30.11.07
..:: cobrador ::..
..:: herida ::..
cada pequeño latido, cada punzada, me ayuda a contar los segundos.
29.11.07
..:: poetry ::..
But its so hard to dance that way
When its cold and theres no music
Well your old hometown is so far away
But, inside your head theres a record
y
I miss your broken-china voice
y
You burn your mansion to the ground
y
Well, he gave her a dimestore watch
And a ring made from a spoon
Everyone is looking for someone to blame
But you share my bed, you share my name
Well, go ahead and call the cops
You dont meet nice girls in coffee shops
She said baby, I still love you
Sometimes theres nothin left to do
27.11.07
..:: jerry leonard seinfeld cohen ::..
"we'll come from the shadows"... y de pronto Iván para la oreja y dice, despreocupado:
"No manches, suena a Seinfeld"
Escuchamos con atención. Sí: el mismo tonito.
Not that there's anything wrong with it...
..:: the good ol' days ::..
"Dempsey versus Firpo took place on September 14, 1923, at the Polo Grounds in New York city. Dempsey had been champion since 1919, and Firpo was one of the top heavyweights of the world, nicknamed "El Toro de las Pampas" ("The Wild Bull of the Pampas"). 80,000 fans paid to see the fight live.
Firpo displayed his power immediately, when he dropped Dempsey with a right hand at the start of the first round. Dempsey landed on one knee, then quickly recuperated. Dempsey then rushed onto his rival and proceeded to drop Firpo seven times before the round was over. There was no "three knockdown" rule, and Dempsey was permitted to stand over the fallen fighter and immediately knock him down again, as there was yet no rule about going to a neutral corner.
Towards the end of the first round, Firpo struck again. Trapping Dempsey against the ropes, he struck with another right to Dempsey's chin. Dempsey went out of the ring, and a photographer caught him as his legs pointed upwards. Dempsey was hit by a ringside writing machine during this fall, and he suffered a severe cut to the back of his head. He was helped back into the ring by the writers at ringside just in time; the referee had reached the count of nine when Dempsey was back on his feet. However, the referee had counted the seconds incredibly slow when Dempsey fell. People outside the ring with stop watches had counted fourteen seconds when Dempsey had finally stood up again. This slow count, plus the fact that Dempsey did not return to the ring under his own power, led many to claim that Firpo ought to have won by knockout.
After that scare, Dempsey recuperated, dropping Firpo three times in the second round, before the fight was stopped at the fifty-seven second mark of that round, with Dempsey declared winner by second round knockout". –Wikipedia
..:: bravado ::..
- Main Entry: bra·va·do
- Pronunciation: \brə-ˈvä-(ˌ)dō\
- Middle French bravade & Old Spanish bravata, from Old Italian bravata, from bravare to challenge, show off, from bravo
- Date: circa 1580
2: the quality or state of being foolhardy
26.11.07
..:: ajá: clown :...
Termino de escribir la entrada pasada. Volteo: sobre la puerta, como un ahorcado, un payaso de periódico, engrudo y papel de china mira al infinito, con los ojos secos, la nariz roja, el cuerpo desproporcionado. Un payaso que he visto por días sin darme cuenta que cincelaba, poquito a poquito, la muralla que protege mi tranquilidad nocturna.
..:: los payasos y yo ::..
De chico, le pedía a mis padres que me mostraran "al payaso" en un libro de Picasso. Un arlequín infantil estaba sentado, tristísimo, sobre un sillón individual. Me daba miedo o me conectaba a algún rincón de mi psyche aún no tan profunda. Le tenía miedo, pero disfrutaba ésa exaltación que me causaba verlo. Masoquismo quizás. O la emoción de un sentimiento nuevo, una amenaza, que atravesara la burbuja de mi temprana edad.
Y hoy, casi de 30, me vuelve a cargar el payaso. Les tengo pánico: son todo lo alegre que no quiero ser, todo lo triste, todo lo gordo, lo flaco. Por algo Fellini los retrató: eran el epítome de lo fellinesco.
