June 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
16 posts
By: Luiz CanedoTranslation by: Dinorah EchegoyenT.G.T.G.
The stage is in total darkness, except for a single light over ONESELF. He is uncertain and thoughtful but never leaves the light perimeter. A series of digital red numbers, the type of a countdown bomb, are proyected behind ONESELF, but they are still. ONESELF: If I step on my left foot… maybe I wont lose concentration, and everything stays the way I wish, right? (he prepares to take the step but stops)… no no no, that’s what I said last time… It has to be on my right foot, because with my left foot I’ve already tried… ( he prepares to take the step but stops) Was my last step with my left foot?… well, maybe this time things chance… time is relative Everything is relative! things always change: thoughts change, trends change, people change, values change… Everything is relative! (he gets a passionate intelectual tone) therefore I’m always right and I’m always wrong, as absurd as it may sound, that is the only certain truth… but of course… if everything is relative there is no absolute: therefore also in that I am absolutely wrong and relatively correct! (he stays thougtful and confused by what he just said). Well, the thing is that Time is relative, therefore if I take the step now, maybe things will happen just as I want… right? He takes the step hessitating, but as soon as he lays his foot on the ground, the digital counter begins its hectic countdown. Scared, ONESELF immediately goes back to its original position SELF: NO NO NO NO NO! (frightened and hurried, he sits, rise his hands as if wanting to calm down the counter) Look! Look! I’m standing still now! (the countdown stops. ONESELF Exhales in relief, then in silence, looks around and in an optimistic tone)… I think I can get used to this. Yeah! who wouldn’t like such comfort? (making and add’s impression): I just have to vall for takeout, and I get it in 30 minutes or else is for free! (picking up the TV remote control) with 500 channels of satelite TV it will be imposible to get bored of such a bunch silliness, I can even exercise my thumb with endless zapping up and down! As hygene concerns I only need someone that takes care of my cleaning: a three-days-a-week-town-girl that will clean my mess. The Virtual world is amazing: I can work from my laptopo, buy online and have online virtual friends on facebook! Living this way is even a bargain! No unecesary spending on shoes to go fast somewhere, anywhere as long as it’s fast! This is what progress is all about, right? It’s about moving fast, moving forward, no matter where, just keep moving on… poor people must move on, our country must move on… (he stands up in a jump)… EVERYBODY WANTS TO MOVE ON!… ( he shuts up and fearful looks the countdown behind him, it keeps static) (Pause. He exhales as if he is about to confess something long kept) There was a time, when I loved wrtiting in the middle of the night. Twelve o’clock exactly. I don’t know why, but just before I went to sleep, I wanted to leave a record of the agonizing day… or maybe be there for the birth of the next day. It was wonderful for me to witness the metamorphosis of a dead day into a new day: watching how that day was transformed in an imperceptibly small instant: a moment in which the future stops being a sole posibility and becomes something real. We humans are not like days: there is no transformation into something new after we die… there is just this life and then worms and dust. Any other theory is just ridiculous ideas of those who are so afraid of dying, that they made up heavens and hells. C`mon! All that is left for us, is to accept with some resignation death, and enjoy as much as we can our time in this life… But what do you do when you don’t want to leave the life that you like so much? What happens if I could stay there at midnight… in that infinitely small place, that place that is not yesterday nor tomorrow becoming today? It was a fact that it existed! It was another time dimension in which were are not refered to here or now, nor to a horrible countdown counter! (the countdown goes back a little more) HEY! (the countdown stops) How suceptible (the counterdown answers with a beep) I decided to cover my bedroom with all kinds of clocks, all of them nailed at 12:00 o’clock ringing once and again, and again and again (increasing sound from different clock sounds: tic tacs, ringing alarms, bells, coo coos) I would meditate and focus on staying in that temporary place. I was naced, burning incience from midnight december 12 to midnight january 1st, rotating against the Earth’s natural movement, at a constant speed of 360 degrees in 24 hours. In the end it was done… I got control of my biological clock. If I move forward, it moves forward, if I stand still, it stands still. Wonderful isn’t it?! Eternity done my way, no risk of growing old and die of a senil disease with a wrinkled old woman for a wife, no worrying about my life ending and with it what I like. I could finally live for myself uninterrupted! My life for myself! … but of course… there is always that tiny thing that scapes from us when we finally get what we want. All the time it’s been like this… no matter which way we think we are going: what is true at a certain moment only lives for a certain moment, and as soon as I get what I want POOM! turns out to be a mistake, turns out to be something that doesn’t work. For an ironic reason, nobody can live like this, without moving, without contributing. It is truly ironic! I can live forever, but I can’t live the way I want! (whinning) This is ridiculous! Things never turn out the way I want. What kind of freedom is this?! Why isn’t it possible for us to do exactly what we want?: say what we want to say and when we want to say it! Eat everything we like without getting fat! Sleep with who you want and when you want! Fly without gravity! Automobiles with triangled wheels! Why can’t we set our own rules?! Why we have to submit to His rules?! His rules of time and space, His rules of right and wrong! Why can’t we be like Him? Why on earth can’t we all be god?! (silence, he laughs for himself) … seems that there are no atheists in the war threnchs… right? …(thoughtful but with breaking pride) now, if I choose to take that step… if I chose give my self… then I’m free: ironicly, I am free if I choose to submit to the rules, and I can live if I choose to give my life. (Silence) Just take the step… what’s stopping you?… you just have to take the step… just take the step. (he gets ready to take the step… he stops, looks at the audience) There is a thin line, where sound judgement becomes pure cowardliness… the problem is that I feel as if I were in the custom house… Just take the step… what’s stopping you? … you just have to take the step… just take the step…Maybe with my left foot… or with my right foot… just take the step… As he says this last lines, the light begins to fade. Some seconds pass by without anything happening… the timer starts fading. THE END Prelude to a step by Luiz Canedo is licensed under a Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 3.0 Unported License.
