Las arañas iban por los laureles. La casualidad se va tornando en nieve, y los años dormidos ya se atreven a clavar los telares del siempre. La Quietud hecha esfinge se ríe de la Muerte que canta melancólica en un grupo de lejanos cipreses. La yedra de las gotas tapiza las paredes empapadas de arcaicos … More Patio húmedo
We grew up with folk, as you can tell. This is a sad song composed back when I thought it would be interesting to have lived enough to sing it. Now I think it is too sad altogether. But the video accompanying this version by the Dubliners, is brilliant. Axé.
Here is another film I haven’t had a chance to see, but which is recommended by a friend without a PhD or an academic job. I want to see it because it sounds very interesting and also because the actor Jorge Perugorría has, in many of his roles, a relaxed good humor that I recognized … More La vida según Muriel
It is hard to find a Vallejo video that is not sentimental, or eerie, or both. People really seem to think he was those things, and he does come from an eerie town. And he is associated with pain, and desgarre might as well be his middle name. I really wonder about all of this, … More A mi hermano Miguel
Authority as maternity is an important concept and I have not figured it out at all. I have always marveled, though, at how authoritarian married women and mothers can be, and how invasive … and not only of their children. I get condescended to a lot by these women; they assume I know less about … More “Authority as maternity is an important concept…”
…de tout partout; les Mardi Gras s’en viennent, principalement de Grand Mamou. The Mardi Gras riders are on their way. I am spending this Mardi Gras looking for my cat. But when I lived in New Orleans what I liked about the season were the random events. A tambourine in the distance and then across … More Les mardi gras s’en viennent…
Elle était si belle, la ville. Axé.
I have heard that during the two years Thoreau spent at Walden, he sent his laundry back to town for doing. This is funny but I actually think it is all right given the nature of his project. “To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts,” said Thoreau in Walden, … More Walden
The curious do not understand my interest in Mexico, so uncultured and so dangerous. To those fearful I suggest the cultural excursions of the National Institute of Anthropology and History. I am sure they will put you at ease. There is one within the city almost every day, and out of town most weekends. The … More Mexico
This is Carnaval weekend. I am going to spend it looking for my cat. If it is his body I find, I hope he looks as peaceful as Eurydice, at minute 6:30 of this clip. Axé.