¿De dónde viene mi sueño?
25.11.07
..:: ice cream ::..
"Es como si el azúcar exfoliara mi lengua"
"Este es un helado bíblico: la leche y miel"
"Oh-oh-oh"
"El sabor que deja al final es el cielo"
Los sabores: frutos rojos al malbec ("fresco, el cielo"), mascarpone con arándanos ("mmm") y yoghurt con miel ("bíblico").
Cabe decir que K no cree en Dios, que eso de un ser supremo le parece...
23.11.07
..:: haunting me ::..
Gimme a winchester rifle and a whole box of shells
Blow the roof off the goat barn
Let it roll down the hill
The piano is firewood
Times square is a dream
I find well lay down together in the cold cold ground
Cold cold ground
Cold cold ground
Call the cops on the breedloves
Bring a Bible and a rope
And a whole box of rebel
And a bar of soap
Make a pile of trunk tires
And burn em all down
Bring a dollar with you baby
In the cold cold ground
Cold cold ground
22.11.07
..:: mais non!...
..:: 1er tren de pensamiento del día ::..
18.11.07
..:: mejores peleas fílmicas según yo ::..
Una historia violenta de David Cronenberg.
Viggo Mortenssen es Mr. Hyde de pronto. Hermosa coreografía, inesperada.
Rocky IV de ¿quién se acuerda del director? Pero todos recordamos esas referencias a la URSS caída, la sangre de Balboa, el público que se volteaba a favor del gringo... Nos emocionó, no lo nieguen.
Fight Club de David Fincher. Nada como ésa frase: "I felt like destroying something beautiful".
Troya de Wolfgang Petersen.
Oldboy de CW Park. Las imágenes hablan por sí solas.
..:: mejores peleas fílmicas según esquire ::..
Car chases get all the glory, those flashy, trailer-ready scenes where expensive hunks of steel are rapidly devalued in the act of flight. Okay, sure. We get it: Lets see whose penis is faster. Whose has better handling. Whose cock can do 90 mph in reverse. Truth is, despite their flash and fuss, chase scenes are the hand jobs of action movies, a fluffer, a quick rub-and-tug that leads up to the real thing: The Big Fight Scene.
Unlike last week's list of the worst fight scenes, this is a list of those moments where men are judged on their natural-born equalities: their fists and their chins. Its a hard list to compile. You have to follow rules. No guns -- its just not gentlemanly. No mob scenes -- real fights are mano-a-mano. Ultimately, this list is limited to those video clips we can find online. (Honestly, I dont know what the Internet was created for if not to share at least one clip of Patrick Swayze ripping out Marshall Teagues Adams apple.) And then there are the intangibles. Everyone needs a defining criteria, and mine is this: I truly believe they're going to die at some point in the fight. (Sorry, Jackie Chan. Youre just too cheerful whilst kicking ass.)
(Agree? Disagree? E-mail at esquirevideos@gmail.com Im always up for a good fight.)
Bourne Ultimatum
There have been plenty of knockdown, drag-out fight scenes in the Bourne trilogy, but this one stands out on sheer intensity alone. All government brainwashing and Black Ops training aside, dismissing the fancy backflips and lightning-quick strikes, this is exactly how a normal person would fight. In close quarters, clutching and grabbing, throwing whatever you get your hands on, and turning every heavy object around you into a weapon. Youd be less creative, of course. Instead of crushing his windpipe with your coffee table book youd probably show it to him in an effort to neutralize him with your pretentious minimalist aesthetic, Mr. Fancypants.
The Matrix
The Matrix was a phenomenon, and this scene singles out all that was right with it. People fight for lots of reasons (honor, revenge, no backsie cuts) but rarely do you find a hero whose motivation is the Earths salvation from the overwhelming Agent Smith, who can still throw one hell of a haymaker while looking dapper in a tie clip. Besides that, this scene single-handedly brought the chest punch back en vogue. For weeks I was itching to get mugged just so I could unleash a straight punch square to someones sternum. Thats when you know a movie has left its mark.
