Miento

Closer : Soundtrack to Us (Beginning)

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Our house would have been so Etsy it'd make people cry.  Spending saturday afternoons shaking up Instructables right and left, and glitching out Hackandmod s some of the more quiet nights.  I swear we could school us with 4chan and some wiki stuff.  I'd only ask you to keep your Tumblr to yourself since I wouldn't want us to find our Photostreams paired up with all your Deviant fans; you'd also know (because I'd let you know endlessly) you are so Textfromlastnight funny, Sucideblonde sexy and downright DinersandDives.food.net yummy.  I can't have let uz this things go so easy ... our sure fire iCanhazcheeseburger ways were withing grasping distance.

--H.A. & A.

Fruits in the middle of the street.

Like slow melodies in the middle of

that dream.

Develazulejos

No juro cosas

ahora

pero en el Jardín de Infantes

yo juraba cada día encontrar los duendes que me sonreían desde la silla

yo juraba calmar el ardor de la sed de venganza, con venganza

por todos los necios, cobardes, mentirosos y sadistas

aunque no conocía esas palabras todavía

Hacer el espacio requerido para disfrutar el jugo rojo en la cajita azul (lo máximo)

no era necesario y juraba brindarle cajitas azules a todas mis queridas

y juraba mantener las lágrimas lejos y la sonrisa cerca

de todas ellas

juré

y olvidé.

Pero este febrero, llegaste y develaste aquella antigua incumbencia

y ahora no olvido

y tengo una mano en el bolsillo

porque la otra esconde un azul rojo en mi espalda.

-- H.A. & A 2010.

Twirls

Actor: Hey kid, I need you to lock this door for real

PA: I'm ... I'm just a PA, uh

Actor: Just do it

*Action!*

Actor: [takes out real tools]

Actor: [intense]

*Cut!*

Director: wtf, Brian?

Actor: look, I need to do this

Director: it's already open, Brifus, just do the little lock-picking twitches with the props and open the fucking door like the pro you're supposed to be portra-

Actor: One. MORE.

Director:

Director:

*Action!!*

Actor: [sweat beads]

Actor:

*Cuuut!!*

Director: ffs you're making my tonsils explode, Brian. We're already behind schedule.

Actor: just one more, Bill. I've been watching you tubes, I got this... i wanna.. this year I mean, my acting going upnexeveljustonemore

Director: No, fuck you. Frederick, open the goddam prop doorlock from the inside, let's get this scene and move on.

Actor: no no i can

*Action!!*

Actor: [looks to camera, grabs handle opens door and sets lock for real, closes it]

Actor: [get's back into character, crouching, knee to floor. Desperation. Sweat beads. Concentration.]

Actor:

Director: [roundhouse kicking chair]

Director: [about to yell cut]

*click*

*door is lock-picked open*

Director:

Director: [barely audible] Cut!!

Director: [deep breathing] [crushing script page into a ball] [walks to office]

Everyone: umm

Actor: [turns on his fully functional in-ear walkie talkie spy prop] don't know what you're mad about, Bill. We got a helluva scene; I'm telling ya, this is the year, it's all abou-

Director: don't know what I'm mad about? Hell of a sceeene?!

[loud bangs, lamp trashing heard room next door]

Director: hell of a scene, Brifuck? It's useless!! Uussseeeelleeesssssss aaaaahh

Actor: useless? Whatdoya mean useless?! I gave you gold, sweetchums. The real deal! I fucking lock-picked that door for you. It's not even that difficult, there's this youtube ch-

Director: [high pitch laughter breaking up] you framed all surprised, moran! When it opens we see you almost smile and jump and get relief! Your asinine character is supposed to be super tense and has done this almost every episode.

Actor: ... Well, edit the surprise out. Why are you acting like a big baby? I'll give you some more of the smooth entry if that's what you need...

Director: [walking back on set] oh so you're telling me how to shoot this now

Actor: YOU are telling me how to act this out all Fakey and Lame, this-

Director: THAT's MY JOB! [bane breaks the back of a lighting stand, throws the two pieces every which way] aaaaaa

Actor: And mine is to act out the best way possible for this scene, dog gone it.

Producer: [walking in, raises ray bans to look around] oh for Tiffany's sake, light that fireplace and queue the soft funk. Get to the scenes that pay the billssss

[finger twirls]

Maybe I left myself in Boston

I'm walking home tonight.

Maybe I left myself in the station

my pieces, stayed the while.

-

I'm calling

You're sleeping

I'm buying myself a couple of packs.

And

you're phasing

I'm fading out

I'm gazing myself a couple stars

XXIII.1

El abstenerse de la conversación marca a aquel que obedece la espontaneidad de su naturaleza. Un torbellino no dura toda la mañana; un aguacero no dura todo el día. ¿A quién se deben estas (dos) cosas? Al Cielo y Tierra. Si el Cielo y Tierra no pueden lograr que sus brusquedades duren mucho, ¡cuánto menos pueden las personas!

Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature. A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day. To whom is it that these (two) things are owing? To Heaven and Earth. If Heaven and Earth cannot make such (spasmodic) actings last long, how much less can man!

--Lao Tzu

El mago Nicolín y otros atardeceres en la azotea de los poemas de Yara.

... Célula, Órgano, Organismo, Familia, Comunidad, Etnia, Planeta...

The city itself fought back With shadows and puddles around every corner pieces of statues and broken gardens I'd dress myself as a foreigner, then Without wanting it Weary and waning windows Would cut me Off; Stumbled, jarred faces Done meetings Broken colors --h.a&a, 2015