sexta-feira, outubro 27, 2006
Roubado, editado mas apenas intuído
Há um conto de Raymond Carver, Blackbird Pie, sobre uma mulher que deixa o marido de um momento para o outro, depois de escrever uma carta em que explica que o casamento acabou.
O marido não aceita, não compreende, não consegue viver com isso.
Até que, obcecado com a História, chega, no último parágrafo do texto, a esta espantosa consciência da sua condição:
«It could be said (...) that to take a wife is to take a history. And if that’s so, then I understand that I’m outside history now (…). Or you could say that my history has left me. Or that I’m having to go on without history. Or that history will now have to do without me - unless my wife writes more letters, or tells a friend who keeps a diary, say.
Then, years later, someone can look back on this time, interpret it according to the record, its scraps and tirades, its silences and innuendoes.
That’s when it dawns on me that autobiography is the poor man’s history. And that I am saying goodbye to history.
Goodbye, my darling.»
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O marido não aceita, não compreende, não consegue viver com isso.
Até que, obcecado com a História, chega, no último parágrafo do texto, a esta espantosa consciência da sua condição:
«It could be said (...) that to take a wife is to take a history. And if that’s so, then I understand that I’m outside history now (…). Or you could say that my history has left me. Or that I’m having to go on without history. Or that history will now have to do without me - unless my wife writes more letters, or tells a friend who keeps a diary, say.
Then, years later, someone can look back on this time, interpret it according to the record, its scraps and tirades, its silences and innuendoes.
That’s when it dawns on me that autobiography is the poor man’s history. And that I am saying goodbye to history.
Goodbye, my darling.»
Reciclagem
Numa cena do filme Singles, Bridget Fonda elogia Bill Pullman, o seu cirurgião plástico, que está sem namorada: és cirurgião («many babes are into that»), tens uns olhos bonitos e «sobrancelhas confiáveis».
Mas ele responde com um argumento inatacável: «See, I don’t know how to have fun».
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Mas ele responde com um argumento inatacável: «See, I don’t know how to have fun».
quinta-feira, outubro 26, 2006
Wish for rain
Roubado
What holds your hope together
Make sure it's strong enough
The Sound, Winning
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Make sure it's strong enough
The Sound, Winning
quarta-feira, outubro 25, 2006
Escuta agridoce
"J’ai réussi de me faire mariée"
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Joy Division
When the routine bites hard, and ambitions are low
And the resentment rides high, but emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways, taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again
Why is the bedroom so cold? Turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed - our respect run so dry?
Yet there's still this appeal that we've kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again
Do you cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose?
There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes hold
Is it that something so good just can't function no more?
When love, love will tear us apart again
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And the resentment rides high, but emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways, taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again
Why is the bedroom so cold? Turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed - our respect run so dry?
Yet there's still this appeal that we've kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again
Do you cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose?
There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes hold
Is it that something so good just can't function no more?
When love, love will tear us apart again
Fight club
Every time the plane banked too sharply on take-off or landing, I prayed for a crash, or a mid-air collision - anything.
No more haircuts. Nothing matters, not even bad breath.
Life insurance pays off triple if you die on a business trip.
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No more haircuts. Nothing matters, not even bad breath.
Life insurance pays off triple if you die on a business trip.
Almost 10 years later
Finland, Espoo. How nice.
At least, my lovely and cosy hotel room. Just over the darker and different-looking window of the laptop, I had a view to scattered pine trees, a live squirrel running up and down and, farther in the background, the somewhat grey Baltic sea.
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At least, my lovely and cosy hotel room. Just over the darker and different-looking window of the laptop, I had a view to scattered pine trees, a live squirrel running up and down and, farther in the background, the somewhat grey Baltic sea.
Big babies
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Disappointed in the sun
Who could tell the story better
About the things that I went through
Some were great but most were terrifying and so spooky too
Had to get out of there, to hide away
Had to get out of there, to find my way
I troubled everything too soon
Now where I want to be is
Where I want to be is
Need I say my only wish was
To escape my earthly life
High skies were no option whereas
Diving deep in oceans wide
Was the way for me, to hide away
A possibility, to leave today
I troubled everything too soon
Now where I want to be is
Where I want to be is
Under the sea is where I'll be
No talking 'bout the rain no more
I wonder what thunder will mean, when only in my dream
The lightning comes before the roar
Circumstantial situations, now I know what people meant
Beware of the implications, God I've had enough of them
Dedicated to be brave and find a way
Just picking out a wave and slide away
I troubled everything too soon
Now where I want to be is
Where I want to be is
Maybe taking it another hour then taking away the pain
Maybe taking it another hour then taking away the pain
Maybe taking it another hour then taking away the pain
Then taking away the pain
Then taking away the pain
Then taking away the pain
I troubled everything too soon
Now where I want to be is
Where I want to be is
Under the sea, is where I'll be
No talking 'bout the rain no more
I wonder what thunder will mean, when only in my dream
The lightning comes before the roar
Under the sea, down here with me I find I'm not the only one
Who ponders what life would mean if we hadn't been
So disappointed in the sun
And that's why we're thinking
That's why we're drinking in a bar under the sea
And that's why we're thinking
That's why we're drinking in a bar under the sea
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About the things that I went through
Some were great but most were terrifying and so spooky too
Had to get out of there, to hide away
Had to get out of there, to find my way
I troubled everything too soon
Now where I want to be is
Where I want to be is
Need I say my only wish was
To escape my earthly life
High skies were no option whereas
Diving deep in oceans wide
Was the way for me, to hide away
A possibility, to leave today
I troubled everything too soon
Now where I want to be is
Where I want to be is
Under the sea is where I'll be
No talking 'bout the rain no more
I wonder what thunder will mean, when only in my dream
The lightning comes before the roar
Circumstantial situations, now I know what people meant
Beware of the implications, God I've had enough of them
Dedicated to be brave and find a way
Just picking out a wave and slide away
I troubled everything too soon
Now where I want to be is
Where I want to be is
Maybe taking it another hour then taking away the pain
Maybe taking it another hour then taking away the pain
Maybe taking it another hour then taking away the pain
Then taking away the pain
Then taking away the pain
Then taking away the pain
I troubled everything too soon
Now where I want to be is
Where I want to be is
Under the sea, is where I'll be
No talking 'bout the rain no more
I wonder what thunder will mean, when only in my dream
The lightning comes before the roar
Under the sea, down here with me I find I'm not the only one
Who ponders what life would mean if we hadn't been
So disappointed in the sun
And that's why we're thinking
That's why we're drinking in a bar under the sea
And that's why we're thinking
That's why we're drinking in a bar under the sea
quinta-feira, outubro 19, 2006
Of wine and men
Shesmu was an ancient Egyptian demon-god of the underworld, the god of precious oils for beauty and embalming and the god of the wine press.
