"But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues, you can tell by the way she smiles".
–Bob Dylan, "Visions of Johanna".

No podré dormir hoy: como el niño que verá un partido de futbol en el estadio por primera vez, o el viejo que se mojará los pies en el mar antes de morir, o el borracho que, cuando piensa que la noche fue asesinada prematuramente, se topa con un chorrito de whisky y un amigo.

Mañana veo a Dylan. No es la primera vez. Pero Dylan jamás es el mismo.

..:: dylan en México ::..

Convive Bob Dylan con boxeadores y público en Centro Histórico

Notimex El Universal Ciudad de México Lunes 25 de febrero de 2008

Visitó el gimnasio Nuevo Jordán, ubicado en la calle Buen Tono, donde observó a algunos jóvenes entrenar

El músico estadunidense Bob Dylan, quien llegó la víspera a la Ciudad de México, se dio tiempo hoy para convivir con algunos boxeadores en un gimnasio en el centro de la capital. Alrededor de las 14:00 horas Dylan llegó de manera inesperada al gimnasio Nuevo Jordán, un lugar de renombre dentro del boxeo mexicano, ubicado en la calle Buen Tono número 36 en pleno Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México. Para sorpresa de la gente que se encontraba en el inmueble entrenando, el músico se acercó con algunos muchachos, los cuales no lo reconocieron desde el principio, para poner en marcha sus conocimientos sobre el pugilismo. Tras intentar boxear con algunos de los presentes, prefirió observar a los jóvenes practicar y comparó sus técnicas. Antes de marcharse algunos curiosos aprovecharon para tomar fotos con sus celulares y pedirle autógrafos. El artista se presentará este martes y miércoles en el Auditorio Nacional, así como el 29 en Monterrey y el 2 de marzo en Guadalajara como parte de la promoción de su disco "Modern times". cvtp

People here
have become
the people
they are pretending to be

–Sam Shepard, Motel Chronicles.

..:: zzz? ::..

Del nytimes

February 17, 2008

Career Couch

That Boring Job Should Sound an Alarm

By PHYLLIS KORKKI

Q. When you get up in the morning, you never want to go to work. Your job is repetitive, uninteresting and offers no challenges. When you are there, the clock barely moves, and you can’t wait to leave.

In short, you are bored. What is to be done?

A. People who are bored need to create more challenges and find more meaning in their work lives. They need to find a way out of the feeling that “there’s nothing to do, they’re forced to do things they don’t want to do, or they don’t know what they want to do,” said John D. Eastwood, an associate psychology professor at York University in Toronto who has studied boredom.

Over all, boredom is a state of “being disengaged from one’s environment,” he said, and it reflects a passive relationship to one’s work.

Q. What are common symptoms of boredom?

A. A telltale sign is that time seems to pass very slowly, Professor Eastwood said. This can be accompanied by difficulty concentrating and feelings of depletion and lethargy. Low-energy states may alternate with feelings of agitation and irritability as the sufferer struggles to find some kind of engagement, he said.

Q. Are some people more prone to boredom than others?

A. Boredom tends to afflict people who have a high need for stimulation, Professor Eastwood said. People who have a hard time understanding or labeling their emotions are also vulnerable, because emotions give us the “compass points” that can lead us toward meaningful activities, he said.

Boredom may also be a mask for anger, he said, citing a quotation sometimes attributed to Paul Tillich that boredom is “rage spread thin.”

If someone has sacrificed an important life goal, boredom may be an outward sign of “anger toward the self and the world” for not having been able to pursue it, he said.

Q. Is there a difference between feeling burned out and feeling bored?

A. Yes. Burnout is characterized by fear, stress and exhaustion, said Marcia L. Worthing, co-author of “Escape the Mid-Career Doldrums”(Wiley). Bored people might actually be able to use a little more stress in their lives, she said.

Q. Is your job making you bored, or are you at the root of the problem?

A. It could be either or a combination of both, and determining the answer is crucial. Nina Ham, a psychotherapist and a career coach in Berkeley, Calif., says it is important to see boredom as a “call to action.”

If you are reacting to the rest of your life the way you react to your job, it might be time to see a therapist and treat an underlying problem like depression, she said.

