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domingo, 7 de fevereiro de 2021

Música - The Booklovers

Divine Comedy, Promenade 



"This book deals with epiphenomenalism, which has to do with consciousness as a mere accessory of physiological processes whose presence or absence... makes no difference... whatever are you doing?"
Aphra Benn: Hello
Cervantes: Donkey
Daniel Defoe: To christen the day!
Samuel Richardson: Hello
Henry Fielding: Tittle-tattle Tittle-tattle...
Lawrence Sterne: Hello
Mary Wolstencraft: Vindicated!
Jane Austen: Here I am!
Sir Walter Scott: We're all doomed!
Leo Tolstoy: Yes!
Honoré de Balzac: Oui...
Edgar Allen Poe: Aaaarrrggghhhh!
Charlotte Brontë: Hello...
Emily Brontë: Hello...
Anne Brontë: Hellooo..?
Nikolai Gogol: Vas chi
Gustav Flaubert: Oui
William Makepeace Thackeray: Call me 'William Makepeace Thackeray'
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The letter 'A'
Herman Melville: Ahoy there!
Charles Dickens: London is so beautiful this time of year...
Anthony Trollope: good-good-good-good evening!
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Here come the sleepers...
Mark Twain: I can't even spell 'Mississippi'!
George Eliot: George reads German
Emile Zola: J'accuse
Henry James: Howdy Miss Wharton!
Thomas Hardy: Ooo-arrr!
Joseph Conrad: I'm a bloody boring writer...
Katherine Mansfield: [cough cough]
Edith Wharton: Well hello, Mr James!
DH Lawrence: Never heard of it
EM Forster: Never heard of it!
Happy the man, and happy he alone who in all honesty can call today his own;
He who has life and strength enough to say 'Yesterday's dead & gone - I want to live today'
James Joyce: Hello there!
Virginia Woolf: I'm losing my mind!
Marcel Proust: Je me'en souviens plus
F Scott Fitzgerald: baa bababa baa
Ernest Hemingway: I forgot the....
Hermann Hesse: Oh es ist alle so hasslich
Evelyn Waugh: Whoooaarr!
William Faulkner: Tu connait William Faulkner?
Anaïs Nin: The strand of pearls
Ford Maddox Ford: Any colour, as long as it's black!
Jean-Paul Sartre: Let's go to the dome, Simone!
Simone de Beauvoir: see'est exact present
Albert Camus: The beach... the beach
Franz Kafka: WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!
Thomas Mann: Mam
Graham Greene: Call me 'pinky', lovely
Jack Kerouac: Me car's broken down...
William S Burroughs: Wowwww!
Happy the man, and happy he alone who in all honesty can call today his own;
He who has life and strength enough to say 'Yesterday's dead & gone - I want to live today'
Kingsley Amis: (cough)
Doris Lessing: I hate men!
Vladimir Nabokov: Hello, little girl...
William Golding: Achtung Busby!
JG Ballard: Instrument binnacle
Richard Brautigan: How are you doing?
Milan Kundera: I don't do interviews
Ivy Compton Burnett: Hello...
Paul Theroux: Have a nice day!
Günter Grass: I've found snails!
Gore Vidal: Oh, it makes me mad!
John Updike: Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run...
Kazuro Ishiguro: Ah so, old chap!
Malcolm Bradbury: stroke John Steinbeck, stroke JD Salinger
Iain Banks: Too orangey for crows!
AS Byatt: Nine tenths of the law, you know...
Martin Amis: [burp]
Brett Easton Ellis: Aaaaarrrggghhh!
Umberto Eco: I don't understand this either...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Mi casa es su casa
Roddy Doyle: ha ha ha!
Salman Rushdie: Names will live forever...


segunda-feira, 1 de abril de 2019

quarta-feira, 21 de dezembro de 2016

A Geringonça Vai Aumentar O Preço Dos Transportes Públicos

Mas na verdade "Orwelliana" é amiga - Vá-se lá saber porquê lembrei-me do personagem Stillson...    

quarta-feira, 9 de abril de 2014

Estreia Como "Contributor"

Aqui, com um post chamado "Oh Me!"
 
