27 ene 2010

Un azar cortazariano

Llegó a casa con las palabras goteando de las puntas de los dedos. Luego por leer tanto Rayuela, la vida parece más literatura que vise versa. El absurdo es que no parezca un absurdo. El absurdo es que salgas por la mañana a la puerta y encuentres la botella de leche en el umbral y te quedes tan tranquilo porque ayer te pasó lo mismo y mañana te volverá a pasar. Es ese estancamiento… ¿Y cómo hacerlo entender que lo que lo estancaba era tener que buscarle un sentido? Y sólo poder viajar estando en un lugar lejano, en vez de ver el viaje como la gran metáfora… lo que a vos te molesta es la legalidad en todas sus formas. En cuanto una cosa empieza a funcionar bien te sentís encarcelado.

Ella no necesitaba nada para viajar. Con sólo decir sí siempre (detrás, un gran ¿por qué no?) se encontraba camuflageada en un barrio perdido, agarrada de una reja de metal tan fotográfica, la única mujer entre varios mariguanos feos probando la compra nueva, compra que los alimentaría, compra que los hacía grandes: sus caras tenían Viaje escrito en la frente pero todos entendían que ya no iban a ninguna parte.

…Por nombrar un ejemplo de hoy.

Ella olía y tocaba la yerba. Con el panoramaroma y la música en sus oídos tenía todo lo necesario para sentirse fuera de su habitación con las pantuflas tiradas, la cama deshecha, la mesa que siempre vomitaba cosas sin importar cuánto acomodara los libros en torres de Jenga. Todos somos tortugas, recordó. Ella llevaba ese cuarto consigo, y estar en él era asomar su cabeza al oscuro caparazón, prender un incienso y la computadora. Los días que no sentía desperdiciados eran, por más que quisiera que fuera distinto, en los que sacaba la cabeza del caparazón y dejaba en pausa lo de adentro. Finalmente amaba el mundo (su casa siempre estaba ahí, estar ahí era suficiente) y observarlo y hacer composiciones. ¡Era una tortuga fotógrafa metafísica! Encuadrar, encuadrar, contextualizar, delimitar.

Él era distinto. Ella no sabía cómo amarlo ni por qué no quería. Una renuncia que a lo mejor está encubriendo la inutilidad del esfuerzo. Bueno, sí sabía, cosas superficiales, y ese pegajoso y desagradable sentimiento de sentir que a ella no se le había ocurrido. Pero lo necesitaba. Necesitaba que la mirara con esa cara de gatito perdido y le acariciara el cabello como si fuera una flor de loto en los pies de Buda y sentir el romance entre el fuego y el agua que nunca pueden tocarse porque se extinguen. El agua huye, se evapora en sus manos. Y el fuego es sólo manos, lanzándose al aire desenfrenadamente. ¿Y quién era el aire, jugando ping-pong con el fuego? ¿Y quién era la tierra, donde el agua se refugiaba?

Cada vez que alguien se escandalizaba de sus preguntas, una sensación violeta, una masa violeta envolviéndola por un momento. Probablemente de todos nuestros sentimientos el único que no es verdaderamente nuestro es la esperanza. La esperanza le pertenece a la vida, es la misma vida defendiéndose. Y cuando vos empezás a decir que habría que encontrar la unidad, yo entonces, veo cosas muy hermosas pero muertas, flores disecadas y cosas así.

La tierra probablemente era ese hombre árbol que jamás la amaría a ella, sólo absorbería su agua con gusto. Ese árbol amante sólo de otros árboles, aferrado a sus raíces e inconsciente de sus flores y sus frutos, de las hojitas que lo llenaban de vida. Y como el árbol nunca la amaría, el agua escarbó su propia tumba, ahí donde el aire nunca la haría temblar (del aire no quería volver a saber nada, el verdadero nombre del aire era viento, viento que pica, incomoda, excita y abandona) y el fuego nunca le haría cosquillas.

