Sunday, October 25, 2009

Es Así

Irse es el más culposo placer.

Encontrar que en otro lugar te sientes en casa aún estando entre paredes desconocidas, caminando en calles sin saber a donde llevan y escuchando un acento que no puedes evitar pensar, un día tendrás.

De pronto, no hay quien te salve y la mezcla del miedo y la seguridad que esto causa te llena de la más pura melancolía. Esta es la definición del sentimiento, esto que se siente que es una mezcla entre nostalgia y emoción, alegría y felicidad. Una comedia dentro de un drama. ¿o es al revés?

Acabo de ajustar el reloj de mi computadora a la hora de un país que no es el que me enseñó a comer salsa Valentina con Rancheritos. Un país en donde la corriente no va a 120 voltios y mi maquinita para depilar no funciona sin quemarse cuando la conecto. Donde las banquetas no son anchas y no puedes caminar junto a otra persona y sino en fila de hormigas para que alguien más pueda pasar.

No lo había hecho porque no había necesidad; aún no era real. Fue real cuando pensé tengo que barrer porque el piso no se barre solo y mis calcetines se están ensuciando. Aún así es maravilloso, aunque la ropa no se seque a tiempo y todo esté cerrado los domingos. Parece como si jugara a la casita y por eso sé que algo falta, pero no importa, ya me asustaré cuando eso llegue.

Lo más extraño es hablar inglés con gente que habla español (y un montón de idiomas extraños), en un país que tiene el castellano como lengua oficial, en una ciudad donde todos hablan catalán en las calles. Lo mejor es que les entiendo. Más de lo que entendía cuando llegué. Y que la primera persona que me agregó a Facebook es turca. Que hay tiendas de té por todos lados y hay cafés, librerías, tiendas de teléfonos y peluquerías por igual. Que mi credencial de estudiante es magenta y me hace descuento en libros de Taschen. Que aunque no he visto la playa, ya vi el mar. Y las patatas bravas con sangría. Y que vendan alfajores Havana en el Corte Inglés, a precio de oro. Saber que he vivido una semana con alguien y sigo hablándole.

Lo peor es que a los únicos españoles que conozco son el señor que me renta y a su hijo de 5 años, el chico de MoviStar, la señora de Vodafone, la chica que cuida los libros de la escuela, la secretaria y la titular que parece sacada de una ilustración de Garance Doré. No tener Internet automáticamente, el desfase de horarios y el costo de las llamadas. Las fallas de las tarjetas del banco y no poder agarrar el teléfono por que sí. Contar las monedas de un centavo y pensar ¿cuánto es esto?

Lo mejor es que tus papás te digan “estás más valiente y más lista de lo que pensaba”. Lo peor es que no estén aquí para descubrirlo juntos. Saber que las relaciones son como ligas que cuando se estiran mucho quedan inservibles. Saber que tengo que cambiarme antes del 3 de enero y mover mis cosas de nuevo.

Pero me gusta, me gusta mucho. Y amo la Fnac.

Thursday, October 08, 2009

I want to make a pretty blog




This is my moms present for me, so I can write plenty. So I can keep it in my purse.

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

El viajero del siglo

Además, continuó Sophie, él realmente se esfuerza por ser todo un caballero, no sé si me explico, ¡un verdadero, pudoroso caballeo¡ Ajá, se revolvió Hans. Pero Sophie no dijo nada más. Ajá, insistió él cada vez más inquieto, o sea, todo un caballero, ¿demasiado …caballero? Es un alivio, sonrió Sophie, poder hablar con alguien mal pensado. Y tú, se atrevió Hans, ¿lo consideras bueno? Quiero decir, ¿tú valoras muchísimo la… caballerosidad? Ya deberías saberlo, contestó ella asomando el perfil fuera de la visera. Me temo que soy, como lo quiso mi padre, una chica práctica. Hans tragó saliva. Todo era inevitable y fluido como el río.

El viajero del siglo, Andrés Neuman

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Some earlier, some later.


Saturday, August 29, 2009

La mejor frase

"Manejar una moto sin lluvia, es como ir a los tacos de Santa Tere; pateas al perro, auyentas a las moscas y te paras en la calle sin cuidado.
Manejar una moto en la lluvia, es como comer en un restaurante elegante; haces todo con cuidado, vas tranquilo, te tomas tu tiempo y ves todos los detalles."

