jWith Jen out of my life now, its all so different. There is all this time that I did not have before, to research and watch and do all the things that I just wasn't doing anymore, because Jen and conversations w/ her, filled up so much of my time. Take, for example, this Mexican actress, Kate Del Castillo.
I "met" Kate while I was with Jen, I remember well, last May of 2017, but I was unable to ever find the time to really delve deeply into any of her Spanish language TV shows. Now i have the time and .. sad as it might sound to some, to replace a real human being, with a TV actress from Mexico, I have to say...i don't think it's so sad. If anything, its happy. Spending time with actresses and actors has always been better than reality, and Kate Del Castillo is no exception to this rule. I am very much enjoying passing my time w/ her and these bizarre "telenovelas" that she makes, down in Mexico. The telenovela, for those who don't know, is basically like a soap opera. Since Mexico doesn't erally produce much film, this is basically the best intro to the culture you can ask for, by way of the screen...and Kate is basically the biggest star it seems the Mexicans have...
So yes, thats what i have been doing these past few days: Watching Kate in a myriad of things, keeping up with my Spanish, which is now becoming better than ever before, and of course pretending Jen does not exist. Thats why i'm no longer really adding anything to this blog much too, by the way, cause if I did, I know that I would just keep going on about Jen, and I don't want to. It was fun to write about Jen at first but it quickly turned into a bad habit. Theres only so much to say. The story is dreadfully repetitive and not entertaining. She is a major pendeja and she doesn't deserve to be discussed. Not to mention my body is in such pain to sit and type that I should not waste the typing time I have on her. My wrists and fingers and hands are so shot. Can't .... waste... on...her. If Im gonna spend my typing time on anything, I should spend it on trying to produce a screenplay for Kate Del Castillo. She is totally the new star of my min. Que bonita mujer....
I might as well explain how I discovered her and how, exactly, I fell in love w/ her as my new femme icon, huh? Well it all begins with thee TV show La Reina del Sur. This, as I wrote, is a very famous show in Mexico and it was made some years ago. It concerns the plot line that, thanks to the mean US government, many Mexicans are hopelessly trapped in right now: the War on Drugs. Kate, in the show, plays a wife to some big time drug dealer who works with one of the cartels -- I think one of the ones from Sinaloa. And though all of this is very interesting, none of it probably would have really caught my eye, until of course I came to realize where the show had originally been born: On the page of an author that I quite fancy and who i read years ago. His name is Arturo Perez-Reverte. He is from Spain and he wrote the book that one of my favorite Johnny Depp movies, the Ninth Gate, was based on. Naturally, once I heard this show was connected to Arturo, the intellectual Spanish author who seems somewhat on par w/ Umberto Eco, I knew i had to start watching. I could do so free of shame! Verguenza! For yes it might be a Mexican soap opera that old Mexican women watch, but ... hey..Arturo Perez...he's my in. Plus, like i say, Kate.
It wasn't until just last night, however, that I really and truly knew Del Castillo was my new icon. This is because last night i discovered a very interesting film she did, in English, which i can't believe she did: It is called K-11 and it takes place in a Los Angeles prison, specifically it takes place in an area of the prison where LGBT prisoners are kept, and ... can you believe it ...Kate plays a fucking transgendered mujere and she even does "Chola" make-up for the role, and she even has a cock for the role, and ... oh my fucking Lord....this was right down my alley! So of course i watched it and it was incredible and now I've woken up the next morning in pure shock that something like that even exists, and that it actually had this epic Mexican actress in it. Not to mention the guy Jay from Jay and Silent Bob. Which was sort of weird but pretty cool. In fact, he played Kate's lover in the film.
Her name in the film was "Mousey". I almost feel like starting to write fan fiction about her immediately. I have , quite frankly, never seen a character so incredible in ages. And the fact that I was led to Mousey via studying Spanish, which led me to Kate, is not being lost on me, trust me. Just yesterday morning, for example, i was starting to work on an essay I wanted to write, about why i'm convinced Latina/Italian women are so different from English speaking ones , and so, to then discover that Kate, the first Mexican actress i've ever followed, had the courae to play this transgendered role, is not too shockin to me. Latina people, same as the Italians I studied years ago, (and of course I'm Italo-Americano) are absolutely more expressive, and open, with their femininity, than these dry protestant fuckers in the USA could ever be. And god damnt but you don't know how angry and sad and bitter it makes me. To think im trapped in this expressionless US culture, where all the most lively people are in LA jails like "K-11". Or trapped in rooms w/ broken lights and undiagnosed problems, like myself. This life is a cruel joke.
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