legado

'I see what I do as part of a longer legacy than just rock 'n' roll.'

--------------sting

http://www.sting.com/news/interview.php?uid=4687

no before noon

"I've lived in hotels for 25 years, and I've collected homes all over the world so that, to some extent, I can he relieved of that. I mean, this is a nice hotel, but to check into a hotel and shut the door is kind of prison-like. It's nicer to arrive somewhere you own, with a couple of books you own, a couple of paintings, something of yours. It's a nice luxury and I'm glad of it."


"I love America," he replies. "I owe it a great deal and it gave the world popular music, jazz, movies... the last century was definitely the American century, and I'm in love with that idea."


"It's almost too kitsch to turn down."


"Now, if I have an hour at home, I tend to listen to classical music. I rarely go to pop music to learn something because I usually recognise the archetypes it is drawn from. If I put on Bach or Brahms, that's different. I'm in the presence of genius, which can only do you good."


"When I perform I play my hits. I walk out in front of 20,000 people and nearly everyone's pleased to see me. I sing songs they want to hear, they know the lyrics, and I think, 'I wrote this in my living-room and now look.'"


"I don't like singing before noon."


----------------------sting

http://www.sting.com/news/interview.php?uid=3787

I sing for money

This was always my ambition to make a living playing music. That's what I do. I sing for money.

*************
Success for me is having a handful of friends.

*************

I do have that anxiety there, thinking how on earth am I going to do this again, how on earth am I going to face that blank page again, that dread.The solution is I go on tour for as long as I possibly can and then I don't have to think. There's no thinking involved in touring at all, it's just like being a tennis player.
****************

I clock on in the morning at 10 o'clock and I start work. It's painstaking work and sometimes you don't get anything; there's just nothing to show for it.

----------------sting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/09_september/25/ws_sting.shtml

musidemócrata

I studied British Constitution at school and one of the pillars of democracy is you separate church and state, you really do.

And the other pillar of democracy is a free and unfettered 4th estate – the media and the press.

It doesn't work unless you have that ability to question, the ability to criticise. It's very important, particularly in times like these.

------------sting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/09_september/25/ws_sting.shtml

destroyed by love

There's another view of love. Anybody who's ever been in love knows it's easy to be destroyed by love, it's such a powerful emotion.

And so I start to write about love – to describe it in terms of warfare, in terms of being devastating and destructive, like a tidal wave.

-sting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/09_september/25/ws_sting.shtml

trabajo creativo

It is mechanical to a certain extent, when you're being creative. I just put the hours in. I don't wake up in the morning and go, 'Now I'm going to create a masterpiece, this is going to be the greatest thing I've ever done.'

-sting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/09_september/25/ws_sting.shtml

I sort of work in miniature. I write about relationships in a very microscopic way. I find another little story, then another, a bit of melody here. It's like a painting. It's only when you move back from it and you actually see you've produced something, quite a big landscape when you've been working in small details.

---sting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/09_september/25/ws_sting.shtml

musipintor

I sort of work in miniature. I write about relationships in a very microscopic way. I find another little story, then another, a bit of melody here. It's like a painting. It's only when you move back from it and you actually see you've produced something, quite a big landscape when you've been working in small details.

---sting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/09_september/25/ws_sting.shtml

comenzar vacío

But starting with that feeling of emptiness, that blank page, was a good place to start and gradually I started to piece together fragments of stories.

--sting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/09_september/25/ws_sting.shtml

musireflexión

'It would be nice if more people could appreciate it. I think it's beautiful, special and timely in a way. For me it's the music of self-reflection. The world has become less reflective - we don't have self-reflective leaders any longer: we have people who think they're right, whatever they do, but never look at the judgments they've made. So, yes, this music could be timely. The result of self-reflection is melancholy, and that's beautiful, a useful human emotion. I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.'


--------sting

http://www.sting.com/news/interview.php?uid=4687

lightning 2

lightning

telefon tel aviv... citas

http://remixmag.com/artists/remix_tapeheads/


"We wanted to bring back that life and noise into a record that sounded like a record."


