The Fisher King

Did you ever hear the story of the Fisher King?

Begins with the king as a boy having to sleep alone in the forest to prove his courage so he can become king. While he's spending the night alone he's visited by a sacred vision. Out of the fire appears the Holy Grail symbol of God's divine grace. A voice said to him: "You shall be keeper of the Grail so that it may heal the hearts of men." But the boy was blinded by greater visions of a life filled with power and glory and beauty. And in this state of radical amazement he felt for a brief moment, not like a boy but invincible. Like God. So he reached in the fire to take the Grail and the Grail vanished leaving him with his hand in the fire to be terribly wounded.

Now, as this boy grew older his wound grew deeper. Until one day life for him lost its reason. He had no faith in any men, not even himself. He couldn't love or feel loved. He was sick with experience. He began to die.

One day, a fool wandered into the castle and found the king alone. And being a fool, he was simple-minded. He didn't see a king. He only saw a man alone and in pain. And he asked the king: "What ails you, friend?" And the king replied: "I'm thirsty and I need some water to cool my throat."

So the fool took a cup from beside his bed, filled it with water and handed it to the king. And as the king began to drink he realized his wound was healed. He looked and there was the Holy Grail that which he sought all of his life. He turned to the fool and said: "How could you find that which my brightest and bravest could not?" The fool replied: "I don't know. I only knew that you were thirsty."

The Fisher King (1991),
de Terry Gilliam

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Dedicado al pedante desconocido...

I Touch Myself

Divinyls
Letra y Música: Christina Amphlett, Tom Kelly, Mark McEntee, Billy Steinberg


I love myself, I want you to love me.
When I'm feeling down,
I want you above me.
I search myself, I want you to find me.
I forget myself, I want you to remind me.

Everybody hurts

R.E.M.
Letra y Música: Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck y Bill Berry


When the day is long
and the night,
the night is yours alone,
when you're sure you've had enough
of this life,
well hang on.
Don't let yourself go,
'cause everybody cries,
and everybody hurts, sometimes.

Everybody

Animalbag
Letra y Música: Animalbag


Well, I've been living in the city
where the day's light is shitty
and the nights can be so long,
so now I gotta break away
from the same old everyday
I'm heading back where I belong.

It's what I gotta do.
You gotta tell 'em all
to stick it where the sun don't shine.

Hulk Guerra Mundial

"(...) las mentes más destacadas del mundo (...)"

BWA-HA-HA-HA!!

Claire Danes Poster

Size 14
Letra y Música: Size 14


Go!

I've got a new friend,
she's hanging on my wall.
She's not like the others,
she's the fairest of them all.

Superpelota

«I'm here to fight for truth, and justice, and the American way.»

Superman (1978), de Richard Donner

Citas apócrifas

«Sólo sé que no sé todo.»
Alicatres (tío de Sócrates)

"Mens sana in corpore insepulto."
Octavius (gigoló de la mujer del César)

"Cría cuervos y te quitaré los cuervos."
El ministro de Hacienda de Artajerjes.

Matrix Revealed

Los rumores aparecidos hace unos días han sido oficialmente confirmados: a pesar de las declaraciones de los hermanos Wachowski y de Joel Silver, habrá una nueva secuela de Matrix, y la veremos mucho antes de lo que esperábamos. En una maniobra sin precedentes esta cuarta entrega fue rodada en el más absoluto secreto. Se encuentra actualmente en fase de post-producción, y su estreno está previsto para el otoño de 2007. El título de la película será Matrix Revealed, y parece ser que aclarará todos los interrogantes que quedaron pendientes en los filmes precedentes.

Cosas de romanos...

El ancho de vía en los ferrocarriles de Estados Unidos es de 143'5 cm. (4 pies y 8'5 pulgadas).

Es un número bastante extraño. ¿Cuál es la razón de ese ancho?
Una respuesta rápida y sencilla es que así se construyen en Gran Bretaña y las mismas fueron construidas por ingleses expatriados.

Y, ¿por qué los ingleses usaban ese ancho?
Los primeros trenes fueron construidos por las mismas personas que habían construido los antiguos tranvías y ésta es la anchura que usaban.

Y, ¿por qué ellos usaban tal cifra?
Porque utilizaban las mismas plantillas y herramientas que se usaban para construir carruajes que usaban ese espacio entre ruedas.

Bien. Y, ¿por qué los carruajes usaban esa extraña cifra de espacio entre ruedas?

Me duele mirarte

Rickie: If you were about to do it, okay, what would you want the other person to say, like, right before?

Rayanne: This won't take long.

Rickie: No, seriously.

Rayanne: Do I know you?

Rickie: No, like, for real. Like, romantic.

Angela: You're so beautiful, it hurts to look at you.

Rayanne: It hurts to look at you?

Rickie: How'd you think of that?

Rayanne: Where would it hurt?

My so-called life 1x01 ~ Pilot

Ray of Light

Madonna
Letra y Música: Madonna, William Orbit, Clive Muldoon, Dave Curtiss, Christine Leach


Zephyr in the sky at night, I wonder
do my tears of morning
sink beneath the sun?
She's got herself a universe gone quickly
for the call of thunder threatens everyone.