Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Wedding Slideshow Introduction
Well, well, well, well ....
Ah, yes, what is good about blogging is the immediacy. That can be updated instantly. We will not expect journalists to get out of bed to deliver the news. It's nice not having a boss to tell you what, how and when to write. Here are the bloggers, the seventh power. Free as the wind never write.
However, and now I have to work, I am obliged to, not a boss but two or three or four (the problems of multiple jobs), I decided to take the ostracism to this blog. A whole month without opening the bill and when you open it: cuaaaac, the smallest return of history.
Because what makes me get down to the keyboard is the newsletter of literary news agency. It is rare that something exists and where it could exist only in Miami and who could carry on but a Latino. And in the salad without interest are usually those "literary news" I find that today's newsletter includes three stories that talk to each other involuntarily
LITERARY NEWS No. 1 .- The writer Marcela Serrano open a clothing house in Santiago de Chile.
The notice states that "the Chilean writer begins a new stage in your life with an office away completely from the literature (...) The store, which also sold works of art, design and fitting, will at its center the costumes, including a women's clothing line designed by the writer. " However
: how to say, a priori, that the costumes designed by the writer not closer to the literature books? Marcela Serrano definitely has a fashion designer name. And I believe in the magic power of the names I am convinced that their designs will be closer to being an object aesthetically beautiful, and therefore closer to the literature books.
LITERARY NEWS N º 2 .- The story and the novel experience crises of quality: Seymour Menton.
Menton refers to the Latin American narrative. Struck me in passing Menton's statement that "some stories of Quiroga, Borges, Onetti, Rulfo and Cortázar would be difficult to overcome, even for novels." I agree, and I immediately say, two Argentines, two Uruguayan and Mexican and still Felisberto Hernández
lack While I'm far from being able to say anything about the health of the contemporary Latin American narrative, I will find the anthology "The English-American story," prepared by Menton and now in its 7th. revised and enlarged edition, although I have the 2 nd. I look at the index. Felisbertoless, Bioyless, Ocampoless. It's nothing, an anthologist anthology at will. And in passing through my mind what Bolaño?. Well, maybe I have included in previous editions, and rightly stresses Bolaño not just as a storyteller, but then I read another story, but old, who was saved out there and that has to do with the quality crisis narrative recent Latin American:
"If I did not include authors born in the sixties (in the 7 th edition of the anthology), not on purpose. Just not really outstanding stories found in this group." However, the critic born in 1927 in New York said that does not mean out of sympathy with young writers. "To verify that sympathize with the young, provided that deserve my attention, several conferences this year, I noted the great achievements of 'In Search of Klingsor", by Jorge Volpi (1968) "
Uh, Seymour vs. Sigmur. Celebrity Deathmatch.
LITERARY NEWS N º 3 - Declared wilderness first prize Tusquets Editores de Novela
This news gives reason to Menton. And there's nothing that I love more than a jury award desert states. And in its first edition! I seem to see those responsible for organizing the competition, wondering, what notice Sprite "What we will have wrong?"
Some may seem silly but it takes a brave jury to order desert a contest in which 785 were presented not only Latin American novels, a publishing contest as Tusquets and is released under the Guadalajara Book Fair. If the prize Alfaguara de Novela had done the same, we had saved bummer ilevantables as the novels of Manuel Vicent and Clara Sanchez. Moreover, here in Montevideo, judges have been honored to void and insisted that certain contests and have met with strong opposition from the rest of the jury, with the excuse that it is a crime not to award the prize, here in Uruguay , where prizes are scarce and the money that a mediocre writer can spend in becoming a writer even worse, lost forever in the coffers of the government or is intended to clean the pipes of the SBI.
And speaking of awards: novaleventar declared winner of "Arrow" to the Faculty of Chemistry, which took nearly a week to perform the analysis brown water that comes out of your tap, ma'am, sir, and give his diagnosis that the water was not potable according to quality standards SBI. Water that any idiot with the naked eye could determine who had considerable wealth oxide residues (and also has aluminum and manganese) was declared at all times safe to drink. I forgot to say that the fund was mineral water. The Uruguayans are of iron.