Doc. Guenze

Sunday, August 23, 2009

The weirdest day

It was the weirdest day.
It began just fine but evoled in a strange manner. Mother intending to have breakfast out and Daughter intending to sleep in. Daughter had to give in.
After preparation and stablishment of time to leave, Father arrived again throwing away any expectation to be able to go out. And yet, in a strange happening, both Mother and Daughter left the house in order to have a lovely chat.
As soon as they arrived and were seated in a crowded sunday-morning essential, a waitress, preignant and busy in her head with her own life and problems and probably thinking how terrible it would be to name her un-born baby something reseambling and eggplant, miss placed her streght and let go of the tray she held. The tray contained a glass made of, well, glass. There was a crack, an unmistakeable sound of shard flying everywhere when Daughter heard a shh sound, followed by a feeling of itching in her cheek and a cling when falling to the ground.
Daughter believed the tiny pang was of nothing but a scratch, how wrong she was.
A napkin on her skin came back tainted in red and again and again, it would not stop. In a rapid pace she went to the bathroom to check in a mirror only to discover the Manager of such prestigios-palace-made-of-iron stablishment, runnig along, asking if there was need for a doctor to come by. Daughter, in terms of not calling more attention said no.
The cut wasn't at all deep and the red stain in her cheek went dry but of course, but by that time the Nurse had already come to make sure it was not a great deal and take a better look. All in all, Mother and Daughter had a free breakfast.
So the texting began, too, Daughter made common knowledge of what had just occured.
Long story short, after a couple sms, the thing ended in "this is so the last try I make, have a nice trip and keep in touch xD" to what Boy answered "Of course, we'll see us around. I'll miss you! " to what Daughter replied "jaja, no you wont." And this, of course, got her down.
For some reason, just this day, she had decided to be very lady-like and wear high heels to a walking day (along with a button-down shirt and cute jeans, very cute) and some time later and after all the glass-cutting/boy-texting drama, got the best of her and wore her down.
Mother and Daughter went back home, where she discovered the reason why it hurted so much; leave it at, her feet looked very much like the one's of a ballerina.

She has now, a huge need to speak of all of those things and yet, her voice ends before it reaches sound.
Daughter is convinced now, specially after watching Jane Austen's Persuassion, her life will never be as great as her fiction can. For this, she has decided to take on her pen and write again, if not the stories that she could make up, the stories that in her own life, will never be.

Just like he said, he could set his heart to his watch, I could make this the excuse for my life


Take someone who suddenly speaks to you in an intimate tone that he had never used with you, who tells you what he had never dared tell anyone. Because he was ordinarily so reserved, you are rightly all the more touched. You sense there a mark of extraordinary confidence. Suddenly he has become a friend. He has chosen you for a friend; he has chosen you for a confidant. At this moment an infallible bond has been established between him and you, this bond which the philosophers call "interpersonal". Moreover it is not only between him and you that something essential has taken place; it is also within him and within you. One becomes a person by means of this genuine and intimate encounter. No one discovers himself in solitude, by turning inward on himself and by analyzing himself. It is by giving one's self that one finds himself.

Paul Tornier

Sunday, August 09, 2009

Y lo mejor de todo fue que al intentar comprenderte, me dieron ganas de crear


Hidden fire


Hidden fire
Originally uploaded by groovysong24

A brain on its own


A brain on its own
Originally uploaded by groovysong24

Thursday, August 06, 2009

Mini diálogo

Yo: Los brownies quedaron aguaditos.
Mamá: Así pasa, la cocina es como los novios.
Yo: Pues me molestan
Mamá: ¿De sobre manera?
Yo: Sí.

