Thursday, August 31, 2006
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
IP : G8
That's what my radio alarm clock says ever since that glass of water accidentally fell on it. Numbers, letters and special characters spun round for long minutes like in some roullette machine. Then it just landed on «IP : G8». That was my grand prize.
A weird time to be.
I swear I didn't try and kill it. It was an accident.
A weird time to be.
I swear I didn't try and kill it. It was an accident.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Y en el ritmo tú me entenderás
Ayer aprendí algo nuevo: aprendí que la batería es un instrumento que se toca con todo el cuerpo, no sólo con los brazos y las piernas, y que no hay que pensarlo sino sentirlo. Entendí que por eso me parece el instrumento más difícil, y ahora, como siempre que comprendo la dificultad de algo, quiero aprenderlo.
Puedes usar mi piel / Como cuero para tú tambor, hey! / Con mis huesos percutir / Todo tu odio hacia mí / Y en el ritmo entenderás / Y en el ritmo tú me escucharás
Por eso siento que se me sale el corazón cuando tocamos Mentira.
Puedes usar mi piel / Como cuero para tú tambor, hey! / Con mis huesos percutir / Todo tu odio hacia mí / Y en el ritmo entenderás / Y en el ritmo tú me escucharás
Por eso siento que se me sale el corazón cuando tocamos Mentira.
Friday, August 25, 2006
The True Truth will set you free
'Any alcoholic beverages tonight, ma'm?'
'I had one beer,' I said, looking at him straight in the eye and in an 'oh shit, you caught me' kind of tone.
He said he stopped me because I was speeding, something I find impossible to do in my crummy old car, which barely goes faster than 55 mph. Besides, I had just pulled out of my parking spot about two blocks away.
'Are you aware there is absolutely no tolerance for drinking and driving?'
'No, sir. I wasn't aware you couldn't drink one beer and then drive a short distance back home,' still looking at him straight in the eye, which (don't tell my mother about this) is my favourite lying technique.
'You were going far too fast.'
'I’m sorry, I might have rushed because it's late and I have to go to work in the morning. Mind you, all those other cars are going pretty fast,' I said, rather cheekily.
'Where do you live?,’ he asked, staring at my license, which, by the way, has my address on it.
'Colonia Terminal.'
'Well, I’ll have to give you a ticket for speeding, and you’ll have to get a dictamen médico in a place that’s really far away from where you live. The ticket for drinking and driving is a lot of money,' he said, obviously trying to scare me into bribing him.
'That's fine by me, sir.'
He made a long pause for dramatic effect, and then said, 'Are you sure you only had one beer?'
'Positive.'
'Because, if you tell me the Truth, you can go home.'
'I only had one beer.'
'I had one beer,' I said, looking at him straight in the eye and in an 'oh shit, you caught me' kind of tone.
He said he stopped me because I was speeding, something I find impossible to do in my crummy old car, which barely goes faster than 55 mph. Besides, I had just pulled out of my parking spot about two blocks away.
'Are you aware there is absolutely no tolerance for drinking and driving?'
'No, sir. I wasn't aware you couldn't drink one beer and then drive a short distance back home,' still looking at him straight in the eye, which (don't tell my mother about this) is my favourite lying technique.
'You were going far too fast.'
'I’m sorry, I might have rushed because it's late and I have to go to work in the morning. Mind you, all those other cars are going pretty fast,' I said, rather cheekily.
'Where do you live?,’ he asked, staring at my license, which, by the way, has my address on it.
'Colonia Terminal.'
'Well, I’ll have to give you a ticket for speeding, and you’ll have to get a dictamen médico in a place that’s really far away from where you live. The ticket for drinking and driving is a lot of money,' he said, obviously trying to scare me into bribing him.
'That's fine by me, sir.'
He made a long pause for dramatic effect, and then said, 'Are you sure you only had one beer?'
'Positive.'
'Because, if you tell me the Truth, you can go home.'
'I only had one beer.'
Thursday, August 24, 2006
I'm gonna lock my heart and throw away the key
And if I never fall in love again
that's soon enough for me.
