The Window.

You were so broken up. I could see the tears coming down your cheeks, even with a window in between blurring my view.
I was sitting in the back of one car, you were sitting in the back of another. In fact, I'm not sure you were sitting. You were more like lying down facing me, your back against the door, legs completely straight, left one on top of the right one.
Both cars raced, left lane, right lane, and I got to see your sad face and your sad body. I put my hand on the window just like in the movies, when a visitor in a prison puts the hand on the glass window to try to feel the convict's hand. So close and yet so far away.
I was trying to touch your face so that I could clean up your tears, but I couldn't. It hurt that you hurt so much. I knew what you were going through because you told me about it, remember?
We were chatting online and you told me how sad you were, how you wished and hoped it would have worked out but it didn't. The helplessness I felt then, that's how I felt in that car.

I'm glad it was just a dream.
I really am here to help.

p.s. Things will get better.

xoxo
Cuca

Alanis, the Queen.

Yesterday I went to a Alanis Morissette show in Mexico City at the Auditorio Nacional (National Auditorium) and I can't even put into words how amazing the show was.
It's my first time seeing Alanis live and now it's for sure that I'll be seeing her again whenever I get the chance to do so. Her voice is just... unbelievable. Better live than on her records. She reaches tones that I ddidn't even think were possible to reach, and every single time she opened her mouth I felt goosebumps all over my body. The five musicians she brought with her are also amazingly talented and their energy brought a lot to the show. I'm sure it wouldn't have been the same vibe without them.

The setlist was:

Intro (The Couch)
Uninvited
All I Really Want
Versions Of Violence
Not The Doctor
Not As We
You Learn
Hand In My Pocket
You Oughta Know
Everything
Sympathetic Character
Perfect
Moratorium
Tapes
So Unsexy
Ironic
Thank U

Two hours of pure geniusness, ha. I was ecstatic.
The Auditorium is a very well organized place and even if they let you stand up, it's really made to remain seated. Everyone stood up except for the area where my friend Fabiana and I were, so we thought it would be a little rude to stand up and (maybe) block someone's view.
By the time the song "All I Really Want" started we stood up (we were too excited) and this asshole behind us yells–with a very rude tone, by the way: "Sit down!!" but every person sitting in the other areas was standing up and it was a concert so there was no fucking way we'd sit down. So I turn around and I yell back: "sit down in your house!!" (it sounds better in Spanish, haha). He didn't say anything else during the show and as a matter of fact, we kind of encouraged everyone else to stand up. Even the asshole.

Alanis is incredible and if you get the chance you should go to one of her shows. Even if you only know the song "Ironic", it's the kind of show anyone can appreciate and make you jump like crazy.

xoxo
Cuca