Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Tira los dados



Les comparto uno de mis poemas preferidos. Escrito por Charles Bukowsky (1920-1994): "Tira los dados". Si alguien me puede compartir la fecha de publicación sería de gran ayuda.

Espero lo disfruten tanto como yo.

A.


"Tira los Dados"

Si vas a intentarlo, ve hasta el final.
De otro modo, no empieces siquiera.

Si vas a intentarlo, ve hasta el final.
Tal vez suponga perder novias, esposas,
parientes, empleos y quizá la cabeza.

Ve hasta el final.
Tal vez suponga no comer durante 3 o 4 días.
Tal vez suponga helarte en el banco de un parque.
Tal vez suponga la cárcel,
tal vez suponga mofas, desdén, aislamiento.


El aislamiento es la ventaja,
todo lo demás es un modo de poner a prueba
tu resistencia, tus auténticas ganas de hacerlo.

Y lo harás a pesar del rechazo y las
ínfimas probabilidades
y será mejor que cualquier otra cosa
que puedas imaginar.

Si vas a intentarlo ve hasta el final.
No hay sensación parecida.

Estarás a solas con los dioses
y las noches arderán en llamas.

Hazlo, hazlo, hazlo.

Hazlo.

Hasta el final.
Hasta el final.

Llevarás las riendas de la vida hasta
la risa perfecta, es la única lucha digna
que hay.

Friday, April 26, 2013

Romanticismo?




Muchos de los que me conocen saben que soy una persona poco romántica. Mi romanticismo tiene como base ser “práctica”.  Quizá no lo demuestre dando cartas, peluches y demás. Mi demostración  en cuanto a lo romántico tiene como fin adecuarse a la persona, cuando es de detalles dar algo que necesite y que se que va a usar.
En mi pasado, muchas veces ha sido causante de problemas, expresar que “soy fría” y “sin sentimientos” solo por no ser cursi. . He tratado de mejorar. Aún así, espero que me acepten como soy. Parece que en general he escogido personas que esperan más de mí en ese aspecto.

En un contraste de personalidades, me gusta que la persona con la que estoy, sea contraria. Sin rayar en la cursilería y la “melosería”.  Pero definitivamente SUPER detallista.

Al momento no encuentro el sentido por el cual empecé con este post. Yo? Hablando de ser romantico?. No se burlen. Solo traten de conocerme más. Creo que las personas con las que he estado en cierta forma, no han podido ver mi forma de romanticismo. Diferente quizá.

En todo caso, para los que me conocen un poco saben que soy fanática A MORIR de Jamiroquai. A continuación detallo las canciones que a mi percepción son las más románticas de esta banda inglesa. Porque claro.. Si yo dedicara una canción no sería esas porquerías de Arjona, Sanz y demás. Cuáles opinan Uds que es la más romántica?.

A.



Jamiroquai- Spend a Lifetime

Touch me in the night time
All I want from you is love
And I know you can give such sweet moments
To last me so long
Cos, you make me feel so strong
All I want to do is spend a lifetime with you, Baby
Make it happen
All I want to do is spend a lifetime with you, Baby
Oh girl
All I want to do is spend a lifetime with you, Baby
Cos you make me that good
And nothing else matters
Until you're in my arms, girl
And all those broken promises we made to each other
We have so much more to give
I know that we can do this
That's how I want to live
Eternally, together
All I want to do is spend a lifetime with you, Baby
All I want to do is spend a lifetime with you, Baby
Will you make it happen for us now
Please this time
You know I need your touch honey
I want your touch honey
Like the morning sun has just begun
Girl, like the rain on my window pane
Girl, if I could make you stay
More than one day
Eternally together
Oh girl I need your touch
Oh girl I want your loving
Sweet, you know that we can make it happen
For you and for me to be
And eternally together we will be

Jamiroquai- You Give Me Something

When I met you, you were so unique
You had a little thing I'd love to keep
Every movement carried much mystique
I knew right then I'd carry on, to you I knew my heart belonged
You, you give me something
Something that nobody else can give
And my heart, started thumpin'
You know now, you're the one I truly know I dig

Like the sunbeams from a perfect summer day
Heaven only seems a step away
When I'm with you, I just celebrate
I'm hoping my message gets through
There's never been someone like you

