JUST BEFORE, JUST AFTER

Walk to the subway station; take the Z line because the J runs express during the weekdays. Lorimer, Hewes St, Marcy Av, cross Williamsburg Bridge very slowly and making noise and the only one looking through the train windows it´s me.  Arrive in Manhattan. “The next stop is: Delancey St, Essex St, please stand clear the closing doors please”. I have arrived. Go through the turnstile, exit the subway car, fight politely for a place and say sorry several times without pushing. Go up the escalators, get outside and take a deep breath. A coffee to go from the French place in the Essex Market, not less than 4$.  Keep walking and cross the street in red, as usual.  Words in Caribbean Spanish, words in American English, the oddest characters, the more outrageous, the better.  Never smell to air, always smell to food. Trash, lots of trash, storefronts with vintage items, a deli in every corner. Ok, I’m on the Lower East Side.

And leave the office. Today it is still day and can´t avoid thinking that in Madrid everybody must be sleeping. At the corner, like every Tuesday, a bunch of people waiting in line to enter at Piano’s, all of them are cool, or seem to be. Continue walking along Ludlow St and take a look again at the window of Assembly. Take the First Av. uptown; somehow you always manage to get on time, but you have to wait. Something is going on every day and today there is a new exhibition (and tomorrow a concert but you don’t know it yet). Walk up to 14th st, look around for something to eat, just buy it and take it, not less than 10$, look back up to the sky and when you realize, the buildings have grown up. Never know what time it is, but it is always late. “Ladies and Gentlemen the next L train is now arriving on the Brooklyn bound track please move away from the platform edge”.
 

IN TREATMENT - METALOCUS.

DIRECTOR: JOSÉ JUAN BARBA. COORDINATION: INÉS LALUETA. ORGANIZATION: INÉS LALUETA, PEDRO NAVARRO. GUESTS SECOND SEASON: JOSÉ JUAN BARBA, JAVIER SANCHO, FRANCISCO PELAEZ, MICHAEL MORADIELLOS, MELISSA SCHUMACHER, VERÓNICA ROSERO, AINHOA MARTÍN.