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A história peculiar de um abduzido por alienígena
Um caso interessante com a abdução de um homem que deseja permanecer incógnito foi descrito pelo ovniólogo Albert Rosales em seu livro. Segundo a vítima, ele foi abduzido do quarto de sua casa, localizada num subúrbio de Los Angeles, em janeiro de 2008. Imagem obviamente ilustrativa. A primeira lembrança do abduzido foi que ele estava voando no ar sobre os telhados das casas de sua cidade de…
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shoes + art
#cant find the artist or title#albert henry collings is the artist#artist is rosales gallina#can't find artist#artist is vittorio reggianini#artist is natale attanasio#portrait of a lady by friedrich august von kaulbach#artist is george-jules victor clarin#no artist couldnt find one#cant find artist-#the delft basin by antoine jean etienne faivre#artist is charles joseph watelet#artist is baron francois gerard#artist is jan frederik pieter portielje#artist is john hoppner#the birthday cake by pancraz korle#cant find artist--#portrait of elisa bonaparte with her daughter napoleona baciocchi by francois gerard#artist is louis rolland trinquesse#ann ford by thomas gainsborough#cant find artist --#cant find artist ---#its portrait of king charles but i cant find the artist#jacob i de inglaterra by john de critz#portrait of richard sackville earl de dorset by william larkin#charles ii of england by simon verelest#portrait of louis xv of france by alexis simon belle#peter courten by salomon mesdach#gerard ter borch self portrait#its a portrait of louis xiv but cant find artist
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This is the 2005 Christmas Station ID of GMA. The Christmas Station ID was themed “Kapuso, Ikaw ang Star ng Pasko”
The Christmas Station ID Theme was sung Martin Nievera, Sharon Cuneta, Gary Valenciano, Pops Fernandez, Ogie Alcasid and Regine Velasquez featuring the Christmas Carollers from GMA and the original cast from the TV5 sketch comedy show Goin’ Bulilit. Somehow, The Christmas Station ID was shortened due to the video. Somehow, Starting in December 1, 2005, The song “Star ng Pasko” can be heard in DZBB Radyo 594 and various radio stations nationwide where it was extended. Somehow, This Christmas Station ID occurred before Ogie Alcasid and Regine Velasquez’s wedding in December 30, 2005 which was 1 day before Ogie Alcasid’s birthday.
The Christmas Station ID contains Martin Nievera who is riding on a Jeepney, Heart Evangelista, Erich Gonzales, Dimples Romana, Gabby Concepcion with his daughter KC Concepcion, Eddie Gutierrez and Ruffa Gutierrez, Chad Kinis, Jerome Ponce, Janice de Belen, Arcee Muñoz, Alice Dixson, Tuesday Vargas, Ritz Azul, Eula Caballero, Paolo Bediones, Sharon Cuneta, Rodolfo “Dolphy” Quizon, Piolo Pascual, Janno Gibbs, Mike Enriquez, Henry Omaga-Diaz, Jessica Soho, Karen Davila, Amelyn Veloso, Cheryl Cosim, Alvin Elchico, Anthony Taberna, Willie Revillame, Sunshine Dizon, Sue Ramirez, Cesar Montano, Ogie Diaz, Arthur Solinap, Joem Bascon, Jodi Sta. Maria, Richard Yap, Albert Martinez, John Lloyd Cruz, Carl Cervantes, Jayson Gainza, Patrick Garcia, AJ Perez, Christian Bables, Terence Baylon, Derek Ramsay, JM de Guzman, Jeric Gonzales, Eric Fructuoso, Edu Manzano, Jericho Rosales, JC de Vera, Martin Escudero, Gerald Anderson, Christopher de Leon, Richard Gutierrez, Raymond Gutierrez, IC Mendoza, Luis Manzano, Matteo Guidicelli, John Prats, Ces Oreña-Drilon, Carmina Villaroel, Eugene Domingo, Nora Aunor, Leandro Muñoz, Kristine Hermosa, Meg Imperial, Gelli de Belen, Zoren Legaspi, Mark Lapid, Cherie Gil, Raymart Santiago, Albie Casiño, Jessie Mendiola, Wendell Ramos, Zanjoe Marudo, Pen Medina, Ping Medina, Alex Vincent Medina, Eric Quizon, Epy Quizon, Janine Gutierrez, Polo Ravales, Maricel Soriano, Candy Pangilinan, Solenn Heusaff, Richard Gomez and his wife Lucy Torres-Gomez, Rene Hawkins, DingDong Avanzado, Roxanne Guinoo, Joyce Jimenez, Charlene Gonzales, G. Toegni, Pooh, Pokwang, Valerie Concepcion, Shawn Yao, Keempee de Leon, Eula Valdez, RK Bagatsing, Ian Veneracion, Claudine Barretto, Jose Manalo, Wally Bayola, Kim Atienza, Judy Ann Santos, Cherry Pie Picache, Neil Ryan Sese, Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto, Joey de Leon, Jess Lapid Jr., Vhong Navarro, Isko Moreno, Mico Halili, JP de Guzman, Mel Martinez, Long Mejia, Jolo Revilla, Bong Revilla, Jhong Hilario, Oyo Boy Sotto, Gian Sotto, McCoy de Leon, John Estrada, Ryan Agoncillo, Maine Mendoza, Catherine Bernardo, RJ Padilla, Aga Muhlach, Bembol Roco, Geoff Eigenmann, Gabby Eigenmann, Bernard Palanca, Mico Palanca, featuring child actress Angelica Panganiban who is an original cast member of Goin’ Bulilit, the original cast of Goin’ Bulilit, the Spice Girls, the supergroup Group of 30, the SexBomb Girls and DJ Lance the Dinosaur from Sesame Street. The Christmas Station ID features the pre-debut of South Korean boy band BigBang, Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse with his wife Russi Taylor, the voice of Minnie Mouse and president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo who turns on the Christmas Lights and hugs Angelica Panganiban at the very end. Sadly, Fernando Poe Jr. and Mark Gil don’t appear in the 2005 Christmas Station ID because Fernando Poe Jr. died in September 11, 2005 of leukemia and Mark Gil died in November 11, 2005 due to a respiratory failure.
But eventually, This was the only Christmas Station ID of GMA to feature the crew from ABS-CBN, GMA and TV5. But somehow, The clips will look different in the 2010 ABS-CBN Christmas Station ID which is “Da Best ang Pasko ng Pilipino” where they set up Christmas decorations in the house. Luckily, Martin Nievera creates a portal that could transport other crew members into other dimensions.
Somehow, Arcee Muñoz, Alice Dixson, Tuesday Vargas, Ritz Azul, Eula Caballero, Aga Muhlach, Geoff Eigenmann, Gabby Eigenmann and Willie Revillame may have moved to TV5 in 2005. But Ryan Agoncillo, Jose Manalo, Wally Bayola and IC Mendoza may have moved to ABS-CBN in 2005.
#gma#starngpasko#christmas station id#merry christmas#happy holidays#maligayang pasko#martin nievera#sharon cuneta#gary valenciano#pops fernandez#ogie alcasid#regine velasquez
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Meet the Ophanim personnel pt. 8
Name: Albert Rosales (N.7)
Status: the head of extraction at Ophanim
One of, if not the most skilled field agent in the organization. He commands teams meant to track down and safely retrieve anomalies found in the world.
He has an unique ability, which manifests in the form of complete immunity to practically any and all anomalous effects. This, paired with his dutifulness and unwavering loyalty to Ophanim, makes him one of the most effective agents in the organization. He's been appointed to the status of a higher-up due to his excellent devotion to his work and the good of humanity.
He's a kind and calm individual, always wearing a serene smile, and with an odd aura about him which seems to put everyone at ease. Despite everything, there are things that bite at him. He sacrificed a lot to get where he is now, and if it was all worth it, is still unclear.
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Location: Gorki, Puhovitskiy area, Ryazan region, Russia Date: April 15-29 1978 Time: 2200-2300 14-year old Valentine Valentinovich Gubsky was vacationing in this settlement and had gone for a walk along with some friends around the countryside. The weather was rainy, and it was foggy. Getting late the boys decided to walk back home and stopped to smoke some cigarettes. Unexpectedly bright flashes of light began to appear around them. At first there were 2 red flashes just in front of the boys. Then one more blue flash behind them and then one more white flash in front of them again. The flashes occurred at an altitude of a man of average height. Not having given special value to the event thinking that they were reflections of distant thunderstorms the boys continued to walk. Right after the last flash the boys heard a monotonous quite sound similar to the sound of a moped motor coming from behind a nearby hill. The boys had the impression that the sound was approaching their location. One of the boys lagged behind and was smoking a cigarette when the others turned around to urge him on when they suddenly saw a shadow, with outlines similar to a human figure at a height of about 20 meters within the fog. Frightened and surprised the boys observed how the humanoid shaped shadow began to approach their location; it then changed slightly its direction of flight and passed to their right. As it approached the witnesses its outlines became sharper and the boys could now see that it was a person with its arms stretched out on its sides, they could not see a motor or flame. The sound seemed to originate from a point somewhere above the figure.
#unidentified flying humanoids#ussr#albert rosales#eyewitness account#unexplained#paranormal#1978#Russia
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all my ship tags as of now (romantic and otherwise) they are not alphabetized
✦ ZATANNA & JOHN * no grave can hold my body down; i’ll come home to her
✦ MILLIE & ROSAL * she lit a fire and now she’s in my every thought
✦ KINSEY & FLOYD * you left a note in your perfect script: stay as long as you want. and i haven't left your bed since
✦ LIZA & JASON * i hope you die. i hope we both die
✦ SASHA & TIM * as if i am alive only because i remember you
✦ ANAIS & MAHANON * you and i are not the polite people who live in poems
✦ JEAN & DILUC * is this the place we used to love? is this the place that i've been dreaming of?
