Friday, April 07, 2006

die pakete!

mmm... paquetitos! (drooling ala homer style...)
jaime


a jaime jaime from spain i met him (have never met in person)
many many many
many years ago posting stuff on the web of our favorite band of all times sonic youth si señor!
me mando fotos y postales, sus gloriosas y experimentales fotos
muchos eme pes y tres entre los cuales
y luego tenemos a...
andrea
o what a lovely girl the ex of my friend perro, a lovely tall gorgeous blue-eyed girl from seattle chips in a box, she knows i can't find the dill pickle ones in san diego anymore and that i really like them so she sent them o well well!

<> o and from other lovely adorable friends. life pays back anyway with paquetitos o heck yes!

gracias jaime! y thank you andrea

the constant wife

last tuesday and throughout a feral san diego rain
(as we don’t have loads of)
i entered the sublime realms of the old globe theater
(modeled after shakespeare’s old globe in london)
lovely the wood structure
o lovely and grand!

the play was the constant wife
a delightfully witty play on the fragile equilibrium that sustains marriage (or doesn’t)
and well on other love-affairs too
henny russell as constance middleton went gratifyingly fine

vive le grand somerset maugham!
and thanks susan, for taking me along, unexpectedly
can’t wait for the next play

below one of the rehearsal rooms
hey! i like perusing around


fito, ay fitillín de san martín

from a friend's note
weber, la sunny san diego no separace en nada a la
lluviosa naucalpan, así como en la meteorología como
en la vida, llueve sobre mojado diría el poeta fito paez


and this i reply to the friend:
ay si mire usted
a los santos a los que yo les rezo
para ver si hay, aunque chiquito,
algún progreso
o un recuerdo
o una historia buena
una de esas, de suspenso
what a shame! fitillín que bueno que no eres tú
tan grueso, ni tan denso...

friday, a morning-olvidado-zapato case


although i work in a laid-back-on-the-dressing-code office (my boss hasn’t wear anything else but jeans for the past couple of days, moths, years)

i am not supposed to come into the office with my after-shower sandals, here fresh stinky photo of my 'casually-dressed' feet (still smell like cheese)

hmmm? friday morning too distracted/too late forgot to change them for ‘regular zapatos' before leaving home, i didn't realized until a little chill wind felt cold between my toes

o damn! a medicine-against-distraction request! o yeah and still slacking going out to take the cold pix and well, back to work, i guess...

Thursday, April 06, 2006

univers zero

or "if stravinsky had a rock band,
it would sound like this..."
univers zero!

y este videito highly recommended
http://www.univers-zero.com/media/Partch.mov

lo encontré gracias a ground control
como usted verá "ground control mister"
encontré su site y toda la cosa

here signing off major mexican tom weber

now ashes to ashes, funk to funky we know major tom’s a ... well, a man with lots of troubles, little addictions and issues, well and a woman in this case, with hormones in case wasn't enough the major dealing in the skies and her bad behavior...

esta mañana

es solo una niñería
y estoy ocupada en el trabajo
pero tomé notas con lápiz y papel

y la sensación del lápiz
y la sensación del papel
uno sobre el otro

una maravilla

de josé agustín to alice munro, passing through murakami and some brontë



crossed the border tonight and to make this reading easier i am writing in both ingles y spanish you know? tu sabes, no? jaladas, suckities mostly

border official: 'what are you bringing back from mexico tonight with you señorita? and your citizenship?'
me (official slacker): ' just some books, and i am very mucho americana, dont ju jjjear dont ju siii?'
border official: 'o si, very well, go ahead...'

so on my lap while driving and read half way through during sanborn's dinner que fresa! no mames! was lovely josé agustín y reading amor del bueno (love but of the 'good one')

aquí en español por si eres mexicano o solo medio naco y tus papas no te mandaron al colegio de paga en lugar de la escuela de gobierno, no manches que mamona soy!!!

