a funeral of lights

"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather."
- Michael Pritchard



and that's why i don't care about
being rich nor famous...
is not 'cause i am lazy, heh heh

ich feier der Dialog and a Cold War Kids song

tonight i had my
Oral Exam for German 101
ich feire sehr gern!
meine Professorin sagen: sehr gut!
Wahnsinnig gut!!!
18 0ut of 20

sehr gut! then... i guess heh heh
so i drink cheap Kalifornien rot Wein
Charles Shaw
yes the infamous Two Buck Chuck



und jetzt höre die Rockmusik
[i find so funny/cute the word Rockmusik...
the fact that is one word, oh germans, nice!]

anyway
i freaking love this song!

these Cold War Kids
i just know these song by them
but i think is a great song
great lyrics and nice
even-though high voice
and great song-writing



good mixture of catchy
and good high rock
nice for some rot Wein
und sprechen das defekt defective 'pobrecito' Deutsch
i like the video idea
too

gotta find more of these Cold War Kids
in the meantime
cheers, salud, und Prost!

alien night and William Blake

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

- Auguries of Innocence, William Blake


official sunset time for today
4:53 PM / 16:53 Uhr

and my camera
was set on "sunset" mode

the schon/already night
an alien night
came about

meine rot Schuhe

and as i realized yesterday
i am broke...
i have about $200.00 cash
to survive for about 2 weeks
of course i have little savings
and cc, but that's not the point...

so what do i do to relief stress?
i flake on my german class
and instead a car crash (8 cars involved)
guided me to a department store

1 hr later i am 20 bucks
more broke
and i got these adorable
red shoes to go to work...

die Montag manzanas / a Brian Eno song

i called these
the Montag manzanas
-the Monday apples...

fallen from a co-workers tree
i stocked up for das Woche

Needle In The Camel's Eye - Brian Eno

arthur machen, droste cacao, and kahlúa

good remedy for a new-daylight savings time

yesterday we switched to winter schedule on the clock

today i walked out of the office at 5.30pm (17.30 Uhr)
and it was already night

i came home and sulked
i am not really depressed but really sleepy this Monday
an for a good November not even a little sunlight, ah! sighs
so i switched from sandals to black tights and black shoes


my stinky feet, my old-lady shoes, my "new" book

but here at home i got into reading
wonderful Welsh author Arthur Machen
surreal and dark
the literary Gothic...
perfect to set for wintry nights

and to keep the body warm
hot milk with 100% cacao Droste
from Holland! mmmm!
the nederlands yum!


all in the blender with a shot
of Mexican Café Liquor
Kahlúa

a week's supply

on weekdays / otra semana / unter der Woche



have a good week!

Pan de Muerto

lo encontré...
i found it...
ich finde es...

here on my table, ah!
my big Pan de Muerto, my plant
and my warm cup of hot chocolate



and to go with the Pan de Muerto
i made some traditional Mexican Hot Chocolate with milk
i blend the boiling milk w/the typical chocolate Ibarra



now this is a good night on a Friday
[uh ah he]

Día de Muertos

altar en la Biblioteca de Mesa College

un camino fragante de Cempaxóchitl
que desde la puerta de tu alma
hasta la tumba eterna,
en una noche fresca,
me habrá de guiar

----

guided shall i be
from the doorstep of your soul
into an eternal grave
by a Cempaxóchitl fragrant path
imperturbable shall be that night

----

the 2 little poems above
are my foolish attempts
to honor, in Spanish, and English
the Death, my own,
and the death of all of us,
of all the rest...

as for the Day of the Dead
is a homage to death as is
death intrinsic to life

a summoning Mexican -not holiday
but Holy Day

ich möchte nächstes Jahr
kann ich eine kleine Gedicht
über Tot, auf Deutsch
schreiben
... ja! hoffentlich... nächstes Jahr

Día de Muertos is about "Calaveritas" too!

little poems or riddles that people exchange
we write on each other's friends life and likes and dislikes
little lyrics that make fun in a very ironic way
of how we imagine the "Death" will come and pick you
according to what you do in life

so i exchanged "Calaveritas" with Euzmar
a mexican girl living in Barcelona
from 23hq.com

here she wrote me one here
in this photo of mine
http://www.23hq.com/bere/photo/2531575

"Tan bonita Berenita..
ya la llevan a enterrar...
entre dulces y tequilas..
Sus amigos lloran ya...

Dicen que le gustaba cantar..
dicen que le gustaba reir...
pero lo que más le gustaba..
era fotografiar!"

and i wrote her one back tonight:
http://www.23hq.com/euzmar/photo/2524241

"estaba euzmarsita bonita
con su mami muy bien sentadita
cuando la muerte la vino a buscar

pero la euz le dijo
oye muerte? no te puedes esperar?
mira mídete estos anillos
y si te gustan
te los puedes tu llevar en mi lugar

pero la muerte le dijo
si quieres linda euz
de mí muchas fotos puedes tu tomar
pero con todo y anillos
a tí, con tu linda sonrisa
también te puedo cargar!"

these Calaveritas are in Español
no other way for Calaveritas

some fantastic photos
of Mexican people
with ofrendas at the graves
here

y Feliz Día de los Muertos
i hope i find some
Pan de Muerto
around für Frühstück (heh heh)


detalle Frida Kahlo- altar en la Biblioteca de Mesa College

Halloween night: The Innocents

tonight is Halloween

top of my looong list of 2 films
here is the first one
a masterpiece from 1961

The Innocents



based on a Henry James novella
named The Turn of the Screw
[a download version of the book]
and with a script adapted by
William Archibald and Truman Capote

yes...
Henry James filtered for the big screen
by legendary Truman Capote
with Deborah Kerr's superb acting
and directed by Jack Clayton

this is not your common gory bloody
horror film
this is more of a psychological thriller
this films travels along that gray fine line
between the ghost world
and the darkness of human soul

apart from a wonderful darkish
black and white photography
that makes it another visually unique piece
this film is full of excellent moments
of noir literature



for more here
9'45" edit highlights of the film

and have a spooky Halloween!