Qué cosas, qué cosas se le ocurren a uno en el sillón lleno de pelusas con el gato queriendo jugar rudo. Y ese otro hombre gato, el hombre fuego que ahí seguía. Encorvado. Con miedo a sí mismo, y (más que) miedo (menos que) porque a ella no le tenía nada de miedo. Pero ella debía tener cuidado, porque luego uno termina besándolos sin querer-queriendo. La película (las voces y la gran fotografía) los había dejado a ambos con ganas de llorar.

Ella se obligaba a expulsar unas lagrimitas, vaya juego, más movimiento de pecho que nada, un embudo ahí encima del pubis exhalaba calorcito, y se sentía más viva. Nada más, más Nada. (Luego cuando más anhelaba el llanto, más vacía de él se sentía. Era extraño, porque ni siquiera ese irónico fracaso le producía las ganas de llorar). En cambio a él le parecía ridículo (¡Qué ridículo! Si ella se sentía más en armonía que nunca cuando lloraba- o reía- a causa de que todo era igual de ridículo, el cortaúñas guiñándole el ojo, la mochila indiferente, las escaleras que trágicamente llevaban a un oscuro abajo, todo, la mirada del otro, tan lejano, queriendo estar cercano y no sabiendo cómo, poniendo el último esfuerzo empleando torpes palabras) y más llorar en público, con alguien para consolarlo que si lograba estar cerca, no lo estaría por siempre, y eso dolería. Cada vez sospecho más que estar de acuerdo es la peor de las ilusiones.

Hay momentos que la literatura no capturará jamás. Sin palabras llegar a la palabra (qué lejos, qué improbable). Cómo ella pudo, con un ligero apretón en el hombro y un movimiento ondulatorio apenas perceptible de su tenso cuerpo de nudos, hacer que se soltara, es uno de ellos. Capaz el cine, con sus atributos de amplitud sensorial y perspectiva, se acercarían más a las palpitaciones, a representar lo que ella sintió como magnetismo, cómo aquello se soltaba y se rendía (y no era una farsa como quizá parecería), y él lloró como un nene, y ella se paró y se insertó encima-atrás como una cucharita, y sus piernas envolviendo sus piernas y su espalda sobre su espalda formaban la misma figura que ella había dibujado como su tumba en la tierra, una media luna donde ella cabía acostada de costado, casi en posición fetal. A veces para un buen llanto, es necesario aludir a la posición fetal.

En el calor volcánico de ese abrazo él por fin pudo derrumbarse, no tener más miedo o al contrario, dejarse tenerlo. Mientras él emitía gemidos de agonía, ella sólo sonreía (por algo eran fuego y agua), con el cuerpo abierto pero con calor en la supericie (nada de viento, qué exquisito sentimiento) y miraba la única luz del cuarto: la que se colaba entre las persianas. ¿Es que por qué no podía ver él que eso era hermoso, que su habrazo hera herméticamente hermoso, y que también hera hermoso que las persianas pudieran moverse hasí, que el gato de pronto saltara detrás y hocurrieran hencantadores juegos de sombras, que hera hermosa la inversión de luz heléctrica hadentro- pasillo hoscuro hafuera en la que hestaban?

No renuncio a nada, simplemente hago todo lo que puedo para que las cosas me renuncien a mí. . ¿Te gusta la fórmula? No es eso, pero lo que yo quisiera decir es justamente indecible. Hay que dar vueltas alrededor como un perro buscándose la cola. Él estaba lleno de tumores, le pesaba el sufrimiento ajeno y los perros mordiéndose la cola que veía en todas partes, sobre todo que parieran más perros con los mismos padecimientos. Al lamentar los desafortunados, se sentía Atlas. Ella, tortuga marina, también receptiva (todo de afuera para adentro, ella no trasgredía), estaba llena de colores. La combinación quizá no era un cuadro de Mondrían, tal vez más como uno de Kandinsky. ¿Y no se te ha ocurrido sospechar que detrás de ese Mondrian puede empezar una realidad Viera de Silva? Al lamentar los desafortunados, se sentía río. El río no era más grande que ella, era ella como sus lágrimas fluyendo eran ella, como su piel que parecía fluido, como su pelo que crecía por todas partes. Pero ella era también otra cosa, algo que podía nadar a contracorriente, sí, con todo y su casita en la espalda.

