1. Rocket Brothers - Kashmir

2. White Wedding - Billy Idol

3. Neighborhood #2 (Laika) - Arcade Fire

4. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - Bonnie Alden

5. Brothers - Hot Chip

Tienes en la sangre
un recuerdo mío,
es un libro viejo
que todo lo conoce:

el cómo
el porqué
el dónde
nos encontramos
antes de ser
lo que somos:
uno y dos.

1. Search and Destroy - Peaches
2. Miss Lucifer - Primal Scream
3. Ya no te necesito porque ya me di cuenta lo cuzca que eres - Los Magníficos
4. Breakin' Hearts - Violent Femmes
5. Femme Fatale - The Velvet Underground

≈ o ≈

Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Beware
Beware.

Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.

Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus

1. Nite Life - Adult.

2. Por la noche - La Mala Rodriguez

3. Blessed Night - Howling Bells

4. Early to Bed - Morphine

5. Dancing in the Moonlight - Thin Lizzy 

≈ o ≈

Ay, yo siento
un dolor profundo

como mar oscuro,
como herida salada,

como fría noche
sobre el mundo.

1. Space - James
2. Go! - Apples in Stereo
3. Take Off - Githead
4. On My Shoulders - The Do
5. World Leader Pretend - R.E.M.

 ≈ o ≈

"Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind become still."

Tao Te King

1. Miel del escorpión - Fobia
2. Leaves Do Fall - The Rosebuds
3. Waiting - The Feelies
5. How Long Do I Have to Wait? - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
4. Do It All Over Again - Spiritualized

"Why are we here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come."

Samuel Beckett

1. So Cruel - U2
2. You Can't Hurry Love - Diana Ross & The Supremes
3. The One You Love - Rufus Wainwright
4. The Dress - Blonde Redhead
5. Falling - Julee Cruise

≈ o ≈

love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail

it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea

love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive

it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky

e.e. cummings

1. When I Grow Up - Fever Ray
2. Help the Aged - Pulp
3. Homesick - Kings of Convenience
4. Winter - Tori Amos
5. Who Knows Where the Time Goes? - Daniel Martin Moore

"Van breves pasando
los días que tengo.
Después de pasados
Ya no los contengo.

De aquí a muy pronto
la vida se acabó.
Yo seré un cadaver
Por quien se rezó.

Entre hoy y ese día
Haré lo que hice:
Ser quien quiero ser,
Feliz o infeliz."

F. Pessoa

1. Ja Nuh Dead - Sinéad O'Connor
2. Fibber Island - They Might Be Giants
3. You Say You Lie - The Raveonettes
4. Trick Me - Kelis
5. Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode

No estoy yo para decirlo
Ni tu para saberlo
Pero todo lo que he dicho
Ha sido sin creerlo.

1. Step Into My Office, Baby - Belle & Sebastian
2. Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
3. Maggie's Farm - Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers
4. Chain Gang - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
5. Shipbuilding - Suede

"The working girls in the morning are going to work
     long lines of them afoot amid the downtown stores
     and factories, thousands with little brick-shaped
     lunches wrapped in newspapers under their arms.
Each morning as I move through this river of young-
     woman life I feel a wonder about where it is all
     going, so many with a peach bloom of young years
     on them and laughter of red lips and memories in
     their eyes of dances the night before and plays and
     walks..."

Carl Sandburg

1. Summer Son - Texas
2. We Are the People - Empire of the Sun
3. Here Comes the Summer - The Fiery Furnaces
4. I Write Summer Songs For No Reason - Acid House Kings
5. A Sweet Summer's Night On Hammer Hill - Jens Lekman

Written on a Summer Evening

The church bells toll a melancholy round,
Calling the people to some other prayers,
Some other gloominess, more dreadful cares,
More harkening to the sermon's horrid sound.
Surely the mind of man is closely bound
In some blind spell: seeing that each one tears
Himself from fireside joys and Lydian airs,
And converse high of those with glory crowned.
Still, still they toll, and I should feel a damp,
A chill as from a tomb, did I not know
That they are dying like an outburnt lamp, -
That 'tis their sighing, wailing, ere they go
Into oblivion -that fresh flowers will grow,
And many glories of immortal stamp.

