Más Pendejadas


De vez en cuando es cuando los impactos emocionales chocan en mí. Hay días en que no se aparecen y hay otros, mínimos en los que fulminan inmensamente y pegan en lo más profundo. Hoy, no fue la excepción.
Mi madre tenía una bonetería en un local en la colonia Clavería, una accesoria, como se diría en el slang defeño.
De ahí, de ese pequeño local, salieron los miles de pesos para pagar nuestras colegiaturas, mía y de mis dos hermanos… en el CEL, Centro Escolar del Lago. ¿Se imaginan el monto?
No ahondaré mucho en el tema, pero hace algunos momentos recordé algunos pasajes de aquella época.
Fueron más de 10 años invertidos en ese local, donde se vendían estambres, ropa tejida, regalos y se daban clases de tejido. Mi abuelita era la gran ayudante.

Durante ese tiempo, mi madre JAMÁS tuvo un horario para comer, nunca se negó a un cliente y siempre estuvo al pendiente para la atención en el mostrador.
Preparaba muy temprano en casa su comida, y la portaba en una bolsa, de esas del “mandado”.
Todos los días, aproximadamente entre 2 y 3 de la tarde calentaba su comida, y siempre comió por episodios.
Siempre utilizó la trastienda como una micrococina, esquipada con una minúscula parrilla eléctrica, un vaso, unos pocos cubiertos y servilletas. Según recuerdo, nunca comió de corrido, siempre había algún cliente que interrumpía esos bocados que saciaban el hambre.
Pero ante todo estaba el cliente. Siempre se iban satisfechos. A veces la “regañábamos” y le recomendábamos que pusiera el clásico letrero de “hora de comida” o algo similar. Siempre me enseñó que el “cliente es primero”. Y sí, efectivamente así es. Y gracias a eso tuvimos el acceso a un extraordinario colegio.

Me enseñó el valor del dinero.
En continuas ocasiones llegaban los clientes con billete en mano, para realizar compras mínimas. El negocio era pequeño y raras veces tenía mucho cambio o billetes de alta denominación.
En esas ocasiones, mi madre, en atención al cliente, me mandaba a mi o a alguno de mis hermanos a cambiar el billete del cliente. Generalmente íbamos a la tienda de la esquina, la farmacia o a la panadería, pero SIEMPRE regresábamos con cambio. Este servicio era de gran remuneración y prestigio para el cliente.

En otras ocasiones, por falta de automóvil viajó mucho tiempo en aquellos camiones de la Ruta 100. Inolvidables experiencias.
Por otra época, siempre llegaba noche a casa, y el transporte público no era muy común en Satélite y Lomas Verdes, así que de Clavería hasta Satélite tomaba un camión que la dejaba en Lomas Verdes.
Todas las noches de esa época, ahí estaba yo esperándola en mi bicicleta… 20 ó 30 minutos, no importaba… eran los necesarios.
Llegaba cansada. Colocaba su bolso en el lado izquierdo del manubrio de la bici y la bolsa con los trastes y recipientes de la comida, ya vacíos del otro lado del manubrio.
Me tomaba de la mano y caminábamos hacia casa.
Fueron muchos días.

Siempre tuve su apoyo y recuerdo también que jamás, pero jamás… me prohibía mis gustos, fueran extraños o desconocidos.
A pesar de que muchas tías y vecinas y amigas de ella le recomendaban que me prohibiera la música que escuchaba porque eran grupos que le rendían culto al diablo.
Fue la época de la mita de la década de los ochenta, cuando grandes demandas y acusaciones contra grupos de metal surgieron. A fin de cuentas ninguna procedió.
Pero nadie pudo contra la confianza que me dio y yo pudiera seguir disfrutando lo que hoy es mi forma de vida.

Todo esto porque hoy me encabrona que la gente se crea millonaria y se dé el lujo de “cerrar para comer” y se tarden hasta 2 horas y luego regresan tarde… y obvio, el cliente les vale madres.

Me encabrona ir a una tienda o local a comprar algo, pagar con un billete de 200 pesos y me digan “uy, no tengo cambio”. Y así de sencillo, me quitan la mercancía haciéndome entender que yo era el culpable por no traer cambio exacto.
Raras personas se preocupan por ir a cambiar y dar ese servicio al cliente.

Hoy, hago esta mención porque también apenas este fin de semana asistí al evento Rock of Ages, organizado por mis brothers de Los Cerdos y sé perfectamente el trabajo, tiempo y gran esfuerzo para organizar este tipo de eventos y más aún cuando ellos ponen la confianza en quienes les gustaría que asistiéramos y lo menos que podemos hacer es asistir para apoyarlos.
Eso también me lo enseñó mi madre, el ser íntegro y ser lo que decimos que somos, el hacer lo que decimos que haremos y el comprometernos. Pareciera difícil, pero es sencillo.

Me enseñó a ser puntual. Pero cada vez que llego puntual me dicen: ”…pendejo, llegaste temprano, hubieras llegado un poco más tarde…”
Y así es la vida… mi vida, generalmente navego contra corriente.
O, ¿Acaso también mi madre me enseño más pendejadas? (refiriéndome al escrito anterior dedicado a ella, también en este blog)

Ma’, te sigo extrañando.
Gracias por todo.

A mis hermanos con cariño, El Peto y El Oscar.

REASON



The Darkest Star
By Carlos Zaldívar



“…When the Demons Rise..."

 
It is never good to say "Too much", since the term is sometimes exaggerated and lends itself to make a 360 degree turn and stay at the beginning... So I am not hearing too much Rock and Metal and music in general; but if you listen long enough and vast to be able to make judgements on the albums, groups, concerts and material that reaches my ears... well, with my soul (though scientifically lack of it).

