Luis Soares's Blog, page 718
March 14, 2012
Adrian Henri - Without You
Without you every morning would feel like going back to work after a holiday,
Without you I couldn't stand the smell of the East Lancs Road,
Without you ghost ferries would cross the Mersey manned by skeleton crews,
Without you I'd probably feel happy and have more money and time and nothing to do with it,
Without you I'd have to leave my stillborn poems on other people's doorsteps, wrapped in brown paper,
Without you there'd never be sauce to put on sausage butties,
Without you plastic flowers in ...
March 13, 2012
March 12, 2012
Stephen Spender - I Think Continually
I think continually of those who were truly great.
Who, from the womb, remembered the soul's history
Through corridors of light where the hours are suns
Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition
Was that their lips, still touched with fire,
Should tell of the Spirit clothed from head to foot in song.
And who hoarded from the Spring branches
The desires falling across their bodies like blossoms.
What is precious is never to forget
The essential delight of the blood drawn from ageless springs
Breaking ...
Boa semana.
1943. Orson Welles, vestido para a personagem de Edward Rochester em "Jane Eyre" onde contracenava com Joan Fontaine, posa com Stan Laurel e Laurel Hardy, vulgo Bucha (Hardy) e Estica (Laurel) nos estúdios da 20th Century Fox. Os dois faziam precisamente de músicos de jazz em "Jitterbugs". Estariam realmente a tocar? Era apenas uma fotografia de promoção sem mais? (via If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats).
