http://www.publico.clix.pt/shownews.asp?id=1247738
Bem Público, com uma jogada linda de cabeça, empurra o esférico para o fundo das malhas do Neoliberalismo
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Friday, February 10, 2006
Deixa arder sem ofender
Se nas Filipinas queimam bandeiras da Dinamarca, qual é a preocupação desse pessoal com atitudes ofensivas? Se isso os descansa, deixa arder. Digam lá se não dava um bom cartoon... "Um grupo de manifestantes a fazer algo realmente ofensivo, cada um a desenhar o seu cartoon"
Monday, January 23, 2006
Emigrar para onde?
Hoje parece que muita gente pensa em emigração [1] [2]. Mas para onde?
França, depois das declarações de Chirac sobre o Irão? Espanha, de onde emigraram os republicanos? Inglaterra, e aturar a inexistência da esquerda?
Se querem que vos diga, acho que os portugueses, tirando um emigrado (eu) que não consegui votar e a direcção do ps que também não votou, se portaram bem nesta eleição. Segundo os media, parecia que Cavaco seria presidente mesmo sem o incómodo das eleições... e quase que não foi. A todos os que acreditaram até à última, o meu maior abraço...
Amanhã haverá mais... é só uma questão de sermos melhores do que eles.
França, depois das declarações de Chirac sobre o Irão? Espanha, de onde emigraram os republicanos? Inglaterra, e aturar a inexistência da esquerda?
Se querem que vos diga, acho que os portugueses, tirando um emigrado (eu) que não consegui votar e a direcção do ps que também não votou, se portaram bem nesta eleição. Segundo os media, parecia que Cavaco seria presidente mesmo sem o incómodo das eleições... e quase que não foi. A todos os que acreditaram até à última, o meu maior abraço...
Amanhã haverá mais... é só uma questão de sermos melhores do que eles.
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Soneto da Fidelidade
Escutei as palavras de Vinicius durante "Eu sei que vou-te amar"
"De tudo, meu amor serei atento
Antes, e com tal zelo, e sempre, e tanto
Que mesmo em face do maior encanto
Dele se encante mais meu pensamento.
Quero vivê-lo em cada vão momento
E em seu louvor hei de espalhar meu canto
E rir meu riso e derramar meu pranto
Ao seu pesar ou seu contentamento.
E assim, quando mais tarde me procure
Quem sabe a morte, angústia de quem vive
Quem sabe a solidão, fim de quem ama
Eu possa me dizer do amor ( que tive ) :
Que não seja imortal, posto que é chama
Mas que seja infinito enquanto dure."
Vinicius de Moraes
"De tudo, meu amor serei atento
Antes, e com tal zelo, e sempre, e tanto
Que mesmo em face do maior encanto
Dele se encante mais meu pensamento.
Quero vivê-lo em cada vão momento
E em seu louvor hei de espalhar meu canto
E rir meu riso e derramar meu pranto
Ao seu pesar ou seu contentamento.
E assim, quando mais tarde me procure
Quem sabe a morte, angústia de quem vive
Quem sabe a solidão, fim de quem ama
Eu possa me dizer do amor ( que tive ) :
Que não seja imortal, posto que é chama
Mas que seja infinito enquanto dure."
Vinicius de Moraes
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Friday, December 16, 2005
He had a terrible cold
I Have a Terrible Cold
I have a terrible cold,
And everyone knows how terrible colds
Alter the whole system of the universe,
Set us against life,
And make even metaphysics sneeze.
I have wasted the whole day blowing my nose.
My head is aching vaguely.
Sad condition for a minor poet!
Today I am really and truly a minor poet.
What I was in old days was a wish; it's gone.
Goodbye for ever, queen of fairies!
Your wings were made of sun, and I am walking here.
I shan't get well unless I go and lie down on my bed.
I never was well except lying down on the Universe.
Excusez un peu ... What a terrible cold! ... it's
physical!
I need truth and aspirin.
(14.03.1931)
'Selected Poems' translated from Alvaro de Campos by J.Griffin.
I have a terrible cold,
And everyone knows how terrible colds
Alter the whole system of the universe,
Set us against life,
And make even metaphysics sneeze.
I have wasted the whole day blowing my nose.
My head is aching vaguely.
Sad condition for a minor poet!
Today I am really and truly a minor poet.
What I was in old days was a wish; it's gone.
Goodbye for ever, queen of fairies!
