Acróstico 2008

2 (DOS) 2008 ha sido un año bisiesto, pero no por ello me he echado la siesta dos veces. He escrito una novela, un ensayo y he conocido el amor. Además, mi grupo de música, Dos (http://www.dospop.blogspot.com/), ha consolidado su formación y ha empezado a dar conciertos regularmente.

0 (CERO) Cuando empieza 2008, me estreno como parado (http://www.inem.es/). Otra vez a empezar de cero. Zapatero asegura que la crisis no existe.

0 (CERO) Acaba el año, y vuelvo a estar sin un duro. Los ceros, en mi cuenta, pasan del lado derecho de la cifra al izquierdo (http://www.casinogranmadrid.es/). Zapatero conviene en que la crisis es un hecho.

8 (OCHO) En lugar de tumbar el ocho y hacerlo infinito, le añadimos medio número, y así obtenemos el título de la película homónima de Federico Fellini, lo que aprovecho para recomendar un blog de cine: (http://lanavajaenelojo.blogspot.com/). Mc Cain ha conseguido un meritorio segundo lugar en las presidenciales norteamericanas.

La otra noche soñé que me tocaba un viaje a Nueva York. Lo realizaré en 2009.

Grupo Dos: Soy el primero por la derecha (Foto de Verónica Mas)

LITERAL MEANINGLESS 1

Pattern: x.Idiom: Meaning (literal meaningless)

1.She is a peach: She is sweet and helpful (I am going to eat you even the bones).

2.He's full of beans: He's not telling the truth (He is a bagpipes).

3.It's not my cup of tea: I don't care for that (It's your teacap).

4.He's full of baloney: He doesn't know what he's talking about (He's a silly balloon).

5.It's just sour grapes: They have resentment (It's a moody juice).

6.That's corny: It's sentimental (That's when you go to the movies alone and have popcorn).

7.I'm in a pickle: I'm in a dilemma (You are in a bad mood because the pickle is in vinegar).

8.He brings home the bacon: He brings home the family money (he's fit but fat too).

9.She's in a stew: She's upset (I am going to eat you again baby).

10.He's the top banana: He's the headman (He's the top cucumber).

¡HABRASE BRISTOL!

I have just come home from Bristol. I love this city, but I am in love with Wells and, above all, Glastonbury. I climbed up to the Tor and then knew who I was. King Arthur, druid magic, Sir Lancelott, Guinevière... Avalon was true!... Then Mother Nature came to me and gave me all her power.

One day before I was singing in Wells the Swan Song:

"Here in the garden, water and shadows.
People and landscape threading and weaving.
Out on the benches someone is sitting
holding their memories".

Cheers!!!

LOL or "TO BE IN LOL"

I know this abbreviation means "laugh out loud" or "lots of laughs". But actually I mean Love Old Love again... I know when this thing happens because is so rare as a gem. And now I am singing with The Jayhawks:




I'm in love with the girl that I'm talking about
I'm in love with the girl that I can't live without
I'm in love but I sure picked a bad time to be in love, to be in love.
let her be somebody else's queen
I don't want to hear about it
there's too many others who know what I mean
and that's why I got to live without it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkZh2NgF4Ho
However, she is looking at me from my screen saver all the time. She is beautiful, inside and outside. I can see the twinkle in her eyes. I am in Lol with you, Girl.

TRAVELS WITH VARASEK

That train went on to Uzbekistan and I was not there. But I knew our shadows were like DNA chains. Life is a journey and we would be together again along the road. However, I have forgotten this truth so many times during the last years...

Fortunately, last San Juan's night, Varasek said to me I was a rusted boat. And I said:

"You're right. Friendship is an alarm-clock".

Nasdarovié, mariscal!!!

UK MAP

I have an UK map on my wall.
One morning I woke up with a huge hangover and fixed my eyes on it. Then I saw a lot of animals... Below, a rat. Over the rat, a pig, and over the pig a dog (or maybe a witch with a Robin Hood hat on) looking fiercely at the Ulster. And the Ulster seems a dog too.

Jó, ¡qué noche!

After-hours, by Martin Scorsese, is one of my favourite films. The title was translated to Spanish as Jó, ¡qué noche! I hate this expression. It is too much posh... But the film was released in 1985. Then, the expression After-hours was unusual... If the film had come out in our days, I am pretty sure the title wouldn't have changed. You know... Spaniards are very fond of nightlife and, since the mid-nineties, very fond of afterhour too, as we know this period which starts at six o'clok in the morning.
Anyway, I prefer the working title of the film: A Night in Soho.

One more thing. Don't miss out Shine a Light. Scorsese + Rolling Stones.