I had nobody, but on you I lean
'Cos you got these little things that I
I know I've never seen

You know now, you give me something
Something that nobody else has got
And this love, that I've been wanting
Oh baby's turning out to be too fast to stop

You know now, you give me something
Something that nobody else can give
See my heart has started thumpin'
You know babe, you're the one I truly know I dig

Uhhh... Will you give me something
Uhhh... Will you give me something

Jamiroquai- Everyday

Yes I do
Baby, maybe, we can spend a little time
Together now that we're alone
So long I have been waiting
Now can't you let me take you home

All these things we do
Will make our dreams come true
You want me, and
I surely want you
Tell me where to go
Tell me what I need to know
To take you on a little ride

Hold me, control me
Let me circumnavigate your body mind & soul
Like a, seed from a flower
I can grow and you must know
Sadness, don't mean a thing
Cos, you and me girl, you know we're in the swing
All the things that I want to get with
You on a midsummer night
In the evening light
(The) sweet evening light

All, all I want from you baby, is sweet loving you
No, I know, yes, I know
I know what I want from you girl, we can make it right
We can hold onto each other tight,
Lose our inhibitions
Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh

Every little thing we do is good
Every little thing you see is sweet
Every little part of you I'd like to meet
I want you girl, you know I want you
I want you in the evening light


Jamiroquai- Falling


Sometimes in the morning
When I wake up
I shed a tear
I'm hoping
Come the night time
You open the door and reappear

I can promise to share
All my dreams I will dare
You set my heart racing when you get next to me
Still I dont think you care
Should I wait for your love
Or I'm waiting in vain
Somebody help me cause I'm falling
Head over heels in love again

You..you...
Your the one for your love I think that I would do anything
You
Your the one for your love I think that I would do anything

I miss you
I wanna kiss you
The sweet scent of roses is in your hair
See sometimes
When I get lonely
I still feel you beside me
When your not there

I can promise to share
All my dreams i will dare
You set my heart racing when you get next to me
Still i dont think you care
Should i wait for your love
Or i'm waiting in vain
Somebody help me cause i'm falling
Head over heels in love again

You..youuu...
Your the one for your love i think that i would do anything
Hay you you you you you
Your the one for your love i think that i would do anything

Your the one
Your the one for your love i think that would anything
You know yeah you.. you ..your the one for your love
Ii think that i...i think that i would anything

I can promise to share
All my dreams i will dare
You set my heart racing when you get next to me
Still i dont think you care
Should i wait for your love
Or i'm waiting in vain
Somebody help me cause i'm falling
Head over heels in love again

Help me.. ohh can't you help me
I think i'm falling in love
I think i'm falling....



Jamiroquai- Half the Man


Every bird will sing, the melody of our love tune...
Ooh, Yesterday I was
Half the man I used to be
Maybe that's because
You're the other half of me
Like the spring in bloom
The summer of our love is soon
Every bird will sing
The melody of our love tune
Send down from above
Unconditionally love
Likened to a flower
Stronger love grows by the hour
Stormy weather days
Make us go our separate ways
Where our love was so at ease
Now you got me down on my knees
Hey, yesterday I was
Brighter than the morning sun
Now my love is lost
And lonely days have just begun
A solitary chair
For a silent love affair
A king has lost his throne
And now he sits alone, yeah yeah
Every bird will sing
Hey, oh now every bird will sing
Every bird will sing the
Sing the melody of our love tune
Oh every bird
Every bird
Every bird
Will sing the melody of our love tune
Hey, I wanna tell you
Oh, now yesterday I was
Half the man I used to be
Oh, maybe that's because
You're the other half of me
Like the spring in bloom
The summer of our love is soon
Now every bird will sing
The melody of our love tune.
Oh yeah...
Ooh, every bird will sing the melody
The melody did I tell you darling?
Yesterday I was
Half the man I used to be
Oh, maybe that's because
You're the other half of me
Like the spring in bloom
The summer of our love is soon
Now every bird will sing
The melody of our love tune
Every bird
Ahh now every bird will sing the melody of our love tune
Every bird x3
Will sing the melody of our love tune
Every bird
Will sing the melody of our love
Tune...

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

100 cosas que no me gustan (por no decir que odio).

