Cuchita Center
Life • May 10th, 2006My mom told me this as a big secret, so shhhhh.. Don’t tell anyone…
She recently discovered that her cable T.V. account had accrued 3000 “stars”, a fortune she could use to get any pay-per-view movies. She checked the movie listings and found this cool and intriguing movie called “Los Cinco Sentidos” (The Five Senses). The summary read very interesting: Five short stories about (I don’t know what), each one focusing on a different sense: sight, smell, etc. She thought it was probably one of those movies similar to the thousand French movies we’ve seen that always have funny names, but are all about profound statements on human nature.
Anyway, she got on the phone with the cable company (Guess she couldn’t order the movie with her remote). She was told that The Five Senses would cost her 900 stars. She’s like: “Wow! Why so much?”. Answer was: “Any movie from the Venus channel costs twice as much as movies from other channels”. Mom was also interested on another deep, beautiful, movie she had heard great things about, also apparently showing on the same channel. The cable operator suggested that it probably would be best for her to subscribe to the channel for a month. Somehow, my “Cuchita Center” ended up with the subscription.
Personally, I had never heard of this channel, but the story was starting to sound suspiciously funny. As we were talking on the phone, mom and I couldn’t control our hysterical laughter. I had a hard time breathing imagining what the conclusion of this was. Guys may know about the channel (Joey knew immediately). If you don’t know, look it up in Google. Hint: It’s not about astronomy, and when you click on the right link, a black popup warns you about what you’re about to find and it requires you to accept their legal disclaimer… I don’t need to go any further than that.
I’m not sure of how much time mom gave the movie before quitting disappointed of not finding the sight/hearing/touch/smell/taste story she was promised. After wiping the laughter tears from my eyes, I asked mom if at least the nature of the movies was “soft”. She reports that every time she’s checked to see if anything on the screen has changed… maybe a commercial break or something, she continues to find the same exact hardcore scene all zoomed in on you know what. . Guess at that level of zoom, it all looks the same.
