jueves, 10 de mayo de 2012
Nueve flores para Julio
jueves, 3 de mayo de 2012
Ensoñación y desgracia
Con una prosa ágil y un narrador que resulta tan improbable como ideal (un feto que sin haber visto la vida logra comprenderla con completa claridad) Marsé logra crear a personajes ambivalentes y reales. Los cuales, al moverse en un destino marcado por la tragedia y las malas decisiones, nos invitan a habitar los espacios decadentes que recorren.Entre las ensoñaciones de David y la realidad tiránica que lo aplasta, Rabos de lagartija se convierte en una historia en donde no caben los colores. En donde el pasado y el presente de sus protagonistas son tan negros que su futuro no puede más que asumirse como otra derrota. Es admirable la manera en que éste mundo monocromático jamás se torna melodramático o exagerado, sino por el contrario, emotivo y sorprendente. Y más admirable aún la manera en que el autor logra concientizar al lector sobre el hecho de que la belleza también descansa en los rincones insospechados de la desgracia.
Para mí, la novela es maravillosa en la medida en que ninguna escena sobra pues cada una se imprime en nosotros como una herida que duele y no. En la forma en que cada personaje se acaba convirtiendo en un espejo de todo aquello que tememos pero no podemos más que evitar ser.
Bibliografía: Marsé, Juan . Rabos de lagartija (2000).
jueves, 26 de enero de 2012
Having A Coke With You
is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne
or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona
partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian
partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt
partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches
partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary
it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still
as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it
in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth
between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles
and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint
you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them
I look
at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world
except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frick
which thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together the first time
and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism
just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or
at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me
and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them
when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank
or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn’t pick the rider as carefully
as the horse
it seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience
which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I am telling you about it
- Frank O' Hara
sábado, 14 de enero de 2012
martes, 10 de enero de 2012
Cine express



miércoles, 30 de noviembre de 2011
De mariposas Monarca y caminos trazados

domingo, 6 de noviembre de 2011
Pictures Of You
"I've been looking so long at these pictures of you,that I almost believe that they're real.I've been living so long with my pictures of you,that I almost believe that the pictures areall I can feel."
-The Cureviernes, 23 de septiembre de 2011
Los techos de París

miércoles, 23 de marzo de 2011
sábado, 19 de febrero de 2011
Thought of You - Ryan Woodward
Ryan Woodward sorprende con esta animación- no sólo a nivel técnico funciona sino que también la historia, el simbolismo que hay detrás, cautiva. El plus, claro, es añadido por la acertada selección de la canción, "World Spins Madly On" de The Weepies dota de melancolía y belleza a la perfecta ejecución visual de los dibujos y movimientos.
"Woke up and wished that I was dead
with an aching in my head
I lay motionless in bed
I thought of you and where you'd gone
and let the world spin madly on.
Everything that I'd said I do
like make the world brand new
And take the time for you
I just got lost and slept right through the dawn
And the world spins madly on.
I let the day go by
I always say goodbye
I watch the stars from my windowsill
The whole world is moving and I'm standing still.
Woke up and wished that I was dead
with an aching in my head
I lay motionless in bed
The night is here and the day is gone
And the world spins madly on.
I thought of you and where you'd gone
And the world spins madly on..."