“A little over a year ago, my friend [Marc Hellner from Chicago band pulseprogramming] gave me an Otari MX5050BII, and it changed everything,” Eustis says of the 2-track, ¼-inch tape recorder. “While we were in the process of demoing, we were making loops, remixing to analog, slowing and speeding things up. It was so different than what we did before, and it has this timeless quality. It sounds real because it is real — it's a physical media to master. It's not ones and zeros; it's a physical piece of shit with silver oxide on it wrapped around an aluminum spool. The move to tape, for sure, for mixdown and as an instrument was a huge shift.”


“I realized I liked making music more than writing, orchestrating or programming it,” Cooper says.

“It's like a Vonnegut kind of thing,” Cooper reflects on the album's themes of nature's anger and angry natures. “He found humor in the most fucked-up things, but it wasn't morbid. He just recognized that being a human in the world, you have to go along and watch the stupid shit — you can't stop it; you just have to laugh and say, ‘It's fucked up.’”


“We have [Chicago post-rock icons] Tortoise's old [Neotek Series II] mixer, and it made things sound more real; it sounded like what I remember music sounding like. It gave it this beautiful sound that wasn't there before — a little high end shaved here and there and not always as full-frequencied, but somehow sounding better, with more girth. The mixer also helped in the work flow, to have it in front of you where you could touch it."

telefon tel aviv...interviewed

http://remixmag.com/artists/remix_tapeheads/

música sin adjetivos

Classical music is founded on a very clear distinction between music and noise. In rock, as in electronic music, these barriers are coming down. I dreamed of a music without barriers, taking in classical instruments, new electronic instruments and "non-instruments"

--------------brian eno

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/artpress01.html

metáforas

Humans actually codify most of their knowledge not in terms of mathematical tables, sets of statistics and scientific laws, but in terms of metaphors. Most of the things we normally have to deal with understanding are complex, fuzzy, messy, changing, and in fact poorly delineated. We don't actually know where the boundaries of them are, let alone being able to make clear questions about them. We spend a lot of our time as ordinary humans navigating through complicated situations with one another, that require constant negotiation, and constant new attempts to understand.





brian eno


http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/eno/eno_p4.html

la peligrosa cultura

What people don't realize is that culture is powerful and could be dangerous too. As long as culture is talked about as though it's a kind of nice little add-on to make things look a bit better in this sort of brutal life we all lead, as long as it's just seen as the icing on the cake, then people won't realize that it's the medium in which we're immersed, and which is forming us, which is making us what we are and what we think.

brian eno

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/eno/eno_p4.html

cienciarte

Here I am, an artist ÷ who reads mostly science books ÷ like most other artists. I know very few artists who read books about art.

brian eno

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/eno/eno_p3.html

sin tele

"I gave it up because I'm a potential addict. I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting."

--------brian eno

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/jun/07/politicsandthearts.interviews

brian eno: generative music

http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/eno1.html

iposible repetir

Repetition is a form of change


---Brian Eno

http://www.loopers-delight.com/history/Loophist.html

in-the-studio

the particular area that I'm involved in: in-studio composition, where you no longer come to the studio with a conception of the finished piece. Instead, you come with actually rather a bare skeleton of the piece, or perhaps with nothing at all. I often start working with no starting point. Once you become familiar with studio facilities, or even if you're not, actually, you can begin to compose in relation to those facilities. You can begin to think in terms of putting something on, putting something else on, trying this on top of it, and so on, then taking some of the original things off, or taking a mixture of things off, and seeing what you're left with - actually constructing a piece in the studio.

----brian eno

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/downbeat79.htm

para equipos ordinarios

Most of my records don't sound good in optimum conditions, where there are very large speakers which are extremely well balanced and have lots of high and low frequencies. I mix, really, for what I imagine most people have medium-priced hi-fi - and for radio a bit as well. It's the very naive producer who works only on optimum systems.

=====brian eno

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/downbeat79.htm

compositor

So I think there is a difference in kind between the kind of composition I do and the kind a classical composer does. This is evidenced by the fact that I can neither read nor write music, and I can't play any instruments really well, either. You can't imagine a situation prior to this where anyone like me could have been a composer. It couldn't have happened. How could I do it without tape and without technology?

