31 mayo 2008

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lo que sigue es la escena 159 de la película

que más me ha impactado esta semana, tanto por su
fondo como por la forma (no, no es la última
del Dr. Jones). Network es un descarnado
relato acerca de la deshumanización y vanalización
del mundo moderno.

Constituye por eso mismo un alegato
en favor
de todo lo contrario.




Está llena de escenas memorables y líneas
de las que le gustan a METeoro. En ésta
vemos cómo un hombre retoma el control
de
su vida y decide volver al hogar después
de una relación apasionada y otoñal
con
una bella mujer.


puro - zumo - de - cine





159. INT. THE LIVING ROOM

MAX sprawled on the soft chair. We notice that, in the
back of the living room, a bridge table has been set up
as a makeshift desk. It has a typewriter on it and a
welter of papers and books and filing folders. DIANA
appears in the bedroom doorway, regards MAX coldly --

DIANA
You know, you could help me out
with Howard if you wanted to.
He listens to you. You're his
best friend --

MAX
(exploding off
the chair)
I'm tired of this hysteria about
Howard Beale!

DIANA
(erupting herself)
Every time you see somebody in
your family, you come back in one
of these morbid middle-aged moods!

MAX
(raging around the room)
And I'm tired of finding you on the
goddamned phone every time I turn
around! I'm tired of being an
accessory in your life!

He finds himself by the upstage typewriter, which he
sweeps crashing off the bridge table, sending the
welter of papers there flying off in a storm --

MAX
-- and I'm tired of pretending to
write this dumb book about my
maverick days in those great early
years of television! Every execu-
tive fired from a network in the
last twenty years has written this
dumb book about the great early
days But don't
worry about me. I'll manage.
I always have, always will. I'm
more concerned about you. Once
I go, you'll be back in the eye
of your own desolate terrors.
Fifty dollar studs and the
nightly sleepless contemplation
of suicide. You're not the
boozer type, so I figure a year,
maybe two before you crack up or
jump out your fourteenth floor
office window.

DIANA
(stands)
Stop selling, Max. I don't need
you.

She exits out into --


166. INT. THE LIVING ROOM

-- and across that to the --


167. INT. THE KITCHEN

-- where a kettle is steaming. She fetches a cup and
saucer from the cupboard and would make some instant
coffee but she is overtaken by a curious little spasm.
Her hand holding the cup and saucer is shaking so much
she has to put them down. With visible effort, she
pulls herself together. She moves out of the kitchen to
the --


168. INT. THE LIVING ROOM

-- where she stands in the middle of the room and
shouts at MAX through the opened bedroom doorway.

DIANA
(cries out)
I don't want your paint I don't
want your menopausal decay and
death! I don't need you, Max.

MAX
You need me badly! I'm your
last contact with human reality!
I love you, and that painful,
decaying menopausal love is the
only thing between you and the
shrieking nothingness you live
the rest of the day!

He slams the valise shut.

DIANA
Then don't leave me!

MAX
It's too late, Diana! There's
nothing left in you that I can live
with! You're one of Howard's
humanoids, and, if I stay with you,
I'll be destroyed! Like Howard
Beale was destroyed! Like Laureen
Hobbs was destroyed! Like
everything you and the institution
of television touch is destroyed!
You are television incarnate, Diana,
indifferent to suffering,
insensitive to joy. All of life is
reduced to the common rubble of
banality. War, murder, death are
all the same to you as bottles of
beer. The daily business of life is
a corrupt comedy. You even shatter
the sensations of time and space
into split-seconds and instant
replays. You are madness, Diana,
virulent madness, and everything you
touch dies with you. Well, not me!
Not while I can still feel pleasure
and pain and love!

He turns back to his valise and buckles it. DIANA finds
a chair, sits in it. A moment later, MAX comes out of
the bedroom, lugging a raincoat as well as the valise.
He lugs his way across the living room, then pauses for
a moment, reflects --

MAX
It's a happy ending, Diana.
Wayward husband comes to his senses,
returns to his wife with whom he
has built a long and sustaining love.
Heartless young woman left alone
in her arctic desolation. Music
up with a swell. Final commercial.
And here are a few scenes from
next week's show.