1. La Impuntualidad.
2. Que la gente bote basura a la calle. Que vivas en un basurero, no significa que todos queremos vivir en tu porqueria.
3. Los hombres que NO son detallistas.
4. Que la gente hable en el cine.
5. Que la gente mastique con la boca abierta la comida del cine.
6. Que tosan o estornuden y no se tapen la boca/nariz.
7. La farandula ecuatoriana.
8. Que me hagan perder el tiempo.
9. La conchudez entre hombres y mujeres.
10. Que la gente trate de convencerte con una religion.
11. Intolerantes.
12. Que me pregunten estupidez y media cuando se enteran que ingrese al BCBG.
13. La gente muy predecible.
14. Justin Bieber.
15. Shakira.
16. Las patandas.
17. La saga de peliculas de American Pie.
18. Gente estupida que va a ver cine independiente (sabiendo a lo que van) y que salgan diciendo “pero que sin sentido esa pelicula!”.
19. Los codos y rodillas negras. Lo siento, ponerse una crema NO es lujo ni ser homosexual. Se trata de ser cuidadoso/a.
20. El facebook, el cual lo tengo por equis motivos.
21. Gente poco profesional.
22. Gente vaga.
23. Gente conformista.
24. Gente oportunista.
25. Gente interesada.
26. Uñas de manos y pies sucias.
27. Pelo sucio, especialmente de una mujer xq se nota a kilometros.
28. Que te digan aburrida porque te da la gana de quedarte un fin de semana en casa.
29. La falta de cultura del comun denominador.
30. El comun denominador.
31. Que cuando escuchan un tipo de musica un poco fuerte, se tapen los oidos o emitan un comentarios despectivo.
32. Cursileria extrema.
33. Los peluches, especialmente esos que no tienen sentido ni un xq de regalartelo.
34. La playa replete de gente.
35. Las personas que se creen “vivas” y se tratan de pasar las filas.
36. Que no me den el vuelto completo cuando voy a comprar algo.
37. La comida extremadamente caliente.
38. Aunque soy spoiler, no me gusta que me cuenten una pelicula, peor un libro.
39. Hombres labiosos.
40. Hombres que esperan que la mujer tenga el control en una relacion.
41. Hombres quemimportistas.
42. Personas muy descuidadas con su ”aseo” y cuidado fisico en general.
43. Las canciones de mujeres despechadas.
44. Que aumenten “eses” innecesarias. Ej: HicisteS, tuvisteS, comisteS, etc etc.. es sin la S al final.
45. Gente que cree que el mandarin es un idioma mas importante que el ingles.
46. Gente que dice que siendo gordo/a es feliz. That’s bullshit.
47. Mujeres que no se desmaquillan o lavan la cara antes de dormir. Wacala.
48. Gente que se las tira a “profundas” y lo mas “hondo” que pueden llegar es escucharte porque no saben que decir.
49. Gente que solo se fija en alguien por el fisico.
50. Gente que interrumpe.
51. Gente que no te para bola cuando hablas.
52. Las drogas.
53. Gente que molesta mucho.
54. La comida muy condimentanda.
55. La comida muy salada.
56. Gente figuretti.
57. Las mujeres que tratan de llamar la atencion hablando demasiado de sexo.
58. Las malas actitudes de un hombre despechado.
59. Gente negativa.
60. Los carros sucios tanto por dentro como por fuera.
61. Los peluches decorativos en la parte de atras de un carro.
62. El exceso de stickers en un carro.
63. Las casas sucias/desordenadas.
64. Las casas despintadas (no hay excusa, un taro de pintura no es tan caro y puedes pintarlo tu mismo).
65. Gente que responde monosilabos.
66. Gente que no puede seguir con una conversacion.
67. Gente que te dice para hacer algo y despues “se olvida”.
68. Gente que se queda con la duda de cosas que no sabe. No me rfiero a chismes sino en “culturizarse”.
69. Mujeres que se maquillan demasiado.
70. Mujeres que se llenan de accesorios. Nota: Menos siempre es mas.
71. Que me digan que baje el volumen de mi radio.
72. Los niños que piden dinero en las calles.
73. Mujeres que tienen el pelo negro y se lo pintan de rubio platinado y se nota a kilometros.
74. Personas que se rien cuando alguien se tropieza o se cae.
75. Mujeres que se maquillan par air al gym.
76. Personas que van al gym exclusivamente para hacer vida social.
77. Personas que creen que se las saben todas.
78. Cuando mastican chicle con la boca abierta.
79. El relleno.
80. Los helados frutales.
81. Gente que a penas le duele la uña se medica.
82. Cuando responden monosilabos.
83. Los tarados que venden perritos en las calles.
84. Las malas traducciones en los subtitulos.
85. Las peliculas dobladas al español.
86. Que no me dejen dormir.
87. Que me mientan.
88. La hipocresia del espiritu navideño.
89. El consumismo en Navidad.
90. La lucecita roja del bb cuando tengo un msj no leido.
91. Hacer dieta (aunque siempre hago).
92. Gente con tonos de cel con canciones de reggaeton.
93. La cancion de Pa-panamericano.
94. Que no me dejen embarcar mi equipo de bomberos en el carro.
95. Ir a un almuerzo y que sirvan demasiado tarde.
96. Quedar demasiado llena.
97. Los sabelotodo.
98. El chisme y los chismosos.
99. La espera en migracion.
100. Gente que aplasta muy fuerte las teclas de un teclado (valga la redundancia).


