esmirandamiamor!

los vere el domingo, felicidad total!!

"el destino me ha dado
corazones desequilibrados
tu palabra me nivela
y detiene mi caer"

--Don

yo amo mi ciudad

porque a mi tambien me encanta San Jose, desde el Parque España con su fuente del conquistador, los churros de crema pastelera de manolos, mora books en el omni, aprender a esquivar gente caminando por la avenida central, la panaderia samuelito ahi por la parada de Tibas (y cuando hay plata, pasar por Giacomin por unas galletas de herradura o un masapan), la ruta que agarro siempre para ir a la Lehmann, o la que agarro para devolverme, Marito Mortadela y su dulce sabiduria (como cuando me pregunto que si tenia mama y al responderle que si, me dijo que la quisiera mucho), la avenida de adoquines sueltos, el edificio de correos y el camino al apartado postal 52-1000 san jose.. yo entiendo lo que luis chaves quiere decir.

a continuacion, el comentario de luis chaves publicado en la seccion Ancora de la Nacion del domingo 12 de marzo del 2006.

Lugar Común: San José

Luis Chaves
chaves.luis@gmail.com

El josefino y sus primos cercanos del Gran Área Metropolitana piden a gritos una capital donde se vean reflejados, una que les devuelva un poco de identidad, de autoestima...

Se dice que San José fue una de las primeras ciudades con electrificación en el mundo. Habría que investigar. Cierto o no, este es un dato anodino si se enfrenta al siguiente hecho: San José es la capital que más temprano apaga las luces. Una capital con horario de zona rural. Recientemente, sin embargo, diversas actividades culturales (Papaya Fest, Transitarte, Naderías) trasladaron y concentraron la atención y la energía de miles de personas al centro de Chepe. Por unos días, la antigua Villanueva dejó de ser una ciudad de paso.

Y la gente volvió a San José y ocupó sus aceras, reconoció sus sonidos, comió churros o boca de salchichón, tomó fotos mal centradas frente a monumentos ecuestres, pegó chicles debajo de los poyos del Parque España, tocó la nalga de la gorda de Monumental, tomó birras sin hielo, caminó incluso nueve cuadras sin montarse al carro o al taxi. Y la gente vio que todo esto era bueno. Solo bueno. Entonces la gente descansó.

Parece que el josefino y sus primos cercanos del Gran Área Metropolitana piden a gritos una capital donde se vean reflejados, una que les devuelva un poco de identidad, de autoestima. Aunque también puede ser que no se trate más que de un espejismo y que la aspiración del tico promedio de la urbe siga siendo un condominio cerrado cerca del mall. Pero por si acaso, aquí van once razones por las cuales San José centro debería convertirse en una capital habitada.

1. Porque -empecemos por lo obvio- aunque su apariencia, sus ruidos, sus olores, sus complejos y sus costumbres son las de una capital de provincia, San José es la ciudad capital del país.

2. Porque es una de pocas capitales en el planeta que se puede cruzar a lo largo y a lo ancho en menos de un día.

3. Porque el rumor tántrico de los bolsinistas en la esquina de Monumental es la verdadera música folclórica de Costa Rica.

4. Porque el arreglado especial de Chelles reduce los triglicéridos.

5. Porque el mural sobre plywood del bar Morazán es una genialidad y el salón de karaoke de La Vasconia es la puerta de entrada a una realidad paralela.

6. Porque en la esquina este de la Casa Amarilla está Ñ, la galería-bazar administrada por exintegrantes de la Selección Nacional Mixta de Nado Sincronizado. Una exquisitez.

7. Porque todos los buses llegan a San José. Trate en cambio de trasladarse, digamos, de Curri a Tibás. 8. Porque graffiti tipo "Chichi te amo demaciado" (cortesía de Sugar) o "Colacho fuma piedra" devuelven la felicidad hasta al misántropo más acabado.

9. Porque la única manera de combatir la paranoia colectiva alimentada y explotada por nuestro periodismo fascista es recuperando los espacios públicos capitalinos, sobre todo los nocturnos.

10. Porque si en todo caso uno llega a ser víctima de asalto, sabe que fue un compa con necesidades inmediatas y no a manos de un dueño de bar del Estado Separatista de Escazú que cobra dos mil colones por cerveza.

