Tras mucha demora, por fin estreno un blog nuevo que llevaba en mi cabeza desde hace tiempo. Esta vez sólo bicicletas y lo
relacionado con ellas. Aún en pañales, lo alimentaré para que crezca sano y
fuerte. El nombre, un homenaje a la que aún me lleva de acá para allá desde aquellos principios de los ochenta: una Zeus
azul.
terrores nocturnos
Sobrevivir
a las órdenes de la noche,
tú te refugias en los libros,
a mí me retiene la tierra
con sus pensamientos.
Thomas Bernhard
a las órdenes de la noche,
tú te refugias en los libros,
a mí me retiene la tierra
con sus pensamientos.
Thomas Bernhard
Podría ser que hoy fuera uno de esos días
increíbles.
Dejarse ver y ser un honrado ciudadano de occidente.
Podría ser, lo se, no es difícil darse cuenta de eso,
quizás lo intentare y me atrape o me arrastre la corriente.
Ya lo se, lo se, no depende de uno
que se le va ha hacer, así son las cosas
aunque a veces duele que la vida siempre nos trate así.
Podría ser que hoy me encontrase a Don Quijote de repente.
Fíjate tú que bien, el delirante hidalgo de occidente.
Podría ser, lo se, yo también veo gigantes a menudo.
quizás lo intentare y me atrape o me arrastre la corriente.
Ya lo se, lo se, no depende de uno
que se le va ha hacer, así son las cosas
aunque a veces duele que la vida siempre nos trate así.
Dejarse ver y ser un honrado ciudadano de occidente.
Podría ser, lo se, no es difícil darse cuenta de eso,
quizás lo intentare y me atrape o me arrastre la corriente.
Ya lo se, lo se, no depende de uno
que se le va ha hacer, así son las cosas
aunque a veces duele que la vida siempre nos trate así.
Podría ser que hoy me encontrase a Don Quijote de repente.
Fíjate tú que bien, el delirante hidalgo de occidente.
Podría ser, lo se, yo también veo gigantes a menudo.
quizás lo intentare y me atrape o me arrastre la corriente.
Ya lo se, lo se, no depende de uno
que se le va ha hacer, así son las cosas
aunque a veces duele que la vida siempre nos trate así.
las devociones de Lou -y Woody-
Este sí aprehendía, no como contaba en la
anterior entrada. Grabó la Canción de septiembre de Kurt Weill en dos
ocasiones, una más rápida y otra más lenta. Si los nacional socialistas aducían
la decadencia como uno de los motivos para difamar la obra de Kurt, qué habrían
dicho del neoyorquino y sus colegas.
El tema original, del 38, con música de
Weill y letra de Maxwell Anderson. Este último nació en el 88 del XIX, por cierto,
al hilo de las partidas de nacimiento de las que hablaba también anteriormente.
Esta que sigue es la letra original del tal Maxwell; Lou la adaptó a su antojo, claro, que para eso el que puede.
Esta que sigue es la letra original del tal Maxwell; Lou la adaptó a su antojo, claro, que para eso el que puede.
When I was a young man courting the girls
I played me a waiting game
If a maid refused me with tossing curls
I'd let the old Earth take a couple of whirls
While I plied her with tears in place of pearls
And as time came around she came my way
As time came around, she came.
But it's a long, long while from May to Decemeber
And the days grow short when you reach September
And the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame
And I haven't got time for the waiting game
And the wine dwindles down to a precious brew
September, November - and these few vintage years
I'd share with you. These vintage years I'd share with you.
But it's a long, long while from May to December
And the days grow short when you reach September
And I have lost one tooth and I walk a little lame
And I haven't got time for the waiting game
And the days turn to gold as they grow few
September, November,
And these few golden days I'd spend with you
These golden days I'd spend with you.
When you meet with the young men early in Spring
They court you in song and rhyme
They woo you with words and clover ring
But if you could examine the goods they bring
They have little to offer but the songs they sing
And a plentiful waste of time of day
A plentiful waste of time
But it's a long, long while from May to December
Will a clover ring last till you reach September
And I'm not quite equipped for the waiting game
But I have a little money and I have a little fame
And the days dwindle down to a precious few
September, November,
And these few precious days I'd spend with you
These precious days I'd spend with you.
I played me a waiting game
If a maid refused me with tossing curls
I'd let the old Earth take a couple of whirls
While I plied her with tears in place of pearls
And as time came around she came my way
As time came around, she came.
