TV galega

Por algún motivo desconocido ayer, habiendo comido, me decidí a buscar una página de internet, que hacía tiempo había descubierto, desde la que se podía ver (medianamente bien) TVG (bueno, no precisamente la misma programación que en tierras galegas, sinó la de nivel europeo). Tuve suerte y pude encontrar la página en cuestión fácilmente. Y también estuve por la página de la televisión gallega (que por otra parte, desde allí también se puede acceder a la programación en directo online). Estaban aún con los deportes, cosa típica en todos los canales....y también típico fue que se hiciera semi-eterna. Luego un sacrilegio....un culebrón, pero de los míticos, de vete a saber de qué año, "Rubí", cuyo título me suena mucho....ay....pero es que hablaban en galego!!! toda la programación en galega está muy bien y es muy loable...pero un culebrón, cuya gracia reside en una gran parte en el acento de los personajes (muy enriquecedor), si se dobla al galego, pues pierde mucha gracia. Lo que no me dió tiempo a comprobar era si habían traducido también los tan resabidos nombres compuestos telenoveleros. Nada...muy surrealista todo. Hubiera estado casi mejor ponerlo con subtítulos. En fin, siempre hubo una tendencia a traducir nombres de películas, personajes, lo que fuera, ya para bien o para mal.

Y ahora están hablando sobre el voto de los emigrantes gallegos (tema importante) en la argentina. hablan argentinos reunidos con gallegos-gallegos, no gallegos a secas (que vendrían siendo españoles o gentes de origen español para las gentes de la Argentina). Pero en realidad puse ahora, bien pronto la TVG para ver si por casualidad los sábados también emitían "KochiKame"...porque en la autonómica catalana hace tiempo que acabaron de emitir todos los capítulos (sniff)...y quedó un gran vacío, básicamente porque están repitiendo series ya emitidas antes (emisiones cíclicas...KochiKame volverá, digo yo). Afortunados os galegos....porque luego descubrí también que por internet, KochiKame, no entra en la programación.

Lo que hay es un programa de orientación cristiana hablando sobre gente de todo tipo afectada por el problema de las drogas, hecho de una manera respetuosa, lejos del sensacionalismo de diarios de patrícia y similares. Pero no podía faltar un elemento un tanto surrealista....en vez de visualizar teléfonos y animar con algún premio en metálico o algo-digital-de última tecnología, regalan un nuevo testamento a los que llamen...extraño en los días que corren, pero para nada negativo.

Seguiré indagando sobre TVG. Lo que ya no puedo comprobar es el cambio de la tv autonómica antes y después de Fraga. Lo que sí creo que puedo decir es que los contenidos parecen ser mejores que los de las 2 tv privadas principales (con sus programas del corazón que lo inundan todo, tertulias verduleras, es decir, a gritos, y todo tipo de contenidos sensacionalistas y muy escasa programación infantil)...mucho mejores.

HIROSHIMA...60 years have passed

august 6th 1945. 8:15

Secos e molhados/ Ney Matogrosso
(lyrics by João Ricardo and Vinícius de Moraes)
“ROSA DE HIROSHIMA”

PENSEM NAS CRIANÇAS
MUDAS TELEPÁTICAS

PENSEM NAS MENINAS
CEGAS INEXATAS

PENSEM NAS MULHERES
ROTAS ALTERADAS

PENSEM NAS FERIDAS
COMO ROSAS CÁLIDAS

MAS OH! NÃO SE ESQUEÇAM
DA ROSA DA ROSA

DA ROSA DE HIROSHIMA
A ROSA HEREDITÁRIA

A ROSA RADIOATIVA
ESTÚPIDA E INVÁLIDA

A ROSA COM CIRROSE
A ANTI-ROSA ATÔMICA

SEM COR SEM PERFUME
SEM ROSA SEM NADA
**********
Georges Moustaki
“Hiroshima”

Par la colombe et l'olivier,
Par la détresse du prisonnier,
Par l'enfant qui n'y est pour rien,
Peut-être viendra-t-elle demain.

Avec les mots de tous les jours,
Avec les gestes de l'amour,
Avec la peur, avec la faim,
Peut-être viendra-t-elle demain.

Par tous ceux qui sont déjà morts,
Par tous ceux qui vivent encore,
Par ceux qui voudraient vivre enfin,
Peut-être viendra-t-elle demain.
Avec les faibles, avec les forts,
Avec tous ceux qui sont d'accord,
Ne seraient-ils que quelques-uns,
Peut-être viendra-t-elle demain.

Par tous les rêves piétinés,
Par l'espérance abandonnée,
À Hiroshima, ou plus loin,
Peut-être viendra-t-elle demain,
La Paix !

me congratulaaaa

Hey!! thanks to all those who made the effort to read some article on my blog....waa....i'm moved :D. really...thanks a million. I read all your comments and it was really interesting to see the interest some of you had to talk about communism. Danke Lukas, für deine Meinung nach, weil du, wie Deutscher, eine besondere Meinung über das Thema hast...You are closer to the reality of communism in Germany, which is an interesting case.