Intercambiaron palabras, pero más silencios. Sin palabras llegar a la palabra (qué lejos, qué improbable). Y le gustó que las palabras no fueran torpes, que sonaran atinadas, como las de un personaje novelesco que lo sabe todo, más que el mismo autor.

21 ene 2010

Meditation

They say: no thoughts, just images. Repetition, breathing, counting. Close your eyes and inside, open them. What language are you counting in? Past and future all bundled up... isn't that the present? No.

Try to keep your balance: you have none.

North, South, East, West. With each view, what did you see?

It's all about lucid dreams again. When you dream, your heartbeat and breathing are constant, automatic. Your mind is clear. Your rationality is temporarly drugged, tickled and tricked. When you meditate, try this, but in-to-out (or out-to-in?), not in-to-in. Recall your life's not lost. Keep it, polish it, observe. Flashes of insignificant moments and theirs smells, their temperature and mood. Millions of fireflies with the scattering sweet sound of the bells.
A body sinking in the vast ocean with the twang of the cells. Cells of the forest creatures that wish only for silence. Always under, never over.

That recurring ocean... doing somersaults in the waves. Foam frothing forth.

I arrive at my image of what Iwish to heal: A sunkissed rosy girl in a dark blue full-piece bathing suit, with goosebumps in the windy stormy cloudy dusk, so blue, so grey, no stars. The ocean wild, trying to be like the wind, waking in a monstruos wave that shakes the core of vertical and horizontal... the girl before the wave, staring, shaking, hugging her knees, the wave taller than ten of she.

Push that image out, this is all about control. Shift from water to earth: a tree forms. Not any tree, the tree in my grandfather's garden, with the wooden swing. The same girl now in that tattered swing, in her parched overcoat, sw-inging , the view of vines flat in front of her face, the orange tree behind her, and far, centuries away, the house. Swinging, earth, tree. I remember that picture over the piano, where the chubby child I was holds a pink flower at the photographer, and the backdrop is those vines.

Before I reached this image you asked me to narrate my thoughts: I had said they were unstoppable. "It's just so hard to verbalize as I think, I can't help but think I'm cheating. And because thought (and that's why I can't cease to think) is in layers, and there are many voices, some more abstract some more concrete, and one comments and the other remarks, and I know I'm thinking because I'm thinking about thinking, and then thinking about how I know I'm thinking because I think about knowing I'm thinking, and then again, until this is just one voice again, and suddenly the book Rayuela comes to mind, for some reason... "

When I am only body my mind is finally only mind.

And my heart... lost somewhere. Free to no longer be protagonist. Only an empty shell that fills with water.

I know that if I constantly play these games, change will happen. Game will be my life, playing with the rules of tranquility. Impersonating a wink, the distortion of parallel lines.

13 ene 2010

Apeiron

No plans, no revolutions: the world tending towards unity (no more Olympic gods, just one), to being a snake biting its own tail (as everything). The alert mistrusting man sees diversity as an agent of fear. The naïve as the seed of love. But even love is often war, and canned diversity that can't get out.... will eat itself until it's one giant snake that ends up chasing its own tail.

Things blow up and reconstruct from the ashes, as faulty as before. Edipuses breeding with their mothers and Electras with their fathers, condemning their children to houses with mirrors instead of walls. History throwing out hope and despair in turn, and popes and presidents and Alexander the Greats. Revolutionaries who never wanted to change the show, just be themselves the man behind the curtain. Temptation, selfishness, knowledge, the devil... God and the devil were put in the same book by the same people. Devils who didn't want you to want the knowledge they had taken, so you could believe in an entity they had created. The snake in Eden was an inside job, and the apple was of dischord (like the one that caused the Trojan War), not of knowledge. That big snake will eat you until it's one giant snake that ends up chasing its own tail.
Ouroboros. An ancient symbol of infinity.