✦ JEAN & KAEYA * meet me at our spot. they can't find us there
✦ ARRI & CULLEN * you put your hand in mine and pulled me back from things divine
✦ ANYA & ANDI * i walked with you once upon a dream
✦ CAROLINE & RICK * we’re gonna die and maybe it’s gonna be alone
✦ IMELDA & HECTOR * i remember that feeling. when my husband would play and i would sing and nothing else mattered
✦ SOPHIE & HOWL * i know how to help you now. find me in the future
✦ BECKETT & CASTLE * stop and stare: i think i'm moving but i go nowhere
✦ ELENA & NATHAN * we were strangers starting out on a journey
✦ ROBIN & CHROM * you are the wind at my back and the sword at my side
✦ ROSEMARY & JACK * and at least in this lifetime we're sticking together
✦ CAMILA & JOSE * i'd suffer hell if you'd tell me what you'd do to me tonight
✦ REBECCA & JEROME * for if i am not their shepherd then i must be the wolf
✦ SARAH & DEACON * but i’ll walk beside you love. anywhere the wind blows
✦ JULIET & SHAWN * since i met you i've been thinking about getting a car
✦ CAT & VINCENT * do you know what loneliness does to a man?
✦ ROSE & MELISSA * can i dream for a few months more?
✦ PENNY & ALEX * woke up in a safe house singing let’s get married
✦ PENNY & HALEY * go ahead let your hair down
✦ JULIET & LASSIE * i’ll be going to get my partner now
✦ CINDY & ZIGGY * i won’t let anything pull us apart again
✦ ALBERT & AMELIA * me and mrs. jones we got a thing going on
✦ RUTHERFORD FAMILY * to be cut off from one’s family is its own very special sort of loneliness
✦ MORTIE & KEATS * you don't hear me saying anything crazy about their weird little relationship!
✦ BARBARA & DICK * does it ever drive you crazy just how fast the night changes?
✦ GUSTAV & JACQUELYN * i’m sorry i had nothing to say that night
✦ BENEDICT & SOPHIE * in her heart she longed for this man; dreamed of a life that could never be
✦ KATE & ANTHONY * you are the bane of my existence and the object of all my desires
✦ TAYLOR & LESLIE * i knew you were the one
✦ DANI & JAMIE * you said it was a ghost story. it isn’t. it’s a love story
✦ CASSIE & NATHAN * treasure hunting runs in the family
✦ JOYCE & HOPPER * watchin' in slow motion as you turn my way and say take my breath away
✦ LAURA & MAX * can we go home now?
✦ LAURA & TRAVIS * you think this is over? this isn’t over
✦ KINSEY & AARON * everything's growing in our garden. you don't have to know that it's haunted
✦ MILLIE & JOHN * our whole lives have been wasted just staring across the church
✦ BILLY & TRAVIS * i dream most every night that i never left you
✦ VERONICA & TRAVIS * but i never lost this feeling or this pounding in my chest
✦ SNOW & BIGBY * you are the moon that breaks the night for which i have to howl
✦ LEIA & HAN * captain; being held by you isn’t quite enough to get me excited
✦ GARCIA & LUKE * maybe there was a slight chink in your fluffy armor
✦ LEIA & FLOYD * i read the graffiti in the bathroom stall
✦ KINSEY & LUKE * damn i wish i was your lover
✦ KINSEY & DC * i never did believe in miracles but i've a feeling it's time to try
✦ NANA & HAURCHEFANT * i would rather break the world than lose you
✦ AUSTIN & SPENCER * i never did believe in the ways of magic but i'm beginning to wonder why
✦ LOIS & CLARK * here i am like a kid out of school. holding hands with a god
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O caso de 1896 na Serra do Mendanha do ufonauta que vestia uma roupa com escamas de jacaré
Por Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga
Um antigo caso ufológico do final do século XIX - ou seja, mais de 50 anos antes do início da Era Moderna dos Discos Voadores - que circula em publicações e sites diversos, e que eu mesmo narrei em minha tese de mestrado - a primeira no Brasil sobre o Fenômeno OVNI -, bem como em outros livros e artigos, instiga em muitos a inquietude em saber qual teria sido a sua fonte original e outros detalhes subjacentes, como quem teria sido seu protagonista, já que essas informações geralmente faltam. Este post, portanto, atendendo a pedidos que recebi inbox, particularmente do ufólogo e escritor Albert S. Rosales, é especialmente para preencher de uma vez por todas essas lacunas, conforme já as foram em meu livro sobre o contatado, escritor, líder messiânico e terrorista Aladino Félix (vulgo Dino Kraspedon e Sábado Dinotos), que no entanto ainda permanece inédito - e há mais de 20 anos - sem nenhuma perspectiva de que um dia virá deixar de sê-lo, pois nenhum editor tem a coragem de publicá-lo.
Eis então o caso que é assim narrado, sem muitas variações, e pelo que me informaram, meu nome é citado como fonte, mas sem que se esclareça de que outra fonte se originou:
"Em 1896, na Serra do Mendanha, no Maciço do Gericinó, formação rochosa que separa o município do Rio de Janeiro do de Nova Iguaçu, na Zona Oeste, um objeto voador desconhecido desceu e aterrissou no meio de um cafezal. De dentro dele saiu um homem vestindo roupas douradas, cujo tecido assemelhava-se a escamas de jacaré, e trazendo um peitoral cheio de botões luminosos. Aproximou-se de três meninas que brincavam em uma caverna da região, e com elas manteve colóquio que durou cerca de vinte minutos, após os quais voltou à sua nave e partiu. Desde então, o local virou palco de penitências e ficou conhecido como a 'Caverna do Lagarto Encantado', pois as pessoas acreditavam que o homem do espaço fosse São Miguel (um dos três arcanjos chamados pelo nome na Bíblia) montado em um dragão."
Apenas para lembrar, em Apocalipse 12:7-9, Miguel, que significa "aquele que é similar a Deus" (Mi - "quem", kha - "como", El - "Deus"), lidera os exércitos de Deus contra as forças de Satã e seus anjos e os derrota durante a guerra no céu.
Uma das meninas era Augusta da Silva Félix, justamente a mãe do Aladino Félix que acabei de citar e que sob o pseudônimo de Sábado Dinotos, narrou o caso na página 40 de seu livro A Antiguidade dos Discos Voadores, publicado em março de 1967, ou seja, há 55 anos, antecipando-se ao famoso Eram os Deuses Astronautas?, de Erich von Däniken, que só seria publicado no ano seguinte. Confira abaixo:
No livro, Aladino não diz que uma das três meninas era sua mãe, informação que só revelaria por ocasião da entrevista que concedeu ao Jornal da Tarde no início de março de 1968, quando já se declarava abertamente como o "Messias" do povo judaico e "reunificador das Doze Tribos de Israel", e em cujo papel de "salvador" chefiava um grupo terrorista sui generis de cunho milenarista que viria a cometer vários atentados a bomba, um ádvena naquele conturbado período da história do Brasil, mergulhado na ditadura:
“Muitos pensam que os discos voadores apareceram pela primeira vez em 1945. Isso é uma opinião falsa. Lembro de um fato da minha infância: minha mãe viu descer uma bola de fogo perto de uma montanha, e da bola saiu um homem que parecia vestido de pele de jacaré. O povo daquele tempo não tinha cultura científica, e não podia saber que a bola de fogo era um disco voador tripulado por uma criatura de outro planeta." (Jornal da Tarde, São Paulo, nº 669, 1968-03-06, p.6). Confira abaixo a reportagem no original:
Personalidade polifacética, Aladino Félix é mais conhecido na literatura ufológica pelo seu primeiro livro, Contato com os Discos Voadores, publicado em 1957, resultante de um contato que manteve com os tripulantes de um disco voador na Estrada de Angatuba, interior de São Paulo, em novembro de 1952, contato esse que diz ter conservado em segredo durante cinco anos, e de contatos subsequentes que manteria pessoalmente com o comandante dessa nave, oriunda de Júpiter.
Aladino Félix, que usava os pseudônimos de Dino Kraspedon, Sábado Dinotos e Dunatos Menorá. Foto: Jornal da Tarde, com arte de Antonio Celso Barbieri.
Note que a capa de Contato com os Discos Voadores, um clássico da literatura ufológica traduzido para a língua inglesa, vendido também na Dinamarca, na França e na Alemanha, é a mesma de seu livro posterior, publicado 10 anos depois, o já citado A Antiguidade dos Discos Voadores:
Em 22 de agosto de 1968, Aladino Félix era preso pelo DOPS (Departamento de Ordem Política e Social) e demais órgãos da repressão política do Regime Militar (1964-1985) junto com vários de seus seguidores em decorrência do único assalto a banco que cometeram, para angariar fundos. Com esse desatino, chegava ao fim, de maneira constrangedora e deprimente, o tão acalentado projeto de dominação mundial de Aladino, que se auto-intitulava o “Messias” do povo judaico e pretendia cumprir à risca as profecias bíblicas e de Nostradamus, que ele mesmo traduziu.
Saiba mais sobre Aladino Félix em meu artigo "A verdadeira história de Dino Kraspedon e Aladino Félix", publicado na revista UFO (nº 134, ano 24, junho de 2007), bem como em meu livro Contatados: Emissários das Estrelas, Arautos de uma Nova Era ou a Quinta Coluna da Invasão Extraterrestre? [Campo Grande (MS), Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas de Discos Voadores (CBPDV), 2007; (Biblioteca UFO)].
Below is this post for readers in English:
The UFO case of 1896 in the Serra do Mendanha of the ufonaut who wore an alligator scale suit
By Claudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga
An old ufological case from the end of the 19th century - that is, more than 50 years before the beginning of the Modern Era of Flying Saucers - that circulates in various publications and websites, and that I narrated myself in my master's thesis - the first in Brazil about the UFO Phenomenon -, as well as in other books and articles, instills in many people the concern about what would have been its original source and other underlying details, such as who would have been its protagonist, since this information is usually lacking. This post, therefore, in response to requests I received inbox, particularly from ufologist and writer Albert S. Rosales, is especially to fill in once and for all those gaps, as they already were in my book on the contactee, writer, messianic leader and terrorist Aladino Félix (aka Dino Kraspedon and Sabado Dinotos), which, however, still remains unpublished - and for more than 20 years - with no prospect that one day it will cease to be so, as no publisher has the courage to publish it.
