Weaving Goddamn Webs

Do you use Twitter? Perhaps, if you have the time to indulge in such things. Facebook? Probably unless you're worried about privacy and well, you realise that nobody really needs one. A blog? Like this one or something else (even if it's the lame Fotolog)? If you have more than one account on anything in the web it probably means you have the time for that. I am sick of it, I don't want to sift through Facebook messages, or in any other social website (I have Multiply and it's the same story...). There's a lot more important work outside to do.

''But dude, then what are you doing posting on this blog then?''

Takes less time. Nobody else needs to have an account to comment. No hassle. Dunno, I thought it was a cool idea when I started it. I thought the same out of this stupid Formspring account but it seems it's dead. You can ask me something but who are we kidding, eh? The Multiply account I mentioned before, also. It was a nice place where to post random things, a lot like this place too. I befriended a couple of people there from all over the world and share things about anything. Really nice and fun people. Although we're all just online identities here, it's a shame maybe. I feel clogged up with all this stuff.

But then, Google Sites came in handy. It's like my own portable bookmarks page with anything I find useful. So that's more personal.

But then things mount up! For instance, my music project at Reverbnation, and then I'm releasing the music in Bandcamp too! Aaargh! It seems like it may save some time or be helpful promoting the music, but this is maybe a bit too much.

Then there's DeviantArt. I'm okay with it... I won't complain...
*coughlotsofmessagescoughcough*


However, there's an even more pressing issue here; if you've everywhere, it may be good when you're trying to promote something (so far my music and art provide me zero income), but it also makes you vulnerable to being found, um, and many other things. Here's Juanelo (in Spanish and translated below) summing up an important idea!


Juanelo belongs to Marco Canepa. All rights reserved. Vida larga a Juanelo.

Madrugal

I was listening to Café Tacuba the other day when a seemingly innocent and inconspicuous bolero-style song in their 2nd album, Re, which caught my ears. Not because of the intricate and smooth guitar, or the sweet voices that are complemented by it, but by the last line of the song. Overall it's a jab at pollution in Mexico city, using irony. Here's the song in the original and also my translation:



La ciudad de los palacios

The city of palaces

Va dejando paso a el alba

Gives way to dawn

Se va perdiendo la calma

Calm recedes

Para cuando el sol asoma

By the time the sun peeps

Todo el esplendor decrece

All the splendour diminishes

la gente en las calles toma

people in the streets drink

Catedral desaparece entre smog

(the) cathedral dissapears among smog

Y caca de paloma.

and pidgeon shit.

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What an awesome way to end the song, eh?

Now, 'Madrugal' probably means 'Morning Song' or something. What happens is that it's not really a word, and after searching around for the definition, the closest thing I found was the Italian term, madrigal. According to the Free Online Dictionary, madrigal means the following:

1. a. A song for two or three unaccompanied voices, developed in Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.

b. A short poem, often about love, suitable for being set to music.

2. b. A part song.

A portmanteau (word made out of two different words), perhaps? I quite like the idea, a short morning poem sung by polyphonic voices, set to music. Although, it strikes to me as some kind of prose really similar to what a haiku would be. EDIT: (Thank you, pla, you are right, it's more senryu actually!). After all, it's a 'show, not tell' kind of thing, it paints a vivid image in the mind of the reader/listener and with just a few words it can do a lot. Of course this is 4 lines a stanza, but I think the parallels are interesting!