sábado, 26 de setembro de 2009
quinta-feira, 24 de setembro de 2009
Um passado que parece querer voltar ...
Marcelo D2 - desabafo
Não chega ao nível, de outras músicas e videoclips por ele já lançado, mas não deixa de ser uma boa musica …
quarta-feira, 27 de maio de 2009
A Final
Hoje é o dia das grandes decisões. Em Roma tudo está centrado em dois jogadores, o duelo entre a vedeta portuguesa e o craque argentino. Tenho maior carinho pelo Manchester, devido a sua historia e ao futebol que desde sempre vi a equipa de Fergunson praticar, mas em contrapartida os de Guardiola tem jogado de uma forma deliciosa, o que fará com que goste se ganharam com justiça e uma bela goleada à moda antiga. As finais são para ser os grandes palcos da história. Todos se lembram da Champions que mudou de mãos nos últimos 10minutos de jogo, em 1999, precisamente Manchester contra o Bayern de Munique, mas em contra partida, uma das piores finais que já assisti foi a Juventos-Milan, sem qualquer golo, e decisão a penaltis. Acima do carinho pelas equipas em jogo, hoje quero ver bom futebol, como diria Guardiola, quero que o Barcelona jogue a homenagear o futebol, e quero que o Manchester mostre a sua garra, sem a habitual “ retranca “ das finais. Mais do que estrelas aqui a nascer hoje, estão mitos …
terça-feira, 26 de maio de 2009
Hipocondria dos modernos
Nestes sombrios dias em que me deparo com uma possível doença, muita preocupação invade o meu espírito. Verdade seja dita, que nunca tive problemas de maior a nível de saúde, o que leva a que esta possível doença seja pior na minha cabeça do que na verdade. Ainda a sim, a confirmar-se será muito mau para mim e todos os que me rodeiam. Apesar de ainda não saber novidades por vezes aqueles que mais me são chegados começam a comportar-se de uma forma estranha, cheios de preocupações, e medos. Engraçado, pois fiquei bastante surpreso com o aproximar de algumas pessoas que eu pensei distantes …
Afinal a peste negra já foi na idade média.
quinta-feira, 14 de maio de 2009
segunda-feira, 13 de abril de 2009
Girl From The North Country
Uma das mais belas musicas que ja ouvi:
Na versão original presente no album Naschville Skyline, é um dueto com o Johny Cash, sem duvida esta musica junta dois dos maiores artistas de sempre. Para sempre ficará como uma das músicas da minha vida…
Etiquetas:
Cash,
Dylan,
folk,
musica,
musicas da minha vida
domingo, 12 de abril de 2009
Quando caiu a Jugoslávia
A todos os amantes do futebol, uma velha memória do desmembramento da Jugoslávia. Boban a dizer olá aos seus novos amigos Sérvios.
Operação Pascoa Feliz
Na Páscoa sozinho em casa não se faz muito. Com cafés fechados, papelarias fechadas, sem o meu café e jornal não me resta outra coisa que o mundo da Internet. Para onde irão todos os Ateus neste dia? Porque não há um feriado só para Ateus ? Podíamos todos fazer um banquete e dar vivas à fatalidade do Mundo, jogávamos xadrez e debatíamos velhos sábios como Nostradamus ou o Shane Mcgowan. Bem me recordo de no ano passado ter ido ver Dwarves a Coimbra, este ano fico-me por casa a ver informações sobre Duendes na Internet. Como será a essência de Duende? Bem, para descobrir, não será pelo o Wikipedia, mas para o resto ele dá uma noção bem clara das criaturas fantásticas que são.
Folklore
In most tales and stories leprechauns are depicted as generally harmless creatures who enjoy solitude and live in remote locations, while in others they are depicted as ill-natured and mischievous, with a mind for cunning.
Among the most popular of beliefs about leprechauns is that they are extremely wealthy and like to hide their gold in secret locations which can only be revealed if a person were to capture and interrogate a leprechaun for its money. Another popular belief is that you may find a leprechaun and his pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
In several Irish legends leprechauns have a power of hypnotism or trickery that confuses their target, either allowing the leprechaun to escape or just to play tricks on unsuspecting victims.
Para total info:
Folklore
In most tales and stories leprechauns are depicted as generally harmless creatures who enjoy solitude and live in remote locations, while in others they are depicted as ill-natured and mischievous, with a mind for cunning.
Among the most popular of beliefs about leprechauns is that they are extremely wealthy and like to hide their gold in secret locations which can only be revealed if a person were to capture and interrogate a leprechaun for its money. Another popular belief is that you may find a leprechaun and his pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
In several Irish legends leprechauns have a power of hypnotism or trickery that confuses their target, either allowing the leprechaun to escape or just to play tricks on unsuspecting victims.
