"Ah, böwakawa poussé, poussé"

one of my favorites
John Lennon's songs is
#9 Dream

and after about 25 years of
have listened to it
i never really knew all the lyrics to it

english is my second language
but rock music
[properly and by definition written in English]
is my first choice

and many times i have fallen in love
with a song, without understanding all what
the singer was singing, i could fall in love
with a song just
'cause it 'freaking rocked'!!
heck yes!

but tonight, after 25 years or so
i realized, a-ha!! Web-reka!!
this is what the internetsss are for!
to look-up what the heck is john lennon babbling
over some bucka bucka come-so come-so (???)
[what i made of it!...]
so indeed!
i googled the lyrics to the song
and yep! the words really meant nothing
just something on a dream
but then i googled more!
and remembered this great site
SongFacts
[just wish the data base was bigger already
and more to my favorite musical genders oriented]
so here the ideas, i guess more than facts
over #9Dream
i bet John looks from the sky at us
laughing at our attempts to decipher
his stoned dreams, ha! what a crazy
great lunatic man he was, admirable!
just a lovely john lennon dream though
his #9 dream, by the way...
his dream has given me so many hours of pleasure!
and...
"Ah, böwakawa poussé, poussé"
"Ah, böwakawa poussé, poussé"
now... i endlich know...



i recommend you to get rid of your shoes!
and sing along, and if you want and nobody is
watching, you should dance too...

my blue suede shoes

i got myself a pair of blue moccasins
from the traditionally made
Minnetonka brand
and wow they are comfortable
and incredibly comfortable and soft!
[oh no! just wrote comfortable twice...
damn, now it's three times... ]



oh! they feel like gloves on my feet
more than shoes...
and tomorrow, yes! tomorrow
my new blue suede shoes [smile]
shall be tested on the streets
ah!

and i just hope that nobody
steps on my blue suede shoes
und ganz selbstverständlich...
from 1956!
mister Carl Lee Perkins



and since then, we still rock n roll
then and now! and
shall we dance?

my eyebrows hurt (the sandwiches and vermouth edition)

yes!
i know it sounds idiotic
but my eyebrows hurt!
not the hair itself
but more the bones that go
right behind the line of the eyebrow

a strange pain, like a muscular pain
not itchy, the skin not sore, and not a headache
really... but
just... pain?

oh my eyebrows!
ach meine Augenbrauen!
¡ay ay mis cejas!
[this translation made me laugh
i am such an idiot translating this
but i laugh, hope you too!]

mmm? i've been working a lot with
Photoshop and dealing with a
detailed image today, and i squint my eyes
sometimes a lot...
and i read a good load of Deutsch last night
'cause i had der Kapitel 9 Test

and it's April's Fool
April! April!
[...in Deutschleid heh heh]

so anyway, this day did fool me
and end up being... the day!
the day...
of the fool-me eyebrow pain

still hurts!

and i wrote something about this day
on a piece of paper at school
a sentimental note and then i couldn't find it
some kid at school might be laughing over me now
or worse, just on the floor, so...

so i will drink a vermouth
i don't think people drink vermouth straight anymore
i drink it straight, but with ice
my mother says it's an old's people drink
but i have a vermouth once or twice a week

my favorite one is Cinzano
but this one Di Torino Rosso that i found
at Trader Joe's is pretty decent, not the best
but not like there is a lot to judge over a vermouth
or is there?
...
Il Vermouth è un vino aromatizzato vecchio di...6000 anni...



and yes... technically my mother called me old
yes, i might behave stubbornly old-er sometimes
manchmal manchmal...
a veces, a veces...

so that's why i cure myself with these
sandwiches
oh sand-wi-ches, like that, slow... and soft
thank you John!, Earl of Sandwich
for this rather international mouthwatering word
with no translation required word...

barely California

just yesterday
was this sunny...
the Friday-driving back home
finally-was-the-weekend drive



atmosphere smelled like palm trees
burned to a golden sunset, pavement
and freedom, yes it was this golden

today is gray-er, gloomier
there is even a menace of rain...
barely California

look who's back again! (or Part II)

these photos are from this March
a lovely and now becoming traditional
visitor, arrived again to the little yard
outside my home

this coming-along tradition of
grasshopper friends
[click on it for the whole grasshopper-saga]



above ▲ this as 1st seen this early March, through my window
and below ▼ ... so i came outside to say hello and...


