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BTW, did I mention how much I hate the snow?

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Elfen Lied (エルフェンリート, Erufen Rīd?) es un manga y anime de Lynn Okamoto. Shūeisha publica el manga en Japón. La serie consta de 13 episodios y una OVA de 25 minutos cada uno. La historia contiene escenas de desnudos y una dosis generosa de sangre, gore y violencia psicológica. El OVA se sitúa entre los capítulos 10 y 11. Hay quienes la consideran como el capítulo 10.5. Este episodio relata un poco más de la historia de la serie, además de tratar más a fondo la relación Nyu/Nana en el pasado. Ideal para los misántropos por la naturaleza de el odio de Lucy por la humanidad, debido a la crueldad de los niños con ella cuando era pequeña.

El deseo principal de los diclonius es la propagación de sus rasgos superiores a través de la destrucción de la raza humana. Este deseo homicida se manifiesta alrededor del tercer año de vida del diclonius. Al parecer, los diclonius no consideran a los homo sapiens normales “humanos”, y la mayor parte del tiempo muestran una completa falta de empatía hacia los no mutantes.

La historia también trata los asuntos del trauma psicológico y los recuerdos reprimidos. El personaje diclonius principal presenta una doble personalidad: una infantil (Nyuu) y otra (Lucy), la sádica y cínica, llena de recuerdos dolorosos y un odio mortal hacia los humanos normales. Kōta, el otro personaje principal, bloqueó por completo una parte de su infancia debido al trauma de sufrir la pérdida de su hermana pequeña y de su padre.

En Elfen Lied se pueden ver varios tipos de trastornos psicológicos como son:

Trastornos supresivos (vistos en Kōta)
Superyó extremadamente rígido (visto en Lucy/Nyuu) razón de por que se da la doble personalidad)
Trastornos con objetos de transición (visto en Mayu, quien no puede tolerar la separación de su perro, Wanta)
Trastornos de fijación (vistos en Nana, quien no puede evitar la fijación que tiene hacia su tutor, Kurama)

Tema de Apertura (opening)

“Lilium” por Kumiko Noma
Lilium es una adaptación de una sección de la ópera de Eduard Mörike, “Eduard auf dem Seil”

Elfen Lied (エルフェンリート, Erufen Rīto?) is the title of a Japanese manga series and derivative anime originally created by Japanese author Lynn Okamoto. Elfen Lied focuses on a mysterious and deadly breed of horned humans called “diclonius”, and the havoc they wreak upon humanity. The title Elfen Lied is German or Dutch for “Elf Song” (see Lied), and pronounced approximately [ˈɛlfən liːt], although the correct German spelling would be “Elfenlied”.

Elfen Lied first began as a manga series, serialized in the magazine Weekly Young Jump and published in Japan by Shueisha, ending at the completion of the twelfth volume. An anime adaptation began airing in Japan on July 25, 2004 while the unfinished manga was still in production, causing the anime plot to differ somewhat from the manga. A bonus OVA episode was released on April 21, 2005 giving some more background information.

So far, only the original anime series spanning 13 episodes and the OVA have been licensed in the United States and Canada, by ADV Films. ADV Films said the series was one of their bestselling and “most notorious” releases of 2005.

The opening and ending sequences feature artistic drawings of the principal characters. These characters are drawn in a style based on Gustav Klimt’s paintings, imitating poses, colors, and patterns. In the following comparison images, the left side of each image shows Klimt’s work, and on the right, Elfen Lied’s counterpart:

The German song Elfenlied (”Elf Song”) appears in the manga (volume 5, p.154) and is credited to the composer Hugo Wolf. The song does not appear in the anime. A poem by Eduard Mörike is the basis for Wolf’s version.

Throughout its course, the story of Elfen Lied delves into moral dilemmas and societal issues both real and hypothetical, contrasting the reactions of the different characters and races to horrific circumstances, especially those from in their childhoods.

Elfen Lied deals with human evolution with both humans and diclonii regarding each other as expendable, dehumanized mistakes. However, an important aspect of the series involves relationships between primary caregivers, as well as love in general, which is gradually revealed to exist between diclonii and humans. Toward the end of the series characters of both races come to the difficult understanding that they are both indeed human, with distinct differences between them. The main drive of the diclonius race is the propagation of their superior traits through the destruction of the human race. This homicidal drive can arise as early as the 3rd year of a diclonius’s life. Many diclonius do not consider normal Homo sapiens “human”; this apparently stems from their very distinctive characteristics that in turn caused them to be rejected by fellow humans.

