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Save the Interwebz!!!!

2012-01-18T00:54:00.001Z

Hey you devoted readers of my blog *cof*

Hope everyone had a great beginning of 2012. The last year you will live. Ever. World ends in December. True story.

Or not. Some guys just got tired of making calendars and they stopped in 2012. So, some people, logically, thought the world is coming to an end. Humans...

Meanwhile...if you want to enjoy Internet on this very last year of your existence you have to be aware of this bill USA is trying to pass. I will let a video explain the foolishness:

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

What is SOPA?
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA, H.R. 3261) is on the surface a bill that attempts to curb online piracy. Sadly, the proposed way it goes about doing this would devastate the online economy and the overall freedom of the web. It would particularly affect sites with heavy user generated content. Sites like Youtube, Reddit, Twitter, and others may cease to exist in their current form if this bill is passed.

What is PIPA?
The Protect IP Act (PIPA, S. 968) is SOPA's twin in the Senate. Under current DMCA law, if a user uploads a copyrighted movie to sites like Youtube, the site isn't held accountable so long as they provide a way to report user infringement. The user who uploaded the movie is held accountable for their actions, not the site. PIPA would change that - it would place the blame on the site itself, and would also provide a way for copyright holders to seize the site's domain in extreme circumstances.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation laid out four excellent points as to why the bills are not only dangerous, but are also not effective for what they are trying to accomplish:

The blacklist bills are expensive. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that PIPA alone would cost the taxpayers at least $47 million over 5 years, and could cost the private sector many times more. Those costs would be carried mostly by the tech industry, hampering growth and innovation.
The blacklist bills silence legitimate speech. Rightsholders, ISPs, or the government could shut down sites with accusations of infringement, and without real due process.
The blacklist bills are bad for the architecture of the Internet. But don't take our word for it: see the open letters that dozens of the Internet's concerned creators have submitted to Congress about the impact the bills would have on the security of the web.
The blacklist bills won't stop online piracy. The tools these bills would grant rightsholders are like chainsaws in an operating room: they do a lot of damage, and they aren't very effective in the first place. The filtering methods might dissuade casual users, but they would be trivial for dedicated and technically savvy users to circumvent.

from:

If you tomorrow come across websites that aren´t working they are protesting against this bill. Wikipedia is one of them. So hurry up on doing your homework and then protest against this bill!

Thanks!

Season´s Greetings

2011-12-24T00:48:00.001Z

Merry Christmas dear blog readers.

Hope you enjoy the season and that you get all that you wish for.

If You Like...Jason Segel

2011-12-13T23:36:00.002Z

Long story short...he´s awesome.

Yup...another video...

Murmuration

2011-11-23T00:56:00.001Z

I know, I know I said on the last post that a blog full of videos is rather dull...but...look at it...look!

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

New segment

2011-11-14T23:26:00.001Z

Thought in introduce a new segment here on the blog. It will be something like "It´s Music To Your Ears", meaning a video will be the main point of the post, with just a short introduction or description of what it is about.
The idea vanished since the first time I had it because I think a blog full of videos, as sometimes happens when I embed music videos 3 or 4 posts in a row, are a bit...dull. The problem is that I don´t have ordinary [life] stories - as the blog title goes for - on a regular basis (at least blog worthy ones...and, also...I´m lazy) to keep the blog updated, which for me means write a few posts, at least, every month.

Thus, rather than only having a music segment the blog will now have an "interview" segment. The goal is, since I found a few Youtube channels who have quality interviews, bring it to the blog...so it can end up being not a music video but a video of a musician being interviewed...which will happen often I presume...and the first post will prove that. Other YT channel that might appear often is one that uploads episodes of the American talk-show Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson since I watch it every time it appears on my subscription box...which usually happens just one day after the episode originally aired on US tv and has a great host, great sidekick and great guests.

It will be called "If You Like..." Therefore, If you like...Feist:

37 minutes of Feist where she talks about radio (this is a radio interview...yes, you are watching a radio interview...so, like, futuristic right?...yeah...), about music, and on that subject, her brand new album "Metals" where she does a track-by-track analysis. It´s a great interview. Although I can´t help but feel...awkward at some parts. I know music moves people, and I´m one of them, but it´s always slightly weird for me see a journalist (which, and this is the case) also a fan, try to undress the songs and explain what do they mean in front of the artist...and sometimes I feel like the artist agrees just to be cool. A song can have different interpretations to each person and that comes from a different experience that usually people connect the song with. And sometimes I just imagine songwriters writing a song, or choosing a line or a certain word just because it sounds good...not everything needs to be metaphorical and/or literal. I think that, because if you wonder the blog you might find a few poems I wrote and despite I mean what I wrote it doesn´t mean I wrote it for a particularly someone or situation. If I meanwhile found someone to whom the poems apply? Yes. And she´s awesome!

It´s Music To Your Ears

2011-10-24T01:22:00.000+01:00

I´ve found Lisa Hannigan probably more than a year ago via cover of one of her songs, beautifully done by this girl , which I already wrote about, here .

So, and without further ado to not lose myself in compliments, here´s Lisa.

It´s Music To Your Ears

2011-10-16T01:53:00.001+01:00

It´s Laura Jansen and Cary Brothers singing Ryan Adams. Gotta love it!
Enjoy!

Cary Brothers & Laura Jansen » Ryan Adams from The Voice Project on Vimeo.

It´s a cover for this project >> Voice Project Check the other videos there...really cool stuff waiting for a listen.
And yes, those looks to each other during the performance are the most intimist looks you can get from someone. Specially someone you love.

Here´s some words from who recorded the performance that are on a little text besides the video on the site posted above:
"[...] the knowing looks of two people who share a life. Yeah, there's a lot of love in that room, I hope you watch this all the way through and see it/feel it for yourself. After I watched the footage for the first time I just walked outside, I guess to be with the good feeling it gave me, maybe thinking the night air would help it stay with me. It did.
— Hunter"

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On a life update: Second year of college started a few weeks ago. Everything going pretty great. Although won´t say the same in a couple of weeks as tests, paper works and presentations make their way through the awesome life of being with great people and attend a couple of classes each day. And afternoon schedules are not as bad as I thought...yes, you do get extremely sleepy in classes after lunch (a brilliant time of the day for a nap) but sleep all morning is quite pleasant too...and with the cold weather ahead nothing sounds better than a warm bed. And I can have my night owl life style.
Bed that I should have where [city] I study. It´s great be at our own bedroom at the end of each day but you miss a bit of the college atmosphere by staying at home and getting on a train every day...specially you miss those 1 or 2 hours that you could be still sleeping but you have to wake up a couple of hours before a class starts to be there on time. Yup, I love to sleep. But what I also mean is that you have to rush for buses and trains instead of just hanging out with your mates a bit more and then walk home and do something at night...
Anyway...I´m learning Italian!

Therefore, arrivederci bambini!

It´s Autumn already...

2011-09-29T18:35:00.001+01:00

...and I wish it would thunder.

To a more literal song title one:

I´m out of luck though. Autumn here is looking like an out of place Spring after a not-that-hot Summer. Spring and Autumn are not that different here but clear skies and 30ºC are not exactly the best preparation for the cold rainy months ahead.

Cold rainy months ahead with exciting music coming up. I´m stuck at this for now:

Amazing second single of the album yet to be released. The first single is the demanding catchy one obviously.

But there´s a lot more new music this Autumn.
Besides Snow Patrol there will be new albums of Feist (already available on the internets, Diane Birch (I hope) and Marit Larsen whose last Tumblr post is the line-up of the third album. And I believe there is some more albums that might interest me coming out. Unfortunately I don´t remember any more for now but they might be mentioned here soon.

Enjoy the music while you admire the beautiful colours of the leaves falling from the trees leaving them naked. You pervs.

Review - Anna Calvi - Hard Club (Porto)

2011-09-14T00:00:00.004+01:00

Doesn´t look like but Anna Calvi is almost 30 years old. She´s another musician showing there is no age restrictions when it comes to release your debut album. The reason, as she says, she never came up as the front girl of a band is...shyness.
Well, she now is the front girl of her own project and there´s no shyness at all when she´s holding her Fender Telecaster.

Compared by many, in barely every music magazine, to Brian Eno, Nick Cave, Jimi Hendrix and PJ Harvey she claims her influences come from all of those plus Nina Simone and David Bowie. She has, indeed, something playing on her behalf: she is unique. You won´t find anyone this days doing the music she does and if you find, please, do tell. She is a mix of all the ones mentioned already in a cocktail served shaken, not stirred.

After album promotion, a few concerts, tv appearances and a presence in many Summer festivals she is now on her first proper tour that will basically be all around Europe and also US and Canada. Not bad for a first album. A Mercury Prize Nominee album. Not bad indeed.

It´s easy to describe the audience that will receive her during this tour. They are all on their 30s - minus 10 plus 10 doesn´t make a big difference - which could all be close friends of her and who know exactly who she is and what to expect from her.
You can easily prove that knowledge when one of the singles is played as one of the first songs - which the very first is "Rider To The Sea" - which is "Blackout". Ovations echoed through the room as the first chords are beautifully played and a powerful voice fills the place. Although much, that probably never listen to her besides singing, won´t hide a certain surprise when a sweet-fragile "Thank You" comes out of her mouth at the end of every song as if it was not the same person that just sang her lungs in a flawless, effortless way.

Anna brings two companions to help her. By her left she has an incredibly talented lady who plays [approximately] 101 instruments. I can assure she plays them all, so no show-off-only, but I can almost guarantee you 99% of all the people that will watch her on this tour can correctly name them all. I can give a help and say that one is a triangle. I think.
On the back there´s the drummer. A simple guy...not more than, and I wish I could go for technical terms here, 6 pieces on his drum set. And a microphone for some back vocals. It´s a perfect fit...Anna´s guitar and his drum set.

Drum set in which my personal favourite - "Suzanne and I" - starts with a beautiful beat and goes on with the perfect guitar skills and powerful voice of the lady in charge. As Anna leads us to her album - "First We Kiss"; "Morning Light"; "The Devil" - you get the feeling that, at least live, there´s no weak songs on the recorded version of it. Which is quite right. She takes inspiration from flamenco for her style and also for her music. While to the visuals the connection is quite easy to make when it comes to the music you have to listen a few times to get there. But there´s some of it on a strong contender to "Suzanne and I" for my favourite one which is "I´ll Be Your Man".

Another single, "Desire", and "Love Won´t Be Leaving" (probably the song I would recommend for a first Anna Calvi listen) makes the crowd be sure their money was more than well spent. She comes back for the Encore after being acclaimed by an happy audience and ends the show with an Edith Piaf cover - "Jezebel". A suitable end for a great night where she can for one last time deliver that voice and [superb] guitar skills.

A shy Anna waives goodbye. You walk away commenting on how fantastic her voice is as you listen others say the same. Will always be like this at her concerts I´m afraid. Will be a night well spent.

Does not matter which Factor it is

2011-08-24T02:33:00.004+01:00

She has it.

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For more amazing talent >> www.youtube.com/user/janetdevlin

I´m like...whoa!

Late night session

2011-08-19T02:58:00.005+01:00

Tonight´s session of this night owl already included:

Listening of my favourite radio show on a session where they talked about Summer music festivals;
Nerina Pallot´s home concert/answering questions stream sessions that she used to make at her own house for pleasing her fans - yes, she is that awesome;
Listening to late night BBC Radio 2 shows...Nerina led me there;
Taking a look at photos on devianART;
Late night snacks.

If I was rich and own a shinny-fancy DSLR camera I would let you call me an hipster. I don´t even have some skinny jeans so no hipster tag here. Shame.

Also, as I mentioned night owl...this is spot on:

Note: Red notes by me.

Around The Interwebz

2011-08-05T00:37:00.002+01:00

And around the world:

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

Amazing!
And take a look to the other two short films of the series!

No comments

2011-08-02T04:04:00.004+01:00

Why would someone that works on the online department of a newspaper arrive to a conference room for some brainstorming and suggest something like: "What if. We. Let our online readers...comment the news we post on our website?" (there´s no typos, that´s how I actually picture the man/woman saying that to a group of people seated on executive office chairs around a big table).
But the problem here is not the guy who came with this brilliant idea on his head and spent all day excited to present it. We all have bad ideas. No. The problem is the group of people around that big table that went: "But. That´s a brilliant idea!!! How we didn´t think of this before?! Brilliant! Let´s do it."

And off they went apply it.

Now I wonder if those same people who thought this would be a good idea actually give a read to the comments on the news that they write. Well, watching how well written are some pieces of "journalism" I see in some online newspapers I believe that they don´t even read their own texts to see if there´s any mistakes.
I usually take a look to two [Portuguese] online newspapers. One because I bought it during a period of time due to the free offer of a photography course and liked their work and a economic one that is available free of charge at my college (an interesting surprise) and that after getting it every day I started to enjoy their work too and now, on holidays, like I´m not there to get it I take a look at the website. I also tend to miss the news on television hence this look around the papers.

If you´re looking for a despicable laugh look no further than an article at any of these, or any other, newspaper that let post comments. I could tell you I have a ton of adjectives to try to describe how they look like but let´s just say "ridiculous" is pretty high on that list of adjectives. If you´re feeling down and really dumb and wondering if there is someone dumber than you take a look at those comments and you are as good as new. Sure that the executives thought about not letting some [cussing/rude] words be posted but they weren´t counting with the smartasses they would have posting at their websites would use such options as including @, _, !, and other smartasses tools to get around that restriction.
You would think that the economic one being sort of elitist and directed to a specific group would have good and clear comments. Forget it. And then they let people reply to others people comments which, obviously, being this world The Internet World, a discussion will 99% of the times end with 1) insults or 2) who has the biggest weener.
You would in fact think that this kind of newspapers would look up to the likes of The New York Times or The Guardian as international references often cited in their articles and follow the example of non-available comments. Despite some of the long [opinion] articles. Why? Smartasses won´t read that long to make an easy joke. Too much of a trouble. And probably contains words they never heard of.

