Filed under: bleikur's music box, reflections | Tags: just_for_fun, music, overthinking, remixes
El mejor pegamento para reparar sueños rotos.
** Recuerda esto siempre: **
Si sueñas mucho puede ocurrir todo lo posible.
Pero si consigues renunciar sinceramente a tus sueños, entonces podrá ocurrir todo lo posible y lo imposible.
Palabra de Bleikur.
PLAY: Dreaming backwards (*) [draft]
(*) Que no es más que SFWD-hmbv en reverse
1. Poder salir al balcón para sentir una brisa fresca, pero no fría, que te despeine y te refresque.
2. Sentir el radio de acción de un sol que puede tocarse además de verse.
Sólo esas dos cosas echaba de menos. Y nada más.
Tenía el balcón un blando y pie-masajeante césped artificial, en el cual dio gusto sentarse, a la brisa más limpia y nirvánica recibida en mucho tiempo. Momento perfecto para pausar el tiempo, relajarse y meditar sobre el vacío. Y así recordar (nunca está de más) que la vida no tiene sentido ni meta algunos.
Un “approach” que da una tranquilidad inmensa. Pero que al mismo tiempo puede desmotivar inmensamente a los que esta(bamos)/(mos) acostumbrados a correr detrás del estúpido concepto-carnaza del futuro. Concepto de por sí absurdo, que no existe, ni existirá jamás.
[BONUS: Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros]
Y ahora volveré a por un poquito más de sur, muy sur. Sin más.
Maybe you think that mastering the spanish language is enough to communicate fluently with a spanish-speaking person.
But no, it is not. If you really want to fully understand and make yourself understood you should not forget this rule: whenever you are in the middle of a conversation, you should apply the following conversion rule:
| He says… | He means… |
|---|---|
| Sí | Quizás |
| Quizás | No |
| No | Sí |
Don’t forget to apply the conversion from right to left as a speaker! Make sure that you make yourself understood.
And now, some practical examples:
Example 01
- ¿Quedamos mañana a las 5 en punto en la Plaza del Pijo?
- ¡Claro que sí! Hasta mañana.
This example is quite familiar to most foreigners, but not so many of them know that this is just an instance of the rule described above.
Example 02
- Vamos a quedar este fin de semana para una partida, pero nos falta uno en el equipo. ¿Te apuntas?
- Uhm… no se. Quizás me apunte. <- It really means “Uhm… sí sé. No me apunto”.
This is a good example of how knowing this rule will help you to optimize your plans. They will still miss one on the team, unless they get a “yes” answer from 2 different persons… which would mean that both of them have a 50% “maybe” chance of joining.
Example 03
- Tío, he oído rumores de que te has acostado con mi ex. ¿No sera verdad, no?
- ¡No, claro que no!
This one does not need an explanation, does it?
…that the food items you normally buy in supermarkets last longer and longer, while the life of the gadgets you buy, such as mobiles, gets shorter and shorter?!?
…
Este es un post especialmente dedicado a mis congéneras (todas las mujeres del mundo), y también ¿por qué no? a los hombres coquetos y/o metrosexuales.
Porque a ellas y ellos va dirigida una terrible conspiración de las grandes corporaciones.
Esta es mi teoría, y creo que tengo el deber de contársela al resto del mundo:
Desde los grandes medios de comunicación, desde las vallas publicitarias, enormes campañas de brainwashing se ciernen sobre vosotros para haceros creer que tenéis que compraros:
1. Crema hidratante
2. Crema antiarrugas
3. Compuestos que contienen uno o más de los anteriores
Ahora bien: NUNCA LO HAGÁIS!
Porque una vez que compréis la primera estaréis perdidos. Habréis entrado en una espiral sin salida, como el que prueba una droga sólo por probar, pero ya no puede salir sin dejarse la piel… en este caso literalmente.