So, let me write a few lines about an extraordinary band (and this adjective is not to exaggerate) of Gloucester, in the South West of England.

This band was formed in 2009 by young, Chris Gyngell, guitarist and composer and Paul Mace, vocalist. This band complement Graham Corbett, bassist; Sean Feeley, drummer and Gil Hird on keyboards.

More than 50 years of life of the Rock, as such, and thousands and thousands of bands that have been given origin and reason to be considered, not as a style of music, but as a WAY OF LIFE. And as a direct generation of this comes METAL.

More than 38 years of listening to... forgiveness live chord this way, METAL, has led me to listen to a myriad of bands. Sacred bands and initiator enough draw to Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Zeppelin, gave and well, what followed, since it would be an endless list.

New generations of bands always.. or almost always take the first as influences and is noticeable in musical style, in letters, in the generation of new rhythms based on the true pace of METAL: the most powerful riffs, a full battery power and above all the culture and intellect of the composers (composer in this case).

These new generations of bands there are many are very bad, that the trouble is worth to mention. And the new, “fuckin’ awesome” they’re immediately noticeable when there is true love to METAL, it looks leagues when a band is solid, well trained and with a style truly astonishing... note in "intelligence" and the "culture" that put you the songs, is noted in the arrangements, rhythm, chords and performance.

Today, it is not easy to find this kind of bands. There are few. Why? Simply because behind those creative geniuses of the first bands, there are emotional, intellectual, musical and human quality, in the second one, not.

Evaluate some new material from any band, is the simplest and most rewarding. Input, and based upon my listening experience, it shows when the band has its own style and quality highlights so quickly to the senses. When this does not happen, it’s so easy to go on by the following material and continue working.

Then I have little work but very... very rewarding.

And then I was surprised listening to REASON. It was not for a long time that I put "play" to RISE song and was immediately immersed in the letter, arrangements and the voice. Incredible was that REASON met all my expectations (and many colleagues) to make the first play and we mark It with 10.
Thus, REASON is a band of 10.
Some of the best METAL that has been born in England.
Some of the best METAL that appears at the International level.

Speaking of REASON is not talk about genres of METAL, that if Hard, Heavy, Glam, Nu, Death or "X"... is just talking about... very pure METAL.
The best I've heard in this 2012.

REASON is a guitarist as the intellectual leader (to my personal point of view) and that considers paragraph after paragraph in the lyrics of the songs. REASON is a guitarist who is the composer of all material... REASON has: Chris Gyngell.

By the end of the year 2011 REASON signed to Alienation Records and its first MASTERPIECE sees the light at birth in the month of December, under the name of "THE DARKEST STAR".
The entire album, but absolutely everything sounds very fresh, young, with Chris amazing riffs, with a powerful battery and sensational percussion are a staggering fine voice of Paul.

Just a grounder that I heard of REASON to make you captivated... and so will continue for life.
The management of the voice is essential in any band, since many usually shout or they spend trying to pretend a voice that is not their natural: Paul was already born with that gift of a fresh, powerful and extremely fine voice... faint... simple.

The Darkest Star is already a MASTERPIECE that very, but very likely may not miss the collection of anyone it suspected of being a "Headbanger" and in about 20 years who have this album, so we can presume it to new generations.

And no doubt relax, that in 30 years, new bands can say that: "...REASON has been one of our influences..."
Wonderful!

The album has the following track list:

"Another World", "Rise", "Before the Dawn", "Life to a Flame", "The all-seeing eye", "The Darkest Star", "Forever", "The Crusade", "Evil Angel" and "Cool Starry Night".

I’ll not write that: "... this is the best song..." or "... this song left you the album"... because all the compositions are of a very high level; both in lyrics and music. It is difficult to say this for a new band, but this is.
From the first song, Another World until the tenth, Cool Starry Night.

After each song it is enjoying one of a METAL in the style of REASON.
Their influences? Because they commented: "from Journey and White Sister, Dio and Iron Maiden, through Rush and Dream Theater (www.reason-music.com)”.

Strange that the keyboards are included in pure Metal bands, but with Black Sabbath began the exceptions. Today is difficult to fit in a METAL band, but many of them attached to a very rhythmic way. REASON is no exception. Keyboards, since that starts Another World not complement the other instruments but they are a part of them; not accompanied them, but keyboards are part of them. Gil is part of REASON and so are his keyboards.

The sound of REASON only just begun and my predictions may check them in two decades and then many, but many of my colleagues will give me the reason.

With Rise, as well as on Another World, keyboards and percussions at the beginning, give a touch of phenomenal introduction to all of us and sing in unison:

“.. When the demons rise
They rise
"They rise..."

This song blaring feels the power of the battery with the feeling of destruction through the veins and the guitar, as if each bone of the body expands to shout:

REASON! REASON! REASON!

After composing The Darkest Star, Another World, Evil Angel, Rise and well, because all I would ask Chris:
"Are you fucking out of mind (in this World)?"
"Are you in drugs?", or "What else did you add to your drugs?"
I am really impressed by how to compose and arrange, and as you have always said you (some of our colleagues and a server) that "no longer if they take drugs or not" but rather, "what to put drug?" or "What emotional state you should find to compose and arrange an album as well?"

If you are reading these humble lines and even or have this album wonder, because you have to do a small investment in iTunes, Amazon or another store for a very large auditory satisfaction and a wonderful metal experience.
Chris Gyngell

Now, I’m anxious waiting for the second production of REASON, which will certainly be carried out also by Chris, who by the way is my friend, and now I have the album autographed by him.

Thank you, much success and best wishes... my Friend.

profesor@zaldivar.org.mx