Dos versiones III

Primero la más original: Walk off the Earth cantando 'Somebody That I Used to Know' con acompañamiento musical de una sola guitarra tocada con diez manos:



Después la verdaderamente original cantada por Gotye acompañado por Kimbra, un gran éxito desde su lanzamiento en julio del 2011, primero en Australia y después en todo el mundo:

Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So, when we found that we could not make sense
Well, you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad that it was over

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
No, you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number

I guess that I don't need, that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I'd done
But I don't wanna live that way, reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
No, you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number

I guess that I don't need, that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Somebody, I used to know
Somebody, now you're just somebody that I used to know
Somebody, I used to know
Somebody, now you're just somebody that I used to know
I used to know
That I used to know
I used to know
Somebody

Demoliendo las Fantasías del Pueblo

Entre la gente corriente y la que no es tan corriente (hay mucha literatura al respecto) es moneda común la fantasía de que este mundo tan complejo está vigilado, manipulado, condicionado, en fin, gobernado, por los intereses de un algún grupo pequeño de personas: la CIA, los banqueros, el grupo Bilderberg, el complejo industrial-militar.....el chivo expiatorio concreto varía enormemente dependiendo de cada persona y de las circunstancias del momento.

Dedico esta frase que para mi es demoledora a todos aquellos que alberguen fantasías semejantes:

"El mundo es injusto y cruel, y debe ser cambiado, pero no hay cuatro viejitos en una pieza que se reúnen cada mañana para dominarlo; sostener eso es, en el fondo, la mejor manera de que nada cambie. Una premisa falsa nunca lleva a una conclusión verdadera."

Jorge Lanata, Perfil, 07/01/2012

Recomiendo leer el artículo completo pues es una brillante reflexión sobre el papel y funcionamiento de la prensa (con varias consideraciones iniciales que se pueden aplicar al funcionamiento de cualquier organización).

Vía Paper Papers.

Para mis Amigos Corredores

Javier, Liki, Leti, Paolo.....¡va por vosotros!