HOW MUSIC AND SCIENCE FICTION GRABBED ME
As long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by fantasy stories, everything related to impossible creatures, aliens, time and space travel, threats from the underworld or from the farthest galaxy... I have no brothers or sisters and I grew up in Madrid in the 80s with an innate intolerance for football, so weekend afternoons outdoors with friends became the most absolute boredom or punishment for me, as football was almost the only thing on my friends' minds. All of that, domestic video and the stories I found in books and comics made me progressively less and less interested in being part of the group. Beeeeeeeep! Beeeeep! — Are you coming out to play? — I can't, I have to... — I couldn't care less about the excuse, I was watching a movie about martians or drawing incredible adventures!!! And of course that was more important than another numbing afternoon of football for me. I devoured all the old black and white horror movies on TV, watched fascinated f...