Federico Falco
Estuvo en Sanià junto a:
In English I’m another person: lunches & dinners
Federico Falco
10.01. Dinner
To live in New York City, social media
Nepal monarchy, Nepal royal family killings
conspiratorial theories, Russian tsareses
Rasputín, Rasputín dick in a jar
latinamerican men size of dicks
asian men size of dicks, painters who write
Duchamp, Warhol, Anne Truitt, Celia Paul
German as a second language
How to avoid contamination of your reading
if you are writing.
11.01 Lunch
Swimming in Lake Superior, swimming in a lake
in Arkansas, thermal springs in Catamarca
New York City Russian baths, Thailand gay saunas
Thailand OnlyFans pornstar in an orgy
I can’t eat if I see two people kissing
travelling alone, people who can eat alone
without anybody speaking to them, people
who when eating alone are always spoken to
by someone, travel without flying
New York City lesbian parties
Berlin gay parties, México city men
Argentinian men in Only Fans.
11.01. Dinner
Being gay in a small town in Cataluña
being gay in a small town in Argentina
being gay in a Middle East country
Barcelona as one of the four gay meccas in the world
Berlin, Thailand, as a trans paradise
Calella de Palafrugell
how many people live in Calella
de Palafrugell?, how to signal
the right direction and the left direction
the north and the south?
pointing to France or pointing to Barcelona
where is the sea is the south
playa Cala Estreta, playa del Castell, shack of Dalí
possibilities of trespassing Dalí’s shack
we talk about landscape as if it is the landscape
of a children’s fairy tale
the fire zone, the shack, the castle, the ruins, the woods
the beach, the ocean,
the ocean, the sea.
11.01. Dinner
Three days of raves in the mountains of Lebanon
raves in Portugal, wines, photographs
electronic music way of thinking, drugs, GHB, acid
mushroom, ketamine, MDMA, weed
pot cookies ambush in your parents’ house
each other’s boyfriends’ pictures
to date a musician, writers who date writers
editors who date writers, family time and time alone
mothers, to share a space to write
as a way of obliging oneself to write
to write and to masturbate
Michelin-starred restaurants
rich people, rich neurosurgeons who died
forgetting to sing a painting
travel to LA to do it.
13.01. Lunch
Gaza, freedom of speech in the USA
freedom of speech in Spain
freedom of speech in Italy
living in a house
in downtown Toronto
living in the East Village
living in the mountains of Córdoba
living in Barcelona
veal, eating veal, photographs.
13.01. Dinner
Mary McCarthy, The company they keep
Hemingway, writing about people you know
being written by a writer
Did your partner read what you wrote?
Should a writer be an out-loud speaker
in the bigger world?
to write in your pyjamas, to talk in an interview
about your art kills your art
graphic charts about the process
to be in the flow
to think before writing and to write to find
what do you think about.
14.01. Lunch & Dinner
Almodóvar, Albert Serra, La casa incendiada
photography, Jerusalem artichoke invasion
ketamine, mushrooms, acid, to give ketamine
to your in-laws, ketamine overdose
holding snakes by hand, Anderson Cooper
people from TV look tiny in real life
gardening, self-seeding garden, trying to do a garden
with plants two feet apart, an apple tree
and a cherry tree, what is a hectare?
how to convert from acres to hectares
how to measure rain in English
(snow and penises go by inches)
apricots, plums, to pick up chamomile
mint is good for everything, making pasta is easy
cooking in India, fresh mint is like a meal
cooked by Buda.
15.01 Lunch
Health care system in Canada
Health care system in USA
in Argentina, in Spain, food in Cataluña
food in Texas, mexican food, mexican restaurant
garbaje burn contaminación in Delhi
to have a breakdown in Palma de Mallorca
Bangladesh, how to cook lamb
eighteen hours in slow cook
Saturday night first date meal in a Thursday lunch.
16.01. Lunch
Coming out during an indian wedding
talk about money, rich people don’t need
to make an effort to write or push themself
to have a career, to have zero money
and to don’t be afraid, to be proud of
your art / writing prostitution skills
to make money with journalism
to keep pregnancy a secret
Do you want to have a child?
Co-parenting, sperm donors
shared custody arrangements
Family time during Christmas
New Year and San Esteban
San Esteban is a Catalan thing
to have abs or not to have abs
the soft belly.
16.01. Dinner
Friendship, could you be friends with someone under 25?
age gap in a relationship, how strange is it
to connect with someone, old friends, friendship
Is it harder to get as we get older?
Albert Serra, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, screen time
to have or not to have screens in your house
to every night pick up the screensaver for dinner
A gay man in Dallas with a screen in the swimming pool
to prefer the beach on the screen to the pool in the real world
to be judgmental, what is thinking?
thinking and Hannah Arendt
to be in control or not to be in control
we don’t have access to the 40 % of our brain
to trust in your intuition, to trust in thinking.
17.01. Lunch
Psychoanalysis, a therapist who tries to kill himself
therapy once a month, to build a house
hot spicy food, spicy hot Thai food
spicy hot Thai chili, rabbits from the Pirineos
texturized soya, white pepper, residency diaries
Sally Rooney in Italy, Trump, a country whose
50 % of the population approve a dictatorship
Deserts.