Una vez Mol me dijo que yo escribía (bloggeaba) de una forma muy arriesgada; que me exponía mucho. Le contesté que no me importaba, pero ya me está empezando a dar miedo esto de dejar entrever la verdad a través de mentiras muy elaboradas.
Me pondría a escribir ciencia ficción, pero creo que haría exactamente lo mismo.
So I suppose you mean moderation, best of both, third way and threesomes are all the same type of thing.
that's soon enough for me.
Una vez Mol me dijo que yo escribía (bloggeaba) de una forma muy arriesgada; que me exponía mucho. Le contesté que no me importaba, pero ya me está empezando a dar miedo esto de dejar entrever la verdad a través de mentiras muy elaboradas.
Me pondría a escribir ciencia ficción, pero creo que haría exactamente lo mismo.
So I suppose you mean moderation, best of both, third way and threesomes are all the same type of thing.
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Accesos de locura.
-Ir manejando y de pronto creer que estás en otra ciudad
-Ver un brazo saliendo del piso
-Sentir que alguien mira constantemente por encima de tu hombro
-Tener miedo de ver al espejo y encontrar que alguien más ocupa tu lugar
-Olvidarte por un minuto de absolutamente todo lo que sabes
-Recordar que la última vez que viviste esto mismo, hiciste algo distinto
-Sentir, durante los primeros dos o tres minutos, que todo lo anterior es completamente natural
-Saber cuándo es el final, como si fuera una novela
-Ver un brazo saliendo del piso
-Sentir que alguien mira constantemente por encima de tu hombro
-Tener miedo de ver al espejo y encontrar que alguien más ocupa tu lugar
-Olvidarte por un minuto de absolutamente todo lo que sabes
-Recordar que la última vez que viviste esto mismo, hiciste algo distinto
-Sentir, durante los primeros dos o tres minutos, que todo lo anterior es completamente natural
-Saber cuándo es el final, como si fuera una novela
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Las pastillas para dormir engordan?
Me acabo de tomar 23.
(Lo bueno es que su ingrediente principal es Passiflora Incarnata, así que no moriré. ¿bueno, dije?)
(Lo bueno es que su ingrediente principal es Passiflora Incarnata, así que no moriré. ¿bueno, dije?)
Hoy tuve una revelación:
no soy narradora.
Normalmente sucede que los escritores frustrados se hacen críticos literarios. Mi caso es a la inversa: soy un crítico literario frustrado que se puso a escribir.
No obstante, creo que la idea de la "vocación" es basura sentimentalista. Así que, como dirían en Madrid, chulona mía: a tomar por culo.
Normalmente sucede que los escritores frustrados se hacen críticos literarios. Mi caso es a la inversa: soy un crítico literario frustrado que se puso a escribir.
No obstante, creo que la idea de la "vocación" es basura sentimentalista. Así que, como dirían en Madrid, chulona mía: a tomar por culo.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Utopía
Cuando tenía 13 años escribí un poema; aunque renegué de él muchos años, ahora me parece un esfuerzo respetable para la poca edad y pocos libros leídos. Anoche, cuando lo recordé, estuve segura de que debí haber plagiado algunas cosas, pero ya googleé todo y al parecer no. Lo que no entiendo es qué demonios pasaba por mi cabeza a la hora de componer estos versos; cómo pude tener la consciencia de hacer arte o escribir o lo que sea si todavía ni había comenzado a menstruar; a qué hora del día me puse a trabajar la métrica y la rima, las imágenes y los sentimientos; por qué demonios estaba escribiendo poemas en vez de jugar en el parque o perseguir muchachos; cómo pude dedicarle el poema a [     ] si todavía ni lo conocía; y cómo es que estaba tan segura de que esto, que está escrito en el poema, seguirían siendo más o menos mis sentimientos 11 años después.
Pues bien, el título es «Utopía» y aunque dudo mucho que a los 13 años haya estado muy segura de que utopía significa «no hay tal lugar», pero pensándolo de nuevo, el lugar (o el no-lugar) tiene mucha importancia en todas las imágenes. Pero eso dejémoslo para los crítcos. Transcribo a continuación lo que puedo recordar del poema (estoy segura de que se me escapan algunos versos.)