Here is the case that is narrated in this way, without many variations, and from what I have been informed, my name is cited as a source, without, however, clarifying from which another source it originated:
"In 1896, in the Serra do Mendanha, in the Maciço do Gericinó, a rock formation that separates the municipality of Rio de Janeiro from that of Nova Iguaçu, in the West Zone, an unknown flying object descended and landed in the middle of a coffee plantation. Out of it came a man wearing golden clothes, the fabric of which resembled alligator scales, and bearing a breastplate full of luminous buttons. He approached three girls who were playing in a cave in the region, and had a conversation with them that lasted about twenty minutes, after which he returned to his ship and left. Since then, the place has become a place of penance and has become known as the 'Cave of the Enchanted Lizard', as people believed that the man from space was Saint Michael (one of the three archangels called by his name in the Bible) riding a dragon."
Just to remind you, in Revelation 12:7-9, Michael, which means "one who is similar to God" (Mi - "who", kha - "like", El - "God"), leads the armies of God against the forces of Satan and his angels and defeats them during the war in heaven.
One of the girls was Augusta da Silva Félix, precisely the mother of Aladino Félix that I just mentioned and who, under the pseudonym of Sábado Dinotos, narrated the case on page 40 of her book A Antiguidade dos Discos Voadores, published in March 1967, or that is, 55 years ago, anticipating the famous Chariots of the Gods, by Erich von Däniken, which would only be published the following year.
In the book, Aladino does not say that one of the three girls was his mother, information that he would only reveal during the interview he gave to Jornal da Tarde in early March 1968, when he already openly declared himself to be the "Messiah" of the Jewish people and "reunifier of the Twelve Tribes of Israel", and in whose role of "savior" he headed a sui generis millenarian terrorist group that would commit several bomb attacks, an advena in that troubled period of Brazilian history, immersed in the dictatorship:
“Many think that flying saucers first appeared in 1945. This is a false opinion. I remember a fact from my childhood: my mother saw a fireball come down near a mountain, and out of the ball came a man who looked like he was dressed in alligator skin. The people of that time had no scientific culture, and could not know that the fireball was a flying saucer manned by a creature from another planet." (Jornal da Tarde, São Paulo, nº 669, 1968-03-06, p. 6).
A multifaceted personality, Aladino Félix is best known in the UFO literature for his first book, Contato com os Discos Voadores, published in 1957, resulting from a contact he had with the crew of a flying saucer on Estrada de Angatuba, in the interior of São Paulo, in November 1952, a contact that he says he kept secret for five years, and subsequent contacts that he would have personally with the commander of that spacecraft, coming from Jupiter.
Note that the cover of Contato com os Discos Voadores, a classic of UFO literature translated into English, also sold in Denmark, France and Germany, is the same as her later book, published 10 years later, the aforementioned A Antiguidade dos Discos Voadores.
On August 22, 1968, Aladino Félix was arrested by the DOPS (Department of Political and Social Order) and other organs of political repression of the Military Regime (1964-1985) along with several of his followers as a result of the only bank robbery they committed, to raise funds. With this folly, came to an end, in an embarrassing and depressing way, the much cherished project of world domination of Aladdin, who called himself the “Messiah” of the Jewish people and intended to strictly fulfill the biblical and Nostradamus prophecies, which he even translated.
Learn more about Aladino Félix in my article "A verdadeira história de Dino Kraspedon e Aladino Félix", published in UFO magazine (nº 134, year 24, June 2007), as well as in my book Contatados: Emissários das Estrelas, Arautos de uma Nova Era ou a Quinta Coluna da Invasão Extraterrestre? [Campo Grande (MS), Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research (CBPDV), 2007; (UFO Library)].
#aladino#sabado#contatados#ufologia#messianic#millennium#aliens and ufos#ufo phenomenon#ufos#ovni#fenomeno ovni#discos voadores#contato#regime militar#ditadura#historiadobrasil#novaiguaçu#riodejaneiro#ancient aliens#erich von daniken#saomiguel#são miguel#dragao#lagarto#religiao
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MBTI Typing Index: Fictional Characters — INTP ENTP INTJ ENTJ
Fictional characters: NF, NT, SJ, SP. Real people: index.
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INTP
A Beautiful Mind: John Nash
(The) Big Short: Mike Burry
Black Books: Bernard Black
Breaking Bad: Gale Boetticher
(The) Bridge (Bron/Bron): Saga Norén
Community: Abed Nadir
Death Note: L
Devs: Stewart
Doctor Who: The 12th Doctor
Elementary: Sherlock Holmes
ER: Lucien Dubenko
Fight Club: Narrator
Genius: Albert Einstein
Halt and Catch Fire: Gordon Clark
Hannah Arendt: Hannah Arendt
Hawking: Stephen Hawking
Me and Earl and The Dying Girl: Greg
Moneyball: Peter Brand
Money Heist (La Casa de Papel): Rafael
Mr. Robot: Elliott Alderson
Ozark: Jonah Byrde
Six Feet Under: Arthur Martin
Skins: JJ
Skyfall: Q
(The) Social Network: Mark Zuckerberg
Suits: Benjamin
Tesla: Nikola Tesla
Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan
Westworld: Bernard Lowe
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ENTP
(The) Aviator: Howard Hugues
Bridget Jones’s Diary: Daniel Cleaver
Californication: Hank Moody
Community: Jeff Winger
Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor
ER: Robert Romano
For All Mankind: Aleida Rosales
Friday Night Lights: Landry Clarke
Friends: Chandler Bing
Game Of Thrones: Tyrion Lannister
Gentleman Jack: Anne Lister
Gone Girl: Nick Dunne
Halt and Catch Fire: Cameron Howe, Ryan Ray
Hamilton: Alexander Hamilton
Harry Potter: Fred & George Weasley
(The) Hour: Freddie Lyon
House: Gregory House
Jessica Jones: Zebediah Killgrave
Jurassic Park: Ian Malcolm
(The) Last Kingdom: Aethelwold
Love, Victor: Felix Weston
Malcolm in the Middle: Malcolm
Mank: Herman Mankiewicz
(The) Martian: Mark Watley
Marvel Universe: Iron Man
Money Heist (La Casa de Papel): Palermo, Alicia Sierra
(The) OC: Seth Cohen
Six Feet Under: Nate Fisher
Stranger Things: Dustin Henderson
Suits: Mike Ross
Teen Wolf: Stiles Stilinski
This Is Going to Hurt: Adam Kay
(The) Tunnel: Karl Roebuck
Veronica Mars: Veronica Mars
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INTJ
A Single Man: George Falconer
Another Country: Tommy Judd
Better Call Saul: Gustavo Fring
Breaking Bad: Walter White, Gustavo Fring
(The) Crown: Graham Sutherland
Death Note: Light Yagami
Devs: Katie
ER: Kevin Moretti
(The) Fall: Stella Gibson
For All Mankind: Margo Madison
Game Of Thrones: Petyr Baelish
Halt and Catch Fire: Tom Rendon
Harry Potter: Tom Riddle
(The) Hour: Randall Brown
House Of Cards: Claire Underwood
House of the Dragon: Rhaenys Targaryen, Otto Hightower
Jessica Jones: Jeri Hogarth
John Adams: Thomas Jefferson
(The) Knick: Algernon “Algie” Edwards
(The) Last Kingdom: Aldhelm
Masters of Sex: Bill Masters
Mindhunter: Wendy Carr
(Les) Misérables: Enjolras
Money Heist (La Casa de Papel): The Professor
Narcos: Jorge Salcedo
(The) OA: Hunter Percy, Alfonso Sosa
Ozark: Marty Byrde
Rome: Octavian
(The) Secret History: Henry Winter
Squid Game (Ojing-eo Geim): Cho Sang-woo
Star Wars: Galen Erso
Testament of Youth: Vera Brittain
True Detective: Rust Cohle
Watchmen: Ozymandias
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Ares: Rosa Steenwijk
Borgen: Kasper Juul
Downton Abbey: Mary Crawley
(The) Dropout: Phyllis Gardner
Ex Machina: Nathan
Game Of Thrones: Tywin Lannister, Olenna Tyrell
Gilmore Girls: Paris Geller
Gone Girl: Amy Dunne
Good Girls Revolt: Finn Woodhouse
(The) Good Wife: Alicia Florrick
Halt and Catch Fire: Joe Macmillan, Diana Gould
Hamilton: Aaron Burr
House Of Cards: Francis Underwood
(The) Hour: Lix Storm
(The) Knick: John Thackery
Miss Sloane: Elizabeth Sloane
Molly’s Game: Molly Bloom
(The) Morning Show: Cory Ellison
Normal People: Marianne
(The) One: Rebecca Webb
Rome: Gaius Julius Caesar
Sex and the City: Big
Star Wars: Orson Krennic
Suits: Harvey Specter
(The) Thick Of It: Malcolm Tucker
(The) Wire: Stringer Bell
Westworld: Theresa Cullen
You’ve Got Mail: Joe Fox
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Fictional characters: NF, NT, SJ, SP. Real people: index.
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//I PERSONAGGI DELLA SIGLA DI TELENOVELA D'AMORE DA SETTEMBRE 2021 DALLA PUNTATA DI QUESTA SERA:
Errico Foresta
Carmen Ligin Foresta
Gianni Foresta
Milena Foresta
Serena Foresta Chiummi
Louis Chiummi
Shelley Chiummi
Finn Flynnegan
Haley Foresta
Nathan Chiummi
Stefania Foresta
Stuard Chiummi
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Fox Flynnegan
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Lucky Chiummi
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Wendy Cooper
Allie Stevens
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Peter Logan
Zoe Stevens
Jason Foresta
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Becky Horton
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Edward Milkon
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Favorite Book Titles | Blogmas Day 28
We all have favorite books, but what about favorite book titles? These are some of my favorite book titles ever! What are some of your favorite titles?
The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrew
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Rooting for Rafael Rosales by Kurtis Scaletta
The formatting of this post was edited on July 22, 2023.