(Infinity. The Greeks suspected it essential. The Greeks suspected everything... it seems we knew the answers from the dawn of thought. Instead of realizing the answer solves nothing, evasion has led us on a blind quest for truth, until the answer has a question mark at the end and the questions become the quest. And dialogue becomes a snake chasing its own tail.)


11 ene 2010

Pro-choice or pro-life?

Over the dripping dishes
Her pregnant belly pressed against the sink
Look! a fly stuck on the plastic stickies
Must remove but don’t know how
And don’t want to really- hum hum humming
The future (but don't count your chickens) mother
Realizes she's no longer one half of a couple
(Goooooooooodbye, baby's daddy)
But a couple in one
Because the living being inside her
Is enough to not feel lonely, ever
And she knows with as much certainty
As the cells that sleepwalking begat him
That her son will never be warmer and more blissful
Than there inside the womb…
So for a second she secretly wishes,
For his and her and the sake of all the universe,
Not to the stars but to that fly on the window
That he’ll decide to stay unborn
And never die inside her.

8 ene 2010

Nausea

What is this all about?
Filling the puddles up with snow
Catching turning - tossing yearning
Traps we set up and fall into
Retracing our steps in the black mist,
Always in suspension like a
Bird firm on the wind-swung cables
And like a star that night enables
To shine brightly with thirst
And for universes away that cannot answer.
What clumsy fingers trip over the ivory
Keys that open no doors in the soul no more
So it's all about doing and more doing- dancing
Just like one does numb and nothing- staring
Because nothing now makes us remember
And doing helps us forget.

6 ene 2010

Pensamientos reciclados

Escritos sueltos que encontré por ahí, independientes entre sí, de hace un par de años. Es bonito recordar y observar los cambios. *

and as i look into my heart, i can see what others cant: desert storm, unheard but heartfealt tantrum, seen and lived by no one but the still and quiet sands...

*

you left a pebble in my throat
i swallowed, it went to my heart
you squeezed my skin
and left a mark
even if my memory was glass
my body would remember

*

there’s an heavy emptiness carved out of my skin
the weight of negative space is more notorious
so much denser than air
like dark shadow that fills a white container
and no one else can see, like the rainbows when
there is no rain
or the stars in the day
there's a human-shaped hole in the place where your body should be.

*

i fell in love with a beautiful stranger
not so strange anymore
you were my first EVERYTHING
and i learned to SEE everything
not as it is but as it appears to be...and i like that world much better.

*
La cascada
y ahí encontre un tesoro que no se podia contar
las joyas en contraste se empezaban a opacar
y la luz, aunque escondida, no dejaba de brillar....

*

peace... tranquility.. there is something humbling about space... feeling the trembling of a leaf.. the breathing of every being..... looking out and being shocked that your small eyes capture everything.... wandering from who knows where to places you never knew you could get, with wet grass and moss between and betwix and beyond.... and all the lands are beyond because you can hardly see the horizon.... and you know no one and remember no one and want no one but your tiny chest going up and down as you breathe.... and you close your eyes and you see no difference because the image is still in your head, the image of rolling hills and thin, open air.... you feel like a speck interrupting the harmony, like dust in a plain, like sand... and then you feel more important than rain, more significant than the sun, worth more than the mountain itself, because you can see, you can appreciate, you are not chewing blissfully on grass but admiring...and you feel the whole earth trembling on its axis and beating continually, pulsating with life, filled, if not only, with peace and tranquility....

*

Inspiration comes from pain... from looking at the same stories in your past, repeating themselves. Pain comes from looking at the glass and seeing nothing, no water, not even a half empty glass. All the water is born from your eyes who sprinkle their invisible promises in the solid air. I wish I could tell you exactly how I feel. Relying on language to spread emotion to your face. A spinning orb in an abyss that gently rotates on. That is my story. Pain helps me rid myself of other pain. Deeper pain. Your smile helps me forget the emptiness of this overflowing world. Together we will all float on. But we are millions of particles and universes away. How to feel proximity with that which is my heart? Writing words on silver screens and feeling special because there lies hidden meaning... not knowing how to feel when you are finished or how your lies embelished come accross. Wondering what is the true you. Wondering if there is a true you. Losing your memories like sand in the wind. Sobbing like a desert storm that comes suddenly on dry land. The frustration of cutting your own skin..... not knowing whether to care or to not. I live in a world of oxymorons and contradictions where everything is relative and nothing is truly important. Which would be fine if there wasn't another world inside me, shaking the jail cell bars.