Your wings were made of sun, and I am walking here.
I shan't get well unless I go and lie down on my bed.
I never was well except lying down on the Universe.
Excusez un peu ... What a terrible cold! ... it's
physical!
I need truth and aspirin.
(14.03.1931)
'Selected Poems' translated from Alvaro de Campos by J.Griffin.
Vinicius
Tom Jobim: «Vinicius era múltiplo. Senão ele seria Vinicio de Moral, e ele não era, ele era o Vinicius de Moraes».
Friday, November 25, 2005
Sunday, November 06, 2005
Both Sides Now
Here is a song I've been listening quite a lot.
Original from Joni Mitchel, also sung by Maria João.
BOTH SIDES NOW
Rows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As ev'ry fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way
But now it's just another show
You leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away
I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all
Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say "I love you" right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that way
But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost, but something's gained
In living every day
I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all
I've looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all
Monday, June 13, 2005
Até sempre camarada!
Álvaro Cunhal 1913-2005

(o meu favorito - Lápis,sem título, Agosto,1958 - Desenhos da Prisão)
http://www.citi.pt/cultura/artes_plasticas/desenho/alvaro_cunhal/index.html
"(...)É bom que jamais percam a necessidade e o gosto de escrever, de pintar, de tocar um instrumento, de mesmo em silêncio, sem assim se chamarem, continuarem a ser artistas."(p.202)
Álvaro Cunhal in "A Arte, o Artista e a Sociedade"
É um dia muito triste, no qual desaparece um político...
...com uma dimensão humana maior...
...possívelmente a maior
Até sempre camarada!
(o meu favorito - Lápis,sem título, Agosto,1958 - Desenhos da Prisão)
http://www.citi.pt/cultura/artes_plasticas/desenho/alvaro_cunhal/index.html
"(...)É bom que jamais percam a necessidade e o gosto de escrever, de pintar, de tocar um instrumento, de mesmo em silêncio, sem assim se chamarem, continuarem a ser artistas."(p.202)
Álvaro Cunhal in "A Arte, o Artista e a Sociedade"
É um dia muito triste, no qual desaparece um político...
...com uma dimensão humana maior...
...possívelmente a maior
Até sempre camarada!
Saturday, June 11, 2005
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Monday, April 25, 2005
25 dAbril em Plymouth
Foi tempo para celebrar a uma das revoluções mais pacíficas de sempre, mas com tantas consequências. Nada de revivalismos, mas sim, mais um momento para pensar no que os moveu e no que nos move hoje.
Este ano, invariavelmente o trabalho...
Sunday, April 24, 2005
Rieth 2003
Para quem gosta de Neurologia, Medicina, Arte, Sociologia, Filosofia, ou simplesmente para quem gosta de pessoas e como elas incorporam todas estas disciplinas, tem de ouvir as Rieth Lectures de 2003 da BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/lectures.shtml
Monday, January 31, 2005
Cântico Negro
"Vem por aqui" - dizem-me alguns com olhos doces,
Estendendo-me os braços, e seguros
De que seria bom que eu os ouvisse
Quando me dizem: "vem por aqui"!
Eu olho-os com olhos lassos,
(Há, nos meus olhos, ironias e cansaços)
E cruzo os braços,
E nunca vou por ali...
A minha glória é esta:
Criar desumanidade!
Não acompanhar ninguém.
-Que eu vivo com o mesmo sem vontade
Com que rasguei o ventre a minha mãe.
Não, não vou por aí! Só vou por onde
Me levam meus próprios passos...
Se ao que busco saber nenhum de vós responde,
Por que me repetis: "vem por aqui"?
Prefiro escorregar nos becos lamacentos,
Redominhar aos ventos,
Como farrapos, arrastar os pés sangrentos,
A ir por aí...
Se vim ao mundo, foi
Só para desflorar florestas virgens,
E desenhar meus próprios pés na areia inexplorada!
O mais que faço não vale nada.
Como, pois, sereis vós
Que me dareis impulsos, ferramentas, e coragem
Para eu derrubar os meus obstáculos?...
Corre, nas veias, sangue velho dos avós,
E vós amais o que é fácil!
Eu amo o Longe e a Miragem,
Amo os abismos, as torrentes, os desertos...
Ide! tendes estradas,
Tendes jardins, tendes canteiros,
Tendes pátrias, tendes tectos,
E tendes regras, e tratados, e filósofos, e sábios.
