David Bowie, album Tonight de 1984
Watching them come and go
The templars and the saracens
They're traveling the holy land
Opening telegrams oh ho
Torture comes and torture goes
Knights who'd give you anything
They bear the cross of coeur de lion
Salvation for the mirror blind oh ho
But if you pray all your sins are hooked upon the sky
Pray and the heathen lie will disappear
Prayers they hide the saddest view
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)
And your prayers they break the sky in two
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)
Thinking of a different time
Palestine a modern problem
Bounty and your wealth in land
Terror in a best laid plan
Watching them come and go
Tomorrows and the yesterdays oh ho
Christians and the unbelievers
Hanging by the cross and nail oh ho
But if you pray all your sins are hooked upon the sky
Pray and the heathen lie will disappear oh ho
Prayers they hide the saddest view
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)
And your prayers they break the sky in two
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)
You pray till the break of ALL.
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)
And you'll believe you're loving the alien
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)
Believeing the strangest things (loving the alien)
quinta-feira, 6 de agosto de 2009
Silly Season 2009 IX
O Sr Presidente da Galp Energia, brindou-nos hoje com um discurso que só não dá vontade de rir, porque nos sai do bolso. Após a queda dos lucros em 53% (para 101 milhões de euros...), Ferreira de Oliveira afirmou que a queda dos preços vai terminar. Qual queda de preços? A redução dos lucros pode ter muitas justificações, agora o preço????. Ferreira de Oliveira bem pode agradecer o facto de viver num país onde o regulador é totalmente ineficiente.
quarta-feira, 5 de agosto de 2009
Listas Eleitorais
Pelos vistos as do PSD provocaram mal estar em alguns. Preto no branco, sabem qual é o problema? O cheiro a poder...
Música - Ashes To Ashes
David Bowie ao vivo em 2000
Do you remember a guy that's been
In such an early song
I've heard a rumour from Ground Control
Oh no, don't say it's true
They got a message
from the Action Man
"I'm happy, hope you're happy too
I've loved
all I've needed to love
Sordid details following"
The shrieking of nothing is killing
Just pictures of Jap girls
in synthesis and I
Ain't got no money and I ain't got no hair
But I'm hoping to kick but the planet it's glowing
[CHORUS]
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom's 4
a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low
Time and again I tell myself
I'll stay clean tonight
But the little green wheels are following me
Oh no, not again
I'm stuck with a valuable friend
"I'm happy, hope you're happy too"
One flash of light
but no smoking pistol
I never done good things
I never done bad things
I never did anything out of the blue,
Want an axe to break the ice
Wanna come down right now
[CHORUS]
My mother said
to get things done
You'd better not mess
with Major Tom
Do you remember a guy that's been
In such an early song
I've heard a rumour from Ground Control
Oh no, don't say it's true
They got a message
from the Action Man
"I'm happy, hope you're happy too
I've loved
all I've needed to love
Sordid details following"
The shrieking of nothing is killing
Just pictures of Jap girls
in synthesis and I
Ain't got no money and I ain't got no hair
But I'm hoping to kick but the planet it's glowing
[CHORUS]
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom's 4
a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low
Time and again I tell myself
I'll stay clean tonight
But the little green wheels are following me
Oh no, not again
I'm stuck with a valuable friend
"I'm happy, hope you're happy too"
One flash of light
but no smoking pistol
I never done good things
I never done bad things
I never did anything out of the blue,
Want an axe to break the ice
Wanna come down right now
[CHORUS]
My mother said
to get things done
You'd better not mess
with Major Tom
Disco - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Lançado por David Bowie em 1980 é uma espécie de ressaca da trilogia berlinense...Um som mais comercial (ou mais convencional se preferirem) e mais um disco espantoso. A guitarra de Robert Fripp faz maravilhas na entrada de Bowie nos anos 80...
terça-feira, 4 de agosto de 2009
Música - It´s A Sin
Pet Shop Boys
(Twenty seconds and counting...
T minus fifteen seconds, guidance is okay)
??