11. Y porque es preferible la muerte por asfixia antes que ir a tomar unas Pilsen a Cartago.

acceptance

tomorrow i'll start a new semester at school. one more and two to go, in theory, so to finish the academic credits and start on my dissertation. with this thought on mind, i go to sleep thinking on how much i like to create things and on how much i need to create. perhaps taking the first step towards my thesis is dreaming, dreaming that in a couple of years i will have created the proof to the world and my academic peers and professors of what i am, and of what i'm capable. but it's a long, hard way.. or at least that's how i see things sometimes at the very beginning, at the verge of creation.. when i'm sitting in front of my computer, fingers aching to type, to pour down my mind... and i give thanks, because there were so many roads that took me to where i am, many people who guided me and pushed me towards here.. i wouldn't be nobody without support, inspiration and advice. my love to y'all.

mañana 14 y adelante. gracias amore.

personal devotionary

drinking in LA -- bran van 3000 (glee 1997)







www.branvan3000.com

tributo y respuesta

por esto es que me gusta tanto ver hgtv... quiero una casa.. pa' vos y pa' mi.. pa' los dos..

Casa - natalia lafourcade

Voy a proteger mi casa
cuando estoy ahí siento tranquilidad
y después pondré unas flores
en la mesa

Voy a cocinar un postre
le pondré manzanas de felicidad
para que te comas una
y seas feliz
todo el día
y me digas
que no puedes vivir sin mi

Voy a proteger mi casa
cuando estoy ahí te puedo consentir
como viene en las historias que te cuento

Para que cierres los ojos
y por fin tu puedas otra vez dormir
y al otro día me digas
que bonito, muy bonita, señorita,
yo no puedo vivir sin ti

Mi casa de papel
porque es el corazón
siento fragilidad
si no estas

Uhuuuuu....

Voy a cocinar un postre
le pondré manzanas de felicidad
para que te comas una
y seas feliz
todo el día
y me digas
que no puedes vivir sin...

mi casa de papel
porque es el corazón
siento fragilidad
si no estas...
mi casa de papel

porque es de corazón
siento fragilidad
si no estas..

remember, remember, the fifth of november...

haven't seen it yet, but i just read the comic.. it blew me away..

worth the sweat

greetings from the land of the slightly slimmer... haha, oh well, this is a post just to update that after a month and a half of going to the gym, i lost 1.5 kg of fat tissue.. for me it was like, wow... uhm, nothing much to tell, i'm getting my italian passport tomorrow... but first i have to go the university to enroll, go to a bookstore to get a copy of "pride and prejudice" (i already read it in spanish) and a pair of gym gloves.

apart from that, i think i'm actually a pretty boring person.

oh! and did i mention i got a haircut?

he's a fucking doughnut!!

get a bloke dressed in women's clothes and dab him some make-up on. then add some ingenious and sarcastic humor. call him an executive transvestite. what'd you get? something you'll never forget. behold the power of eddie izzard..

tears for a japanese

ok, so i just saw this movie on cinemax (the censored version to my disappointment) and i highly recommend you guys look for it. ok, it's kind of a tear-jerker, but that's how i like my movies. the cinematography is superb. and it takes place in Australia, so Guy, you should have seen it, maybe, i hope. tell me what you think.

Japanese Story (2003) with Toni Collette and Gotaro Tsunashima, directed by Sue Brooks.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304229/

bunny!!!!

i guess bunnies can do gonzo reporting too.

http://www.frozenreality.co.uk/

when the heart aches

i was creating this soundtrack.... it was like, you know, a list of songs that have parts of songs that mean something... that you give some special meaning or you believe they hold an answer, a key to feelings...

so i was assigning like referents to the songs, like, why they meant something for me.. and the list goes like this:

ani difranco - both hands: fear of feeling when things slip by you hand
damn yankees - high enough: regret after it slipped away
jewel - you were meant for me: miss you
lauryn hill - ex-factor: the hard times of being together
lisa loeb - leaving on a jet plane: being far away
portishead - only you: knowing me
semisonic - secret smile: you are mine
texas - say what you want: i feel the same about you
yellow card - only one: dont want to screw up
blind melon - mouthfull of cavities: when you are sad
los abandoned - como la flor: after you've left me
james blunt - you're beautiful: what would happen afterwards, when i'll see you on a bus
everything but the girl - missing you: yeah, i can be psycho too

BUT... in the end i realized that all i wanted to hear was this one:

high
by james blunt

Beautiful dawn - lights up the shore for me.
There is nothing else in the world,
I'd rather wake up and see (with you).
Beautiful dawn - I'm just chasing time again.
Thought I would die a lonely man, in endless night.
But now I'm high; running wild among all the stars above.
Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.

