Hoy me he estado portando bien: avanzando a la tesis, cumpliendo pendientes de la chamba, pero me acaba de ocurrir algo delicioso, y me dieron ganas de escribir aquí otra vez, mierda. Puse el disco de Illinoise, de Sufjan Stevens, y cuando llegué a “Chicago”, le subí a todo el volumen (con los audífonos puestos), y me puse a cantar (haciendo puro playback, y extendiendo los brazos a lo largo de mi cubículo), y tuve un ataque de euforia. Más allá de todo, me siento feliz-feliz. Esa canción siempre se ha sentido como un himno para los caminos inciertos. Pero cada vez que la oía, era en los entornos incorrectos: en lugares familiares, o carreteras conocidas, en mi recámara, o este cubículo (el menos justo de todos los posibles contextos para una canción así). Y me di cuenta, ahorita, de que me estoy ganando el derecho a cantarla como se debe. Pero todavía no, digo, eso es evidente si sólo puedes mover los labios en silencio, mientras llamadas serias y oficinescas ocurren alrededor, y sacudes la cabeza y los brazos desde una silla con respaldo flexible.
A veces me acometen las dudas. En las condiciones en las que me voy, todo puede pasar, pero nada que no sea fundamentalmente más grave que lo que puede ocurrir viviendo en una ciudad como chilangolandia en un país como México, en una colonia como la Portales, a lo largo de innumerables madrugadas.
Me acuerdo de algo más, otra sensación que me dejó pensando desde hace años. Cuando vi “Cielo sobre Berlín”, me enamoré por supuesto de los ángeles que sobrevuelan un mundo a blanco y negro, haciendo listas de los momentos más poéticos de cada día en sus libretas para comentar anotaciones desde el asiento delantero de un coche espléndido, pero me enamoré también, muchísimo, de la mujer que es artista de circo. Me enamoré de la forma que tenía ella de estar en el mundo, viviendo en una casa rodante, moviéndose constantemente, oyendo a Nick Cave, flotando desde un trapecio, con alas artificiales. Me acuerdo que luego de ver la película, me preguntaba por qué la gente no hace simplemente eso, por lo menos una vez: dedicarse a estar libremente en el mundo, en lugar de acumular escalones y trofeos y diplomas y responsabilidades cada vez más serias, sin detenerse a respirar, sin salir de líneas claramente estipuladas. Y bueno, yo no soy tan valiente. Yo también sigo líneas estipuladas, apenas dispuesta a flotar ligeramente por encima del renglón. Pero aunque sea sólo eso, esa promesa se siente bien. Muy bien.
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jueves, 18 de septiembre de 2008
jueves, 11 de septiembre de 2008
yo también, Nick, yo también, la versión femenina de ese blues...
Cuando compré el disco, los escuché obsesivamente (a veces hago eso, el disco termina y lo pongo otra vez, termina, y lo pongo otra vez, termina y…). Hoy los redescubrí. Me encanta la voz de Nick Cave, y el tono sarcástico con el que canta algunas de las mejores canciones sarcásticas que he oído. Hay dos que me hacen sonreír muchísimo, y como ando muy desvelada y no-me-puedo-concentrar-en-lo-que-tengo-que-hacer, pues aquí se las dejo de regalito. Ah!, ellos son Grinderman, por cierto.
Las letras:
“Go tell the women”
We've done our thing
We have evolved
We're up on our hind legs
The problem's solved
We are artists
We are mathematicians
Some of us hold extremely
High positions
But we are tired
We're hardly breathing
And we're free
Go tell the women that we’re leaving
We're sick and tired
Of all this self-serving grieving
All we wanted was a little consensual rape in the morning
And maybe a bit more in the evening
We are scientists
We do genetics
We leave religion
To the psychos and fanatics
But we are tired
We got nothing to believe in
We are lost
Go tell the women that we’re leaving
We've done our thing
We’re hip to the sound
of six billion people
Going down
We are magicians
We are deceiving
We’re free and we’re lost
Go tell the women that we’re leaving
Come on back now to the fray
"No pussy blues"
My face is finished
My body's gone
And I can't help but think
Standing up here in all this applause
And gazing down at all the young and the beautiful
With their questioning eyes
That I must above all things love myself
That I must above all things love myself
That I must above all things love myself
I saw a girl in the crowd
I went over, I shouted out
I asked if I could take her out
But she said that she didn't want to
I changed the sheets on my bed
I combed the hairs across my head
I sucked in my gut and still she said
That she just didn't want to
I read her Eliot, I read her Yates
I tried my best to stay up late
I fixed the hinges on her gate
But still she just never wanted to
I bought her a dozen snow white doves
I did her dishes in rubber gloves
I called her Honeybee, I called her love
But she just still didn't want to
She just never wants to
DAMN!
I sent her every type of flower
I played her a guitar by the hour
I petted her revolting little Chihuahua
But still she just didn't want to
I wrote a song with a hundred lines
I picked a bunch of dandelions
I walked her through the trembling pines
But she just even then didn't want to
She just never wants to
I thought I'd try another tact
I drank a litre of Cognac
I threw her down upon her back
But she just laughed and said she just didn't want to
I thought I'd have another go
I called her my little ho
I felt like Marcel Marceau must feel
But she said she just never wanted to
She just didn't want to
I've got the No Pussy Blues
I've got the No Pussy Blues
I've got the No Pussy Blues!
DAMN!
y un videíto:
Grinderman
Las letras:
“Go tell the women”
We've done our thing
We have evolved
We're up on our hind legs
The problem's solved
We are artists
We are mathematicians
Some of us hold extremely
High positions
But we are tired
We're hardly breathing
And we're free
Go tell the women that we’re leaving
We're sick and tired
Of all this self-serving grieving
All we wanted was a little consensual rape in the morning
And maybe a bit more in the evening
We are scientists
We do genetics
We leave religion
To the psychos and fanatics
But we are tired
We got nothing to believe in
We are lost
Go tell the women that we’re leaving
We've done our thing
We’re hip to the sound
of six billion people
Going down
We are magicians
We are deceiving
We’re free and we’re lost
Go tell the women that we’re leaving
Come on back now to the fray
"No pussy blues"
My face is finished
My body's gone
And I can't help but think
Standing up here in all this applause
And gazing down at all the young and the beautiful
With their questioning eyes
That I must above all things love myself
That I must above all things love myself
That I must above all things love myself
I saw a girl in the crowd
I went over, I shouted out
I asked if I could take her out
But she said that she didn't want to
I changed the sheets on my bed
I combed the hairs across my head
I sucked in my gut and still she said
That she just didn't want to
I read her Eliot, I read her Yates
I tried my best to stay up late
I fixed the hinges on her gate
But still she just never wanted to
I bought her a dozen snow white doves
I did her dishes in rubber gloves
I called her Honeybee, I called her love
But she just still didn't want to
She just never wants to
DAMN!
I sent her every type of flower
I played her a guitar by the hour
I petted her revolting little Chihuahua
But still she just didn't want to
I wrote a song with a hundred lines
I picked a bunch of dandelions
I walked her through the trembling pines
But she just even then didn't want to
She just never wants to
I thought I'd try another tact
I drank a litre of Cognac
I threw her down upon her back
But she just laughed and said she just didn't want to
I thought I'd have another go
I called her my little ho
I felt like Marcel Marceau must feel
But she said she just never wanted to
She just didn't want to
I've got the No Pussy Blues
I've got the No Pussy Blues
I've got the No Pussy Blues!
DAMN!
y un videíto:
Grinderman
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