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La Vida Intermitente
The novel narrates the filming of a documentary interview with a 16 mm camera. about life and professional career of two musicians, Boris and Margo, a couple of extravagant, cosmopolitan, lonely, unorthodox artists and intellectuals, unleashed by conventions, modes and fashions. Throughout the interview, which takes place in an unusual setting: the decaying and somewhat chaotic room of the Labyrinth Motel, not only a long and intimate conversation takes place, but an existential nude in which the characters, including the interviewer, introduces the reader into their complex and personal world full of rockabilly, images of the past, memories of happy and sour times, discoveries, revelations and a bunch of scenarios, philias and phobias in the form of fetishes, idols and art in all its forms. Elvis Presley, grunge poems and cult fiction, punk, sex, depression, the universe of the golden age of the real pin-ups, mysticism and realism, vintage, their fascination for shoes, film noir and series B movies, Henry Miller and other literary popes, a life full of intermittences that beats fast and at the rhythm of memories and sensations.
The story has neither time nor length. Each character plays his own role, without masks or disguises. Flashbacks intermingle like slides between each other's words.
Margo is considered a special woman to ordinary people, the press and her fans, and an interesting creature to her psychoanalyst. She is a rocker, punk and a fashion victim of everything prior to the 70s. She had a stormy love affair with a bisexual poet and pornographer, before meeting Boris, a suicidal romantic, a slim and handsome man, an incorruptible and non-conformist artist, who always wears women's shoes and dresses in permanent mourning black like Johnny Cash. She loves the aesthetics of the 50s but also fantasizes about the French bohemian of the first two decades of the 20th century. He writes fatal poems and likes to travel by road. The two complement each other because they are misfits with a talent for ripping music and raw poetry from their soul. They love each other more than a lot and that´s something the reader feels from ht beginning. The intermittences of their life are lights of hope in times of crisis, because everything passes and everything leaves a residue in the depths of life.
Ruth Baza, writer, journalist, former correspondent, photographer, antiques and art collector and an expert in antique fashion and textiles from Central Asia, traveler, foodie, specialized in the American counterculture, the beat movement, music, cinema, art and architecture, is widely recognized for her tailor-made interviews and her black and white portraits of personalities from around the world.
In this book she shed light on the aesthetics and meaning of the most alternative rock and arthouse cinema. This surprising and original story was born and published in 1999, and it is widely mentioned and cited by several authors as one of the most celebrated spanish book framed within the Generation X.
The intermittent life could be called a docubook written to be savored with all senses. A documentary narration, which combines the conventional novel with the interview and the architecture of a film script. It is a delusional and dogmatic story, a treatise on the best bad customs of art and culture.
The story has neither time nor length. Each character plays his own role, without masks or disguises. Flashbacks intermingle like slides between each other's words.
Margo is considered a special woman to ordinary people, the press and her fans, and an interesting creature to her psychoanalyst. She is a rocker, punk and a fashion victim of everything prior to the 70s. She had a stormy love affair with a bisexual poet and pornographer, before meeting Boris, a suicidal romantic, a slim and handsome man, an incorruptible and non-conformist artist, who always wears women's shoes and dresses in permanent mourning black like Johnny Cash. She loves the aesthetics of the 50s but also fantasizes about the French bohemian of the first two decades of the 20th century. He writes fatal poems and likes to travel by road. The two complement each other because they are misfits with a talent for ripping music and raw poetry from their soul. They love each other more than a lot and that´s something the reader feels from ht beginning. The intermittences of their life are lights of hope in times of crisis, because everything passes and everything leaves a residue in the depths of life.
Ruth Baza, writer, journalist, former correspondent, photographer, antiques and art collector and an expert in antique fashion and textiles from Central Asia, traveler, foodie, specialized in the American counterculture, the beat movement, music, cinema, art and architecture, is widely recognized for her tailor-made interviews and her black and white portraits of personalities from around the world.
In this book she shed light on the aesthetics and meaning of the most alternative rock and arthouse cinema. This surprising and original story was born and published in 1999, and it is widely mentioned and cited by several authors as one of the most celebrated spanish book framed within the Generation X.
