Luis Soares's Blog, page 339

Emily Alexander - A few things, a bicycle, and a love poem

And too often, I count each loss like teeth tumbling
out of my mouth, rattled by the roar of every heavy
body, all the things we can somehow keep: the siren
call, carcass in the gutter, woman crying in her car, how far
these fields reach towards empty streets. I want to be
pressed against your neck, spine unclenched. Some
nights, I ride my bike across town, and learn leaving, and learn to
hold. And the stars sway and catch on my bicycle chain, and darkness
vines between houses, over roads, while wind...

Toots in New Orleans

Toots Thielemans playing live in New Orleans in 1988. Featuring Fred Hersch on piano, Harvie Swartz on bass and Adam Nussbaum on drums.

Mallu Magalhães - Casa Pronta

Créditos:
autoria: Mallu Magalhães
violão e voz: Mallu Magalhães
vídeo: Marcelo Camelo
áudio: Pedro Gerardo

Frank Ocean - Boyfriend

my boyfriend drives a lil bucket
when it rain it fills up with rain
my boyfriend he gon pick me up
don’t distract him at the wheel
in his lane
he’s the only one

my boyfriend he misses me when i’m gone
so he don’t forget me
there’s a song he sings
calms his nerve, endings
my boyfriend is friendly
and we don’t want no problems

i could say that i’m happy
they let me and my boyfriend become married
i could say that i’m happy
but cross my heart i didn’t notice
hope to die no never, we voted
me and my boyfriend...

Thomas Dworzak - Pokémon Go!

There is a scene in the 1961 French-Italian film 'L’Année dernière à Marienbad'where characters, rendered in black and white, move enigmatically around the grounds of a palatial château. There is something curious and slightly off about their difficult interactions, their jagged positioning combined with the geometrically manicured gardens evoke a game of chess. This plays into the experimental narrative structure of the film, in which time and space are warped concepts. This summer, Mag...

Toots Thielemans with Elis Regina

Toots Thielemans is dead at 94. Here with Elis Regina playing the Jobim classic, Wave.

O que é o contemporâneo?

É segunda-feira e toda a gente precisa de acordar com um pouco de filosofia a sério, de pensamento como deve ser, e o José Bragança de Miranda foi um dos meus professores favoritos de sempre.

O QUE É O CONTEMPORÂNEO?

Quarta-feira, 10 de fevereiro às 18h no Auditório do Museu Colecção Berardo - Entrada Livre

Conferencista: José A. Bragança de Miranda Bio: José A. Bragança de Miranda é doutorado em Ciências da Comunicação pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1990), com agregação em «Teoria da Cultu...

Don DeLillo at Shakespeare & Company

Five months ago:

We are honoured to welcome author Don DeLillo in the run-up to the launch of his latest novel Zero K.

Don DeLillo is the author of fifteen novels, including Zero K, Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. The Angel...

Philip Levine - On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane

Brooklyn, 1929. Of course Crane’s
been drinking and has no idea who
this curious Andalusian is, unable
even to speak the language of poetry.
The young man who brought them
together knows both Spanish and English,
but he has a headache from jumping
back and forth from one language
to another. For a moment’s relief
he goes to the window to look
down on the East River, darkening
below as the early night comes on.
Something flashes across his sight,
a double vision of such horror
he has to slap b...

The Internet: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

The Internet is both an anomaly and a sign of the times. No, I'm not talking about the actual Internet you're using to read this text (though that Internet is pretty special, too), I'm talking about the L.A. band featuring founding members Syd The Kid (vocals/production) and Matt Martians (keys/ production), as well as Pat Paige (bass), Jameel Bruner (keys) and Chris Smith (drums).

The band might just be the oddest thing to come from Odd Future, the collective known for its irreverence — and,...