Para total info:
sexta-feira, 10 de abril de 2009
segunda-feira, 6 de abril de 2009
O Mesquita e a Fé
Estas férias decidi retirar-me para a Montanha em busca do descobrimento espiritual. Por cá deixei-me influenciar pelos ensinamentos do senhor padre Cruz. Um homem de muita sabedoria e fé. Com ele aprendi que devemos confessar-nos pelo menos uma vez ao mês, fazer uma confissão geral de toda a vida; rezar o terço a Nossa Senhora todos os dias, podendo ser em família; e quando doente, não receber a 3ª visita do médico sem pedir os sacramentos.
Nada contra Deus, nada sem Deus, tudo por Deus.
www.padrecruz.org
Etiquetas:
ensinamentos do padre Cruz,
religião
quinta-feira, 2 de abril de 2009
Adeus
quarta-feira, 1 de abril de 2009
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Este livro, é a minha mais recente paixão. Comprei-o por 1cent novo na Amazon. Dos melhores que já li e dos mais esclarecidos. Para alguem sem jeito para palavras, deixo aqui o artigo do N.Y.Times
THERE are literally hundreds of books about Stalin, the dictator who for a quarter of a century tyrannized the Soviet Union and kept much of the world on tenterhooks. But because his private life was so closely shielded, the vast bulk of this material concentrated on his domestic and foreign policies rather than on his person. As a consequence, his image was blurred: an immensely powerful historic figure, he remained incomprehensible as a human being, a distant and shadowy apparition, a demigod.
''Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar,'' by the British journalist and novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore, reverses this approach: it pays minimal attention to Stalin's politics and concentrates on the man and his immediate associates. This was made possible by the author's access to previously secret private documents, including Stalin's notes and messages, as well as by interviews with the surviving offspring of his closest companions. In addition, Montefiore has made an exhaustive study of the published literature. The result is the first intimate portrait of a man who had more lives on his conscience than Hitler and yet, according to opinion polls, is regarded by Russians even today as a giant, the fourth greatest human being in world history.
The picture that emerges from ''Stalin'' is both disturbing and perplexing. In the early chapters of Montefiore's narrative Stalin is already the unchallenged ruler of the Soviet Union, surrounded by toadies ready to carry out his every whim. His youth and rise to power are disposed of in a mere 12 pages. Barely mentioned are the industrialization program, which drove Soviet living standards to unparalleled lows, or collectivization, which re-enserfed Russian peasants, causing millions of deaths from starvation.
What we do learn is that Stalin had an unexpected human side to his personality. He could sentence thousands of innocent people to death with a stroke of the pen and then go to his private cinema to enjoy an American cowboy movie, yet he could also display affection and tenderness. The book opens with a prologue describing the suicide of his wife in 1932, a tragedy that, according to Montefiore, shattered him for life. There are numerous examples of Stalin's affection for his children and friends of his youth. And he looked after his associates, making sure they took good care of themselves. Once, when Artyom Mikoyan, designer of the MIG aircraft, ''suffered angina and was put to bed, he was aware of someone coming into his room and tenderly laying a blanket over him. He was amazed to see it was Stalin.''
These manifestations of humanity are supplemented with evidence that Stalin had intellectual aspirations. He displayed a passionate interest in history; at the height of World War II he spent his spare time reading about ancient Greece. After the war, as he was about to leave on vacation, he ordered a library of books that included volumes of Shakespeare, Herzen, Goethe's letters, ''Poetry of the French Revolution'' and a history of the Seven Years' War.
How to reconcile such manifestations of humanity and intellectualism with the persistent sadism, clinical paranoia and debauchery that fill so many of the pages of this book? For life at Stalin's court was a kind of Grand Guignol, dominated by the unpredictable and irrational behavior of the leader -- with his ''swarthy pock-marked face, gray hair, broken stained teeth and yellow Oriental eyes'' -- who kept his entourage in constant dread of his outbursts. People were expelled from his presence for no apparent reason, sometimes simply demoted, sometimes arrested and tortured. In 1937 he had the Politburo formally authorize physical torture of ''enemies of the people,'' and he would add the words ''Beat, beat!'' next to a victim's name.
His cronies learned to anticipate his moods in diverse ways, even from gestures he made with his pipe: ''Stalin was always pacing up and down. There were various warning signals of a black temper: if the pipe was unlit, it was a bad omen. If Stalin put it down, an explosion was imminent. Yet if he stroked his mustache with the mouthpiece of the pipe, this meant he was pleased.''