One of the most prevalent motifs of the series is the humanity of the diclonius, especially contrasted against the inhumanity of ordinary people. One reviewer described the series as “devoted to quite a few of the darker, more callous factors of human nature”. Throughout the series, incidences of human sadism are seen, from casual beatings to pedophilic rape to outright killing. Lucy, on the other hand, begins life as a perfectly psychologically normal child, with an obvious physical difference, tormented repeatedly by ordinary people. This mistreatment and torment by her human peers is portrayed as a classical example of ijime(bullying), which happens everyday in Japan and refers to people who stray from the norm or are mostly deemed different, becoming target for lifetime physical or mental abuse by others.

Although she tries to make friends with children her own age, she is spurned, lied to, physically assaulted, and forced to witness brutality. She suffers a great deal because of her day to day life, and so her reactions vary between disgust at the casual cruelty, painful wonder about why she alone is so mistreated, wishing to retreat from her miserable life, and desire to wreak vengeance in the most painful way possible on her tormentors (the Homo sapiens race).

The story also deals with the issues of psychological trauma and repressed memories. Lucy has dissociative identity disorder, one infantile personality (Nyū), and another adult one (Lucy), full of painful memories and a solemn, murderous hatred towards normal humans, especially ones who personally hurt her. Kohta suffers from dissociative amnesia after his sister Kanae and father are brutally murdered in front of him. Nana suffers from being used as a test subject but she still manages to smile because she associates herself with chief Kurama. Mariko, Kurama’s daughter, has suffered from being locked up and never having contact with anyone besides a voice though a speaker where she is being contained, she was kept completely isolated until later in the series. When she was born Kurama tried to kill her because she was a diclonius, and her mother died trying to stop him.

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Para la alegria de todos los fans de Battlestar Galactica (y hombres en general), la modelo/actriz Canadiense Tricia Helfer (Numbero Seis) se saco la ropa y decidio mostrar su traje de Cylon al natural en la ultima edicion de Playboy.

For the joy of Battlestar Galactica fans everywhere (and men in general), Canadian model/actress Tricia Helfer (Number Six) shed her “cylon suit”(whatever the hell that is) and grace the pages of Playboy.

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El más tricampeón del fútbol argentino ganó con justicia el primer superclásico del año. Lo ganó por juego, actitud, porque quiso ganarlo desde el minuto cero y porque acertó dos veces en las redes de Mauricio Caranta. ¿Los goleadores? Radamel Falcao García y Diego Galván, dos productos en los que Daniel Passarella apuesta y fuerte. La figura fue nuevamente Fernando Belluschi. River encabeza con siete puntos la tabla del verano. Salud, Tricampeón.

Kate Havnevik - New Day

Beautiful day
Watching you as you awake
Morning stars in your eyes
Your hand in mine

The sky is lit up
Day will be richer than night
So dont think of yesterday
Its here and now

Its a, its a, its a…new day
Its a, its a, its a…new day

The beauty of you
Gives me my fortitude
Stronger than any dark cloud
Screaming out loud, hey, hey

The sky is lit up
Day will be richer than night
So dont think of yesterday
Its here and now

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Kate Havnevik is a Norwegian singer and songwriter from Oslo. Her debut album, the trip-hop and electronica infused Melankton, was released in March 2006 on iTunes and April 2006 (on physical CD) in Norway, before being licensed internationally later in the year. Havnevik has been working on three albums simultaneously - Melankton, an untitled project and an acoustic album entitled Embla. Kate is releasing her albums through her own record label, Continentica Records, which she runs with her husband.

Kate is a classical musician, and can play the piano, the guitar and the melodica amongst other instruments, having wanted to be a classical and jazz musician, up until the age of 14, when she joined an all female punk rock band rehearsing and playing at Oslo’s illegally occupied club, Blitz. The experience changed her musical horizons, and led her to pursue an interest in classical music mixed with modern electronica. She says she became interested in songwriting at the age of 16 or 17, when she began to experiment with lyrics, as opposed to solely focusing on instrumentation. Her father (who is English) and mother are also both classically trained musicians, who play the flute. When she was 19, she decided to travel to England, and studied music and composition in Liverpool, before moving to London to further her career.