17.01. Dinner
Thyme hydrolat, Lambrusco wine
What is parsnip? how do you say
parsnip in Spanish? what a great thing
to have soup every night
food in different residences, theatre
Heath Ledger, Heath Ledger beauty
Is 10 Things I Hate About You a Shakespeare adaptation?
Cher, Moonstruck, Olympia Dukakis faces
I lost my hand, gap age whiting Cher
and Nicholas Cage, privilege, people with privilege
that don’t realize they have a privilege
crazy painters, painters who secretly write
poets, poets’ readings, Ann Carson’s Antigone
to do theatre on the radio, to read Brecht
out loud with friends in your backyard
to do theatre off Broadway
to write your own monologue
to memorize things
to break a hip in a Broadway show
lights went off in the middle of a play
Beyoncé almost falling
from a suspended car
to dance to a fire alarm
without realising it is a fire alarm
to be friends with actors
is there freedom in acting?
acting is like being in a plane: you can do a lot of things
but you need to remain seated
with your seatbelt fastened, improvisation.
18.01 Lunch
An octopus is wiser than a rabbit
to have books in your house, to give away
your books, to sublet your apartment
with your books in it, Marie Kondo
black things at the right, white things to the left
embracing excess, maximalism, to have a lot
of things in your apartment, to have a clear
empty studio, how to order your library
Iris Murdoch, where to stay in Madrid
abs, how easy it is to lose it
tattoos, finger tattoos, to have big hands
What happens when a reader chooses
one of your sentences to be tattooed
in his skin? to be in the midpoint of the residency
the sound of the sea, rain forecast
drawing during the pandemic, to always draw
the same woman and never show it to anyone.
18.01. Dinner
Mothers, fathers, coming out to your parents
to be an artist, the fruit that falls apart from the tree
not to know any writer/painter when you grow up
to look at paintings on book covers
to want to be a police officer, to want
to be a painter of book covers
don’t buy a book if you don’t like the cover
to rip the ugly cover and make a new one
not to be aware of the cover beauty or ugliness
Books’ covers for me are like men’s abs for you
writing workshops, reading groups
reading group meeting all winter outside in the snow
to make a movie and want feedback.
19.01. Lunch
What we were talking about during the week
tarot cards, the presentation of a book
in Barcelona, romances during residencies
Pilates teacher asking for a vermouth bottle
the possibility of a ghost turning on
the coffee machine, to dismiss the possibility of a ghost,
to take photos as tarot cards, and to film the interviews.
20.01 Lunch
Little door in the ceiling, doves
to have doves in the house
special constructions for doves in Toscana
eating doves, eating doves, pigeons
Doves as a mascot, doves during the Spanish civil war
cannibal seagulls, seagulls who steal babies
bats, bats living in a house, protected bats of Catalonia
crows, crows persecuting a dog
the crows’ revenge, crows that watch
someone running, the storm, the difference between
storm and hurricane, how do you say borrasca
in English?, the difference between pez and pescado
black garlic, which one is better: Harper’s or the New Yorker?
American magazine tradition
to publish in a magazine in Spain
or in Argentina. How much do the New Yorker pay
for an essay? Differences between a commissioned piece
and a proposed one.
20.01 Dinner
The big orange house at the top of the beach
a studio with a 360-degree view, trick or threat
in this area, la castañera, trick or treat
near a US embassy after 9/11, a pile of canes on the beach
maybe old people are giving away their canes
to light a bonfire on the beach? the flood
going for a walk after the storm, a very romantic ocean today
photos of the dogs, the elegance and dignity
of Ploma, how many steps are there between
the beach and the house? I never went down to this beach
Truman Capote and the fire in the wood
in this cove In Cold Blood was saved
Who closes the door at night?
to sleep with the door open
people sunbathing naked on a prohibited beach
landslide danger, don’t ruin the residence
don’t put your life at risk
running paths, a cabin with a well
in the middle of a field
a cabin in the middle of a field as a metaphor
for a book, wheat and colza fields, colza oil
garbage made you more aware of nature
growing up in Dubai, a city
going from 2 thousand to 2.5 million people
during the infancy and adolescence of a boy
how was the Dubai placement chosen?
a book about how LA was made.
21.01. Lunch
Rainy forecast for the next couple of days
the hairdresser as an artist, having a special
connection with your hairdresser, to be or not to be
faithful to your hairdresser, to cut your own hair
to find a hairdresser whom you trust
to have sex with your hairdresser
fancy salons in Barcelona
Barcelona is really a small town
involuntary erections, Thai masculine masseurs
direct relation between cutting your hair
and get laid at the gym, magnesium deficiency
waking up at 3 am, the hour of the witches
problems with sleep, a history of the night
people slept in two shifts during medieval times
the expression cortar clavo, the expression cagar piñas.