Talking about me is a huge challenge, i´m just a normal person. I’m 45 years old, I’m Portuguese, and I was born in a town called Santarem, known as the Gothic capital, famous for the numerous churches, the castle and many other historical monuments as well as its gastronomy (the most important festival in the country takes place there ).
I Lived many years in the capital of my country (where I studied and started working) and in 2009 I come to live and work at Alcobaça, a beautiful and friendly town, which is mainly known for its Monastery, which was rated in 1989 UNESCO World Heritage. Appart from the monastery there are several monuments whose visit is mandatory, and there are many beaches around here
The food (especially the convent sweets – based on eggs and sugar) leave no one indifferent and every year there is a festival dedicated to this art. Alcobaça is also known because of “ginja” (an alcoholic beverage made with sour cherries), which I believe to be the best in the world …
Back to me and although a degree in Economics and having worked for several years in the financial sector, what fulfills me is writing, I think I started writing in my head before learning how to do it using a pen and a paper … I write about what? – Essentially about my great passions: Music, film, literature, poetry (sometimes I write my own “poems” …) economy, politics and sport (where football and F1 are my beloved themes – Recently I start to write as a guest blogger for a passionate F1 blogger).
I am currently in transition in my professional career, which allows me to have more free time to write and read, indeed, I can hardly separate this two things … Every day I “feed” my modest “corner” – it´s the nick name of my blog (created in November 2007 – till now i´ve posted more than 10 thousand articles), whose title is seaalmanaoepequena, which results from the sentence se a alma não é pequena, which is an excerpt from a poem by Fernando Pessoa – Mar Português (Portuguese Sea) , published in 1934, that means “if the soul isn´t small” (in my opinion the best ever Portuguese poet and one of the great masters of world poetry, alongside with names like Joyce, Yeats, Rilke, Keats, Whitman, Poe and many others).
I´m one amateur writer, all I do is just the expression of my passion, even though many times I just write for myself.
Final note: Felicia, thanks a lot for the opportunity you gave me.
Santarem_castle
alcobaça_monastery
Fernando Pessoa_poet

domingo, 19 de janeiro de 2014

Edgar Allan Poe

Caso fosse vivo completaria hoje 205 anos. Recorda-se a versão para The Conqueror Worm (a cargo do também desaparecido Lou Reed no seu disco de 2003, com Willem Defoe a assegurar a parte vocal). O poema foi originalmente escrito em 1843


Lo! 'tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres.
Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble low, And hither and thither fly Mere puppets they, who come and go At bidding of vast formless things That shift the scenery to and fro, Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Woe!
That motley drama–oh, be sure It shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased for evermore, By a crowd that seize it not, Through a circle that ever returneth in To the self-same spot, And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.
But see, amid the mimic rout A crawling shape intrude! A blood-red thing that writhes from out The scenic solitude! It writhes!–it writhes!–with mortal pangs The mimes become its food, And seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued.
Out–out are the lights–out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm."

quinta-feira, 31 de outubro de 2013

Música - A Dream Within A Dream

Propaganda. A "base de trabalho" é um poema de Edgar Allan Poe (1849)




All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream

Take this kiss upon the brow
And in parting from you now
This much let me avow
You are not wrong who deemed
That my days have been a dream
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, in a day, in a vision, or a memory
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream

I stand amid the roar
Of the surf tormented shore
And i hold within my hands
Grains of golden sand
How few yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep
While i weep, while i weep
Oh god can i not grasp them with a tighter clasp
Oh god can i not save one from the pitiless wave
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream
 
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segunda-feira, 28 de outubro de 2013

Disco - The Raven

Uma das paixões de Lou Reed era Edgar Allan Poe, o qual é homenageado neste trabalho (2003), através de várias interpretações dos seus poemas e contos, onde o ex - Velvet Underground, conta com convidados de luxo: David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, Willem Dafoe, Steve Buscemi (p.ex). Um disco magnífico, cuja capa ficou a cargo de Julian Schnabel

Música - The Raven

Lou Reed, declamando um dos grandes poemas da história da humanidade

Música - Hot Frog

Lou Reed com David Bowie, a partir de um conto de 1849 também conhecido por The Eight Chained Ourang-outangs

Música - I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum)

Lou Reed, a partir de um conto de 1842, com o coro a cargo dos Blind Boys Of Alabama


terça-feira, 28 de fevereiro de 2012

Livro - A Carta Roubada

O detective August Dupin vive com um seu amigo em Paris. Um dia é procurado pelo delegado G., o qual afirma que o deputado D. roubou uma carta dos aposentos da Rainha, carta essa, que lhe vai permitir beneficios políticos. Face ao insucesso da policia em recuperar a carta, G. pede ajuda a Dupin. A narrativa é toda feita nos aposentos de Dupin, o qual relata o raciocinio que o levou a descobrir a carta. Poderia ter sido escrito por Sir Conan Doyle (a lógica é totalmente "Sherlock Holmes" - não foi "á toa" a sua adaptação para um episódio televisivo com o famoso detective em 1980), mas o trabalho tem a assinatura de Edgar Allan Poe, tendo sido escrito em 1844. Um excelente exercício de "células cinzentas"

