Just passing you by

other shitApril 30, 2006 18:12
a
insensatez
que você fez
coração mais sem cuidado

fez chorar de dor
o seu amor
um amor tão delicado

ah
porque você
foi fraco assim
assim tão desalmado

vai
meu coração
ouve a razão
usa só sinceridade

quem
semeia vento
diz a razão
colhe sempre tempestade

how insensitive
i must have seemed
when she told me that she loved me

how unmoved and cold
i must have seemed
when she told me so sincerely

why?
she must have asked
did i just turn
and stare in icy silence?

what
was i to say
what can you say
when a love affair is over

now
she’s gone away
and i’m alone
with a memory of her last look

vague
and drawn and sad
i see it still
all her heartbreak in that last look

what
was i to do
what can you do
when a love affair is over

Insensatez
Letra: Vinícius de Moraes (Portuguese), Gene Lees (English)
Música: Antonio Carlos Jobim

Tomado (con algunos retoques) de bossa nova guitar.

ps. o amor existe enquanto dura

Music - Books - MoviesApril 16, 2006 04:49

El mi\’ercoles fue el tan ansiado (al menos por m\’\i{}) concierto de Adriana Varela, y heme aqu\’\i{} que varios d\’\i{}as despu\’es a\’un no hab\’i{}a hecho una rese\~na oficial.

Anyway, la telonera estubo bien y me habr\’\i{}a gustado grabar su presentaci\’on, pero no se hizo :P. El peri\’odico dec\’\i{} que ella hace ‘latin jazz’… bullshit (what a coincidence with the newspaper, isn’t it?); someone told me that had heard some bit of hers and that it was like pop, more accurate but not enough.

Adriana, por su parte, Grande. As expected. El p\’ublico result\’o m\’as bien decepcionante; bien hizo la Varela en cantarle Muchacho a esa masa fr\’\i{}a que siempre puede ir a la boleta cara de los espect\’aculos aun cuando ni siquiera les gusta lo que van a mostrar y que no les llora el alma cuando gime un bandone\’on.
Anyway, i was really happy that she asked people to get closer to the stage when the show was meant to be over (thing i obviously did ;)), and sang the requests (aunque nos sigue debi\’endo Cristal ac\’a en Colombia). That encore was further better than the main show.

End of lame review.

Music - Books - MoviesApril 12, 2006 06:39

Era un emperador y una anciana, y en su boca toda Roma pertenec\’\i{}a al siglo veinte. So much louder than the other, the lasted, toda llena de murmullos, toda falta de silencios. End of lame review.


she’s your cocaine
she’s got you shaving your legs
you can suck anything
but you know you wanna be me
put on your makeup boy
you’re your favourite stranger
and we all like to watch
so shimmy once and do it again
bring your sister if you can’t handle it
she says you control it
then she says you don’t control it
then she says you’re controlling
the way she makes you crawl

she’s your cocaine
your exodus laughing
and she knows what you are
so shimmy once
and do it again
bring your sister
bring your sister
if you can’t handle it

if you want me to
boy i could lie to you
you don’t need one of these to let me inside of you
and is it true that devils end up like you
do something safe for the picture frame
and is it true that devils end up like you
so tied up you don’t know how she came

she’s your cocaine
she’s got you shaving your legs
she got you liking mine back
got me taking it in
getting mine back
i’m taking my easel
and i’m writing good checks
you sign prince of darkness
try squire of dimness
please don’t help me with this

She’s your cocaine
1998
Letra y Música: Tori Amos
Tomado de Here, in my head

Music - Books - Movies, other shitApril 7, 2006 20:30

This is an old lame story i’ve told to like every single soul that reads this page (the 3 of them, and perhaps a couple more that don’t read this page). Just that i felt like retelling it.

Iba una noche caminando por la calle -ésta en especial siempre me gustó, casi siempre desierta- para tomar el bus de regreso a casa. Creo que era la primera vez que hacía ese camino de noche o lo que ocurrió habría tenido lugar antes, supongo. Me sorprendió, como suele sorprenderme el escuchar mi nombre, un murmullo o un zumbido; me sorprendió porque estaba dirigido a mí, porque nadie más podría haberlo escuchado, porque sí, decía mi nombre, en fin, me hablaba.

Pronto, de la sorpresa pasé a un cierto grado de intranquilidad, pues, tras un par de minutos de buscar alrededor bajo las luces dispares de las lámparas, aún no lograba identificar la fuente de esa llamada. Y pasaron más, y fue necesario que regresara sobre mis pasos -aun cuando había decidido continuar caminando e ignorar todo el asunto, y fue necesario volver a avanzar, para ubicar el lugar correcto desde el cual alguien me llamaba.

Ahora me extraña un poco que mi reacción fuera de un profundo interés por aquel interlocutor. Al comienzo no me resultaba muy claro lo que intentaba decirme, sólo que se sentía agobiado por la angustia; y fue una larga sucesión de preguntas y respuestas la que necesité para finalmente comprender su horror -algo un tanto inútil, ya que nada podía hacer yo por él, pero imprescindible, pues era la único que cualquiera podría haber hecho, y lo único que necesitaba. Su dolor, o más bien, su carga, era la conciencia de encontrarse muy cercano a la muerte, saber que pasarían muy pocos días hasta el momento en que por fin dejaría de existir.

Aún hoy guardo luto y no deja de correrme una lágrima cada vez que recuerdo aquella lámpara a una cuadra de Facol.

Geeky stuffApril 3, 2006 00:19

In general, i have been more fond of manga than comics and thus i don’t really know much about comics. Furtheremore, as regards the two comic giants (read Marvel and DC Comics), i’d say that the DC ones have come much more interesting and appealing to me than the Marvel ones.

Anyway, the point is that i was watching this interview the other day and every second thing Mr Lee said (accompanied by Silent Bob’s hums and uh-huhs and “oh you’re such a genious”s) felt like a screech and made me dispise the whole set of inhabitants of the Marvel Universe (except for Phoenix ;)). He ranged from stating that he truly believed as law that the person who made the illustrations had a near-zero place on the comic creation process [okay, i am overreacting on this point since it was more like saying that the drawers were not authors (not in a very warholesque way though, and most certainly not referring to the desks)], passing by a ‘we were just whoring’, a ‘we did not care a freaking lame ass about creating anything, we’d just wait and follow the latest trend every single time’ and much more, until he started to speak about their superhero Thor (aka Thor Odinson).

At that point my patience finally gave in… this guy said that people shouldn’t worry about how the fsck could they pronounce Mjölnir, Thor’s hammer’s name, BECAUSE it was a word INVENTED by his brother for it. I just could not believe what i was hearing, period.