And nowadays with everyone [read: newspapers] having a Facebook page and posting links to their news over there you would think they could leave the comments only to that platform. But no. Why? Let´s just say that Anonymous or any sort of smartass pseudonym is a way easier way to get your smartass point across. Be a smartass and show your real name and face is not that fun.

Recent Illusion

2011-08-01T03:31:00.010+01:00

Can please someone, preferably a female specimen, tell me that a couple of conversations with a girl does not make me, or even more important, that person like me in a, let´s say, very interesting way? I know that I´ve just found a singer called Nerina Pallot and that her, now husband, proposed to her after a 30 minutes talk when 31 minutes before they didn´t even know each other but let´s not be naive, that´s an one in a million movie-like event and that dude is a lucky mate. He is. She´s awesome.
Just because the conversations were actually interesting and lasted for some hours let´s not push things forward. I know that even the awkward silences were not that awkward...but that might had happened only on my side. Anyway after one month why do I keep thinking about it? What´s really fun and plain weird is that besides all this I still don´t have the best idea of that person´s personality and at the same time enjoyed her that much. I haven´t seen her after this period of time, we don´t live near each other and on a move that I´m usually awful at I got no reply to a text message I sent (better than receive this one though). Me and my head. I think too much.
And that´s why I think this song can be featured here:

Because that´s me.

The Trailer

2011-07-28T02:56:00.003+01:00

Despite being watching a movie every night for the past weeks I´ve never considered myself a good cinema fan. That happens mostly because my cinema-memory is quite awful. Titles, Directors, even which actors were in a certain movie don´t really stick on my head. I have favourite actors but even following their work and go watch at the cinema their latest movie is many times a mission not accomplished. In fact I don´t even go to the cinema that often. Among other reasons my brilliant town has only 2 rooms...which nowadays doesn´t make any sense...and this is not a small town for Portuguese standards.

Anyway I try to pay attention to movie releases and this days with social networking is quite easy to be well informed.
While consulting an online newspaper I saw a reference to the following movie due to the existence of 2 different trailers and 2 different promotion posters because apparently (well...nothing we didn´t know already...) Americans despite throwing liberalism at your face they are the biggest prudes of the modern world and they can´t have a poster with a girl showing her boobs. On a side note here´s another proof of USA´s liberalism
And here´s the trailer: (press 720p for a better experience...and raise the volume)

Now if this isn´t the most badass trailer of a movie you ever saw...

I´ve never heard of this movie before (and there´s already a Swedish version of it...because it´s based on a Swedish trilogy by Stieg Larsson) and also never heard about the books but I wanted to read them as soon as I discovered the movie only comes out later this year thus giving me time to read all three of them.
And meanwhile I´ll try watch the Swedish version too. Just like a new fanboy that hipsters are going to hate. Hipsters...they are awesome. Easy hipsters...I might add that now that I checked the book covers I remember come across this books every time I entered a book store...and that happens quite often. Take that hipsters!
Never thought it was a best seller (there´s where hipsters get mad if you didn´t know) and now sales will go up even more with this movie coming out and having David Fincher directing, Daniel Craig on it and Trent Reznor as soundtrack author of which you can have a taste on this trailer with the collaboration of Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs).
In conclusion looking forward for some good reading and that excitement of knowing that the book that you read will end up on a cinema screen. After all Atonement was great wasn´t it?

This is, yet again, a musical post

2011-07-12T04:06:00.009+01:00

Remember my last post? It was not that long ago. And a bit of scroll down can be a good help for a reminder. Just saying.

I will try fight my usual inclusion of a Youtube video or any sort of links in a word.
This just started and I digress already. Digress is my new favourite word.

It is because 1) I just learnt it 2) was the word I was looking forward to describe my habit of going around in circles before getting to the main point and 3) Nerina Pallot (last post...have you read the first sentence of this post or not?) digresses a lot too as you can see on her blog on Myspace - yes, such thing still exists - and on her homemade videos on nerinapallottv (Youtube channel).

Fourth paragraph is the main point. I´m in absolute awe with Nerina Pallot´s (read "Pallow") music and personality. She´s amazing. If there´s one thing [digress alert] I´ve learnt with "Rage Comics" (no link...Google it) is that I´m not the only person in the world to whom happens or do awkward and strange things. So I´m probably not the only one jumping from passion to passion when it comes to music singers. I´m sorry dear Norge Marit, dear Dutchie Laura, dear Yank Diane but Nerina owns the stage by now. And I just found she used to write some big blog entries on Myspace as mentioned before...and while I´m reading she just keeps growing on me. Even if it was written way back - I usually found this musicians blogs when they stopped writing them long ago...
Her first two albums are on their way. I believe the other two will be soon. They aren´t yet because no Summer job means no money and this way I can also appreciate and give the necessary amounts of play to "Dear Frustrated Superstar" (bold name for a first album) and "Fires" (a masterpiece to who likes this kind of music as told by some [biased] people - Nerina´s fans).

On another note besides naming her son Wolfgang Amadeus (I will totally propose this name to my future wife) - and besides, for what I could gather until now, a proper Arsenal fan - she also has quite a story on how she met her husband. It wouldn´t give such a long story as the show How I Met Your Mother, that´s going up to 8 seasons, but it would sure be quite a fantastic story too. Wouldn´t go much further than a pilot episode when it comes to show duration but would be worth make it. As I found on a comment on a picture with the magazine article about it on her Facebook page "That´s all I ever wanted. That´s all I fear I´ll never get". I can only second that. Yup, is that lame and worth take a look. As told here already and me being such a Ted Mosby (Google it...) I wouldn´t mind at all have such lame moment.

Think this is enough promotion already or I would proceed the digress (overuse of word already?) and rambling on this musical passion until sleep kicks in. And it´s late already. But I believe those records soon on my mail box will be played to [perhaps non-existing] exhaustion because I believe I can listen to "Sophia" on repeat to the rest of my life. It also can be the heat of the moment...

P.S. I feel like I should present you another artist I finally decided to give some attention but I´m not whiling to steal Nerina´s spotlight with a post of her full of videos and complimenting words about her but you really should check Laura Marling. Unbelievable talented! She sure deserves a post with all of that I mentioned. Some other day...some other day.

*update* P.S.1 One of many interesting quotes of Nerina that I found in an old interview but still rather up to date:
"It takes courage to like anything just because you like it, in a world where we’re being told what we ought to like because a majority does, and when being ‘different’ is now much like being the same as everyone else."

*update2* Just read on a blog entry where she digresses on a nomination to an award that her favourite songs of 2007 were Chasing Cars [Snow Patrol] and...(not the very best of them but still!) Supermassive Black Hole by Muse. And some nice words about Arctic Monkeys too. Oh Nerina.

It´s just this. No idea if any more updates will appear here but stay tuned.

It´s Music To Your Ears

2011-07-04T20:08:00.007+01:00

I like to have a story for this musical part of the blog in order to don´t turn it rather blank and with only a YT video on the post. So here we go:

Studying on a city that is not the one where you live you need to have lunch in that city every other day. There´s an whole lot of choices where I study. Canteen, college bars and tons of restaurants/bars/coffee places around it that serve cheap meals to attract students. While growing up I was always lucky enough to not need to eat at the canteen and have grandma´s recipes. Literally.
Despite the nice meals available on my canteen, I decided to go for the shopping mall 5/10 minutes away in a walking distance from my incredibly ugly college campus. It´s probably my favourite one in this land full of them and it´s a nice place to be in. There´s also cheap meals there plus every once in a while I get to have lunch with a friend that works there.

On one of many lunches there I´ve noticed the music played on the sound speakers was rather cool (meaning: stuff that I like). Snow Patrol, Keane, Joss Stone, Paloma Faith(!) among others. But, and after listening to an unknown one several times - yes, they play on repeat - I found myself wondering "Who the hell sounds this very nice Italian song?!" but with a ceiling 15 meters away from my head, where the sound columns are on, it wasn´t easy get the lyrics to google them later.

Thus I decided to arrive home and go search on the Italians charts if the music was there. An Italian song in Portugal is not that usual so this one must be very well known over there to get airplay here. That or you are Laura Pausini or Eros Ramazzotti (our radios loved them back in the day...). But nothing.

Until one day when I was getting out of the mall by the exit college students like me must use - underground parking lot...with a steep exit - and there (yes there´s sound speakers there too...fancy.) I´ve noticed the song was not Italian...but English. *Pokerface followed by facepalm*

Stopped a bit to quickly put some of the lyrics on the phone in time to no one see me staring at nothing in an underground parking because that´s a weird thing to do. I think.

Arrived home just to find out the great singer that is Nerina Pallot. And she´s on that cliché group of singers that for some strange reason don´t get the credit and attention they deserve.

The song:
I know..."how the fuck he thought this was Italian?!"...

She´s also the author of one of the best covers I´ve ever listened to:

Plus she seems a great person. To start she´s an Arsenal fan...with a great sense of humour as you can see in the end of this .

You can also follow her on twitter here for musical info and here to know what´s the latest Ebay item she´s into.

Summer on the grass

2011-06-29T01:18:00.002+01:00

Or not so much.

Sabine is adorable. Always smiling. A sympathy that hides her threatening serve and forehand!
Semi finals for her next Thursday!

Oh yeah...tennis fan over here!

It´s Music To Your Ears

2011-06-20T00:50:00.003+01:00

Oh...Hey there! You are perhaps thinking this blog is not being updated as it was a couple of months ago because the owner is now very worried with his final exams of the first year of the degree is engaged in and he is also probably looking for a Summer job to get some money...and something to do instead just good life. You might be also thinking "WTF am I doing in this blog?!", which is clearly a valid piece of thinking too.

Truth is that I´m not only procrastinating the exams + search of a Summer job but also procrastinating when it comes to this blog. Do I have random ideas/thoughts to post here? Yes. Those ideas appear late at night when I´m not really thinking in seat down and write them here? Most of the times. Do I remember what I was thinking to post here when I´m actually on the mood to seat down and write? Most of the times, no.

So to cover up here´s another music video to make this blog look like a really interesting one and that the owner makes all the efforts to keep it slightly updated.

One of the first female singers which work I started to follow with more attention. And there´s no Like button for this girl with a charismatic British accent. Either you love her or hate her. And despite the, now weird haircut, I love her. She can write the most shallow lyrics (and that´s her speciality) but she makes them sounds fantastic in a non-awkward way that a first attentive listen to the lyrics would suggest. She´s in fact the creator of the only song I can play in a guitar. Last but not least she looks like a great person and we can note that in the shallow/awesome lyrics. Enjoy!

It´s Music To Your Ears

2011-06-09T00:19:00.005+01:00

My latest discovery:

And after seeing some videos and photos of her performing live I´ve placed her on the top of my must see concerts list.
And it´s funny how her speaking voice sounds lovely. And how she looks utterly lovely too.

*UPDATE* Well, well, well

Sounds like a nice way to end Summer holidays. On a venue that couldn´t be more perfect for her in my opinion and that I´m looking forward to visit for the first time. Hope this one would not be, yet again, one of those I eager to go and fail.
I´m in fact saving money for this kind of events but always saving it to artists that might even not come to Portugal let alone the city Porto and ending in not going to any at all. So from now on let´s take one at a time and if for some awesome reason the other I eager to watch visit this sunny place I´ll make the possible [and impossible] to attend.

Le Website

2011-06-07T23:41:00.004+01:00

Some say I like Marit Larsen.

Thus when invited to be partner on a fan website regarding her work I couldn´t say no.
Here it is:

m-larsen.net

And in a couple of months we had more than 1500 visits already! This when Marit is taking a quite long break from the success of her last album! So we´re glad we are doing a great job [apparently].

Olá Finlândia!

2011-05-07T00:11:00.006+01:00

It´s not the post I´ve promised with the best princess but it´s a good one. Well...depends a bit of how you approach the scenario...

You´re probably not aware if you aren´t in Portugal, not paying attention to global economic markets or...in Finland specifically.

The story goes like this...I´m going to make this quite short for a better understanding:

Portugal is [almost] broke. Therefore we asked for international help mainly from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). But also from European Union and the European Central Bank. To this institutions lend us money (a mere 78 billion Euros...) all the countries must agree because they all contribute with an amount of that mere figure.
Finland had elections a few weeks ago. A party that does not particularly like countries that are irresponsible on how they handle money (can we blame them?) got a fancy amount of votes so they think they shouldn´t lend us money. So dear members of that party included in a country on a thing called European Union. Here´s a video for you.

You´re welcome for 1940.

And you will get your money back.

No hard feelings. We apologize for our governments decisions. And there´s no pun intended on the video. It´s worth for mostly for the humour. Even if you don´t get it. And lift our moral up.

gyraemopfarcb aiosab oirshusdw

2011-04-29T02:57:00.005+01:00

I tried to type a title. Unfortunately I did that while watching the following videos.

We already knew Santa Claus was from Finland but nobody told us princesses come from there too. Holy beauty!!

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On the princesses subject: katemiddletonforthewin.tumblr.com

Meanwhile I call dibs on Princess Beatrice on the right.

My next post will also feature a princess. The best one. True story.

It´s Music To Your Ears

2011-04-27T01:18:00.003+01:00

I thought you´d like a new version
She did it while in a festival
It has a pretty edition
and a gigantic microphone

Found here

In an ideal world

2011-04-25T01:07:00.002+01:00

Zooey Deschanel knows best.

It´s Music To Your Ears - Stop Motion style

2011-04-20T01:20:00.004+01:00

I´m sure you have came across this (pretty awesome) animation technique before but here´s two of my favourite musical Stop Motion videos.

Found somewhere on this wonderfully written blog.

And this one starring, the more than lovely, Alison Sudol. Who? Oh...sorry, A Fine Frenzy. She might respond more often to that name.

Enjoy! And if you have some video of this kind to share be my guest!