--brian eno

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/downbeat79.htm

improvi-grabar

Jazz is an improvised form, primarily, and the interesting thing about improvisations is that they become more interesting as you listen to them more times. What seemed like an almost arbitrary collision of events comes to seem very meaningful on relistening. Actually, almost any arbitrary collision of events listened to enough times comes to seem very meaningful. (There's an interesting and useful bit of information for a composer, I can tell you.)

---brian eno

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/downbeat79.htm

brian enno: the studio as a compositiona tool

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/downbeat79.htm

otra vez mcluchan

In this, the 21^st century, we may need icons more than ever before.

------brian eno

http://www.longnow.org/views/essays/articles/BrianEnoLongNow.php

hic et nunc

The longer your sense of Now, the more past and future it includes.

------------brian eno

http://www.longnow.org/views/essays/articles/BrianEnoLongNow.php

hablar, pensar

This self-generating music is so exciting to me. I think that's really something. I think talking is really something, thinking, having ideas and all that sort of thing. I'm fascinated by all those things. Teaching, as well, I do a lot of. But adding to the obscene pile of CDs in the world doesn't thrill me that much at the moment.

---------brian eno

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1996/06/02/PK70006.DTL#ixzz0M4PoI8Qy

no es la compu

"I think people are really reacting to what has been rather an unimaginative use of computer technology so far."

----------Brian Eno

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1996/06/02/PK70006.DTL#ixzz0M4PBnZVC

long now foundation

http://www.longnow.org/

mejores

"I'm also lucky in that I always manage to work with musicians better than myself. "

--------Sting

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/yearend/2005/century/2003_2.jsp

abandonados

-... sí, como en los noventas.
-Claro..., de lo peor fue que en esa época no contamos con U2, que anduvo con sus experimentos de techno, dance, e industrial.

ya viene

Miércoles 22, julio 2009...
(5:06 p.m.)

Primeros signos y síntomas de la inminente Crisis de Manía.

la máscara no oculta..., revela

"The irony is, of course, as Oscar Wilde taught us, the mask reveals the man."

--------------Bono


http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID

Ashtarth

verdad incuestionable

Tú y yo somos malas reediciones de una mala relación.

recomendaciones de cine

últimas pelis vistas:

-EASTERN PROMISES, dirigida por Cronenberg.

-SHOT'EM UP, con Clive Owen y Monica Belluci.

-

homero y wikipedia

Bart: "Eso no es lo que leí en el artículo de Wikipedia."
Homero: "No te preocupes, hijo. Al llegar a casa lo cambiaremos... ¡CAMBIAREMOS MUCHAS COSAS!"

sábado

-Aunque sea, déjame pagarte el taxi, son las dos de la mañana.
-¡No necesito ni quiero NI MADRES de ti! -dijo ella, con mucha ira, tirando del portón con gran fuerza; él apenas alcanzó a esquivar el golpe en la frente.

bíblico

Homero: "Tu mamá tiene la loca idea de que apostar es malo, aunque la Biblia diga que no es así."
Lisa: "¿Dónde dice eso la Biblia?"
Homero: "Esteeee, por el final."

final necesario

que el dolor me aplaste
que tu ausencia me destruya

pero que suceda YA

international foundation erich fromm (intaliano)

http://www.ifefromm.it/biografia.php

¡cómo se parece a D...!

pieza: human behavior (live performance)
artista: björk
album: debut

Bart, el sucio

Marge: ¡Bart!, ¡no puedes pedirle a Dios q mate a Bob Patiño!
Homero: ¡Así es!, ¡haz tu propio trabajo sucio!

Hamburguer

Maestra: Tomar acción ahora podría ser la diferencia entre que su hijo, Bart, termine como un stripper o llegue a ser Juez de la Suprema Corte.
Homero: ¿Juez de la Suprema Corte?... Así yo podría viajar por todo el mundo: Londrés, París, Berlín, Hamburgo... ¡Mmmm! ¡Hamburguesa!

In the Navy

Homero se enlista en la Reserva de la Marina. Diálogo con su oficial en jefe:

Oficial: Bien, Simpson... Yo no te agrado y tú no me agradas.
Homero: Usted sí me agrada.
Oficial: Bueno, pues tú no me agradas.
Homero: Le agradaría si me conociera.