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Weird Encounters with humanoids in Texas
There are a lot of strange cases of creatures and entities out there, scattered all across the world. Often these accounts have no clear origin or logical answer to explain what people are seeing, and they seem doomed to flutter about in the periphery of the odd. Strikingly, many of such reports describe entities that are humanoid in nature, and which serve to defy all attempts to truly classify them. The U.S. state of Texas has more than its share of accounts of bizarre humanoid creatures, and here we will look at a selection of some of the stranger.
The first report we will look at here is about as bizarre as they come. Paranormal researcher Albert S. Rosales wrote a series of books called Humanoid Encounters, which focused on alleged sighting of various strange entities corresponding to certain years. In the 1970-1974 edition there is a very odd report from the town of Amarillo, Texas, which supposedly took place in 1970. In the account, the witness claims that he moved into a ranch with his family surrounded by a desolate landscape of sand dunes and very little vegetation. For the first few days at their new home nothing particularly strange happened, but it took a deep right turn into Bizarreville rather quickly.
It started when the grandmother allegedly discovered a den of wolf cubs near the house, but when she brought the grandfather there the next day to show him her discovery it was found that the adult wolves were dead and the cubs were nowhere to be seen. When the wolf carcasses were examined, it seemed as if they had been torn apart by something very large with formidable claws, and this understandably made them a bit wary as to what was roaming around out there in the wilds.
The next evening, the grandfather had a nightmare in which he had a premonition of intense foreboding, and a warning in his head to move away immediately. When he awoke in a cold sweat he went out to the outhouse and as he did so he claimed to have seen a hulking humanoid figure with glowing red eyes, which seemed to be surveying the house from the dark. Interestingly, the witness’ great-grandmother also had a premonition that night, and he would say of what happened next thus:
Earlier in that very night, my great grandmother had a terrible feeling and sent my granduncle, Ray, with his family to check up on his brother. Ray was almost to the house when the car ran out of water. He remembered there was a well nearby and went to get some water. He didn’t get too far when the thing with red eyes came in front of him. He ran back to the car and told his family to run to his brother’s house. He grab his shotgun and Bowie knife so he could buy his family time to get away. Ray made sure the car was between him and creature. The creature charged him quickly. He shot the creature nearly point-blank range several times with no effect. He tried to stab it but almost got slashed by it’s claws. Then, he ran fast as he could to the house. The creature followed but, suddenly stop short of the hill. By then, the entire family was awake and saw it on the hill staring at them. Grandfather told all the girls to get in the bed of the truck and covered them with lots of blankets and other stuff to make a barrier in case the creature jumped into the bed. The men were in the cab of the truck staring at the hulking being. They drove past it praying it didn’t attack them. It’s gaze was on the house. Suddenly it jumped off the hill and began to chase them. It stopped short of the line where the sand ended and grass began.
After this harrowing encounter, they went back the following day to get their things from the house, only to find the ranch owner and numerous police and “military looking” people all over the area. On top of this, it appeared as if the entire first floor of the home had been completely wrecked by something. This was all strange enough, but what really makes it even more surreal and off-the-wall is what happened when a police K-9 unit was released, and the report says of what transpired thus:
A K-9 unit went in to investigate. The first floor was totally destroyed . The second floor was the same as well. The dogs got a scent of something and started to bark at the attic door. The officers opened the door and let the dogs up it. Everybody heard the dogs fighting with something. Suddenly the dogs were thrown out the attic window like rag dolls. They were both skinned alive! The two officers inside went into attic to see what the hell it was. Everybody outside heard lots of gunfire and then saw one the officers being thrown out the window. He was dead before he hit the ground. When everybody looked back up toward the window, they saw the creature clear as day. It looked like a big bald blue-skinned man with big red eyes and sharp claws. The high ranking military man ordered its’ destruction. Everybody opened fire on it and the house. Two guys threw grenades into the attic and it exploded. The house was then set on fire! Grandfather and the family left but later heard that the only body found was that of the other officer. Footprints were found leading away from the house! Nothing of it was ever heard again to their knowledge.
It is all completely and insanely bonkers, and it leaves one wondering just what truth any of it has, and if it does, then what it was they encountered. The problem is that the account has no real sources listed, so it is unverifiable and could very well be fake. Who knows? Speaking of hulking, terrifyingly beastly humanoids, there is another report covered on the site True Horror Stories of Texas, and it involves a witness known only as “Jacqueline.” She claims that she was on her way back to the town of Coldspring, Texas, after visiting her father in Houston, and that as she was passing by Lake Livingston Dam at around 10 PM when some decidedly weird events would unfold, of which she would say:
I was past that light in total darkness with only my headlights shining. I saw something up ahead and slowed down. It was a furry creature on all fours crossing the road. I’ll never forget the way it felt, the hair on my arms are standing up and I get goosebumps just remembering. It looked like the boy from the jungle book crossing the road with the hind part of the body higher than the front.
It stopped just on the other side of my truck passing a few feet in front of my truck. It was dark grey and black and it didn’t seem to have a face or maybe it just had too much hair. It was too big to be a dog or any animal. I still don’t know what it was, all I know is that I drove off speeding away looking back into my rear view mirror hoping it wasn’t following me home. I locked up and stayed close to my rifle the whole night. And to this day driving through that stretch of road I hope I never see that creature again.
What was this thing? Was it, as has been suggested, some kind of werewolf? If it was, then it would not be alone out in the Lone Star State. One of the most well-known of such supposed werewolf reports comes from the town of Converse, Texas, where during the 1800s a rancher moved onto a modest plot of land in the area along with his son. One day the rancher apparently sent his son off on a deer hunting trip, determined to toughen him up, as he was described as a rather frail and nerdy boy who liked to study and read all day rather than go out into the great outdoors.
The boy found himself at a heavily forested area called Skull Crossing, and he disappeared into the woods for several hours. When he returned he was without any kill, and his father was deeply disappointed with him. For his part, the boy claimed that he had been stalked through the woods by some sort of “werewolf,” and that this was one of the reasons he had not been able to hunt, but the father did not believe him. He instead made his son turn right back around and go back to finish the job he had started, despite the boys pleas to not make him go. The young man once again ventured out into the wilderness and his father stood there waiting.
The hours passed and the sun began to set, bathing the woods in darkness, but the boy would not appear from the trees. The father purportedly grew worried, and he decided to call upon some other locals to go out and look for his son, fearful that something may have happened to him out there. As they fanned out into the increasingly murky forest they probably thought that they would find the inexperienced lad out wandering about without a clue, but they would soon find out that something altogether more sinister had transpired.
According to the tale, the search party came upon a monstrous, hairy beast measuring 8 feet tall, which was described as looking like a cross between wolf and man, and which was more disturbingly still crouched down and in the process of eating the dead son of the rancher. The party apparently shot at and chased off the monstrosity, which dispersed with supernatural speed, but the boy was dead, torn to shreds. After this the story becomes a bit hazy, with some versions saying that the rancher went insane and others saying that he locked himself away to wither and die, or that he killed himself. What was this thing, if anything? Was it a real werewolf, a misidentified bear, or something more like a Sasquatch? We will probably never know, and the Converse Werewolf remains little more than a perplexing historical oddity.
Joining werewolves in the wilds of Texas is what has been described as basically a cross between a man and a goat, and which supposedly haunts the picturesque locale of White Rock Lake. For years there have been accounts from the area of being terrorized by a humanoid entity that has a body mostly like that of a man, but with hoofed feet, a horned head, and long fingers with twisted, claw-like fingernails. Whatever it is, the Goatman of White rock Lake has been seen far and wide, and has become entrenched in the local lore. Interestingly, Texas seems to be crawling with Goat Men, as there is another said to haunt the Old Alton Bridge in Denton County, and yet another said to prowl the wilds of Lake Worth. Cryptids, ghosts, interdimensional beings? What in the world are the Goat Men?
Less identifiable is a story shared by Week in Weird, of some sort of creature with glowing eyes that was seen and even photographed at a cemetery in North Houston. In 2013, a paramedic claims that he had been at the Mueschke Cemetery in order to take a rest along with his partner at around 2 AM. As they drifted off to sleep, there was apparently heard something roaming about through the underbrush, and when the pair peered into the dark they were met with the sight of two glowing eyes peering right back at them. The partner apparently had the presence of mind to snap a picture of whatever it was, and this was soon posted to the Internet. The picture is indistinct and pretty mundane mostly, but there are indeed two glowing orbs in the upper left hand corner that look like they could be the eyes of something lurking in the woods. What do you think?
A very surreal, and most certainly paranormal entity reported from Texas and covered by Glenn Harrison, and posted at True Texas Horror Stories, is that of a strange creature known as La Malacosa, or, rather ominously, “The Bad Thing.” The entity was first mentioned in Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, published in 1542, and begins with the arrival of conquistador Cabeza de Vaca, who during their many adventures came across a Native tribe in the Ozark mountains, who told the Spaniards that they had long been visited by a mysterious bearded stranger, who always appeared as rather indistinct and blurry, as if maintaining jst a tennous hold on reality.
This stranger was said to carry with him some sort of blindingly bright light, a lantern or wand, which he would wave about in front of him and in some cases cause people to faint in fright or under the influence of some arcane force. The appearance of this wandering figure was often accompanied by the discovery of the dead bodies of both animals and humans who appeared to have been surgically operated upon, some of their organs removed, and then the whole thing stitched back together again. Other tribesmen showed scars or disfigurations that they claimed had been inflicted by La Malacosa in the night.
This stranger was also said to appear at tribal feasts or celebrations, lurking in the shadows of the sidelines to merely watch, never partaking in the opulent meals laid out at such events. According to legend he would never talk to anyone, except to say that he was from a place “from the regions below.” The conquistadors mostly scoffed at such stories, but used it all as a way to try to convert the Natives to Christianity. It is uncertain just what La Malacosa was supposed to be, an ancient spirit, a demon, or even an alien going about performing mutilations, but it is a creepy historical account to be sure.