Havnevik set about working with producers to help hone her sound, the most famous of which is Guy Sigsworth, part of Frou Frou, who has also worked with Imogen Heap, Madonna, Jem, Britney Spears and Björk. Havnevik tracked down Sigsworth around five years ago, rang him and left phone messages, until one day he agreed to meet her. The pair have co-written and recorded many songs together, some of which will be featured on Melankton, including “Unlike Me,” “Not Fair” and “You Again,” and some of which will be included on the second, as yet untitled project, including “Disobey,” which Havnevik premiered on her official web site. She describes Melankton as “dramatic, beautiful and euphoric,” and deemed it the perfect introduction to her music, which is why it is being released first. The album title is from a character in a Norwegian book Havnevik was reading, and also translates to “black rose,” which she says is very fitting for the album. Melankton was mastered in Devon, partly mixed in LA, partly mixed and recorded in London, Bratislava, Oslo, Reykjavík and LA. The album was premiered online on Havnevik’s official web site for 48hours from 11th-12th March 2006, and was added to Apple Computer’s iTunes music store on 27th March 2006. It was commercially released on CD on 3rd April in Norway; a special UK edition, omitting “Someday,” and instead including “Travel In Time,” was released on 16th October 2006.

In early 2006, a track from Melankton, “Unlike Me,” was featured in an acapella form (available commercially on the UK “Unlike Me” single, which was released on 16th October 2006) in a season two episode of hit ABC hospital drama, “Grey’s Anatomy,” and later on in the season, “Nowhere Warm” was also featured. A new song she composed exclusively for the season finale, entitled “Grace,” was featured in May 2006 and features on the second “Grey’s Anatomy” soundtrack CD. A further Havnevik track, entitled “So:Lo” featured in an episode of season three of the show, and has been made available as an iTunes] exclusive; whilst album tracks “Kaleidoscope” and “New Day” have also been used. A song called “Strangelove” was featured in an episode of “The West Wing”, but is yet to be released. On December 5 2006 she made her first ever UK broadcast media appeearance, on Janice Long’s BBC Radio 2 show, performing “Unlike Me,” “I Don’t Know You” and “New Day.”

In addition to Sigsworth, Havnevik has also collaborated with Marius De Vries, who has previously worked with Björk and David Gray and Yoad Nevo, famous for his work with Welsh singer Jem. For her future third album - an acoustic project - entitled Embla, which she started recording in May 2005, Havnevik worked with the harpist Rhodri Davies, vibraphonist Orphy Robinson and Lamb bassist Jon Thorne.

As well as her solo projects, Kate has also co-written and provided guest vocals on the tracks “Only This Moment” and “Circuit Breaker” by Röyksopp, both featured on the album The Understanding. Havnevik also contributes vocals to Röyksopp’s recently released live EP, Röyksopp’s Night Out.

A collaboration she recorded with Carmen Rizzo (”Travel In Time”) featured on Rizzo’s album, The Lost Art Of The Idle Moment. The track was remixed for the UK version of Melankton and featured on a season 3 episode of the FOX teen drama series “The O.C.” and an episode of NBC TV show “Windfall”.

She co-wrote and provided vocals on the track “Crazy”, featured on Mono Band’s self-titled LP, a solo project of former Cranberries guitarist Noel Hogan. Working extensively with Guy Sigsworth, she also provides backing vocals to a Britney Spears track he produced, which was released in late 2005, entitled “Someday (I Will Understand).”

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El 15 de Febrero parto para China para lo que sera la segunda parte de mi casamiento.
Mi familia viajara desde Argentina hasta Toronto, donde nos encontraremos para seguir viaje a Shanghai.
como no puede ser de otra manera, estoy viendo que puedo comprar en China en esta oportunidad, y para ir adelantando mi lista estoy usando la version China de Ebay, para que tengan idea de que tan baratos son los productos $1 usd es $7.7 yuan
busquedas como Adidas, Puma, North Face, Nike, Columbia, Armani, Rolex, etc. pueden hacerte saltar de la silla de solo leer los precios.

Hoy en particular me voy a encargar de un telefono que me llamo la atencion

Tiene 1 giga de ram, pero puede ser expandido via SD cards, es reproductor de mp3, de video con formatos mp4, tiene camara de fotos, video de 2 megapixeles, es triband, GSM y cuesta menos de 80 dolares….

lo mejor es la marca…. MOTOPOLA!

You’ve eaten at a few Japanese restaurants, seen some anime, hosted an exchange student, and had a Japanese girlfriend. And now, somewhere in the back of your tiny brain, you think that Japanese would be a good language to learn. Hey, you could translate video games! Or Manga! Or even Anime! Pick up Japanese girls, impress your friends! Maybe you’ll even go to Japan and become an anime artist! Yeah! Sounds like a great idea!