A.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Mantra of a Self Made Man

Aqui les comparto un piece of poetry de un gran amigo, escritor y erudito musical.

100% identificada.

Espero que les guste tanto como a mi.

A.


Mantra of a Self Made Man
Por: Carlos Murgueitio

From zero to one... from river, to ocean... I realised I'm like nature.
Violent, but Calm. Silent, but Noisy at the same time
Love and hate living inside ... I am the beginning, and I am the end.
I am the sinner and I am the saint
The saint wishes to be loved like a sinner.
I hate and I understand myself
It's human to hate yourself... as it is human to make mistakes.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Iron Maiden-The Man Who Would Be King.

Aqui les comparto la letra de esta canción que me gusto mucho. Es del nuevo CD de Iron Maiden.

Espero que les guste,

A.




Iron Maiden-The Man Who Would Be King


As he travels on the beast of burden
Moving up along the mountain's side
As he gazes looking down the valley
No regrets but his pride

As he journeys across mountain passes
its significance leaps over him
his reflection of the beauty around him
feeling empty inside

He is running from his wildest thoughts
He is running from his everything
He is looking down to find something
Hoping he can be saved

He's searching for the answer now
It's something that he's managed to avoid up 'til now
The conviction that he claims
He needs to find the answer sooner then later

Pushed himself to the limits
He had to strive for all the harder things in life
But what's the cost of getting now
His life and time is the only thing that he has

Life is on the rehearsal
All he has is the one chance to get it right
Living really is the only way to know
Maybe one day they'll forgive him what he's done
But now the pain of lying too early in the grave

Destiny
No good to hide away
Endless now will be his only way
Understand, no good to run away
Penance now will be his saving grace

He has to make his peace with God
All is forgivable but it's left a little late
Trying something that he's not
Is it possible to change such a lot

He's taking someone's life away
There's not a day goes by he regrets what he's done
He should've found another way
For the good book says: "An eye for an eye"

He's inflecting on decisions that were made
And the judgements that will haunt him to the grave
No one has the right to take another life
But in his mind he had no choice so be it

Destiny
No good to hide away
Endless now will be his only way
Understand, no good to run away
Penance now will be his saving grace

Far far away
The Man Who Would Be King

Monday, August 2, 2010

Exhaustion Blues by Henry Rollins.

Les comparto una obra sublime.
Explica mucho como soy y como me siento.
Ojala algun dia pudiera expresarme asi.

Gracias a Carlos Murgueitio por la transcripcion.

A.




Exhaustion Blues



Exhaustion, I thought I'll check in with you.
Right now is autumn, I'm in Germany...
Spring and summer make me think of the present
Autumn and winter paralyze me
Autumn makes me remember, forces me into mental rewind

Today we're in the van driving through a small village, and I caught the smell of a wood-burning fire, it scented me, I inhaled it again but it was gone.
Made me think when I was in the 4th grade, I delivered papers for the Washington Star. In the autumn the sun would set earlier and it would be dark by the time I finished the route. I could smell the wood-burning fires all over, every block
- Another thought comes to interrupt
A few months ago I was at the "New Music Seminar" in New York, that bullshit that runs every year so labels can tell each other how great they are. This time around we played the seminar. It was good as gigs go. It was a drag having to be around with all these people from nowhere peddling their music. I was put in the artist’s panel to answer questions from the audience.