John Keats

1. Another Way - Swayzak
2. Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
3. Noches Reversibles - Love of Lesbian
4. Can We Start Again - Tindersticks
5. Little Hells - Marissa Nadler

ORILLA DEL MAR

Viñas rojas,
viñas verdes ahogan las casas bajo tallos salvajes;
poderosos, como pólipos
que apretasen en sus brazos a una víctima.
El sol naciente limpia de sangre en el mar
las lanzas con que mató veloz a la noche
como una fiera.
Yo
me quedo en la orilla —mi alma está lejos
de su hogar.
Se ha perdido en un sendero sin fín y no encuentra
el camino para regresar.

Lucien Blaga

1. In the Woods - Maybe Smith
2. Treehouse - I'm From barcelona
3. A Forest - The Cure
4. Forest Fire - Lloyd Cole & the Commotions
5. Sycamore Trees - Jimmy Scott

"The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness." -John Muir

Photograph by Meredith Farmer
www.flickr.com/photos/meredithfarmer

1. Down by the Water - PJ Harvey
2. Waterfall - James
3. Surf Cowboy - Throwing Muses
4. Into the Blue - Moby
5. El Mar - Ely Guerra

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
it's always ourselves we find in the sea."

ee cummings

1. The Past is a Grotesque Animal - Of Montreal
2. My Slumbering Heart - Rilo Kiley
3. Days That Are Over - Sondre Lerche
4. Bisbee Blues - Calexico
5. The Radio's Hot Sun - Handsome Furs

En este instante
con las dagas de sus garras
un león destaja a un ciervo
(y tú no lo ves)
en este instante
dos amantes cambian de piel
con la tersura de sus actos
(y tú no lo ves)
en este instante

el tiempo devora los instantes.

José Vicente Anaya

1. Make Light - Passion Pit
2. Some Velvet Morning - Primal Scream
3. Waking Up - Elastica
4. Anoche - Pequeña Orquesta Reincidentes
5. Dance Until Tomorrow - Lavender Diamond

"Vuelvo, pálida novia, que solías
mi retorno esperar tan de mañana,
con la misma canción que preferías
y la misma ternura de otros días
y el mismo amor de siempre, a tu ventana."

Amado Nervo

1. Little Girls - Oingo Boingo
2. La Chica Banda - Cafe Tacvba
3. Young Girls - Sparks
4. Teenage Lust (acoustic) - The Jesus & Mary Chain
5. Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon - Urge Overkill

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta." Vladimir Nabokov

1. The Fear - Pulp
2. Fragile Tension - Depeche Mode
3. Jigsaw Falling Into Place - Radiohead
4. Quiet Times - Dido
5. Intervention - Arcade Fire

'My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.
'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
'I never know what you are thinking. Think.'

T.S. Eliot

1. Homecoming - The Teenagers
2. Young Love - Mystery Jets
3. Another Night Another Love - Jay Jay Johanson
4. The Lady With the Braid - Dory Previn
5. Know How - Kings of Convenience

Nunca hubo plan
para este encuentro
tan delicado

Estuve, estuviste
y fue un éxtasi
improvisado.

Gracias a Adrián y Gabriela por la música e ideas.

1. Tell Me Why (I Don't Like Mondays) - The Boomtown Rats
2. On a Tuesday - Linoleum
3. Wednesday - Tori Amos
4. Thursday - Asobi Seksu
5. Friday (I'm in Love) - The Cure

"Te llaman porvenir
porque no vienes nunca.
Te llaman: porvenir,
y esperan que tú llegues
como un animal manso
a comer en su mano.
Pero tú permaneces
más allá de las horas,
agazapado no se sabe dónde.

…Mañana! Y mañana será otro día tranquilo
un día como hoy, jueves o martes,
cualquier cosa y no eso
que esperamos aún, todavía, siempre".