So you head down to the library, pick up some books with titles like “How To Teach Yourself Japanes In Just 5 Seconds A Day While Driving Your Car To And From The Post Office” and “Japanese For Complete And Total, Utter Fools Who Should Never Procreate”. Hey, you already know a few words from your manga collection/girlfriend/anime. Excited and impressed with your new knowledge, you begin to think: “Hey. Maybe, just maybe, i could do this for a living! Or even major in Japanese! Great Idea, Right?

WRONG

I don’t care how many anime tapes you’ve watched, how many Japanese girlfriends you’ve had, or books you’ve read, You don’t know Japanese. Not only that, majoring in the godforsaken language is NOT fun or even remotely sensible. Iraqi war prisoners are often forced to major in Japanese. The term “Holocaust” comes from the Latin roots “Holi” and “Causm”, meaning “to major in Japanese”. You get the idea.

And so, sick of seeing so many lambs run eagerly to the slaughter, I have created This Guide to REAL TIPS for Studying Japanese. Or, as is actually the case, NOT studying it.

Reason One
It is too hard.

This should be an obvious.

Despite what many language books, friends, or online tutorials may have told you, Japanese is NOT simple, easy, or even sensical (Japanese vocabulary is determined by throwing tiny pieces of sushi at a dart board with several random syllables attatched to it). TheJapanese spread these rumours to draw foolish Gaijin into their clutches.

Not only is it not simple, it’s probably one of the hardest language you could ever want to learn. With THREE completely different written languages (none of which make sense), multitude of useless, confusing politeness levels, and absolutely insane grammatical structure, Japanese has been crushing the souls of the pathetic Gaijin since it’s conception. Let’s go over some of these elements mentioned above so you can get a better idea of what I mean.

The Japanese Writing System

The Japanese writing system is broken down into three separate, complete, and insane, parts: Hiragana (”those squiggily letters”), Katakana (”those boxy letters”) and Kanji (”roughly 4 million embodiments of your worst nightmares”).

Hiragana is used to spell out Japanese words using syllables. It consist of many letters, all of which look completely different and bear absolutely no resemblance to each other whatsoever. Hiragana were devloped by having a bunch of completely blind, deaf, and dumb Japanese people scribble things on pieces of paper while having no idea why they were doing so. The resulting designs were then called “hiaragana”. The prince who invented these characters, Yorimushi(”stinking monkey-bush-donkey”) was promptly bludgeoned to death. But don’t worry, because you’ll hardly use Hiragana in “real life”.

Katakana are used only to spell out foreign words in a thick, crippling japanese accent, so that you’ll have no idea what you’re saying even though it’s in English. However, if you remember one simple rule for Katakana, you’ll find reading Japanese much easier: Whenever something is written in Katakana, it’s an English word! (note: Katakana is also used for non-english foreign words. And sound effects, and Japanese words). Katakana all look exactly the same, and it’s impossible, even for Japanese people, to tell them apart. No need to worry, because you’ll hardly ever have to read Katakana in “real life”.

Kanji are letters that were stolen from China. Every time the Japanese invaded China (which was very often) they’d just take a few more letters, so now they have an estimated 400 gazillion of them. Kanji each consist of several “strokes”, which must be written in a specific order, and convey a specific meaning, like “horse”, or “girl”. Not only that, but Kanji can combined to form new words. For example, if you combine the Kanji for “small”, and “woman”, you get the word “carbeurator”. Kanji also have different pronounciations depending on where they are in the word, how old you are, and what day it is. When European settlers first came upon Japan, the Japanese scholars suggested that Europse adopt the Japanese written language as a “universal” language understood by all parties. This was the cause of World War 2 several years later. Don’t worry, however, since you’ll never have to use kanji in “real life”, since most Japanese gave up on reading a long, long time ago, and now spend most of their time playing Pokemon.

Politeness Levels
Politness Levels have their root in an ancient Japanese tradition of absolute obedience and conformity, a social caste system, and complete respect for arbitrary heirarchical authority, which many American companies believe will be very helpful when applied as magaerial techniques. They’re right, of course, but no one is very happy about it.

Depending on who you are speaking to your politeness level will be very different. Politeness depends on many things, such as age of the speaker, age of the person being spoken to, time of day, zodiac sign, blood type, sex, whether they are Grass or Rock Pokemon type, color of pants, and so on. For an example of Politness Levels in action, see the example below.

Japanese Teacher: Good morning, Harry.
Harry: Good Morning.
Japanese Classmates: (gasps of horror and shock)
The bottom line is that Politeness Levels are completely beyond your understanding, so don’t even try. Just resign yourself to talking like a little girl for the rest of your life and hope to God that no one beats you up.

