Monday, August 07, 2006

hard

it is
in this freaking competitive world
to remember who you really are
hard to stop the competition
for looks, for fashion, for power, for money
even for love!
for all... competition and always the horrible cantata: the winner takes it all

every wants the best piece of everything
everybody willing to take but not to give back, specially with time
mmm? want want want they want
and
i just want some peace of mind
i don't need much money at all
and money and possessions mostly bring sorrows and suck up your time
i don't need a position or name or anything i feel, but to be alive and the "possibility of"
i feel i just a few friends around and some love but no rush

that is all, it is hard to remember that there is always more time than life...

but... how can you make people understand you are not greedy?
in a full of greed world?

mmm? maybe i should
read blindness again
saramago's lesson on the futility of it all

maybe everybody should read it
saramago's a genius of life and of detachment
after all he did win a nobel prize, huh?
another acquisition that doesn't, well, go


“In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.”
-José Saramago quote

Sunday, August 06, 2006

mi tía margarita

mi aunt margarita arrived to day from México!!!
to visit me for a couple of days
it seems that this is my summer of mexican relatives/visitors
nice!

she brought in her suitcases just FOOD, delicious typical mexican 'comida'
yes! barely some clothes, since she's planning to shop here

so here suitcase was sort of a mistery for the customs people
"So you said you brought tamales?", they asked her...
and "Cheese for your niece?" (that would me)


"and Calabaza?, since we dont' know how to tax that go ahead..."
the officer said, not wishing he could keep some of the food he smell

so straight from autlán, méxico
a shipment that is gold for me!

tortillas raspadas para tostadas, tamales, dulce de calabaza y quesos panela

Saturday, August 05, 2006

Friday, August 04, 2006

the bowmen

it is a beautiful friday in san diego, california
it is finally not very hot, but sunny
it was cloudy and very muggy the past couple of days

but today is a fine friday in southern california
very fit for a a ghostly story
one of my favorite ghost writers mister arthur machen

here the link to the ebook of the bowmen men
a great little (short) ghost story

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

yes, it was that hot

these my lovely candles photographed below
one day couple of weeks ago
arrived home after
one of the hottest days in san diego

this is how the candles were at my living room
yes my little hardwood-floor/soft-wood ceilings
is a wooden oven...

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

sidewalks under construction

A man is building a little road
That road will serve many other men to walk on

While that man is building the road
He thinks of the benefit his work will bring

Yet one day, once the road is finished
He won’t have anything else to pass his seconds every day
Since the road is already built

Now is the job of the men walking that road?
To know what their walking through will be beneficial to…

This is not a religious parabola or anything like that
I just think of how I spent every second of my day
Some of my seconds are spent building something that I will use later
Some are spent in using those things I built before

At the end of the day
I just have seconds spent
I guess that is life
Spending the seconds in a ‘proper’ way…

Life’s passing
As I type
As you read…
As we breath
in and out...

I wish I could be in love one day again
With an unknown man that cares
For some of my seconds share
and for watching with me the crows cry

love is a good way to pass your life around
art such as... works also dignifies

Monday, July 31, 2006

you are what you listen to

monday
before noon
already exhausted...
back to basics on sound

sonic youth's murray street
life re-starts
one great sonic youth album!
jaime! jaime! jaime

you are what you listen to

my days lately
sonic youth & some
old old jazz (40's)

well & manu chao
live yesterday...
wow!
“Welcome to Tijuana”: I wanna go to San Diego / I wanna go y no puedo / Bienvenida Tijuana / Bienvenida la Juana.

days days days go fine just
missing señor thilo's photographs

Thursday, July 27, 2006

thursday night

I have seven 7 pairs of shoes
Lining by my bed
Besides

One for each day of the week

they have been accumulating

as i wear them

7 Plus comfys

that's why many pairs



they

Form a little shoe pool

Not a shoe line

Shoes!

Are they the original cause?

Of the bicameral mind?

Is Humanity defined by a feet-look style?

Is that a crime?

Think shoes!

Yours and your attitude towards them

Maybe a good clue of

who you are might come out?

Or just Strange shoeish thoughts

Of a Thursday night

… (?)

la paloma

la paloma (the dove) is a very popular song in Mexico

I found a link on project gutenberg of a recording from a phonograph from July 1905!

Performed by: Banda de Zapadores de Mexico
Composed by: Sebastian Yradier
Record format: Edison Gold Moulded cylinder
Release number: 18734 (1)
Release date: July 1905

click here to listen to it
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10255/10255-m/10255-m-001.mp3

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

and the observer: observing (music too)

superb article on the 50 albums that (according to observer) changed music

i agree with their first 3

1 The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)

2 The Beatles
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

3 Kraftwerk
Trans-Europe Express (1977)

below the link, so you can see the rest

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1821230,00.html