Para los q vieron la peli STATE OF GRACE, con Sean Penn y Gary Oldman

Pieza: Exit
Artista: U2
Álbum: Ratle and hum

"don't let them kill us"... Sarajevo

Pieza: Miss Sarajevo
Artista: brian enno/ U2 / pavarotti

homero y bush

Lisa: "Si tuviera edad para votar, yo no habría votado por él".
Homero: "¡Un momento!: si Lisa no votó por George Bush, entonces yo tampoco voté por él."
Marge: "Tu nunca votas, Homero."
Homero: "Yo voté por q nuestro shampoo volviera a su antigua botella de vidrio... Después, me volví un cínico."

homero y la mitología greco-latina

"¡Oh, dios de los océanos!... los griegos te llamaban Poseidón. Los romanos..., Aquamán."

-Homero

Pieza: The rip
Artista: Portishead
Album: Third

Video para el album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggOZ4RuKRgE


Video en vivo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIdxAlJojnk&feature=related


Cover por Radiohead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPPH1qg8Qo4&feature=related

Pieza: Malibu
Artista: Hole
Album: Celebrity Skin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnpsaNR7J04

Genitales q se frotan mutuamente...

¿Qué poesía puede haber en eso?

Nadia

Eras talla uno...,

y ¡te dejé ir!

-Pero, ¿¡acaso enloqueciste!?... ¡Con tu estilo de vida nunca más sentirás placer!
-...ni dolor.

¿podemos ir por cerveza y una marucha?

Te quise como eras...

Nunca me consideraste

suficiente

para ti.*




*(Que no te quede duda... sabes perfectamente quién eres.)

"El miedo es una alienación."

-Miryam

Mirar de lejos..., por protección

Me gustan las mujeres como me gustan los tigres.

Hoy..., un amanecer perfecto.

"¡Lisa!: ¡En esta casa respetamos las leyes de la termodinámica!"

-Homero

Recomendaciones cinematográficas...

Últimas pelis q he visto:

-Sex and Death 101, con Winona Ryder.

-The Day the Earth Stood Still, con Jennifer Connelly.

-The Reader, con Kate Winslet.

-Knowing, con Nicholas Cage.

"You'd gave me nothing...
Now...
it's all I have."

--------Bono
*En la canción "One", del álbum Achtung Baby.

("Me diste nada...
Ahora,
eso es todo lo que tengo.")

Traducción propuesta por J.A.

"...notre personnalité sociale est une création de la pensée des autres."

----------Marcel Proust


("nuestra personalidad social es una creación del pensamiento de los otros".)

O bien, una traducción más cercana al español que usamos en México:

("nuestra personalidad social es una creación del pensamiento de los demás.)

*Traducción: J.A.

luto por la poesía

¿Qué buscas aquí?...
Aquí no hay nada...

Todas las letras son cadáveres.

estridente

¿Alguna vez
dejará de hablar tanto

este silencio?

vapor

Nada me dejaste...

Ni siquiera la memoria...
Ni siquiera un pedastal para el olvido...

Ni siquiera el vapor de lo que fuera una lágrima.

condena inmutable

Ni siquiera
eso que vive detrás de tus ojos

pudo
(jamás podrá,
fue estúpido pensar que podría)

salvarme.

¿Todavía hay un ser humano debajo de mi piel? (¿Alguna vez lo hubo?)

-Te has fijado en su mirada? Da la impresión de q estuvo en una Guerra; debe haber visto cosas horribles.
-O algo peor...

-Nadie tiene rostro.
-Venerable Maestro, ¿a qué se refiere?
-¿Ves como tengo razón?

Nadie ha visto al Silencio... (Aunque, una vez...)

La luz, dicen, ayuda a ver mejor... Pero, pasar mucho tiempo en lo oscuro, dilata las pupilas, nos permite observar cosas q nadie más vería.

Ciento noventa mil años de cazadores-recolectores... Y ¡para esto!, ¡para pasar los días engordando frente al televisor, frente a la computadora!

Al menos ya dejé de fingir (¿hace cuánto?) q esto tiene sentido.

Estoy harto de ser yo... (Tendré q hacer algo.)

Silencio

El Silencio no es la ausencia de sonido... Es una situación en la q no sabemos escuchar los estímulos q nos rodean.

Recordar siempre a Sartre:

"El ser humano no es libre... Está condenado a ser libre."