Digo, igual saben rico pues... los brownies xD

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

And this is how I fell in the parking lot instead of falling in love

So..
El chico viene a la oficina y después de platicar y quejarse de mi compañera de trabajo, susurra para que nadie escuche, me dice - nos vemos a las 5:30?- -Oki- digo yo.
A la dicha hora, lo encuentro en el pasillo y caminamos hacia el estacionamiento. Yo voy hacia la derecha y él a la izquierda y dice -Vamos mejor para acá- yo lo sigo. Al parecer me recuerda de enero, lo que es difícil porque yo lo recuerdo en febrero y antes sería imposible. Casi. Quiere comer barbacoa antes de irse, por que en Canadá no hay barbacoa y es rica, yo asiento, sí, la barbacoa es sabrosa. Por el momento se me olvida que hay un lugar donde comer los sábados en la mañana cerca de mi casa. Pero se complica, siempre se complica. Quiere saber cuando es mi último día porque la barbacoa se come en la mañana, al parecer...
Y llegamos a su auto, que confundo porque se me olvida si es negro o gris cuando en realidad es gris obscuro. A mi me da gusto que no sea azul.
De repente, mi mano está recargada en el tronco de un árbol y mis pies se balancean en las raíces que salen del concreto. En 5 años me he parado de esta manera más veces de las que puedo recordar. En 5 años, he visto la pintura de las jardineras de cerca, sólo cuando yo lo he querido. En 5 años nunca me había caído frente al chico que me gusta en el estacionamiento de la escuela.
Así fue que yo terminé en el suelo por medio segundo y el terminó preguntando - no de vdd, ¿estás bien? no te levantes tan rápido- -Sí, de vdd. no pasa nada-
Qué bueno que no me dolió mucho porque las lágrimas hubieran salido 2 segundos después. Bueno que el pensamiento de I am my mother's daugther no duró porque hubiera llorado al medio minuto.
Probablemente lo que debía de haber hecho fue quedarme sentada y reírme y esperar que el chico se sentara conmigo. No, yo me levanté, me reí, juré que nada pasaba y subí a su auto. Roja como un tomate que soy, probablemente, no me acuerdo.
Todos de buen humor, igual. Fue chistoso y torpe, pero de qué otra manera podía ser.
Lo que sigué fue una de esas cosas. De las que dices, ¿para qué espera hasta la hora de la salida si sólo me llevará hacia el auto? Y yo soy muy tonta para estas cosas y además, tengo el reflejo (no siempre estúpido) de mover mi cabeza cuando parece que algo caerá en ella.
So.. he may or may not have tried to kiss me. Guess will never know. O si. Tengo un plan. Odio tener un plan para estas cosas. Mi punto es que, tuve un deja vu a la situación que fue igual sólo que terminó con alguien diciendo si pones la mejilla cada vez, no te quejes luego. Esta vez nadie lo dijo así que, cómo me voy a enterar de la situación.
Llegamos a mi coche, en su coche que estacionó a un lado. Yo esperé y él dijo algo equivalente a bueno nos vemos luego. Yo bajé del auto, agarré mi mochila y me paré junto al mío mientras buscaba el gran llavero.
Él preguntó - ¿no se cayeron las llaves cuando te caíste?- -No! mira, aquí están- -¿No necesitas una curita?- -Nop- -¿Una venda?- -Nop- -¿Un cirujano?- -Nop- (Todo esto con muchas risas y jajas en medio, chistoso todo, no con cara de stop asking stupid questions!)
Y se fue y yo entré a mi coche y grité. Uno, por que me dolía la rodilla donde ahora hay un morete rojo ¿? y dos, por que este chico siempre me deja gritándole a lo que tenga enfrente porque no más no entiendo.
A final de cuentas, es una cosa graciosa de la que me acordaré y ese el punto final de todo.
Lo mejor de la situación es que yo podría escribir con esto un guión tipo años 50's por que todos los cues para cosas lindas están ya puestos! y no ayuda en nada que mi canción del momento sea You go to my head de Bayne Bacon jeje. Sí, tengo como 80 años.

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

O+

I think I know how to read silences better than looks.
I know I can't tell what my eyes say and it's impossible for me to control them; they say what they want and they don't ask for forgiveness or permission.
I figure not many people have the skill of reading them correctly, so it's no biggie.
I wrote a story once,in my head, about a postive O. I wanted to write it, that was the intention for the characters because she had an O name and he could have been named taht too, so there was an overlapping of O's giving a positive one. It was interesting because two O's make a plus sign while one O makes a whole. I never decided on the names so i changed them.
That was a while ago. Funny.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