It´s Music To Your Ears

2011-04-14T15:45:00.003+01:00

Hup Holland Hup!

Laura Jansen - Bells, EPK from Dri Riser on Vimeo.

For even more info...the look-alike-with-half-duration video:

I wrote "boobs". Three times. Therefore...über interesting post!

2011-04-04T21:56:00.008+01:00

If you follow me on Twitter you might have noticed I´ve mentioned a Dutch name a few times over the last weeks. Probably way too many times. I´m one of those persons with crushes on another people and Laura Jansen is the latest one. Not that I have many. It´s just her and another singer I also might have mentioned a lot on that same Twitter account.

Now to the statement any British tabloid would love to have on their front pages and that - perhaps - explains the crushes thingy: I´ve never had a girlfriend. I guess. I´m sure I´ve been in love before though. I´m pretty sure I let her know about that. And I´m definitely sure I got a negative reply. Life goes on.

Not that I blame her. I blame myself. Being shy, not being a jerk (Hey...have you learned your lesson?) and not being handsome (just a little bit) helps to put me on the just friends list. So, and being a perfectionist bastard - not self-destruction...I just use sarcasm for comedy effects. Did it work?...Nevermind then - I chose utterly cute/beautiful girls to have a crush on. Wouldn´t make sense the other way around right?

You can think I like Marit Larsen´s music because of her looks and the same goes for Laura. It just happens that I enjoy listen to female voices and happens that those two check for "utterly cute/beautiful girls". And as an avid fan I try to know of them besides looks and cool music. Fans try in someway "humanize" artists they like. And nowadays that´s rather easy in this social networking World we live on. Therefore when on a live stream of a concert you hear Laura say that if she could she would have seven or eight disabled/rejected dogs you know she´s a cool girl. Me being a dog-person also helps.

With this I see myself getting married (Damn. I´m such a Ted Mosby - yay for HIMYM reference!) with such a good person. I don´t care about boobs. Or asses. See? We are not all the same. Well...I do notice that from time to time but when I see a face like Laura or Marit I can´t help it...I melt a tiny bit. It´s lame but I don´t *words*. I prefer any of them over Katy Perry and her boobs. Call it what you want. I call it preferences. And yes *more words* .

P.S. With this post the owner of the blog do not aim to make that any girl that does not look like Marit or Laura to not get even near him or show any interest. Like that would ever happen. The owner of this blog does not like to think he gives a wrong idea about his...well...ideas...and personality. Feel free to meet the owner of this awesome blog. You too girls with big boobs!

It´s Music To Your Ears

2011-03-29T00:49:00.006+01:00

Found this yesterday.

Basically was looping in my head all day.

Great song and pretty awesome video by Sara Bareilles!

And, to help the song´s loop, the images of the video also were present in my mind...

Ben Folds saying that uncharted rhymes with farted, Pharrel Williams just doesn´t get old, Josh Groban and his banana (wait...), Ryan Tedder (who knows how to choose girls to his videos , Vanessa Carlton (long time no see) and last but not least the annoyingly beautiful Laura Jansen . And yes. I do sing the "la la la" part with her at the end. I do not waive though. Once I did it. Okay, a few times. It´s rude not waive back at someone who´s waiving at you.

It´s Music To Your Ears

2011-03-21T12:01:00.002Z

Hello Spring!!

How are you and yours 25ºC?! Pretty warm han? Let´s keep it that way!

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Latest addiction:

The lyrics. Great!

"I want dimples, and simple symbols that she's sweet"

Have a nice Spring!
And a nice Autumn if you´re down a certain line...don´t get jealous. Autumn is cool!

Review - Katie Melua - Coliseu do Porto

2011-03-16T00:14:00.004Z

Worth the wait. Katie Melua was due to start her European Tour to promote her new album "The House" last October. Unfortunately an health problem made her postpone not a couple of concerts but all the already scheduled tour. This way my ticket, which was bought right away the announcement of the tour to guarantee a great and not crazy expensive seat, had to wait a few more months.

March arrived and we had the third concert of this tour. The first chords and lyrics were made behind the curtains that when opened resulted in a big reaction of the crowd during "The Closest Thing To Crazy" performed by an alone and intimist Katie on stage.
By the end of the first song I could tell everyone wouldn´t have any regrets of the money and time spent on this show. The official greetings and compliments to the gorgeous city were made right after.

Before the concert I wondered how Katie would build a setlist that at the same time should contain all the (already) classics with the new album which was the purpose of this tour if we can say so. Katie did it well. Probably postponing all the concerts made the new album reach the perfect maturation among all the fans because I could listen people around me humming the lyrics of "I´d Love To Kill You", "Moment of Madness" and "Tiny Alien".
The singles got a great response too. "The Flood" is quite a masterpiece live. "A Happy Place" kept the upbeat.

The mix of the new songs with the ones already well known by the fans made the concert pleasant and without any awkward moments of any unknown song played to pass time. In fact, "No Fear of Heights" - played for the first time live and again in another intimate moment where only Katie and her guitar player were on stage - and "Red Balloons" had the best feedback from the sold out Coliseu.

Back to the curtains they revealed what I think it was a gigantic screen...but after a couple of songs without nothing on it I lost my hopes and thought Katie would only rely the show on her great voice and flawless band. I was actually right in the first place because when Katie left the center of the stage and seated on her piano she told us she had some cool graphics to show us but the computer wasn´t working properly (it end up working though)...this way she also told us she feels like she should compensate that fact singing more songs. Complimenting laughs echoed on the room. That´s Katie. A shy talented Georgian-British young girl - Yes, she´s just 26 - that delivers song after song without saying much in between them. Some like it, others not so much. Some interaction wouldn´t hurt. Although it´s understandable due to the shyness not only of Katie by also from the crowd at her concerts.
Also to note in the middle of all this...a song to Japan. Despite the angelic look and unreal voice Katie is indeed human and made that moment one of the most touching ones of the night. She cares. Not a coincidence that a sponsor of her tour is Opel and she´s the face of their electric car - Ampera.

"My Aphrodisiac Is You" - yup, you should check the lyrics for this one - came with ice soap bubbles (such awesome thing indeed exists!!) from the ceiling. A fun Melua wonder around the stage kicking them with a large smile on her face.

We demanded an encore. "Nine Million Bicycles" beautifully opened it. "I Cried For You", again in a solo intimist performance, ended the perfect night making some of the presents take the lyrics quite literally. A lonely girl by my side was quite moved. It´s how good this concert was.

P.S. I have no idea what was the health problem that made Katie cancel the tour back in October but I can´t go past saying this. She is one fit girl!

It´s Music To Your Ears - LIVE and kicking

2011-03-14T11:58:00.004Z

I am going to use one of this tickets today!

Hint: It´s not the fancy one that says "Maio 2010"...but that was good too.

Wish I could go to concerts more often.

See you tonight Katie!!

Late at night...it´s when I write.

2011-02-21T05:07:00.004Z

I have a thing for beautiful girls. It´s a curse. I could have been one of those teenagers which the most important thing to do is focus on how to get to the next level of my strategy video game or how to win the next game on Football Manager (which...I actually won. Take that Leeds United!!). But no, I rather spend some of my time on a computer searching pictures of girls. Not in a perv way. I guess. And hope.
I mostly take a look at sets of pictures of singers and actresses (call me selective) which I liked to see/listen to. Or perfect strangers on fashion blogs (the most recent strange addiction for a 20 years old boy) like this one . I think it´s not the fashion per se but the mix of it (great looks/styles/clothes/accessories) with beautiful girls (of course...but I also like to see men´s fashion on it) and finally photography.

I´ve developed a musical taste which I´ve learned to sum up, among obviously, things outside that, in "British bands and female voices". The thing is there is a strange relation between beauty and my preference for female voices because all of them look gorgeous. That´s what "scientists" should study...this strange correlations! I won´t write names because I don´t want this post to end on the bottom of the page or forget any name.
With this and through time I´ve started to require that the girls I would be interested in would have a certain personality (well...I´m afraid I´m not alone here...). Call me weird (and taking this to the point that lead to this post) but I´d like (prefer?) to meet a girl who reads a magazine which tell her the trends for next Summer rather than gossip or what will happen next week on her favorite soap opera... She can watch soap operas though. See? I´m not that demanding.

So for the last few days I´ve become a fancy (I just use this word because I like how it sounds) boy and start to visit pages such as Vanity Fair or Esquire .

Also, and all this post could really start just on this paragraph instead of revealing the strange myself, I also started to visit The New York Times (NYT) page because let´s be honest...I don´t watch Portuguese newspapers/tv´s talking crap all the time (uuhh look to the fancy boy!)
So, and (finally) for the real purpose of this entry, yesterday I was wondering through the music section of NYT and I found this:

0:42 to 0:55...I fell for her there. It´s a curse.

And you should take a look at NYT article because she is in one of those strange and mysterious stories involving labels and artists.

In fact my next post may involve another interesting music story. Now I´ll only have to wait for the next late night where at 4am I´ll get myself a pen and a piece of paper and write it down. And on the following day I´ll wonder, like I wondered for this entry, if I should post it or keep it to myself...

The Bookstore

2011-01-31T04:53:00.009Z

"When I sit here alone and so full of weary sadness and I think about myself with plaintive yearnings my heart is heavy and all I can do is sit on the hard chair and look out of the window up at the sky. And I can sit here forever and feel so miserably at ease, thinking, making up things and making everything go on so wonderfully for myself, and all along I know it’s only make-believe. But I don’t care. I like to do it so much.
And when I’m not making things up I think about real things and then I almost kill myself with the saddest joy when I think how nice this was and how nice that was and how homely and familiar and peaceful that was and how the day was cloudy and later it began to rain while we were inside in the darkened room where the girl I made up said you’re such a dope but I don’t care. I just want to sit here by the window with my cold hand against my face and just let me alone a little while so I can think awhile. And if no one will bother me I’ll have such a lovely time. There’s so much I want to think about and lay out nicely so I can refer to it again and again and again. Because that’s the way it is with me. I can have such a good time and it would be so unfair and stupid to deprive me of it all for really no reason at all."

from "Love Is Like Park Avenue" by Alvin Levin

Picture for words

And someone recommend me this...so I´ll do the same for you in this It´s Music To Your Hears inside a post. Just like the dream within a dream...yeah.

And yes, I also feel like the highest rated comment on the video...

All I want for Christmas

2010-12-21T00:21:00.003Z

For a lame title a lame post. I like to be coherent.

Unfortunately due to the fact that I won´t, despite being a good boy all year long, get the only present, and note that I just asked for ONE present, I had to go for the second choices whom are kinda related to the Norwegian cuteness. Yes, I´m improving my album/dvd collection. Amazon says thanks.

The only thing certain in the basket is The Corrs - Unplugged dvd because would be shameless this long time Corrs fan not to have this. Then I perhaps also order Fiona Apple - When The Pawn, Bon Iver´s debut album and Tired Pony first and perhaps last album. I have to check prices because financial crisis is a *bleep* (and can lead me to change the "Ocupation" category on my social networks next year) and I can´t spend much...although Fiona´s album can be bought for...0,01£. Got to love the Internet.

So for all of you: Merry Christmas! Have a blast and enjoy it with your family if possible. As for me I will sure do it. And eat like there´s no tomorrow.

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-11-26T00:28:00.004Z

I decided to help our friends from Ireland, who like us are going through an economic crisis with an impressive 32%(!!) deficit...still they have a minimum wage that pays 8,65€ per hour to an adult worker...what the hell dudes?!, so I´m gonna order this for me in a few weeks to Christmas...as a matter of fact it´s kinda shameful not having this DVD yet...

Most talented family in the music world. Hands down.

Stand Out Qualities

2010-11-13T04:46:00.004Z

As a music lover, and I think I can speak for all of us on the following subject, one of the things we like to do is know more from the person, or group of persons, that can move you with a melody and some lyrics in a three and a half minutes timespace. Whether if it´s by tv, radio or reading a magazine you will build an image based in what was said in the interviews and/or actions you take from them. Often that image can be far off, often can be very different from another person who got the exact same "data" and also came up with a certain image.
With this I wanna transcript a DVD finale from a singer that you might have noticed that I quite like her.

"When you write songs you really only feel that you´re worth anything when you just finished a song. All the other days of the year I don´t feel like a songwritter. I´m convinced that I just wrote my last song and it´s never gonna happen again. It´s hard, you only have a very...this sounds so bland, but it´s so very true, you only have a limited amount of notes. You´re trying to make something really unique and you only have these very limited tools that you can use. So sometimes I´m convinced that I´m never gonna be able to do it again, and it keeps me on the ground...keeps me humble. Because I only worth as much as my last song. That´s the way it goes." Marit Larsen

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-11-08T01:27:00.002Z

On a random tweet saying that I had to be a political science expert for tomorrow´s test someone replied me with a random tweet too...with a link to this:

Maybe I was living under a rock but this guy is around for ages and I only knew a cover of Wonderwall from him.

I will definitely search more, and I already took a listen to one of his albums in a store, but I´m already stuck to this one:

So damn good!

And guess who sings "When The Stars Go Blue"? Yup...Ryan Adams.

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This week is "texts week" so lots to study (I don´t even remember what´s that already) but in the end of the week (and oh...am I looking forward to that!) I´ll post a weird text that I wrote and finally come back to the reading of Paul Auster´s The New York Trilogy!

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-10-18T03:16:00.003+01:00

I´m almost sure that I already talked about this girl here. But looking at the clock (it´s 3:20am...I have to catch a train in...4 hours; Yes I´m a bad boy. Not really...I just don´t know how to wake up soon in a Sunday) I´m not really in the mood of checking it and even if I already talked about her...I´d mention her again because...well...I´ll show you:

I could listen to her all day long. I´m just as sceptic as one of the highest rated comments you can find in one of the videos. "Do girls like you actually exist?" I guess they do.

Have a nice week.

Do you want the truth or something beautiful?