Grammatical Structure
The Japanese have what could be called an “interesting” grammatical structure, but could also be called “confusing”, “random”, “bogus” or “evil”. To truly understand this, let’s examine the differences between Japanese and English grammar.

English Sentence:
Jane went to the school.

Same Sentence In Japanese:
School Jane To Went Monkey Apple Carbeurator.

Japanese grammar is not for the faint of heart or weak of mind. What’s more, the Japanese also do not have any words for “me”, “them”, “him, or “her” that anyone could use without being incredibly insulting (the Japanese word for “you”, for example, when written in kanji, translates to”I hope a monkey scratches your face off”). Because of this, the sentence “He just killed her!” and “I just killed her!” sound exactly the same, meaning that most people in Japan have no idea what is going on around them at any given moment. You are supposed to figure these things out from the “context”, which is a German word meaning “you’re screwed”.

Reason Two
Japanese People

When most Americans think of Japanese people, they think: polite, respectful, accomadating. (They could also possibly think: Chinese). However, it is important to learn where the truth ends and our Western stereotyping begins.

Of course, it would be irresponsible of me to make any sweeping generalizations about such alarge group of people, but ALL Japanese people have three characteristics: they “speak” English, they dress very nicely, and they’re short.

The Japanese school system is controlled by Japan’s central government, which, of course, is not biased in any way (recent Japanese history textbook title: “White Demons Attempt To Take Aaway our Holy Motherland, But Great And Powerful Father-Emperor Deflects Them With Winds From God: The Story Of WW2″). Because of this, all Japanese have been taught the same English-language course, which consists of reading The Canterbury Tales, watching several episodes of M*A*S*H, and reading the English dictionary from cover to cover. Armed with this extensive language knowledge, the children of Japan emerge from school ready to take part in international business and affairs, uttering such remarkable and memorable sentences as “You have no chance to survive make your time”, and adding to their own products by inscribing english slogans, such as “Just give this a Paul. It may be the Paul of your life” on the side of a slot machine.

Secondly, all Japanese people dress extremely well. This fits in with the larger Japanese attitude of neatness and order. Everything has to be in it’s correct place with the Japanese, or a small section in the right lobe of their brain begins to have seizures and they exhibit erratic violent behavior until the messiness is eradicated. The Japanese even FOLD THEIR DIRTY CLOTHES. Sloppiness is not tolerated in Japanese society, and someone with a small wrinkle in their shirt, which they thought they could hide by wearing a hooded sweatshirt over it (possibly emblazoned with a catchy english phrase like “Spread Beaver, Violence Jack-Off!”), will be promptly beaten to death with tiny cellular phones.

Lastly, the Japanese are all short. Really, really short. It’s kind of funny. Not ones to leave being tall to the Europeans or Africans, however, the Japanese have singlehandedly brought shoes with incredibly gigantic soles into style, so that they can finally appear to be of actual human height, when in reality their height suggests that they may indeed be closer in relation to the race of dwarves or Hobbits.

Japanese culture is also very “interesting”, by which we mean “confusing” and in several cases “dangerous”. Their culture is based on the concept of “In Group/Out Group”, in which all Japanese people are one big “In” group, and YOU are the “Out” group. Besides this sense of alienation, Japan also produces cartoons, and a wide variety of other consumer products which are crammed into your face 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Japanese also like cock fighting monsters that live in your pants, taking baths with the elderly, and killing themselves.

Japanese food is what some people would call “exotic”, but what most people call “disgusting”, or perhaps, in some areas, “whack”. Japanese food evolved in ancient days, when the main staple of the diet was rice. People got so sick and tired of eating rice, in fact, that they ate just about anything else they could find, from seaweed to other Japanese people. This has led to the creation of such wonderful foods as “Natto”, which I believe is a kind of bean but tastes like battery acid, and “Pocky”, which is a stick with different frostings on it, the flavors of which include Sawdust and Strawberry.

Despite this variety of foods, however, the Japanese have succeeded in making every single thing they eat, from tea to plums, taste like smokey beef.

Reason Three
Your Classmates

As if learning the language wasn’t hard enough, Japanese classes in America tend to attract the kind of student who makes you wish that a large comet would strike the earth. There are a few basic type of students that you’ll always find yourself running into. These include The Anime Freak, The Know It All, and the Deer Caught In Headlights.