But it's a long, long while from May to Decemeber
And the days grow short when you reach September
And the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame
And I haven't got time for the waiting game
And the wine dwindles down to a precious brew
September, November - and these few vintage years
I'd share with you. These vintage years I'd share with you.
But it's a long, long while from May to December
And the days grow short when you reach September
And I have lost one tooth and I walk a little lame
And I haven't got time for the waiting game
And the days turn to gold as they grow few
September, November,
And these few golden days I'd spend with you
These golden days I'd spend with you.
When you meet with the young men early in Spring
They court you in song and rhyme
They woo you with words and clover ring
But if you could examine the goods they bring
They have little to offer but the songs they sing
And a plentiful waste of time of day
A plentiful waste of time
But it's a long, long while from May to December
Will a clover ring last till you reach September
And I'm not quite equipped for the waiting game
But I have a little money and I have a little fame
And the days dwindle down to a precious few
September, November,
And these few precious days I'd spend with you
These precious days I'd spend with you.
Otro que no es manco a la hora de coger el concepto capital es Woody. Suena September song al comienzo de su Radio days por debajo de su voz narrativa.
1900
Corría el 43 y en
medio de las bombas que asolaban buena parte del planeta, Broadway seguía
ofreciendo sueños estelares a un módico precio. La maquinaria no podía parase y
Hollywood también lo sabía. A más bombas, más evasión. Sucedió que no fue una
evasión fútil, pues la época de nacimiento de los sujetos creadores, finales
del XIX, principios del XX, les proporcionaba una dosis adicional de talento,
ese no elegido ni buscado, sino simplemente ligado a partidas de nacimiento,
convulsiones históricas y adeénes. El de Kurt es bien fácil e ilustrativo: de
origen judío, nacido en Alemania en la interfaz -1900- y precoz brillantez
musical. No parecen escasos ni parcos mimbres y así salió el cesto.
En el 43, vuelvo
al comienzo, el bueno de Kurt y su señora ya estaban afincados en los Estados
Unidos por motivos evidentes. El cartel de arriba es de la obra que se estrena
ese año, con música suya -no perderse nada del cartel-. En ella, una tonada
sencilla, casi breve de más. Pasará a los anales de los estándares y será
interpretada por una legión de músicos. Pero volvamos al origen, pues Weill
deja una grabación tocando el piano y cantando. Esa era la guía. Después de más
de una hora escuchando versiones, este escribiente sólo deja colgadas dos: la
original y una instrumental de Gerry Mulligan y Chet Baker. Todo lo demás,
juicio subjetivo claramente, no llega. Qué difícil aprehender.
Música de Kurt
Weill y letra de Ogden Nash:
Speak low when you speak, love
Our summer day withers away too soon, too soon
Speak low when you speak, love
Our moment is swift, like ships adrift, we're swept apart, too soon
Speak low, darling, speak low
Love is a spark, lost in the dark too soon, too soon
I feel wherever I go that tomorrow is near, tomorrow is here and always too soon
Time is so old and love so brief
Love is pure gold and time a thief
We're late, darling, we're late
The curtain descends, ev'rything ends too soon, too soon
I wait, darling, I wait
Will you speak low to me, speak love to me and soon
Speak low when you speak, love
Our summer day withers away too soon, too soon
Speak low when you speak, love
Our moment is swift, like ships adrift, we're swept apart, too soon
Speak low, darling, speak low
Love is a spark, lost in the dark too soon, too soon
I feel wherever I go that tomorrow is near, tomorrow is here and always too soon
Time is so old and love so brief
Love is pure gold and time a thief
We're late, darling, we're late
The curtain descends, ev'rything ends too soon, too soon
I wait, darling, I wait
Will you speak low to me, speak love to me and soon
para mañana
procrastinar.
(Del lat. procrastinare).
"In
rebus gerendis tarditas et procrastinatio odiosae sunt" ("En la
ejecución de los asuntos, la lentitud y la procrastinación son odiosas").