Angel Gonzalez

1. Outside the City - Young Galaxy
2. Modern Guilt - Beck
3. The Grey States - Wolf Parade
4. Soul Meets Body - Death Cab for Cutie
5. Panic Open String - Calexico

"I want both of you to do as I'm doing, disemburden yourselves of all that clothes -now what's the sense of clothes? now that's what I'm sayin- and sun your pretty bellies with me. Come on!" We were driving west into the sun; it fell in through the windshield. "Open your belly as we drive into it."

Jack Kerouac, On the Road.

1. Beat Heart - Pikko
2. Golden Cage - Whitest Boy Alive
3. Tell Everybody - Roisin Murphy
4. Let It Be - The Beatles
5. Willow - The Field Mice

"Have you ever been in love?
Horrible, isn`t it?
It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'Maybe we should just be friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.

It hurts. Not just in your imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love.

I hate love."

Neil Gaiman, from THE SANDMAN

1. Fire - Arthur Brown
2. Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
3. Love Burns - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
4. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
5. Back of the Van - Ladyhawke

"Once I saw a Devil in a flame of fire... The fire, the fire, is falling!" William Blake.

1. Isabella of Castile - Starfucker
2. Baby Jane - Belle & Sebastian
3. Claudine - The Bats
4. Melpomene - Kashmir
5. Andy - Neko Case

"Cuando las mujeres bailan
es nochebuena,
viéndolas abrirse
como las flores
sin pena."

1. 2Wicky - Hooverphonic
2. The Late Great Cassiopeia - The Essex Green
3. Mi Aventura Espacial - La Buena Vida
4. My Beauty in the Moon - Kelley Polar
5. Space Oddity - Natalie Merchant

"If our hearts were as pure, as chaste... our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars. Then indeed all things would seem to return to the age of gold."

John Milton

1. Happy Together - The Turtles
2. Forever More - Moloko
3. With You - Pnau
4. Gorecki - Lamb
5. After Hours - The Velvet Underground

"La música, cuando callan las suaves voces,
Resuena en la memoria–
Los olores, cuando las violetas reculan,
Persisten en los sentidos que estimulan,

Los pétalos de rosa, cuando la rosa muere,
Se esparcen sobre el lecho de tu amor–
Y así tus pensamientos, cuando te hayas ido,
Mas el amor habrá sobrevivido."

Percy Bysse Shelley

1. The Shy Retirer - Arab Strap
2. Disco Blackout - Controller.Controller
3. Duri Duri - Click
4. Heartbeat - Annie
5. Friday Night - Lily Allen

Cimbra el corazón,
nos movemos
a todo lugar donde quepa
nuestro cuerpo
infinito.

El tiempo
sube
por la espina y se funde
al viento ¡Corre!
¡Larguémonos de aquí!

Al vaivén
químico
rítmico
lumínico
¡Larguémonos de aquí!

Que la muerte nos alcanza,
mañana llega
antes de poder aterrizar.

1. Cheap and Cheerful -The Kills-
2. Wolf Like Me -TV on the Radio-
3. Get Off -The Dandy Warhols-
4. I'm So Excited -Pointer Sisters-
5. La Revolución Sexual -La Casa Azul-

"Travieso,

Aún tengo sobre mí
tu cuerpo y tu peso,

Todavía en mis labios
tu sangre y un beso.

Te estaré teniendo toda la vida,
Lo confieso."

1. Down to the Waterline - Dire Straits
2. You Drift Away - The Postmarks
3. Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin
4. Silently - Blonde Redhead
5. Walk On the Ocean - Toad the Wet Sprocket

"Como el náufrago que contase las
olas que le bastan para morir,
y las contase y las volviese a contar para evitar
errores,
hasta la última,
hasta aquella que tiene la estatura de un niño y
la besa y le cubre la frente,
así he vivido yo con una vaga prudencia de caballo
de cartón en el baño,
sabiendo que jamás me he equivocado en nada,
sino en las cosas que yo más quería."

Luis Rosales.

