Perspectiva

DIOS (NO) EXISTE.


Cada quien decide qué ver, cada quien decide si se fija - o no- en lo que encierran los paréntesis de arriba. Todo es cuestión de perspectiva.

Grace at Versailles

"In my early years as a Fashion Editor I worked with Norman Parkinson, who was a really big photographer and he taught me to always keep your eyes open, never go sleep in the car, or anything like that, keep watching because whatever you see out the window or wherever it can inspire you." - Grace Coddington.

Ésta es mi escena favorita de The September Issue - prometo pronto hacer una entrada en la que hable un poco acerca de este maravilloso documental (prometo incluir los diálogos que más me agradan - soy adicto a escribir las frases que me inspiran, como la de arriba).

La música, creada por Craig Richey , me resulta cautivadora; la primera vez que vi la escena me embargó un sentimiento de nostalgia que pocas veces he experimentado.

Grace Coddington, ¡eres grande, eres VOGUE! (Sin ofender, querida Anna).

A falta de palabras...

Una vez leí por ahí "Some people choose to follow men, others choose to follow their dreams"; hace mucho tiempo que yo elegí seguir lo segundo . 


El día de ayer corrí el Medio Maratón Internacional de Puebla 2011  en 1h52; rompí mi propio récord (la última vez que había corrido 21 kilómetros lo hice en 2 horas con 8 minutos). 


Realmente quiero escribir algo al respecto de este acontecimiento, sin embargo, aún no encuentro las palabras precisas para expresar lo que sentí mientras corría (y, en realidad, lo que siento mientras corro - en general).


Tan pronto las encuentre, publicaré una entrada al respecto, lo prometo. 


En fin, SALDO: Medio Maratón Internacional de Puebla 0 - Jerson 21.6 kilómetros.

What happened?

Así pasa, siempre.

This is for you

Esos pasajes que nos dicen justo lo que necesitamos escuchar...


"Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it is worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each other person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's ok to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise." 


- The Shared Patio, en No one belongs here more than you, de Miranda July.

Las grandes mentes piensan (Y BEBEN) igual

Entrada dedicada Sebastián Aceves, querido amigo y compañero de juerga.

Hace casi un año mientras me encontraba buscando nuevo material de lectura en Borders, me topé con un libro cuyo título llamó bastante mi atención: Great Minds Drink Alike.

Este pequeño libro (como bien podrán notar en la imagen de abajo) es una recopilación de frases dichas por grandes personajes, todas relacionadas con un elemento con el que estoy seguro todos tenemos una relación de amor-odio: el alcohol.

A continuación, les comparto mis frases favoritas provenientes de esta pequeña y divertida compilación.  Atención especial al separador en forma de copa (imposible no amarlo).

¡Salud! 

GREAT MINDS DRINK ALIKE, written and compiled by Virginia Reynolds

“Beer is proof that God love us and want us to be happy.” – Benjamin Franklin

“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.” – Winston Churchill

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.” – Oscar Wilde

“The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don’t drink too much. Then again, don’t drink too little.” – Herman Smith-Johannsen

“I feel sorry for the people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.” – Frank Sinatra

“A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t have the decency to thank her.” – W.C. Fields

“It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth of the fourteenth.” – George Burns

“One more drink and I’ll be under the host.” – Dorothy Parker

“I drink to make other people interesting.” – George Jean Nathan

“For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and a soda.” – Phyllis Battelle

“Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor!” – Groucho Marx

“There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that help is a glass of champagne.” – Bette Davis

“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath, and a glass of wine.” – Saint Thomas Aquinas

“I believe that if life give you lemons, you should make lemonade…and try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka and have a party.” – Ron White

“The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.” – Richard Owen

“Here’s champagne to our real friends, and real pain to our sham friends!” – Unknown

“You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.” – Dean Martin

“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.” – Aristophanes

“Here’s to alcohol, the cause of, and the solution to, all of life’s problems.” – Homer Simpson

“I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.” – Joe E. Lewis

“I envy people who drink – at least then know what to blame everything on.” – Oscar Levant