Beautiful dawn - melt with the stars again.
Do you remember the day when my journey began?
Will you remember the end (of time)?
Beautiful dawn - You're just blowing my mind again.
Thought I was born to endless night, until you shine.
High; running wild among all the stars above.
Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.

Will you be my shoulder when I'm grey and older?
Promise me tomorrow starts with you,
Getting high; running wild among all the stars above.
Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.

*****

don't want to cry myself to sleep tonight..

the truth about ale

nothing much to tell... been going to work and to the gym, which is actually more fulfilling than what i had thought it was going to be... saw karl for a couple of hours the day before he went back to canada...

am i really that boring? gawd..........i have to do something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


please help.

resolution

bring out the best of me.

googled

have you googled yourself? write your name in google and see what comes up? well, given that i have a rather unusual combination of spanish first name and italian last name, the chance to find me in the internet is quite easy. right now there are just 3 matches. one for an IRC email i wrote, one from a spanish club meeting when i was at WAC, and the first match is my name mentioned in a forum... a forum started by some of my classmates from highschool. it is not about me.. it is an immature rendering of highschool memories of some of the girls from our class.

ok guys, i know that it's normal to comment on people... it's just that you sound like dorks, your eccentric and over the top language sounds completely incongruent and silly next to what you are saying, which is borderline obscene... and you are really stupid to mention people with their full names because it is easy to track. and it's just a gruesome way to find out how you really thought of some of us.

hope that you don't find stuff like what i found about yourselves--or about your girlfriends--on the internet.

and guys, grow up, ok?

literary humor.. if you can see it

hormonal but true

Honestly -- Zwan

I believe
I believe
I believe
I believe the love you talk about with me
Is it true, do I care
Honestly, you can try to wipe the memories aside
But it's you that you erase

'cause there's no place that I could be without you
It's too far to discard the life I once knew
Honestly, all the weather and storms I bring
Are just a picture of my needs
'cause when I think of you as mine
And allow myself with time
To lead into the life we want
I feel loved, honestly
I feel loved, this honestly

I believe you mean the best that life can bring
I believe in it all
Honestly, you can try
Your heart is just as long as mine
Is it ours to let go

'cause there's not place that I could be without you
It's too dark to discard the life I once knew
Honestly, a single wrong is not enough
To cover up the pain in us'cause when I think of you as mine
And allow myself with time
To lead into the life we want
I feel loved, honestly
I'll make a joke so you must laugh
I'll break your heart so you must ask
Is this the way to get us back
I don't know, honestly
I don't know, this honestly

There's no place that I could be without you
Honestly

There's no place that I could be without you
There's no place that I could gleam without you
There's no place that I could dream without you
There's no place that I could be without you
Honestly

drinks and tamales

the day after christmas. ok, nothing too special actually. i had a good time. on the 21st was the company's party, which was a blast, i dressed for the occasion (pix coming later), was feed good food, drank many sources of alcohol, had fun with Marco. then on christmas eve i worked early, went home, then went to oscar's mom's place. felt good, felt cozy, felt happy. on the 25th had to work from 10 to 7. i think i fell asleep at my station, but i had a tamal for lunch, first one this year. after work i went to a "chivo" (actually, it was a concert at someone's house) and had a zarpe (last drink) at a crowded heredian bar. today i tried to install a game in my computer, but apparently i suck with computers so it's not working. hope y'all had something good to look back from 2005, and something great to look forward in 2006. i know i have.

ok, so as i promised, these are some pictures from the party:

that's me sitting at our table


that's say, beca and me

and that's marco and me

non-stop

i know it has been a while.... been busy, eventhough i'm on vacation.... oh well... beach, oscar's bday, work, last evaluations, chrismast gift shopping, trying to find a dress for the office party, oh well... i'm tired...

i'm so tired i could stay in bed all day...

and i'll have to work on the 24th, the 25th, the 31st of december, and on the 1st of january...

i'm spending oh so much money...

and believe it or not, i joined a gym.... i know this should traditionally happen in january, as a new year's resolutions but well, i decided to start earlier.

sorry this post is so lame, my brain is blah.

spoiler

just in case you don't know the story...

D-O-N-E

tomorrow... last class of the semester.... no mas... i'm done misters...

need time to read (some of the books i didn't read in class, i must admit)... need time to see friends... need time to do stuff... need time to create like i used to...

feel blue sometimes... it must be hormonal... i guess i need more chocolate then..

*sigh*

i should stop bitching, i know..