*

im having amnesia and dejavu at the same time...i think i've forgotten this already

2 ene 2010

Desorbitado deseo

Pasando finas llanuras de musgo sobre el cerro que se eleva a la boquilla de la luna en el bosque orfeico de palos torcidos de obsidiana en la cueva de un recuerdo
Una llama bailó.

Una llama encendida por error
Rebanada en el viento del ala de un ave primavera pasada de colores irreconocibles la engendró
La llama creció.

No quería
Y el bosque miraba al invierno y al otoño a sus lados y
La prohibía.

Al bosque le empezó a dar comezón y se retorció incómodo los árboles se opacaron como en otros oscuros noviembres y nunca agua cayó fueron tiempos de viento mas no de navíos
Y la llama supo que había venido para ahogarlo todoahogar el bosque en cambio en deseo consumado accidental como el roce del ala pero fatal
Llama de deseo que creció hasta volverse danza
Y danza que desorbitó hasta ser caos
Y bosque que nunca fue más
Obsidiana

Quedaron cenizas.

Las condiciones (el bosque, las lluvias, la montaña, la luna; seres que deben responder las inquietudes de la chispa) no fueron nada propicias para la mesura y moderación.
Tras muchos despliegues oníricos y mucho caminar llegaron las nubes a lamentar el suicidio.

28 dic 2009

The Loneliest Moment

The loneliest moment happened
As the highway curves were getting sharper
And the night coming on with
No such fireflies
With the speakers right behind her leaning head
Echoing the cracked excited guitar
-Sounds from a dimly lit urban studio-
When she realized she was swinging in her seat with her eyes closed
Only pretending to fall asleep but no one had seen her
And the scenery went only as far as the headlights.

27 dic 2009

You

I remember now
(and dreams of talking to someone who with silence
would echo my words
sharing a bed at some remote hotel in the mountains)
a flawed- for sure- fall
into a wonderful womb
where the waterfall falls
for falling in love is like
water remembering it can't fliy
is like eyes learning colors...
I remember now and cry
-Tremble like a leaf in fall about to die-
You were the question that came
after all the answers

21 dic 2009

Palabras que pesan cuando vas hacia el río

Siendo como el caudal del río
El agua
Esa que cambia y sigue su camino
Haciéndole cosquillas a la montaña
Aprendiste
Más sublime que volar a gran velocidad
(Hasta sacar lágrimas, convertir
aire en viento
y tierra en movimiento)
Es aprender a recorrer
a paso lento

