Luis Soares's Blog, page 661
January 20, 2013
January 19, 2013
Mark Strand - The Story of Our Lives
1.
We are reading the story of our lives
which takes place in a room.
The room looks out on a street.
There is no one there,
no sound of anything.
The trees are heavy with leaves,
the parked cars never move.
We keep turning the pages, hoping for something,
something like mercy or change,
a black line that would bind us
or keep us apart.
The way it is, it would seem
the book of our lives is empty.
The furniture in the room is never shifted,
and the rugs become darker each time
our shadows pass over them.
It is...
January 18, 2013
Sobre o Riso.
O estado do tempo está em alerta vermelho. Notícias de política não leio nem vejo, por motivos de higiene, vou-me informando do mínimo que posso. Para a semana começam a ser pagos os primeiros ordenados deste ano. Resta-me alguma música, filmes, livros, amigos poucos e lugares, alguns.
Desde que a crise ganhou protagonismo estatístico na semântica portuguesa, sem que nunca tenha chegado verdadeiramente a desaparecer, a coisa que melhor temos feito com ela, é rir, por inútil que tal possa parec...
Dorothy Parker - Symptom Recital
I do not like my state of mind;
I'm bitter, querulous, unkind.
I hate my legs, I hate my hands,
I do not yearn for lovelier lands.
I dread the dawn's recurrent light;
I hate to go to bed at night.
I snoot at simple, earnest folk.
I cannot take the gentlest joke.
I find no peace in paint or type.
My world is but a lot of tripe.
I'm disillusioned, empty-breasted.
For what I think, I'd be arrested.
I am not sick, I am not well.
My quondam dreams are shot to hell.
My soul is crushed, my spirit sore;
I do not li...
January 17, 2013
January 16, 2013
O mundo ainda existe?
O Jason Kottke publicou um vídeo que parecia apenas uma extraordinária coincidência. Alguém que filmava uma perseguição policial na sua televisão foi surpreendido pela passagem dessa mesma perseguição à sua porta. Vejam aqui:
É claro que o nível da coincidência suscitou dúvidas sobre a veracidade do vídeo, mas aparentemente o Andy Baio sincronizou os dois vídeos e parecem não restar muitas dúvidas.
Simulacros, simulações, imagem dentro da imagem, dentro da imagem, o delay que a televisão introd...
January 15, 2013
Alfred Lord Tennyson - Ulysses
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink
Life to the lees. All times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea. I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much...
Quero ver este filme.
Brace yourself for a glimpse inside the mind of Charles Swan III! Written and directed by Roman Coppola (CQ), the film stars Charlie Sheen as a brokenhearted playboy and Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman as his best friends, who try to pull him out of a surreal spiral after the love of his life dumps him hard. The film also stars Kathryn Winnick, Patricia Arquette, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
