30/09/09

My day

Through my SMS inbox

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Come upstairs.

8:36 AM
Hey guys, could u tell lynnell im sick with some fever, so i wont go out today...gracias!

1:07 PM
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9:44 PM
Hey sorry I was in class and only saw ur message now. What's up?

10:10 PM
Heading to 1020 for a pint of two if you fancy it?


29/09/09

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“The dog was serious, always had been. No room for levity. Those around him might be lighthearted. Often they laughed, sometimes even at his expense―the miniature size, bouncing gait, flopping ears. He was a dachshund. Not his fault. You were what you were. He would have preferred the aspect of an Alsatian, possibly a Norwegian Elkhound. He viewed himself as one of these large and elegant breeds.”

Animaciones inspiradas en un enunciado de alguna novela o un cuento. Se ven mucho aca. Electric Literature.

Descubro a Joan Didion / The White Album

Morrison sat down again on the leather couch and leaned back. He it a match. He studied the flame awhile and then very slowly, very deliberately, lowered it to the fly of his black vinyl pants.

28/09/09

Cárcel, muerte

La semana pasada, ABC transmitió un programa sobre la ejecución de Cameron Todd Willingham.

Me acordé que en mi depto están todos los números de The New Yorker de hace un año para aca, y que había uno que tenía el reportaje en donde se basa el programa de ABC. La pieza es de 17 páginas y se lee como agua. La estructura, el ritmo, el lenguaje pero sobre todo el reporteo de David Grann son impecables. La historia cuestiona el proceso legal por el que fue condenado Willingham, argumente en contra de la pertinencia y la "justicia" de la pena de muerte, y critica muy justamente a la sociedad sureña y su empeño en encontrar culpables, desear revancha, adular linchamientos.

El caso es interesante porque Willingham fue acusado de provocar intencionalmente un incendio donde murieron sus tres hijos, tuvo la opción de declararse culpable y obtener cadena perpétua, pero se declaró inocente.

Sus últimas palabras, antes de la inyección letal fueron:
“The only statement I want to make is that I am an innocent man convicted of a crime I did not commit. I have been persecuted for twelve years for something I did not do. From God’s dust I came and to dust I will return, so the Earth shall become my throne.”

Me acordé también de esto.

Pero sobre todo de un audio documental que hizo David Isay, que es probablemente el único genio que he conocido y con el que he platicado y convivido.
David grabó los testimonios de las personas que están involucradas en administrar la inyección en la cárcel de Huntsville, Tx. Tienen que oir esta pieza Witness to an Execution. Es difícil describirla. Puro audio.

Extractos:

He'll walk up to the cell where we are and he'll say 'It's time.' And so they will unlock the cell and he's not handcuffed or chained. He's just sitting there. And he and I will walk into the chamber.

Some of them are very calm. Some of them are upset. Some of them are crying.

Some of them have been sweating. Some of them will have the smell of anxiety, if you will. Of fear.

Usually within about twenty seconds he's completely strapped down. Twenty to thirty seconds. I mean, it's down to a fine art.

A lot of inmates apologize. A lot of inmates will say that you're executing an innocent man. And then there have been some men who have been executed that I knew, and I've had them tell me goodbye.

I've walked out of death chamber numb and my legs feeling like rubber sometimes, my head maybe not really feeling like it's attached to my shoulders. I've been told that it's perfectly normal, everyone feels it, and that after a while that numb feeling goes away. And indeed it does.

Hoy

Así como hubo alguien antes de La Maga, hubo una Lucy antes de Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

Y este domingo

En el Bowery Ballroom, ojalá que toque esta canción. Brand new.

27/09/09

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Excelente concierto.
Son mejores en vivo de como suenan en estudio.