21.01. Dinner
A time management course: never seen people
with clothes so normal, so plain, just a week to go
to run is good for your abs and is good for your soul
burpee is a new word, seven minutes of training
crypto bros, twelve years using Scrivener
an intense day, to talk with intensity
almost being trapped on the beach, almost being hit
by a car, a signal to be aware of the dog
to finish a chapter of your novel
to write a novel it’s like a flight: the most difficult part
is the take-off, stay in the air is easier
and the other difficult part is to descend and to land
Katie Perry and Justin Trudeau
a lot of people hate Justin Trudeau
beautiful pictures of Virginia´s sunsets
to live six months in the country and six months
in the city, to go to the city every three months
to go to the city and don’t tell anybody you are there
two days in the city feels like two weeks
to be in NYC is to see people like a portrait
(to have coffee, to meet with a person after another person
a portrait after another portrait) and to be in Toronto
is like seeing a landscape
the rule of seeing just a person for a day
to be obsessed with the weather forecast
cars, to hate cars, cars change the landscape
cities where everything is made, thinking on cars
to have a personal crusade against cars
to learn to drive, to drive an automatic or with a stick
to have a BMW from 2004, warm seaters
men who drive are hot, to have a boyfriend
with a Mercedes, to have a 4×4 truck
to make a painting of your car, to paint the interior of your car
cars are like houses everyone has their own smell
Andorra, a car dies in Andorra
people in Andorra drive so fast because there are no fines
to change a car for a Catalan painting
electricity by air in Finland, Björk is a triple Pisces
(I checked and is a triple Scorpio)
police on horses, children love horses
but grown-ups hate the police
Who is your favourite cook? Truffle oil is the secret ingredient
best meal in the world.
22.01. Lunch
What is buckwheat? what is kohl rave?
buckwheat crepes, the presentation of a dish
I needed it to be beautiful, obsessed by coasters
people who love beautiful plates and glasses
to be afraid of making a scratch on the stove
the problem of living together with your partner
living everyone in their own place and decide
when to be together, couples usually share
an aesthetic sense, how to pronounce Arkansas
Indian people have a tendency to get fat in the belly
it’s a colonial legacy, I see fat white people
fat people in Arkansas, Dr Pepper, do you want a floatie?
motorized shopping carts, the presentation of a book
in Barcelona, the best vegan dessert ever
kids usually don’t want to eat animals but they like it
to put the phone in flight mode to count your steps
but don’t receive messages when you are walking
to book a haircut in Barcelona, the footballer’s haircut
the bun haircut is not a thing anymore
I think a tennis player imposed the bun haircut
was it Rafa Nadal?
22.01 Dinner
Eleven Madison Park goes vegan
and then reverse, the Primavera Sound owner
goes vegan, a vegan yoga retreat in Thailand
Shroom shake: a milkshake with mushrooms on a beach
your mother and a cobra in the bed
peanut butter, a town that smells of peanut butter
jelly, jalapeños, peanut butter, and cheese sandwiches
zucchini noodles with peanut butter, peanut butter
over an eye rib, Thai food is always fresh
Thais don’t use peanut butter to travel to India
don’t drink water in India, a monkey in a train
to live in an air situation, nobody gets married in Canada
neither in Argentina, an invitation to an Indian wedding
Is Nepal a dangerous place? to be monogamous
to have an open relationship, not to get jealous
of your partner, to have “the talk” about to be
monogamous or to open the relationship
to be obsessed with sex, to organize
your day around an addiction, Burroughs
as a fully functional addict, photos of today’s sunset
Norwegian baby clothes, a pink bicycle on sale
to choose a cane on the beach, to be engulfed by the sea
Moana (the movie), Ponyo, Miyazaki movies
Princess Mononoke, Miyazaki’s last movie
homemade madrone liqueur, hangovers
to be good with hangovers
Calella de Palafrugell ceramics vases
How many coffees can you drink in a day?
to put water in your black tea
dreaming about visiting a nearby vineyard
Can we call an Uber from here?
to walk 23 kilometres and cross a highway
don’t drink water in Mexico
Is Mexico City a dangerous city?
to travel everywhere in Asia is safe
Indian public transportation, problems with a museum
and a politically active artist, an Aboriginal curator
get fired for your political ideas, food in Budapest
is great, eating in NYC is expensive
What to eat when you are in England?
white bread’s cucumber sandwiches
English breakfast, Indian cuisine
London
a professor who lives close to the British Museum
to go to the Tate, seven days in London
just to write and walk by the Thames
London always surprises me.
23.01. Lunch
An Italian restaurant where only Italian and Chinese
men work, and all men have
the same type of body, which is the best way
to Calella de Palafrugell? how much alcohol was
in last night liquor? to encounter a nice man
with a dog in the woods, George W. Bush paintings
Ellen DeGeneres is a friend of George W. Bush
to paint portraits, not to take commissions to work
writing workshops as the main income
two friends in Japan sharing one cell phone
How doesn’t sleeping well affect your hair?
The effects of unhealthy food on bodies after fifty
to eat the food that your child doesn’t want to eat
Toronto public schools’ system
A child who doesn’t want to watch a movie
that he already watched or read a book
that he already read.