17 dic 2009

Farewell to an Addiction

It is a fountain you cannot extract wealth from, an oasis on exhibit only. This is what she concluded at the end of her reflection, at the end of such a lucid mental journey. But even now, as she was writing, she held the source of that oasis as central to the story she had to tell and the reasons and ways she was telling it. How she saw herself there, rocking on that chair with that blank stare, so in her and in the heart of the music, realizing music, movement, the twitching of her leg, chaos, and so many of these words mean the same thing, and how this vision would not be repeated for a while. It was a moment of deep awareness, the excited state of unobstructed contemplation, free from obscure rational mechanisms, that words never locked in securely. Most got lost even to memory, who could only recall sensations, and feeble echoes of a certainty that one had been “realizing and observing a bunch of things”. That is why she had to leave it. For a while.
And that is how she found herself there, curved wooden pipe in her mouth, on that delicious terrace, lost in the aroma of the music and the dim light from indoors, saying her long farewell to it. In all farewells one recollects the past events to recognize properly what one is saying farewell to, and just at that moment came to mind all that this act defined in the general narration of the past couple of months. Lost in a lover’s eyes, exhaling smoke; arriving with a sly half-smile to English class; staring red-eyed at the computer; hiding from the cops in the crowd in a far away city; she could go on. There were many moments of thinking: yes, I do this, and often, but it is only part of my life… at the same time, there was little life when it was irrelevant and a brief distance in time between these parts of her life. So it came to define: yes, life flying high was still life, there was still sobriety, obligations, other pleasures, people, activities, and it was only a change of state. She clasped the pipe recognizing that its taboo truly was a social oppression and strictly arbitrary in fact, but nonetheless real and nonetheless relevant. Even thought this held true, she also knew that it was arbitrary for her, too, as she saw that while it was still life it did make a difference as to what one’s life was, and more than it enveloping everything, it found its way into everything. So it would be hard. It would be hard to take this piece out, this tricky piece that shook her and she could not trust, that stole her, that took her to places it never properly explained, that made her doubt and made her far-away and steered her off the path into the dark woods even though her mother said stay on the trail, Little Red. She was so accustomed to it, she would now have to stay on the trail after learning that the problem with the dark forest was that you just never wanted to leave.
This is why she was saying goodbye, and the how to the why, with such force and poignancy. This year had been such a loud year, intentionally and unintentionally epic. Perhaps the age of three had been a similar kind of year, for its changes. In such a charged year, the dramatic end was definitive as the closing of a cycle, a time to open the eyes but also forget that the issue of calendars and new years is but man’s invention. So indeed she was closing a cycle taking a bold step forward: it was time. Time to prove and remember, check who she was after all without that, for one thing was talking about it only being a small part of one’s life and another caring to find out just how small. And time to prove, most importantly, that what she had assumed of herself since the age of three, and defended, was true: if she decided she was going to do something, she did it.
It made her sad how much it was hurting and how much she really did love it. How much it was a beacon in her increasingly solitary lifestyle. How she would probably get tense from so much uninterrupted reality after a while, but she would be firm, and probably wouldn’t even notice that tension because she would forget, but that tension would still be there.
Ah, time. Much would this teach her about the nature of time, that ever-burning enigma in her head. So she was saying goodbye: a torn goodbye to a mysterious dark love, one that’s like a true love –who sees you as you are when you’re alone –you one day realize you don’t understand and is mainly in your head. One you find it hard to leave. And in this case, it was a temporary goodbye, a letting go to give meaning to the being together. To make it better. To make it healthy. Probably in only that was it different for her, psychologically, than when at three she quit her pacifier, and threw it in the garbage can on her birthday with tears in her eyes, never to touch one again.

15 dic 2009

Para Monica

Un poemita muy simple y directo que escribí una noche pensando en mi mejor amiga, ahora ya pasó incluso ese mes y en dos días la veré. =)

It’s too soon to start missing you,
I would think to myself (to not get sad)
… and it was, truly.
Because two months are a void but
Nothing then like four: at two
We still feel on vacation for sure.
But now the thought of watching a movie together
Of travelling again
Of swinging back into that dynamic that will feel surprisingly new
Like getting back to the gym after so many months
Really tickles my insides
And fills me with nostalgia.
I’ll see you in December…
(Now only a month away)

11 dic 2009

How I am alone

YES, it is that
-how I am-
(a fuzzy girl who write
sand sings, swiings)
What I showed you,
I was like how
I am alone with you
And that's what got me tied and made me cry.

6 dic 2009

Closure

As she drove away it was already in the past. She had to tell herself that the distinct hue of the heavy sun that morning, her heavy head, the heaving in her chest, and the senseless turns of the pebbly unfamiliar streets would not overpower her will and ability to get home safe. Movement. It never stopped. That's why she loved that playful mode in which all the flowers in the upholstery came to life, in which there was always a difference. And the tremors of the music that also always moved. She asked, and the answers always came, swinging at her. The sinking feeling at the end was from the lack of change these answers produced: she already knew them, and didn't want to. She had taken charge, as usual, and at the moment it seemed like a reckless, agressive insistence, and the people involved like indifferent pawns on a chessboard- she was the clown moving them! And they had blast. Wanting to be in love, she had figured that it was an unstoppable force, when really they could never fulfill each other's needs. The magnetism in the touch was still there. The tears still came, but when the light was brightest it all looked smaller in a way (more distorted) but less in sync. She could probably let it go now. That was what she had wanted all along. Nothing happened. Nothing happened even when she set the stage for a marvelous spectacle. Because you can not force time and you can not force people: you can only force out the answers. And the ones that she was still unsure of, the ones that she did not really want to hear, she did not bring herself to ask. And reply she got none. So things would be wonderfully wierd and uncertain. Like the beautiful moving clouds, and the pattern she made out on the linen headlight covers, and the jungle green of the trees, and the bedsheets, and her hands groping at his sleeping, unaware everything, and knowing that what would always keep them apart was his indifference and her DIFFERENCE.