Best of the Best
Granted, you need to experience this movie at a certain time in your life (preferably when you are twelve and want nothing more than to earn James Earl Joness approval by kicking people in the head) but the facts remain: If you saw this movie, you remember this scene. Despite my efforts, I couldnt find a clip of the match preceding this one, the infamous Pop it, Tommy! Pop it! scene, where one of the Korean fighters dislocates an American fighters shoulder, only to have a teammate reset it and him finish the fight using one arm and his feet. (Again, a gross misuse of the Internet that this doesnt exist.) Regardless, this was a fight movie that taught us a lesson: Winning isnt everything. (Right, Chris Penn?)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Women fighting like men. Men fighting their urges to become aroused. Uma Thurman danced her way into your heart in Pulp Fiction, and she stabbed her way into everyone elses with her signature Hattori Hanzo. Kill Bill, and this fight in particular, are a glimpse into all that is great about the human spirit: long legs, swords, and a patient indifference to the gift of sight. Two distinct ingredients (besides the fact that both participants have blond hair and breasts) make this video great: First, the close quarters. Normally a sword fight in a trailer park is something only the extremely less fortunate are privy to. Its different, and it is impressive. Second, and most important, is the revenge theme. Not just Thurmans revenge for her husband and her child, but revenge for her teacher, who Daryl Hannah killed. And if you can think of a better ending to this fight, youre obviously a liar or a better man than I. Ill keep an eye out for you.
Bloodsport
Technically, theres almost no comparison between this and all the other clips. Were talking about a fight where a combatant actually tries to somersault into his opponent as a tactical maneuver. Every kick is telegraphed like were watching the movie version of Karate for Dummies. But this is exactly why it endures -- because despite all this we are enthralled. Frank Dux has honorably fought his way through the deadliest karate tournament in the world, and finally he meets up with a cold-blooded killer in the finale. He carries his oily body through physical and emotional punishment (he was blinded!), yet in the end he still makes the right choices -- to scissor kick, and to show mercy.
Find this article at: http://www.esquire.com/the-side/video/lunchbreak111607
..:: ¿surfear? ::..
¿Por qué no "swim the web" o "dive in the net" o "ski the net" o "play the net" o "cook the net"?
Acciones más descriptivas de lo que uno hace leyendo sobre "El hombre árbol" –un hombre indonesio con una rara enfermedad de la piel conocida como candylomatosis– a las seis de la mañana en un domingo: nadar, bucear, jugar, cocinar.
(El hombre árbol, no sé si me la crea o no. Es como lo de los gatos bonsai o el "Sigue a la morsa" que terminó siendo Goddess Bunny. Pero soy campo fértil para el escándalo.)
(Leo después una nota sobre un hombre con una enfermedad similar en Europa del Este:
A missionary in Eastern Europe recently reported an extremely rare (condylomatosis) skin condition. This disease is called Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia. This missionary wrote:
I found this man, and other than his hands and feet, he looked and seemed in good health. As best as I could gather these growths began when he was 14 years old, and began in the area of his wrists. The skin on his wrists and the back of his hands resembles that of a hedgehog - hundreds of spike like growths. The problem is much more severe on his palms and fingers where the growths resemble very much that of nails infected with a fungus. The growths have that same texture, smell and feel. I cut a number of the largest growths off, most of witch did not bleed. Some of the smaller growths did bleed a small amount and he seemed much more sensitive to the cutting of the smaller growths.
It has grown slowly but steadily but has not spread to other parts of his body, just a bit below his knees on his legs. He has other skin growth (many would be skin tags) on his face, and some moles on his chest. The growths are not as bad on his feet but I was told that more than 10 years ago many we cauterized off his feet, and they did not return. I think with repeated soaking and cutting most could be removed but other parts will I think need to be burned away in some form.”