Eu tenho a minha loucura!
Levanto-a, como um facho, a arder na noite escura,
E sinto espuma, e sangue, e cânticos nos lábios...
Deus e o Diabo é que me guiam, mais ninguém.
Todos tiveram pai, todos tiveram mãe;
Mas eu, que nunca princípio nem acabo,
Nasci do amor que há entre Deus e o Diabo.
Ah, que ninguém me dê piedosas intenções!
Ninguém me peça definições!
Ninguém me diga: "vem por aqui"!
A minha vida é um vendaval que se soltou.
É uma onda que se alevantou.
É um atomo a mais que se animou...
Não se por onde vou,
Não sei para onde vou,
-Sei que não vou por aí!
José Régio, Poemas de Deus e do Diabo, Brasília Editora, 10ª edição, Lisboa 1984
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Elections
I saw for the first time Fahrenheit 9/11. I really enjoy Michael Moore’s films, although Bowling for Colombine stroke me much more than this one. The later one exposed a reality that I was just slightly aware of while many of the facts contained in Fahrenheit were already known through the European press.
What shocked most of the people, I think, was how Moore tried to expose the bad character of President Bush, and his inability to lead the destinies of the most powerful country in the world, or of any other country. In politics it is not very polite to point out personal characteristics, although in arts and humor it is, and that can explain why some people had a hard time digesting the crude message. There are some genius moments such as the reading of the “patriot act” to the congressmen, or the attempt to recruit their sons for the army. I totally support the making of more films like this.
The American elections have emptied this film a bit, and raise the motivation for a totally new film. In what way do the Americans think they have improved since the first election (where Bush actually lost)? Why is democracy so underdeveloped, giving a green light to criminal actions such as Iraq war? A dangerous lesson came with this process: in the present state, politicians from democracies are able to commit incredible crimes based on lies, and they can publicly admit it without taking any responsibility.
I suggest reading Fahrenheit 451 from Ray Bradbury, the inspiration for the title of Moore’s film.
Last week an Iraqi friend here in the UK, was asking people if she should vote for the Iraq elections. The reasons not to vote were many: many persons appear on more than one list, most of the names on the list are really not well known from the public, or just the simple statement shared by most of her (non fundamentalist) family, “there are no elections under occupation”.
My argument was that the vote was the simplest part of the democracy and in itself is a good thing, not legitimating a puppet government. If persons who do not vote by conscience are mixing themselves with those who didn’t care to vote, who preferred to stay at home because they don’t value democracy enough, then the process will have no point at all, and good opportunity of passing a message was lost. She thought of writing her motives into the paper, making a null vote, but according to the procedure null votes are spoiled, and most of null votes are from persons who don’t know how to vote properly. I say, if you don’t trust the system, or if you feel that you are not informed enough, vote blank. Blanks are counted to decide if a second turn should take place, and that is the most explicit message you can give to the whole process. Saramago stayed in the air for a moment…
What shocked most of the people, I think, was how Moore tried to expose the bad character of President Bush, and his inability to lead the destinies of the most powerful country in the world, or of any other country. In politics it is not very polite to point out personal characteristics, although in arts and humor it is, and that can explain why some people had a hard time digesting the crude message. There are some genius moments such as the reading of the “patriot act” to the congressmen, or the attempt to recruit their sons for the army. I totally support the making of more films like this.
The American elections have emptied this film a bit, and raise the motivation for a totally new film. In what way do the Americans think they have improved since the first election (where Bush actually lost)? Why is democracy so underdeveloped, giving a green light to criminal actions such as Iraq war? A dangerous lesson came with this process: in the present state, politicians from democracies are able to commit incredible crimes based on lies, and they can publicly admit it without taking any responsibility.
I suggest reading Fahrenheit 451 from Ray Bradbury, the inspiration for the title of Moore’s film.
Last week an Iraqi friend here in the UK, was asking people if she should vote for the Iraq elections. The reasons not to vote were many: many persons appear on more than one list, most of the names on the list are really not well known from the public, or just the simple statement shared by most of her (non fundamentalist) family, “there are no elections under occupation”.