Richard Pipes is a professor emeritus of history at Harvard and the author, most recently, of ''Vixi: The Memoirs of a Non-Belonger.''
Mick O'zenhas
segunda-feira, 16 de março de 2009
sábado, 28 de fevereiro de 2009
Stone Roses - Elephant Stone
Desde o 12º ano que não ouvia esta musica. Hoje foi inevitavel recorda-la, revive-la, por tudo o que representa para mim ... já éra tempo.
Etiquetas:
England,
Madchester,
Stone Roses
Certo dia uma amiga perguntou-me se eu gostava de Reggae. Ao que respondi, sim, mas nao o Roots Reggae, e desde entao voltei um pouco às influencias Jamaicanas.
Actualmente o meu conjunto de reggae favorito deve ser este:
Actualmente o meu conjunto de reggae favorito deve ser este:
Etiquetas:
Reggae,
skinhead,
The Aggrolites
sábado, 14 de fevereiro de 2009
sexta-feira, 13 de fevereiro de 2009
quinta-feira, 12 de fevereiro de 2009
Finanças
perdido entre Finanças, veio-me este tema à cabeça
Etiquetas:
60's,
British Invasion,
Mod,
Rock
quarta-feira, 11 de fevereiro de 2009
The I.R.A. - Tim Pat Coogan
Hoje veio no correio mais uma coisa para mim. Um livro, pena que já tenha começado a ler o que ontem aqui referi, ficando este em nº1 na lista de espera.
Vi esta critica na Amazon, e parece-me fiel:
this book is truly the standard reference on the IRA and thier history, it shows how the provisional IRA has changed from simple revolutionaries to highly trained ruthless terrorists who commited many attrocities while also fighting for catholic rights and ultimately realizing that they could not be beaten, but also could not win through violence alone. shows the political savy of sinn fein and the only semi-succesfull attempt by protestent paramilitaries to counter the ruthlessness of the IRA and INLA. tim pat coogen is one of the best authors on the subject of northern ireland. easily surpassess the somewhat biased and not very accurate account of the last twenty five years of the conflict by Bowyer Bell in his revised book IRA the secret army
The Order Of The Death’s Head
Na ressaca do livro Hell’s Angels, do Hunter, vou voltar ao meu estudo sobre uma época fascinante da nossa história. Aquele que comecei a ler ontem chama-se The Order Of The Death’s Head: The Story of Hitler’s SS. Obrigado Amazon.co.uk.
By Konrad Baumeister
Hoehne's book on the SS is the most complete, authoritative, and interesting I have read on the subject. There is nothing in the formation, administration, directing and eventual destruction of the SS that is not addressed, and much is covered here which is simply never dealt with elsewhere.
From the start, Hitler had to contend with the various power blocs in his government. He had devised a system which his various paladins would have to jockey and maneuver for relative favor, which generally allowed Hitler greater room for maneuver and control, but which also at times forced unpleasant meetings and compromise. Himmler's SS was quite often at the center of these power struggles, as its grasp grew more and more ambitious and it conflicted with first the SA at home, then the foreign service abroad, and finally the Wehrmacht in the conduct of the war. The SS won some of these; they lost some, too. The bureaucratic struggles throughout Nazi Germany take up quite a large part of the book; they did not end until Nazi Germany itself did. Nazi rule was self-contradictory, anarchic and without structure; anything but the planned and directed political order it is usually alleged to have been.
As late as 1932 Hitler's position in the party and the nation was often in doubt. The 1934 Roehm Putsch, in which Hitler of all the top Nazis looks least duplicitous and may well have been maneuvered into against his wishes, is presented almost minute by minute. It is one episode among many which are treated definitively by Hoehne; others include the evolution of the racial policy, of the death camps - their planning, design, implementation and abandonment - of the peace feelers made to the west by Schellenberg of the SD and others; it contains a wealth of fascinating information.
Himmler's own grip on his institution was incomplete. Not only was he far from omnipotent even at the height of his power, his personal influence waned as the SS itself as a power center waxed. The smaller pre-war SS could be guided politically, seeded racially, and its leadership trained personally; as the organization expanded into eventually every single sphere of German life, Himmler's own control could not keep up. Much as Hitler was left as the broker of last resort in his circle, so Himmler spent more and more time keeping his competing SS police leaders, governors, recruiters, labor exploiters, camp commmanders, and death squad leaders from going at it amongst themselves.
Finally, the bibliography though dated is excellent, and the index is very good and useful. For a one-volume detailed history of the rise and fall of the SS as an organization I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
By Konrad Baumeister
Hoehne's book on the SS is the most complete, authoritative, and interesting I have read on the subject. There is nothing in the formation, administration, directing and eventual destruction of the SS that is not addressed, and much is covered here which is simply never dealt with elsewhere.