Perhaps even weirder still are creatures not stalking abut on the land, but rather through the skies above. Another report was covered on the site True Horror Stories of Texas, this time from near Three Rivers, Texas. In 2000, the witness claims that he had been driving along the highway IH37 between San Antonio and Corpus Christi at around 1 AM. He was heading along the interstate, the nighttime scenery flashing by past his headlights, when something odd apparently flew up right out of the night and up over his car. He would describe the weird encounter thus:
A large white humanoid figure with wings. Not a crane, or goose, or swan, or bird of prey…but a humanoid figure with skin wings. I remember doing about 65 mph and it came from the right rear and crossed my driving line at about 45 degrees… overtaking me in speed by maybe 5-10 mph. As it crossed over me it was only 10 or so feet above the roof of my vehicle. Wingspan was probably 6-8 feet and the skin was white. The wings looked to be constructed/shaped more like you would expect to see on a bat or pterodactyl but with a solidly defined human arms on the leading edge. There were definitely human legs trailing behind it and the torso was built like a human. Because it came from behind, I did not see a face. But, looking back I’m glad I didn’t.
Another flying humanoid creature that has had plenty of coverage in Texas is the so-called “Houston Batman.” Sightings began back in the 1950s, when a bat-like humanoid was seen all over the area by numerous witnesses. The first official sighting happened in June of 1953, when three neighbors at the Houston Heights apartment complex saw what they would describe as a “very tall man or manlike figure standing about six and a half feet tall but with bat-like wings attached to his back.” Making it all even stranger was that the entity seemed to be surrounded by an ethereal glow. Ever since then the “Batman” has been seen across the city, often causing witnesses to freeze for no discernible reason, and has never entirely been explained.
What lies out there in the badlands of the state of Texas? What strange creatures and entities call this place home? We are not likely to find any concrete answers any time soon, but such accounts serve to get the imagination going. Are these ghosts, specters, demons, or some sort of interdimensional entities, so called “ultra terrestrials”? The very isolated nature of these reports leaves us scratching our heads. In the end we can only guess at the nature of such beasts, and hope that we do not run across them if we are ever traveling along a dark road in Texas.
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This is the 2010 Christmas Station ID of ABS-CBN. The Christmas Station ID was themed “Da Best ang Pasko ng Pilipino”
The Christmas Station ID Theme was sung by Filipino singer and songwriter Regine Velasquez and the Christmas Carollers from ABS-CBN, GMA and TV5.
The Christmas Station ID contains AiAi de las Alas, Lorna Tolentino, Zsa Zsa Padilla, The Tulfo Brothers, Rico Barrero, Tom Rodriguez, Paolo Serrano, Mariel Rodriguez, Krystal Reyes, Toni Gonzaga, Bayani Agbayani, Raymond Bagatsing, Sam Milby, Bea Alonzo, Marco Alcaraz, Lucho Ayala, Gil Cuerva, Rainier Castillo, Bernadette Sembrano, Cherie Mercado, Mariz Umali, Vicky Morales, Kara David, Jiggy Manicad, Ted Failon, Arnold Clavio, Noli de Castro, Jun Veneracion, Marc Logan, Arra San Agustin, Rufa Mae Quinto, Daniel Padilla, Alwyn Uytingco, Dominic Roco, Felix Roco, Angelica Panganiban, Alex Gonzaga, Cristine Reyes, Roxanne Guinoo, Valerie Concepcion, Camille Prats, Jennylyn Mercado, Carla Abellana, Andrea Torres, Bianca Umali, Marian Rivera, DingDong Dantes, Robin Padilla, Martin Nievera, Heart Evangelista, Erich Gonzales, Dimples Romana, Gabby Concepcion with his daughter KC Concepcion, Eddie Gutierrez and Ruffa Gutierrez, Chad Kinis, Jerome Ponce, Janice de Belen, Arcee Muñoz, Alice Dixson, Tuesday Vargas, Ritz Azul, Eula Caballero, Paolo Bediones, Sharon Cuneta, Rodolfo “Dolphy” Quizon, Piolo Pascual, Janno Gibbs, Mike Enriquez, Henry Omaga-Diaz, Jessica Soho, Karen Davila, Amelyn Veloso, Cheryl Cosim, Alvin Elchico, Anthony Taberna, Willie Revillame, Sunshine Dizon, Sue Ramirez, Ogie Diaz, Jodi Sta. Maria, Richard Yap, Albert Martinez, John Lloyd Cruz, Carl Cervantes, Jayson Gainza, Patrick Garcia, AJ Perez, Christian Bables, Terence Baylon, Derek Ramsay, JM de Guzman, Jeric Gonzales, Eric Fructuoso, Edu Manzano, Jericho Rosales, JC de Vera, Martin Escudero, Gerald Anderson, Christopher de Leon, Richard Gutierrez, Raymond Gutierrez, IC Mendoza, Luis Manzano, Matteo Guidicelli, John Prats, Ces Oreña-Drilon, Carmina Villaroel, Eugene Domingo, Nora Aunor, Leandro Muñoz, Kristine Hermosa, Meg Imperial, Gelli de Belen, Zoren Legaspi, Shawn Yao, Keempee de Leon, Eula Valdez, RK Bagatsing, Claudine Barretto, Ian Veneracion, Jose Manalo, Wally Bayola, Kim Atienza, Judy Ann Santos, Cherry Pie Picache, Neil Ryan Sese, Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto, Joey de Leon, Jess Lapid Jr., Vhong Navarro, Isko Moreno, Mico Halili, JP de Guzman, Mel Martinez, Long Mejia, Jolo Revilla, Bong Revilla, Jhong Hilario, Oyo Boy Sotto, Gian Sotto, McCoy de Leon, John Estrada, Ryan Agoncillo, Maine Mendoza, Catherine Bernardo, RJ Padilla, Aga Muhlach, Bembol Roco, Geoff Eigenmann, Gabby Eigenmann, Bernard Palanca, Mico Palanca, featuring twin brothers Rodjun and Rayver Cruz, twin sisters Anne Curtis and Jasmine Curtis-Smith, the Artista Academy students who are the original cast members of Goin’ Bulilit except for Nash Aguas and Valeen Montenegro, the Trenderas trio, half-Pinoy group Juan Direction, the Supergroup Group of 30, girl group BTS that debuted in 2010 as a 9-member girl group with Girls’ Generation members as special guests, the Spice Girls, DJ Lance the Purple Dinosaur from Sesame Street, president Noynoy Aquino as Santa Claus and Queen Elizabeth II who is Princess Elsa’s mother. The Christmas Station ID also contains child actor CX Navarro who is a member of Goin’ Bulilit from TV5 replacing Angelica Panganiban who is now adolescent. Somehow, The Christmas Station ID also features Regine Velasquez who was dressed up as Mrs. Claus with her husband Ogie Alcasid who was dressed up as “The Elf” from the 2005 DreamWorks movie Elf At the very end, The book closes with sparkles coming out and the text “The End” at the end cover appears similar to the 2010 Station ID of GMA with the 2005 ABS-CBN logo and the text at the bottom that says “Maligayang Pasko, Kapamilya!”
This is the first Christmas Station ID to feature the crew from ABS-CBN, GMA and TV5.
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DESCUBRIMIENTO DE LA PENICILINA
El 28 de septiembre de 1928,el científico escocés Alexander Fleming descubrió la penicilina.
La penicilina fue uno de los primeros antibióticos que inventaron, gracias a esta muchas vidas han sido salvadas.
El descubrimiento de la penicilina se encontró ya que Alexander Fleming clasificó placas de Petri que contenian colonias de estafilococos, uno de los platos estaba lleno de colonias menos por una zona donde estaba creciendo una mancha de moho, la zona de alrededor del moho se identificó como Penicillium notatum.
El primer paciente que la penicilina no salvó fue el policía Albert Alexander que se arañó con un rosal hace 75 años.
Los investigadores pensaron que se podía usar la penicilina en los humanos y así se la inyectaron a Albert y cada tres horas le inyectaban 300ml más durante cinco días.
Este experimentó una mejoría a corto plazo, pero el cuerpo del paciente iba eliminando rápidamente la fórmula del antibiótico, así causando su muerte.
Webgrafía:
https://www.laprensani.com/magazine/periscopio/penicilina-por-error/
https://www.madrimasd.org/blogs/microbiologia/2008/03/09/86219
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/historia-quimica/descubrimiento-desarrollo-penicilina.html
https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/05/21/ciencia/1526897155_270336.html?outputType=amp
https://www.fecyt.es/es/educasinc/el-descubrimiento-de-la-penicilina
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Carta de Madrid
Cher Trafic,
Es posible que no haya mayor distancia que la que existe, curiosamente, entre países vecinos. Eso podría explicar, siquiera en parte, la permanente ignorancia y el escaso interés que se muestra generalmente en Francia por el cine español, por lo demás equivalente al aún mayor desdén que los españoles sienten, mayoritariamente, por el cine portugués. Con las excepciones de rigor, naturalmente, no siempre bien elegidas, y muy raramente ampliables a más de un cineasta, al que suele reducirse toda la producción del país vecino durante aproximadamente un decenio, a veces más: hubo un tiempo en que (escandalosamente, a mi modo de ver) se prefirió el cine de Juan Antonio Bardem al de Luis García Berlanga, sin prestar atención, en los años siguientes, al Marco Ferreri español (sus tres primeros films, entre ellos los dos mejores de toda su filmografía, El pisito y El cochecito; tuvo que volver a Italia y rodar allí para que se advirtiese su presencia) e ignorando olímpicamente hasta después de su muerte la actividad como cineasta del actor Fernando Fernán-Gómez, que acaba de abandonarnos, y sin cuya obra - ciertamente irregular - me parece difícil entender una buena parte del cine de Pedro Almodóvar. Luego le llegó el turno a Carlos Saura, reemplazado más tarde por Almodóvar, que lleva ya veinte años de reinado y aún parece cargar con el peso de encarnar en solitario una "modernidad" española casi tan vieja y difunta como la fantasmal y mítica "movida" de la que (para asombro de los madrileños, es como si nos preguntasen qué tal les va a Buñuel, Baroja y Pérez Galdós) todavía se habla fuera. Para algunas minorías, por supuesto, existe (siquiera intermitentemente) Víctor Erice, de quien se tienen noticias filmadas - por desgracia - muy de tarde en tarde, o más breves de lo deseable, pero en general se reduce todo el cine español a una figura, que para colmo suele ser absolutamente excepcional y, por tanto, nada representativa, y menos aún dada la diversidad que siempre - hasta en los peores tiempos de falta de libertad - ha caracterizado al "cine español", si es que algo ha existido alguna vez que pueda llamarse "cine español" con un poco de rigor o precisión, salvo las "españoladas" y las peores comedias "costumbristas" y muy locales (hasta cuando tratan de parecer europeas o de imitar los últimos modelos de éxito del cine americano), es decir, salvo lo malo y vulgar, lo carente de personalidad, lo no interesante y que apenas es cine. Tampoco creo que exista más ''cine francés" o "alemán" que el malo, el que no queremos ver y del que tratan de escapar los mejores cineastas. Lo interesante siempre ha sido, y sigue siendo, la excepción a la regla, escaso en número y producto del empeño de algún individuo, generalmente aislado, que trabaja "a su manera" y a partir de sus referencias personales.
