Okay so I’m just gonna start by saying “What the hell is up in David Lynch’s mind?” That said I would like to bring you, the reader, into my review of Lynch’s film debut Eraserhead. This 1977 surreal horror sets us in what appears to be a post-apocalyptic industrial town where the main character Henry Spencer constantly has to deal with this surreal dreamscape which is constantly going back and forth, so much in fact that his own baby seems to be a nightmare in its own way. That’s all I think I can say about the story because the plot itself is a very complicated one to follow, so readers if you’re planning to see this movie pay a lot of attention or else you’ll get lost.

Now what can I say about this magnificent feature. Okay at first I had no idea what I was getting into, I just knew it was going to be a weird flick. After watching it, I must say it is very weird indeed, it feels like David Lynch just blasted you with a compilation of dreams, nightmares and a few things he had in his imagination along the way. The picture can get a bit boring at time, but trust me it is worth it because when you least expect it you’ll get blown away with something that comes just straight out of the bloom. The special effects in this film are simply magnificent for the budget it had, which was $10,000 if I might add. The acting in the flick is also fantastic. But the one thing that truly makes this movie outstanding is the direction and imagination from David Lynch; I mean who else would have thought to create such a weird creature (yes I am referring to Henry’s baby) and such a creative world. The film is truly remarkable, even though it can be a bit difficult to understand and a bit boring at times.

Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5.

Hello Everybody My Name is Fernando but You Can Call Me Fen or Pan Con Ajo Whichever You Prefer

Well how can I start? Well first of all I was born in San
German, Puerto Rico to a great family, if I do say so myself, who named me
Fernando Enrique Eduardo Correa Gonzalez which makes me and my little brother
the two people with the longest names in my family, which is pretty awesome
because it makes a bit easier for when I have to choose a name for my male
children, if I ever have any boys.

About
my childhood I am going to say this. Back when I was a child I used to play
lots of basketball and I loved Michael Jordan so that was the first thing I
wanted to be. I wanted to be the greatest basketball player that ever lived.
After that when I got into intermediate school I got really, really interested
in the arts especially in drawing, film, literature and video games (which many
people do not consider art but I do). During this time of my life I started to
draw a bunch of characters which I am now currently developing as I keep
learning and reading. Another thing I did a lot during this time of my life was
write songs for imaginary bands that my friend Alex and I used to create along
with our friend Carlos Ruben. I really do not remember how many bands exactly
did we create but I believe that the main ones were “Radioactive” which would
have been a punk rock band and the other one would be an unnamed heavy metal
band.

After all this efforts to make bands
failed we decided to focus on our filmmaking abilities and so inspired by the
television show “Jackass” and all its predecessors, follow-ups and spin-offs we
decided to make a long feature film called “Dumbass: The Movie” which would
have us doing stupid stunts and pranks. We did this film along with our other
friends Jose, Ahmad, Carlos Alexis, Jordan, Keno and Louis. Another thing we
did was change the title for it, we decided to call it “Caribbean Death
Rampage” because that’s what we called ourselves as a crew. It was a fun
experience but we did it at an attempt to get famous through the internet, we
never did get famous although we did get an email offering to be in a
television show which was going to feature people doing extreme stuff but by
the time this email came around we were all in college and our interests in
this type of filmmaking had changed.

After doing this film I decided to
focus on writing short stories, short films, poetry, drawing and also filming
my own short films. So basically in high school what I did was focus on what I
really, really wanted to do as a profession, an artist specialized in film and
literature. My last year of high school was also when I met my love, Michele.

Now
in college my life has completely changed because back when I was younger I did
not use to read a lot but now in college my minded has expanded greatly and I
have found out that one must develop every single aspect that he or she can.
After taking only but a year and a half of college education I have discovered
how much the arts and how much I love humanities, history, philosophy,
psychology and many other topics, the most surprising one being architecture.

So
there was a bit of my life story and the following list is composed of just a
few things that I like, you know hobbies and interests: film, music, drama,
literature, all sorts of graphic and plastic arts, photography, exercising,
playing basketball and football, spending time with my family and friends,
reading, watching movies, listening to music, finding out about new people,
artists and things. There is a bunch of more stuff but this is just a very
brief list of stuff that I am into.