Tuesday, August 28, 2007

El otro dia sali de un lugar llamado Salmon and Compass en Islington y tenia mucha hambre, asi que yo y mi acompaniante importado de Buenos Aires estuvimos buscando un lugar donde comer. Desafortunadamente no habia nada alrededor, aunque mi acompaniante vio a lo lejos un lugar llamado Papa Johns y me pregunto si lo conocia. Le dije que si, que en Mexico habia uno, pero que no me acordaba muy bien si era bueno...de lo que si me acorde fue de un libro que tiene mi hermano de Damian Ortega, donde hizo un dibujo que se llama Papayons, que en resumen muestra a una dama desnuda con las piernas abiertas. Para los mexicanos, el dibujo tiene sentido, pero explicarselo a un argentino iba a ser muy complicado. Ademas, pues que confincitas eso de explicar chascarrillos guarros a un hombre que apenas si estaba empezando a conocer! Para mi sorpresa hace unas semanas paseaba por Hoxton con pan y vino y en el White Cube anunciaban la llegada de esta expo de Damian Ortega. Nomas acabo la tesis y me lanzo directo con el importado portenio. (Por cierto que despues de hacer la asociasion -?- entre el Papa Johns y el Papayons se me quito el apetito...despues de todo mi poblanez esta muy ingrained en mi habitus, according to el querido y siempre citado Pierre Bourdieu)

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Give me the light


Oh Lord Shiva baby,
let your smoky blue figure
give me the light

Oh Lord Shiva
let me come to you
and let me have you here too

Friday, August 17, 2007

you are mean
you don't know what you mean
your heart tells you something but your mouth lies

you are not used to feel this
thing
that people name

a buzzing fly
left you
silent

beat me
I say
I

Do you know
what
is this?

I know what it is
but I know
you won't

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Peter Stein (or more Chekhov or more Schaubuehne)


I think it was 2003 when I went to see Peter Stein's The Seagull at the Edimburgh Festival. I remember that Arkadina, the protagonist, was played by a very affected actress with ginger hair.
I detested her. I mean, Arkadina is detestable, of course, but I just hated the affectation of the actress and I couldn't tell if it was the character or the actress that was annoying me.
This year I saw a staging of The Seagull with Kristin Scott Thomas at the Royal Court. She was marvellous. Her British charm and arrogance -what a combination-resulted quite adequate for Arkadina.
I found this quote by Stein and loved it. I understood why I didn't like his play:

"It is so difficult for me to introduce comic elements which are so very strong in The Seagull, [...] because you know I have no sense of humour. I am a German and I like tragedies very much and I do them quite well."

Friday, August 03, 2007