He has 15 skin tags on his face, and a wart in one ear.
Bizarre pictures:
17.11.07
..:: hoy...
..:: pequeñeces ::..
16.11.07
..:: daniel y el insomnio ::..
el filo me encuentra en plena caída.
estoy vivo.
15.11.07
..:: now that's whay i call a real bath ::..
Japanese Spa Offers Beaujolais Nouveau Swimming
Thursday , November 15, 2007
While the Japanese may be toasting this season's release of the Beaujolais Nouveau wine with the traditional "kanpai!" or "dry glass," keeping their glasses dry would prove to be difficult as they bathed in a sea of the red wine at a new spa, the U.K.'s Telegraph reports.
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Revelers on Thursday donned swimsuits and, wine glasses in hand, descended into the red water of the Beaujolais Nouveau spa, part of the Hakone Yunessun spa, where guests are able to bathe and swim in the wine while drinking it.
Japan is the biggest export market for the Beaujolais Nouveau, consuming about 11.5 million bottles, or nearly a quarter of the entire vintage.
"To us Beaujolais nouveau means France, it allows us to experience a little bit of French culture," Nippon News Network journalist Akiko Yajima said earlier this week.
..:: la cafeína...
14.11.07
..:: el sopor...
13.11.07
12.11.07
..:: onírico 2 ::..
son las 6:07 de la mañana, tomaré un avión en tres horas. se me hizo ya tarde. soñé, hace minutos, o hace horas, que estaba en algún lugar del bible belt gringo y le debía dinero a unos rednecks que eran también mis parientes -un puberto me amenazaba con una escopeta. yo era como ellos: vestía jeans, una playera estampada con los músculos de algún luchador, usaba un bigotito de azotador y una gorra de trailero. el sueño sabía a cerveza, de esa barata con notas de ropa vieja, de costillas de puerco ahumadas. debía dinero y volteaba hamburguesas en la parrilla de un diner cliché -piso de linóleo, mesas de formaica-.
el sueño se diluye, tengo que calentar el agua de la regadera: hay barniz de uña rojo, rizos rubios, cadenas de oro, café, tocino, calor, pick-ups, noticias televisivas sobre una vaca asesinada.
desperté sin saber si saldé mi deuda.
11.11.07
..:: cioran sobre la esperanza ::..
Ce qui irrite dans le désespoir, c'est son bien-fondé, son évidence, sa "documentation" : c'est du reportage. Examinez, au contraire, l'espoir, sa générosité dans le faux, sa manie d'affabuler, son refus de l'événement : une aberration. une fiction. Et c'est dans cette aberration que réside la vie, et de cette fiction qu'elle s'alimente.
..:: los dos rothkos ::..
Uno fue un pintor con poco pelo; el otro, un perro cubierto de mechones grises. Uno destilaba los colores del mundo; el otro es daltónico. Uno vivía en perpetua desgracia; el otro se pone de panza esperando caricias, ésa es su mayor preocupación. Uno nació en Latvia; el otro, en México. Uno dice "It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing" o "The exhilarated tragic experience is for me the only source of art"; el otro simplemente "guau".
Uno murió, con las muñecas rebanadas, a los 66; el otro morirá en los próximos 15 años, a los veintitantos, dormido en su camita.
..:: rip mailer ::..
Norman Mailer, Towering Writer With a Matching Ego, Dies at 84
Norman Mailer, the combative, controversial and often outspoken novelist who loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation, died early yesterday in Manhattan. He was 84.
The cause was acute renal failure, his family said.
Mr. Mailer burst on the scene in 1948 with “The Naked and the Dead,” a partly autobiographical novel about World War II, and for six decades he was rarely far from center stage. He published more than 30 books, including novels, biographies and works of nonfiction, and twice won the Pulitzer Prize: for “The Armies of the Night” (1968), which also won the National Book Award, and “The Executioner’s Song” (1979).
