When we first got to to Santiago, the TV’s in the Metro were playing Coldplay songs in constant rotation. I am already not a fan, as I think their songs are really unoriginal and downright formulaic, and it didn’t help to hear the same three four of them mixed with loud train noise over and over. Then one day, Coldplay was thankfully gone, replace by old Eric Clapton videos. When I say old, I mean Clapton back when he was cool, with long hair, playing Bad Love and Leila. Yeah. Then, a few days ago, Clapton was gone and I am treated to Beyonce wearing some skimpy gown and singing some sappy song on the mornings when I foget my iPod.
Speaking of the Metro, which I know I have been rambling about, but it really is brand new and pretty interesting, the city has placed a lot of art galleries within the Metro stations. This sounds really crazy if you imagine most American public transportation stations with some kind of art displays, but it seems the Metro here was originally designed to have this kind of thing and it’s really nice. The stations are all different, but very cleanly designed and modern, and there is actually space reserved for these art displays, so it makes the stations a kind of underground community center. You can see informations about all the displays they have at the Metro Culutura website.
In one of the newer stations, there is even a free movie theater that shows historical films most of the time and has a film series every Sunday for only a hundred pesos ($.20). So far I have seen some very good movies, but that came to an end last sunday when the regularly scheduled one was unavailalbe, so they showed a subtitled High Fidelity. I am really tired of this movie. I hate it when supposedly realistic movies have self-absorbed, oblivious losers dating beautiful galmorous women, and this movie has it in spades. Yes, the movie has lots of amusing moments whenever Jack Black is on the screen, and I never realized how much real stuff about Chicago is mentioned, but the ending is stupid, takes too long, and doesn’t really resolve the problem that is the premise of the film.
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