My argument was that the vote was the simplest part of the democracy and in itself is a good thing, not legitimating a puppet government. If persons who do not vote by conscience are mixing themselves with those who didn’t care to vote, who preferred to stay at home because they don’t value democracy enough, then the process will have no point at all, and good opportunity of passing a message was lost. She thought of writing her motives into the paper, making a null vote, but according to the procedure null votes are spoiled, and most of null votes are from persons who don’t know how to vote properly. I say, if you don’t trust the system, or if you feel that you are not informed enough, vote blank. Blanks are counted to decide if a second turn should take place, and that is the most explicit message you can give to the whole process. Saramago stayed in the air for a moment…
Thursday, December 23, 2004
Mensagem de esperança
Estou prestes a partir para Portugal para ir passar o Natal com a família. Dei de caras com esta música, que se insere perfeitamente no espírito desta quadra :)
Tenho um desafio para vos propor: Adivinhem a altura, o lugar, e quem dirige esta canção de natal (ouçam até ao fim).
Não se inibam de colocar as vossas respostas nos comentários, sendo que se reserva o direito ao autor deste blog de usar o lápis azul, em excecionais circunstâncias, que este considere que ultrapassam o limiar de dor (120 dB).
Tenho um desafio para vos propor: Adivinhem a altura, o lugar, e quem dirige esta canção de natal (ouçam até ao fim).
Não se inibam de colocar as vossas respostas nos comentários, sendo que se reserva o direito ao autor deste blog de usar o lápis azul, em excecionais circunstâncias, que este considere que ultrapassam o limiar de dor (120 dB).
Friday, December 17, 2004
Bookcrossing
I got to know Bookcrossing from the newspaper "aCabra". It is a network of books traveling around the world, that people release in places where someone interested might find them. You can track in the website the books that were registered or passed by you, and you can see how different people reacted to them.
You can follow the book I released in Gatwick airport with the link
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2289125/jmartins/book_Three-Men-on-the-Bummel-(Penguin-Popular-Classics)-Jerome-K.-Jerome
If you have the book "Cantors Dilemma" from Carl Djerassi, please be so kind to register it and release it next to me, as the nearest one seems to be in Maryland, USA.
You can follow the book I released in Gatwick airport with the link
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2289125/jmartins/book_Three-Men-on-the-Bummel-(Penguin-Popular-Classics)-Jerome-K.-Jerome
If you have the book "Cantors Dilemma" from Carl Djerassi, please be so kind to register it and release it next to me, as the nearest one seems to be in Maryland, USA.
Thursday, December 02, 2004
Gostei!
A decisão do nosso Presidente merece ser qualificada com um adjectivo: "Gostei!"
Esperemos agora que a velha máxima "É preciso que tudo mude para que tudo fique como está", não venha a sair reforçada depois das próximas eleições de Fevereiro. Por muito utópico que pareça, acho que vai sendo tempo da esquerda provar que se consegue entender para criar um projecto de desenvolvimento sustentável para Portugal.
O que mais me espanta é verificar que ainda há gente que se dá ao trabalho de incomodar o Professor Cavaco Silva, pedindo-lhe que venha a governar outra vez Portugal.
Estamos lembrados do grave conflito instucional com o poeta Luís de Camões, sendo que o segundo ganha com larga vantagem em domínios com sensibilidade e, pasme-se, actualidade.
Antes de ser eleito diziam que Durão Barroso era o D. Sebastião do PSD, e o que aconteceu? A metáfora veio a revelar-se acertada, foi para a Comissão Europeia e nuuuunca mais ninguém o viu. E se, finalmente, uma maioria absolutíssima de portugueses, chegar à conclusão de o Professor Cavaco Silva afinal nunca deveria ter voltado dos confins de África, onde agora repousa, que figura mítica do passado gostariam eles de desencantar?
Esperemos agora que a velha máxima "É preciso que tudo mude para que tudo fique como está", não venha a sair reforçada depois das próximas eleições de Fevereiro. Por muito utópico que pareça, acho que vai sendo tempo da esquerda provar que se consegue entender para criar um projecto de desenvolvimento sustentável para Portugal.
O que mais me espanta é verificar que ainda há gente que se dá ao trabalho de incomodar o Professor Cavaco Silva, pedindo-lhe que venha a governar outra vez Portugal.
Estamos lembrados do grave conflito instucional com o poeta Luís de Camões, sendo que o segundo ganha com larga vantagem em domínios com sensibilidade e, pasme-se, actualidade.