He disappears down the foyer. We can hear the CLICK
of the front door being opened and the CLACK of the
door closing. DIANA sits in her chair, pulling the
shower robe around her, alone in her arctic desolation



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27 mayo 2008

Expo 2008

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osakeros del mundo, ante vosotros el más completo y brutal diccionario de aragonés, para que no perdáis miaja cuando vengáis de visitica:
















Está gordita esa chica! ………………………………......................……………….
¡Máaa,que ternascáaaa... ¡

¡Tía buena! …………………………………………………….........................……...
Mozareciààà

Me parece que Pilar tiene un novio zaragozano…………………….................
Me paice que la pili se
arrejuntau con un cheposo
Bueno, ha sido un placer hablar contigo……………….................………………
¡Alàkaskàlà!

Insisto, he estado muy a gusto, pero me tengo que despedir de ti......………¡Tirakaskala!
¡Vaya! ……………………………………………………….............................……….
cagüendièz!
sí....................................................................................................................
No, huevos
No…………………………………………………………….................................……
Sí, decojon

Enseguida le atiendo, joven……………………………………….....................……
Aescape te despacho, mocé

No consigo recordar lo que me dices………………………….......................….
Quemesaolvidao!

! Vaya contratiempo!............................................................................
¡Cagüenlá!

Qué chica tan ordenada y limpia! …………………………................………….
¡Mááádre, kescoscadica!

Se ha caído rodando por la montaña …………………………………...............
Sascoñao pol barranco
Siga recto hasta el final………………………...………................……………..
Tótieso,oiga.

¡Camarero, por favor!..........................................................................
Sshhishhcóóóóó!!!!

El camarero no viene y se insiste:…………………………………...............…….
¡Cóóóó....!

Resulta que es camarera:……………………………………..................………….
Quiááá...!!

Tengo problemas digestivos…………………………………................………...
Macen mal lastripas
¡Si no me dejas en paz, habré de tomar medidas!.................................
¡A que tescacho la caeza...!

La persistente lluvia me ha calado hasta los huesos………………….......…..
Mi chipiau
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Me he encontrado a un amigo y me he puesto a charlar con él…………....
¡Hipillau un capazoooo ..!

Échame bastante azúcar al café………………………………...............………..
¡¡Échamelcafé en lazucarero!!

Enciende la luz, por favor …………………………………..................………….
¡Chála luz, quió!

Pareces estar aterido por el frío …………………..............…………………….
Paicesun pollo mantudo

¡A que te sacudo!...............................................................................
¡A que techun viaje!

Escucha, querida esposa ………………………………………..................………
¡Parientáaaa!

¿Dónde vas?.......................................................................................
¿Ande vas?

¿Dónde están?..................................................................................
¿Andestán?

Creo que te estás excediendo con la comida que me pones …….......……
¡¡¡Chica, andevááássss!!!

Ese argumento corrobora lo que digo ………………………….............……….
Posmás a mi favooor!!!

Tiene ahora un idilio con una señorita…………………………...........………..
Festejurrea con una mocica.

La curiosidad es uno de sus mayores defectos……………….........………....
Miá ques alcagüete!

Estoy francamente agotado…………………………………………….................
No me pue ni garrear

No he comprendido bien. Podría aclararme el significado
cualitativo y cuantitativo de su frase?............................................................
Mandeeeé??

¿Me permites pasar, por favor?......................................................................
¡Chataunlaooo! Cawüen diez

Me cae fatal……………………………………….....................…………………….
No lo puedo ni estomagar

Lo tenías al lado y no lo has visto……………………………….............………..
¡¡Aaaay!!!,¡¡¡si hubiá sido una almóndigaaa...!!!
¡Buena la hemos hecho!....................................................................
¡Andanda ahora, andanda!

Después de comer, lo mejor una cabezadita…………………………….........
Me voy a siestiar.

¿Te has enterado del fatídico accidente aéreo? …………………….......…....
t'an dicho que sascogorciau unavión?