The Anime Freak is probably the most common, and one of the most annoying. You can usually spot a few warning signs to let you identify them before it’s too late: they wear the same exact Evangelion shirt every day, they have more than one anime key chain on their person, they wear glasses, they say phrases in Japanese that hey obviously don’t understand (such as “Yes! I will never forgive you!”), they refer to you as “-chan”, make obscure Japanese culture references during class, and usually fail class. You have to be extremely careful not to let them smell pity or fear on you, because if they do they will immeadiately latch onto you and suck up both your time and patience, leaving only a lifeless husk. Desperate for human companionship, they will invite you to club meetings, anime showings, conventions, and all other sorts of various things you don’t care about.

The Know It All typically has a Japanese girlfriend or boyfriend, and because of this “inside source” on Japanese culture, has suddenly become an academic expert on all things Japanese, without ever having read a single book on japan in their entire lives. You can usually spot Know It All’s by keeping an eye out for these warning signs: a cocky smile, answering more than their share of questions, getting most questions wrong, questioning the teacher on various subjects and then arguing about the answers (a typical exchange: Student: What does “ohayoo” mean?,Teacher: It means “good morning”, Student: That’s not what my girlfriend said…), being wrong, talking alot about Japanese food and being wrong, giving long, unnecessarily detailed answers which are wrong, and failing class.

The Deer Caught In headlights are those students who took Japanese because either a.) they thought it sounded like fun, b.) they thought it would be easy, or c.) they just need a couple more credits to graduate. These students wear a mask of terror and panic form the moment they walk into class till the moment they leave, because all they can hear inside their head is the high pitched scream their future is making as it is flushed down the toilet. They are usually failing.

Although many of Japanese-language students are smart, funny, hard working people, none of them will be in your class.

If you can get past the difficulty, society, and classmates, you will probably find Japanese to be a fun, rewarding language to learn. We wouldn’t know, however, since no one has ever gotten that far. But hey, I’m sure You’re different.

Author’s Note:This whole essay, although sprinkled with truisms here and there, is a joke and should be taken like one. I’m actually a Japanese major myself, and even if I’ve given it a bit of a hard time, I love the Japanese language, and I think everyone should give it a try.

You should just be ready for a whole lot of pain.

HAPPY LANGUAGE LEARNING!

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Ulises Butron - No Quisiera Perderte

No Quisiera Perderte

Estoy viendo cosas que no hay
los insectos ya no son amigos
o es que voy a perderte

Me pone tan raro adivinar
de que forma me levantare mañana

Es que puedo perderme
es que puedo perderme

quiero colocar mi cabeza y mirar
sobre tus pequeños hombros y saber a donde vas

es que estas tan distante
es que estas tan distante

cuando te encontre
junto a ti llegue a la fe
pero no deje de transitar en las sobras

tengo miedo a no verte
tengo miedo a no verte

No quisiera perderte
No quisiera perderte
No quisiera perderte

Parece que la tormenta todo va a inundar
algo deberia proteger para siempre

proteger la verdad
proteger para siempre

Por favor esperame , estoy cruzando la mar
No preciso que me digas nada al llegar

Puedo sentir las cosas
Puedo sentir las cosas

Pero…
No quisiera perderte
No quisiera perderte
No quisiera perderte
No quisiera

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Antes que nada, muchas gracias a Carlos que dejo un comentario sobre la nota en el Blog y a Cristian del website www.pampa-mia.com que me envio un email avisandome de la misma….

Todos somos héroes anónimos

Formó Metrópoli, tocó con Spinetta y cantó el hit de Tango Feroz. Después se hundió en el alcohol y las drogas. Está de vuelta.

A mediados de los 80, Spinetta grababa un disco en el mismo estudio donde un nuevo grupo pop buscaba darle forma a su sonido. El Flaco se acercó. Me gusta esa guitarra, dijo. Escuchó un día, otro y le propuso a Ulises Butrón que formara parte del disco Privé. Nada mal para un pibe de 22 años. Después de Privé, Ulises grabó La la la (Spinetta/Páez) hasta que lo contrató Miguel Mateos para tocar en la interminable gira de Rockas Vivas. “Y sí, yo era como el guitarrista de moda”.

Butrón es un apellido de la segunda horneada del rock nacional. Además estuvo en la formación (muy) inicial de Soda Stereo, construyó Metrópoli (¿se acuerdan del hitazo Héroes anónimos?) y en 1993 le llegó la masividad poniéndole su voz de cantor a la música de la película Tango Feroz. Hay que explicar esto porque pasaron diez años hasta volver a tener noticias suyas. Su regreso se llama Triangular y es un power trío (”podemos llamarlo así”), con temas propios (lo acompañan Ricky Sáenz Paz, en bajo, y Aitor Graña, en batería). Por ahora, la banda graba lo que será su disco debut y toca en un lugar y en otro.