30 nov 2009

Movimiento

Movi movi movi
Miento de un punto azul pluriforme
Avanzando en sus mareas
A veces por una llanura
Luego jaspeada de gente
Lo lleva por muchas colinas
Caídas vueltas
Apenas respira
Y luego viajes en carreta
De silencios y ronquidos
Pero a veces y muy pocas veces
Le va cerrando y cerrando el camino
Conduciendo a una cueva, un vér
Tice donde se topa a sí mismo
Le da náusea
Se acuerda de lo que es y no tiene
De que odia la soledad
Y hasta el final
En un cuarto oscuro sin
Música ni musas leyendo
A la luz de las velas
Se disuelve.

29 nov 2009

Artículo informativo: "La música indie" o "encuentro casual con un músico que me hizo una pregunta"

“Indie music. Me preguntaste qué género me gusta, y quiero ser poco rollera (como suelo ser) y respondo eso. Pero me respondes con una cara de perplejidad –quieres saber más… ¿a qué nos referimos cuando decimos eso?

Me doy cuenta que no, no es jazz, ni música hindú, ni clásica, tampoco, y sí es que alguno es folk, otro es realmente pop, y sí, es un tipo de evolución del rock… Pero es que más bien se distingue de su género. Es pop, rock, folk, música electrónica… todo con un sabor en común que lo hace “indie”. Así que sí, a los indies nos gusta de todo, pero “indie”. Independiente, normalmente de poco alcance comercial (esto no debe ser visto como un prejuicio politizado, sino como una lucidez sobre la realidad de los mercados musicales tendenciosos e interesados y su efecto directo en la música), creatividad sonora enfocada en la experimentación o el rompimiento del “canon” que siguen simultáneamente la mayoría de las bandas de determinado momento, con un público mayoritariamente liberal y cibernético (y sí, probablemente, consumidores de cannabis), difundiéndolos por medio de algún blog. Éstas parecen ser las características que reúnen a lo “indie”, y como eso no nos dice nada propiamente musical, debemos aceptarlo no tanto como un género sino como una generalización: no escucho absolutamente de todo, tengo algo muy importante llamado “criterio”, que es realmente lo que te interesa conocer cuando me preguntas qué música escucho. Tengo entendido que es un género bastante ecléctico, pero insisto en la validez de mi criterio y sí, de la crítica. Si quieres saber más sobre el perfil del indie: normalmente en su biblioteca musical tenga también música étnica, oldies del rock clásico, jazz, y/o bandas experimentales y post-rock. Algunos indies se irán más por el folk y se llegarán a distinguir muchísimo de indies electro, e incluso llegan a aparecer los indies comerciales (los indies que se dicen indies por seguir bandas inspiradas o provenientes de tendencias indies pero que ahora aparecen en la radio y la tele todo el día, y sólo conocen ésas).