By the way...i didn't want to make apologia for communism since i believe it's an utopy, unless it's used to rule a small community of the extension of a family or people who can live in a house....or a small tribe. In any case a whooooole State (well, some island, lost in the middle of the Pacific wouldn't be bad). The cases of communism in this world are all quite sad...But the values of communism are not bad themselves. Communism without stalin, fidel castro, kim il sung, kim jong il (worse than his father), pol pot, mao zhedong, jaruzelski (it's written like this, isn't it?), and so many others would have been very different. But anyway...tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of the bombing of hiroshima by a democratic state. Even in a war context, i don't think people would really choose massively to drop a bomb like the A-bomb and leave sequels in a population till nowadays. Happy and lucky those who live lost in the middle of out of nowhere, in the middle of a jungle.

About what you wrote, Carles (a.k.a Dr. Karl)...it's true...there's not much change to develop hi-tech in communist countries....well, unless you want to show your country better than capitalist ones, as was the case of the former USSR and the race to space, competing with the USA....or unless the country wants to promote developement for the welfare of the community. Si m'ho permet, dr. Karl, la tecnologia no ha portat cap món millor perquè el progrés humà ha importat a pocs. Potser si que tenim més opcions i drets (sobretot les dones), però en general la societat va per uns altres camins. Llàstima, pq amb el progrés que tenim avui dia, la qualitat de vida és molt millor i podriem tenir la possibilitat de viure en un món superidealdelamuertetelojuro. Politics are quite depressing because the power is given, in most cases, to the wrong people..and economical interests (or of another kind) are more important than the population, but when they're voters. And anarchy isn't the way either. I vote left/green parties, though i don't really like the candidates, nor believe in all promises...but we must vote, to have chances to get the least worse political option.

Yes..here in spain we all heard about that german woman, who killed 9 of her sons. Very sad...but it's not difficult to go mad in a world like the one we have....and the fact that welfare state services are decreasing or worsening in many places (or simply, they don't exist)...i guess many people feel they have no protection in some cases...the Market won't help anybody nor will cover all necessities. Thanks also for the info about Schönbohm. Maybe many people from Ostdeutschland, having lost their jobs after the fall of the Wall, having emigrated to the east with fewer chances that people already living there....and feeling they were less protected than before...they can't feel fine (i've heard such theory and, besides, it's all pretty logical). But that can happen in other circumstances too. And in all cases there are many variables to bear in mind. Besides, human mind is quite fragile and mysterious. Unexpected entrepans, com deia l'anunci aquell del pans & company.

happy digestion.

Ausflug am 22.Juli: Radio+Kunst

Hier schreibe ich eun bisschen über eine Ausflug, die ich mit die Leute im Deutschintensivkurs gemacht habe. Wir sind in einen Radiosender und danach in eines Museum gegangen. Im Museum gab es eine Kunstausstellung der Künstler, die "die Brücke" begrundet haben...d.h. am Anfang des Expressionismus.

Welle, die durch Barcelona fliegen

Unser Treffpunkt war in eines Kleinen Straße direkt an der Plaça Reial, weil eine der Ziele unseres Ausflugs war, eine Radio zu besuchen. Alles war vom Anfang interessant, als wir ins Radio gegangen sind. Da waren überall Plakarde, Papiere mit Parolen, um die Welt zu verbessern. Ein Radiosender, der in einer alten Wohnung —aus dem 19. oder dem Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts— ist, hat einen besonderen Charme. Darin hatten wir die Gelegenheit, an einer Radiosendung teilzunehmen. Das war wirklich eine sehr gute Erfahrung. Die Themen der Radiosendung, die „Niemandsland“ heißt, waren die Ausstellung über die „Brücke“, die wir später besuchen wollten, ein paar Filme, deren Kritiken wir gelesen haben, Ovidi Montllor und was manche Politiker auf Ibiza mit der Natur machen wollen. Wir haben auf Deutsch, Spanisch und Katalanisch frei gesprochen, was alles einfacher gemacht hat.

Etwas Lustiges war die Katze, die frei über Stühle gelegen hat und durch die Wohnung ohne Einwohner frei gegangen ist. Diese Katze hat mich zum Nachdenken gebracht; freie Katze im freien Radiosender.

Farben, die tanzen

Das MNAC hat auf uns gewartet. Dahin sind wir mit der U-Bahn und auch zu Fuß gegangen. Die Ausstellung, die wir sehen wollten, war über eine Künstlergruppe, die am Anfang des letztes Jahrhunderts, Etwas Anderes machen wollte. Der Stil der Künstler, die „die Brücke“ begründet haben, hat eine sehr enge Beziehung mit Expressionismus, Fauvismus, Afrikanischen Kunst, Japanischen Bildern, Puntillismus und noch ein paar mehr Tendenzen. Wir konnten Bilder von vielen Künstler betrachten. Die bekanntesten Künstler sind E. Nolde, K Schmidt-Rotluf, E. Heckel, E.L. Kirschner und M. Pechstein. Die Formen und Farben, die immer reich und dynamisch sind, in den Bilder bringen die Zuschauer in eine andere Welt. Eine Welt, in der alles möglich ist; in der keine Farbe zu keiner Sache konkret gehört; in der alles unabhängig und frei ist, wir die Katze, die wir vorher gesehen hatten. Die Farben da waren wie Katzen.

