The Antoninos

Jack Nicholson-Joker line as he is courting Kim Basinger-Vicki Vale:

"As though we were made for each other... Beauty and the Beast.

Of course, if anyone else calls you beast, I'll rip their lungs out".

No coward soul is mine

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

"Yet the Judas Gospel is an eye-opener anyway. First, because it is useful to be reminded, in a time of renewed fundamentalism, that religions actually have no fundament: that the inerrant texts and unchallenged holies of any faith are the work of men and time."

"I'm struck by the fact that in the Gospel, in John, Jesus says, 'I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when the Spirit of Truth comes, the Spirit will draw from what is mine, and reveal it to you'."

"...their zeal uncomplicated by nuance..."

- pneu de bicleta furado
- avião perdido
- avião que se atrasa
- engarrafamento monumental na autoestrada
- ar condicionado do quarto sem funcionar
- empregada antipática ao pequeno almoço
- conta maior do que o esperado
- peça perdida no carro alugado
- restaurante bom fechado
- engarrafamento monumental na autoestrada (evitado a tempo desta vez)
- chinês que se senta na nossa mesa sem pedir permissão
- avião que se atrasa
- avião desviado para aterrar noutro aeroporto
- espera por autocarro para aeroporto
- roupa espalhada no chão pelas gatas

Muito sol, mar, bronzeado, areia, sal, esparguete e meia parte de um jogo de futebol que, apesar de tudo, nos deixa nos quartos de final.

Está-se em jogo, apesar de tudo.

http://www.misteriojuvenil.com/piratas_momentomagico.htm

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Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’97... wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be IT.
The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
You are NOT as fat as you imagine.
Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.
Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.
Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings; they are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.
Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.

Mary Schmich

Farrapo velho.

E, definitivamente, hoje não é Natal.

I wanted to publish the works of ee cummings, but I was undercapitalized.

Le gardien du nid
Stop-motion animation.
Revisita-se o patinho feio com direito a uma toupeira com sentido de humor.

Unknown Lying Object
Colagem, bonecos de cera. Estranho mas interessante.
Especialmente a letra do que foi um videoclip dos Zap Zoo: "I’m an unknown lying object, like so many in their beds; we know all on every subject, but nothing on the ufos in our heads"; há uma parte ainda mais divertida, versos sobre a forma como Deus estaciona um tractor.

Elegant
Stop-motion animation + actores humanos.
Uma história deliciosa sobre luvas e o que podem fazer por nós.

The tell tale heart
Bela Lugosi narra uma história de Edgar Allen Poe, perfeitamente retratada apenas com o contraste 2D a preto e branco.

Gemini
Experiência de escola, fusão de técnicas, história obscura.

Not as good a movie as the previous ones, for lack of story depth, but full of beautiful images.

I particularly recall MA climbing up a wide staircase on the outside of Versailles, followed by 2 maids. Looked like a painting.

Using contemporary music felt a little bit like a trick but worked out well just the same.

Funny, in one of the scenes, I could swear I saw a pair of All Stars.

- Good afternoon
- Good afternoon, Mr...
- F
- Uhm... F, you say?
- Yes...
- Can you be more precise?
- More precise!?
- Yes. What did you mean by that?
- By what!?
- That you have just said.
- It's just my name!
- So you tell us.
- It is my name! I know my own name.
- Just the same, one has to check. You wouldn't believe what we come across around here. So that is your name, is it?
- Yes!
- Your name....
- Yes!
- Uhm... F...
- Yes...
- So... Mr F... let us sit down for a moment, shall we?
- Yes, fine... and A will be just fine as well.
- What?
- A. You can address me by A.
- I thought you said your name was F.
- It is!
- So how come I should address you as A?
- That is my name as well! I mean, not all of it. That is, it is one of my names.
- Ah! So you admit to having more than one.
- Not more; that's how my name goes. Or names.
- That is why one must be precise, you see.
- But...
- That's why we are here. To be precise. To find out all about incorrectness! To fight the dreaded error!
- But it is just my name!
- Just! Some of you never get it!
- That is my name!
- Yeah, yeah. I can always tell. Call security! This one is going in!
- Security !? What do you... ei... wait a minute... stop it... careful there! Help!

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For the Germans, knowing the impact of the World Cup goes far beyond football is a lesson they have understood since a rainy day in the Wankdorf Stadium in Berne, Switzerland, in the summer of 1954.

An unheralded West German team, caused a big sensation in world sport by defeating the apparently invincible Hungarians to win the trophy.

The victory led to an unprecedented outpouring of joy, not just in West but in East Germany too; the celebrations were encapsulated in the phrase "Wir Sind Wieder Wer" ("We are somebody again") and gave enormous psychological impetus to the building of the West German state.

Edited from BBC

Nansen passports are internationally recognized identity cards first issued by the League of Nations to stateless refugees.
The Nansen passport was designed by Fridtjof Nansen in 1922, after the Russian Revolution, when 1.4 million Russians escaped Russia in fear of the Communist government.
In 1942, Nansen passports were honored by governments in 52 countries.
Approximately 450,000 Nansen passports were issued, helping people to immigrate to a country that would have them.
It was a one of the few successes that could be attributed to the League of Nations and the Nansen International Office for Refugees was awarded the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize.

Edited from Wikipedia

- The weather is bad for this time of year.
- True.
- Cold and rainy.
- Indeed... and snow was forecast for the south of my country.
- Really?
- Yes; in June, practically!
- Must be really cold down there in Barbaria...

Bavaria / Barbaria

- A Hollywood ending.
[...]
- Can you guarantee that ending?
- If the price is right, you got it.