Comprendí que el trabajo del poeta no estaba en la poesía; estaba en la invención de razones para que la poesía fuera admirable; naturalmente, ese ulterior trabajo modificaba la obra para él, pero no para otro.
Me releyó, después, cuatro o cinco páginas del poema. Las había corregido según un depravado principio de ostentación verbal: donde antes escribió azulado, ahora abundaba en azulino, azulenco y hasta azulillo. La palabra
lechoso no era bastante fea para él; en la impetuosa descripción de un lavadero de lanas, prefería lactario, lacticinoso, lactescente, lechal…
Vaciló y con esa voz llana, impersonal, a que solemos recurrir para confiar algo muy íntimo, dijo que para terminar el poema le era indispensable la casa, pues en un ángulo del sótano había un Aleph. Aclaró que un Aleph es uno de los puntos del espacio que contienen todos los puntos.
Dos observaciones quiero agregar: una sobre la naturaleza del Aleph; otra, sobre su nombre. Éste, como es sabido, es el de la primera letra del alfabeto de la lengua sagrada. Su aplicación al círculo de mi historia no parece casual. Para la Cábala esa letra significa el En Soph, la ilimitada y pura divinidad; también se dijo que tiene la forma de un hombre que señala el cielo y la tierra, para indicar que el mundo inferior es el espejo y es el mapa del superior; para la
Mengenlehre, es el símbolo de los números transfinitos, en los que el todo no es mayor que alguna de las partes.”El aleph”
Jorge Luis Borges
(Beatriz cumplía años el 30 de abril)
Philadelphia filmmaker Jamie Moffett, director of the award-winning documentary "The Ordinary Radicals," is releasing the first seven minutes of his second feature-length documentary film online.
The film is narrated by Emmy & Golden Globe winner, Martin Sheen. The film also features interviews with Emmy winning director and former Dean at Eastern University, Betsy Morgan as well as interviews with the former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Robert White.
"Return to El Salvador" explores reconstruction after the civil war that tore the small Latin American country apart from 1980 to 1992. The 12-year conflict that killed over 70,000 people and displaced nearly one-fifth of the population erupted as the deadly manifestation of rising tensions between the wealthy, land-owning elite and the impoverished rural majority. Fighting took place between the Salvadoran Army and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), a leftist guerrilla organization, resulting in a staggering amount of civilian deaths as the Salvadoran Army bombed and raided villages thought to be sympathetic to the FMLN. These soldiers were trained and supported by the United States military and its School of the Americas (now known as WHINSEC) located in Ft. Benning, Georgia.
In this film, Moffett travels to El Salvador with US citizens dedicated to the solidarity movement as they reconnect with friends they aided in the heat of conflict and who share their struggle to maintain community 17 years after the U.N. Peace Accords marked the end of the war. After sharing their stories, Moffett returns to the United States to expose the government’s responsibility in perpetuating the conflict and how Americans’ tax dollars helped to fund oppression in ways the average citizen may not be aware. He follows Julio Hernandez, a young Salvadoran American, to Ft. Benning, joining thousands of protesters calling for the closing of SOA/WHINSEC that trains Latin American soldiers in counter-insurgency tactics. This October marks the 20th year of protests against the School of the Americas.
The completion of this film comes at a crucial time: It has been thirty years since Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated in El Salvador. It has been 20 years since School of the Americas Watch first organized. It has been one year since the election of El Salvadoran President, Mauricio Funes, the first democratic election in El Salvador. It has been less than a year since activists in El Salvador, such as community organizer Marcelo Rivera, started being kidnapped and assassinated. In the very near future, a trial will begin at the World Bank against El Salvador, brought by a Canadian mining company, Pacific Rim, which is accused of being directly and indirectly responsible in the harassment of the people and communities of El Salvador, as well as the disappearance of Marcelo Rivera. Footage from "Return to El Salvador" was recently used in reports by Democracy Now covering the assassination of anti-mining activists in El Salvador.
"Return to El Salvador" represents the power and audacity of solidarity and challenges Americans to question the global impact of their government on struggling nations.
About the Director: Jamie Moffett is the owner and founder of Jamie Moffett Media Design & Production, Inc., an independent film company located in Philadelphia’s Kensington district. Over the past ten years, he has produced, directed, and edited over 50 short films, music videos, and commercials. His first feature-length documentary "The Ordinary Radicals" has screened in over 20 cities across the United States and worldwide since its 2008 release and received recognition at several film festivals, including the Garden State Film Festival, Crossroads Film Festival, ION Film Festival in Dubai, and the Acolade Film Awards. Moffett also co-founded The Simple Way, a non-profit organization dedicated to the betterment of the Kensington community. As a director, he is dedicated to capturing stories of peace and social justice movements worldwide and making them relatable and relevant to an American audience.