23.01. Dinner
What is a patron? How to make corn bread
with four big carrots, gluten-free bread
Ari’s cake, Catalan to English translator
is coming to visit, a writer who runs for major
to keep a diary, balsamic vinegar from around here
I wish I had boobs, if you have boobs
you can’t have a soft belly, you need to be very fit
to look at women’s clothes shops in NYC
clothes as barriers, people who are so sensitive
and empathetic could use clothes
as a way of put boundaries and define is own
personal space: it’s counterintuitive but it works
designers’ clothes give you confidence
a grandmother with three cooks and two chauffeurs
a map of India in your hand, an India visa
traveling overseas with a child is so fun
pilates music, listen to Serrat while you are doing pilates
public speaking gives me anxiety
to put the anxiety in deciding
what are you going to wear, Palafrugell ceramic shop
to learn about clothes by Instagram
Miuccia Prada´s Miu Miu, Gucci designer who gets expelled
a woman in Texas just wants a gold Ganesha
to run ten kilometres, to masturbate to a tree
I’m always in a cruising area
and men look at me and say
Ma’am what are you doing here?
to know where the ocean is
to always know where north is
to get lost in cities with diagonal streets
to get lost in Prospect Park
the gift of knowing how to pack
how to pack a bottle of vermouth
for your Pilates teacher
in your checked luggage
my yoga teacher always fart
Is there music for doing yoga?
bitter orange liquor, to be seated in a flight
and remember one by one
every week of your last year
to write your ideas in a Facebook chat
with yourself, writers don’t have a good memory
because they need space in their heads
for new stories, to be the best man
in your father’s wedding, who is your diva?
Do you know any Beyoncé songs?
Beyoncé doesn’t use WhatsApp
Capote interview with Brando, Capote had a great memory
and was very short, if you are thin
You don’t need good clothes
The fatter you get, the better the clothes work
to have a bath looking into the ocean
an indoor gym for rainy days
when it’s finished, you are going to remember
all these like a dream, The Magnetic Field´s 69 Love Songs.
24.01. Lunch.
To wake up to a twenty-minute audio note
of someone who loves you
playing the piano for you
Ellen Dewitt´s Lightning Rods
Ellen Dewitt´s Last Samurai
Tom Cruise´s Last Samurai
Hillary Mantel´s Beyond black
Plató´s Symposium
to read the Bible
to finish or not to finish a book
you don’t like, to read fast
to read to avoid reality
to have or not to have all the time
in the world to read, to read or not to read
your contemporaries, Iris Murdoch´s novels
Miyazaki’s Spirited Away
to have a pig as a mascot
Pigs have body odour, 30 Rocks
Kent eats his own pig, Salma Hayek’s character
in 30 Rocks, Salma Hayek’s husband
Salma Hayek stroking her hair in front of a Margaux painting
women find men with belly hot
It is easy to grow a belly after forty.
24.01. Dinner.
Going to Portbou to the Walter Benjamin memorial
Is there a Benjamin Museum in Portbou?
my boyfriend is coming out to his parents
to ask help with coming out
Are you going to remember me?
I can feel he was in pain, a painting needs three months
to dry before being shipped, to be forced by fumes
to start meditating, meditating for forty minutes a day
meditation tips: do you know what the perineum is or where it is?
to be in touch with your feelings, how often do you cry?
happy crying, to cry once a month, to enjoy crying
At what age did you stop being a whore?
Maybe I never started
Ozempic.
25.01. Dinner.
How to make pantomaca?
Shania Twain is going to her high school reunion dinner
Shania Twain is sitting next to your grandmother
Shania Twain, Beyoncé, and Dolly Parton at Oprah
Wes Anderson’s movies, living in Harlem
close to The Royal Tenenbaums’ house
A Roald Dahl short story about a man
who learned to see with his eyes closed
two farmers who learned how to make reiki
to his old mother, how popular did you was
in high school?, how many years is high school
in Spain? To move every five years
to be a math tutor to a boy who is going to become
a math teacher, to be a nerd
the year the popular boy from high school died
in a car accident, the philosophy teacher
without a hand, to have really mean classmates
in high school, to be the president of the debate team
and the president of every possible club in the school
to fall in love with the most gross and disgusting boy
gross people are good because they don’t hide anything
They are so confident that they put a finger in their noses
and eat mucus with no trouble at all
to picture the Queen of England taking a shit
I never took a shit in this house!
to get sick and have brain damage
to have bad breath
to have bad breath because your dental plaque smells
to write movie criticism, to write crime novels
Hannah Arendt read crime novels.
26.01. Lunch.
To be protective of the place
to swim in the sea in winter
What were you reading?
novels where the writer is too clever
to write and don’t know where you’re going
Iris Murdoch novels, Solvej Balle
Not to be interested in a character or a novel
I just don’t care, Hervé Guibert’s book about his aunts
Cozarinsky’s last novel, Marguerite Duras’ The Lover
Marguerite Duras’ Dark room
Kennet Goldsmith’s article in Harper’s
about dumb smart, smart smart, etcetera
to read science in the morning
Carlo Rovelli.
