Lulu Dengler

When asked to list my favourite music, I always mention the ‘anything that has an angry white girl as a leading voice’ genre. Well, today I figured out that I’m a fucking white angry girl myself. No, I do not sing, fortunately.

The first time I was packed in, I wanted to kill somebody. I had enough potential energy to rock a hurricane against the whole fucking Japan islands, so I turned it into kinetic energy while I ran across Madrid for hours. Rage was my fuel.

While running, I looked at all the statues along the streets and gardens, and I wanted to be like them: trascendental, gigantic, hard, beautiful, strong, there for everybody to see.

This second time is more or less similar. I can’t keep away from thinking that if I ever win something like a Pulitzer or an Oscar or something, I should write a little list with the names of all the people who hurt (rejected, etcetera) me. Something like “thank you, because you are the indirect responsible subjects for me wanting to be more than I could ever dream of; for making me feel so down that I could only move upright.”

Of course, although I hate to admit it, I currently fantasize about my exes living in their shitty flats and having lousy jobs, with their overweight wives and at least two snotty and very loud children, going on a typical Sunday, watching the tube or reading some magazine. Of course it’s me on the cover or the main feature. “Jesus”, they’d think “I didn’t see her coming. I just let her go.” It has nothing to do with them, actually. They are good guys and deserve much more than the sad scene I just described. Surely they’ll achieve much more. It’s all about me, about my dreadful fear of being forgotten. Of having passed flat over people’s lives. But that’s the way it works, isn’t it?

And then comes the relativism. How much suffering do I need in order to feel that I want to become something big? Why do I feel so fuckin’ little if I’m actually bigger (symbolically speaking, though phisically I’m also bigger than I expected) than the 22-gal I had calculated to become? And, most important of all, why the hell do I need to demonstrate to others how far can I go? Shouldn’t be enough wanting to demonstrate that to myself and no one else? Shouldn’t I definitely change rage for something else as my fuel? That’s some stuff I thought about while listening to angry white girls rock my iTunes.