1. Summer Rain - Johnny Rivers
2. Rain - Bishop Allen
3. Sometimes - James
4. Let It Rain - Tilly & the Wall
5. Rains On Me - Tom Waits

"El viento trae la lluvia.
En el jardín
las plantas se estremecen"
José Emilio Pacheco

gracias a Lorena y Lucía por las ideas y música.

1. Ouija Board, Ouija Board - Morrissey
2. Are You Gone? - Cranes
3. At My Funeral - Crash Test Dummies
4. Rapture - Antony & the Johnsons
5. On the Death of the Waters - Shearwater

"Es un respirar
tan suave
el de las plantas,
que debe ser
de noche,
como el cerrar
de los ojos
y el oscuro
aposento
donde
desnudo
me voy
convirtiendo
en alimento."

1. Break My Body - The Pixies
2. Closer - Nine Inch Nails
3. Look - Sebastien Tellier
4. Playground Love - Air
5. Anna Begins - Counting Crows

"Mármol oscuro y caliente
tallado en músculo y fibra.
Carne de mi amante, carne
viril y prieta de vida.
Suave y blanda entre mis dedos;
fuego bajo la caricia.
Dulce y sabrosa a mis labios
como una fruta mordida...
Carne de mi amante, carne
tan mía como la mía."

- Angela Figuera Aymerich

1. Golden Star – My Brightest Diamond
2. Fuck and Run – Liz Phair
3. The Operation – Charlotte Gainsbourg
4. Because the Night – Patti Smith
5. We Exchanged Words – Azure Ray

“We exchanged words
Through smoke-filled mouths
And then we found our bodies
Speaking loud
And our hearts pressed against the flesh
Trading stories
Of love's pain, doubt
And rivaling insecurities
When did we learn to speak without words?
And in tongues?”

1. Shut Up and Kiss Me - Pony Up!
2. Kiss Me On the Bus - The Replacements
3. I Bet If We Kissed - The Research
4. You and Me Both - Arthur Russell
5. Lips Like Sugar - Echo & The Bunnymen

Este beso que te he dado
ha existido mil veces,
en lo oscuro, lo iluminado
y en las calles de cipreses

En las escuelas a la salida
y los bares de madrugada,
en el cuello con mordida
y en labios de agua salada.

Este beso son todos los besos del tiempo,
es del amor sempiterno un tesoro,
es lo que yo sé besando a la única que adoro.

1. Hustle Rose
2. Poster of a Girl
3. Succexy
4. Handshakes
5. Combat baby

Este 25 de Abril, Metric se presenta en el Salón Vive Cuervo de la Ciudad de México.

Si usted vive en el DF o está cerca, es su obligación, deber y salvación ver a esta banda establecida en Toronto. No sólo por su guapa vocalista, sino porque son probablemente una de las mejores bandas del mundo.

Este episodio especial de 5 canciones está dedicado a convencer a todos de abarrotar el foro y darles la bienvenida que se merecen.

1. Goodbye to Old Friends - Stuart S. Staples
2. Here's Where the Story Ends - The Sundays
3. A Minor Incident - Badly Drawn Boy
4. Communication - The Cardigans
5. Lost Cause - Beck

"It's not that I don't love you, or that I'm tired of your ways... I want you to know that I'm always thinking of you. You know I'd take you with me wherever I go, but I catch myself in the mirror and I remember I have to do something about my life..."

Lo único bueno de perder a una persona es la brillante posibilidad de recuperarla.

5 gritos sinceros de amor y perdón, para los amantes arrepentidos.

1. Krafty - New Order
2. Back in Your Head - Tegan & Sara
3. I Summon You - Spoon
4. TV Movie - Pulp
5. If You Go Away - Ambulette

"She said she would come
At once, and so I waited
Till the moon rose
In the October dawn"
Monk Sosei

Fue así que lo dejé todo
en busca de lo desconocido,
para conocerlo, y perderlo,
como todo lo he perdido.

1. So This is Goodbye - Junior Boys
2. Good Woman - Cat Power
3. Nothing Better - The Postal Service
4. Noah's Dove - 10,000 Maniacs
5. I Gave You - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Wolf