Muy bueno. LEER AQUI
y leer cuándo es la exposición: La Exposición del trabajo realizado por los/las Sonambul@s será el domingo 21 de febrero en La Casa del Escritor.
Este tipo dice: “why do all rock bands sound different after 2 albums??? for instance: bloc party , arctic monkeys, peter bjôrn and john,…”
Puedo hablar de Bloc Party y decir que a mí me sigue gustando. Y como a mí me sigue gustando, está bien.
De Editors debo decir que quizás sí suene un poco diferente, pero no tanto. Y si es así, no importa. Esta es la canción que más me gusta de ellos. Ya bajé compré el disco, aún no lo he escuchado todo. Ya veremos…
Make our escape, you’re my own Papillon
The world turns too fast, feel love before it’s gone
It kicks like a sleep twitch
My Papillion, feel love when it’s shone.
It kicks like a sleep twitch!
Darling, just don’t put down your guns yet,
if there really was a God here,
he’d have raised a hand by now.
Now darling, you’re born get old and die here,
Well that’s quite enough for me,
we’ll find our own way home somehow.
No sense of doubt, for what you could achieve,
Well I’ve found you out, I’ve seen the life you wish to leave.
But when it kicks like a sleep twitch,
You will choke, choke on the air you try to breathe.
It kicks like a sleep twitch!
Darling, now just don’t put down your guns yet,
if there really was a God here,
he’d have raised a hand by now!
Darling, now you’re born get old and die here,
well that’s quite enough for me dear,
we’ll find our own way home somehow
It kicks like a sleep twitch!
The final judgment is imminent after a long legal battle between oil giant Chevron and brave indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon, who are seeking redress for the multinational’s dumping of billions of gallons of toxic waste in the rainforest.
If Chevron is forced to pay billions in damages, it’ll be a big step forward in bringing the world’s polluters to account. Staring defeat in the face, the oil giant has launched an aggressive last-ditch lobbying campaign to derail the lawsuit.
But Chevron’s newly-appointed CEO, John Watson, knows his corporation’s brand is under fire and is growing anxious about the risks of a public shaming campaign — so let’s turn up the heat! Sign the petition calling on Watson and Chevron to clean up their mess in Ecuador, and it will be delivered to them, their shareholders and the US media – click below to take action now:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/chevron_toxic_legacy_1/?vl
Over the years, civic action like this has helped to transform the policies of some of the world’s biggest corporations. But most oil and gas multinationals spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year on lobbying and PR to reshape climate and energy policies and deny their environmental and human rights duties — and Chevron is one of the biggest offenders.
From 1964 to 1990, Chevron-owned Texaco deliberately dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste from their oil fields in Ecuador’s Amazon — then pulled out without properly cleaning up the pollution they caused. Facing imminent defeat in the courts, Chevron has turned to legal machinations, powerful public relations firms and lobbyists to intimidate its critics into silence and avoid responsibility for the massive environmental and human disaster it has triggered.
Chevron has repeatedly vowed to refuse to pay for a clean up even if ordered to by the court, saying “We will fight this until hell freezes over. And then we’ll fight it out on the ice.” Its latest strategy: pushing the US government to bully Ecuador into burying the case.
We cannot sit back and watch Chevron make a mockery of justice like this — let´s build a critical mass of support and help the rainforest inhabitants win this round, in the court of public opinion and before the law. Click here to sign the petition and help deliver a deafening message personally to Chevron´s new chief executive John Watson:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/chevron_toxic_legacy_1/?vl
Citizens in Ecuador and around the world are joining efforts to stand up to one of the biggest and dirtiest corporations in the world. If we win, it’ll be another big step toward a future of corporate accountability, human rights and environmental protection. Let’s add our voices and spread the word today!
With hope and determination,
Luis, Paula, Benjamin, Pascal, Paul, Alice, Ricken, Graziela and the whole Avaaz team
PS – This campaign is part of a larger effort by Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network and other environmental and human rights allies worldwide.
En el otro blog (el original 360) ya había dedicado una entrada a unos cuantos videos de El Canto del Loco.
Ahora (con uno menos) les dejo estos videos del CD + DVD donde comparten vivencias con los miembros de La Colifata.
Primero: Un millón de cicatrices (más despacita)
Luego, Llueve en mí: Dani Martin como si fuera a hacerse pupú, a lo Enrique Iglesias, quien también ha sacado “La chica de ayer” que yo oía un día de estos en voz de ECDL y luego, por casualidades, puse la radio y ¡zaz! ahí estaba Enrique Iglesias recurriendo a los covers también.
EL PESCAO (bien bonitos loJefectos)
y, por último, BESOS
Si quieren, pueden buscar en los relacionados su versión de “ERES TONTO” junto a los Fabulosos Cadillacs. Si original no me gustaba, menos con este sonido típico de todas las canciones de los cadillacs.
Y si quieren ver noticias importantes, vean aqui.
