I’ve seen Avatar yesterday. In English & 3D. Again at the Yelmo Cineplex, a very popular cinema around foreigners here, because they play not-dubbed movies. Avatar is a really cool movie and I think we have a lot to learn from it. Especially the fact that everything should be plug-n-play and that there shouldn’t be any compatibility issues. Just like things worked on Pandora. Heard that, Microsoft? Compatibility is good!

Come on, wouldn’t be cool if you can plug your arm embedded computer into your dog’s head and program it to go outside and walk itself? Just use your hand as a more high-tech Na’vi braid to connect with your dog. Your pokemon-dog at least. Although I think that the Japanese are getting there really fast.

I recommend Avatar as a “must see” movie to everybody. But especially for the Spaniards, they will love it: the capitalistic money obsessed polluters get their asses kicked by the socialist environmentalist blue aliens.

I also went to eat at a Syrian restaurant called Ugarit. The food is basically the same as you find in Lebanese restaurants, decent but kind of expensive. Especially the baklava style deserts that are really small – one bite each – and cost 1.5 euros. For some shawarma, desert and a beer I had to pay around 20 euros.

And, of course, yersterday I’ve took the time and admired one of Barcelona’s least known touristic attractions: hot German chicks in thongs playing volleyball on the beach. In February.

Today I went for the first time to see a movie in Barcelona – Sherlock Holmes. Which sucks, by the way. It’s a really boring mixture of Murder, She wrote, old Chinese kung-fu movies and lame “2 police officers save the world” movies.

We went to Yelmo Cines cinema, where I paid 6 euros for the ticket and another 7 something for a medium sized bag of popcorn, a Coke and a hot dog. Basically sitting for two hours in a room and get bored by caucasian kung-fu fighters faking British accents yielded a final toll of around 14 euros. Great!

Of course, that wasn’t money totally wasted. I mean, the food was decent . And I’ve learned something new about the city I’m living in. In Spain, most movies are dubbed in Spanish, so if you don’t speak Spanish, is generally a bad idea to go to see a movie at random, without some prior research. Pictures marked as VOS or VOSI are the ones non-Spanish speakers should look for. These acronyms mark pictures that haven’t been dubbed and have Spanish / Catalan captions. Of course, it’s a little confusing in the begining, since one might try to read the subtitles – it’s a habit I guess – and not understand what’s written there. But it’s easy to get over it and look “at the movie” rather than “read the subtitles”.