So it went

This is how it happened; silly, dumb, simple and yes, kinda cute.
He walked into the room, and her heart, instead of going quiet, began a new drumming.
It seems it discovered that for a while, it had been sitting rather still in its corner and was now speaking as hard as it could. She thanked for this, even if it wasn’t true, it was nice and that, she found out, no one could take away from her.
She sat in her own corner in her boss’s office when he spoke; it wasn’t her that he asked for though. So she decided not to come out, but then the phone rang getting in between her meeting and the other girl went out and she had nothing to do and a series of questions to ask so she finally stopped thinking and went out.
And he looked thinner than she recalled and his hair was much shorter. So she said, Of course you asked for my boss but not me, and he said I asked for her but it’s you I’m going to call. And she didn’t say hello because it’s overrated and he remembered to say hello because somehow, he remembers that she doesn’t. And she asked about his visa and he stood up and opened his arms intending a hug, he walked one step and she knew she had to take the next. And her brain said no, and some of her friends in her head said no but for one reason or the other, knowing it wasn’t what she should do, she opened her arms and took one step forward too.
This lasted close to nothing and the immediate need to let go caught up with her. The way she grows cold in a second when she gets too nervous became present and her shoulders became aware of the tension. Never the less, she heard him say the explanation that she had silently asked for; her mind was taking a lot of effort to cover the disappointment she had felt when a day earlier he hadn’t called or shown up. Because, why would someone say I’ll phone you and then not? And if he affirmed he would show up on Tuesday, with out her asking, why would he not?
Bad weather and delayed planes make up for a rather good excuse.
After three signed letters gone to waist and an almost angry boss who allowed this just because of the fondness she feels for her assistant and there for, for him, he sat down by her at the table, made funny faces about her co-worker and talked endlessly about paperwork, all the while she remembered why she thought he was funny and so, worth the while.
So he waited for exit time with out telling her and she imagined this but didn’t ask. They walked out the building and talked about pictures in baby size and warm chicken in cold salad and would she like to eat some? Because in December, when he is coming back, the airports will be so filled with crying children and snow. Then comes the strange part in which they stop in the middle of the parking lot and sort of say goodbye; He says – where is your car?
She says- Over there.
He says- Its too far, do you want to go take some pictures?
She, wanting to go, looks for her cell phone in her always messy purse while saying – I don’t know, Wait, I had to go to pick something up-
He says- Oh. Well, we’ll see each other tomorrow.
And with that he walks away. This is a weird ending and she feels completely strange about it and has no idea what to do of it. So she does the one thing she can think of, go to the nearest Humantree and spill the beans. After all, how else could it be?
Wait for tomorrow! (or someday) when UBC guy will show up (if he does) again!.

*This is of course the shorten version, I'll save you the details of conversations such as "Do you sign language?" and a girl that won't play senless jokes on grown ups she doesn't know and the sudden panic of entering Cute guy's office next to UBC guy.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Blue

It's not about days like these. Not even about the wheather.
It has nothing to do with a certain fantasy guy or even the one that is closer without being real anyway.
I won't mention deceptions or broken promises, careless thoughts or forgotten apointments.
I wont speak of the songs I've never written and the chords I've amazed myself with finding and then, like magic, forgotten two seconds later. Music is like that, its there all along, you just need to find the right combinations and the perfect timming.
Maybe I've read too many stories, watched too many movies and dreamt too much while still awake.
I guess it has something to do with this silly need; I feel like I need to be someone else again. I want to learn a script and become someone else every time. I dont think Id be so terrible at it. Maybe in the acting but not in the becoming. I want to change my name for a day.
Maybe it has something to do with the gray that is starting to crawl into me; it has taken my troath, my hands, my feet. Soon it will reach my brain, my heart. My lungs.
Maybe it has something to do with me listening to Stereophonics and feeling like a love child in the 70's, a flower in my hand and crazy hair flowing around in the wind. They make me want to get high while laying on the rug looking at a moving ceiling fan.
Maybe it was Phoebe in wonderland, maybe it was that I never read Alice, maybe Im getting old and searching for a heart of gold. Maybe Im just getting blue.

*

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Wrinkles & Swirls


Wrinkles & Swirls
Originally uploaded by artsyevie

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Mini diálogo

"¿Crees que piensen que no tomamos en serio la oficina?"
"Dormimos en la oficina, comemos en la oficina, ligamos en la oficina...mmm no sé"

Sunday, June 28, 2009



Originally uploaded by groovysong24
Some days, you wish you could walk under the cold rain and reach up to pick brazilian cherries in a funny hat. Like watching Pride and Prejudice while every branch and leave shake with water falling on them. And then find secret gigant mushdroms hidden in between the wilderness of un-cut, over-grown grass. Some days you do. And you feel again like a small child.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Cositas



Not the best pictures but anyway...

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Dance

She never knew. Music was a thing to listen to, to sit on the couch and listen to. Quietly. Headphones on, well stuck where they belong. Drums and guitars are only for recording and voice is better for debating. Singing is like loving, never like debating. Unless you sing about a fight, then it becomes a protest. But she never thought about standing from the couch.
She believed in sitting in a chair and working her way through paper piles and clearing files and creating databases in excel. She made a mistake; when she slid those tiny plastic speakers in her ears, she knew she had been wrong all along.
She wanted to dance. Music fell in her veins like drops of tainted blood that little by little took over her; her hands couldn’t take it and began a beat on the desk, her feet wouldn’t handle it and began throbbing under the table, in high heels, even her mind began wondering about the next sound she would hear, the next 4 chord progression.
All the sudden, with out thinking about it or noticing, she stood up, ipod in one hand, white strings hanging from her head and the rest of her letting go free and dancing like never before. Her boss walked in the hall and like all her workmates, stood next to her, staring helplessly.
He took one look and nodded.
He fired her that same week.