But if the rest of your life is going well, you may be a poor match for your job or your industry. Or you may have outgrown your job, which is why boredom often hits people in mid-career, Ms. Ham said.

“If you’re changing,” she said, “why not expect that what you want from a job is going to change?”

Q. Can you be bored and still be competent in your work?

A. “Sometimes your very success can lead to boredom,” said Rachelle J. Canter, a career coach based in San Francisco and author of “Make the Right Career Move” (Wiley).

“If you continue to do the same thing again and again, and you’re good at it, people are going to keep asking you to do that one thing,” she explained. That may be fine as far as your boss and the company are concerned, but it means that you may be unfulfilled and that “your professional skills are declining over time,” she said.

It is easy to become stuck in a situation like this and even to blame your boss, she said, but only you are in charge of your career growth and career happiness. Your boss’s job is to get the job done.

Q. What can you do to cure boredom at work?

A. Recognize that you need to feel challenged as an employee and that you may need to take the initiative to create challenges for yourself.

First, see if there are ways to make changes in your current job. Go to your boss, Ms. Canter said, and volunteer to take on a project. “Everyone loves a volunteer,” she said. Identify gaps in your experience and skills, and work with your boss to find projects where you can use those skills to help the company.

Try taking more interest in what your colleagues are doing, Ms. Ham said. These interactions may lead to new opportunities within the company.

Some people have a knack for finding challenges in the most tedious of tasks — for example, by setting some kind of difficult quota.

But for others, a job is just irremediably boring. If that’s the case, at the very least “figure out how you can make your life outside the job more interesting — don’t be bored in both places,” Ms. Worthing said.

If, after three months to a year of serious effort to make changes in your current job, you find that you are still bored, it may be time to look for a new job, Ms. Ham said.

Sending out résumés and networking can be invigorating, Ms. Canter said.“Even if you don’t have your next job in your sights,” she said, “the very fact that you’re in motion, working on your future, instead of complaining about your present, you’re energized, and you stop feeling so bored.”

mapplethorpe

..:: benassini sobre la piratería ::..

Plática sobre Eastern Promises de David Cronenberg...


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..:: albarrantorres.blogspot.com ::.. says:
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..:: albarrantorres.blogspot.com ::.. says:
eso... un establecimiento de mecenas del arte

Oscarusho. says:
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Oscarusho. says:
conservación y preservación artística.

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..:: albarrantorres.blogspot.com ::.. says:
claro!

Al despertar, a las 5:15 a.m., esta canción en mi cabeza: "Sacaremos a ese buey de la barranca, sacaremos a ese buey de la barranca, sacaremos a ese buey de la barranca, de la barranca sacaremos a ese buey".

What the fuck?!

En Los Ángeles, las freeways se extienden necias como un luto, y las calles desfilan como deudos.

Párpados azules de Ernesto Contreras (2007)

De Cine PREMIERE 161:

***/*****

Tras su paso por festivales, este filme mexicano llega a su corrida comercial con enormes expectativas. En la historia de dos almas laceradas por una soledad de esas que calan, los protagónicos Cecilia Suárez y Enrique Arreola cumplen, transmitiendo a plenitud el aburrimiento e incomodidad que dos extraños sienten en su propia piel y que los lleva a “compartir” una relación que no puede llevarlos sino a un hartazgo multiplicado por dos. Pero el filme crea ambientes cuidados hasta la artificialidad –TODO es azul: tazas, teléfono, cepillo de dientes– y está insuflado por una tristeza tan perenne como poco creíble. Es difícil perderse en la historia de una costurera que gana un viaje a la playa y no tiene con quién compartirlo cuando el preciosismo visual (no siempre precioso) abruma a la trama e incluso es contraria a su sencillez. Contreras es un director de ojo notable, pero aún tiene que destilar tanto sus influencias (se respira a Wong Kar-Wai en cada cuadro) como su ánimo barroco.

–César Albarrán Torres

..:: odio a los pitufos ::..

..:: a lo sumo ::..

..:: freeze!!!! ::..

Jamás he creído en los políticos.

¿Por qué me inspira, hoy, Barack Obama?