Y eso es casi todo, en más de cincuenta años, y pese a cambios de régimen y de situación política, social, cultural y económica bastante considerables, si olvidamos supuestos "descubrimientos" privados de algún festival o pequeñas modas fugitivas, con o sin base (Marc Recha, Alejandro Amenábar, Isabel Coixet, Álex de la Iglesia, Albert Serra, Jaime Rosales, hasta Jaume Balagueró), unas veces certeras y otras no, mientras se desconoce por completo a otros cineastas (pero tampoco tantos como para no poder abarcarlos). Si no me equivoco, hasta hace un par de meses en Cahiers du Cinéma ni se había mencionado - y no más por ahora, visto el número de febrero de 2008 - el nombre de José Luis Guerín, del que Trafic permanece aun inexplicablemente virgen, pese a que cada vez que esta revista ha abordado un tema con especial interés había precisamente un film de Guerín que lo trataba con especial pertinencia y profundidad, mejor aún que la mayoría de los que se ponían como ejemplo, aparte de que (y en esto al menos no estoy solo) somos muchos los que pensamos (y no sólo en España) que se trata de la figura más importante que ha surgido (¡en 1983!) después de Víctor Erice. Tampoco se ha hablado apenas de algunos de sus mayores, como Joaquim Jordá (que murió el año antepasado) o el todavía esporádicamente activo Pere Portabella - acaba de hacer Der Stille vor Bach, tras muchos años de silencio - por no remontarnos a figuras históricas como José de Togores, Nemesio M. Sobrevila, Benito Perojo, Florián Rey, Edgar Neville, Llorenç Llobet-Gràcia o Manuel Mur Oti, o más recientes pero ya muertas, en ocasiones sin haber logrado dar pruebas completas de su talento, como Antonio Drove. Pero tampoco se sabe gran cosa fuera de los más jóvenes: ni de Isaki Lacuesta, ni de Pablo Llorca, ni de Mercedes Álvarez, ni de Felipe Vega, y eso que varios de ellos han rodado en Francia o han hecho coproducciones francesas, o han obtenido premios en algunos festivales franceses (y no del todo excéntricos: El cielo gira ganó en París el Cinéma du Réel 2005).
Se diría que hay una cierta impermeabilidad que sólo algunos "autores" vociferantes o muy apoyados (por unos u otros) logran transitoriamente atravesar, para ser luego nuevamente relegados al olvido, no negaré que bastante a menudo más merecido que su efímero y minoritario renombre. Estamos tan cerca que siempre se aplaza, a un momento mejor, de calma que nunca llega, la intención de pasar revista al cine del país vecino. Cierto que aquí no se estrenan (o raramente, y en desorden) las películas de Philippe Garrel, Claire Denis, Arnaud Desplechin, Olivier Assayas, pero se sabe de su existencia y algunos nos ocupamos de estar al corriente de sus carreras, o lo intentamos, deber que no parecen sentir los críticos franceses hacia los cineastas españoles, y que les lleva unas veces a "tragarse" auténticas falsificaciones y otras a ignorar (o malentender por completo) las raras obras de valor que llegan a estrenarse en París o que ven por casualidad en un festival.
El caso es que, sin confiar en que tal situación cambie en un futuro cercano, es una lástima que sigan así las cosas, y por varios motivos. Por un lado, tengo la impresión de que se desconocen mutuamente demasiadas películas que podrían interesar enormemente; por otro, no es fácil que quienes se ignoran descubran puntos en común e intereses compartidos, ni por ello que colaboren; por último, los cineastas españoles más ambiciosos quedan huérfanos de un apoyo que, sin ser decisivo, haría un poco más fácil su resistencia al adocenamiento y la vulgaridad y les compensaría moralmente de la marginación que sufren en su propia tierra, en la que es todavía más difícil que en otras ser admitido sin un reconocimiento exterior.
Después de todo, no es tan grande el esfuerzo preciso: aunque en España se hacen últimamente muchas más películas de las que el mercado interior puede absorber (y de las que los distribuidores y exhibidores están dispuestos a mostrar), las interesantes que se hacen cada año, pero sin excepción, son cinco, diez, quizá hasta quince si hay una cosecha extraordinaria. Es decir, el cine de verdadero interés que se hace en España es fácilmente visible, porque no es el resultado de una industria próspera, ni de una tradición imaginativa y creadora de géneros originales, sino el resultado del esfuerzo solitario de un puñado de locos que han existido siempre, desafiando con mayor o menor ingenio antaño la dictadura de Franco y la censura política como ahora la dictadura de los mercaderes y la censura económica.
Lo normal es que un cineasta español que quiere hacer algo diferente o personal, que no aspire únicamente o ante todo a que sea "comercial" (sin que tales propósitos garanticen que lo consiga, por supuesto) aguante unos diez años de contratiempos, decepciones y penalidades, antes de rendirse y, si le hacen una oferta mínimamente tentadora - lo que no le sucede a todos, especialmente si se labran una reputación de exigentes o "difíciles", por ejemplo reclamando el control del montaje final -, pasarse al enemigo. Los que, a pesar de todo, aguantan, se ven confinados al paro o hacen películas cada vez más distanciadas temporalmente entre sí, cada vez con menos presupuesto y menos tiempo; cada una de ellas, aunque sea la quinta, se convierte en un primer film, y malviven dando clases o acompañando a sus películas durante un año por todo el país, tratando de compensar con su presencia personal la falta de presupuesto publicitario, o viajando - los más afortunados - de festival en festival, distracción que a veces retrasa su siguiente tentativa de hacer un nuevo film. No creo que sea una situación hoy muy excepcional, imagino que sucede algo parecido en muchos otros países, pero tiene el peligro de aislar a los directores más creadores del resto del cine nacional, de alejarlo de su público potencial, y de que acaben por hacer películas con otros destinatarios, los festivales o ciertos críticos más o menos simpatizantes del tipo de cine, más exigente y personal, que practican, aunque a menudo no sean excesivamente influyentes. El apoyo de estos, que se diluye entre tantas películas (no son muy selectivos, y tienden a exagerar el logro o los méritos de cada obra no completamente vulgar, aunque sólo escape a la mediocridad imperante en la intención o según las declaraciones de su autor), resulta cada vez más ineficaz: ni inspiran demasiada confianza en el público más joven o "inquieto" (escarmentado por múltiples decepciones provocadas por supuestas ''revelaciones" y ''obras maestras") ni las nuevas formas de explotación acelerada dan tiempo a que se corra un rumor favorable, que a menudo se extiende, si lo hace, cuando la película en cuestión ya ha desaparecido de las salas. Y es lástima, porque muchas películas que fracasan en taquilla, supuestamente "difíciles", hubieran gustado a un público notablemente numeroso, si hubieran tenido ocasión de verlas.
Por otra parte, han proliferado escuelas y academias de cine, privadas y públicas, que predominantemente forman a técnicos que buscan acomodo en las cadenas privadas de TV, pues los teóricos aspirantes a director suelen no tener el menor interés por el cine del pasado (y no digamos por lo que sucede en las restantes artes), son ardientes enemigos de la noción misma de "cine de autor" y lo que quieren es tener un éxito rápido (no importa cómo ni a qué precio) y vivir confortablemente instalados en una rutina repetitiva. Por eso, aunque la proporción de primeros, segundos y terceros films sea creciente en los últimos años, no están surgiendo "oleadas" de nuevos cineastas particularmente prometedores. Y algunos, que podrían llegar a serlo, se conforman muy pronto con lo conseguido en su primer film (por pobre e insuficiente que sea) ante los desenfrenados elogios que a menudo reciben, a veces acompañados de premios. Si encima su película, por alguna casualidad, por una enérgica campaña publicitaria o por adscribirse a un género de moda (comedia bufa, terror sangriento) da dinero, están perdidos, pues se convencen de que nada tienen que aprender ni que rectificar y, naturalmente, no mejorarán.
Existe una supersticiosa creencia (carente de fundamento económico) en el cine español como industria (cuando hoy, en Europa, apenas podría considerarse como tal el francés), que lleva a depositar todas las esperanzas de los que Godard llamó "los profesionales de la profesión" (y de los que aspiran a incorporarse a ella) en disposiciones legales, a ser posible del mayor rango (y la menor flexibilidad para reformarse luego), que se elaboran siempre entre tan encontradas presiones de lobbies enfrentados a muerte (productores, directores, guionistas, actores, exhibidores, distribuidores dependientes de las majors americanas) que, pese a no enfurecer del todo a los más ruidosos, en realidad no contentan a nadie y nacen anticuadas, cuando no convertidas en "letra muerta" antes de llegar a ser aplicadas, superadas por la dura realidad de los hechos. En la Ley aprobada finalmente al término de 2007 - y todavía pendiente de desarrollo reglamentario - parece que ni figura la sigla DVD... y desde luego hay mil situaciones que son ya realidad ahora - y cobrarán en breve mayor importancia - que ni siquiera se prevén...
Por lo demás, los problemas del cine español no son fundamentalmente económicos, ni siquiera de producción. Aunque muchos cineastas no logren financiación suficiente o frecuente, hacer películas - si se aceptan todas las presiones o se ruedan en muy escaso tiempo, o no repugna hacerlas muy baratas y sin garantía de estreno - es cada vez menos difícil; lo verdaderamente arduo es estrenarlas, exhibirlas en condiciones aceptables, mantenerlas en cartel hasta que llegue a la sala su público potencial, hacerlas mínimamente rentables.