...
for the photo, he posed

i must smile everytime they make it back

good to see you again!

brothers Quay

amazing stop-motion animation
by the Quay brothers
identical twins that create these
rather interesting animation pieces

they are poetic, they are dark
they are non-sense but make all the sense
at the same time
dunkel, beautiful, like a deep strange dream

here the dark, sehr sehr dunkel
"Stille Nacht I: Dramolet"



[and to think it's just an old doll,
some magnets and powdered metal...]
and another little sample



if you come across their dark art
do not miss them!

and thanks to mister atom
for introducing me to the Quay brothers
i have a DVD with
The Brothers Quay Collection:
Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993 (1984)
creatures to crawl into my
mexican-californian mind
and then not so sunny will be this Sunday

Ostern/Easter/Pascua

Frohe Ostern!
Happy Easter!
un buen Domingo de Pascua



if you notice i didn't say
Feliz Pascua or Feliz Semana Santa
in Spanish is not used to say "Happy"
about these days, since it is more
of a quiet Holiday
the resurrection of Jesus Christ is today

but now this more pagan yet fun
way to celebrate Easter with bunnies and eggs
a lovely Rabbit made by my
co-worker's 6 year-old daughter
[check out the little tail, heh heh...]

and have a good Sunday
no matter what or how you celebrate

my little: Frühling/Spring/Primavera, make your choice

Man spürt das Herannahen des Frühlings.
You can sense the coming of Spring.
El inicio de la Primavera.

[and this is how it looks... my little private Spring]


[portraits of the little flowers i planted last year blooming
right in time for Spring, and my tired leg still with shoe after
a long day at work and a light dinner, now gone... ]

and as for the in-3-different-languages vocables
for this season, i stick to the one in Español

i think is the most-adequate sounding one for
what this season represents

surely, and at least to my mexican ears
Primavera, sound much accurate
than Frühling or Spring

yet a matter of taste, of course
i hope if you read here
you submit your vote...

Kiyo's 1st birthday

Kiyo hat heute Geburtstag
today's is Kiyo's birthday
Hoy es el cumpleaños de Kiyo



I found this old post from March 20 2007
it was March 19 when I got my
fishy-friend Kiyo!
so today is his 'official' 1st birthday!

if you see this old photo of him
you can see he was smaller
and of a lighter peach color
and even a little 'transparent'
he has grown at least 1/2 inch
and his color has turned deep dark
also his fins are longer

here as he looks lately



in just 1 year we have been through a lot together
we survived his Popeye and fin rot infection

his has a newer and improved home these days
he started with a 1 gallon tank with a natural plant
and used to eat just pellets
but now he lives in a 2 gallon tank
with a heather, an artificial plant to keep away infections
and his diet is way richer!
he still eats pellets but also flakes
brine shrimp and blood worms
he really like the blood worms

and i am happy to have this lovely red friend
for a whole year now!
Betta fishes life span varies from 2 up to 5 years!
being a regular span life 3 years

so i hope my friend Kiyo stays with me for a while still
he's been a neat little companion...
and!

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, herr Kiyo!
Happy Birthday, mister Kiyo!
¡Feliz Cumpleaños, señor Kiyo!

st. patrick's day and nat king cole

March 17 was
St. Patrick's Day
half of the people at my office
wore something green
and we eat shamrock cookies
this year i missed the soda bread
and a cold Guinness beer but all the bars
around my house, that happen to be Irish
were full!



and it is also
Nat "King" Cole birthday

on Sunday
i saw The Blue Gardenia
a thriller from 1953 with Anne Baxter
and... one of the first appearances
in the big screen of Nat King Cole
singing the theme song



the film is directed by Fritz Lang
and it is a pretty decent Film noir