There's some pretty interesting people in the panel. I sat next to Hank Ballard. He was a trip. I talked to Leonard Cohen, he was cool. That little shit from The Police was there. Lemmy was on the panel, drunk.
So anyway, we're all lined up behind this table and the mediator is an idiot, asking the panelists a bunch of stupid questions. He asks Leonard Cohen what was like to fuck Nico at the Chelsea Hotel.
Some brave penny sent a question for me to answer. Something like "Having grown up serving designer ice cream to fellow rich kids in a nice neighborhood, how can you reconcile with what you do now?"
What kind of question is that? It's the kind of thing you ask when you want to get smacked, and that's what should've happened. It would've been great if the guy come up front and ask the question and then I climbed down to the stage, punched him once and walk back to my seat.
That would have been high class entertainment as well as an art statement. Nietzsche called them "The Tiny Masters of Today". The little shit heels who never get what they need so bad.
So Anyway, I would throw papers until past dark and I stayed away as long as i could without freezing my ass off. I did all I could to stay away from my house. I didn't wanted to be there if I can't help it. I knew that my mother would be at home and I wanted to stay away from her as much as possible.
It was all right. I'll hang out and walk the streets passing the time. I liked being out in the streets. It's where I felt best. Home was always painful when she was there. On the streets I could be alone, to be one with my own thoughts.
Looking back, it was good that it went down that way. I learned to be self-reliant at an early age.

The autumn makes me think of women. Something about the cold air brings life to a woman's face. Perhaps it's just that I'm lonely at this point of the year, always rocking out some shit hole. But you know, it's a false loneliness because for the life of me, I can't think of a single woman that I wanted to be with. I like the ones in my imagination the best.
The ones that I think up in the van as the miles fly by. They're the women I tell myself about after shows when I'm feeling empty and alone. The women that fill the lie, the women who fill the void for a while until I can get on another thoughts.
Sometimes it's hard not to get lost on your thoughts in these tours. All these people in your face, nothing like it that they let you know that you're totally alone. The isolation is vivid, and then there's your exhaustion. You always come up in the end of the tour to remind me I'm not 20 anymore.
Sometimes I think I'm from another planet, I bet a lot of people felt like that too, I've known and I've never known and I'll never be able to fit into the screaming horrific bullshit festival. They try to hold on something and somehow all falls out of their grasp, or even worse, it seems out of reach. You can get the feeling of displacement feeling no placed.
I've grown accustomed to feeling alien everywhere I go. It's not big deal. I remember when I used to get of work, I'd go and eat at the same hamburger place every night. People would've always be staring at me, looking at my bald head. At first it used to trip me out and get me mad, but after a while I could be in a room full of people staring and I wouldn't even care.
You get a strange distance from people that you never get back all the way, no matter what happens. When you've been in the outside, a part of you will always be out there. It's a good thing too. If you let them, to waste your time and make you sick until there's nothing left of you...

Every time they push you out, you get more of yourself in return. I figured it's a good deal, seeing how many people have no clues of who they are, waiting all night by the phone hoping that someone would call, going out with people they don't care about or don't even like, because they can't stand the thought of being alone? Because the thought of being alone tells them that they're failures? That people who are alone are always lonely and miserable?
I hear so many stories about people having to lie all night because they are going out with someone they didn't like, and had to keep up some kind of appearance. That's the stuff that gives you nervous breakdowns and cancer.
It all makes me feel the same way every time. People for the most time are a waste of time. The more time you get to yourself, the better.
When I had wheels, I used to spend more time in my car than in my apartment. I had a mono tape deck there and I would drive around just to hear the music. There's this Dunkin Donuts I used to go to and hang out by myself.
Every moment spent away from my boss, from people I knew, every moment I spent making my own world, I felt better about myself. I'd hang out in this place and drink coffee and listen to the locals talk, trying to untangle the last 4 years of my life. I didn't know what to do with all the hatred that I had inside.
I tried to write, but it didn't work. A good healthy level of hate is always good to have on handle all times. Nothing wrong with it. Hate gets you through the times where love just confuses and entraps. Hate is so final and pure, love is many headed and dangerous.
I know hate is good 'cause I see how many people don't know how to deal with it. They don't see it for the energy force it could be. When it rises in them, they run headlong into a stranger who lives inside. They don't know themselves and it tears them up when they need themselves the most.
They don’t have themselves to go to, they're always too busy burning the wax, trying' to look good for someone else, trying' to be someone's something. What a sellout. That's a waste, when you sell yourself out.
There's certain music that only works for me in the autumn. Sitting in this cold club makes me want to hear Lou Reed. When I came through here with Black Flag in 1983 it was February, it was cold as hell. We played this Velvet Underground tape as we limped from show to show. Every since then, it's been Lou, the autumn and winter.
His album "Street Hassle" got me through many cold weather blues, still does.
I can't remember an autumn in the last several years that I wasn't in the van driving down some gray vacant highway. Cold weather makes me think clear and makes me more withdrawn than usual. I'm not close to people, I'm close to myself.