When I look back upon my life
It's always with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame
For everything I long to do
No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common, too
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
It's a sin
Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Every place I've ever been
Everywhere I'm going to
It's a sin
At school they taught me how to be
So pure in thought and word and deed
They didn't quite succeed
For everything I long to do
No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common, too
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
It's a sin
Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Every place I've ever been
Everywhere I'm going to
It's a sin
Father, forgive me, I tried not to do it
Turned over a new leaf, then tore right through it
Whatever you taught me, I didn't believe it
Father, you fought me, 'cause I didn't care
And I still don't understand
So I look back upon my life
Forever with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame
For everything I long to do
No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common, too
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
It's a sin
Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Every place I've ever been
Everywhere I'm going to - it's a sin
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
(Confiteor Deo omnipotenti vobis fratres, quia peccavi nimis cogitatione,
verbo, opere et omissione, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa)
[trans. "I confess to almighty god,
and to you my brothers,
that I have sinned exceedingly
in thought, word, act and omission,
through my fault, through my fault,
through my most grievous fault"]
(Zero!)
(Twenty seconds and counting...
T minus fifteen seconds, guidance is okay)
??
When I look back upon my life
It's always with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame
For everything I long to do
No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common, too
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
It's a sin
Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Every place I've ever been
Everywhere I'm going to
It's a sin
At school they taught me how to be
So pure in thought and word and deed
They didn't quite succeed
For everything I long to do
No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common, too
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
It's a sin
Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Every place I've ever been
Everywhere I'm going to
It's a sin
Father, forgive me, I tried not to do it
Turned over a new leaf, then tore right through it
Whatever you taught me, I didn't believe it
Father, you fought me, 'cause I didn't care
And I still don't understand
So I look back upon my life
Forever with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame
For everything I long to do
No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common, too
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
It's a sin
Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Every place I've ever been
Everywhere I'm going to - it's a sin
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
(Confiteor Deo omnipotenti vobis fratres, quia peccavi nimis cogitatione,
verbo, opere et omissione, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa)
[trans. "I confess to almighty god,
and to you my brothers,
that I have sinned exceedingly
in thought, word, act and omission,
through my fault, through my fault,
through my most grievous fault"]
(Zero!)
Disco - Actually
Pop com muita classe (musical e poeticamente falando) é a melhor definição que encontro para este disco dos Pet Shop Boys lançado em 1987. Quem quizer que confirme, através da sua audição atenta...
No País das Leis Absurdas
Porque motivo não existe uma (que faria todo o sentido) que proiba a eleição de individuos condenados pela justiça ?
Silly Season 2009 VIII - O Melhor é Proibir o PS de Concorrer ás Próximas Eleições
O BE descobriu mais um tema de inegável importância, o qual é absolutamente decisivo para o futuro do País. O PS está a violar a lei eleitoral que determina que os suplentes não podem ser em número superior ao dos efectivos. E também diz que nenhuma lista pode ter mais do que 5 suplentes. Ora isso acontece em alguns distritos. Os rapazes estão todos excitados, vá-se lá saber porquê...
segunda-feira, 3 de agosto de 2009
Música - Close (To The Edit) - Version 1
Art Of Noise, uma das possiveis versões (existem pelo menos 12 (!)) deste tema de 1983
Música - Rio
Duran Duran, album homónimo de 1982
Wow!
Moving on the floor now babe you're a bird of paradise.
Cherry ice cream smile I suppose it's very nice
With a step to your left and a flick to the right
You catch that mirror way out west
You know you're something special and you look like you're the best.
Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand.
Just like that river twisting through a dusty land.
And when she shines she really shows you all she can
Oh Rio Rio dance across the Rio Grande.
I've seen you on the beach and I've seen you on T.V.
Two, of a billion stars, it means so much to me
Like a birthday or a pretty view
But then I'm sure that you know it's just for you
Hey now (wow), look at that. Did he really run you down?
At the end of the drive, the lawmen arrive you make me feel
alive alive alive
I'll take my chance 'cause luck is on my side
I tell you something I know what you're thinking
I tell you something, I know what you're thinking
Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand
Just like that river twists across a dusty land.
And when she shines she really shows you all she can.
