R.I.P. Michael Jackson

Hi King! What's up? I'm sure you are at peace. Hard times here, yes it was. But you did it shine eyes!

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Macarena: surely you know it!

Click the music and listen a little. Have a great Saturday!

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Julio Cortázar: what is success all about?

Two years of blog and I didn't write a single post about Julio Cortázar? This is amazing, quite an accomplishment since he is at that strange and restrictive category we call favorites authors but since we are talking about one of the fantastic magicians, again... strange because he deals with reality all the time. From where to begin talking about someone whose work deals with so many issues and has numerous attributes ?

I just came across with this interview and I believe it's great start. The interviewer, a writer himself, Jason Weiss focused on Cortázar's process of writing that also reveals biographical and ideological views of a man who was deeply concerned with what was happening around him without losing the passion for literature, art, philosophy, music, architecture, practically all the fields that the word humanities have. Excerpts:

Cortázar: "When my characters are children and adolescents, I have a lot of tenderness for them. I think they are very alive in my novels and in my stories; I treat them with a lot of love. When I write a story where the character is an adolescent, I am the adolescent while I am writing it. With the adult characters, it’s something else."

Jason Weiss: Are many of your characters based on people that you’ve known?

Cortázar: "I wouldn’t say many, but there are a few. Very often there are characters who are a mixture of two or three people. I have put together a female character, for example, from two women I have known. That gives the character in the story or the book a personality that’s more complex, more difficult."

Jason Weiss: Do you mean that when you feel the need to thicken a character, you combine two together?

Cortázar: "Things don’t work like that. It’s the characters who direct me. That is, I see a character, he’s there, and I recognize someone I knew, or occasionally two who are a bit mixed together, but then that stops. Afterwards, the character acts on his own account. He says things . . . I never know what any of them are going to say when I’m writing dialogue. Really, it’s up to them. Me, I’m just typing out what they’re saying. Sometimes I burst out laughing, or I throw out a page and say, “There, there you’ve said silly things. Out!” And I put in another page and start over again with their dialog."

Jason Weiss: So it’s not the characters you’ve known that impel you to write?

Cortázar: "No, not at all. Often, I have an idea for a story, but there aren’t any characters yet. I’ll have a strange idea: something’s going to happen in a house in the country, I see . . . I’m very visual when I write, I see it all, I see everything. So, I see..."

(read the interview here) you will not regret. He is quite a genius and has a lot to say. At the end he tells a story to explain his views on success. I didn't full you with such a title for this post.)

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Fool in the rain by Led Zeppelin

Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shining
Like a star that can't wait for the night

I hate to think I've been blinded baby
Why can't I see you tonight?

And the warmth of your smile starts a-burnin'
And the thrill of your touch gives me fright
And I'm shaking so much, really yearning
Why don't you show up, make it all right?
Yeah, it's all right.

And if you promised you'd love so completely
and you said you would always be true
You swore that you would never leave me, baby:
What ever happened to you?

And you thought it was only in movies
As you wish all your dreams would come true
It ain't the first time believe me, baby
I'm standin here feeling blue
Yeah I'm blue

Now I will stand in the rain on the corner
I'll watch the people go shuffling downtown
Another ten minutes no longer
And then I'm turning around

The clock on the wall's moving slower
My heart it sinks to the ground
And the storm that I thought would blow over
Clouds the light of the love that I found

Now my body is starting to quiver
And the palms of my hands getting wet
I've got no reason to doubt you baby,
It's all a terrible mess

I'll run in the rain till I'm breathless
When I'm breathless I'll run till I drop, hey
The thoughts of a fool's kind of careless
I'm just a fool waiting on the wrong block, oh yeah
Light of the love that I found...

I know I promised not to post any Led Zeppelin but... only this one. Because it is about... love! we need love, love is all we need/ love is the answer... and "that bass solo makes LIFE worth it". as PennybagDarrell" said at Youtube. In 2007 Robert Plant sang this song with Eddie Vedder at Chicago but the sound of the video is terrible.
I did a huge mistake at the post below. I was kinda sleeping, cause I did it in the middle of the night, and wrote "guess" instead of "guest" and it is in the title... I corrected but now it's too late. Maybe it was a freudian-sleep cause I was thinking "guess who will be the guest?".
Have a great Sunday!

Update: June, 1

Whenever I heard what happens at 2.25 I thought: They heard Brazilian samba. It's impossible they didn't.

I finally did the search today. They did!

"Bass player John Paul Jones and vocalist Robert Plant developed the idea for the samba beat from watching the 1978 FIFA World Cup tournament in Argentina.[1] Guitarist Jimmy Page used an MXR Blue Box effect pedal during the solo to produce the octave sound."

It's good. Nice performance.

But you have no idea what it is to be next to a samba school battery. Body, mind and soul are touched.

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