Ein Teil der Bilder waren Spiegel, in denen man das Lebenstil einer früheren Epoque betrachten konnte. Die Künstler, die die Brücke gebaut haben, sprechen über nackte Frauen, über Musen, wie Fränzi, von den die Maler geküsst wurden, über Häuser, die nur in Träumen von Kindern existieren könten, über legebdige Objekte, über Bäume und Flüße, die aus verrückten Farben bestehen, über das Leben in der Stadt, d.h. über Alles lebhafte. Die Brücke hat Augen, die alles anders sieht. Sie hat einen Mund, die über alles anders spricht.

OST is not Original SoundTrack

Recently i got to know the name of those interesting -to me- old cars which appeared in old movies or in movies referring to the "ostblock",Trabant or Trabi. I can't help loving all kind of old cars, so different from those we have now, although not better. Well, that's relative since maybe a slower car is better than a fast one. There are fewer risks to take when driving up to 100 km/h. I'd like to see all those old cars back, but with their engines improved so as to pollute less. Waaa...imagine a trabi workin thanks to the power of hydrogen or electricity. perfect!

When i was little, the Iron curtain still existed and divided the world. I remember movies and cartoons where "the russian people" were pictured as the evil characters. But i don't remember much, besides that. I don't even have images in my mind about the fall of the Wall in 1989 because i was 7 and i'm sure all things happening then were a bit (just a bit) surrealist to me. Fortunately i saw the images later several times, though it wasn't the same. Spain was taking off in those years, having opened the doors of democracy to people not so many years before...and having had some crisis in the mid 80es (which, obviously i can't remember)...Spain was a bit out of nowhere, though she became a member of the EEC.

I don't think Communism is bad itself...the problem is when some people try to impose it and the leaders or people with some kind of power or links to the power, are corrupt or become corrupt. But the values are pretty positive and could work well if they come out spontaneously or from rational thinking (of what's the best for all) in a small community. Those values of not wanting luxury items, giving a high value to work for the community and belonging to it are much better than those values ruling the society we have nowadays in most "western" countries. The functionality of things is relegated to the background and things such as the image it gives to the society are considered more important in many choices. A trabi or a wartburg were enough....and a seat 600, in Franco times was enough for most families who could afford having their own car, although there were some other models. Now we have too much of everything, but yet people try to follow what is socially better...and homogenisation is not strange despite the diversity of products we have. We grow up feeling we can choose among a wiiiiide range of things and that but also we're thaught, by people around us but also by the media, what is socially desirable. And we end up desiring things because they're socially better, which we don't really need, while the media keeps bombing us with messages tellin us what to do. Happyness? not much, not enough in most cases. Just have a (discrete) look at the expression of the face of people walkin on the streets of big cities, where they can reach all kind of goods, modernity and so on. I can't find many happy expressions in people's faces...and those which aren't sad, look quite bitter or stressed. But i'm not making a call to set up communist values. I don't think either people in communist countries were or are happy, feeling somebody imposes a lifestyle on them, and seeing what lifestyle people in other countries have. But it's all a matter of education and what we get used to seeing...and how we face human impulses (those who make us love possessing things, wanting more, desiring, being better than others and so on).

"have a nice trip with Trabant". Buddhism and other Asian philosophies make me think of communism sometimes...The values they have are not so far away from eachother...and they are all distant from the existing values we have in most western cultures (i'm using "western" adjective but it's not just the west...i should include japan and some other places praising capitalist values). But nowadays people don't really thing about the relationship capitalism-communism (well, Fidel Castro and Kim Jong Il politics are still a hot issue), but about christianity and western culture, facing it with islamic countries. The world keeps changing, but not to better. :( Hey..comments for this post are very welcome. I hope i didn't offend anybody..and please correct any mistake i could have made (i didn't sleep much and morning thoughts can be sometimes a bit weird and clumsy) :)

the beginning

Ah..today, my friend Arief suggested me creating a blog here. I had already thought about it but never did anything in the end, basically because i already have a website to take care of. But today -i believe there are several reasons that tell why it IS and SHOULD BE today and not any other day-, i took the first steps ahead and here is the result. I want to thank you....maybe it brings sth positive to me, who knows. Another suggestion from Arief was to create 2 blogs so as to have 2 language versions. Uhm...there's a lot of "bureaucracy" to create one so i think i'll let languages life together. I hope you don't get scared if suddenly, something you can't understand appears right after a text in english....All languages are welcome as long there's people reading this who will understand it.

I dit tot això, bé, només cal que digui que de mica en mica aniré escrivint una mica de tot. No sé pas què sortirà, però millor. Planificar provoca patologies. "Que vagi de gust i, salut!", com diria l'Isma Prados.