Federico Falco
In English I’m another person: lunches & dinners
Federico Falco
10.01. Dinner
To live in New York City, social media
Nepal monarchy, Nepal royal family killings
conspiratorial theories, Russian tsareses
Rasputín, Rasputín dick in a jar
latinamerican men size of dicks
asian men size of dicks, painters who write
Duchamp, Warhol, Anne Truitt, Celia Paul
German as a second language
How to avoid contamination of your reading
if you are writing.
11.01 Lunch
Swimming in Lake Superior, swimming in a lake
in Arkansas, thermal springs in Catamarca
New York City Russian baths, Thailand gay saunas
Thailand OnlyFans pornstar in an orgy
I can’t eat if I see two people kissing
travelling alone, people who can eat alone
without anybody speaking to them, people
who when eating alone are always spoken to
by someone, travel without flying
New York City lesbian parties
Berlin gay parties, México city men
Argentinian men in Only Fans.
11.01. Dinner
Being gay in a small town in Cataluña
being gay in a small town in Argentina
being gay in a Middle East country
Barcelona as one of the four gay meccas in the world
Berlin, Thailand, as a trans paradise
Calella de Palafrugell
how many people live in Calella
de Palafrugell?, how to signal
the right direction and the left direction
the north and the south?
pointing to France or pointing to Barcelona
where is the sea is the south
playa Cala Estreta, playa del Castell, shack of Dalí
possibilities of trespassing Dalí’s shack
we talk about landscape as if it is the landscape
of a children’s fairy tale
the fire zone, the shack, the castle, the ruins, the woods
the beach, the ocean,
the ocean, the sea.
11.01. Dinner
Three days of raves in the mountains of Lebanon
raves in Portugal, wines, photographs
electronic music way of thinking, drugs, GHB, acid
mushroom, ketamine, MDMA, weed
pot cookies ambush in your parents’ house
each other’s boyfriends’ pictures
to date a musician, writers who date writers
editors who date writers, family time and time alone
mothers, to share a space to write
as a way of obliging oneself to write
to write and to masturbate
Michelin-starred restaurants
rich people, rich neurosurgeons who died
forgetting to sing a painting
travel to LA to do it.
13.01. Lunch
Gaza, freedom of speech in the USA
freedom of speech in Spain
freedom of speech in Italy
living in a house
in downtown Toronto
living in the East Village
living in the mountains of Córdoba
living in Barcelona
veal, eating veal, photographs.
13.01. Dinner
Mary McCarthy, The company they keep
Hemingway, writing about people you know
being written by a writer
Did your partner read what you wrote?
Should a writer be an out-loud speaker
in the bigger world?
to write in your pyjamas, to talk in an interview
about your art kills your art
graphic charts about the process
to be in the flow
to think before writing and to write to find
what do you think about.
14.01. Lunch & Dinner
Almodóvar, Albert Serra, La casa incendiada
photography, Jerusalem artichoke invasion
ketamine, mushrooms, acid, to give ketamine
to your in-laws, ketamine overdose
holding snakes by hand, Anderson Cooper
people from TV look tiny in real life
gardening, self-seeding garden, trying to do a garden
with plants two feet apart, an apple tree
and a cherry tree, what is a hectare?
how to convert from acres to hectares
how to measure rain in English
(snow and penises go by inches)
apricots, plums, to pick up chamomile
mint is good for everything, making pasta is easy
cooking in India, fresh mint is like a meal
cooked by Buda.
15.01 Lunch
Health care system in Canada
Health care system in USA
in Argentina, in Spain, food in Cataluña
food in Texas, mexican food, mexican restaurant
garbaje burn contaminación in Delhi
to have a breakdown in Palma de Mallorca
Bangladesh, how to cook lamb
eighteen hours in slow cook
Saturday night first date meal in a Thursday lunch.
16.01. Lunch
Coming out during an indian wedding
talk about money, rich people don’t need
to make an effort to write or push themself
to have a career, to have zero money
and to don’t be afraid, to be proud of
your art / writing prostitution skills
to make money with journalism
to keep pregnancy a secret
Do you want to have a child?
Co-parenting, sperm donors
shared custody arrangements
Family time during Christmas
New Year and San Esteban
San Esteban is a Catalan thing
to have abs or not to have abs
the soft belly.
16.01. Dinner
Friendship, could you be friends with someone under 25?
age gap in a relationship, how strange is it
to connect with someone, old friends, friendship
Is it harder to get as we get older?
Albert Serra, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, screen time
to have or not to have screens in your house
to every night pick up the screensaver for dinner
A gay man in Dallas with a screen in the swimming pool
to prefer the beach on the screen to the pool in the real world
to be judgmental, what is thinking?
thinking and Hannah Arendt
to be in control or not to be in control
we don’t have access to the 40 % of our brain
to trust in your intuition, to trust in thinking.
17.01. Lunch
Psychoanalysis, a therapist who tries to kill himself
therapy once a month, to build a house
hot spicy food, spicy hot Thai food
spicy hot Thai chili, rabbits from the Pirineos
texturized soya, white pepper, residency diaries
Sally Rooney in Italy, Trump, a country whose
50 % of the population approve a dictatorship
Deserts.