From the start, Hitler had to contend with the various power blocs in his government. He had devised a system which his various paladins would have to jockey and maneuver for relative favor, which generally allowed Hitler greater room for maneuver and control, but which also at times forced unpleasant meetings and compromise. Himmler's SS was quite often at the center of these power struggles, as its grasp grew more and more ambitious and it conflicted with first the SA at home, then the foreign service abroad, and finally the Wehrmacht in the conduct of the war. The SS won some of these; they lost some, too. The bureaucratic struggles throughout Nazi Germany take up quite a large part of the book; they did not end until Nazi Germany itself did. Nazi rule was self-contradictory, anarchic and without structure; anything but the planned and directed political order it is usually alleged to have been.
As late as 1932 Hitler's position in the party and the nation was often in doubt. The 1934 Roehm Putsch, in which Hitler of all the top Nazis looks least duplicitous and may well have been maneuvered into against his wishes, is presented almost minute by minute. It is one episode among many which are treated definitively by Hoehne; others include the evolution of the racial policy, of the death camps - their planning, design, implementation and abandonment - of the peace feelers made to the west by Schellenberg of the SD and others; it contains a wealth of fascinating information.
Himmler's own grip on his institution was incomplete. Not only was he far from omnipotent even at the height of his power, his personal influence waned as the SS itself as a power center waxed. The smaller pre-war SS could be guided politically, seeded racially, and its leadership trained personally; as the organization expanded into eventually every single sphere of German life, Himmler's own control could not keep up. Much as Hitler was left as the broker of last resort in his circle, so Himmler spent more and more time keeping his competing SS police leaders, governors, recruiters, labor exploiters, camp commmanders, and death squad leaders from going at it amongst themselves.
Finally, the bibliography though dated is excellent, and the index is very good and useful. For a one-volume detailed history of the rise and fall of the SS as an organization I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
A Vencedora
A Sara ganhou o grande premio ! Na realidade o senhor chama-se Zé Vitor e mora em Picoutos. Aqui a foto que me mandou das suas ferias. Ah José Vitor dos Santos Faneca, as saudades que te guardo
Etiquetas:
Demencia,
imagens,
irlanda,
literatura
terça-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2009
Ferias
Por estas alturas já só penso o que vou fazer das minhas ferias:
Começo com isto
E no dia a seguir, volto para isto
Mais para a frente haverá isto
E a terminar
Depois, voltam as aulas, o estudo, os aborrecimentos, enfim …
Começo com isto
E no dia a seguir, volto para isto
Mais para a frente haverá isto
E a terminar
Depois, voltam as aulas, o estudo, os aborrecimentos, enfim …
segunda-feira, 9 de fevereiro de 2009
Hell's Angels
Das minhas leituras:
So there is more to their stance than a wistful yearning for acceptance in a world they never made. Their real motivation is an instinctive certainty as to what the score really is. They are out of the ballgame and they know it. Unlike the campus rebels, who with a minimum amount of effort will emerge from their struggle with a validated ticket to status, the outlaw motorcyclist views the future with the baleful eye of a man with no upward mobility at all. In a world increasingly geared to specialists, technicians and fantastically complicated machinery, the Hell’s Angels are obvious losers and it bugs them. But instead
of submitting quietly to their collective fate, they have made it the basis of a full-time social vendetta. They don’t expect to win anything, but on the other hand, they have nothing to lose.
Retirado do livro Hell’s Angels de Hunter S. Thompson.
Etiquetas:
Hell's Angels,
Hunter Thompson,
literatura
Quem será ?
Imprensa
Sempre que há desculpa, os desportivos em Portugal lá põem um " noite de Tango", " Tango pelo título ", noite de " magia e tango ", como quando se referem ao Belenenses que invariavelmente são " os azuis do Restelo". Adoro a falta de originalidade da nossa imprensa desportiva, que alias copia as fotografias de manchete de vários jornais.
A argentina é um país de tangos sim, mas o Lucho não tem cara de gaúcho nem o Lisandro é necessariamente das Pampas. Não imagino a imprensa inglesa, cada vez que o Chelsea ganha um jogo, fazer capas com "Noite de fados", ou " a magia da feijoada ". Quando o Hulk marcar um golo importante, veremos " Samba e Rapadura " na capa de um jornal?
Estes cavalheiros são do Boca Juniors ! Dalé Dalé
A argentina é um país de tangos sim, mas o Lucho não tem cara de gaúcho nem o Lisandro é necessariamente das Pampas. Não imagino a imprensa inglesa, cada vez que o Chelsea ganha um jogo, fazer capas com "Noite de fados", ou " a magia da feijoada ". Quando o Hulk marcar um golo importante, veremos " Samba e Rapadura " na capa de um jornal?
