Las desmistificantes aventuras de Amazing Randi

Por Michael J. Mooney

Publicado el 24 de agosto de 2009

Durante la mayor parte de la Amazing Meeting en julio, Alvarez empujó a Randi en su silla de ruedas por todo el extenso hotel de Las Vegas. Algunos días, Randi se siente muy bien. Algunos días, no puede levantar el teléfono. Los médicos hacen su pronóstico de cinco años a 50-50. Sin embargo, la ciencia médica, es en la única cosa en lo que realmente tiene fe este anciano escéptico. Dos semanas después de la conferencia, Randi iniciará una rutina regular de quimioterapia. Perderá el pelo suave y blanco alrededor de su cabeza, y sus tupidas y expresivas cejas, y la barba que no se ha afeitado en más de 25 años. “Eso está bien”, dice.

Sin embargo, el cáncer no ha cambiado sus puntos de vista sobre la muerte: “Un día, me voy a morir. Eso es todo lo que hay que hacer”, dice con toda naturalidad. “Ey, ya es demasiado malo, pero tengo que hacer espacio. Estoy utilizando una gran cantidad de oxígeno. Creo que hago un buen uso del oxígeno, pero por supuesto, estoy un poco prejuiciado por este asunto”.

Arriba, en su habitación de hotel, en la conferencia, se le pregunta sobre si la cercanía de la muerte lo hace retractarse de su ateísmo de toda la vida. “En el pasado he estado equivocado acerca de algunas cosas”, dice, “pero nada de este tamaño”…

Toda la extensa entrevista se puede leer en el siguiente enlace:

http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-08-26/news/the-demystifying-adventures-of-the-amazing-randi

Spaceman – Harry Nilsson

Bang, bang, shoot em’ up, destiny

Bang, bang, shoot em’ up to the moon

Bang, bang, shoot em’ up one, two, three

(One, two, three, four!)

I wanted to be a spaceman

That’s what I wanted to be

But now that I am a spaceman

Nobody cares about me

Hey mother earth

Won’t ‘cha bring me back down

Safely to the sea

But ’round and around and around and around

Is all she ever say to me

I wanted to make a good run

I wanted to go to the moon

I knew that it had to be fun

I told ‘em to send me real soon

I wanted to be a spaceman

I wanted to be it so bad

But now that I am a spaceman

I’d rather be back on the pad

Hey mother earth

Won’t ‘cha bring me back down

Safely to the sea

But ’round and around and around and around

Is just a lot of lunacy

(Yeah!)

‘Round and around and around and around and around

(So bring me back down)

‘Round and around and around and around and around

Safe on the ground

Hey mother earth

Won’t ‘cha bring me back down

Safely to the sea

But ’round and around and around and around

Is all she ever say to me, yeah

You know I wanted to be a spaceman

That’s what I wanted to be

But now that I am a spaceman

Nobody cares about me

Say, hey! You mother earth

You better bring me back down

I’ve taken just as much as I can

But around and around and around and around

Is the problem of a spaceman

(Ah’s!)

Spaceman – The Killers

It started with a low light

Next thing I knew they ripped me from my bed

And then they took my blood type

It left a strange impression in my head

You know that I was hoping

That I could leave this starcrossed world behind

But when they cut me open

I guess I changed my mind

And you know I might

Have just flown too far from the floor this time

Cause they calling me by my name

And the zipping white light beams

Disregarding the bombs and satellites

That was the turning point

That was one lonely night

The starmaker says it ain’t so bad

The dreammaker’s gonna make you mad

The spaceman says everybody look down!

It’s all in your mind

Now I’m back at home and

I’m looking forward to this life I live

You know it’s going to harm me

So hesitation to this life I give

You think you might cross over

You’re caught between the devil and the deep blue sea

You better look it over

Before you make that leap

And you know I’m fine,

but I hear those voices at night sometimes,

they justify my claim

And the public don’t dwell on my transmission

Cause It wasn’t televised

But it was the turning point

O what a lonely night

The starmaker says it ain’t so bad

The dreammaker’s gonna make you mad

The spaceman says everybody look down!

It’s all in your mind

The starmaker says it ain’t so bad

The dreammakers’s gonna make you mad

The spaceman says everybody look down!

It’s all in your mind

My global position systems are vocally addressed

They said the nile used to run from east to west

They said the nile used to run

from east to west

I’m fine,

but I hear those voices at night

Sometimes…

The starmaker says it ain’t so bad

The dreammaker’s gonna make you mad

The spaceman says everybody look down!

It’s all in your mind

The starmaker says it ain’t so bad

The dreammaker’s gonna make you mad

The spaceman says everybody look down!

It’s all in your mind

It’s all in my mind.

Spaceship Earth – Sugarloaf

1.Green-Eyed Lady

2.Train Kept a-Rollin’, The (Stroll On)

3.Bach Doors Man / Chest Fever

4.West of Tomorrow

5.Gold and the Blues

6.Things Gonna Change Some

7.Spaceship Earth

8.Rusty Cloud

9.I Don’t Need You Baby

10.Rollin’ Hills

11.Mother Nature’s Wine

12.Country Dawg

13.Woman

14.Music Box

15.Tongue in Cheek

16.Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You

Space Truckin’ – Deep Purple

We had a lot of luck on venus

we always had a ball on mars

meeting all the groovey people

we’ve rocked the milky way so far

we danced around with borealice

we’re space truckin’ round the the stars

come on let’s go space truckin’

Remember when we did the moonshot

and pony trekker led the way

we’d move to the canaveral moonstop

and everynaut would dance and sway

we got music in our solar system

we’re space truckin’ round the stars

come on let’s go space truckin’

The fireball that we rode was moving

but now we’ve got a new machine

yeah yeah yeah yeah the freaks said

man those cats can really swing

they got music in their solar system

they’ve rocked around the milky way

they dance around the borealice

they’re space truckin’ everyday

come on