17.01. Dinner
Thyme hydrolat, Lambrusco wine
What is parsnip? how do you say
parsnip in Spanish? what a great thing
to have soup every night
food in different residences, theatre
Heath Ledger, Heath Ledger beauty
Is 10 Things I Hate About You a Shakespeare adaptation?
Cher, Moonstruck, Olympia Dukakis faces
I lost my hand, gap age whiting Cher
and Nicholas Cage, privilege, people with privilege
that don’t realize they have a privilege
crazy painters, painters who secretly write
poets, poets’ readings, Ann Carson’s Antigone
to do theatre on the radio, to read Brecht
out loud with friends in your backyard
to do theatre off Broadway
to write your own monologue
to memorize things
to break a hip in a Broadway show
lights went off in the middle of a play
Beyoncé almost falling
from a suspended car
to dance to a fire alarm
without realising it is a fire alarm
to be friends with actors
is there freedom in acting?
acting is like being in a plane: you can do a lot of things
but you need to remain seated
with your seatbelt fastened, improvisation.
18.01 Lunch
An octopus is wiser than a rabbit
to have books in your house, to give away
your books, to sublet your apartment
with your books in it, Marie Kondo
black things at the right, white things to the left
embracing excess, maximalism, to have a lot
of things in your apartment, to have a clear
empty studio, how to order your library
Iris Murdoch, where to stay in Madrid
abs, how easy it is to lose it
tattoos, finger tattoos, to have big hands
What happens when a reader chooses
one of your sentences to be tattooed
in his skin? to be in the midpoint of the residency
the sound of the sea, rain forecast
drawing during the pandemic, to always draw
the same woman and never show it to anyone.
18.01. Dinner
Mothers, fathers, coming out to your parents
to be an artist, the fruit that falls apart from the tree
not to know any writer/painter when you grow up
to look at paintings on book covers
to want to be a police officer, to want
to be a painter of book covers
don’t buy a book if you don’t like the cover
to rip the ugly cover and make a new one
not to be aware of the cover beauty or ugliness
Books’ covers for me are like men’s abs for you
writing workshops, reading groups
reading group meeting all winter outside in the snow
to make a movie and want feedback.
19.01. Lunch
What we were talking about during the week
tarot cards, the presentation of a book
in Barcelona, romances during residencies
Pilates teacher asking for a vermouth bottle
the possibility of a ghost turning on
the coffee machine, to dismiss the possibility of a ghost,
to take photos as tarot cards, and to film the interviews.
20.01 Lunch
Little door in the ceiling, doves
to have doves in the house
special constructions for doves in Toscana
eating doves, eating doves, pigeons
Doves as a mascot, doves during the Spanish civil war
cannibal seagulls, seagulls who steal babies
bats, bats living in a house, protected bats of Catalonia
crows, crows persecuting a dog
the crows’ revenge, crows that watch
someone running, the storm, the difference between
storm and hurricane, how do you say borrasca
in English?, the difference between pez and pescado
black garlic, which one is better: Harper’s or the New Yorker?
American magazine tradition
to publish in a magazine in Spain
or in Argentina. How much do the New Yorker pay
for an essay? Differences between a commissioned piece
and a proposed one.
20.01 Dinner
The big orange house at the top of the beach
a studio with a 360-degree view, trick or threat
in this area, la castañera, trick or treat
near a US embassy after 9/11, a pile of canes on the beach
maybe old people are giving away their canes
to light a bonfire on the beach? the flood
going for a walk after the storm, a very romantic ocean today
photos of the dogs, the elegance and dignity
of Ploma, how many steps are there between
the beach and the house? I never went down to this beach
Truman Capote and the fire in the wood
in this cove In Cold Blood was saved
Who closes the door at night?
to sleep with the door open
people sunbathing naked on a prohibited beach
landslide danger, don’t ruin the residence
don’t put your life at risk
running paths, a cabin with a well
in the middle of a field
a cabin in the middle of a field as a metaphor
for a book, wheat and colza fields, colza oil
garbage made you more aware of nature
growing up in Dubai, a city
going from 2 thousand to 2.5 million people
during the infancy and adolescence of a boy
how was the Dubai placement chosen?
a book about how LA was made.
21.01. Lunch
Rainy forecast for the next couple of days
the hairdresser as an artist, having a special
connection with your hairdresser, to be or not to be
faithful to your hairdresser, to cut your own hair
to find a hairdresser whom you trust
to have sex with your hairdresser
fancy salons in Barcelona
Barcelona is really a small town
involuntary erections, Thai masculine masseurs
direct relation between cutting your hair
and get laid at the gym, magnesium deficiency
waking up at 3 am, the hour of the witches
problems with sleep, a history of the night
people slept in two shifts during medieval times
the expression cortar clavo, the expression cagar piñas.