2010-09-29T15:52:00.004+01:00

I like to be creative in my post titles - or at least I try - but this time I chose a song title and yes, it´s from my latest music discover.
Summer is over. Well, not if you live down under in the southern hemisphere. If that´s the case I must warn you that you live upside down.

Was a good Summer - hottest in 49 years...they say - I got a mighty regular job, with the respective mighty good salary. I finally got in college, despite not being as excited as I was in the years where I failed my application, perhaps because this year I knew since January I wouldn´t have problems getting in. The only stressful thing was if I could get in where I wanted...and kudos to me! Last but not least, as a music lover, I couldn´t be happier because I found some amazing talents, being Paloma Faith the last one in the very last day of Summer, and I can finally buy albums on the internet.

Summer is over and looks like good times went away too...at least for this week (meaning last week from this date). I´m writing this in one of several train rides I got in today. I´m gonna tell you something: this country is über-burocratic (über is my new favorite word). My uni thought that having already all the necessary data for transportation purposes in a paper instead filling a blank page was a good idea; the guys from the bus/train companies thought otherwise and had the normal reaction seing that the papers weren´t like the ones last year: they panic and they demand the old ones!

Before all this mess and money spent in trains Sunday I got the news that Katie Melua postponed her whole tour. She was starting here in Portugal in a couple of weeks, tickets were almost sold out weeks before the concert - I have mine for months and now I read that it will have to wait more six months until gets useful. I was really looking forward to it, even more now to distress from all this new life with college and this happened.

This way I want something beautiful so I´ll just close my eyes and make believe...just like I usually do.

Post title: Paloma Faith.

Mail Box

2010-09-29T15:31:00.006+01:00

This is what the mail man has been delivering for the past 4 weeks. Diane Birch was already mentioned so I´ll start with the other girl with pretty hair.

I thought that I´ve also bought her first album (Under The Surface - 2006), but this newbie notice that he ordered the single re-launch (2009)...At least it was cheap and has a cool picture on the cover.

Then I also found this...

Never heard of it (guess Germany, who loves Marit, has the exclusive) but I HAD/MUST to order. And, yes, I´ve watched it a few times by now...she´s so damn talented (try read the lyrics without music...she´s always saying that she fools people with sad lyrics in "bubbly" melodies...and it´s true), also bloody cute and funny - watch Don´t Save Me videoclip making of.

Last, a huge guilty pleasure covered with the excuse this was also a present for my younger sister.

Saw some interviews of her, as I usually do with artists I like, and she´s awesome (read with an aussie accent) and very creative.

The wish list is gigantic. I´ll keep it strict to Tired Pony´s album.
P.S.: Take a listen to this artists: Paloma Faith (Live from Abbey Road), Hurts and Coeur de Pirate...I promise you French never sound so good.

Kid + Toy = Joy

2010-09-06T05:19:00.003+01:00

I will probably sound like a n00b, but who cares? I just found one of many corners of that World of the Wide Web. The story goes like this:

If you look a couple a posts under you will notice that I got myself a brand new music love. The way I found her was quite lucky... The story inside the story goes like this:
On youtube I found guy that uploads the entire episodes of an American talk-show hosted by Craig Ferguson - The Late Late Show. For example, tonight I´ll watch yesterday´s episode. At weekends, like there´s no show, he usually uploads "old" episodes in HD. So, exactly in one of those episodes there was a music act...quite rare on the show because as the name might indicate it´s broadcasted quite late at night. After a funny intro, camera turns on the artist and...oh she has that haircut with whom I got some kind of fetish. Then she starts to sing...wow...just wow. Her name is Diane Birch.

Next step...google her. Found that she´s a new artist with just one album released. Album that after one listen I decided that I must have.
Problem: I certainly won´t find it on portuguese stores.
Solution: Internet.
Problem (part 2): No credit card.

I thought going to the store and ask if they could order that for me (most certainly not...) and I would pay after. Then I found a solution, one that I´ve already heard before. With your debit card you can do a temporary card to buy stuff on the Internet.
Problem (part 3): Went to a couple of ATMs to activate the system and there wasn´t that option. I thought...that´s it. No album for the kid.

For some weird reason I decided go to Amazon.com . Just to see what would be needed to buy stuff there. And jackpot! I could use my debit card just giving the data that the thing has on it. As simple as that...didn´t saw that coming.
Sign in, look up for the goodies (aka music albums) and noticed that buy there will be considerably cheapest than buy...on the store near my house, even if it comes from the other side of the Atlantic. Well...this one I saw coming. Now I´m still exploring my new toy. Bible Belt from D. Birch is already here and as a birthday gift to myself more three goodies are coming (info on the goodies on the next post).

Oh, and don´t trust in Amazon deliver dates. In a good way. I think those marketing people told them to tell people the products will arrive weeks or a month later, and when you notice you got a goodie on your mail just a few days after the order (at least with music albums).

P.S.: Speaking in mail...a letter can beat a car! - This P.S. is related to that great show called Top Gear...Yes, I like cars...I´m a man...despite the doubtful music choices that you´ll see on the next post...and enjoying Ferguson gay impersonations on his shows...that man is funny!)

CPH

2010-08-28T02:36:00.000+01:00

I want to live right here:

Cycling Copenhagen, Through North American Eyes from Streetfilms on Vimeo.

It´s Music To Your Ears com história (2)

2010-08-09T03:49:00.005+01:00

Yes, I know, I know...the lack of posts went on for more a couple of weeks...yeah...come blame the boy who got a proper job and is under ridiculously hot temperatures for...I don´t know...ages?!
Actually today I saw clouds in the sky for the first time in that ages period of time that I mentioned. Anyway we still had more than 35ºC...go figure.
And it will continue at least(!) until August 16th. So the only thing we can expect to see in the sky for the next week is more smoke from the bloody fires *sad face*

Oh the next week. Remember the proper job thingy? So this next week (yes the one with more ridiculously hot temperatures) I have a deadline to accomplish. That means a lot of clothes to pack and probably also a lot of extra hours to work...at least Friday (included) holidays have their beginning.

And what´s better than that thing that I love that (I use "that" too much, I´m sorry) is find a new musical artist? (Also tomorrow it´s payday so...other reason to start the hard work week in a good mood)

About the new artist: I was watching the Late Late Show with Craig Fergunson (some channel in Portugal should broadcast him...instead of soap operas) and there she was.

...I don´t even know what videos to choose. I´m in love. And it´s not only the haircut...which is the one that has some kind of power over my shy person.

Her name is Diane Birch.

She also performed this one at Jools Holland (I assure it´s worth watching) but I think the official video is something that deserves to be appreciated.

Hard work week? Bring it!

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-07-14T03:22:00.002+01:00

Sorry for the lack of posts...blame this event:

Other version...

Well...was a great football month...Congratulations Spain!

I´ll now try to come back with regular posts. Will try my best now that I have a "job", uni application, Summertime...

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-05-31T19:21:00.002+01:00

Guess who...

aahh foi previsivel...

Review dentro de dias...deste concerto, dos restantes e de todo o Festival.

O 27 de Maio

2010-05-27T00:48:00.002+01:00

Vai ser também uma peregrinação...

Destino: Bela Vista, Lisboa

Snow Patrol

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yes...MUSE

Vou dormir um bocadinho e depois conto o resto.

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-05-18T11:41:00.002+01:00

Florence is back...in black...and with that hairstyle that has some kind of weird power over me...

I´ve already showed my love for this artiste here in the blog and now here it´s her latest video...to play it loud!

The Love Thief

2010-05-10T20:27:00.009+01:00

Walking down the avenue
Blooming with style
You can see it´s her
You can see by the smile

It´s the hair, it´s the eyes
It´s the face, it´s the look
It´s the one you could stare
Like she was your favourite book

It´s words and emotions
That pop out from her face
Those kind of feelings
That you would love to embrace

But she hides everything
Deep underneath
She´s just another...
Another love thief.

Title inspired by this wonderful book:

Poem´s appreciation. Press one of the buttons.

Like or Dislike = So Sorry , HATE IT ,
Laaaaaame

Lame is my huge crush on Marit Larsen...that´s lame...

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-05-10T19:43:00.004+01:00

It´s Music To Your Ears from this week will be included on a next post to come soon...you´ll see how it will be included. Hope you, my beloved 5 readers of this blog, to like the next post.

NBA

2010-05-09T01:46:00.004+01:00

As a NBA fan and after years watching my beloved team - Phoenix Suns - being defeated in all kind of ways be the San Antonio Spurs I have to post this and say congratulations to Goran Dragic...the guy was on fire a day after his birthday...23 points in the 4th quarter is something like Michael Jordan would do...

"OH, YES, SUR!"

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-05-03T05:55:00.005+01:00

Do outro lado do Mundo: Lisa Mitchell

Lisa Mitchell - Clean White Love from Scorpio Music on Vimeo.

The second single from Lisa Mitchell's debut album 'Wonder', following the massive success in Australia of Coin Laundry, is Clean White Love.

From Lisa;

Well, Clean White Love is a about the divine clean white light that comes through the shutters with the first hint of the new sun very early in the mornings. It feels a little bit heavenly, and a little bit like being in love. I love getting up early and having hours and hours to dilly-dally about in. I was so startled when we began to play this tune at shows as the audience sang every word with me! We are shooting a video for it over here in the UK on the Isle of White in a weeks time with goddess/video director Vanessa Casswill of 'Coin Laundry' and 'Neopolitan Dreams' direction.

Oh, Hark! Lisa goes dancing and Lisa goes dark!

OH! HARK! from Scorpio Music on Vimeo.

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-04-27T04:24:00.001+01:00

Alguém que os canadianos se esqueceram de convidar para atuar nas cerimónias de abertura/fecho dos Jogos Olimpicos de Inverno em Vancouver.

Não é(são) o(s) país(es) das Maravilhas

2010-04-21T03:21:00.009+01:00

Desde que fui à Bélgica há cerca de ano, especialmente a Antuérpia, fiquei fascinado pela cultura do uso da bicicleta que por lá existe. Não fazia ideia que a bicicleta era muito usada por lá, ao contrário do que já sabia do outro país baixo seu vizinho, e depois vim surpreendentemente a descobrir quem nem Bélgica nem a velocipédica Holanda, têm a classe de Copenhaga.

Vejam se não tenho razão:
http://www.copenhagencyclechic.com/

Como diz o título não há aqui nenhum país, mais concretamente cidade, fantasista. No blog do link não é retratado um "dia especial" em que todos se vestem bem e escolhem a bicicleta para ir do ponto A ao ponto B. Eles vestem-se de forma casual todos os dias e andam nas suas bicicletas quer se dirijam para as escolas, para o trabalho, quer esteja a nevar, quer estejam no mês de Agosto com um sol radioso.
Podem reparar nos posts mais abaixo desse mesmo blog como as mulheres não têm qualquer problema em levar os seus sapatos de salto alto enquanto fazem os seus percursos nas suas stylist city bycicles.
E enganem-se se isto só se passa nestes países referidos! A cultura do uso da bicicleta para deslocações curtas (ou não) está a crescer e pode ser vista nas mais variadas cidades desde França à Polónia, passando pela Itália sem esquecer países nórdicos e bálticos. E a mesma tem os seus benefícios...desde o óbvio aspecto ambiental até à saúde de quem está em cima da dita bicicleta.
Por cá prefere-se o carro...nem que seja para ir comprar um pacote de massa ao supermercado a 300m de casa...
Podem dizer que por cá as cidades não são tão planas quanto as referidas...Eu posso dizer que aqui não neva, nem faz tanto frio como lá. Acho que eles apreciavam a troca de uma pequena subida por nevões intensos.

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-04-20T03:29:00.002+01:00

Segundo single do novo álbum da cantora escocesa que estará presente no próximo Rock in Rio

O Criador de Fobias

2010-04-20T02:32:00.005+01:00

Gosto deste título. Pena o texto não ser grande coisa. Quero desde já reclamar direitos de autor deste título. Se ele já existe peço desculpa...e a permissão para o usar, já que não tenho dinheiro para pagar os direitos de autor sobre o mesmo.

Vamos ao que interessa. Como o título o diz, e bem, acho que criei uma nova fobia. Ainda não decidi que nome lhe dar - quer dizer ela até pode já existir... - mas em vez de lhe dar um daqueles nomes que lendo à primeira não fazemos ideia de que receio se trata vamos chamar-lhe o-medo-de-ir-e-querer-voltar-a-ir-fobia. É...isto soa bem.
Esta fobia, que não vamos estar sempre a repetir nome por razões óbvias, consiste no medo de viajar para certo destino e depois de a viagem acabar, e voltarmos para a nossa casa...querermos viajar de novo para o mesmo destino. Desde já apresento o meu primeiro destino onde fui e pretendo voltar...

Paris: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1074279

Digamos que este primeiro é assim para o irresistível e tenho a desculpa de ser muito novo quando lá fui a primeira vez...e só ter subido até ao segundo nível da famosa torre da primeira foto...e a pé...experiência deveras interessante...a sério.

O mal é que há cerca de um ano fiz outra viagem. Viagem essa a um país que pouco conhecia e que me esqueci de "pesquisar" dias antes de partir. Sinceramente o esquecimento também se deveu a não ter grandes espectativas sobre o mesmo.
Quem diria que a Bélgica é isto?

Bruxelas: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=946342 tenho de voltar...só vi uma parte...e tenho de voltar ao Delirium Café

Brugge: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=946340 tenho de dar outra volta de barco sem depois ter de correr para o comboio.

Gent: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=937372 tenho de andar de barco e percorrer as ruas em redor, já aqui foi mais uma visita-relâmpago

Antwerp: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=756508&highlight=antwerp Tenho de voltar...muitas vezes...

Isto até nem seria um problema. O problema está em, eu no futuro ter como objectivo conhecer o maior número de países e cidades possivel, e se me acontece esta fobia a todos os sítios que vou, o tempo e dinheiro que gastarei numa outra viagem a uma cidade onde já estive vai retirar esses mesmos recursos a cidades que ainda não visitei.