Oh Rio Rio dance across the Rio Grande
Her name is Rio she don't need to understand
I might find her if I'm looking like I can
Oh Rio Rio hear them shout across the land
From mountains in the North down to the Rio Grande
Wow!
Moving on the floor now babe you're a bird of paradise.
Cherry ice cream smile I suppose it's very nice
With a step to your left and a flick to the right
You catch that mirror way out west
You know you're something special and you look like you're the best.
Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand.
Just like that river twisting through a dusty land.
And when she shines she really shows you all she can
Oh Rio Rio dance across the Rio Grande.
I've seen you on the beach and I've seen you on T.V.
Two, of a billion stars, it means so much to me
Like a birthday or a pretty view
But then I'm sure that you know it's just for you
Hey now (wow), look at that. Did he really run you down?
At the end of the drive, the lawmen arrive you make me feel
alive alive alive
I'll take my chance 'cause luck is on my side
I tell you something I know what you're thinking
I tell you something, I know what you're thinking
Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand
Just like that river twists across a dusty land.
And when she shines she really shows you all she can.
Oh Rio Rio dance across the Rio Grande
Her name is Rio she don't need to understand
I might find her if I'm looking like I can
Oh Rio Rio hear them shout across the land
From mountains in the North down to the Rio Grande
Silly Season 2009 VII
Consta que em Agosto os Portugueses vão todos para o Algarve. Não sei como será o resto do mês, mas hoje apareceram (quase) todos no meu local de trabalho (o qual fica na grande Lisboa e não tem a mais remota semelhança com uma praia...)
domingo, 2 de agosto de 2009
Filme - Bean
Rowan Atkinson é um dos mais brilhantes humoristas ingleses (enquanto autor e actor), sendo Mr Bean uma das suas mais brilhantes criações. O personagem foi transposto para o grande ecran em 1997 pela mão de Mel Smith. Bean é um funcionário completamente mediocre da Royal National Gallery de Londres, que é enviado para os EUA (numa vingança interna) para a apresentação do famoso quadro A Mãe de Whistler, que acabou de ser adquirido pelo museu de Los Angeles. Hospedado na casa de David Langley (Peter MacNicol), Bean vai demonstrar toda a sua irresponsabilidade, mas também o seu grande coração...Filme perfeito para a estação que corre...
Admitimos Que Somos Completamente Incompetentes, Mas Isso é Irrelevante: Podemos Sempre Fazer Pior, Se Nos Deixarem...
Apesar de não ter conseguido assegurar a gestão de um terço da área que explora, a Empresa Municipal de Estacionamento de Lisboa (EMEL) quer expandir-se para a zona da Expo. A instalação de 60 parquímetros na zona da Expo, apesar de ter reconhecido que não conseguiu gerir perto de um terço da área que lhe está destinada, faz parte do o Plano de Actividades 2009 a que a Lusa teve acesso e que falta ser aprovado pela Câmara Municipal de Lisboa.A justificação dada pela empresa pelo facto de deixar de explorar de forma consistente mais de 11.400 lugares, prende-se com o vandalismo e os equipamentos antiquados.No final do ano passado, o EMEL tinha a seu cargo mais de 40 mil lugares de estacionamento. Cerca de 38 mil à superficíe e 2.744 em parques.
Ainda o Caso Joana Amaral Dias
1. Alguém com dois dedos de testa acredita na história do Sr Secretário de Estado Paulo Campos?. Ou alguém lhe encomendou o serviço, ou caso a ideia tenha sido sua, teve que ter aval superior (se tal não aconteceu é de uma gravidade inadmissível (num país supostamente democrático) um Secretário de Estado ultrapassar o Primeiro Ministro, sem isso ter consequências). 2. Joana Amaral Dias (JAD): Lançou a bomba, foi-se embora, e no regresso manifestou-se surpreendida com os efeitos...Poucas pessoas terão reparado num enorme pormenor: JAD afirmou que, entre o primeiro e o segundo telefonema de Paulo Campos, aconselhou-se com Mário Soares (de quem foi mandatária para a juventude nas últimas presidenciais, ao arrepio do que devia ter sido o "normal": Apoiar Francisco Louçã). Quem é que JAD pretendeu "entalar"?. 3. Socrates e Louçã: Ambos estiveram muito mal, mas por uma vez Sócrates foi mais inteligente que Louçã...(A regra é Sócrates ser mais esperto...). 4. Quem ganhou com esta lamentável história? Ninguém...Apenas mais um lamentável episódio da política de grau zero.