And finally, idle question: The order of these stories should not be exactly the opposite? Do you even a 2-3-1? I know, is negligible. But it is tiring. Not for nothing that breaks the camel is a drop, not a bully jet. One day the guard has the bad idea of \u200b\u200bspending a stop and grab an ax and kill all poultry in the block. Or, to calm your nerves, you put a laundromat, internet cafe and spent many days pondering whether to call or CleanWindows Bra & Brainwash or Wash-o-Matic or LaveClick or Pumpass. And then think who the hell cares. Then grab a bigger ax or perhaps could be ... orange juice concentrate and gasoline ... or maybe ...
That's it. I will continue contrahibernando. Summer makes it bad for my snowy skin. I am a bipolar bear. Do not comment much.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Majin Tantei Nogami Neuro Doujinshi Online
watching TV
Diego Maradona: As I am now a man of television I have to ask a court. But then we go to what you want to do me (singing, Malpensa)
Rafaella Carrà: As you say, Commander.
DM: there is only one Commander
comes the cut. A stencil.
to victory, Drexler.
Latin Grammys.
umpf, umpf, umpf. Much
or shortly after, I can not say, but at 10, SAID AND DONE I fish in a frank discussion of national journalism, at least more open than I've heard lately. Should look carefully to account for things "terribly NOVEL" (although such time it on TV) that were said, not to mention the opportunity to hear the Director say that reading the Underline Gap because he believed in the honesty of its journalists beyond their point of view, the risks of specific micro-environment (Marcelo Pereira, Gap) to the assumption by Pereira (who at one point called Gabriel Sotelo) that journalists were lus Gap independent unique pressures because "Gap has no owner."
There were many pearls. Among those who hunted:
Gerando Sotelo: The white and red creeen that there is a plot of press because we are all left as people accuse us of being right-wing journalists and plotting against the government.
Bonus Track:
staff Journalist Said and Done, whose name I do not know: If I said half of what this man said, I throw (an interviewee on the street who said that the audience knows that there are vested interests and that the info was always smitten)
Gerardo Sotelo: From here, sure.
All this is coupled with two so horrible life circumstances unrelated living: the translation of a documentary by Canadian journalist Martin Himel on the "myth of the slaughter of Jenin" built by the English media and was labeled variously as "the truth about events in Jenin "or a" stinking piece of Israeli propaganda "and reading the latest Tom Wolfe novel" I Am Charlotte Simmons "as we know, a journalist who rose to literary status in the U.S. in the twentieth century and who far in his latest novel portrays life in the elite American university campus.
Augh,, journalism. Oh, journalism.
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Yaz Emergency Contraceptive
culture and people
few days ago we received an email at the movies that lists the date and time of meetings for areas that the government plan called Frente Cultural Assembly. Only I had a look, but that was enough glance to see two things: that the first area to present their concerns was "Carnival" (by which I rejected immediately the alphabetical order of the agenda, as it then came AUDIOVISUAL or visual arts) and the absence of an area LETTERS.
Then, an old issue of Film Review emerged from the shelves of the library and suddenly current again. Is the number of September 1981, which contains an article on the death of Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha. A box entitled "Populism only communicates illiteracy," quotes Glauber in 1968, referring to movies and Brazil, but uh ...
The Cinema Novo, rejecting film Imitation and choosing another form of expression, has also rejected the easy way out of that other typical language of nationalist art called the 'populism', reflecting a typically our political attitude. As the leader, the artist feels father's people, the watchword is' speak with simplicity so that people understand. "
In my opinion, is a lack of respect towards the public, with all that it can be underdeveloped, 'making things simple for simple people. " The town is not simple. Even when sick, hungry and illiterate, the people are complex. The paternalistic artist idealizes the subjects popular types fantastic that even in poverty have philosophy, and poor ones have only the need to form a little 'political consciousness', to enable them to overnight to reverse the historical process.