E se todos me surpreenderem como a Bélgica estou tramado.

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-04-12T05:16:00.005+01:00

The freaking adorable, cute, talented, amazing, beautiful, nice, Marit Larsen deserves two videos. But check out more from her on youtube!

It´s Music To Your Ears com história

2010-04-05T05:38:00.003+01:00

O indivíduo que aqui vos escreve era, ao contrário dos dias de hoje, um completo ingénuo no que diz respeito a música até talvez os seus 12 anos. Não é que não ouvisse música de todo mas a que ouvia provinha de rádios, nomeadamente dos que se encontravam dentro de carros, onde quem os controla é quem os conduz. E isto até podia ser bom não fosse ter pais que, infelizmente, não dão assim grande interesse à música. Não é que não ouçam mas são os claros "ouvintes de música num carro em estações de rádio que vão da maluquice da RFM à completamente diferente Rádio Comercial".

Assim sendo eu cresci (até aos 12 anos...) a ouvir música nestas rádios...não é que fosse mau ou que me arrependa disso, afinal de contas sempre ouvia alguma música, só que tenho-vos a dizer que as rádios mencionadas acima não mudaram muito desde então. As mesmas músicas continuam a ser passadas repetidamente e quer-se goste ou não aquelas músicas ficam na cabeça. Isto valeu-me um vício nos The Corrs e um gosto por artistas que me faz sentir diferente de gente da minha idade a começar logo por este vício...não quero com isto parecer pretensioso do estilo "A banda indie que eu e mais 7 pessoas gostamos e mais ninguém conhece é muito boa!", aliás vejo mais este meu gosto como um "prazer proibido" (guilty pleasure soa melhor, não soa?) do que uma virtude, sem querer tirar talento aos The Corrs ou a outros quaisquer. Aliás, quero acreditar que as músicas passadas repetidamente há uma década era um tudo nada melhor que músicas Gagas agora passadas até à exaustão.

Isto tudo vem a propósito de há uns dias terem-me acordado inesperadamente cedo e enfiado num carro (o mesmo onde dantes não tinha controlo sobre o rádio...e continuo a não ter) depois de ter dormido muito menos do que o aconselhável e considerado saudável. Meio a dormir apercebo-me que passa na rádio uma música que me é familiar...e por momentos recuei 10 anos e passei para o banco de trás do carro. Durante 10 anos não soube o nome da música ou simplesmente quem a cantava...mas sabia o refrão de cor. Memorizei a letra só que chegando ao fim do dia e ao computador o sono fez a letra desaparecer. Uns dias depois apareceu letra e melodia novamente...chegando à hora da verdade - ler "chegar ao search do youtube" - tudo desapareceu.
Até que na última sexta-feira, quando estava a sintonizar num rádio o relato do jogo do Sporting e ia a caminho de uma estação (que afinal de contas transmitia uma missa em vez do jogo do Sporting!!...como se atrevem?!) e lá estava a música outra vez (adoro estas coincidências...e esta veio num timing perfeito se olharmos para a rúbrica do It´s Music To Your Ears da semana passada). Desta vez tratei de escrever a letra para depois juntamente com o meu amigo Google encontrarmos o que queríamos.

Eis o resultado:

Robin Scherbastky is that you?!; (How I Met Your Mother joke!...or not...it´s up to you)

Vou deixar uma versão acústica ao vivo porque descobri que a voz ao vivo desta rapariga é qualquer coisa...

Curioso ver que alguns videos desta banda espalhados pelo youtube são maioritariamente vistos num país chamado...Portugal.

E dizer que aprecio mais a gira e escocesa vocalista depois de ter descoberto isto:

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-03-29T20:01:00.003+01:00

Aqui está a música que não ouvia há imenso tempo. É um hino "adoptado" pelos Australianos e faz-me lembrar o Verão e viagens de carro...

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Tou a fazer rascunhos mentais de um texto que envolve música, artistas, mercado musical, estações de rádio, países da Europa e críticas ao "normal português". Tá um bocadinho confuso e vai estar cheio de apartes, como tanto gosto, e espero colocá-lo aqui brevemente.

Joan of Arcadia

2010-03-23T05:26:00.004Z

A ideia de Deus como (quase) protagonista principal de uma série não parece muito interessante, pelo menos para mim, no entanto depois de ver os 2/3 primeiros episódios desta série achei-os interessantes o suficiente para começar a gostar da série e a segui-la com atenção.
Basicamente cada episódio é focado num tema central que pode variar desde preserverança, amor, familia, confiança, etc, o que transforma cada episódio numa espécie de "lição de vida", não dando ainda assim a solução perfeita para resolver os problemas, deixando assim a cada um que assiste tirar as ilações que bem entender. E o mais interessante nisto é que apesar de a série querer transmitir a tal lição de vida em cada episódio, a família da série é uma "família normal" e a história que se vai fazendo liga perfeitamente ao episódio seguinte, apesar da ideia contrária que o tema central possa dar e possa fazer parecer que cada episódio é independente do anterior e do seguinte.
É provavelmente uma das série mais educativas já feitas não sendo nada lamechas. Talvez por isso a série tenha sido cancelada ao fim de duas temporadas, e nem mesmo participações especiais de Hillary Duff, Will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas) e Michael Scofield foram suficientes para o prolongamento da série.

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-03-22T19:46:00.002Z

Estava indeciso entre duas músicas; uma porque era digna de aparecer num tópico de nome "Há que tempos não ouvia isto" de um qualquer fórum; outra porque foi daquelas que deu luta para ser descoberta depois de ouvida diversas vezes num jingle de uma rádio nacional. Optei pela última...e para a semana vem a outra!

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E ainda hoje vem (finalmente) texto - banalidades - a sério, apesar de estar escrito há imenso tempo já.

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-03-15T19:14:00.001Z

Totally addicted to this song/band

Soooo good!

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-03-08T20:25:00.003Z

Appropriate for the moment?

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Back with some ordinary stuff (text) this week I hope!

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-03-01T19:02:00.002Z

And opening for Muse on May 27th we have: Snow Patrol!!

Really looking forward to see them live, even more pumped up now watching this live performances with an awesome Irish crowd!

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-02-22T20:40:00.002Z

You gotta love HD!

Hope these guys come back soon because they gave a great concert last year!

Joss Stone @ Coliseu do Porto; 14/02/2010

2010-02-17T02:03:00.005Z

Eis que à quarta foi de vez...a vez do Porto. Joss Stone, a menina bonita da soul britânica, voltou a Portugal para se estrear numa das salas mais emblemáticas do País, o Coliseu da cidade Invicta. Bilhetes esgotados há muito e a data emblemática e amorosa faziam prever um belo concerto e a espectativa tinha niveis elevados já que há cerca de ano e meio a britânica deslumbrou num belo concerto no Rock in Rio Lisboa.
A sala foi-se enchendo e foi curioso ver o quão maduro era o público, o que pode ser explicado pela data sugestiva o que fazia com que o público fosse composto na sua maioria por casais na ansía de partilhar um concerto agradável com a sua cara metade no famoso dia de S. Valentim.
Com o ambiente preparado e aquecido por Miguel Gameiro - ex-vocalista dos Pólo Norte (com uma primeira parte interessante e bem recebida pela audiência...pela qual Miguel Gameiro resolveu passear) eis que a estrela da noite entra em palco.

Com os seus 22 anos, o que podia indiciar alguém em início de carreira, e com os seus pés a descoberto como sempre, Joss não tem medo de lançar hit singles como primeiras faixas do alinhamento - Super Duper Love; Tell Me What We´re Gonna Do Now; Fell In Love With a Boy enquanto se passeia pelo palco e, à sua boa maneira "provoca" o público para que cante com ela e se faça ouvir, mostrando a sua maturidade artística que vem do facto de os 22 anos não mostrarem alguém em início de carreira, mas sim alguém que lançou o primeiro álbum com 16 anos de idade.
Assim, perante alguém com um talento imenso e uma voz impressionante o público soube retribuir tornando o concerto ainda mais agradável.
Na bagagem trazia o seu 4º disco de originais (curiosamente ainda não lançado por cá...) de nome Colour Me Free que viu algumas das suas faixas no alinhamento, a meu ver muito bem escolhidas. De uma Free Me a uma Could Have Been You com um upbeat contagiante passando para uma emocionante performance de Girlfriend On Demand logo após o encore, Joscelyn Eve Stoker mostrou que está em forma no que diz respeito à criação de novas músicas e álbuns.
O concerto foi prosseguindo com todos os álbuns a merecerem destaque, e por entre bastante apreciadas músicas como Less is More, Some Kind Of Wonderful, Put Your Hands On Me Baby, Baby Baby Baby, Jet Lag (gostei de ouvir esta ao vivo), Joss foi confessando o seu amor pela língua portuguesa e pela "Music" esta sim "o seu valentine" nesta noite de 14 de Fevereiro. Isto entre muitas idas ao seu já habitual copo de chá...não fosse ela inglesa.
Como se não bastasse o talento da artista principal o público ainda tem o prazer de presenciar o enorme talento da banda que a suporta que desde o trompetistas às meninas do coro tornam o espectáculo ainda melhor e cada um tem direito a brilhar.
Com um público deliciado e depois de muitos gritos/palmas/pés a bater no chão o encore começou com o tema já referenciado (Girlfriend On Demand) que teve esta bela actuação muito apreciada.

video de Marta Ribeiro

Com isto e depois de já ter recebido a sua flor preferida entregue por um fã era a vez dela ir buscar os seus lírios brancos para entregar ao público, num dos seus muitos hábitos de palco já criados, enquanto terminava a noite não com um single (muitos talvez esperassem um Right To Be Wrong; Spoiled; Don´t Cha Wanna Ride), mas sim com a mensagem de Big Ol´ Game tema inicialmente incluido na versão japonesa de Introducing Joss Stone e com uma nova versão em Colour Me Free mostrando mais uma vez que não vive de singles ou hits e que pode muito bem acabar com a música que bem lhe apetece.

Perguntou se podia voltar e nós dizemos que sim...quando quiser, mas de preferência o mais breve possível!!

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-02-15T19:42:00.001Z

Joss Stone @ Coliseu do Porto

Review do concerto nos próximos dias!

Let´s Share!

2010-02-10T00:45:00.004Z

Two videos. Two talented girls and two beauties!

Favourite tennis player (The video is so well edited...Venice Beach!)

adidas "day in the life" from dhmanagement on Vimeo.

And I´m kinda addicted to this one at the moment...

Yeah...watch more videos of her and of course Bon Iver!

Bed time...was long day...and will be another short sleep night...

This is bloody great!

2010-02-09T19:28:00.003Z

If you scroll down a bit you´ll find this bit of a long post:

(...)I just need Geography exam...hopefully with something like 16/20...but more would be perfect!
C´mon André, deliver!

P.S. After writing this I did some...yeah, maths and if I have 16/20 in Geography exam I have the EXACTLY same note of the last person going to the course that I want to go at the university that I want to go...what were the odds?! Well...you do the maths!!

So...I went to school today...yeah...Geography exam result...any bets ladies and gentlemen?

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-02-08T19:35:00.002Z

Vamos imaginar um cartaz do Rock in Rio para dia 27 de Maio vamos?...Muse...Arctic Monkeys...e vá lá...mais estes...

Quote

2010-02-03T01:15:00.002Z

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one”

C. S. Lewis

It´s Music To Your Ears - 2 videos

2010-02-01T19:38:00.003Z

One of my favourite hobbies while I´m on my computer is to get out of my listenable artists/bands bubble and listen to some new artist. And it´s always good specially when I find this

And make sure that you listen more than 2/3 songs of that artist...listen to their albuns...search videos on youtube; You can find good stuff there

At 2:12; Well...boys will be boys LOL Awesome video!

We Love Maths

2010-01-28T02:23:00.004Z

A post about a relationship...interesting. A post about my relationship with maths...not so much.

Why did you let me down maths? We´ve been so happy! I´ve gave you all the attention that you needed! I never changed! Altough you´ve changed...maybe all of us need a change every now and then...
I met you in the supermarket corridors impressed in journals. My grandma (the best one in the world) introduced us...just like introduced me the abc and how to write my name. She wanted to assure herself that I would go to school knowing how to write my name and how to deal with you maths, despite the fact of never being in a kindergaten (the cause of the shy/cheesy personality I´m afraid...).

We were perfect in primary school! Doing great through 5/6/7/8th grade...then 45/100 in a 9th grade test! What the hell maths?! Maybe you´re just angry and you turned the back on me for a moment. We´ve been happy right?

Now I had to choose: maths or no maths? I chose you maths. Promising more attention...you seem different...you don´t, only, need homework and staring at similar exercises that a test would have...you need more attention, more practicing.

12/20 in 10th grade...cool! Even with >14/20 in the other subjects; 8/20 in 11th grade...what´s happening? Well...8 was enough to be in 12th grade...I think you just need (even) more attention. 12th grade first test: 3/20...Damn, when I went down I went to the bottom! In something that I´ll later find that´s the easiest maths stuff in this 3 years. I was confused. Let´s end with maths tests, continue with the great grades in the others subjects and do the final maths exam in the end of the year. 1st chance: 8 point something/20; 2nd chance: 7 point something/20
F*$#! I failed! I promised my grandma (the best in the world...I already said that right?): "I´ll not miss a school year" and I failed!

Everyone deserves a second chance...new class, known colleagues tho...I must say it was a not so bad year...great persons in my class with whom I went to a fantastic trip to Belgium (to the wonderful girls who organised it, thanks!).
12/20...I needed the final exam tho...and I failed. I went to the bottom and not happy I dig deeper.
Math classes at night...exam in January. Went to book it a few days ago...rrrrrrhhhh...the usual vibration noise on the phone..."you´re done with maths...you just need to pass a Geography exam"; For a second I regret going twice a week to maths classes for over 2 months, but the company in classes was good so in the next second I jumped, I sang some songs aaand I think I ran towards nowhere inside my house. So I´m done. I just need Geography exam...hopefully with something like 16/20...but more would be perfect!
C´mon André, deliver!