Si se le pregunta qué pasó en todos estos años, el pelado de 44 años que está del otro lado del grabador sonríe (cuando se sonríe por no llorar) y dice: “A veces pienso que estoy vivo de casualidad. Tres años atrás estaba completamente borracho, me caí por una escalera y me abrí la cabeza. Terminé en coma. Pero no fue un accidente así nomás: estaba tan loco que salí del hospital y me mandaron a un psiquiátrico. Feo, feo”.

¿Y ahora cómo andás?

Bien, pero sigo con Alcohólicos Anónimos. Tuve que estar guardado un rato largo para recomponerme y poder mostrarme entero.

¿Cuál es la pretensión con Triangular?

Me pone muy feliz tocar en vivo con los chicos… siento que estoy hecho para eso. Básicamente soy un artista de tabla. Amo improvisar y que me agarre la magia del momento. Fijate que desde las últimas y aisladas presentaciones del disco Viajero (1997) pasó mucho tiempo…

¿Y además del tiempo, que otra cosa pasó?

La vida pasó.

Viajero fue la pista de que las cosas no andaban bien. Un título que no venía a cuento de sus experiencias de mochilero sino de una dieta narcótica. “Vivía a éxtasis y ácido. Me despegaba de una adicción y entraba en otra y así hasta que llegué al alcohol”. Butrón habla desandando un camino largo y sinuoso. Pide que esto y aquello no se publique y a los saltos reconstruye una historia de rockeros irredentos donde éxito y fracaso son calles que se cruzan.

En 1992 fue convocado para cantar el tema principal de la ópera prima de un tal Marcelo Piñeyro. “Habíamos grabado un demo con lo que después sería La Guardia del Fuego —su última agrupación conocida— y me llamaron por teléfono. Te intersaría cantar para una pelí sobre la vida de Tanguito?. Dije que sí, obvio. En ese momento no iba a pensar que Tango… sería lo más visto desde La historia oficial”.

Pero la película fue boom y la Guardia del Fuego se convertiría en la banda de sonido itinerante del filme. Presentaciones por todos lados, las finanzas del grupo que mejoran, los medios que están atentos al movimiento de Ulises & Cía. En ese horno tan intenso La Guardia se calcinó: BMG les rescinde el contrato (si había pasado el cuarto de hora de la película, también el de la banda).

“Fue un palazo tremendo. Nos usaron y nos tiraron”, recuerda. A todo esto, Ulises perdía a su papá y se separaba de María Gabriela Epumer, su mujer durante ocho años. Las malas noticias no iban a parar: rehace su vida pero su nueva pareja —madre de su único hijo— se enferma y muere. Ulises desbarranca. De la depresión a las adicciones puede haber un solo paso.

Sobrio a las piñas, ahora Butrón participó de Escúchame entre el ruido, 40 años de rock argentino. Allí se unió la célula de Metrópoli, (él + Isabel de Sebastián), apenas un guiño para iniciados. “Habían pasado 14 años”, dice Ulises. ¿Y? “Nada. Nos juntaron para grabar un tema de Catupecu Machu pero, la verdad, discutimos bastante. Como antes… Mi cabeza está puesta en Triangular.”

Via Clarin

Yo era uno de esos loquitos que solia ir a los conciertos de Los Visitantes de la primera epoca, del primer disco, de cuando no los conocia nadie y todo era de verdad.

Rescato esta cancion y en particular este video porque se puede ver claramente como el resto de los invitados estan perdidos, no saben que hacer, o que gesto articular y eso tambien me trae recuerdos de esa epoca en la cual hacia radio y en donde todo era arte….

Hace unas semanas me llego un email, que de esta relacionado con Palo, con recuerdos y fundamentalmente con gente tan afortunada que el destino decidio regalarles segundas vueltas

From: constanza c.
Date: Dec 28, 2006 11:49 AM
Subject: desde argentina pedido de una lectora de tu pagina.
To: nihil@gastonl.com

Gaston: como empezar, soy coni. argentina. de un poco mas de 30. hace un monton intento descargar el tema de karma police interpretado por palo pandolfo.
largo seria contarte la importancia de darselo hoy en este dia a alguien especial que hace mucho que no veo. y a quien volvi a ver en un recital en san telmo. de palo pandolfo.
tu pagina me gusta. y me emocione al poder escuchar el tema que tanto busco.

Por favor podrias enviarmelo. a mi mail. par poder reenviarlo a esta persona.

las segundas vueltas son oportunidades muy importantes, ya tenemos 30, sabemos quien fuimos y quiero homenajearlo.
gracias.

suerte alla lejos, peor creo que enraizado.
besos co

espero pronta respuesta.