sobre mis preciosas y redondetas rechonchetas rodillas, mientras delicadamente el freeway manejaba y despues de atascarme en el sangggrrons' unos molletes de frijoles ala estudiante de la uam xochimilco, siempre sin dinero... pues me puse a leer a josé agustín mientras la fila de coches lentos se dignaban avanzar para cruzar del mundo del rango numero 3 al del numero disque UNO

ha! so i was saying that jose agustin on my lap and yes slowly crossing the border to come back 'home' to this first world... runned by an asshole

i think the translation is not being accurate but still makes sense, i bet if any biligual read well

y como dice jose agustin!!! QUIEN SOY, DONDE ESTOY. QUE ME DIERON or as you'd say in el ingles the funniest freaking thing in the world

who am i? where am i? what did they give me?!!!

entonces me di cuenta del desengaño turbulento que puede desencadenar la lectura de un cuento narrado en mexicano y comprado en tijuana en una noche de abril y de adviento, josé agustín eres pinche chilango y, manito, te entiendo!!!

so i liked the jose agustin book very mucho muchisisismo so, reminded me of my city and of "manitos" anyway that i can't translate, some slang who you call the dudes here, but we call them there 'manitos' and so there's women so therefore we also have 'manitas' notice the 'a', ah? español clases on-line con bere...

the whole deal apart from saying how grand jose agustin is are will be or something like that is that i realized that while i was re-reading alice munro a couple of days ago, just grabbed her in between murakami and saramagos, i ended up reading tonight jose agustin

what a polarity contradiction differences in style on themes on narratives on all! and both so close to my hearth

o sea que muy diferentes la munro y el nano, y luego le hago a murakami y hasta al lafcadio her-dano... tan diferentes que me duele como que en la cabeza, a veces, y a veces, otras, las veces, en las manos, un hueco y un hueco filosófico y lejano, de questionamiento interno y de hasta algo malsano...

wondering me pregunto si esta lista if this list is a good one or un absoluto absurdo pero cada dia cada segundo second morto oculto me la vivo entre munro murakami agustin saramago emilia la de las borrascosas brontes y que combinación, ay de mi, y ay del mundo

buenas noches bouna notte and not giorno, good nights doesn't rhyme at all, y vaya el colmo!

bueno en fin la lista ahora updated era was y era para mencionar estos libros books muy chingones que me compre en español y hope pronto soon sooner leerlos

vaya escarmiento eso del advenimiento de español mezclado con ingles mugriento

ensayo de un crimen, de mi heroe rodolfo usigli,
lo único que le he leído confieso la genial obra policiaca un clasicasasassazo de la novela detectivesca criminalistica y freudiana, todo amarradito en envoltorio de la ciudad de mexico por alla de los 40's uff buenisissisismo

yes the book's awesome, crime, freud serial ala hitchcock thriller all wrapped up in sweet packaging of mexico city's on the 40's, delightful, licking fingers book...

other i found and more complete on those later

enrique serna, el orgasmografo! que suena premisorio cuento de un 'dark' futuro

y bueno neruda que no tengo/tenia
pero el amigo de un amigo que ni conozco
but the friend of a friend that i haven't even meet, recommended it

never thought an american-seems-like-an-overly-interesting-person that man derf will ended up recommending me neruda, albeit chilenian but mexican, on the list, waiting

a mas al ratito a completar este blogsito que este si que me esta gustando y me gusta

i like it this blogsito con el book-sito

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

ken, stoned at 9.50 (leo gregory was superbly stoned)

last friday night
i realized i had 10 minutes to
get stoned, the movie about brian jones’ life and massacre/dead
at the ken cinema
on massacre read more on brianjonestownmassacre
(keep music evil)

so 10 minutes walking from my home, fast
and made it to ahhh stoned, the movie

the theatre was almost empty apart from 2 or 3 couples and i was the only person by herself there, in spite of the small audience, i am sure of one thing the ones there were either into music, or into the rolling stones, into brian jones, and well probably or merely just stoned

the movie was over all ok
here are some better-than-in-my words reviews
san francisco chronicle review of stoned
greenwich village gazette review of stoned

one funny thing was that there was no rolling stones music at all on the film
which i really didn’t mind, since the music was ok after all, some jefferson airplane
among others etc.

