Febrero menos dieciséis días

Se me cierran los ojos de sueño...

Help me...tear down my reason
Help me...it's your sex I can smell
Help me...you make me perfect
Help me think I'm somebody else
Closer, Nine Inch Nails

Todo el mundo en la escuela ha perdido la cabeza. Todos estamos muy cansados... Y es que no se puede pasar rápidamente de un largo periodo (dos meses y medio) en el que la pendiente de la curva Y (Y', donde Y es el nivel de producto académico) fue Y'= 0 a uno en el que Y'>0.

Nada vale tanto como lo que vale Valle

My whole existence is flawed
You get me closer to God
Closer, Nine Inch Nails

En fin. Me repara el hecho de saberme veleando en Valle con el Dr. Johnson este sábado. Quizá también veleemos el domingo... Me llevaré películas de mi baby (misma que cuidaré como a las niñas de mis ojos: mis pupilas y mi cámara digital), la gran carpeta de lecturas-por-hacer de este semestre, dos o tres libros por puro placer (A home at the end of the world is a must), música de Bublé y Porter... Y por supuesto, me llevaré a Loussier y su muy particular estilo de interpretación jazzística de Bach (cortesía de mi amiga Susana) que me tiene absolutamente fascinado...

Perrotini

Pensaba que iba a extrañar mucho al Dr. Ibarra.
No contaba con la magia de un mejor aceite de serpiente.
Qué buen maestro me conseguí en Teoría Monetaria y Política Financiera...
Eso que ni qué, sacaremos toneladas de copias...

Rescatado del New York Times
Un muy buen artículo... El título lo dice todo.

February 10, 2006
Op-Ed Contributor
Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Ex-Gay Cowboys
By DAN SAVAGE
Seattle

FIRST, a little of that full disclosure stuff: I have not actually seen "Brokeback Mountain" or "End of the Spear," both of which I'm going to discuss here.
But since when did not seeing a film prevent anyone from sharing his or her strong opinions about it? Before the posters for "Brokeback Mountain" were even printed, everyone from the blogger Mickey Kaus to the Concerned Women for America to gay men all over the country had already said a lot about the film. (Their opinions were, respectively, con, con and pro.)
So, let's get to it: Remember when straight actors who played gay were the ones taking a professional risk? Those days are over. Shortly after Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, both straight, received Oscar nominations for playing gay cowboys in "Brokeback Mountain," conservative Christians were upset when they learned that a gay actor, Chad Allen, was playing a straight missionary in "End of the Spear."
"End of the Spear" tells what happened after five American missionaries were murdered in 1956 by a tribe in Ecuador. Instead of seeking retribution, the missionaries' families reached out to the tribe, forgave the killers and eventually converted them to Christianity. An evangelical film company, Every Tribe Entertainment, brought the story to the screen. In a glowing review, Marcus Yoars, a film critic for Focus on the Family, noted that the "martyrdom" of the slain missionaries has "inspired thousands if not millions of Christians." But after conservatives took a closer look at the cast list, the protests began.
Many felt Chad Allen's presence in the film negated any positive message.
The pastors claim they're worried about what will happen when their children rush home from the movies, Google Chad Allen's name, and discover that he's a "gay activist." ("Gay activist" is a term evangelicals apply to any homosexual who isn't a gay doormat.) They needn't be too concerned. Straight boys who have unsupervised access to the Internet aren't Googling the names of middle-aged male actors gay or straight — not when Paris Hilton's sex tapes are still out there.
Frankly, I can't help but be perplexed by the criticisms of Mr. Allen from the Christian right. After all, isn't playing straight what evangelicals have been urging gay men to do?
That's precisely what Jack and Ennis attempt to do in "Brokeback Mountain" — at least, according to people I know who have actually seen the film. These gay cowboys try, as best they can, to quit one another. They marry women, start families. But their wives are crushed when they realize their husbands don't, and can't, ever really love them. "Brokeback Mountain" makes clear that it would have been better
Dan Savage is the editor of The Stranger, a Seattle newsweekly.

"Y te desinhibirás frente a la cámara..."

Through every forest
Above the trees
Within my stomach
Scraped off my knees
I drink the honey...inside your hive
You are the reason...I stay alive...
Closer, Nine Inch Nails

Ayer me sentí porno (¡sic!) star.
Sucede que la distancia hace efecto... y trae buenos recuerdos en las noches...
Y mi Cybershot lo registra todo fielmente.
Bendito Internet por existir.
Te amo, baby...
Sólo por tí.
Sólo para tí.