commerce : pollo rostizado

COMMERCE ROAST CHICKEN

at the big picture

los siameses

la cerda y el cerdito

MÁS

el artista de la cocina

CLIC PARA AGRANDAR

the brainless type (1962)

CLIC : SEQUENTIAL CRUSH

el timbre. barton fink, 1991

¿beck en exit through the giftshop?

minuto 4:17

croissant. colson patisserie, park slope, brooklyn

luis antonio de villena : oratio amatoria

Fueron dos o tres tardes de verano. Y esa noche
la primera casa prestada que recuerdo.
Si alguien me hubiese dicho entonces si te amaba,
¿qué habría contestado? Quería tus ojos negros,
el río oscuro y casi niño de tu hermoso cuerpo…

*

Otro año después, era casi el otoño. Un calor
opaco y dorado con sabor de merienda…
Y otra casa prestada a la hora de la siesta.
¿Te amaba? Me incendiaban tus ojos de africana
luna, y tu piel que enseñaba a mis manos delicia.
Y me acuerdo también de tu postura aquella,
y del fruto pequeño, escondido; y tu risa…
Te besaba. Yo hubiera querido allí morir contigo.

*

Pasó tiempo de nuevo. Y la casa prestada era
al menos la quinta. Yo te bañé de noche
y te unté de colonia (era invierno) y tus ojos
inmensos me querían. Hablábamos. Me contaste (y vi)
lo de las purgaciones. ¿Era el amor aquello?
Un nombre que sentaba muy bien a tu belleza.

*

Estés donde estés. Te suceda lo que te suceda,
yo te deseo el bien mayor, la bondad
imposible en este mundo. Te deseo el antiguo
verano y su agua dulce. El oro que mereces,
un bonancible viaje, y el amor que sé ya
(inútilmente ahora) que entonces te tenía.

cama

reminds me of being in france

regina

ted berrigan : my autobiography

cormac mccarthy :: blood meridian iv (attacked by comanches)

The captain smiled grimly. We may see a little sport here before the day is out.

The first of the herd began to swing past them in a pall of yellow dust, rangy slatribbed cattle with horns that grew agoggle and no two alike and small thin mules coalblack that shouldered one another and reared their malletshaped heads above the backs of the others and then more cattle and finally the first of the herders riding up the outer side and keeping the stock between themselves and the mounted company. Behind them came a herd of several hundred ponies. The sergeant looked for Candelario. He kept backing along the ranks but he could not find him. He nudged his horse through the column and moved up the far side. The lattermost of the drovers were now coming through the dust and the captain was gesturing and shouting. The ponies had begun to veer off from the herd and the drovers were beating their way toward this armed company met with on the plain. Already you could see through the dust on the ponies’ hides the painted chevrons and the hands and rising suns and birds and fish of every device like the shade of old work through sizing on a canvas and now too you could hear above the pounding of the unshod hooves the piping of the quena, flutes niade from human bones, and some among the company had begun to saw back on their mounts and some to mill in confusion when up from the offside of those ponies there rose a fabled horde of mounted lancers and archers bearing shields bedight with bits of broken mirrorglass that cast a thousand unpieced suns against the eyes of their enemies. A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained weddingveil and some in headgear of cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backyards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brim tone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.

Oh my god said the sergeant.

A rattling drove of arrows passed through the company and men tottered and dropped from their mounts. Horses were rearing and plunging and the mongol hordes swing up along their flanks and turned and rode full upon them with lances.

The company was now come to a halt and the first shots were fired and the gray riflesmoke rolled through the dust as the lancers breached their ranks. The kid's horse sank beneath him with a long pneumatic sigh. He had already fired his rifle and now he sat on the ground and fumbled with his shotpouch. A man near him sat with an arrow hanging out of his neck. He was bent slightly as if in prayer. The kid would have reached for the bloody hoop-iron point but then he saw that the man wore another arrow in his breast to the fletching and he was dead. Everywhere there were horses down and men scrambling and he saw a man who sat charging his rifle while blood ran from his ears and he saw men with their revolvers disassembled trying to fit the spare loaded cylinders they carried and he saw men kneeling who tilted and clasped their shadows on the ground and he saw men lanced and caught up by the hair and scalped standing and he saw the horses of war trample down the fallen and a little whitefaced pony with one clouded eye leaned out of the murk and snapped at him like a dog and was gone. Among the wounded some seemed dumb and without understanding and some were pale through the masks of dust and some had fouled themselves or tottered brokenly onto the spears of the savages. Now driving in a wild frieze of headlong horses with eyes walled and teeth cropped and naked riders with clusters of arrows clenched in their jaws and their shields winking in the dust and up the far side of the ruined ranks in a piping of boneflutes and dropping down off the sides of their mounts with one heel hung in the withers strap and their short bows flexing beneath the outstretched necks of the ponies until they had circled the company and cut their ranks in two and then rising up again like funhouse figures, some with nightmare faces painted on their breasts, riding down the unhorsed Saxons and spearing and clubbing them and leaping from their mounts with knives and running about on the ground with a peculiar bandylegged trot like creatures driven to alien forms of locomotion and stripping the clothes from the dead and seizing them up by the hair and passing their blades about the skulls of the living and the dead alike and snatching aloft the bloody wigs and hacking and chopping at the naked bodies, ripping off limbs, heads, gutting the strange white torsos and holding up great handfuls of viscera, genitals, some of the savages so slathered up with gore they might have rolled in it like dogs and some who fell upon the dying and sodomized them with loud cries to their fellows. And now the horses of the dead came pounding out of the smoke and dust and circled with flapping leather and wild manes and eyes whited with fear like the eyes of the blind and some were feathered with arrows and some lanced through and stumbling and vomiting blood as they wheeled across the killing ground and clattered from sight again. Dust stanched the wet and naked heads of the scalped who with the fringe of hair below their wounds and tonsured to the bone now lay like maimed and naked monks in the bloodslaked dust and everywhere the dying groaned and gibbered and horses lay screaming.

r.crumb, genesis: intro

paz: fábula

edades de fuego y de aire
mocedades de agua
del verde al amarillo
--------------------del amarillo al rojo
del sueño a la vigilia
-----------------------del deseo al acto
sólo había un paso que tú dabas sin esfuerzo
los insectos eran joyas animadas
el calor reposaba al borde del estanque
la lluvia era un sauce de pelo suelto
en la palma de tu mano crecía un árbol
aquel árbol cantaba reía y profetizaba
sus vaticinios cubrían de alas el espacio
había milagros sencillos llamados pájaros
todo era de todos
--------------------todos eran todo
sólo había una palabra inmensa y sin revés
palabra como un sol
un día se rompió en fragmentos diminutos
son las palabras del lenguaje que hablamos
fragmentos que nunca se unirán
espejos rotos donde el mundo se mira destrozado

anthony bourdain : the nasty bits

"and you've got to admire the folks at louis xvi for it [its filet de boeuf wellington]. they're like the robert mitchum, the johnny cash, the keith richards of restaurants: too old, too mean, too cool to change. louis? i salute you."

the nasty bits, "the good, old stuff", page 227

the greek of jesus

paz: piedra de sol (fragmento)

--esta noche me basta, y este instante
que no acaba de abrirse y revelarme
dónde estuve, quién fui, cómo te llamas,
cómo me llamo yo: ¿hacía planes
para el verano —y todos los veranos—
en christopher street, hace diez años,
con filis que tenía dos hoyuelos
donde bebían luz los gorriones?,
¿por la reforma carmen me decía
"no pesa el aire, aquí siempre es octubre",
o se lo dijo a otro que he perdido
o yo lo invento y nadie me lo ha dicho?