The intermittent life could be called a docubook written to be savored with all senses. A documentary narration, which combines the conventional novel with the interview and the architecture of a film script. It is a delusional and dogmatic story, a treatise on the best bad customs of art and culture.
156 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2000
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About the author
Ruth Baza
3 booksRuth Baza (Madrid, February 29, 1972) is a writer, photographer and journalist since 17. She was a correspondent in NY and Tokyo between 1989 and 1998. Critic, columnist and freelance journalist is a specialist in art, film, music and architecture, and to date she has written hundreds of articles, interviews, Op-Eds and collaborated in cultural sections for various national and international media, including El Mundo, GQ, Cosmopolitan, Newsweek, The Guardian, Woman, Interviú, Cambio 16, El Gran Musical, El Semanal, El Correo del Pueblo Vasco, Cinemanía, Vanidad, Zero or Radio 4, RNE.
Renowned for her "bespoke interviews", this is a short list of personalities she has interviewed and / or photographed: Anjelica Huston, Hundertwasser, Paul McCartney, Iggy Pop, Gerard Depardieu, Slash, John Kennedy Jr., Yoko Ono, Kurt Cobain, Angel Corella, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Howard Stern, Jean-Michel Jarre, Adam Ant, Roman Polanski, Bruce Willis, Isabella Rosellini, Billy Idol, Dennis Rodman, Ivanka Trump, Peter Eisenman, Albert Ellis, Peter Fonda, Nick Nolte, Blur, Björk, The Cult, KD Lang, Richey James, Eric Roberts, Arnold Scharzenegger, or Duran Duran to name just a few.
Framed within the Generation X, this prolific naturalist, rationalist, polymath and rebel author with a beat accent, has spent most of her life, marked by anorexia, depression and phobias.
Her style, inevitably stigmatized by her cosmopolitanism, the mixture of cultures, loneliness and the varied intellectual and artistic nutrition received since childhood, is far from conventionalisms and artificial ties, and therefore describes well her and the reality that surrounds her.
This way of doing both literature and photography is something like a kind of intellectual stripteases. Pure sensualism. Sensory art to enjoy with all the senses. Pure existentialism. The paradox of a woman trapped in a treacherous body. The woman trapped in a cage decorated with beauty of all time, except this one. The woman in exile. Catharsis and broken links.
Every emotion, every exhibition, every work published as a writer and journalist, her diaries - which span more than 40 years- and her extensive correspondence, have been imbued with the aesthetics of rock and vintage, audiovisual and commercial culture, mainly Anglo-Saxon, pessimism, and existential anguish, reinforced with a language between lyrical, critical and direct.
Her literary production is broad and includes the following novels and biographies: "La Vida Intermitente" (Reservoir Books, Mondadori 1999, Mitos de Bolsillo & iUniverse 2001), "La Primera Vez: Una producción de Elías Querejeta (Malaga Film Festival, 2000), "Laponia" (Manuscripts, 2000), IN2Japan (Vasava ArtWorks, 1999) or "La Dolce Vita -de Alessandro Lecquio (HMR, Hijos de Muley Rubio 1999).
"La Vida Intermitente" (The Intermittent Life") her most celebrated work, was adapted for the theater by Pedro Penim, the prestigious Portuguese actor, director, playwright and founding member of Teatro Praga, a Lisbon theater company with which he generally works and with whom he has received several awards. The company won the Teatro Amador de Lisboa Prize in 2000 for the adaptation of Ruth´s novel and was considered Best Play of the Year.