P.S. After writing this I did some...yeah, maths and if I have 16/20 in Geography exam I have the EXACTLY same note of the last person going to the course that I want to go at the university that I want to go...what were the odds?! Well...you do the maths!!

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-01-25T23:54:00.003Z

I don´t hear, or even know many french bands but here´s one.

This one is from their fourth studio album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, a very nice album that I reccomend.

It´s Music To Your Ears

2010-01-18T18:31:00.005Z

Monday...toughest day of the week for many. To help those that think like that I´ll start this thing called "It´s Music To Your Ears". Every Monday, one music video.

I´ll start with one of the best songs I´ve ever heard with some of the best amazing performances live I´ve seen on youtube.

It´s so good that the girls in the first row just got their faces melted...

You can press "More From: LaBlogotheque" and watch the other brilliant edited concert videos.

Your opinion won´t change me!

2010-01-02T04:35:00.001Z

Auch...a bit offensive the first title of the year han? I´ll try to explain it during this post where I´ll wander around some things. First say that I´m a perfectionist person so if you read some huge english mistake in this post let me know.

The title and the idea of this post came from here http://peaceofanaleigh.blogspot.com/ The authouress is an inspiration. Well, I said in the last time I wrote here you would need some background of the person to enjoy the blog to the fullest so I´m gonna make your job easier...because she deserves.

Analeigh was the second-runner up in Cycle 11 of America's Next Top Model, (and yes I do watch this and boys can watch this --oh...the title...; -yeah! Ah and I think a girl looks more chic with Winter clothes than in Summer clothes; -You´re gay! ahah; -I am not. --okay enough with the title already); and she´s unique. Not only for her beauty, because being beautiful is a big help to be on the contest, but mostly for her personality. What would you expect from 13 girls in a house competing for a "dream-contest"? The usual right....fights and an competitive atmosphere. Well...not for her. Sure she wanted to win but that doesn´t mean that she can´t have true friends in the house...ones that you would keep after the show (it´s the case), ones that you´ll avoid them to do stupid things such as over-drinking. Yes, you think...Oh I would do that to...well...I wanna believe you but I would wait and see...I think the competition, prizes and today´s egoism would win over you. And let´s be honest what´s your opinion about models? Stupid; Dumbs; Lack of culture; Party girls; etc, etc...
First: Stop judging people before you meet them! Second: Not this one. She´s a next door, former figure skater, with the film-making dream in her head and who knows a book, girl with a loveable personality as you can see here http://peaceofanaleigh.blogspot.com/2009/04/immersion-in-emerson.html

She´s maybe one of the most genuinely persons in the world...and that´s what one of the things that inspires me...she´s the one you would want as a friend; yeah I´m a boy I should say "as a girlfriend" right? But let´s stop daydreaming!...a girl like Analeigh just as a friend would be perfect, because as a girl that I knew in a contest and found her blog is already good; knowing that persons like her still exist nowadays (and this "nowadays" means today´s society in developed countries; such a great subject for another post) makes me wanna go out I find a person like her because if she´s 1 in 100 or 1 in 1000 or 1 in 1 MILLION the other ones must be out there! I´m running out of words (which is good in this case...and it´s sooo late)

To finish; I did some maths (and I really have to end with maths this year!) and if I´m not mistaken (probably it´s a higher number) I spent around 300€ in music last year (that includes albuns, concerts, trips, food, merchandising)...WORTH IT! Looking forward to what 2010 bring to us...well Muse for 58€ in Rock in Rio...a bit expensive...

So as a music lover as you can read and see in my blog I´ll leave you with a song. I know I should start the year with a happy song but...that´s not the case...and here it comes another link for the wonderful blog cause was there that I found this.

Where I found/lyrics: http://peaceofanaleigh.blogspot.com/2009/03/music-through-window.html
Too many links I guess...she looks beautiful in the pics (Yes, I said that to you copy the link and see the lyrics on her blog)

Sad song...with a nice upbeat. A versatile one; even more with a video like that...I wonder how many photos they took...

But... Is there a point to being a slipper but you are alone, with no other slipper to the pair?
Is there a point of being violoncello if don´t get out of your case?
Is there a point to being a girl alone, with no one to love...no one to share life with?

Yeah...It´s my point of view of the song...but I love the name of the song and this verses:

Soon she´s down the stairs
Her morning elegance she wears
The sound of water makes her dream
Awoken by a cloud of steam
She pours a daydream in a cup
A spoon of sugar sweetens up

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The thunder makes her contemplate
She hears a noise behind the gate
Perhaps a letter with a dove
Perhaps a stranger she could love

Maybe I´ll write more here this year...we´ll see.

Thanks for your time!

Words

2009-12-31T15:43:00.001Z

This isn´t to "brag" myself or something similar...

I wrote the following words over here http://peaceofanaleigh.blogspot.com/2009/03/realitys-gamble.html

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If your words in this little posts captivates me so much I wonder what a book of yours would do...
Actually lately I´m having this fantasy of jumping a decade to see how I would be and come back to the age I´m now to see if I´m taking the right road or if I missed my correct exit to a world of happiness for good.
Then I come back to reality and I see that we have to build our lives every single day and lead it to the our goal...and nobody said it would be easy.

Hope you can chase your passions because you´re an inspiration --so much that I´m writting this comment 9 months after you posted it and the chances of you or anyone read this are not good but I just had to wrote it...even with some english mistakes perhaps :P-- and that´s a quality to be shared!

:)

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Actually there´s a mistake...you have to forget one "the" in the end of the first paragraph...I was thinking in writting two different things...

And I recommend you to read this blog...even if some background of the person would be needed...but not extremely necessary.

It´s my last post of the year/decade so have a nice 2009 finale and a great 2010!! More words here next year!

Re-post

2009-12-31T15:32:00.002Z

First: Since I have a follower that don´t understand portuguese I´ll try post some things in English, even if it´s not perfect...specially grammar...like what to use..."in";"on";"at"...

Well this one is a re-post...just because I look back at 2009 and I liked this:

I will

Here we go
Like pieces of paper
Trust me
I´ll love you later

Here we are
Having fun
Watching together
The goodbye of sun

Now we´re under
Magic twilight
Hold my hand
Hold it tight

At your side
And in your heart
Watching lines
Fall apart

In the end
I´ll hug you
And if you love me
I´ll love you

Yup, é Natal.

2009-12-23T00:54:00.001Z

Caso ainda não tenham dado por ela chegou aquela altura do ano chamada Natal. Se ainda não entraram no espírito este post dá uma ajuda.

Feiz Natal!

Muse - Lisboa - 29/11/2009

2009-12-07T18:40:00.001Z

Alguém que os tinha visto no dia anterior disse-me que se calhar as 18 músicas, tão criticadas por serem apenas 18, eram se calhar as músicas necessárias para se sair do pavilhão bem satisfeito e cansado. Também me tinham avisado que qualidade > quantidade e acreditem que se alguém quisesse mais músicas era porque queria literalmente sair do pavilhão de rastos.

Foi, deixem-me dizer...épico. Não (só) por no fim termos ouvido que fomos o melhor público da tour, não (só) pelo cenário imponente que cada vez ganha mais importância para os elementos da banda (coisas da digressão com os U2?), não (só) pelos belos e famosos lasers verdes que faziam grandes efeitos em todo o pavilhão, mas porque qualquer um dos que estavam no pavilhão podia olhar para o palco e ver que quem lá estava, estava a adorar lá estar.

Setlist:

Uprising
Resistance
New Born
Map of the Problematique
Supermassive Black Hole
MK Ultra
Interlude + Hysteria
Nishe + United States of Eurasia
Feeling Good
Guiding Light
Helsinki Jam + Undisclosed Desires
Starlight
Plug In Baby
Time Is Running Out
Unnatural Selection

Exogenesis: Symphony Pt 1: Overture
Stockholm Syndrome
Man With The Harmonica + Knights of Cydonia

Uma setlist interessante, em que a parte calma da coisa não agrada a muitos dos fãs (falo na Guiding Light, que eu ainda tentei gostar dela depois de a ouvir ao vivo mas não dá mesmo, Undisclosed Desires, que eu aprecio mas muitos fãs não acham lá muita piada e uma Feeling Good amada por uns e odiada por outros), de resto as novas músicas resultam na perfeição quando tocadas ao vivo. A Uprising abre lindamente o concerto, a United States of Eurasia é fantástica e a Unnatural Selection quando ouvimos o álbum e dizemos "esta ao vivo promete" não nos enganamos.
Impressionante ver também o número de pessoas que sabia as letras das músicas do novo álbum.

Apelidado de "o concerto do ano", foi sem dúvida brilhante e há dias recebemos a notícia que dia 27 de Maio, no Parque da Bela Vista, teremos de novo Muse na edição de 2010 do Rock in Rio desta vez como headliners e não para tocar uns míseros 45 minutos como em 2008.

Cheers!

Make Sure You Hold Hands When You Cross The Road

2009-11-02T16:50:00.002Z

Big title han?

It comes from a lovely sign, which I adore, and you can find it in Auckland, New Zealand!

Photo by my mate SYDNEY
You can find more amazing Auckland pics of SYDNEY here:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=433953

SYDNEY´s blog: http://eyeonauckland.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!

Go Flo!

2009-11-02T16:05:00.001Z

I have to say that i´m not a fan of mainstream music, whatever that means...but lately i´ve been "attacked" by some artists with their mainstream music...i guess.

They are three 2009 revelations and the first i heard was the catchy electro-pop of La Roux with In For The Kill and lately with Bulletproof, songs that have a lot of airplay on the radios and tv channels...mainstream right?

Then pure-pop music by a british teenager...Pixie Lott...and i must say she mesmerized me when i first saw her...18 years old...great voice...and i like to say Pixie Lott is so hot...

Saving the best for last, and not just for me, due to several awards that this band won and it´s nominated, I introduce you the indie-pop (i don´t know if this is a style...this days is almost impossible define music styles...) Florence & The Machine!
It´s just the very best new act that I heard this year. The lyrics, the sound, the amazing harp used in many songs, the drums, Florence´s voice...her redhead...just perfect!!
I´ll leave you with a live song performed in Glastonbury this last Summer...it´s not an original (belongs to Candi Staton) but it´s an brilliant cover included in her debut album Lungs.

The album is mostly about violence and death...but "Lord i just don´t care"!!

Looking forward to see her live!!

Um Outono nada banal

2009-10-25T00:21:00.001+01:00

Chegou o Outuno. É a minha estação do ano favorita, no entanto, e na minha vasta experiência de Outonos de *tosse* 19 *tosse* anos, acho que o tempo anda um tudo nada maluco. Vejamos:

Esta última semana choveu durante toda a semana. Estes dois últimos dias (Sexta e Sábado) foram dois dias típicos de Inverno...céu cinzentão em que a chuva miudinha cai durante todo o dia e só apetece ficar em casa a ver um filme, ouvir música e a ler. Quanto aos dias antecedentes foram de chuva intensa que chegava a durar horas e horas quando por aqui, e lá está, pela minha vasta experiência, acho que o normal é dar aqueles chuveiros intensos durante 15/20 minutos, depois não temos chuva durante umas horas e lá volta outro chuveiro.

Isto acontece quando uma semana antes tivémos uma semana onde todos os dias tiveram uma temperatura de...30ºC. Havia gente na praia e as pessoas foram aos seus guarda-roupas/vestidos "recuperar" as roupas de "Verão" para um Verão...no Outono.

Antes dos 30ºC tivémos chuva e trovoada (o que tinha feito com que as roupas de Verão tenham ido parar ao fundo dos armários), trovoada essa, e recorrendo sempre à minha vasta experiência, não me pareceu muito normal, já que normalmente o que acontece é vermos umas nuvens escuras no horizonte aproximarem-se, caem meia dúzia de relâmpagos durante 10/15 minutos, começa a chover a acaba o espectáculo. Mas desta vez foi diferente...durou umas duas horas...e acreditem foi um belo espectáculo eléctrico que iluminou a escuridão da madrugada e isto enquanto chovia e choveu intensamente durante toda a noite e madrugada.

Já que estamos numa de tempo anormal espero que neste Inverno se repita o que de anormal se passou da última vez que ele cá esteve...

Mas desta vez gostava podia ser um bocadinho mais...algo como isto...

P.S.: Isn´t she gorgeous? And talented!! Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQNYRAGGkKI&feature=channel

Obrigado pela leitura de algo completamente banal!

Autumn Leaves

2009-10-25T00:08:00.002+01:00

Leaves are falling
Benches are slowly empting
I threw a question
You looked so tempting

Warm colours are here
Red, orange and yellow
The answer was positive
The answer was hello

Lista de compras

2009-09-27T00:09:00.001+01:00

Nas próximas idas à Fnac as prateleiras ficarão com menos uma unidade de:

- Muse, The Resistance CD+DVD
- Arctic Monkeys, Humbug
- A Fine Frenzy, Bomb In A Birdcage
- Au Revoir Simone, Still Night, Still Light
- Florence And The Machine, Lungs (doubtful)
- Pixie Lott, Turn It Up (doubtful)
- Vários, Amália Hoje (para a mamã)

Além disto tudo há que comprar bilhetes para alguns concertos e continuar a pagar o "Curso de Fotografia".

O Natal está quase aí por isso vejam lá. Se estiverem indecisos podem ir pelos doubtful ou podem sempre comprar um belo vale de compras. Podem escolher o valor, mas eu acho os de 15€ bem jeitosos!

Pensem nisto. *música da RFM daquele separador que leva a frases pensativas*

Indie Indeed

2009-09-20T23:19:00.001+01:00

Andava eu pelo myspace e eis que no myspace de alguém interessante descobri esta música, um tudo nada lamechas, mas que não sai da cabeça.