Secundariamente, creo que no vendría mal conseguir que las películas españolas resulten apetecibles, atractivas, prometedoras (aunque luego puedan defraudar las expectativas creadas): con frecuencia su presentación es tan mala que cuesta un verdadero esfuerzo decidirse a probar suerte de nuevo y arriesgarse a ver una obra de la que se carece por completo de referencias y que buena "pinta", a decir verdad, no tiene. Misteriosamente, los cineastas más ambiciosos y noveles parecen temer que los puedan acusar de ser amenos, divertidos o buenos narradores, y sienten un pudor desmesurado e irracional ante la sola idea de provocar algo que probablemente no podrían lograr aunque quisieran: suscitar emoción. Además de este complejo de "desgarradores" sin proponérselo, que les impulsa a suprimir todo vestigio de sentimiento y a convertir en zombies a los personajes, pasivos, apáticos, deprimidos y catatónicos con una frecuencia que desafía la probabilidad estadística, y por si tal panorama no dificultase ya bastante el interés del público por lo que sucede en la pantalla, los cineastas españoles - salvo excepciones - se caracterizan por un santo terror hacia la elipsis temporal y la economía expositiva, error que quizá podría conseguir que advirtieran y rectificasen la existencia de una crítica medianamente seria y responsable, que hablase de ellas convincentemente y sin exagerar ni generalizar a un número inverosímilmente elevado de películas sus supuestas virtudes. Pero no es la que hoy abunda por estas tierras, sino más bien una mayoritariamente conformista y perezosa, además de hostil a la menor muestra de personalidad, innovación o frescura. Qué puede esperarse cuando los medios más influyentes tienen por titulares a críticos enemigos del cine de autor o con alguna ambición artística, que detestan a priori a Godard, Straub, Oliveira, Kiarostami, Jia Zhang-ke, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wong Kar-wai, Hong Sang-soo, Tsai Ming-liang, Rivette, el Pedro Costa portugués, Weerasethakul, Claire Denis, Garrel, Carax, ... y si se libran de la condena preventiva Wang Bing, Raya Martin, Lav Diaz o Desplechin es meramente, descuiden, porque no se han molestado en ver nada suyo. Estos críticos, que se tragan casi cualquier película académica y brillantemente empaquetada, desaniman de antemano a los exhibidores/distribuidores (cada vez menos) independientes de estrenar cualquier película que se salga de los moldes más convencionales y consabidos, que no sea ya conocida y previsible..., lo mismo que sucede, salvo rara excepción, con los premios de la Academia o el más entusiasta apoyo (para la producción, la asistencia a festivales, la promoción) de las Administraciones ya (o todavía, aunque sea residualmente) conscientes de que el cine existe.
Por supuesto, entiendo que, para aquellos que ven el cine como un negocio, una profesión o una industria (subsector no-punta del "audiovisual" o de la "imagen y sonido"), o simplemente como un lugar donde buscar empleo, ni Erice ni Guerín ni casi ninguno de los cineastas que a mí me interesan vale nada, porque dan poco dinero, y si hacen películas baratas, para ellos, es todavía peor: lo que querrían es un Cecil B. DeMille (o un Luc Besson) ibérico que diese empleo a cuantos más mejor y durante meses, y una vez cada año y medio o dos. Yo admito que el cine, desde esos puntos de vista, me apasiona poco; en España, el sector carece de potencial económico digno de mención, y lleva el peor camino para acercarse a conseguirlo alguna vez, suponiendo que sea algo deseable: mucho me temo que su hipotética e improbable consolidación industrial hiciese todavía más difícil la existencia de productores y cineastas independientes y con alguna ambición. Como entretenimiento, tendría muchas cosas con las que competir, varias más baratas y de menor riesgo tanto para los inversores como para los aficionados. Es decir, me interesan del cine sus posibilidades casi infinitamente variadas de ser un arte, su capacidad para mostrarme lo que no sé o no acierto a ver o desconozco, y ayudarme a comprenderlo. Y eso es lo que a muy pocos de los que lo hacen hoy en España, da igual en qué parte del país, les atrae del cine, sean directores, productores o guionistas. Con una diferencia esencial: ninguno de los que desean hacer un cine más creativo propugna la desaparición del resto, que comprenden será siempre mayoritario, mientras que los de la tendencia "industrial" desearían exterminar cualquier vestigio de innovación, experimentación formal o narrativa, inquietud social o histórica o no adscripción genérica, porque prefieren no ser comparados con esas películas con mayores aspiraciones. Lo más que admiten, como "gancho" - y con eso se contentan algunos de los supuestamente ambiciosos - son alusiones superficiales (o meramente verbales) a algunas cuestiones de actualidad, generalmente no tratadas ni siquiera "abordadas", sino meramente enumeradas o mencionadas, a lo sumo "rozadas" desde la más convencional y aceptada de las "correcciones políticas", de modo que, sin ser verdaderamente polémicas, sino "consensuales" y previsibles, cuenten con una coartada que las haga "inatacables", como si la menor crítica se dirigiese a su supuesta "osadía" consistente en insinuar la existencia de problemas tan obvios como el paro, la marginación, el empleo precario, el terrorismo... que nadie ignora.
Así ha sucedido con la súbita proliferación de "documentales" - a menudo indistinguibles del más rutinario reportaje televisivo - durante los diez últimos años, normalmente a remolque de alguno muy personal que lo era de verdad, siquiera en parte, o que combinaba productivamente el documento y la ficción. Lo que sucedía en muchos casos, sobre todo para directores debutantes, es que se supone que en un "documental" se admiten inexactitudes y errores formales que no se tolerarían en el cine de ficción más académico, que se pueden rodar con menos dinero, que el tema se convierte en la "estrella" y que se ahorra el gasto en los actores que un realizador novel difícilmente va a ser capaz de controlar y no suele haber aprendido a dirigir. El porcentaje de verdaderos documentales es escaso, y de ellos son pocos los de auténtica calidad, por mucho que toquen problemas como el terrorismo, la droga, la inmigración, la marginalidad o el paro, o se vuelquen a la reconstrucción del pasado (la II República, la Guerra Civil, la larguísima postguerra, la dictadura franquista).
Desgraciadamente, los defensores de un cine no primordial o exclusivamente comercial, de género, y muy convencionalmente narrativo optan a menudo por apoyar indiscriminadamente cuanto se aparte levísimamente de la norma, incluso si sólo lo hacen nominalmente o dicen pretenderlo, sin medir si lo logran efectivamente ni si vale la pena el resultado, a menudo menos perceptible que la ambición, o producto de meras deficiencias de concepción y realización, enmascaradas luego de propósito deliberado de "ruptura". Son muchas, así, las películas "bienintencionadas", o - no seamos ilusos -simplemente pretenciosas, que no cumplen lo que prometen ni, en ocasiones, llegan siquiera a ser una película medianamente construida o con el mínimo exigible (que, por sí solo, no sería suficiente) de verosimilitud cinematográfica. Se desdeña, en cambio, cualquier película - que puede ser muy buena, y no es un hecho frecuente en el cine español, carente de tradición "clásica" - a la que, con alguna base o sin ella, se califica (como si fuesen términos equivalentes) de tradicional, clásica, anticuada, narrativa o costumbrista, reservándose tales calificativos (o sus connotaciones implícitas negativas) a aquellos cineastas que no gustan o no interesan, a los que se reprocha "aplicar modelos de hace medio siglo" aunque puedan ser narrativamente más libres y audaces que los que no saben contar o no tienen nada que decir, y que, por lo demás, siguen modelos no mucho más modernos (de hace cuarenta años, por ejemplo).
La aspiración de descubrir nuevos valores o crear un nuevo "canon" es comprensible, a todos nos encanta un hallazgo, pero exige que los haya, y es difícil, en cualquier país, que surja uno cada mes o incluso en cada festival, por lo cual la falta de exigencia crítica desemboca en una inflación de valores o "acontecimientos" que suele ser, como poco, prematura. Por mucho que nos sorprenda gratamente una excepción tan rara e inesperada como Honor de cavalleria, parece demasiado apresurado consagrar a Albert Serra - a quien nadie conocía dos meses antes, ni siquiera en Barcelona - como "la gran esperanza blanca" sin haber visto siquiera su largometraje anterior (muy interesante, y muy distinto, lo que para mí prueba que no es un cineasta "de diseño"), y antes de comprobar que lleva dentro más de una película y que cuenta con la resistencia necesaria para no repetirse o hacer concesiones, pues son numerosos los autores de una primera obra valiosa o prometedora - muchas menos las que revelan, aun fallidas, a un cineasta en potencia - que han defraudado con la segunda sin lograr remontar el vuelo, a veces sin siquiera intentarlo. No se puede proclamar la "autoría", por muy autobiográfica y original que sea, de quien sólo ha hecho una película, ni siquiera bastaría con dos o tres. Y hoy son contados los directores que - aunque puedan equivocarse, como todo el que se arriesga, cuenta con medios escasos y no recorre senderos trazados de antemano - permiten esperar con impaciencia y algo de confianza su próxima realización, desde veteranos como Víctor Erice, José Luis Borau, José Luis Garci, Pedro Almodóvar, el regresado de Francia (aunque temo que lo esté lamentando) Adolfo Arrieta, Pere Portabella, y ocasionalmente, todavía, Jaime Chávarri, Mario Camus o Gonzalo Suárez - aunque les pasa como a Wayne Shorter, que después de muchos años haciendo banalidades comerciales, cuando quiere volver al jazz los resultados son decepcionantes; otros, como Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón o Vicente Aranda, considerados ampliamente como "intocables", llevan tantos años sin acertar que hace falta demasiado optimismo para creer todavía en ellos -, hasta aún jóvenes con varias películas en su haber - desde José Luis Guerín, Pablo Llorca, Felipe Vega o Álvaro del Amo hasta Isaki Lacuesta, Albert Serra, Enrique Urbizu, Iciar Bollain, Lola Salvador, Manane Rodríguez o Xavier Bermúdez -, algunos más que sólo han hecho un largo - como Mercedes Álvarez, David Reznak, Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo, Santiago García de Leániz, José Maria de Orbe, hasta Javier Rebollo - o el segundo supone un cierto retroceso, al menos en apariencia - como Max Lemcke o Pablo García -, o bien alternan largos con cortos, cuando no se mantienen anclados en los metrajes inferiores a una hora - como Gonzalo de Lucas, Nuria Aidelman y varios más, a los que cabría añadir algunos enigmas o cineastas que, parecieran inicialmente prometedores o no, han seguido trayectorias erráticas, desde Benito Zambrano a Cesc Gay, pasando por Agustín Díaz Yanes; yo soy tan optimista que incluso me resisto a dar definitivamente por echados a perder a Amenábar o a Julio Médem, y eso que se dedican a convencerme de que me equivoco con verdadero ahínco.