I spend a lot of time inside. Where else you can go when everything pushes you to every edge in the joint? You have to make your head your home. It's the only way I'd stand in places like the one I'm in tonight. If you can't pull into yourself you're finished, the road will crush you.
Nothing like Europe for exercises and isolation, that's why I like it here. Last night was good, after the show was over, I sat behind the PA and listened to the music. No one could see me, so I could hang on without having to talk to anyone. After the shows, people can really bring me down, they ask questions I cannot understand. They want to talk about what they just saw, which is the last thing I want to think about.
Sometimes, when they ask questions I can tell by what they want to know that the distance between them and me is really far. It's depressing. I see that I am really all alone out there. It was good just to be able to listen the music and not have to see or talk to anyone. I don't even want to talk to the guys in the band after playing. I just want to sit and try to pick up the pieces the best I can.
There's a great feeling when you're totally resolved, and you make the jump from being lonely to being only. When you're so totally alone and absolute, when you're the number one.
This is a great moment. Finally you know something, it's all yours. When I put myself through the human test and I come through still being able to say my name and knowing that there's nothing else for me and no one for me, I become stronger. My will power grows. I push my pain threshold up farther, I'm able to take more. I'm able to learn more.
I made myself an enemy of praise and adulation. Let me explain the reason for this.
Praise is dangerous. It can go from a little to too much in a few words. Sure, it's nice to know that someone likes what you do. You can see what it does to the "Rock Star" types that believe the reviews and the things that everyone says.
But to take it all away, you must turn deaf ear to praise, move and keep moving. The last thing I want to hear is that someone likes what I do. When someone starts in with it I try to change the subject. I know that I'm probably more extreme than most on this respect but I found that praise screws me up. I like it best having little or not interaction with people at all. That's not to say that I don't like people that come to the roadhouse to see the show. I feel a great responsibility to the strangers. They take time out of their lives to check out what I'm doing and I'm honored, but I don't wanna hear the rope.

I am systematically destroying myself piece by piece, and I don't want to be complimented on it. You have to be careful, because it can all turn on you.

I found myself in bad situations where I ask myself if I should never talk to anyone again. I just want to get on with the work, the rest doesn't matter.

Seeing someone that you haven't seen for years and they tell you "What your problems are?" , and then "You're nothing but an asshole anyway", "You're in that magazine", "Who you think you are?".

And I think to myself about the long drives and all the bullshit that anyone in the road has to put up with. I pull back from that thought and look at this guy, my age with a beer gut and an attitude giving me grief.

It's sad when someone you know become someone you knew. It makes me very hard and weary around people. If I am not careful, I'll sleep into ugly roots of cynicism and I don't want to be like that.

Exhaustion, you're a disease.

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present pains the past with gold, the past pains the present with led. When I run backwards, I feel the desperation rise. Best for me to hurt and head long into the present, never look back. Maybe catch on fire if I do it right.

That's all there is, the right now. If we don't plant ourselves in the front row of the present, I predict that if anyone of us reaches old age, would be sitting on the front porch thinking "Damn! Should I've burned all the temples, screamed, danced and dragged life through the colds?"

I align myself with life's brutal headlong lunch towards death. I'm in motion at all times, waging war with exhaustion, winning some, and losing some...