The Brobecks - Love At First Sight

Could this be love at first sight, or should I walk by again?
You're photogenically dressed, the conversation begins.
Oh god, now what did I say? Let me start over again.

Could this be love at first sight, oh wait I said that before.
I need a place for the night, happy to sleep on the floor,
But don't go out of your way and I won't talk anymore.

Turn the lights off, I'm in love...
Wouldn't you like to, wouldn't you like to, kiss her?
Wouldn't you like to, wouldn't you like to, dance with her?
Darkened nights and violent things, vaudevillian girls and violin strings,
All of these are the prettiest things when I'm... in love...

Turn the lights off, I'm falling in love with you...
Wouldn't you like to, wouldn't you like to, kiss her?
Wouldn't you like to, wouldn't you like to, dance with her?
Dark, dark nights and violent things, vaudevillian girls and violin strings,
All of these are the prettiest things when I'm... in love...

So Long

2009-09-18T01:40:00.001+01:00

We already had a touch of Winter...

Incapacity

2009-09-17T02:48:00.002+01:00

You are the brightest star
I have ever met
The one that shines the most
The one I will never forget

You are the inspiration
You are the muse
I will keep you protected
From conspiracy and abuse

Despite my protection
Despite my affection
Your heart just closed
And i just did nothing
I just froze

- - - -

P.S.: I promise to improve my writing.

Banalidades de 2001

2009-09-11T21:12:00.001+01:00

11 de Setembro de 2001

- New York City tem 11 letras
- Afeganistão tem 11 letras
- The Pentagon tem 11 letras
- Ramsin Yuseb (terrorista que participou no atentado contra as torres em 1993) tem 11 letras
- George W. Bush tem 11 letras
- Skyscrapers (arranha-céus em inglês) tem 11 letras
- New York City é o 11º Estado dos EUA
- O primeiro vôo a embater contra as Torres Gémeas era o número 11
- O vôo número 11 levava a bordo 92 passageiros: 9+2=11
- O vôo número 77, que também embateu contra as Torres levava 65 passageiros: 6+5=11
- A data 11 de Setembro: 1+1+9=11
- Nos EUA, coloca-se o número do mês antes do número do dia - 9/11 e 911 é o número de telefone de urgência nos EUA: 9+1+1=11
- O número total de vitímas que faleceram nos aviões é 254: 2+5+4=11
- 11 de Setembro é o dia número 254 do ano: 2+5+4=11
- A partir de 11 de Setembro faltam 111 dias até ao final do ano
- Nostradamus, cujo nome tem 11 letras, faz uma profecia da destruição de Nova Iorque na Centúria número 11 dos seus versos
- As Torres lembram o número 11, assim como as suas sombras
- O atentado de Madrid aconteceu no dia 11/03/2004, que somado dá: 1+1+3+2+4=11
- Este mesmo atentado ocorreu 911 dias depois do atentado às Torres Gémeas, que somado dá (adivinharam) 9+1+1=11

P.S.: Isto foi indecentemente roubado a uma revista do social...óbvio que não ia perder tempo a pesquisar coisas do género...

Onde está O LEITE?

2009-09-07T02:17:00.001+01:00

Por que raio o leite trás nas suas embalagens "abertura fácil" quando eu só torno a abertura realmente fácil pegando numa tesoura e cortando o pacote?

Se tiverem mais destas perguntas "banalóparvas" ou me souberem dizer como se abre o pacote facilmente e sem tesoura...comentários aqui em baixo.

Bélgica - Gent/Bruges/Antwerp

2009-08-31T00:52:00.002+01:00

Warning: pics by Mahratta! Antwerp pics by Thermo!

Gent: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=937372

Bruges: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=946340 Where i had a lovely boat trip and then i ran a LOT to catch the train!

My favourite and loved Antwerp: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=756508&highlight=antwerp

It´s Belgium!
Maybe on a future post you´ll have the city of that wonderful "hotel" - Thuin

Bélgica - Bruxelas

2009-08-30T22:47:00.001+01:00

Hey there! Me and my school friends went to a school trip to Belgium in the last days of April. I confess that i didn´t know much about Belgium but i absolutely loved the country and i hope come back soon! Especially to Antwerp that was my favourite city First night we stayed in a hotel in Brussels centre because we had to get up early to our visit to the European Parliament (main visit goal). The other 2 nights we stayed in Thuin and from there we visited Antwerp, Brugge and Gent.The pics you´ll see are from Brussels, from the European Parliament and other buildings. Sorry the rush and sometimes the quality of the pics...school trip...tight schedule...camera´s problems Okay let´s start in Delirium Cafe Cellphone quality as you can see

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=946342

:)

Couchsurfing

2009-08-20T15:25:00.001+01:00

O couchsurfing baseia-se em, e como o próprio nome indica, a cedermos o nosso sofá a surfers (turistas) dos mais variados locais do Mundo sem cobrarmos nada por isso. Basicamente o conceito tem como por objectivo o conhecimento e partilha dos costumes de culturas de todo o Planeta, e podemos também servir de guias aos nossos visitantes para que eles possam ficar a conhecer a cidade e hábitos dos habitantes pelos olhos de uma pessoa natural dessa mesma cidade.
A SIC resolveu fazer uma reportagem sobre isto, e foi talvez uma das reportagens que mais me cativou até hoje. O objectivo era falar sobre o conceito seguindo o seguinte programa: 2 semanas de viagem; 500€ para gastar; em nada mais nada menos que 5 cidades.

A primeira foi Londres, e é óbvio que para cumprir o orçamento as viagens foram realizadas em companhias aéreas low-cost, onde na maioria das viagens só se teve de dispender 2,50€ (taxas incluídas) por alguns dos vôos. Penso que esta foi a cidade onde se gastou mais dinheiro devido a transportes e ao lazer, onde se pode chegar a gastar 5€ por uma cerveja em Londres. As hosts eram duas raparigas que tinham vindo de outro país para Inglaterra e decidiram-se inscrever neste programa. Ainda em Londres puderam-se juntar a um encontro de couchsurfers num dos muitos parques da cidade.

Seguiu-se Cracóvia onde uma família com uma pequena criança os acolheu. Disseram que pararam de fazer couchsurfing por uns tempos devido à criança mas que agora estão de volta com as claras restrições de barulho por exemplo devido à criança. Mas como pessoas fascinadas por outras culturas decidiram continuar.

Quando pensei que iriam continuar numa senda de cidades mais acessiveis em termos económicos, depois da viagem de Londres, eis que a seguir a Cracóvia se apanha mais um vôo de 2,50€ para...Estocolmo. Lá encontram um couchsurfer português que partilha um quarto com uma sueca numa residência universitária repleta de pessoas de vários países. Mais uma vez e desta vez com alguém do mesmo país partem à descoberta da cidade e de momentos de lazer. Talvez não se gaste muito mais de 50/60€ em cada cidade.

De seguida: Berlim. Mais uma cidade cosmopolita e cheia de vida onde se encontra um sofá, comida (quase) toda grátis e alguém que nos quer mostrar a cidade só a nós e não a um grupo de diversos turistas. O objectivo, lá está, saber os costumes e hábitos dos habitantes dos outros países. Cá por exemplo vamos a uma praia ou piscina num dia de calor...nestes países dão preferência aos parques relvados onde se estende uma toalha e é a praia deles onde se pode ler um livro, descansar ou conversar com os amigos. E enquanto aqui vamos de carro ou outro tipo de transporte motorizado a todo o sítio, em algumas destas cidades a bicicleta é muito importante. (bicicletas...algo a ser falado com mais atenção neste blog).

Para acabar...a casa maior, em Milão. De novo compatriotas. Algumas portuguesas que partilham uma grande casa com tectos altos na fashion Milano. Era um verdadeiro centro de culturas a casa e tornou-se em mais uma viagem agradável e confortável q.b..
Depois de Milão há que apanhar o vôo mais caro de todos para o Porto, já que a Ryanair não viaja para Lisboa. 40€. Como se ainda fosse possível ainda há 30€ disponiveis, onde 2/3 vão ser gastos no comboio Porto-Lisboa e ainda se podem dar ao luxo de doar 10€ dos 500 inicias ao programa.

Algo a pensar fazer.

"Entraste num filme?" - parte 2

2009-08-05T00:33:00.001+01:00

No jantar os professores dizem que assim que chegarmos ao restaurante, que ficava a uns 2km do hotel, iríamos pelas traseiras, levantaríamos uma persiana, dávamos um jeito à porta e entravamos. Não é uma coisa normal mas não estranhamos muito isto…mas acho que o devíamos ter feito…

Depois de uma volta pela cidade chegamos ao hotel. Alunos primeiro, mas em vez de irmos abrir a tal porta, ficamos à espera dos professores sentados na esplanada do hotel. Acho que chamar àquilo hotel é ser simpático demais, mas pelas mensagens deixadas por ex-hóspedes à entrada aquilo parecia um sitio sério e acolhedor.
Chegando os professores lá fomos para as traseiras. Aberta a persiana, faltava agora a porta…que não abria…
Não forçamos porque não queríamos estragar nada e fomos tocar à campainha da entrada principal. Ninguém respondia…éramos agora 20 pessoas ao relento em frente a um hotel numa pequena cidade belga. Achando estarmos a ser tramados (uma bela palavra esta), ficamos alguns nas traseiras e alguns na entrada principal a ver se saía alguém ou íamos alguma movimentação dentro da casa.
Um dos professores liga para a dona do hotel…telemóvel desligado. Liga para o taxista, que ela própria recomendou para que depois quem ficou no outro hotel fosse depois para lá levado, …também não deu nada…

As raparigas receavam do que se iria passar depois disto. Acho que todos receávamos mas eram elas que mostravam mais preocupação. Já víamos sombras e cortinas a mexer em todo o lado… Para ajudar à festa na porta de entrada reparámos num prémio do hotel…”mesa do terror” era o nome…vencedor do mesmo prémio há 3 anos consecutivos…escusado é dizer qual era o ambiente entre as pessoas que lá estavam e já havia várias teorias para o sucedido.

O tempo passava. O frio aumentava. E eu a pensar que só ia jantar e logo de seguida voltar para o hotel não levei casaco.
Solução…polícia.

Trinta minutos depois chega a polícia (ainda se queixam da nossa). Explicado o problema eles tentaram ligar à “gaja do hotel”. Nada. O taxista atende desta vez. Nunca ouviu falar nessa senhora, nem conhece o hotel…brilhante!

A policia resolve voltar à esquadra para procurar uma outra morada ou outro contacto da senhora em questão.
Enquanto isso acontece alguns de nós já fazíamos rodas entre nós para nos aquecermos e um dos professores dava umas aulas de dança.
Depois como se algo de estranho ainda faltasse acontecer, um autocarro e um carro resolvem parar mesmo em frente ao hotel. A rua tinha mais de 1km de comprimento mas eles decidiram parar exactamente ali. Quando saía das traseiras para ir ver o autocarro, que estava vazio, já estava a arrancar. Assim como o carro de onde saíram alguns homens e , segundo o que me disseram, olharam na direcção de quem estava na entrada principal (professores e alguns alunos), meteram-se novamente no carro e arrancaram juntamente com o autocarro.
A polícia volta. Novidades? “Não…não encontrámos nada sobre ela”…isto em francês.
Eram 4:30 da madrugada e uma solução tinha de ser encontrada. A polícia propôs levar na carrinha a professora e algumas raparigas para o hotel onde estavam os professores mas dissemos que ou íamos todos ou ficávamos todos.

E lá fomos. Cinco a cinco na carrinha da polícia, portanto o primeiro veículo em que o aniversariante andou na maioridade foi um carro da polícia, o que não deixa ser interessante, e em 4 viagens estávamos no outro hotel. A nossa sorte é que o outro hotel era um aparthotel o que fez com que as raparigas ficassem no quarto a dormir, os professores e o casal nos sofás e os rapazes espalhados pelo chão.
Para adormecer e descansar nada melhor quem um “Praça da Alegria” em Barcelos a passar na RTPi. Para acordar depois de uma noite, no mínimo, diferente e estranha nada melhor do que ficarmos a conhecer a Gripe A e um palhaço que atropelou e matou meia-dúzia de pessoas num desfile dos reis e príncipes do país ali ao lado.

Os professores conseguiram com que ali nos dessem algo pelo pequeno-almoço, interrompido pela chegada da “gaja do hotel” e do homem que já tínhamos visto no hotel na noite anterior, para nos levarem de volta. A cara da “gaja” fazia parecer que não se tinha passado nada e que não era nada com ela. Nem uma palavra no regresso ao hotel. Fizemos as malas e saímos antes que se lhe passasse pela cabeça pôr-nos a pagar aquela noite. Ficamos na esplanada porque o autocarro ia-nos encontrar lá para nos levar ao aeroporto. Mas só chegava – supostamente – às 14:00.
Como não havia confiança as raparigas foram almoçar primeiro enquanto quem ficava tomava conta das malas. Um professor disse para quem ficou a tomar conta das malas que fosse também almoçar que ele ficava por lá a “vigiar”. Todos voltamos e o professor conta-nos que a “gaja” foi-lhe pedir desculpa enquanto chorava e dizia que tinha havido um problema com a porta. Nós: “E acreditou nela??”…resposta pronta: “Claro que não”. Afinal de contas alguém que deixa um pastor belga dentro de um carro com o calor que estava é porque não deve andar muito bem…

14:15 e nada de autocarro…até que alguém se lembra de olhar para o outro lado da rua e resolve perguntar ao condutor do autocarro que lá estava desde as 13:00 se era ele que nos ia levar ao aeroporto…e era.
Lá fomos em direcção ao aeroporto, cantando as últimas canções em solo belga.
Foi giro.
FIM

"Entraste num filme?" - parte I

2009-08-03T23:28:00.001+01:00

A história a seguir reproduzida é baseada em factos reais e qualquer semelhança com uma história ficcional e suas personagens é pura coincidência.