Otros eliminarían, sin duda, a varios de los que menciono siquiera con un residuo de esperanza, haciendo votos por su salud, su entereza y su resistencia, y los sustituirían por otros directores en los que yo, en cambio, no puedo depositar ya - si alguna vez lo hice - la menor confianza, pues los encuentro totalmente carentes de interés o definitivamente perdidos para la causa del buen cine, si es que tuvieron alguna ambición, cuando no me parecen falsificadores e impostores, meros imitadores y suplantadores, que toman prestados los discursos de otros (suelen nutrirse de Erice; últimamente también el elocuente Guerín es muy citado o plagiado) y hacen películas que en nada respaldan esas pretensiones, a veces insinuadas por asociación, aprovechando que son amigos, más o menos de la misma edad o que viven en la misma ciudad (que poco suele tener que ver con su cine), o dicen compartir admiraciones como Ozu o Bresson.
La nómina de "prodigios de un día", de los que nadie se acuerda un par de temporadas más tarde, se acrecienta cada año, mientras se devalúa comparativamente a los que verdaderamente han hecho dos o tres obras entre muy interesantes y apasionantes o admirables y siguen en la brecha - aunque tarden en dar señales de vida - por la inclinación generalizada a tratar con idéntico tono elogioso a los que apenas - en el mejor de los casos - han realizado una película aceptable (para ser un primer intento) o, dentro de sus limitaciones y defectos, de su poco estimulante concreción, de su frialdad abúlica, parecen aspirar a un "algo más" que nunca se sabe bien en qué consistiría, que los hace, en principio, dignos de "respeto" - más que de interés y elogio - y de un margen de crédito futuro (pero no ilimitado ni eterno). Porque, si he de ser sincero – y no tendría sentido que escribiera sin decir lo que pienso -, resulta fatigoso y desmoralizador que haya tantos falsos "innovadores" - realmente demasiados, muchos más que verdaderos - de los que todavía no he conseguido descubrir un solo planteamiento, enfoque o detalle medianamente original ni defendible, y sí una colección de plagios tan torpemente realizados y heterogéneos que ni siquiera se les puede acusar de "copistas", simplemente porque la simulación es tan torpe que apenas se nota que es una imitación: es como si los Rolex falsos no parecieran Rolex. Se harta uno de escuchar peroratas incoherentes de "radicales" de boquilla, no sólo carentes de ideas acerca del cine, sino incapaces de explicar en qué pueda consistir ese "radicalismo" del que tanto alardean, y que desgraciadamente - sobre todo, a fin de cuentas, para ellos - pueden contar con un cierto grado de apoyo simplemente por apuntarse al bando de los "nuevos" o los "indies".
Las consignas dominantes en ambos campos supuestamente opuestos son, en realidad, confluyentes en seguir la consigna - durante años reclamada por la profesión a los críticos - de elogiar sistemáticamente la mayor parte del cine español y ser muy benévolos en las críticas, con las excepciones elegidas por cada grupo como sus bêtes noires particulares, a las que se agregan algunos "desertores" y todos los que, por su actitud o sus declaraciones, al no estar "con ellos" incondicionalmente, se delatan como no pertenecientes a su bando respectivo, y son consiguientemente tratados como (para ellos) merecen los que no aspiran a ser "uno de los suyos" y deben ser castigados como disidentes. Este mecanismo funciona en ambos sentidos, y hace relativamente fácil a los oportunistas granjearse algunas simpatías, y a los verdaderos independientes ser víctimas del fuego cruzado o ser repentinamente abandonados por los defensores ditirámbicos de su película anterior. Es previsible que toda producción de verdad independiente que sea seleccionada o invitada por un festival importante será atacada violentamente desde la autodenominada "industria" y las plataformas mediáticas que son hoy parte de ella. Puede preverse y se verifica indefectiblemente.
Es muy difícil hoy que los cineastas que han demostrado ser más interesantes tengan una carrera de mediana continuidad, sin largos periodos de espera y aparente inactividad - que sirven para que se les cuelguen, con o sin la menor base, algunos sambenitos como "lentos" o "indecisos", dubitativos o reflexivos, todos ellos mortales en la "industria" - y que logren realizar una filmografía copiosa. Es más fácil que un mediocre sin iniciativa, obediente y disciplinado, con mentalidad de funcionario o de oficinista, sin pasión por el cine, encadene un rodaje tras otro, incluso si sus películas realmente no tienen ningún éxito. No les faltarán ofertas ni encargos, ni tampoco subvenciones, y pronto rentabilizarán el aval de su experiencia. Ay, en cambio, aunque su película, mucho menos costosa, se amortice en medida muy superior, del que – junto con algún vago elogio - la ve calificada de difícil, lenta, "demasiado larga", complicada, "críptica", minoritaria o "de autor", porque incluso si es inocente de todas esas lacras o faltas, se verá silenciosa pero enérgicamente rechazado por el grueso de la industria, y ni siquiera si ansía integrarse en ella podrá hacerlo, suponiendo que no llegue a percatarse de que la falta de sintonía es mutua y de que en nada le beneficiaría ingresar en las filas de la mediocre "normalidad". Aunque comprendo, cómo no, que es desagradable verse condenado a la marginación.
Antaño existía la alternativa de trabajar en la TV pública, la única que había por entonces; hoy, como viene sucediendo sobre todo desde mediados los años 90 del pasado siglo, ninguna cadena está dispuesta de buen grado a financiar el cine, y si lo hace por imperativo legal será siempre a regañadientes e imponiendo todas las condiciones que pueda hacer tragar. Para empezar, apenas existen programas - y cada vez menos - que pudieran acoger a directores de cine más o menos abiertos e inquietos. Proyectos que prosperaban incluso durante la dictadura, o en el periodo desordenado de la Transición, o con direcciones más ilustradas de la TV pública, hoy serían no ya irrealizables, sino implanteables, suponiendo que a alguien se le ocurriese pensarlos.
Como el año que no se provoca publicitariamente un éxito hueco - como El orfanato de J.A. Bayona - o surge alguno previsible o por pura casualidad, y no hay un Almodóvar, o uno de esos bodrios que parecen atraer al cine al público juvenil que no suele acudir a las salas más que a hablar en voz alta y consumir ruidosamente palomitas, la recaudación global obtenida por el cine español en su propio mercado desciende peligrosamente, y resulta que los ingresos medios - hoy medida única del acierto - dependen exclusivamente de esas dos o tres o a lo sumo cuatro películas supertaquilleras, a las que acuden incluso los mayores que han dejado de ir habitualmente al cine, puede deducirse que la enorme mayoría de las películas españolas no se amortizan, al menos en las salas, y si acaso gracias a los derechos televisivos, raramente a la edición en DVD, que no financia ni una porción simbólica del coste, por mucho que se venda o se alquile en ese soporte.
Para quien no se interese por el cine como medio de ganarse la vida o de enriquecerse, ni como fenómeno sociológico, el terreno se ha reducido en los últimos años como el increíble hombre menguante, y el tiempo de espera entre una película apasionante – que las hay - y la siguiente de ese autor tiende, en cambio, a acrecentarse. No puede decirse, pese al usual triunfalismo oficial (secundado por muchos interesados en crear y sustentar el espejismo), que tanto contrasta con el permanente estado de crisis en que vive la profesión, que el cine español sea "uno de los mejores del mundo" (hay visionarios patrioteros, incluso supuestamente de "izquierdas", que afirman que Cannes lo sabotea por envidia y temor a la competencia), y que encontrará su "mercado" en América Latina, donde el cine español actual apenas se exhibe. Lo que sí sucede a veces, puramente porque en otros países hay menos vitalidad o más uniformidad, o un entramado industria-televisión más pesado y opresivo, es que alguna película española puede incluirse entre las más insólitas, interesantes, arriesgadas o conseguidas que se han hecho cada año. Casi siempre, por la combinación de talento, resistencia y entusiasmo de directores que van por libre, que hacen cine, sin preocuparse de si es o no español, o catalán, o vasco, o gallego, o aragonés o andaluz (fantasmas todavía más intangibles, aunque a veces se creen tales ficciones como meras etiquetas publicitarias). Son los pocos que piensan cinematográficamente, que son cineastas hasta cuando no pueden rodar, que si no tienen medios hacen películas con fotos, que se hacen preguntas y a veces obtienen respuestas, nunca dogmáticas, siempre tentativas, que sin hacer "cine experimental" experimentan, intentan hacer algo nuevo y distinto, y no por afán de originalidad, ni para llamar la atención, sino porque buscan algo y tratan de encontrarlo.
Publicado en el nº 66 de Trafic (verano de 2008)
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Albert Rosales has 16 books in his Humanoid Encounters: The Others Amongst Us series. I have most of them and have lauded his effort here many times. I’m currently engrossed in his 1930-1949 Volume, a 440 page book. It contains UFO reports from various sources, credible and otherwise. If a reader, like me, accepts a fraction of the catalogued listings as authentic, the reader has to accept that a vast number of the accounts of flying craft (saucers and disks, et cetera) with attendant entities (humanoids) that Mr. Rosales has gathered preceded those that has engulfed the period after 1947 up to the present day.
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