Encontré un cálido nido
debajo de su sombra
       cálido
pues no conocía el sol.
Quise abrigarlo en mi casa
pero siendo yo un caracol.
Quise de cama su sien
y adornarlo con olivo
quise para mí de su boca
al menos un suspiro
y quise hallarme en su mirada
mientras seguía siendo yo.
Pues bien, el título es «Utopía» y aunque dudo mucho que a los 13 años haya estado muy segura de que utopía significa «no hay tal lugar», pero pensándolo de nuevo, el lugar (o el no-lugar) tiene mucha importancia en todas las imágenes. Pero eso dejémoslo para los crítcos. Transcribo a continuación lo que puedo recordar del poema (estoy segura de que se me escapan algunos versos.)
Encontré un cálido nido
debajo de su sombra
       cálido
pues no conocía el sol.
Quise abrigarlo en mi casa
pero siendo yo un caracol.
Quise de cama su sien
y adornarlo con olivo
quise para mí de su boca
al menos un suspiro
y quise hallarme en su mirada
mientras seguía siendo yo.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Busco roomie
Que habite en el antiguo cuarto de ensayos de Ruidos en el Techo
-$850 por mes de renta
-incluye internet banda ancha y llamadas locales ilimitadas
-todas las cosas normales de una casa excepto tele, clima y lavadora
-fácil y rápido llegar al Tec en camión*
-a dos cuadras del metro Félix U. Gómez
-hay un gato y una iguana
Interesados enviarme un mail a: juana.girasola@gmail.com
*estoy casi segura de que son como 15 minutos en el metrobús, pero ahorita mismo voy a ir a comprobarlo.
-$850 por mes de renta
-incluye internet banda ancha y llamadas locales ilimitadas
-todas las cosas normales de una casa excepto tele, clima y lavadora
-fácil y rápido llegar al Tec en camión*
-a dos cuadras del metro Félix U. Gómez
-hay un gato y una iguana
Interesados enviarme un mail a: juana.girasola@gmail.com
*
easily confused, often late, rarely prepared, passionate about better the world's condition, easily distracted, wild and crazy, likes to be the center of attention, longs for a stabilizing relationship, prone to addiction, often rushed, show off, prone to worry, frequently loses things, does not accomplish work on time, acts without thinking, not good at sports, easily hurt, scatter-brained, very curious, spontaneous, not too hard working, aware of how the color and lighting of a room affects their mood, believes in a supernatural source of peace and love, can be talked into doing silly things, unpredictable, asks many questions, interested in others, upset by the misfortunes of strangers, believes in the importance of art, prefers have many different interests to just one, does not often know why they do things, moody, loner, swayed by emotions, focuses on fantasies more than reality, acts without planning, becomes overwhelmed by events, able to disregard the rules, eager to sooth hurt feelings, afraid of doing the wrong thing, can become aggressive when they feel hurt, low energy level, unable to speak up for self, avoidant, depressed, withdrawn, attracted to things associated with sadness, feels defective, lonely, socially unskilled, unproductive, late with work, prone to health problems, self loathing, wounded at the core, easily hurt, often sad, becomes overwhelmed by events, feels untalented, quiet around strangers, doubting, anxious, frequently overwhelmed by unpleasant feelings, weak sense of purpose, unsure where life is going, avoids unnecessary interaction, often bored, second guesses self, resigned, relates to broken and discarded things
Monday, August 14, 2006
Translate it for me so I can translate it back for you
I'm spending my days translating government/legal dubble-dutch language into what they call "citizen" language, which is really just correct language. Most of the time I have to get someone to explain what the hell they meant in a document. And then I repeat what they said in a cristal-clear, logical and coherent manner. The main problem is that people don't think straight. I feel like an interior decorator of the mind: get rid of all your circular arguments, unnecesary words and tacky adjectives; organise similar elements into neat, color-coordinated drawers; properly arrange causes and their effects; and get rid of heavy dusty drapes (institutional jargon) to let lots of light into the room (paragraph).
The only catch is, truth is not something people usually want to get at.