Dilema del Lobo Estepario

A veces, el Lobo Estepario se enfrenta a la tentación... cree q ha encontrado algo parecido a un alma afín, una posible compañera... Tiene, en esos momentos, q hacerse una gran violencia, refrenar su impulso, y decirse:
"no, Lobo Estepario, no te equivoques... No está en tu naturaleza... No puede ser... Aléjate de ella, y sufre tu nostalgia en las estepas (tu único territorio)... Otras heridas han cerrado antes... Ésta cerrará también... (A menos q sea la q se infecte, se extienda, y acabe, finalmente, con tu pesadilla-existencia.)"

Ser... Conocer

Nadie puede declarar "yo existo" sin meterse en una encrucijada epistemológica.

Irresoluble

Hace treinta años q me enamoré por primera vez.. No puedo evitar la conclusión: lo único más insoportable q no tener pareja es... tener pareja.

Es imposible morir joven

"Tan pronto como un ser humano ha nacido, tiene edad suficiente para morir."

----------- Martin Heidegger

Devenir...

El paso-del-tiempo es un escupitajo en el rostro del Ser.

Cicatriz

"No quiero morir sin cicatrices."

------Tyler Durden
(En Fightclub, de Chuck Palahniuk)

Anatomía...

No..., los ojos no son las ventanas del Alma... Son sus barrotes.

Dificultad...

Cada día me está resultando más difícil fingir que algo (lo que sea) me importa... Cada vez más profundo en los intestinos del vacío.

Juicio...

- ¿Tiene alguna prueba de haber existido hoy?
- No, su Señoría.
- ¿Y ayer?
- Tampoco, su Señoría.
- ¿Y la semana pasada..., el mes pasado..., el año anterior?
- En realidad..., no, su Señoría.
- No me deja otra salida... Tengo que declararlo culpable de enajenación social. Lo condeno a seguir así de por vida... ¡Siguiente caso!

No lo necesitamos...

"Nuestros padres fueron nuestra imagen de Dios...
Si nuestros padres nos fallaron, ¿qué te dice eso de Dios?...
Tal vez Dios no nos quiere, nunca nos deseó..., incluso puede que nos odie...
¿Somos los hijos-no-deseados de Dios? Pues, ¡así sea!, ¡que se pudra!, ¡no lo necesitamos!..."
¡Que se vaya a la fregada la Redención! ¡Que se vaya a la fregada la Salvación!"

---- Tyler Durden
(En Fightclub, de Chuck Palahniuk.)

Carta abierta...

Queridos lectores:

Ojalá existieran.

Una presentación

- (...) especialista en abandonos.
- ¿En tratarlos?
- No..., en sufrirlos.

La red

Cientos de miles de millones de personas conectadas a este sistema nervioso artificial... Todos, en soledad eléctrica.

Despersonalizado

Debe ser terrible ser yo... Por fortuna, no es completamente mi caso.

Vino

"In vino pars veritas" (en el vino está parte de la verdad), decían los romanos... Ahora podemos decirlo completo: ¡En el vino está toda la verdad!

Asfixia

¡Qué bien respiraría el planeta sin los seres humanos encima!

Cultura

La expresión "Ciencia y Cultura" es inexacta... La primera es un subconjunto de la segunda. (Cutura: Ciencia, Artes, Oficios, Costumbres.)

Opiáceo

Es insultante eso de que "las religiones son el opio del pueblo"... El opio sí quita el dolor.

Amnesia invencible...

El ser humano actual, el homo televidens, detesta el concepto Memoria. Es un organismo atemporal, ahistórico. (Vuelta a las cavernas. En vez de la fogata, la pantalla de televisión. En vez del Anciano Sabio y sus relatos mágicos, el presentador de noticias y su malabarismo de "cápsulas informativas".)

Más peligroso...

Un lobo solitario es más peligroso q el lobo común: el lobo común caza en manada..., el lobo solitario tiene q volverse más fuerte y atrevido; él es su propio líder y su sola compañía.

¡Huyan!

"En amour, la seule victorie est la fuit."

---------Napoleón Bonaparte


("En el amor, la única victoria es la retirada.")
* Trad. mía

¡¡¡¡¡Cómo se atreven a culparme!!!!!