…porque todo lo que dices tiene otra definición.
A very funny video about the differences between Spanish varieties.
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“EL FLACO” SPINETTA
9 FebLuis Alberto “El Flaco” Spinetta (23 January 1950 – 8 February 2012) was an Argentine musician. He was one of the most influential rock musicians of South America, and together with Charly García is considered the father of Argentine rock. He was born in Buenos Aires in the residential neighbourhood of Belgrano. As a kid he listened to all kinds of music: folklore and tango, and a little bit later, rock. In 1967, amidst the repressive political climate,
he formed a band called Almendra with school mates.
Contrasting with the backwards and authoritarian government of General Jan Carlos Onganía, Buenos Aires was undergoing a cultural blossoming based on new art expressions; the new generation, the sons of the middle class, were immersed in an effervescence that would not reappear in Argentina until 1983. Spinetta devoted himself fully to his music. In his lyrics, there are influences of writers, poets and artists like Arthur Rimbaud, Vincent van Gogh, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze, Castaneda and Artaud, which has his name in the album Artaud.
On 23 December 2011 he published in the Twitter account of his son Dante that he was facing a lung cancer. He died on 8 February 2012 in his native Argentina, aged 62. Chau Flaco!
Dino Saluzzi – February 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th
30 JanThis absolutely amazing bandoneonist from Salta is honouring us with his presence this February. He is on a constant tour and it´s only occasionally that he plays here so this is a great chance!
LA SUERTE ESTÁ ECHADA (Fragment) – by Sebastián Borezstein
16 Jan
SCRIPT IN SPANISH
Profesor de tango: Decime, ¿vos sos de los que empujan o de los que fluyen? ¿Vos empujás para que las cosas pasen o fluis con las cosas que pasan?
Guillermo: En realidad, sé que tengo que bailar tango. A ella no la conozco, no sé quién es pero… sé que si no aprendo no va a haber nada.
Profesor de tango: Para mí, sea lo que sea, ya ocurrió. Esa mujer y vos YA están juntos… o no ¿Te grafico mi pensamiento?
Guillermo: Sí
Profesor de tango: Los domingos yo me la paso bailando todo el día y estoy encerrado aquí. Así que ¿Qué pasa en el mundo, qué pasa afuera? Yo no lo sé… pero a la noche veo fútbol… en diferido… pero para mí es como si lo viera en directo. Así que puteo, me alegro, me amargo, me emociono… y cuando la pelota va por el aire digo: “entra, entra, está adentro, esto es gol, esto es gol”. La pelota va a ir a dar a donde tiene que dar y a ningún otro lugar ¿por qué? porque ya paso, ya sucedió. Sólo que como yo lo ignoro, me creo que está ocurriendo mientras lo veo… El tiempo se presenta de una manera difícil de entender. Para mí, vivimos la vida con la ilusión de que es un evento en vivo pero en realidad, yo creo que es en diferido… Esa mujer y vos YA están juntos o no van a estar juntos nunca. Ahora tenés que aprender a bailar un poco y salir a averiguarlo.
SCRIPT IN ENGLISH
Tango instructor: Tell me, “you’re a pushing one or a flowing one? Do you push to make things happen or flow with things that happen?
Guillermo: Actually, I know I have to dance tango. I don´t know her, I don´t know who she is but I do know that if I do not learn, there will be nothing.
Tango instructor: To me, whatever it is, has already occurred. That woman and you are ALREADY together… or not. Do I enlighten my thoughts for you?
Guillermo: Yes
Tango instructor: On Sundays, I dance all day long and I’m locked up here. So what happens in the world, what is happening outside, I do not know… but at night I watch football… delayed… but for me it’s as if seeing it live. So, I curse, I’m glad, I become bitter, I get excited … and when the ball goes through the air I say, “Come in, inside, that is goal, that is scored” The ball’s going to go where it has to and nowhere else. Why? Because it has already happened, it has already ocurred… it is just that, since I ignore it, I think that it is happening while I am watching… Time is presented in a way difficult to understand. For me, we live life with the illusion that it is a live event but actually, I think it’s delayed … That woman and you are ALREADY together or you will never be together. Now you have to learn to dance a bit and find it out.
About me
I am an advanced Liberal Arts student at the University of Buenos Aires, specialized in Sociolinguistics.
Within this field, I am especially interested in the relation between language, power, social control & discrimination. As I have written in my manifesto, I understand language as embodied, social and ideological. I go for a pluralistic conception of language that respects every variety.
I have completed the International House Training in Teaching Spanish and I have been working as a Spanish teacher since 2006.
In my free time, I study Zouk dance, ballet and sometimes Tango. I speak English, some Italian and basic Swedish.