Estes cavalheiros são do Boca Juniors ! Dalé Dalé
Manic Street Preachers - No Surface All Feeling
Perdido em leituras matutinas, recordei esta música:
E lembrei então com carinho a minha adolescência perdida
E lembrei então com carinho a minha adolescência perdida
sexta-feira, 6 de fevereiro de 2009
Los Nikis: a voz da razão
Yo seré el viento que va,
navegaré por tu oscuridad.
Tú, Rocío, beso frío
que me quemará.
Seré tu amante bandido, bandido.
Corazón malherido.
Seré tu amante cautivo, cautivo.
Seré ah, ah.
Pasión privada, adorado enemigo.
Huracán abatido.
Me perderé en un momento
contigo.
Por siempre
seré tu héroe de amor.
navegaré por tu oscuridad.
Tú, Rocío, beso frío
que me quemará.
Seré tu amante bandido, bandido.
Corazón malherido.
Seré tu amante cautivo, cautivo.
Seré ah, ah.
Pasión privada, adorado enemigo.
Huracán abatido.
Me perderé en un momento
contigo.
Por siempre
seré tu héroe de amor.
quinta-feira, 5 de fevereiro de 2009
Encontros de Autocarro
Primeiro uma visão do seu corpo grotesco e disforme, rugas de uma vida de trabalho, disfarçadas com uma qualquer maquilhagem barata, o cabelo de um ondulado gorduroso e forçado. A obra-prima de uma qualquer cabeleireira de subúrbio numa segunda de manha. Mais agoniante que a vista é o cheiro que espalha, aromas de lixívia e amoníaco numa confusão e terror. Tem a estatura baixa quase corcunda, e não lhe dou mais de 60 anos. Não bastaria a aparência de Tágide com que fui prendado, ainda tive de arrogantemente suportar a sua arrogância de mulher independente, forçado a encostar-me e acolher todo o seu esplendor de budha sentado a meu lado com o guarda chuva a pingar amor para os meus jeans, foi com esta companhia que na terça regressei a casa da faculdade. Um dia como tantos outros … A esperança reside a que felizmente estamos no Inverno, não há a preocupação do cheiro pestilento e nauseabundo de um 600 atolado e abafado.
Essas Tardes
Perdido entre uma tarde de chuva e a Convenção de Viena dei por mim a cantarolar Platero y Tu, esta musica em concreto:
Não quero acabar assim, medo tenho ainda de ficar a pensar assim:
Não posso pensar em Demónios como o velho Roky
Não quero acabar assim, medo tenho ainda de ficar a pensar assim:
Não posso pensar em Demónios como o velho Roky
Lux Interior
Morreu na passada madrugada o vocalista fundador dos Cramps. Vitima de problemas cardiacos, deixou o mundo com apenas 60 anos. Por ca não o esqueceremos ...
quarta-feira, 4 de fevereiro de 2009
Procurar e destruir ?
O estudo e a musica
Antes de começar uma bela tarde de estudo resolvi-me a ouvir isto:
Porque nao se estuda antes isto em DIP ?
Etiquetas:
60's,
Garage,
Hard Rock,
Psychadelic,
Rock
terça-feira, 3 de fevereiro de 2009
Black Lips
Há dias para John Lee Hooker. Sim. Mas também os há para Black Lips. Hoje foi um deles. A par de King Khan e Lords of Altamont, estes rapazes são a esperança que deposito no futuro. Coerentes? Auto destrutivos? Loucos? Não creio … apenas bons rapazes.
The Black Lips have a reputation for crazy live shows that have included vomiting, urinating, nudity, band members kissing, Power Wheel races, fireworks, a chicken, and flaming guitars. The frequency of the group's outrageous stage antics has declined, as they claim to have matured "a little bit".
They played at Heaven (nightclub) in London on September 16th 2008, which ended with a classic stage invasion, and has become their most popular live YouTube video.
The band has played shows in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States.
The group has expressed interest in playing venues and countries that typically don't see many rock bands perform. They've said they'd like to play China, Indonesia, Iraq, and Uganda.
The Black Lips are a self-described "flower punk" band from Atlanta, Georgia.
Etiquetas:
Black Lips,
Demencia,
Garage,
Psychadelic,
Rock
segunda-feira, 2 de fevereiro de 2009
domingo, 1 de fevereiro de 2009
sábado, 31 de janeiro de 2009
quinta-feira, 29 de janeiro de 2009
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