LIABILITY "I DON'T WANT TO GET SACKED FOR WRITING THIS" DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed herein are solely the opinions of the brave agressive provocative promising writer within myself and do not represent those of the body said writer belongs to inasmuch as the aforementioned body requires measures to be taken in order to be fed dressed and housed, nor do they necessarily mean to state there is anything at all wrong with the institutions for which she works or organisations she belongs to.
The only catch is, truth is not something people usually want to get at.
LIABILITY "I DON'T WANT TO GET SACKED FOR WRITING THIS" DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed herein are solely the opinions of the brave agressive provocative promising writer within myself and do not represent those of the body said writer belongs to inasmuch as the aforementioned body requires measures to be taken in order to be fed dressed and housed, nor do they necessarily mean to state there is anything at all wrong with the institutions for which she works or organisations she belongs to.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Fuck emotional intelligence.
I want to be a man. I'd be a rocket scientist or something.
This gets boring sometimes.
«Ô sorcières, ô misère, ô haine, c'est à vous que mon trèsor é a été confié!»
This gets boring sometimes.
«Ô sorcières, ô misère, ô haine, c'est à vous que mon trèsor é a été confié!»
Saturday, August 12, 2006
The /jennivora Fotolog account has been deactivated by the Fotolog administrators.
Soy toda una rebelde. Hace mucho que no recibía un castigo por conducta inadecuada. Se siente raro.
Friday, August 11, 2006
Ella es la Lic. Jénnifer Ádcock
y va a ser la Jefa de Contenidos para este proyecto.
(Creo que la gente en realidad sólo trabaja para poder sentirse importante. El dinero es algo más bien secundario.)
(Creo que la gente en realidad sólo trabaja para poder sentirse importante. El dinero es algo más bien secundario.)
Thursday, August 10, 2006
I am not lonely with cricket.
At first I payed no attention: it was simply the loud sound of crickets in the night, not uncommon in this weather/country. When I realised it was coming from inside the room and not outside, that's when I began to feel I was going mad.
I couldn't sleep thinking how deeply disturbed a person Franz Liszt must have been; what it is exactly that lies behind the first row of cabbage plantations and why I am so afraid to go there in my dreams; and that conversation I heard earlier:
'Nobody's going to love you, just me.' This is what three-year-old Eliza says to her baby sister, who is still less than an inch tall and lives in their mom's womb.
I thought of all the horrifying possibilities of feared objects behind the cabbages: monsters, transfigured human faces, rotting unborn children, mutilated parts of the body, smashed up loved-ones; but none of these were frightening enough. I wondered if there was a name in musical theory for that thing he does: scaling down a similar phrase over and over till an explosion and then lingering just to build momentum up again and explode into other repeating phrases, alternated with crazy, almost-out-of-tune waltzy bits. I also wondered whether intelligence is at all compatible with broodyness, and how come I am unable to make other people learn from my mistakes. My stomach ached and I finally resolved to get some sleeping pills--I have to work tomorrow, it's obviously just my body fighting against that.
I'm wearing no contact lenses and I'm quite blind, so I can't see where the crickets are, but I hear them around the couch. But if they're there, how come cat doesn't catch them? Maybe they're on the ceiling or something? I started wondering if maybe the sound came from that bag of lemon-salty roasted crickets I brought from Oaxaca--maybe there were still a few alive. Then I felt insane and surreal for having seriously considered that possibility for at least three or four seconds. The noise is loud and I could be asleep, maybe I'm just dreaming again. I'll know tomorrow morning when I check my own blog to see what I was up to the night before.
Must remember tomorrow:
-How to falsify memories
-The story of when we never lived abroad
-The cabbages
I couldn't sleep thinking how deeply disturbed a person Franz Liszt must have been; what it is exactly that lies behind the first row of cabbage plantations and why I am so afraid to go there in my dreams; and that conversation I heard earlier:
'Nobody's going to love you, just me.' This is what three-year-old Eliza says to her baby sister, who is still less than an inch tall and lives in their mom's womb.