The primitiveness of this concept is even more harmful than the art of imitation, because the art of imitation has at least the courage of knowing this and justifies the 'industry of artistic taste' with profit objectives.
populist art, however, tries to justify his primitivism with a 'good conscience'. The populist artist always says: 'I'm not an intellectual, I'm with the people, my art is beautiful because it communicates', etc. But what connects? Generally communicates the alienation of the people themselves. It communicates to people their illiteracy, their very ordinariness, born of poverty that leads him to consider life with contempt.
But as everyone knows, Glauber was completely crazy. He died at 42 years and many obituary said he had "died in Brazil." "He was killed by Brazilian mediocrity, lack of vision, lack of greatness of this country" (Arnaldo Jabor). "I feel it was too good for a country to take advantage of it, the Brazilians should be aware of this tragedy, the most serious in terms of culture, died because he was unable to live with the misery of the world and the country" (Cacá Diego). "Glauber somatization to Brazil, and died of a clinical disease similar to Brazil" (Ana Ma Magalhaes).
Luckily in Uruguay there is nobody left who can murder. Or maybe he did.
Sunday, October 9, 2005
Is It Illegal For Me To Buy Xanax Online
Borges Brand New
Until today I thought I had read about all that Borges would answer in interviews. But leafing through an old magazine from 1991, published on the occasion of the 15 th anniversary of the English newspaper Diario 16 and in reproducing the best articles in the supplement 'Cultures' (and while I notice that the design of the Country Cultural is suspiciously similar to Cultures and that its name is exactly the same as that of the late charge of The Observer), I find an interview with Jorge Luis Borges published in 1985. The interview is more or less the same as always, until he came to these two questions, which surprised me enough to reproduce here:
-You seem to be hostile to any state protective intervention in the arts.
is that I have received so many official awards ... Well, I do not know to what extent state intervention can be accepted. Right now in Buenos Aires, there are countless pornographic publications, magazines displayed with a photograph of ass in this or that actress and her name down. And that is sold. At the same time, you think: "Well, what better than that is spent? People get tired." It does not prevent it striking that those who are occupying positions in Buenos Aires dedicated to that. For example, a man named Pacho O'Donnell. If Fred did sign already a little suspicious right? He says: "The Indians, our ancestors ..." But how? If I am called O'Donnell, my ancestors will be druids, but not Indians. Well, this man has written a book called "Seduction of the daughter of the keeper." And I tell you that seduction is in charge of ... a lesbian, so that the content is even more serious than the title. And another man, Gorostiza, has a piece of theater is the defense of our pimp. Our culture, therefore, is in the hands of those very radicals.
you -translated Henri Michaux. As he would you have tempted other drugs?
I failed with cocaine and marijuana. I made several experiments honest, five or six. And with cocaine, yeah, I was garrulous, very nervous. With marijuana, however, I felt absolutely nothing. Now, I was about to be drunk. Every Saturday we went Francisco Luis Bernardez and I to visit the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Then, as there was not much to do, we walked into the store, so we asked, para ser criollos, una caña brasilera, un guindado oriental o lo que fuera. Eso duró algún tiempo. Hasta que un día estaba en una reunión y alguien, quizás un ángel, dijo: "Lástima que Borges sea borracho". No sé quién dijo eso, pues yo no me di la vuelta, pero dejé el alcohol en ese instante. ¿Por qué? Porque pensé que, aunque eso no era cierto, podría llegar a serlo en cualquier momento. Desde entonces no he probado el vino. Sólo un poquito de champagne, en alguna fiesta de fin de año, para no quedar como una persona hosca que se niega a la alegría ajena. Fíjese, Oscar Wilde decía que la única intoxicación es la conversación; pero él murió drunk.
I know that in Spain the word "ass" is as normal, but I found it very strange in the context of this interview, not to imagine how strange it must be said: "Borges, do not sleep the joint is turned off ".
I do not understand is how Borges could see the ass of the actresses in the magazines being nearly blind. Which leads me to assume the following dialogue: "Tell me
Mary, what magazines published today in their covers? -Butt
actresses, Borges. With just under a corresponding credit.
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