Antes de ser eleito diziam que Durão Barroso era o D. Sebastião do PSD, e o que aconteceu? A metáfora veio a revelar-se acertada, foi para a Comissão Europeia e nuuuunca mais ninguém o viu. E se, finalmente, uma maioria absolutíssima de portugueses, chegar à conclusão de o Professor Cavaco Silva afinal nunca deveria ter voltado dos confins de África, onde agora repousa, que figura mítica do passado gostariam eles de desencantar?
Thursday, November 25, 2004
Sou um medidor de sons
Com os cumprimentos de um mestre da ironia
Erik Satie: Memories of an Amnesic (Fragments) (1912-13)Translated from the French by R. Motherwell.First published in S.I.M. (Journal of the Société Musicale Indépendent), Paris, 15 April 1912, and 15 February 1913.
1. What I Am
Everyone will tell you that I am not a musician.1 It's true.
From the beginning of my career I classed myself among phonometrographers. My works are pure phonometry. If one takes the "Son of the Stars" or the "Pieces in the Form of a Pear," the "In Riding Habit"2 or the "Sarabands," one can see that no musical idea presided at the creation of these works. They are dominated by scientific thought.
Besides, I get more pleasure from measuring a sound than I do from hearing it. With phonometer in hand, I work surely and joyfully.
What haven't I weighed or measured? All of Beethoven, all of Verdi, etc. It's very curious.
The first time I used a phonoscope, I examined a B flat of average size. I have, I assure you, never seen anything more disgusting. I had to call my servant in to show it to him.
On my phono-weigher an ordinary F sharp, of a very common type, registered 93 kilograms. It came out of a very fat tenor whose weight I also took.
Do you know how to clean sounds? It's a dirty business. Cataloguing them is neater; to know how to classify them is a meticulous affair and demands good eyesight. Here, we are in phonotechnics.
In regard to sonorous explosions, often so disagreeable, cotton placed in the ears attenuates them quite comfortably. Here, we are in pyrophonics.
For writing my "Gold Pieces," I employed a caleidophone register. This took seven minutes. I had to call my servant in to listen to it.
I believe that I can say that phonology is superior to music. It is more varied. You get paid more for it. That's how I made all my money.
In any case, with a metodynamophone, a phonometry expert with practically no experience can easily note down more sounds than the most skilled musician, in the same time, with the same effort. It is thanks to it that I have been able to write so much.
The future therefore belongs to philophonics.
1 Cf. Séré's "Musiciens francais d'aujourd'hui."2 (Satie is referring to the horse, not the rider. trans.)
Erik Satie: Memories of an Amnesic (Fragments) (1912-13)Translated from the French by R. Motherwell.First published in S.I.M. (Journal of the Société Musicale Indépendent), Paris, 15 April 1912, and 15 February 1913.
1. What I Am
Everyone will tell you that I am not a musician.1 It's true.
From the beginning of my career I classed myself among phonometrographers. My works are pure phonometry. If one takes the "Son of the Stars" or the "Pieces in the Form of a Pear," the "In Riding Habit"2 or the "Sarabands," one can see that no musical idea presided at the creation of these works. They are dominated by scientific thought.
Besides, I get more pleasure from measuring a sound than I do from hearing it. With phonometer in hand, I work surely and joyfully.
What haven't I weighed or measured? All of Beethoven, all of Verdi, etc. It's very curious.
The first time I used a phonoscope, I examined a B flat of average size. I have, I assure you, never seen anything more disgusting. I had to call my servant in to show it to him.
On my phono-weigher an ordinary F sharp, of a very common type, registered 93 kilograms. It came out of a very fat tenor whose weight I also took.
Do you know how to clean sounds? It's a dirty business. Cataloguing them is neater; to know how to classify them is a meticulous affair and demands good eyesight. Here, we are in phonotechnics.
In regard to sonorous explosions, often so disagreeable, cotton placed in the ears attenuates them quite comfortably. Here, we are in pyrophonics.
For writing my "Gold Pieces," I employed a caleidophone register. This took seven minutes. I had to call my servant in to listen to it.
I believe that I can say that phonology is superior to music. It is more varied. You get paid more for it. That's how I made all my money.
In any case, with a metodynamophone, a phonometry expert with practically no experience can easily note down more sounds than the most skilled musician, in the same time, with the same effort. It is thanks to it that I have been able to write so much.
The future therefore belongs to philophonics.
1 Cf. Séré's "Musiciens francais d'aujourd'hui."2 (Satie is referring to the horse, not the rider. trans.)
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