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Sunday, August 18, 2013

2 years without Magyarország

Tomorrow it will be 2 years since I left Budapest. A city that changed my life and that will always be in my heart and memories. I just had it in my mind today and I couldn't help myself from listening to some magyar music, here, my two favorite hungarian songs

"8 hours of work, 8 hours of rest and 8 hours of partying!"


Palinka Sunrise


Sunday, August 11, 2013

Take care with what you read

It felt weird these days when I started taking decisions as if I was part of the plot of several books I have read, as if I was on the book and I knew the final and I had still a chance to change it.

Feeling at the same time like as Raskolnikov knocking at the door, or as Harry Heller getting an invitation to visit "the hell" or as old Govinda listening at old Sidhartha at the side of the river...I felt illuminated, but confused too.
It was weird to feel that Raskolnikov crossed the door, and although killed the old woman did not kill her sister, or that the wolf took power of Harry Heller and made him leave the dance-floor after joining Herminda shortly in "the hell"...or that indeed Sidhartha talks to you but not at the end of his life, but just when he is young and when he is getting to know Kamala.

It was weird to feel that my Steppenwolf took a decision based on fear about a possible punishment in Siberia, but ended up acting different thanks to a suggestion that Sidhartha gave me while crossing the river on his boat...

Whatever I have done or not, the conclusion is; Take care of what you read, for good or for bad, your life might end up on the books, on several of them at the same time!

Sin palabras pero con algo en el estomago

Hace unos pocos momentos ví "La Piel Que Habito", y hace unos muchos años no veia una pelicula que me dejara tal sensación de no-sé-que.

Me veo en la necesidad de escribir, vomitar, esbozar, escupir o lo que sea para descifrar que "coño" es lo que siento.

Como en problemas de ingeniería o física, comencemos resolviendo lo extremos, lo simple, las condiciones de frontera; ¿Me gustó o no?.. Sin duda me gustó, siempre he dicho que me gustan aquellas peliculas donde el yo antes y el yo despues de ellas son diferentes.
Sin tener que hablar de Sartre ni de Camus ni del existencialismo, basta decir que me gustan esas peliculas donde mis sentimientos y mi estado de animo cambian, donde la pelicula deja de ser un haz de luz proyectado en una superficie y pasa a ser un vehiculo que me transporta a otra dimension y me deja alla tirado: a one-way-ticket. Y esto incluye a las peliculas que me alegran pero tambien a las que no lo hacen. Millon Dollar Baby o Match Point son dos claros ejemplos.

Ahora, teniendo claro que La Piel Que Habito me ha cambiado el animo, es imposible negar que me haya gustado. <españolete> -¿Que si me ha gustado? -Joder tio, que sí! </españolete> Primer tema resuelto.

Pero siento la necesidad de hablar más al respecto, pues valorar de esa forma tan binaria a esta pelicula siento que es injusto. Depronto ese es otro adjetivo para la pelicula, Injusta o más bien Enferma: "Ey Pablo, que pensas de la pelicula?" "Pues, que te dijera: es una pelicula buena, es bastante enferma y un poquitin injusta" (uhh, creo que de critico de cine me muero de hambre)

Teniendo claro que no soy muy bueno con las palabras, creo que tendré que resumir y ahora que mencioné a Sartre, recordé uno de sus libros. Y creo que su titulo describe el estado en el que quedé despues de la pelicula, describe el no-sé-que que tengo en el estomago: una NÁUSEA!

Algo mas o menos asi, solo que con un poco mas de rojo, amarillo y caos al fondo de la pintura:


El caso es que valió la pena la pelicula y el intento por expeler lo sentido.

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

too much tea and books

My blog has became a bit flat; I just talk about books and tea. Although today I wanted to write about tea again, I decided to talk a little bit about science...The following TED talk is a very interesting one about an mysterious behavior seen in animals...just take a look

Sunday, July 14, 2013

The ferryman with a smile

Siddharta is the second book of Hermann Hesse I read in less than two weeks. I liked more the other one, still this one deserves a 4.00/5.00 or even a little bit more.

It is a book that I would call Hors Catégorie  not because its structure or technique but for its content.  The reading of the book is not hard at all. The narration is quite simple and easy to follow, as well as the story itself, nevertheless you feel that behind that simplicity hides a potential source of reflecto to change your life or at least your interpretation of it. A potential that seems, at least in my case, to be higher than my reach of understanding.

Similarly to The Steppenwolf, Siddharta is a book about a man finding its way out of spiritual crisis and unsatisfaction. It might seem like a depressing topic but in my opinion both books are all the opposite. I feel both books are quite positive and filled with hope.

I loved about Siddharta how it makes it beautifully clear that the way to happiness is unique to everyone and that no one can explain you the way to it. No one, even who already achieved happiness can guide you to it. It has to be yourself who take a journey to discover the path, let yourself experience and live. It shows how you shall not to stop seeking, the importance of voicing your interior and the importance of voicing the nature.

It is a book about individuality but also about unity, about love and about the importance of living and experiencing life by yourself. Others experience will never show you the path to your happiness.