t8th June 2011 A Very Twisted Thief

The police has detained 2 men accused of stealing from passengers of a bus that connected the Girona Airport with Barcelona. The method of the theft was ingenious to say the least, with which one of them travelled in the luggage-hold under the floor of the bus, inside a large suitcase. During the 90 minutes of the journey to the 1st stop the guy in the suitcase would come out, steal whatever valuable objects, and his accomplice would take him out once again inside the suitcase with the loot. 

The police had received complains during the last few weeks of the mysteriously disappeared belongs from inside suitcases during bus journeys from Airport to city stops. Naturally nobody thought to suspect suitcases and the luggage-hold stores only luggage, not manned and nobody could get in during the journey.

It was only by chance that on the 3rd of this month a passenger who travelled on a bus from the airport, noticed a man talking to a suitcase and informed the police. The lawman expected to discover a child but found a full grown man of near 1,8 metre inside the suitcase of 90 x 50 centimetres, like a contortionist of a circus. His excuse at first had been that he had no money for the bus fare, but in his hand was a mobile, and he was equipped with a shoulder bag, a head-lantern, a sharp object to open zips or locks. He and his partner were arrested.

There had been several more such denounce in recent months. They take mainly portable PC's, GPS, cameras, and any smallish but valuable objects, and operated in several different buses, but never more than only once in a couple of weeks in the same bus route, to eliminate the chance of being discovered. 

One of them could eventually go back to the circus, or become a lock-smith; the other would have to learn a trade first, possibly in prison.

 

 

Tags: contortionist, bustheft

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8th June 2011 ' I, Dari '

It just had to come. An opera premiered tonight in the Theatre of Zarzuela of Madrid called 'Yo, Dali' (I, Dali), coming to the Liceu Opera House of Barcelona later in October. It was based on the book written by Xavier Benguerel, now 80 years old, but he finished the work in 2004, for the centenary of the famous painter, about his life and the complex relationship the artist had with his last love, Gala.

 

It was a commissioned project by the Ministry of Culture to which Xavier Benguerel had dedicated 2 years to accomplish. It should have been premiered in the Zazuela when the theatre was then directed by Xavier Casal but, after his demission, Jose Antonio Campos, his substitute, changed his idea, believing that The Real and The Liceu should take on the project. It wasn't until the arrival of Luis Olmos who unblocked it, having thus delayed 7 years!

 

Tow hours, 4 acts and 60 years' of Dali's life, from his arrival at Paris till his death, mixing real elements with fiction, and how his first love degenerates to become hatred. I remember another writer, Javier Salom, had already dedicated a book to Gala called 'Casi una Diosa' (Almost a Goddess) in 1993, presenting Dali as a genius turned crazy because of his talent, and his lady love Gala just as talented but perverse.  

 

Despite all, it's premiered tonight, with the huge production cost in the middle of general crisis. Even Dali is universal, being native of Catalunya and loved by all, my guess is' however the critics or the public think of the opera in Madrid, the show would be a great success later in Barcelona in Oct.

 

My big question is, if the opera is supposed to be a biography, what is fiction doing there? What do they want people to believe of Dali, the real part or the fictional?

Tags: dali, opera, gala

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