Made To Measure Alibis

I didn't know there's more to the alibi providing firms I talked about in one of my recent Blogs. Looking further into that peculiar business market, I discovered that there are other firms that handled a much wider spectrum of business than just supplying alibis for infidelity.

The competition in the digital adultery business, Juan Vázquez, director of Coartada Club (Alibi Club), a multinational concern, representing both sides of the Pyrenees and commercial web, with headquarter in the Panama. This company doesn't limit to providing alibis for wayward husbands or wives, but far more sinister range of lies and deceptions. 

Say if you are a barber in Roses but wants to pass yourself off as a director of a firm in Andorra, they would organize the whole set-up with every detail fabricated and supplied, to back up the charade, for a day or a week, or just the 2 hours you need, to impress somebody or conduct a deal. If you suspect that your phone is being tapped, they can take care of that too, supplying you with one that is not traceable.

Vázquez swore that he respected the law, but 'those little loop-holes are there to be taken advantage of.' he punctuated philosophically. Another firm doing the same business said that only the director knows all details of a client, the team that fabricate his alibis doesn't. It's also the company policy to always destroy everything immediately on completion of each case. Not exactly comforting or reassuring to the clients, knowing full well these are really professional liars, cheaters, falsifiers even though they are acting under your orders.

Twenty full time experts work in his office with hotels in 60 countries, makes them the biggest firm in this dangerous and dubious business. They have handled 2,200 made to measure petitions or commissions and, according to his closing remark: 'Half the country is willing and ready to cheat. And they do.'

Shouldn't they be considered Illegal? If you or I go out to cheat people, we commit a crime. They teach and help you to do it, and they are termed professional businessmen and get paid for it?? I don't get this this at all.

tags:AlibiClub,Loophole,Law

I Tango Alone ...

Even though I have never really at any time wished I were somebody else, not even when I was a child or teenager like many others who often say they do, I did, just for a moment, when I saw this press photo. The way she is almost like being suspended in mid air, but still maintaining her graceful pose. And he, what a gorgeous man, so seemingly effortlessly supporting her, with nothing more than just his hands and shoulder. How I wish at this very moment that I was that lady, without a care in the world dancing the tango with a handsome guy!
 
During the years when I travelled quite a lot on modelling assignments, or for pleasure in between jobs, I had planned to go to Argentina one day, find a well established dancing school and the very best tango maestro, like the Argentinean veteran Carlos Godoy "King of the Tango", or the living legend like Anibal Arias, or Osvaldo Montes, to seriously learn to do the tango as it should be done, not the versions imitated elsewhere, which I do well, "elsewhere" !! That plan, like several others I felt great passion about, likewise didn't materialize.

My Life has taken many very unpredictable twists and turns, but the disappointments were often compensated by other unexpected achievements or emotional rewards. I guess all balances out in one's life time, despite a few surprises, some great, others not so pleasant, but all added to enriching knowledge and experience.

I can't help wondering though, supposing I defy destiny, throw caution to the wind, leave everything behind, just go and make at least one of my dreams come true? Dancing the tango in Argentina can't be all that hard to do, can it?

But that part of the dream forms only the prelude of it leading to materializing and fulfilling of a bigger dream, which remains a huge question mark and a challenge.

Tags:Tango,Dream,Life

Gangster, Psycho, Gigolo & Pie

Have you ever wondered as I did in the past, each time the same epithet was used and repeated over and over, the why and wherefore? I am talking about the film 'American Gangsters' on Spanish TV right this moment. A must-see for me, I love Ridley Scott as director and adore Denzel Washington as actor.

 

It had probably begun with the surprise box office hit the 'American Graffiti'. I had never seen that film or knew what it was about, but those who had thought it great, new wave and most refreshing. Then there were "American Gigolo" which I did see and enjoyed, except the part where the lady used 4 letter words most unnecessarily. I liked also 'American Beauty' which I appreciated the acting more than the story. Outstanding acting can keep me glue to the screen for 3 hours even without a story. Some I only saw the write-up somewhere, or merely heard of, like 'American Splendour'.

 

Two I had seen just a small part of and gave up disgusted, deemed total waste of my time, These were 'American Pie', a nonsense comedy, crude and coarse; and 'American Psycho', a needlessly brutal and bloody film. I am not swearing, or maybe I did softly to myself, not wanting to ruin my hard to keep reputation of being a lady. It's literally bloody; you could almost see the blood dripping down from the screen. Audiences are not idiots, even the purpose was to present the story of a heartless and scrupulous psycho killer true to the novel it based on. They could imagine there would be buckets of blood when a person was chopped up alive, horror enough without having the gore shown.

 

So back to my query; why the epithet 'American' adding to all sorts of things not uniquely American? To define and differentiate from those of other nations? Are these depicted personalities more American than other nationalities? The Italian gangsters? The English psycho ? The Indian beauty? Oh, they are very beautiful the Indian ladies. What about the Spanish gigolo? Rumour has it that they are phenomenal and delicious. Are they the same but different being American ones?

 

I am not criticising, just curious. Hollywood spends millions and millions to employ the best specialists to devise the publicity and advertising with the most drawing power. Do the gurus in charge of that department think the added emphasis 'American' make their gangsters more ruthless but all love their mothers more, the gigolos more desirable and the psychos more round the bent than the rest?

 

Last but not least, have the American pies contain any special secret or ingredients to be worthy of such distinction? Or is it something else all together not meant for the stomach? That got to be it!

Tags: Gangster, Psycho, Gigolo, Pie