He also wrote, directed and acted in several low-budget movies, helped found The Village Voice and for many years was a regular guest on television talk shows, where he could reliably be counted on to make oracular pronouncements and deliver provocative opinions, sometimes coherently and sometimes not.
Mr. Mailer belonged to the old literary school that regarded novel writing as a heroic enterprise undertaken by heroic characters with egos to match. He was the most transparently ambitious writer of his era, seeing himself in competition not just with his contemporaries but with the likes of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.
Cliquea aquí para el artículo completo.9.11.07
..:: en busca del che ::..
De preparatoriano tenía una camisa militar con un parche del Che en la espalda. Enorme, rojo, hacía que las miradas de mis compañeros en esa institución neoliberal por naturaleza se clavaran, burlonamente quizás, en mi dorso. Después, libros y canciones y artículos de revista después, perdí interés por el Che, o más bien lo cuestioné, lo puse en un paredón injusto. O justo... ¿quién soy yo para poner a la historia en una balanza?
El lunes voy a Campeche en busca de la sombra de Guevara: ahí Steven Soderbergh filma Guerrilla con Benicio Del Toro como protagonista... Algún día imaginé seguir los pasos del Che joven por América, en moto, con mi amigo Chris Chung, para filmar un documental. Hoy, sólo iré al set, y armado con cámara y Moleskine buscaré al polémico revolucionario en los ojos entrecerrados de Benicio, entre las calles calurosas de Campeche.
Campeche: La Habana por unas semanas.
Bah, ya no creo en la revolución. Eso se lo dejo al yo que era.
8.11.07
..:: sing along ::..
WHERE DO YOU GO TO MY LOVELY de Peter Sarstedt
You talk like Marlene Dietrich
And you dance like Zizi Jeanmaire
Your clothes are all made by Balmain
And there's diamonds and pearls in your hair, yes there are
You live in a fancy apartment
Off the Boulevard Saint-Michel
Where you keep your Rolling Stones records
And a friend of Sacha Distel, yes you do
But where do you go to my lovely
When you're alone in your bed
Tell me the thoughts that surround you
I want to look inside your head, yes I do
I've seen all your qualifications
You got from the Sorbonne
And the painting you stole from Picasso
Your loveliness goes on and on, yes it does
When you go on your summer vacation
You go to Juan-les-Pins
With your carefully designed topless swimsuit
You get an even suntan on your back and on your legs
And when the snow falls you're found in Saint Moritz
With the others of the jet-set
And you sip your Napoleon brandy
But you never get your lips wet, no you don't
But where do you go to my lovely
When you're alone in your bed
Won't you tell me the thoughts that surround you
I want to look inside your head, yes I do
Your name, it is heard in high places
You know the Aga Khan
He sent you a racehorse for Christmas
And you keep it just for fun, for a laugh, a-ha-ha-ha
They say that when you get married
It'll be to a millionaire
But they don't realize where you came from
And I wonder if they really care, or give a damn
Where do you go to my lovely
When you're alone in your bed
Tell me the thoughts that surround you
I want to look inside your head, yes I do
I remember the back streets of Naples
Two children begging in rags
Both touched with a burning ambition
To shake off their lowly-born tags, so they try
So look into my face Marie-Claire
And remember just who you are
Then go and forget me forever
But I know you still bear the scar, deep inside, yes you do
I know where you go to my lovely
When you're alone in your bed
I know the thoughts that surround you
'Cause I can look inside your head
(na na-na-na na na-na-na na-na na na na na)
(na na-na-na na na-na-na na-na na na na na)
7.11.07
..:: guau ::..
World's tallest dog meets world's smallest dog
Wednesday, November 7, 2007Boo Boo, a long haired Chihuahua - who stands just 10.16 cm (4 in) hight - was presented with his Guinness World Records title for the world's smallest dog, by Guinness World Record veteran Gibson.
Gibson is a harlequin Great Dane who is the world's tallest dog, measuring 107 cm (42.2 inches).