the characters of keith richards and mick jagger
are secondary on the film as many other rolling stones facts
over all the stones are portrayed during their starting days

critics don’t seem to agree with this point of view of the director
but i thought it was great
after all we do know too much about the rolling stones
who really cares about them anymore, they are creepy and old and have way too much money

and the movie was supposed to be about brian and his dead anyway
not really about the rolling stones
i thought i was even charming to make them appear like that (briefly and young)
o believe me they even seem cute (keith and mick) and they are NOT!

although i will say that the scenes of brian and friends on drugs
and musical events were truly good!
like a very good video very well done
way better than the crappy videos you see in MTV these days
in that the director did a great job

also if you happen to be a man or a fervent admirer of women physical beauty then you must see the lovely actress playing anita, wow that is what i call a hyper-hot woman, blonde, long-legged and with a face that will turn on even my catholic god

so the movie was ok
and we at kensington were at 9.50
stoned

ah the best part of the movie, was leo gregory
as brian jones
a superb acting! must say!

Monday, April 03, 2006

grapey monday

just because grapes are like diseases
and if you don't eat some, they might
on you, start growing

oh and i want these grapes to
squeeze them
choke them
clasp them
clip them
clutch them
compress them
cram them

crush them
cuddle them
embrace them
force them
grip them
hold tight them
hug them
jam them jostle them
nip them
pinch them

press them
quash them
squash them
squish them
and finally
wring them

but i think all this is just part
of a sexual frustration...
mostly
and because there is something in the green of the grapes
that reminds me of the green of some apples

eat fruits! and some vegetables

funny thing this netscape

yes the version of netscape 8.0.4 (based on firefox)
has this little feature that is making my life way easier, since you can either display the same page as you'd see in either firefox or explorer, just by clicking on this little arrow

i am a silly designer dealing with CSS standards for an application, if i get my application displaying OK for firefox and explorer i am all set (albeit my boss' opinions -read barking) since those are the 2 browsers people are most used to

this function of netscape saves me couple of minutes per hour, since i don't have to open the damn URLs in both browsers, i can just check in Netscape and voilà! with the selection of a checkmark i am all done


now there's many little issues and tricks for optimal CSS-ing, some really stupid like that fact that explorer can't read "mid" numbers in some basic stuff like the height of an area, if you have 176 px it is going to round-it to 180 px, on the other hand, firefox is better with details like that, but, hey what am i going to do? kill all of the explorer users? or force them into changing to firefox? i don't even have myself a decent browser at home, i deal with a imac g3 with explorer 5.1 for mac and mozilla, i can barely check my bank account at home, and to post photos at 23 i have to do one by one, therefore i don't, oh and by the way my finder for mac os 9.1 doesn't not support my canon camera so i can't even download the damn photos

so i understand, even if i am a web designer, what is to be in the oldest of the techy's, if an application runs in my computer, believe me, then it means that a neandearthal man can gett it started with probably a few rocks and stickies...

ok but back to the style sheets...

i rather fix my graphics to display OK on both browsers even though we as designers know the big difference between 1 or 2 pixels but i guess that's the trick but standardization and globalization or while working at a non-profit (like the san diego blood bank) where with few resources you got make things pretty (like the blood bank newsletter printed in just 2 colors) or here, where i have to standardize a look that will display OK no matter how outdated or hyper-ultimate is your freaking browser

it is easy to design for all-tools-users but we gotta remember there's people without so much technological resources out there and they are still mean to enjoy of our applications

voilà, i am glad the weekend is over, not 'cause i love to work
but because at home i have that crippled computer that doesn't let me
"explayarme"

ha! monday intentions

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