El Aleph

Peliculas favoritas de 2011

doctorinfierno — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:50:49 +0000

El año anterior me tomé el trabajo de hacer una bitácora de las películas que iba viendo durante el año. Hice lo posible por ver muchas de las que salieron en 2011, pero por supuesto no las vi todas. De las que logré ver este estas fueron mis 12 favoritas:

Hobo With a Shotgun
Balada Triste de Trompeta
Hanna
Attack the Block
Red State
Contagion
Super 8
Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil
Scream 4
Your Highness
Adjustment Bureau
Cowboys and Aliens

On Memories

doctorinfierno — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:49:50 +0000

“People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn’t matter as far the maintenance of life is concerned. They are all just fuel. Advertising filler in the news paper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills; when you feed them to fire, they are just paper. The fire isn’t thinking ‘oh This is Kant’ or ‘Oh This is Yomuri evening edition’ or ‘Nice tits’, while it burns. To the fire, they are nothing but scraps of paper. It is the exact same thing. Important memories , not-so-important memories, totally useless memories : there is no distinction — they are all just fuel.”

Haruki Murakami, After Dark

On Thought

doctorinfierno — Mon, 30 May 2011 23:24:16 +0000

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities — the political, the religious, the educational authorities — who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing — forming in our minds — their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.

- Timothy Leary, How to Operate Your Brain (1994)

Oro y nieve