terça-feira, 25 de janeiro de 2011

Filme - O Quinteto Da Morte

A partir de um argumento de William Rose (1955) - Que lhe valeu a nomeação ao Oscar em 1955- é um remake do filme de Alexander Mackendrick, e foi realizado pelos irmãos Coen em 2004. Foi nomeado á Palma de Ouro em Cannes, tendo Irma P Hall ganho o Prémio do Juri. Marva Munson (Hall) é uma pacata viúva que vive com o seu gato, frequentadora da Universidade Bob Jones (uma associação religiosa) a qual tem um quarto para alugar. O Prof Dr Goldthwait Dorr (Tom Hanks) vai ser o seu hospede, invocando que está a descansar e que precisa da cave para ensaiar com o seu grupo de música erudita (Gawain - Marlon Wayans - um empregado de limpeza num casino, Garth - J.K Simmons - Um contra regra, Lump - Ryan Hurst - Um jogador de futebol americano e O General - Tzi Ma - um comerciante). Na verdade Dorr e o seu grupo pretendem escavar um túnel a partir da cave, para aceder ao cofre do casino onde trabalha Gawain...Se Dorr é extremamente inteligente, o resto do grupo é particularmente estúpido... Quando Marva descobre o assalto, Dorr tenta suborná-la, quando não o consegue, toma uma decisão: Alguém tem que matar a senhora...O problema é que devido a uma série de acidentes e incidentes, não só ninguém o vai conseguir, como os membros do quinteto vão morrer um a um...Os Coen dão mais um recital do seu humor mui peculiar - burlesco (macabro a espaços)- , num trabalho com várias referências a Edgar Allan Poe. Muito bom

quinta-feira, 6 de agosto de 2009

Silly Season 2009 X

Manuel Pinho, o nosso ex-Ministro da Economia, equacionou ir passar as suas férias para a Florida, mas o mau tempo levou-o a escolher o Allgarve. Ao que se sabe está muito feliz e entre outras diversões, já assistiu a concertos de Joss Stone e Seal...

domingo, 28 de junho de 2009

Livro - A Narrativa de Arthur Gordon Pym de Nantucket


Escrito por Edgar Allan Poe em 1838, é uma enorme aventura pelos mares do sul que se inicia em 1827 sendo vista através dos olhos do narrador. Profundamente descritivo revela os enormes talentos de Poe (num trabalho onde alia vários temas), naquele que foi o seu único romance.

quinta-feira, 21 de fevereiro de 2008

Poesia - The Raven



Poeta, Escritor, Editor e Critico Literário, Edgar Allan Poe, ficou fundamentalmente conhecido pelos seus contos em que o mistério e o macabro andavam de mãos dadas. A sua escrita influenciou muita gente, tendo tido vários trabalhos seus adaptados ao cinema (incluido este poema). Este é o seu mais famoso poema (e um dos mais famosos da história). Foi originalmente publicado em 1845 no New York Evening Mirror, destacando-se a sua linguagem estilizada, a sua musicalidade e a atmosfera sobrenatural. Existe uma tradução para Português de Fernando Pessoa em:
.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door
Only this, and nothing more."
.
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow sorrow for the lost Lenore
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore
Nameless here for evermore.
.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
"'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;
This it is, and nothing more,"
.
Presently my heart grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you" -- here I opened wide the door;
Darkness there, and nothing more.
.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!"
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word "Lenore!"
Merely this and nothing more.
.
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
"Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice;
Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;
'Tis the wind and nothing more!"
.
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not an instant stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
.
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door
Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as "Nevermore."
.
But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust,
spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered not a feather then he fluttered
Till I scarcely more than muttered "Other friends have flown before
On the morrow will he leave me, as my hopes have flown before."
Then the bird said, "Nevermore."
.
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
"Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
Of 'Never-nevermore.
.
But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore
What this grim, ungainly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking "Nevermore."
.
This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion's velvet violet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!
.
Then, methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by angels whose faint foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
"Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee - by these angels he has sent thee
Respite - respite and nepenthe from the memories of Lenore!
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
.
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! prophet still, if bird or devil!
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted
On this home by Horror haunted tell me truly, I implore
Is there is there balm in Gilead? tell me tell me, I implore!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
.
"Prophet!' said I, "thing of evil! prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us by that God we both adore
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore?"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
.
"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked upstarting
"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
.
And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting,
still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted nevermore

quinta-feira, 10 de janeiro de 2008

Filme - Zona de Perigo


Um relativamente desconhecido trabalho de David Cronenberg. Realizado em 1983, a partir de (mais um) livro de Stephen King, conta a história de um professor de liceu ( Johnny Smith - Cristopher Walken) que sofre um acidente de automóvel, ficando em coma 5 anos. Quando recupera apercebe-se que tem uma capacidade extra-sensorial que lhe permite antever a ocorrência de desastres. Esta capacidade torna-o uma celebridade. Tudo muda quando conhece um candidato á presidência ( Greg Stillson - Martin Sheen) e os acontecimentos futuros que antevê são devastadores. o resto é ver o filme...