Cicerón.
de martes a miércoles
la noche afuera
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Idilio en el café
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Ahora me
pregunto si es que toda la vida
hemos estado
aquí. Pongo, ahora mismo,
la mano ante los ojos —qué latido de la sangre en los párpados— y el vello inmenso se confunde, silencioso, a la mirada. Pesan las pestañas. No sé bien de qué hablo. ¿Quiénes son, rostros vagos nadando como en un agua pálida, éstos aquí sentados, con nosotros vivientes? La tarde nos empuja a ciertos bares o entre cansados hombres en pijama. Ven. Salgamos fuera. La noche. Queda espacio arriba, más arriba, mucho más que las luces que iluminan a ráfagas tus ojos agrandados. Queda también silencio entre nosotros, silencio y este beso igual que un largo túnel. |
Jaime Gil de Biedma
falda
como un tornado que pasara
lentamente
la vida esparció los objetos
por las cuatro
esquinas de este mapa objetos
de escaso valor souvenirs
bolígrafos gastados
transistores sin pilas y
prendas prendas como esa falda
tirada por el suelo
recuerdo el día que la
compraste ¿qué es esto? no
no voy a ponérmela es
demasiado corta cien mil veces
en cócteles en verbenas en
domingos estúpidos en casa
bailando para ti sólo para ti
cien mil veces me la puse
sin bragas sin nada debajo
como tú me pedías y ahora ves
tirada por el suelo
se la pone luisa para jugar
con las amigas
si vieras cómo ha crecido en
pocos meses
Pablo García Casado
oasis
En un artículo reciente
en The independent sobre Steve Coogan, leo lo siguiente de abajo. Cuando aparece el sentido común es como un oasis.
In any
case, his life appears quieter than it was in 2007 when the Daily Mail dubbed him "Coogan the
Barbarian." He lives outside Brighton, near to Clare, his 16-year-old
daughter from a previous relationship, in a mansion he shares with Elle Basey,
a 23-year-old lingerie model he met when he was guest-editing Loaded. "And there I, ah, I draw
a veil," he says. "I don't like to bang on about my personal
life." He spends his spare time at his house in the Lake District. "I
don't like going to sunny places on holiday," he says, with a baffled
sneer. "I love Britain." He walks and reads – classic-car magazines
and history books. This weekend, he went cycling on the South Downs. "They
are not particularly exciting things", he says. "But I like doing
them."
His
professional life is rather more serious, too. Comedy leaves him a bit cold
these days. "You get older and you want something more. I do love comedy,
I'd just rather use it as a device to do something of substance." He is
already working on a new screenplay with Pope ("He's workmanlike, good at
the big picture. I over-analyse, like the myopia of it.") loosely based on
his childhood. And he is writing his autobiography. It will only cover half of
his life, probably up to when Partridge was born.
"So
I don't have to roll my sleeves up and start slagging off people I work with
and upset them. I'll only have to mildly criticise my friends and family. And
they won't sue me." Will it be a happy tale? "Yeah. I'll try and
manufacture some sort of trauma obviously. Make it more interesting. The
content will be slightly underwhelming – 90 per cent of my childhood was very
happy. I wasn't buggered by a priest, no one molested me. The only thing that
happened was I had to go bed early and miss Bouquet of Barbed Wire.
And I wasn't allowed a new Chopper for Christmas."
He
was a dreamy child, always fantasising about films, or life in London, where
everyone "lived in Mayfair, in expensive apartments, and drove
Bentleys." At school, he was a talented mimic, but a reluctant one. "I
wasn't the performing monkey. There were people in my class who goofed around
and I thought they were idiots," he says. He is not sure what he would
have done, had he flopped in showbusiness. "I dread to think. I probably
would have drifted into teaching. God knows, I've never had a proper job."
disparos
I
was five and he was six
we rode on horse made of sticks
he wore black and i wore white
he would always win the fight
we rode on horse made of sticks
he wore black and i wore white
he would always win the fight
Bang bang, he shot me down
bang bang, i hit the ground
bang bang, that awful sound
bang bang, my baby shot me down.
Seasons came and changed the time
when i grew up, i called him mine
he would always laugh and say
"remember when we used to play?"
Bang bang, i shot you down
bang bang, you hit the ground
bang bang, that awful sound
bang bang, i used to shoot you down.
Music played and people sang
just for me the church bells rang.
Now he's gone, i don't know why
and till this day, sometimes i cry
he didn't even say goodbye
he didn't take the time to lie.
en plural
- -
renuente.
(Del lat. renŭens,
-entis, part. act. de renuĕre, hacer con la cabeza un
signo negativo).
renuencia.
(Del lat. renŭens, -entis,
renuente).
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