21.01. Dinner
A time management course: never seen people
with clothes so normal, so plain, just a week to go
to run is good for your abs and is good for your soul
burpee is a new word, seven minutes of training
crypto bros, twelve years using Scrivener
an intense day, to talk with intensity
almost being trapped on the beach, almost being hit
by a car, a signal to be aware of the dog
to finish a chapter of your novel
to write a novel it’s like a flight: the most difficult part
is the take-off, stay in the air is easier
and the other difficult part is to descend and to land
Katie Perry and Justin Trudeau
a lot of people hate Justin Trudeau
beautiful pictures of Virginia´s sunsets
to live six months in the country and six months
in the city, to go to the city every three months
to go to the city and don’t tell anybody you are there
two days in the city feels like two weeks
to be in NYC is to see people like a portrait
(to have coffee, to meet with a person after another person
a portrait after another portrait) and to be in Toronto
is like seeing a landscape
the rule of seeing just a person for a day
to be obsessed with the weather forecast
cars, to hate cars, cars change the landscape
cities where everything is made, thinking on cars
to have a personal crusade against cars
to learn to drive, to drive an automatic or with a stick
to have a BMW from 2004, warm seaters
men who drive are hot, to have a boyfriend
with a Mercedes, to have a 4×4 truck
to make a painting of your car, to paint the interior of your car
cars are like houses everyone has their own smell
Andorra, a car dies in Andorra
people in Andorra drive so fast because there are no fines
to change a car for a Catalan painting
electricity by air in Finland, Björk is a triple Pisces
(I checked and is a triple Scorpio)
police on horses, children love horses
but grown-ups hate the police
Who is your favourite cook? Truffle oil is the secret ingredient
best meal in the world.
22.01. Lunch
What is buckwheat? what is kohl rave?
buckwheat crepes, the presentation of a dish
I needed it to be beautiful, obsessed by coasters
people who love beautiful plates and glasses
to be afraid of making a scratch on the stove
the problem of living together with your partner
living everyone in their own place and decide
when to be together, couples usually share
an aesthetic sense, how to pronounce Arkansas
Indian people have a tendency to get fat in the belly
it’s a colonial legacy, I see fat white people
fat people in Arkansas, Dr Pepper, do you want a floatie?
motorized shopping carts, the presentation of a book
in Barcelona, the best vegan dessert ever
kids usually don’t want to eat animals but they like it
to put the phone in flight mode to count your steps
but don’t receive messages when you are walking
to book a haircut in Barcelona, the footballer’s haircut
the bun haircut is not a thing anymore
I think a tennis player imposed the bun haircut
was it Rafa Nadal?
22.01 Dinner
Eleven Madison Park goes vegan
and then reverse, the Primavera Sound owner
goes vegan, a vegan yoga retreat in Thailand
Shroom shake: a milkshake with mushrooms on a beach
your mother and a cobra in the bed
peanut butter, a town that smells of peanut butter
jelly, jalapeños, peanut butter, and cheese sandwiches
zucchini noodles with peanut butter, peanut butter
over an eye rib, Thai food is always fresh
Thais don’t use peanut butter to travel to India
don’t drink water in India, a monkey in a train
to live in an air situation, nobody gets married in Canada
neither in Argentina, an invitation to an Indian wedding
Is Nepal a dangerous place? to be monogamous
to have an open relationship, not to get jealous
of your partner, to have “the talk” about to be
monogamous or to open the relationship
to be obsessed with sex, to organize
your day around an addiction, Burroughs
as a fully functional addict, photos of today’s sunset
Norwegian baby clothes, a pink bicycle on sale
to choose a cane on the beach, to be engulfed by the sea
Moana (the movie), Ponyo, Miyazaki movies
Princess Mononoke, Miyazaki’s last movie
homemade madrone liqueur, hangovers
to be good with hangovers
Calella de Palafrugell ceramics vases
How many coffees can you drink in a day?
to put water in your black tea
dreaming about visiting a nearby vineyard
Can we call an Uber from here?
to walk 23 kilometres and cross a highway
don’t drink water in Mexico
Is Mexico City a dangerous city?
to travel everywhere in Asia is safe
Indian public transportation, problems with a museum
and a politically active artist, an Aboriginal curator
get fired for your political ideas, food in Budapest
is great, eating in NYC is expensive
What to eat when you are in England?
white bread’s cucumber sandwiches
English breakfast, Indian cuisine
London
a professor who lives close to the British Museum
to go to the Tate, seven days in London
just to write and walk by the Thames
London always surprises me.
23.01. Lunch
An Italian restaurant where only Italian and Chinese
men work, and all men have
the same type of body, which is the best way
to Calella de Palafrugell? how much alcohol was
in last night liquor? to encounter a nice man
with a dog in the woods, George W. Bush paintings
Ellen DeGeneres is a friend of George W. Bush
to paint portraits, not to take commissions to work
writing workshops as the main income
two friends in Japan sharing one cell phone
How doesn’t sleeping well affect your hair?
The effects of unhealthy food on bodies after fifty
to eat the food that your child doesn’t want to eat
Toronto public schools’ system
A child who doesn’t want to watch a movie
that he already watched or read a book
that he already read.