Mi teoría (corregidme si creéis que es infundada) es que todo está planeado por las grandes corporaciones, tal que:
1. La crema hidratante hidrata, pero crea arrugas
2. La crema antiarrugas te plancha la carita, pero te deshidrata la piel
Con lo cual el comprar cualquiera de las dos comenzará un bucle infinito, una espiral de la cual no podrás salir jamás - sin dejarte la piel arrugada o seca. Serás pues un alma más en sus garras, comprando cremitas no precisamente baratas hasta el final de tus días.
Llamadme paranoica si queréis… pero yo no pienso comprarlas.
No en mi nombre, y no con mi silencio.
Ya queda en vosotros, queridas todas mujeres del mundo y queridos todos hombres coquetos y/o metrosexuales, decidir si creéis o no en esta teoría. Yo simplemente os informo, con pura buena intención, apuntándome así 3 minipuntos de buen karma (karma += 3).
Today I feel tired, but a little bit proud of myself. So many hours of hard work had a really nice result! 
Unfortunately, not everything in life is so simple. Not every cause-effect law can be simplified to “do your best and everything will be OK”. Not every instance of “if there is a will there is a way” returns TRUE.
Why? Because of the ‘LUCK’ variable.
Just a few minutes ago, someone told me:
Someone> “Luck does not exist”
And I wonder:
Isn’t it good luck to be born in - let’s say - Sweden instead of Ethiopia?
Isn’t it good luck to be born healthy instead of being born - let’s say…- blind or deaf…
Or to have parents that don’t drink or do drugs…
Or to have a job you really enjoy
Being born in a rich family instead of a poor one…
(the list would continue endless…)
I think that the reason Mr. Someone told such a thing is because he is a lucky person himself, and therefore he is unable to see the luck by himself - unless someone points at it for him.
And so it happens with many other things:
- Rich people see no money - they don’t need to care about the cost of things
- Healthy people do not realize their health - until they lose it!
- Modest people do not realize their modesty, because if they did they would not really be modest!
- (Add more examples in the comments if you find them! )
That is our nature… that is how we are… like one in the water who cries out for thirst.
Filed under: reflections | Tags: .en, memories, music, overthinking, reflections, tapes
Today I feel…
No, today I don’t feel nothing or nothing. I might be starting to master the art of emotional immunity. Nice!
I have not had internet at home for a while. Somehow I feel kind of free and purified by this fact.
Suddenly I remember the times when we did not have internet, computers and such. We were more creative in entertaining ourselves.
I remember one of my favourite ways of having fun when I was a kid:
reversing music tapes!
It was easy even having a standard tape reader. You just needed to cut the part of the tape with the song you wanted to listen backwards, and tape it again to the rest of the tape with the inner face out. Voila! You discovered a new song - without necessarily discovering satanic messages on the eventual backward lyrics.
I still do it on boring or rainy days, but now it is too easy with digitalized songs and software. It is not exactly the same, but basically as funny as before. It might sound strange… but maybe it is not.
Because think about the theory of time being a result of the universe still expanding after the big bang explosion. Let’s suppose for a while that this is true.
Think also about the theory of the universe being continuosly in the loop of being expanded, and compressed, and expanded, and compressed… let’s suppose for a while that this is also true.
So… this would mean that everything that happens in the universe is happening forward and backwards infinite times! Your life, my life, have happened infinite times before. Forward and backward. Doesn’t it make you wonder?
Are you actually living forward or backward now?
Now we learn as we live, but living backwards we know everything and then forget everything progressively as we undo it.
How many times have you read and unread this blog before?
Were you happier as a child than now as an adult? Are you dissapointed about life? Good! Next time you will be happier and happier as time unpasses!
But the worse thing about living backwards is…
CAN YOU IMAGINE THE END OF YOUR LIFE?????
Don’t try to visualize it… you migth not stand it.
Anyway, try the thing of reversing songs. It is fun. Besides I just thought about a possible advantage: if you take commercial music, maybe RIAA will have to pay you for every time you play a song backwards!!!