January 2011
1 post

Mi abuelo se negó a escuchar su cuerpo:
Porque su cuerpo no quiere moverse, pero él no puede parar.
Su cuerpo se encorvó, sus ojos tambalean como la luz de una vela, y sus oídos exigen que les hables cerquita.
La vejez de su cuerpo lo quiere aprisionar para centrarse en si mismo, su cuerpo se niega a colaborar y quiere aislarlo del mundo.
Su cuerpo quiere quedarse quietito, en oscuridad y en silencio.
Pero su cuerpo no puede contenerlo, y aún con la poca luz de su ojo izquierdo, se alimenta de la liturgia de las horas.
Y como en éste mundo las letras aun se necesitan, el continúa escribiendo.
Está ahí en medio del jolgorio de todos sus descendientes. Callado, si; pero absorbiendo la vida, de la vida que él engendró (¿sabrá acaso que es en realidad su vida, la vida de la reunión?).
Aún con los oídos marchitos, se alimenta de las vibraciones de las voces de sus hijos, nietos y bisnietos. Sus oídos se niegan a participar de la conversación, pero el los obliga, los esfuerza, y cuando habla… todos callamos.
Su cuerpo se niega a avanzar, y sus pies se ponen tiesos, sus pasos son pequeños, cortos y dolorosos. Sin embargo su andar delata la impaciencia de un hombre joven. Son pequeños, pero el hombre joven los presiona a ser rápidos. Son cortos, quieren quedarse quietos, pero aun hay muchos lugares a donde ir, y el hombre joven los apresura con afán, los despierta de su letargo con el fuego de llegar pronto. Hay muchos hijos que visitar, muchas Iglesias que explorar y muchos amigos que abrazar.
Mi abuelo se negó a vivir finales, porque siempre los convirtió en nuevos comienzos. Vivió el matrimonio al final del seminario. Vivió el principio de su vida sacerdotal al final de la vida de su esposa. Empezó el trabajo de clérigo cuando sus congéneres se preparan para ponerle fin a los días de trabajo. Y aun en el final de sus días en esta tierra, él ya había empezado a vivir los días eternos desde hace mucho.
Mi abuelo se negó a vivir su edad, porquesu edad no existe, su edad es un número, y los números son demasiado abstractos como para preocuparse por ellos. Mi abuelo se preocupó por las letras, no por los números. Vivió de las palabras, y comió con ellas. Mi abuelo se reúne con inmortales como él: conversa con los padres de la Iglesia, y con los poetas del Siglo de Oro, después se reúne con los trovadores de villancicos, y hasta escucha el canto de adoración de los negros del virreinato.
Mi abuelo vivió una vida de negaciones: se negó a escuchar el cansancio de sus pies, sus ojos y su cuerpo cansado, se negó a ceder ante la tiranía de una edad y se negó a vivir finales que no fueran nuevos inicios…y eso fue la diferencia.
October 2010
2 posts
Un increible video que maneja con maestría la cámara lenta. Cortesia de martin de thurah
July 2010
1 post
May 2010
3 posts
I am Legend: Una pelicula post apocaliptica entretenida y con una actuación buena de Will Smith. Despues de una epidemia que practicamente a destruido a la humanidad convirtiendolos en zombies, un doctor militar busca la cura, sin saber si realmente existen otros sobrevivientes como él. 8 tutumas
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“The men that stare at goats”: Divertida comedia que muestra cómo la búsqueda de lo paranormal para fines militares puede llegar a niveles ridículos. Basada en eventos reales. El estilo del humor es parecido al de los Coen brothers de una manera muy light. Una buena historia, un buen director y un buen reparto lidereado por George Clooney y Ewan McGregor, garantizan un buen rato. 8 tutumas de 10
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“Temporada de Patos”: Tal vez una de las mejore peliculas mexicanas que he visto hasta ahora. Con un estilo claramente influenciado por Jim Jarmusch, Fernando Eimbcke consigue hacer de un aburrido domingo sin luz electrica se convierta en una verdadera comedia basada en tiempos muertos. 10 tutumas de 10
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“El otro lado de la cama” Una comedia española que esporádicamente se convierte en un musical. Dos parejas de amigos se ven envueltos en un cuadrado amoroso de mentiras, decepciones y swings (con escenas de desnudos innecesarios). Hasta cierto punto el guion es ingenioso y chistoso, pero no me terminaron de convencer las escenas de “musical”. Personalmente no siento que se pierdan de mucho si no la ven 7 tutumas de 10
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February 2010
5 posts
January 2010
3 posts
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“No se trata de recibir, sino también de dar” me dijo mi hermano cuando comencé a subir muchas cosas a mi primer blog, y tenia razon. No podia simplemente subir mis cosas y esperar que la gente comentara en ellas, tambien era necesario compartir, celebrar (o denunciar) lo que otros están haciendo en la web.
Es por eso que hice este nuevo blog, “la review de la tutuma vengadora”, una versión medio pirata de “una llama en medio del Camino” (el blog de mi hermano). La idea es no solo subir mi material en luizandres.tumblr.com (cof…ENTREN!…cof) sino rebloguear material de la web, y en caso que lo amerite (y aunque no me lo pidieron, pero por algo estan leyendo esto) dar mi opinión personal al respecto.
Asi que bienvenidos uñchukiñas.