May 2013
44 posts
One Song: Me and Bobby McGee →
onesong:
Me and Bobby McGee - a great song, best known as a Janis Joplin tune, which she recorded shortly before her death in 1970 and went to number one (and became her only number one single) posthumously.
But it’s easy to forget, or not know, that it was actually written by Kris Kristofferson and that Bobby was a girl.
“I’m a pianist.”
– John Field, when asked whether he was Catholic (via fuckyeah-lastwords)
“What is it to be musical? You will not be so, if your eyes are fixed on the...”
– Robert Schumann, Advice to Young Musicians (via leadingtone)
LI
El error de escribir y el error de vivir
Porque la vida es una mano torpe que se arrastra sobre el verso
La vida es una torpeza y una borrachera
Y vivir es un crimen y un pecado
Y la Poesía es el arte de saber morir
Y el Hombre es un animal inmundo
Que se arrastra sobre la página
Y escribe como un pecado.
Leopoldo María Panero
“mi lengua mata”
El silencio del mar
El silencio del mar brama un juicio infinito más concentrado que el de un cántaro más implacable que dos gotas ya acerque el horizonte o nos entregue la muerte azul de las medusas nuestras sospechas no lo dejan el mar escucha como un sordo es insensible como un dios y sobrevive a los sobrevivientes nunca sabré que espero de él ni que conjuro deja en mis tobillos pero cuando estos ojos se hartan...
“Dedicatoria
Más allá de donde
aún se esconde la vida, queda
un reino, queda...”
– Leopoldo María Panero
de “Last River Together” 1980
“The world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via kugel-blitz)
“The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word...”
– Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude (via the-reluctant-optimist)
“Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you can’t really remember the...”
– Edie Sedgwick (via 33113)
“Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see...”
– Unknown (via the-healing-nest)
April 2013
93 posts
“A true artist cannot be sincere. The imaginary, the false, if you please, used...”
– http://www.henryrosner.org/ravel/ (via monsieurcroche)
Happy International Jazz Day!
http://live.jazzday.com/
