Friday, March 17, 2006

Japan

Yesterday, the prince of Japan went to Mexico, for a quite strange reason, my father had to this event. As i was considering a subject to write a micro story for some event at the USAL. I use the subject and made a short story. Here it is.

El Príncipe de Japón.

Este puto calor. La camisa pegada a la espalda y el tráfico que no avanza. Aquí estoy en mi pequeño coche en la ciudad más grande del mundo y está toda colapsada. Son casi las doce, no voy a llegar. Que chingados tendré que ver yo con el maldito Foro mundial del agua. Toda la mañana mirando pasar gente por la alfombra y ahora esto.

A quien chingados se le habrá ocurrido enseñarle al Príncipe de Japón un pinche río entubado, además hasta Cuemanco, el puto fin del mundo. Ahora todos a pitar, la ciudad más grande del mundo y todos pitando. No voy a llegar.

El señor bajito nos forma a todos, hay que agachar la cabeza cuando pasen y ya está. No le oigo bien, los gritos de la gente afuera de la reja no me dejan oir. Me pone en el pasillo justo frente del estrado. Me pregunto por que me ha puesto aquí y me pregunto quien chingados habrá puesto esta alfombrita en medio de este sitio. En medio de la nada.

Ahora hace más calor, y afuera vuelven a gritar, mueven las rejas. Miro al señor bajito, lo está pasando mal el cabrón. La gente formada como yo se mira con desconcierto, esperando, ahí de pie en el calor, esperando.

Se han callado, cuando han entrado, la gente se ha callado. Ese es el príncipe de Japón, a su lado la princesa camina lentamente. La gente les mira en silencio, cuando pasan, la cabeza, hay que agachar la cabeza. El Príncipe tiene unas gotitas de sudor en la frente pero actúa como si no pasara nada, no se pasa el pañuelo por la frente, no mira a ninguna parte, solo camina lentamente. Al llegar al estrado, se colocan de pie, muy serios, están frente a mi, muy cerca de mi.

Ella lleva un pañuelo en el pecho, de seda azul, tiene pequeñas figuras bordadas, es hermoso. Al medio hay dos ruiseñores de cola larga, parecen volar como haciendo círculos. El cuello de la princesa es largo y blanco, muy blanco. En el hueco que hay al comienzo del cuello, debajo de la garganta tiene una perla de sudor, solo una. No me he dado cuenta de que miro con atención. Se da cuenta de que la miro y me mira, me está mirando.

La gente vuelve a gritar, más fuerte ahora, se oye la reja de metal cayendo al suelo, alguien me empuja por la espalda, vuelvo a mirar, las alas del ruiseñor tienen las plumas blancas.

My dear little god ...

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Aguita quenching

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Es dificil ser mariachi en Berlin.



Weekend with my cousin at Berlin, spend a very good day at Pergamo taking pictures of us and Seneca, Platon, Aurelio, Telepho and many of our greek friends. We pass trough the gates of Babylon as Alexander Magno did, and run into conversation going from the faith, truth and how pretty are Hungarian womans.

Ernesto has managed to make a large and nice collection of friends each one with a very extraordinary stories. Some of them are very sad and few of them mix quite amazing things with really funny stuff (One guy is mariachi and is on TV spots by VW). Most of the stories got to do with people coming from far away doing things that seems not very common, but that match very nicely into Berlin.

My brave cousin Ernesto, has a little something that might lead to great things, hopefully life can help us as it has always done.

Friday, March 10, 2006

Ich bin Spanien !!!

So, i finally discovered why i was feeling in a flamenco mood all these days, I have been given the Spanish DNI, altought my DNA still very mexican, i think there is no one more mexican than me really.
Any way, this lead us to wonder that at this point you should be given a Spanish KIT togheter with the DNI.
The KIT should contain:

-Una bota de vino
-Un abre botellas del Barca (o del Mardid a los de mal gusto)
-Un palillo
-Un libro titulado "Mi propia versión del Statut" con las páginas en blanco.
-etc.

I am reading "Llameme Brooklyn", Coney Island, Madrid, Oaxaca together in one story, good at the moment.
Quote of the day.

-Mi alma, mi cuerpo, mi voz. no sirven de nada.
Por que
YoooooOOOOooo ...
sin ti no soy nada -

Amaral (There is something more Spainiard than this?)

The photon Boys


The photon Boys
Originally uploaded by Camilo Ruiz Méndez.
As the correlation was very evident, i decided that it should be explored. Let me introduce the VESPA model. By the way congratulations to Julio and LPlaja and their respective family. It is great to have photno boys in this world !!!

Lights in front of the Einstein cafe

From Dresden.

I've been now for three months in Dresden, fair enough time to really take a bit taste for the city. It started very rude as the weather was very cold, lot of snow, and short days, now days are a bit large and the sun seems to be present more frequently. Fun things have happened to me since i been here, most of them related to my ignorance. The first night i spent at my new apartment, there were no blankets, so i covered with some curtains there were in the closet, it was really cold, but the worst part is that they were synthetic and they charged with static electricity, and then when i moved they were sparkling and making thunder like sounds withe lighting coming out in the darkness, it was really awful, but now it is very funny.

Then one saturday, just after the celebration of the 61 th anniversary of the bombing over Dresden, i was crossing the bridge and notice that the police (real no kidding at all police) was in the middle of the river saying something like achting!! achtung !!. The nazis were on AlbertPlatz trying to cross the river, in the middle the police and then in the other side, the black block guys, all wearing in black, covering their faces, standing against the police. In the other end of the river, more police and then the democratic political parties.

Although the meaning of the event ere really bad and everybody be ashamed and worry, i have to tell that from the stethical point of view it was beautiful. The light of the sun behind the clouds, the river, the snow falling. Like most of the worst thing in the worlds they often occur in very beautiful places.

Some pictures about the New years eve at Berlin, we have reached the conclusion is that the German character has to do with the calm on any situation.
(When a snow storm is making the buildings to move)
Is it snowing?
really?...

(It is so cold that your finger can barely move, all covered with ice)
Is is 20 dregrees below zero?
i haven't noticed....

Big fan of Neustadt by now.