El cirujano no le ha vaticinado más de un mes de vida ………………....…..
P'alPilar pué que hayaestirau la pata.

Ha fallecido el paralítico que estaba desahuciado…………………......……..
Yal'aspichau el tísico.

Aléjate de mi, que me das gafe…………………………..............………………
Notarrimes que mempiojas

Lo cierto es que tengo un hambre……………………………………................
¡¡Ahura me jalaba un flan de pozal!!
No molestes al niño, que está haciendo de vientre…………………............
¡Dejalzagal, questá esmuñecando!

A veces, pareces un poco estúpido ……………………………..............………
¡Miáqueres tontolaba!
¡Qué bien me cae nuestro Párroco!....................................................
Demonio cura, ¡miá ques majico!

Venga, recoged diligentes las cosas que nos vamos………………......……..
¡Alamaños, replegar tóo y pa casa!!
¡que vaya bien!.................................................................
cuidarsen!




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25 mayo 2008

d i p l o m a

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Autumn Classes
for Men at

THE
ADULT LEARNING CENTER

REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED
by Monday, Oct 30, 2008

NOTE: DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY AND DIFFICULTY LEVEL
OF THEIR CONTENTS, CLASS SIZES WILL BE LIMITED TO 8 PARTICIPANTS MAXIMUM .


Class 1
How To Fill Up The Ice Cube Trays--Step by Step, with Slide Presentation.
Meets 4 weeks, Monday and Wednesday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.

Class 2
The Toilet Paper Roll--Does It Change Itself?
Round Table Discussion.
Meets 2 weeks, Saturday 12:00 for 2 hours.

Class 3
Is It Possible To Urinate Using The Technique Of Lifting The Seat and Avoiding The Floor, Walls and Nearby Bathtub?--Group Practice.
Meets 4 weeks, Saturday 10:00 PM for 2 hours.

Class 4

Fundamental Differences Between The Laundry Hamper and The Floor--Pictures and Explanatory Graphics.
Meets Saturdays at 2:00 PM for 3 weeks.

Class 5
Dinner Dishes--Can They Levitate and Fly Into The Kitchen Sink?
Examples on Video.
Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning
at 7:00 PM

Class 6
Loss Of Identity--Losing The Remote To Your Significant Other.
Help Line Support and Support Groups.
Meets 4 Weeks, Friday and Sunday 7:00 PM

Class 7
Learning How To Find Things--Starting With Looking In The Right Places And Not Turning The House Upside Down While Screaming.
Open Forum .
Monday at 8:00 PM, 2 hours.

Class 8
Health Watch--Bringing Her Flowers Is Not Harmful To Your Health.
Graphics and Audio Tapes.
Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.

Class 9
Real Men Ask For Directions When Lost--Real Life Testimonials.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM Location to be determined.

Class 10
Is It Genetically Impossible To Sit Quietly While She Parallel Parks?
Driving Simulations.
4 weeks, Saturday's noon, 2 hours.

Class 11
Learning to Live--Basic Differences Between Mother and Wife.
Online Classes and role-playing .
Tuesdays at 7:00 PM, location to be determined

Class 12
How to be the Ideal Shopping Companion
Relaxation Exercises, Meditation and Breathing Techniques.
Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.

Class 13
How to Fight Cerebral Atrophy--Remembering Birthdays, Anniversaries and Other Important Dates and Calling When You're Going To Be Late.
Cerebral Shock Therapy Sessions and Full Lobotomies Offered.
Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.

Class 14
The Stove/Oven--What It Is and How It Is Used.
Live Demonstration.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM, location to be determined.



Upon completion of any of the above courses, diplomas will be issued to the survivors.





special THANKS to: Beatriz Sancho
foto: chaval en el British Museum -08/2007-
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22 mayo 2008

lo que nos diferencia

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es que yo tengo hipoteca

















de ahí la felicidad del perro...
foto: Metropolitan Museum -NYC-
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11 mayo 2008

THE5HUNDREDWAYOFLIFE

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