I thought of all the horrifying possibilities of feared objects behind the cabbages: monsters, transfigured human faces, rotting unborn children, mutilated parts of the body, smashed up loved-ones; but none of these were frightening enough. I wondered if there was a name in musical theory for that thing he does: scaling down a similar phrase over and over till an explosion and then lingering just to build momentum up again and explode into other repeating phrases, alternated with crazy, almost-out-of-tune waltzy bits. I also wondered whether intelligence is at all compatible with broodyness, and how come I am unable to make other people learn from my mistakes. My stomach ached and I finally resolved to get some sleeping pills--I have to work tomorrow, it's obviously just my body fighting against that.
I'm wearing no contact lenses and I'm quite blind, so I can't see where the crickets are, but I hear them around the couch. But if they're there, how come cat doesn't catch them? Maybe they're on the ceiling or something? I started wondering if maybe the sound came from that bag of lemon-salty roasted crickets I brought from Oaxaca--maybe there were still a few alive. Then I felt insane and surreal for having seriously considered that possibility for at least three or four seconds. The noise is loud and I could be asleep, maybe I'm just dreaming again. I'll know tomorrow morning when I check my own blog to see what I was up to the night before.
Must remember tomorrow:
-How to falsify memories
-The story of when we never lived abroad
-The cabbages
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Monday, August 07, 2006
Feed me with your kiss
Me gusta el cine francés porque (además de que el francés suena a poesía sin importar si están diciendo cosas bellas o leyendo un manual operativo de un electrodoméstico) tiene un respeto por el silencio que me perturba. Una de las películas que más me ha marcado en mi vida es la de Dans ma peau. Específicamente la escena *spoiler ahead* donde está en una cena de trabajo y ella, después de clavarse mucho en la manera en que la gente corta la carne en sus platos, no puede contenerse más y alquila una habitación para estar con ella misma. Corta pedazos de su piel, chupa su propia sangre como si besara a un amante, y se ama infinitamente mientras guarda las reliquias de su cuerpo en su billetera. La escena es gore y erótica al mismo tiempo, pero eso no es lo perturbador. Lo perturbador es que la mujer está sola y hace todo en secreto. Incluso inventa historias locas para que su amante piense que lo de las cicatrices fue un accidente.*
Nunca toco la tierra con mis pies. Mis pies tocan calcetines y zapatos, metáfora de mi piel. Mis calcetines tocan zapatos, que tocan los pedales del coche. Los pedales del coche accionan cosas en el motor que desconozco. El coche es metáfora de la rueda, metáfora del caballo, metáfora de mis piernas. Las llantas del coche tocan asfalto, metáfora de la tierra. Yo nunca toco.
A veces siento que soy enteramente capaz de perder los estribos a la manera de la mujer de Dans ma peau. El viernes en la noche, por ejemplo, caminé descalza en la lluvia por todo Zuazua desde Cinco de mayo hasta Madero. Es incontable la cantidad de estímulos inesperados que recibí recorriendo las sucias calles del centro. Mies pies, que casi nunca tocan, estaban extasiados, y no importaba pisar piedritas y vidrios rotos, atravesar alcantilados desbordándose, temer que, en la oscuridad, una rata se acercara y me mordiera el dedo gordo.
Me proclamo parte de esa generación que es adicta a sentir.
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention
They amputated
Your thighs off my hips.
As far as I’m concerned
They are all surgeons. All of them.
They dismantled us
Each from the other.
As far as I’m concerned
They are all engineers. All of them.
A pity. We were such a good
And loving invention.
An aeroplane made from a man and wife.
Wings and everything.
We hovered a little above the earth.
We even flew a little.
-Yehuda Amichai
Translated by Assia Gutmann and Harold Schimmel with the collaboration of Ted Hughes. 1971.
Your thighs off my hips.
As far as I’m concerned
They are all surgeons. All of them.
They dismantled us
Each from the other.
As far as I’m concerned
They are all engineers. All of them.
A pity. We were such a good
And loving invention.
An aeroplane made from a man and wife.
Wings and everything.
We hovered a little above the earth.
We even flew a little.
-Yehuda Amichai
Translated by Assia Gutmann and Harold Schimmel with the collaboration of Ted Hughes. 1971.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
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