Jul 2007

Hey!
Been a long time since I last listened to this album!

Here I am.
Just met Unai, Diego, Isa and Yolanda.
I'm right back home, after a Sunday visit to the centre of town (Vitoria), and it's almost 2am.
Everything seems to be in the right place. My friends too.
On the way back home, surrounded by the typical darkness you can only find in places like this at this time of the year, I considered several things: cows, friends, the political situation in the Basque Country (it really sucks!), music (Stateless and its album The Art Of No State keeps me busy enough), food (bacalao and its different recipes), Björk (and her forthcoming concert in Bilbao, next to the Guggenheim Museum), Paris (and its weather; a classic!) and the film written and directed by Miranda July I watched last night.
La chica de la biblioteca empieza a difuminarse en una nebulosa de olvido, producida por su falta de noticias... Quizás sea momento de pensar en que la principal razón por la que quiero volver a Islandia no era ella (inicialmente).
El tiempo tiene toda la capacidad de decidir.
"I don't owe you anything, mister..."
Besos, preciosa (in case you read this).

I left Iceland 14 days ago.
First I went to Paris, to visit Inge, my sister, and be there with her until the end of her university term.
To be able to remember that extra boost of adrenaline getting on the the train or metro gives you when you don't have the ticket, I didn't even buy one for the trip between the Charles De Gaulle Airport and Denfert-Rochereau, close to the 13th district, where I was supposed to meet my sis. Either Line B is safe from ticket inspectors or I was simply lucky. The funny thing is that, while I counted the stations left to my destination, I was not nervous at all: I actually had quite clear in mind that if the inspector caught me, I'd simply say "I don't have any ticket, so how much do I have to pay?".
The meeting with Inge was great: I had imagined that moment thousands of times, since I think she's always been the one I've most missed during my whole stay in Iceland.