Archive for May, 2006

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Las tres Ps, regla vital

Un gran amigo mío, un encantador de serpientes nativo de las Rías, ha confirmado que entre el parlez-vous y el putiferío solo hay un paso, el paripé. Son las tres Ps. Se empieza con el parlez-vous, después viene el paripé, y al final todo acaba convirtiéndose en un putiferío. ¿Qué se le va a hacer? Es la P.P.P. La misma historia […]

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Friday, May 26th, 2006

It’s not laziness, it’s intense contemplation

 
Sometimes people confuse a prolonged, intense, profound, and exhaustive contemplative state with laziness. Not me. I recognize and practice the art of active and purposeful inertia. While many dedicate their free time to mental stagnation and escapism through movement, I sit quietly . . . in thought. For example, I am capable of spending an entire Saturday from […]

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Saturday, May 20th, 2006

La versión de Eva Blondie

Acabo de terminar de leer el manuscrito de La versión de Eva Blondie, novela ganadora del Premio Istar, escrita por mi poetisa Beatriz Russo. Como describo en el post anterior, he leido esta novela con admiración, no solo porque conozco y voy conociendo a su autora, sino también porque yo quisiera escribir así y de […]

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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Una vez quise el estrellato erótico pero logré acercarme a una artista

Yo quisiera ser tantas cosas sin llegar a serlas, pero por suerte he logrado acercarme a la Real Thing. Sucedió que el domingo por la noche acudí a la entrega de los premios de ExpoSex en Leganés. Los premios eran una especie de Oscars para el cine erótico y ahí entre actores y productores de cine erótico, entre […]

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Thursday, May 11th, 2006

I cannot live without air, but I can live without you . . .

 
I heard the song “vivir sin aire” by Mana the other day on the radio and started to think about how misled people are by two common terms, love and romanticism. Needing someone has nothing to do with love. You can only love that which you do not need. Neither does romanticism refer to love specifically but […]

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Thursday, May 11th, 2006

El Premio al Mejor Compañero de la Semana se lo lleva el Sindicato

Esta semana el Comité se ha sentido obligado a conceder el Premio al Mejor Compañero de Trabajo de la Semana al sindicato de compañeros que viven el espiritú de los jueves naranja . . .

2 Comments » - Posted in FON by eric

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

On Music and Somnolence

I have a theory about the relationship between music and thought which is very similar to another theory I have on somnolence. Basically, the kind of music that we choose to listen to has to do with whether we want our thoughts to be our own or whether we need someone else to do the thinking […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Digressions, Jazz by eric

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

Thelonious Monk, trouble-shooting the silence

Ever since listening to the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at the Port of Ibiza, I have wanted to write something about Monk. But, everytime I listen to him I find it harder to describe what it is that makes his music so fascinating. Last night I watched Straight No Chaser and this evening Thelonious […]

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Saturday, May 6th, 2006

Mi niña se ha graduado

Mi querida Laurita se ha graduado esta mañana de fisioterapia. Yo la conocí hace ya unos años cuando ella estaba terminando la carrera de educación física, pero ahora ya es fisio también (es un partidazo la niña). No me lo puedo creer. Hoy acudí a su graduación con sus padres, Juande e Ignacia, junto con mi […]

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Friday, May 5th, 2006

The Lottery: It’s about winning, not about how you play the game

The Lottery is odious. It is horrible. You get your hopes up, and then they are destroyed and the next thing you know you are back at work on Monday morning. There was a time I fell into the vicious game’s bitter clutches. Actually, I would still participate in the hope game if my present […]

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