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From: Gastonl
Date: Dec 28, 2006 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: desde argentina pedido de una lectora de tu pagina.
To: constanza c.

Constanza,
hoy es tu dia de suerte, estoy en el laburo, lejos de la totalidad de mi coleccion de musica, pero tengo el album antojo en mi Ipod.

Que envidia poder ver a palo en san telmo, aun recuerdo los shows de los visitantes en tugurios increibles.

Buena suerte en tu segunda vuelta.

Saludos

Gaston

ATT - Palo Pandolfo - 05 - Karma Policia.mp3 (4542K)

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From: constanza c.
Date: Dec 29, 2006 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: desde argentina pedido de una lectora de tu pagina.
To: Gastonl

gaston: Palo toco en el torcuato tazzo. centro cultural, antiguo bar de san telmo frente al parque lezama. es un lugar donde hoy nos reunimos mucho a escuchar tango los dias de semana. asi como en “lo de Roberto”, bar que por fin declararon patrimonio cultural y van viejos milongueros y jovenes musicos y se arman zapadas y se toma vino de damjuana y empanadas salteñas.
hoy tener treinta es dificil, venimos de amores rotos o somos padres jovenes, por suerte en esta adolescencia tardia podemos ir a peñas. esta lleno d peñas. surgieron del las masivas migraciones de jovenes provincianos a la capital.
y tambien en muchos centros culturales se hacen fiestas. “la sclandestinas”, “las vacanales”.
y se pued oir musica que oiamos . aun los de teinta compartimos espacio con los de 20 y con los de 18 que empujan.
hay recitales, los internacionlaes se nos hacen caros. pero la movida del rock aun sigue siendo masiva. bersuit, piojos, divididos, catupecu, vicentico y el resurgimiento del indio solari como solista, fue para muchos de nosotros , los ricoteros, un alegria llena de nostalgia. toco en el estadio de la plata.

En cuanto la aplata, estudiantes aun festeja su campeonato, del cual dejo afuera a boca. en la plata tambien sucedio lo imperdonable, el primer desaparecido de la democracio, un testigo que declaro ocntra etchecolatz. y tambien en la plata tocan banda sjovenes, como las que ya esta empezando a escuhar mi hijo.
Los cabezones, te dare mil hijos, miranda…
sigue habiendo festivales d everano. Cosquin rock, San pedro rock , el pepsi music en obras y el Gesell rock. 5 dias consecutivos por el cual desfilan jovene sy viejas bandas.

hoy quien sabe poruqe todos los rockeros aman a calamaro. yo no. pero esta d invitado en varios cd. inclusive toca aveces con palo.
y Palo…, palo toca en bares, llega ebrio y con voz ronca. se defiende solo, o a capella, luego con un aguitarra y luego con su banda, bajo, contrabajo, bandoneon, violin, bateria y dos guitarras, fueron creando climas increibles.

Karma police,e smuy bien aceptada aqui, y mas de uno lloro, porque cambia las voces, se arrodilla , grita y se rie y siempre habla de sus amigos de su pasado, de su barrio, de Cornelio.. reversiono todos sus temas. y asumio que le costab acantar algun tema viejo que lo representara. finalmente pego un grito y dijo, ya se , ya se, “hay que leer arlt, yo lo leo, y dice que lo que me pega hoy quizas no me pegue mañana, hoy, hoy toquemos patada sucia.” aplausos
fue lindo.dulce, atromentado.
besoss y gracias por el favor.
coni.

This new year started in an incredible way for the PSP, first it was easy soft downgrades from 2.8 firmware, then a downgrade for the motherboards TA-082 + but the best thing for sure was the Custom Firmware 3.03
Yes, now you can have a full firmware 3.03 EA-B with the awesome capability of playing Play station 1 games from your memory stick + 1.5 homebrew and of course keep the feature that allows you to download PSP games and play them right of your memory stick (no more devhook)

Also I got myself a 4 GB memory stick duo for my movies, music and games….

On the gaming side I am playing 2 games right now on my PSP:

WarCraft II: The Dark Saga for Play station 1 and James Bond 007 From Russia With Love

More info about PSP modding just check www.psp-hacks.com

Un amigo mio va a ser enviado por su empresa a trabajar 1 año a Colombia, no se si sera verdad o no la reputacion de su nuevo destino no es la mejor y por eso se ve obligado a regalar su gato llamado muchifus a cualquier persona que este buscando un gato.

El gato es muy educado y muy bueno con los niños, si quieren ver un video michifus hagan click aca