VICTORIES, DEFEATS AND HANGOVERS
14 May 2007, Cervera de los Montes
The Finnish Ice Hockey team lost the World Cup final against Canada but the semifinal victory over Russia was celebrated in Helsinki as a revenge of the World War II. Finland did badly also in the Eurovision Song Contest which was oranised in Helsinki, the only positive thing was to win the other colonial master - Sweden.
But I couldn't care less. Real Madrid's epic victory over Espanyol had a great value: we are now back on the top of the Spanish League. It was good to come back just before the Finnish hangover. By the way, I'm saying good bye to the hangovers, my doctor has prohibited my liver and me to drink.
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
09 May 2007, Helsinki
My installation at Anhava is finished. Jani helped me to paint the wall and Ilona and Kari installed the drawings with me. The opening is tomorrow. This is playing in the Champions League. I hope to have future in this team, we'll see if I can get some more playing time. Ilona Anhava is cool like Liverpool´s manager Rafa Benitez. And I want to be Xabi Alonso. Actually, I got the new Manic Street Preachers album Send Away the Tigers and today I feel like wanting to be a rock'n'roll supernova - not a football star. Nobody can stop my air guitar.
EUROVISION, ANIMAL RIGHTS AND SAUNA
07 May 2007, Helsinki
I´m in Finland. Here the people are crazy for the Eurovision Song Contest they organise in the city during this week. The participating Spanish gay band was in the same flight with me, they traveled, of course, with style in the business class and I was in the third class, but we spoke while waiting the baggage. I have an aluminum Rimowa suitcase, which my mother gave me for my birthday last year, they had some awful plastic things. Today, I began my wallpainting "Animal Rights Damage Our Economy" at Galerie Anhava and then had sauna with Esa and Jani. Sauna is the only thing I miss from Finland when I´m home in Spain.
BUNNY PAINTING RABBIT LUNCH
03 May 2007, Cervera de los Montes
Now I'm doing a masterpiece painting. I think it will my best work ever. Finally, I've learnt to paint! The text says cold war was cool and there is a super kawaii (japanese: cute) bunny biking. And today, my wife cooked delicious rabbit for lunch. And tonight, I give an interview for a New York food magazine Swallow. The same bunny will be in my wall painting at Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, next week. But there I'll eat BigMacs, Finnish food is rather disgusting.
GLOBAL WARMING IS COOL
01 May 2007, Cervera de los Montes
Dirk sent me an ironic message saying that the global warming is cooler than the cold war. They are having a nice and warm spring in Belgium.
My mother, who lives in Finland, told me that her fellow workers in an international software developing company are happy for the global warming. They think that it's great to have less snow in the winter and that the only chilled thing in the summer is beer. They believe that the greenhouse effect makes Finland to be like a beautiful botanical gardens.
The only good thing in this kind of thinking is that these people stop flying to Costa del Sol because now they have sun in Finland (coast there have been always enough). Less flying, less global warming. But maybe then it's too late. My mother says that I should do art about this. Maybe my next big painting, after Cold War Was Cool, will be Global Warming Is Cool.
Today it's the 1st of May: Workers of the world, unite! But, of course, I'm not a worker. I hope they wouldn't execute artists.