sábado, 1 de agosto de 2009
Aberrações
Desde 1996 que a travessia da ponte sobre o tejo é gratuita em Agosto, na sequência de um acordo entre o estado e a Lusoponte. Gratutita é uma forma de expressão, dado que quem paga é o estado, ou seja, os cidadãos que pagam impostos...Qual é a justificação (para que eu e milhões de outros) que (raramente ou nunca) usam essa ponte, sustentem os seus regulares utilizadores?. Alguém em Agosto paga as minhas deslocações?. Se eu as enviar ao estado Português, qual é o resultado?. Mais uma inacreditável discriminação "made in Portugal"... Onde é que anda a extrema-esquerda, que passa o tempo a gritar pelos casamentos entre a paneleirada, e outros assuntos menores?. Isto não os incomoda ? Pelos vistos não...
Música - Mayonaise
Smashing Pumpkins (um original de Siamese Dream de 1993), ao vivo.
Fool enough to almost be it
Cool enough to not quite see it
Doomed
Pick your pockets full of sorrow
And run away with me tomorrow
June
Well try and ease the pain
But somehow well feel the same
Well, no one knows
Where our secrets go
I send a heart to all my dearies
When your life is so, so dreary
Dream
Im rumored to the straight and narrow
While the harlots of my perils
Scream
And I fail
But when I can, I will
Try to understand
That when I can, I will
Mother weep the years Im missing
All our time cant be given
Back
Shut my mouth and strike the demons
That cursed you and your reasons
Out of hand and out of season
Out of love and out of feeling
So bad
When I can, I will
Words defy the plan
When I can, I will
Fool enough to almost be it
And cool enough to not quite see it
And old enough to always feel this
Always old, Ill always feel this
No more promise no more sorrow
No longer will I follow
Can anybody hear me
I just want to be me
When I can, I will
Try to understand
That when I can, I will
Fool enough to almost be it
Cool enough to not quite see it
Doomed
Pick your pockets full of sorrow
And run away with me tomorrow
June
Well try and ease the pain
But somehow well feel the same
Well, no one knows
Where our secrets go
I send a heart to all my dearies
When your life is so, so dreary
Dream
Im rumored to the straight and narrow
While the harlots of my perils
Scream
And I fail
But when I can, I will
Try to understand
That when I can, I will
Mother weep the years Im missing
All our time cant be given
Back
Shut my mouth and strike the demons
That cursed you and your reasons
Out of hand and out of season
Out of love and out of feeling
So bad
When I can, I will
Words defy the plan
When I can, I will
Fool enough to almost be it
And cool enough to not quite see it
And old enough to always feel this
Always old, Ill always feel this
No more promise no more sorrow
No longer will I follow
Can anybody hear me
I just want to be me
When I can, I will
Try to understand
That when I can, I will
Estou Esclarecido..
A bloquista Joana Amaral Dias está surpreendida com o alarido criado à volta do convite para candidata a deputada que lhe foi feito pelo PS. A militante do Bloco de Esquerda confirmou que o convite partiu de Paulo Campos. A bloquista Joana Amaral Dias mostrou-se espantada com o alarido criado à volta do convite que lhe foi endereçado pelo PS para fazer parte das listas socialistas ao Parlamento pelo círculo de Coimbra. Num frente-a-frente na SIC Notícias, esta militante do Bloco de Esquerda adiantou que o convite partiu do secretário de Estado das Obras Públicas, Paulo Campos, que, na opinião de Joana Amaral Dias, «deu o dito pelo não dito» em vários desmentidos que fez sobre este convite. «Dá um desmentido, dá uma no cravo outra na ferradura. Diz que manteve contactos 'privados e íntimos' comigo, coisa que eu desminto. Acho que vi o Paulo Campos uma vez na vida, depois estes convites foram feitos pelo telefone», adiantou.
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