Thursday, 30 August 2012

Anders als die Andern

Y aquí seguimos.
O mas bien aquí sigo.
Como siempre, todo el mundo avanzando, cambiando, viajando, siendo feliz y completando los requisitos que se deben ir cumpliendo para alcanzar eso que llaman "vida plena".
Y yo aquí, igual.
Ni termino, ni empiezo, ni creo... Sólo destruyo una y otra vez mis ilusiones. Porque muchas veces no hace falta tener a otras personas para destrozarte, con una solita basta.
Una canción pop que escuché mucho cuando tenía 15 años decía: "todos los días lucho una guerra contra el espejo, no puedo soportar a la persona que me devuelve la mirada. Soy un peligro para mí misma, mi peor enemigo. Es horrible cuando te das rabia a ti misma, muy irritante. No quiero seguir siendo mi amiga, quiero ser otra persona...".
Y lo peor es que no me motiva la vida que vendría después de terminar esto, no me atrae nada seguir lo establecido.
He vuelto a escuchar Radiohead, esto no puede acabar bien.
Desligar. Continuar. Y dejarse de esas tonterías que son tan inherentes a mi persona. Ojalá pudiera olvidarme de todos esos fantasmas que me persiguen todos los malditos días, acechando separados por una mísera pila de ladrillos. Pero no soy tan fuerte, nunca lo he sido y, a estas alturas, nunca lo voy a ser, aunque alguien hace muchos años dijera por escrito lo contrario.
Percepción... Es curioso. Me repele y atrae a la vez.
En fin.
Esto es lo de siempre, si ya debería saberlo. Pero un día de estos no voy a aguantar más, creo que ya se ha agotado todo lo que podría experimentar.
En fin. Otra vez.

She came in through the bathroom window

... protected by a silver spoon
But now she sucks her thumb and wanders
by the banks of her own lagoon

Didn't anybody tell her?
Didn't anybody see?

- The Beatles (wirtten by P. McCartney)


Monday, 20 August 2012

Global Tea Etiquette


Things like this make my day, as simple as that :)

So long and...

“There are some people you like immediately,
some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time,
and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”

― Douglas Adams, "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" (1988)

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Francis Scott Kay

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy
from which they never recovered"

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920)

Thursday, 2 August 2012

Finally...

We know her secret!

Sunday, 29 July 2012

A new order

How many times must I lose my way?
How many words do I have to say?
What can I do just to make you see
That you're so good for a man like me...

Thursday, 26 July 2012

Florence + The Robot

- I'd have held back if Cecil was different. But he's the sort who can't know anyone intimately, least of all a woman. He doesn't know what a woman is. He wants you for a possession, to look at like a painting or an ivory box. Something to own and to display. He doesn't want you to be real, to think and to live. He doesn't love you.
But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas, even when I hold you in my arms.

- George Emerson, "A Room with a View" (James Ivory, 1985)

Saturday, 21 July 2012

Lips like sugar


"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold.
The curves of your lips rewrite history"

- Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray", chapter 20

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Brainzzz

Don’t you see the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expresses in exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.
…every year, fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller…

- George Orwell, "1984", chapter 5