“I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.” – Joe E. Lewis

“Gin and water is the source of all my inspiration.” – Lord Byron

“When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.” – Jimmy Breslin

“The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations.” – French proverb

“Something about glamour interested me. All day schoolbooks had drawings of woman of terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.” – Bill Blass

“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.” – Mitch Ratcliffe

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be, during all meals and in the intervals between them.” – Winston Churchill

“A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine, except that on a day without sunshine you can still get drunk.” – Lee Entrekin

“Let’s all drink gin and make wry faces.” – Bob Hope

“Wine is bottled poetry.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“Great love affairs start with champagne and end with tisane.” – Honoré de Balzac

“The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life’s most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put rum or bourbon in it.” – Lewis Grizzard.

“If the Lord hadn’t intended us to have a three-martini lunch, then why do you suppose he put all those olive trees in the Holy Land?” – Jim Wright

“Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people’s adulteries, and while the wormy apple of marriage still lives, the novel will not die.” – John Skow

“I drink champagne when I win, to celebrate…and I drink champagne when I lose to console myself.” – Napoleon

“As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain.” – H.L. Mencken

Reflections of a Skyline

Reflections of a Skyline

Le agradezco (mucho) a mi querida amiga Paola Gómez el haberme compartido este video hace un par de meses. Desde que lo vi quedé cautivado no solo por lo que ambos personajes dicen, sino también por los diversos sentimientos que logran hacer sentir a quien mira el video.

Escuchen. Vean. Sientan.

Esto y más espero poder decirte algún día…

Reflections of a Skyline

And I wanna play hide-and seek, and give you my clothes, tell you I love your shoes and sit on the steps while you take a bath and massage your neck, and kiss your face, and hold your hand, and go for a walk…

Not mind when you eat my food.

And meet you at Rudy’s, and talk about your day, talk about your day, and laugh at your… your paranoia!

And give you tapes you don’t listen to, watch great films, watch terrible films.

And tell you about the TV program I saw the night before… and not laugh at your jokes.

Want you in the morning, but let you sleep in for a while.

Tell you how much I love your eyes, your lips, your neck, your tits, your arse.

And sit on the steps smoking ‘til your neighbors come home.

And sit on the steps smoking ‘til your neighbors come home.

And worry when you are late. And be amazed when you are early.

And give you sunflowers, and go to your party and dance.

Be sorry when I’m wrong and happy when you forgive me.

Look at your photos wish I’d had known you forever.

Hearing your voice in my hear. Feel your skin on my skin.

And get scared when you are angry, and tell you you are gorgeous, and hug you when you are anxious, and hold you when you are hurt, and want you when I smell you.

And offend you when I touch you, and whimper when I’m next to you, and whimper when I’m not.

Dribble on your breast, smother you in the night and get cold when you take the blanket, and hot when you don’t.

And melt when you smile, and dissolve when you laugh.

But not understand how you think I’m rejecting you when I’m not rejecting you,  and wonder how you could think I’d ever reject you.

And wonder who you are but accept you anyway.

And tell you about the tree angel, the enchanted forest boy who flew across the ocean because he loved you.

And buy you presents you don’t want, and take them away again, and ask you to marry me, and you will say no again, but keep on asking because though you don’t think I don’t mean it, but I always have from the first time I asked you.

I wander the city, thinking, but it’s empty without you, but I want what you want, and think I’m losing myself, but but, but, I’ll tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me, because you don’t deserve any less.

Answer your questions when I’d rather not, and tell you the truth when I really don’t want to, and try to be honest because I know you prefer it.

And think it’s all over but hang on for just ten more minutes before you throw me out of your life.

Forget who I am and let me try to get closer to you, and somehow, somehow, somehow communicate some of the overwhelming, undying, overpowering, unconditional, all encompassing, heart enriching, mind expanding, ongoing, never ending… LOVE…I have for you. 

Persianas

1,2,3, probando de nuevo que pueda escribir y enviar entradas desde mi teléfono. Crucemos dedos y confiemos en la tecnología.