Equaly important, it was he who, after the death of men, helped the justified by offering them red wine to drink and caught the sinful ones for punishment.
Under the orders of Osiris, he would chop up the wrongdoers, take their heads and toss them into a wine press, as grapes to create blood wine (In The Book of the Dead, Shesmu was known as "Lord of the Blood").
The blood wine - and the bodies - turned into sustenance for Unas, giving him power and strength (Unas was the last king of the 5th dynasty but in death, King Unas is identified with the gods Ra and Osiris).
more at http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/shesmu.htm
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Equaly important, it was he who, after the death of men, helped the justified by offering them red wine to drink and caught the sinful ones for punishment.
Under the orders of Osiris, he would chop up the wrongdoers, take their heads and toss them into a wine press, as grapes to create blood wine (In The Book of the Dead, Shesmu was known as "Lord of the Blood").
The blood wine - and the bodies - turned into sustenance for Unas, giving him power and strength (Unas was the last king of the 5th dynasty but in death, King Unas is identified with the gods Ra and Osiris).
more at http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/shesmu.htm
quarta-feira, outubro 18, 2006
Looking for a wallet in the garden
I tried to look for it (somewhat lazily) yesterday but so far without success.
I could not keep the searching activity going on for long though, as peer pressure was mounting and I could sense the people in the nearby buildings preparing to call the police and report a lunatic messing around with their plants...
But I did try to get myself into the mind of the robber - you know, like in the movies - and reconstruct his/her little after-crime walk, retrieving dozens of large denomination bills from the wallets (and a whole € 7 from mine) and then carefreely throwing them to the headquarter lawns of big corporations...
When I merrily started to whistle I realized this day dreaming might get me into trouble... or make me decide on a career change.
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I could not keep the searching activity going on for long though, as peer pressure was mounting and I could sense the people in the nearby buildings preparing to call the police and report a lunatic messing around with their plants...
But I did try to get myself into the mind of the robber - you know, like in the movies - and reconstruct his/her little after-crime walk, retrieving dozens of large denomination bills from the wallets (and a whole € 7 from mine) and then carefreely throwing them to the headquarter lawns of big corporations...
When I merrily started to whistle I realized this day dreaming might get me into trouble... or make me decide on a career change.
sexta-feira, outubro 13, 2006
American Beauty too
Lester, narrating: Janie's a pretty typical teenager. Angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass... but I don't want to lie to her.
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American Beauty
Boss: I'm not paying you to do... whatever it is you're doing out here.
Ricky: Fine. So don't pay me.
Boss: Excuse me?
Ricky: I quit. So you don't have to pay me. Now leave me alone.
Boss: ...asshole.
Lester: I think you just became my personal hero!
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Ricky: Fine. So don't pay me.
Boss: Excuse me?
Ricky: I quit. So you don't have to pay me. Now leave me alone.
Boss: ...asshole.
Lester: I think you just became my personal hero!
Bob
Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I'm expecting all hell to break loose
People are crazy and times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
This place ain't doing me any good
I'm in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood
Just for a second there I thought I saw something move
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Any minute now I'm expecting all hell to break loose
People are crazy and times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
This place ain't doing me any good
I'm in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood
Just for a second there I thought I saw something move
True...
... beauty is such an endangered species.
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quinta-feira, outubro 12, 2006
Lord of War
Some of the most successful relationships are based on lies and deceit.
Since that's where they usually end up anyway, it's a logical place to start.
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Since that's where they usually end up anyway, it's a logical place to start.
sexta-feira, outubro 06, 2006
So good
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Roubado algures
I have learned a lot in the past 63 years; unfortunately most of it about aluminium.
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Cyber-skiving
0 commentsquarta-feira, outubro 04, 2006
10 miles
1:20:29, 264th place
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Nietzsche
The most common form of human stupidity is forgetting what one is trying to do.
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