Creo que ya se entiende mi respuesta y probablemente me agradezcas por haber podido por fin entender de qué se trata lo indie, pero también me doy cuenta que sí, mi explicación es muy rollera. Probablemente los que entendemos así el indie lo seamos, y yo sé que soy rollera. Por eso también siento que el indie me representa: es el tipo de música que va con mi persona, mi ritmo interno, mi gusto (sabor) musical que coincide con mi individualidad y habla de ella. Así entiendo los gustos musicales, y por eso puedo admitir que mis gustos no los tendría que compartir todo el mundo, y que algunas cosas que otros escuchan son más refinadas técnicamente o conceptualmente más creativas. Pero bueno, suficiente. ¿A ti qué música te gusta? (Elige bien tus palabras). “

28 nov 2009

Lydia's Fall

WATCH LYDIA FALL! HAHA
She CARTWHEELS! CARTWHEELS! Down the slope and
SPLASH
She’s SPOT AND SPLOT and CRASH AND CRASH AND CRASH
All those paper planes! All those picnic tables- gone!
What will become of you, fair Lydia’s lover?
What comfort now will hold the stars, that blink
Despite no longer blink her eyes.
What a crying shame you flew that kite TONIGHT!
And with SUCH carelessness
No more no more for EVER more HAHA
No more thinking about orange tictacs or staring at the moving clouds
No more gazing at her cleavage and making her POUT!
And making her SHOUT!
And making her COME!
COME UNDONE! Haha
WATCH LYDIA FALL AND NO NO WINGS
NOT FLY!!

26 nov 2009

Más caídas, más impurezas

Queremos pedir perdón porque queremos que nos absuelvan, que no quede duda de que fuimos inocentes. Queremos perdonar para sentirnos grandes moralmente, sentir que son banalidades y que conocemos a la persona, y que se trata de una relación incondicional. Porque nos gustan los respaldos, y las certidumbres, esas luces (encendedores en los conciertos) que nos orientan y la relación se vuelve agarrarnos la mano sudada en tiempos de peligro- te necesito. Pero luego sale el sol y nace tu sombra -¡qué presencia!- ves las muecas de desconfianza y burla y desasosegada, sueltas la mano que nunca fue tan pura y caminas sola.
No muere ese impulso, esa necesidad de amor, la latencia en realidad de querer encontrar a alguien, a una persona, que te llegue con todo.
(Cada vez es más una fantasía, cada vez te ensucias más y te derrites en lágrimas por todo ese caos externo que sí acabó con tu pureza, y te alejas, rota ahora, lista por fin para interactuar con los demás porque has caído y ya eres como ellos).
Yo era un jabón blanco y curvilíneo, que se manchaba pero ERA limpieza. Pero ensuciaron el único jabón que quedaba, y sólo uno más grande lo podría remediar. Eso no pasa.

24 nov 2009

Pied Beauty

GLORY be to God for dappled things—

For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;

For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;

Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;

And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.


All things counter, original, spare, strange;

Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)

With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;

He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:

Praise him.

-Hopkins

Este poeta religioso era amante del caos y la multiplicidad, de lo mestizo. No muy común para el idealismo y purismo de la época... No sólo formalmente, conceptualmente entrelazaba contradicciones en un mismo verso y rompía esquemas: su idea de un "verso en contrapunto" era la genial fusión del eco que automáticamente resuena en la mente del lector al descubrir el ritmo y metro de un verso y el metro y ritmo inesperados del siguiente. Leyendo este poema en voz alta, volvemos a entender la poesía como trance y como música.

18 nov 2009

You wanted a poem about the cold

You wanted a poem about the cold
The cold that grows from inside-
Out and invades the blood of the cheeks and the warm tears
Past the blanket and the soft dim light of your bedroom.

You tremble so, dear, such tremors
That an anxious mouse cannot achieve
And worse, your stale and cellar head
Is stuck on one imagining:
The criss-crossed lovers
Under the hanging tree
Feeling that they owned each others lips-
You bought the trick!
(And everyone in the audience got up and left
You perplexed, alone, staring at that hat and dead rabbit
Whose joke was on you)!

You shut eyes and all these phones with rythmic dial tones no one dials
and no one calls and no one rings
But you who shouts at the receiver:
"I cannot will
not hate you.
You probably won't ever again seek my sway
You don't exist, were never half
Will not repent, lament, just laugh
And graph a gimmicky trail to tear my ventricles apart
Again
And some one else will love you more and be your life and death"

Why do you trip in winter?
Why do these things happen when it's cold?

Maybe you saw it coming and wanted something to hold.
But all you've gone and done is make yourself grow older.
You wake from sleep and oh! It's getting colder.