She has also published poetry: "Lapland" (Sugerencia Editorial, 2000) and "Suicidal Tendencies" (RB ArtWork, 2002); and collaborated in anthologies and compilation books together with other great authors with essays, short stories, poems and interviews, such as: "Album Rojo, Album Azul: The Beatles" (Un Año de Rock, Luca Editorial 1992 -1993), "Pavana por el Difunto Ravel" (DT Magazine, 1996), "Los Niños del Domingo" (DT Magazine, 1996), "La Luna Falsita" (After Hours, Random House Mondadori, 1999), "Cuento de Navidad"(VANIDAD, Feliz Navidad. Egoiste, 2.000), "Vaginometry "(EVOPHAT, THE CARROT 58 VISIONS, Vasava Artworks, 2.001), "Psychoactive Kosher Cuisine "(Apología de la Marihuana by Cristobal Cobo Quintas, Valdemar, 20
Renowned for her "bespoke interviews", this is a short list of personalities she has interviewed and / or photographed: Anjelica Huston, Hundertwasser, Paul McCartney, Iggy Pop, Gerard Depardieu, Slash, John Kennedy Jr., Yoko Ono, Kurt Cobain, Angel Corella, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Howard Stern, Jean-Michel Jarre, Adam Ant, Roman Polanski, Bruce Willis, Isabella Rosellini, Billy Idol, Dennis Rodman, Ivanka Trump, Peter Eisenman, Albert Ellis, Peter Fonda, Nick Nolte, Blur, Björk, The Cult, KD Lang, Richey James, Eric Roberts, Arnold Scharzenegger, or Duran Duran to name just a few.
Framed within the Generation X, this prolific naturalist, rationalist, polymath and rebel author with a beat accent, has spent most of her life, marked by anorexia, depression and phobias.
Her style, inevitably stigmatized by her cosmopolitanism, the mixture of cultures, loneliness and the varied intellectual and artistic nutrition received since childhood, is far from conventionalisms and artificial ties, and therefore describes well her and the reality that surrounds her.
This way of doing both literature and photography is something like a kind of intellectual stripteases. Pure sensualism. Sensory art to enjoy with all the senses. Pure existentialism. The paradox of a woman trapped in a treacherous body. The woman trapped in a cage decorated with beauty of all time, except this one. The woman in exile. Catharsis and broken links.
Every emotion, every exhibition, every work published as a writer and journalist, her diaries - which span more than 40 years- and her extensive correspondence, have been imbued with the aesthetics of rock and vintage, audiovisual and commercial culture, mainly Anglo-Saxon, pessimism, and existential anguish, reinforced with a language between lyrical, critical and direct.
Her literary production is broad and includes the following novels and biographies: "La Vida Intermitente" (Reservoir Books, Mondadori 1999, Mitos de Bolsillo & iUniverse 2001), "La Primera Vez: Una producción de Elías Querejeta (Malaga Film Festival, 2000), "Laponia" (Manuscripts, 2000), IN2Japan (Vasava ArtWorks, 1999) or "La Dolce Vita -de Alessandro Lecquio (HMR, Hijos de Muley Rubio 1999).
"La Vida Intermitente" (The Intermittent Life") her most celebrated work, was adapted for the theater by Pedro Penim, the prestigious Portuguese actor, director, playwright and founding member of Teatro Praga, a Lisbon theater company with which he generally works and with whom he has received several awards. The company won the Teatro Amador de Lisboa Prize in 2000 for the adaptation of Ruth´s novel and was considered Best Play of the Year.
She has also published poetry: "Lapland" (Sugerencia Editorial, 2000) and "Suicidal Tendencies" (RB ArtWork, 2002); and collaborated in anthologies and compilation books together with other great authors with essays, short stories, poems and interviews, such as: "Album Rojo, Album Azul: The Beatles" (Un Año de Rock, Luca Editorial 1992 -1993), "Pavana por el Difunto Ravel" (DT Magazine, 1996), "Los Niños del Domingo" (DT Magazine, 1996), "La Luna Falsita" (After Hours, Random House Mondadori, 1999), "Cuento de Navidad"(VANIDAD, Feliz Navidad. Egoiste, 2.000), "Vaginometry "(EVOPHAT, THE CARROT 58 VISIONS, Vasava Artworks, 2.001), "Psychoactive Kosher Cuisine "(Apología de la Marihuana by Cristobal Cobo Quintas, Valdemar, 20
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April 4, 2012
Es una novel escrita para los amantes del grunge, del 'rockabilly', los adolescentes incomprendidos y los nostálgicos de las épocas que no vivieron. Es una historia de amor que por sus propios personajes no permite que la cursilería los pudra, pero sí, en algunos momentos se torna dulce.
La historia de unos zapatos, de unos personajes para esos zapatos.
La historia de unos zapatos, de unos personajes para esos zapatos.
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