23.01. Dinner
What is a patron? How to make corn bread
with four big carrots, gluten-free bread
Ari’s cake, Catalan to English translator
is coming to visit, a writer who runs for major
to keep a diary, balsamic vinegar from around here
I wish I had boobs, if you have boobs
you can’t have a soft belly, you need to be very fit
to look at women’s clothes shops in NYC
clothes as barriers, people who are so sensitive
and empathetic could use clothes
as a way of put boundaries and define is own
personal space: it’s counterintuitive but it works
designers’ clothes give you confidence
a grandmother with three cooks and two chauffeurs
a map of India in your hand, an India visa
traveling overseas with a child is so fun
pilates music, listen to Serrat while you are doing pilates
public speaking gives me anxiety
to put the anxiety in deciding
what are you going to wear, Palafrugell ceramic shop
to learn about clothes by Instagram
Miuccia Prada´s Miu Miu, Gucci designer who gets expelled
a woman in Texas just wants a gold Ganesha
to run ten kilometres, to masturbate to a tree
I’m always in a cruising area
and men look at me and say
Ma’am what are you doing here?
to know where the ocean is
to always know where north is
to get lost in cities with diagonal streets
to get lost in Prospect Park
the gift of knowing how to pack
how to pack a bottle of vermouth
for your Pilates teacher
in your checked luggage
my yoga teacher always fart
Is there music for doing yoga?
bitter orange liquor, to be seated in a flight
and remember one by one
every week of your last year
to write your ideas in a Facebook chat
with yourself, writers don’t have a good memory
because they need space in their heads
for new stories, to be the best man
in your father’s wedding, who is your diva?
Do you know any Beyoncé songs?
Beyoncé doesn’t use WhatsApp
Capote interview with Brando, Capote had a great memory
and was very short, if you are thin
You don’t need good clothes
The fatter you get, the better the clothes work
to have a bath looking into the ocean
an indoor gym for rainy days
when it’s finished, you are going to remember
all these like a dream, The Magnetic Field´s 69 Love Songs.
24.01. Lunch.
To wake up to a twenty-minute audio note
of someone who loves you
playing the piano for you
Ellen Dewitt´s Lightning Rods
Ellen Dewitt´s Last Samurai
Tom Cruise´s Last Samurai
Hillary Mantel´s Beyond black
Plató´s Symposium
to read the Bible
to finish or not to finish a book
you don’t like, to read fast
to read to avoid reality
to have or not to have all the time
in the world to read, to read or not to read
your contemporaries, Iris Murdoch´s novels
Miyazaki’s Spirited Away
to have a pig as a mascot
Pigs have body odour, 30 Rocks
Kent eats his own pig, Salma Hayek’s character
in 30 Rocks, Salma Hayek’s husband
Salma Hayek stroking her hair in front of a Margaux painting
women find men with belly hot
It is easy to grow a belly after forty.
24.01. Dinner.
Going to Portbou to the Walter Benjamin memorial
Is there a Benjamin Museum in Portbou?
my boyfriend is coming out to his parents
to ask help with coming out
Are you going to remember me?
I can feel he was in pain, a painting needs three months
to dry before being shipped, to be forced by fumes
to start meditating, meditating for forty minutes a day
meditation tips: do you know what the perineum is or where it is?
to be in touch with your feelings, how often do you cry?
happy crying, to cry once a month, to enjoy crying
At what age did you stop being a whore?
Maybe I never started
Ozempic.
25.01. Dinner.
How to make pantomaca?
Shania Twain is going to her high school reunion dinner
Shania Twain is sitting next to your grandmother
Shania Twain, Beyoncé, and Dolly Parton at Oprah
Wes Anderson’s movies, living in Harlem
close to The Royal Tenenbaums’ house
A Roald Dahl short story about a man
who learned to see with his eyes closed
two farmers who learned how to make reiki
to his old mother, how popular did you was
in high school?, how many years is high school
in Spain? To move every five years
to be a math tutor to a boy who is going to become
a math teacher, to be a nerd
the year the popular boy from high school died
in a car accident, the philosophy teacher
without a hand, to have really mean classmates
in high school, to be the president of the debate team
and the president of every possible club in the school
to fall in love with the most gross and disgusting boy
gross people are good because they don’t hide anything
They are so confident that they put a finger in their noses
and eat mucus with no trouble at all
to picture the Queen of England taking a shit
I never took a shit in this house!
to get sick and have brain damage
to have bad breath
to have bad breath because your dental plaque smells
to write movie criticism, to write crime novels
Hannah Arendt read crime novels.
26.01. Lunch.
To be protective of the place
to swim in the sea in winter
What were you reading?
novels where the writer is too clever
to write and don’t know where you’re going
Iris Murdoch novels, Solvej Balle
Not to be interested in a character or a novel
I just don’t care, Hervé Guibert’s book about his aunts
Cozarinsky’s last novel, Marguerite Duras’ The Lover
Marguerite Duras’ Dark room
Kennet Goldsmith’s article in Harper’s
about dumb smart, smart smart, etcetera
to read science in the morning
Carlo Rovelli.
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