Ayer estuve viendo (500) days of Summer y no está mal. Es una de esas comedias románticas (o algo así) pero entre las películas que pueden entrar en esa categoría diría que hay cosas que pueden verse sin tener subidas de azúcar que pueden llegar a ser letales porque ayer vi una. No es la leche, no te cambia la forma de ver el cine, no te deja incapacitado para valorar productos que se salgan de la genialidad absoluta (el caso más reciente es El secreto de sus ojos) pero no todos los días se come caviar o paletilla ibérica. Yo al menos no.
Había leído alguna cosa buena de la película, en imdb le daban más de un 8 y me atreví. Y nada más empezar escuché a Regina Spektor (otro de los descubrimientos musicales que encontré gracias a Weeds) y dije pues la veo, la veo. Mucho más interesante la música de Regina Spektor, eso de aquí a Lima. Y sus letras. Ésta canción está en la banda sonora de la película: Hero
He never ever saw it coming at all
He never ever saw it coming at all
He never ever saw it coming at all
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right
Hey, open wide, here comes original sin
Hey, open wide, here comes original sin
Hey, open wide, here comes original sin
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right
No one's got it all
No one's got it all
No one's got it all
Power to the people
We don't want it
We want pleasure
And the TVs try to rape us
And I guess that they're succeeding
Now we're going to these meetings
But we're not doing any meeting
And we're trying to be faithful
But we're cheating, cheating, cheating
Hey, open wide, here comes original sin
Hey, open wide, here comes original sin
Hey, open wide, here comes original sin
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right
No one's got it all
No one's got it all
No one's got it all
Power to the people
We don't want it
We want pleasure
And the TVs try to rape us
And I guess that they're succeeding
And we're going to these meetings
But we're not doing any meeting
And we're trying to be faithful
But we're cheating, cheating, cheating
I'm the hero of the story
Don't need to be saved
I'm the hero of the story
Don't need to be saved
I'm the hero of the story
Don't need to be saved
I'm the hero of the story
Don't need to be saved
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right
No one's got it all
No one's got it all
No one's got it all
También tiene canciones que son como fotos de un momento. A veces me gustan textos como este, que congela algo que ha sucedido y que en principio no es demasiado trascendente. No he podido leer la mayoría de las canciones de Regina Spektor que tengo (yo de oído poco, tengo que leerlas mientras las escucho) pero creo que ésta tía es buena captando esos momentos de los que hablo; un buen ejemplo de lo que hablo es “Ghost Of Corporate Future"“.
La gente es gente, la gente es gente igual que lo eres tú.
Me gusta. Me lo apunto. Para mí y para el orco que me habita.
A man walks out of his apartment
it is raining, he's got no umbrella
he starts running beneath the awnings
trying to save his suit
trying to dry and to try and to dry
but no good
when he gets to the crowded subway platform
he takes off both of his shoes
he steps right into somebody's fat loogie
and everyone who sees him says "ewww"
everyone who sees him says "ewww"
but he doesn't care cause last night he got a visit from
the ghost of corporate future
the ghost said, take off both your shoes
whatever chances you get
especially when they're wet
he also said
imagine you go away
on a business trip one day
and when you come back home
your children have grown and you never made your wife moan
your children have grown and you never made your wife moan and
people make you nervous
you'd think the world was ending
and everybody's features have somehow started blending
and everything is plastic
and everyone's sarcastic
and all your food is frozen, it needs to be defrosted
you'd think the world was ending
you'd think the world was ending
you'd think the world was ending right now
you'd think the world was ending
you'd think the world was ending
you'd think the world was ending right now
well maybe you should just drink a lot less coffee
and never ever watch the ten o'clock news
maybe you should kiss someone nice
or lick a rock, or both
maybe you should cut your own hair
cause that can be so funny
it doesn't cost any money
and it always grows back,
hair grows even after you're dead and
people are just people
they shouldn't make you nervous
the world is everlasting, it's coming and it's going
if you don't toss your plastic
the street won't be so plastic
and if you kiss somebody then both of you'll get practice
the world is everlasting
put dirtballs in your pocket
put dirtballs in your pocket and take off both your shoes
cause people are just people
people are just people
people are just people like you
people are just people
people are just people
people are just people like you
the world is everlasting
it's coming and it's going
the world is everlasting
it's coming and it's going
it's coming and it's going
Por cierto, he sacado las letras de aquí http://www.songmeanings.net/artist/view/songs/137438962288/. Citar fuentes es bueno 🙂