Thuin, Bélgica – Depois de um dia passado a visitar mais duas cidades deste belo país, que talvez noutro post fale mais nele, chegamos à cidade de Thuin, que é uma pequena cidade que fica nos arredores de Charleroi. Depois de termos entrado num comboio que nos levou a um destino errado, acho que gostamos tanto de Antuérpia no dia anterior que fomos lá parar outra vez, lá entramos no comboio certo que nos levaria à cidade do nosso hotel, que não passava de uma casa típica desta zona da Europa e que tinha sido transformada num hotel bastante acolhedor.

O atraso só nos fez chegar a Thuin às 21:00 belgas. Da estação fomos até ao hotel para pousar as compras feitas durante o dia. Lá recebemos a noticia que a dona do hotel não iria ficar lá durante a noite. Achei estranho porque de manhã tinha-se oferecido para comprar coisas para uma festa de aniversário que iríamos fazer nessa noite (apesar que mesmo que não houvesse aniversariante iríamos fazer festa porque era a última noite da viagem). Mais estranho achei porque não tinha visto mais ninguém responsável pelo hotel a não ser ela, mas a estranheza desapareceu já que quando saía do hotel em direcção ao restaurante vi lá um homem e pensei que fosse ele o escolhido para ficar no hotel durante a noite.

A razão para a dona não ficar era o “barulho”. Isto porque na noite anterior juntamo-nos num quarto a conversar e a ouvir música até que ela apareceu a pedir para fazermos menos barulho. Concordamos. Só que assim que ela está a sair do quarto, alguém engana-se na tecla do comando da coluna comprada nessa tarde e a música saída do iPhone começa outra vez.
Resultado: “Todos para os vossos quartos e olhem que telefono ao vosso professor responsável!”…isto em francês… Lá fomos. Quando estava no meu quarto depois do sucedido, ouvia passos e barulhos nas típicas escadas de madeira deste género de casas. Pensei: “estes miúdos são suicidas…”. No dia a seguir descobri que afinal era a dona do hotel que ficou a vigiar-nos…uma dona de hotel desconfiada portanto…

Ficaram intrigados com o “telefono ao vosso professor”? Pois…é que na noite em que chegamos ao hotel (2 noites antes), já reservado com antecedência, por alguma e desconhecida razão não existiam quartos disponíveis para 2 dos 3 professores e para o casal que também nos acompanhou nesta viagem de forma a termos elementos suficientes. Parece que se pode fazer estas coisas desde que se pague o transporte para outro hotel das redondezas. Portanto só a professora ficou connosco no nosso hotel.

Fim da 1ª parte.

Marés Vivas 09 - 3º dia

2009-07-20T23:34:00.001+01:00

Resumo e fotos do terceiro e último dia do festival Marés Vivas em Gaia.

Era sem dúvida este terceiro dia deste festival o dia que mais me cativava. Não só pelo belo cartaz que tinha como pela relação preço/qualidade e pela BELA localização do recinto. Foram exactamente estas as razões que mencionei numa entrevista à rádio patrocinadora do festival. Também disse que a a Gabriella Cilmi era "jeitosa" mas deixemos isso mais para a frente.

Depois da espera por alguma da companhia para a noite entrou-se finalmente no recinto facilmente, já que a demora da espera deu para escoar a fila dos mais apressados e dos que estavam em busca do melhor lugar. Como sempre...rolhas das garrafas para o lixo...mas entra-se no recinto...a zona junto ao palco é composta por terra e pedras bem grandes...algo a rever nas próximas edições. Isso e a entrega de publicidade em formato de papel que vai parar toda ao chão quando existe mesmo ali ao lado, e quando digo ao lado é literalmente AO LADO o Rio Douro.

O palco secundário não interessava, por isso, e depois de uma visita ao recinto e suas belas casas de banho, onde a privacidade masculina era pouca e a zona das mesas onde se podia comer alguma coisa era mesmo ao lado, o que dava um belo aroma à zona (mais um ponto a rever) lá fomos para o palco principal e sem correria alguma lá ficámos num bom lugar para o início dos concertos a partir das 20:30.

Gabriella Cilmi: BEEEM!!...ela é GIRA e ela melhor que ninguém sabe isso! Como se isso não bastasse a miúda (17 anos) tem um vozeirão impressionante! Era o concerto que me despertava mais curiosidade. E no pôr-do-sol nortenho ela saiu-se muito bem! Ao vozeirão e ao look ousado ainda teve a ousadia de tirar alguma coisa ao pouco que o vestido tinha, usar pinturas tribais, sentar-se no palco a apreciar a vista e resolve ainda lançar os dois singles nos primeiros 15 minutos de concerto, "Sanctuary" e o muito aplaudido e cantado "Sweet About Me". Se esta ousadia da australiana não bastasse ainda tivemos direito a nova música (muito bem recebida!) e a covers de...Janis Joplin e para acabar o concerto nada mais nada menos que...Led Zeppelin!

O público aplaudiu e gostou e confesso que nem eu esperava tão boa reacção de quem lá estava.

Volta Gabi!

Colbie Caillat: A bela e tímida Colbie encantou e nem o "medo dos palcos" a impediu de deliciar a público com uma mistura de temas novos do álbum, que está quase a sair, com os hits de Coco, que a maioria sabia de cor, com covers como "Killing Me Softly" e a fabulosa versão de "You Found Me" dos The Fray, que confesso ter cantado baixinho durante a madrugada.

Para a ajudar conta com um guitarrista que sente a música de forma impressionante o que torna o espectáculo ainda melhor! Com um concerto simples conquistou o público e vai andar nas bocas do Mundo por muito mais tempo.

Jason Mraz: Arrisco dizer que a noite era para ele. A idade, o género, e os chapéus de muitas pessoas que se passeavam pelo recinto assim o faziam parecer, logo não era necessário conquistar o público porque...ele já estava conquistado só com o nome de Jason no bilhete. Público com letras decoradas e com vontade de dançar fez com este concerto fosse muito apreciado por todos. A interacção foi perfeita e "I´m Yours", juntamente com belas covers e, claro não esquecendo, o muito aguardado dueto com Colbie em "Lucky" fez as delícias de quem estava presente. A música cativante, a juntar ao charme e à bela banda que o acompanha faz com que Jason Mraz seja justamente um dos artistas mais falados do momento e tudo indica que continuará assim nos próximos tempos.

Keane: Se Cilmi despertava curiosidade, Keane era quem me entusiasmava. E as expectativas não foram só cumpridas como foram superadas. Não faltou nada. Desde baladas a músicas que convidavam a alguns saltos os britânicos estiveram lindamente. O português foi arranhado por diversas vezes e o "pouvo do Norte" ajoelhou-se perante tanto entusiasmo demonstrado pela banda em tocar mais uma vez em Portugal. E como se não bastasse um encore, e como ainda não tínhamos ouvido nenhuma cover neste concerto eis que o segundo encore é composto por..."Under Pressure" dos Queen & David Bowie. Tom Chaplin e os seus colegas não desiludiram e levaram a plateia ao rubro com esta cover para um final de um concerto que os presentes não vão esquecer facilmente.

P.S.: Assim que isto estiver mais rápido talvez ponha as fotografias dos restantes artistas...e arranje o tipo e tamanho de letra que me estão a irritar e não ficam como eu quero mas não tou com paciência para resolver isto agora

I will

2009-07-12T00:45:00.002+01:00

Here we go
Like pieces of paper
Trust me
I´ll love you later

Here we are
Having fun
Watching together
The goodbye of sun

Now we´re under
Magic twilight
Hold my hand
Hold it tight

At your side
And in your heart
Watching lines
Fall apart

In the end
I´ll hug you
And if you love me
I´ll love you

Tomorrow

2009-07-06T02:32:00.002+01:00

Tomorrow I´ll know.
Tomorrow I´ll found.
Tomorrow I´ll discover.
Tomorrow is the day.
Tomorrow I´ll wake up without the alarm clock ringing.
Tomorrow I´ll shake like hell in the morning bath.
Tomorrow I´ll have the exactly same feeling I had one year ago.
Tomorrow I´ll leave home anxious.
Tomorrow I´ll look to the future.
Tomorrow can be one of the happiest days of my life.
Tomorrow can be a sad day.
Tomorrow I can have the biggest smile on my face.
Tomorrow I can sing out loud my favorite songs.
Tomorrow I can dance and jump to the sound of that songs.
Tomorrow I can cry.
Tomorrow I can cry a lot.
Tomorrow I can cry like I never cried before.
Tomorrow I´ll end the wait and I´ll see.
Tomorrow will be the first day of my life.
Tomorrow.

??

2009-07-03T00:16:00.002+01:00

Traduções! Não as acham fabulosas? Não fossem elas e muitos de nós ficaríamos a perceber metade, ou até mesmo nada da história.

Mas serei o único a reparar nas parvas traduções de títulos de livros, filmes e séries televisivas? Nao vou citar exemplos porque isto da Internet e de processos de difamação é chatinho...é por isso e por basicamente não me lembrar de nenhum exemplo neste momento...

É que algumas destas traduções fazem-nos questionar onde raio as pessoas que são pagas para traduzir tiraram o curso. Muitas das vezes uma fuga da tradução directa e à letra pode ser admissível, já que o título original pode não ter essa mesma tradução directa, ou por ser uma expressão que não se adapte à nossa língua ou até mesmo não existir uma palavra que a traduza, e logo não faça passar a ideia daquilo que o título original na língua mãe pretende passar.
No caso destas excepções, onde não há uma tradução directa, porque não manterem-se fiéis ao título original?
Se o autor, e falando mais no caso particular dos livros por na minha opinião ser algo mais pessoal, escolheu um determinado título, por que não mantê-lo? Vamos adulterar o título porquê? Muitas das vezes estas traduções só levarão a dar uma ideia erada do que o conteúdo do produto quer passar.

É que dá muitas vezes a ideia, principalmente em títulos de fácil tradução, que quem trata destas coisas se reúne numa sala e diz:
"Ora bem, temos aqui um título demasiado fácil para traduzir...é melhor complicar isto!...Chama-se "Days Of My Life" não é?...E que tal "Passagens De Uma Vida" han?..."
(títulos inventados por mim...se já existem é pura coincidência)

Isto serve de introdução para o que realmente me levou a escrever este post. Estava eu a ver a série "Joan Of Arcadia" (A Missão de Joan...Vêem o que quero dizer?), série que vai merecer mais atenção num outro post, até que numa discussão "técnica" sobre ciência aparece algo na legendagem como "??" no meio da frase. (Infelizmente não me recordo do conteúdo total da frase para a transcrever para aqui). Mas é assim, eu não sou um maníaco da ciência mas algo me diz que "??" não é um termo técnico em nenhuma ciência...
Tudo bem que era um termo técnico mas daí a porem "??"...mais valia estar quieto já que esclarecer a dúvida parece dar trabalho...

Mas isto das legendas também tem que se lhe diga. Ainda há umas semanas, enquanto via "90210" (este não traduziram eles...não percebo porquê...), as personagens ganharam nomes novos de uma semana para a outra, isto sem falar noutras preciosidades que apareceram lá no meio.

Enfim, banalidades!

Vida E(m) Sentimentos

2009-06-29T22:38:00.002+01:00

INÍCIO – é por esse sinónimo de princípio que tudo começa. Inicia-se uma acção, inicia-se uma história e aquilo que de melhor temos tem também o seu início – a vida.
Inicia-se a nossa vida e fruto de um programa aberto de que dispomos iremos todos adquirir conhecimentos, atitudes e comportamentos que nos colocam a realizar as acções correctas relacionadas com a sociedade/cultura em que nos inserimos. Neste processo estão incluídos diversos intervenientes que se tornam deveras importantes no nosso desenvolvimento.

Depois ao longo do tempo começamos a ser mais autónomos e a tomar as nossas decisões sem que para isso seja preciso alguém além de nós intervir nesse processo de tomada de decisões.
Vamo-nos relacionar com outras pessoas, seleccionamos aquelas com quem mais nos identificamos e queremos essas perto de nós, aquelas que nos fazem esboçar um sorriso, aquelas em que nós confiamos e sabemos – ou pelo menos pensamos – que não nos irão desiludir e que estarão 'lá' quando for necessário, porque 'lá' estaremos também se elas precisarem de nós e não as deixaremos desiludidas de forma alguma, ou faremos o melhor para que isso não aconteça.

Neste conjunto de pessoas irão existir pessoas especiais…pessoas que estando ao lado delas ou numa outra forma de contacto existentes nos dias de hoje fazem com que sejamos apoderados por sentimentos de alegria e felicidade que na maioria das vezes palavras e gestos não chegam para demonstrar estes mesmos sentimentos a essas tais pessoas…pessoas que nos dão resposta à pergunta 'valerá a pena, valerá a vida a pena?', e é(são) esta(s) que merece(m) ouvir a nossa boca proferir 'a' palavra mágica – AMO-TE.

O que sentirá a receptora desta palavra?; saberá mesmo o que sentimos por ela?; sentirá numa palavra todo o amor que temos por ela?; é isso que nós esperamos quando a dizemos e a ela lhe juntamos acções dignas do seu significado.
Infelizmente não fomos programados só para sentimentos felizes e como tudo na vida, nos sentimentos também existe o 'reverso da medalha'.

Infelicidade, todos já a sentimos, todos já derramamos lágrimas por algo ou alguém. Existiram, talvez, situações que nos entristeceram e magoaram mais do que as lágrimas que derramamos o fizeram mostrar – talvez a(s) pessoa(s) especial(is) desiludiu-nos…talvez não nos olhasse com os mesmos olhos que nós lhe olhamos…talvez…talvez…
E é aqui que voltamos à questão – 'Valerá a vida a pena…com tanta tristeza?' - e ainda lhe acrescentaremos algumas – 'Valerá a pena ser como somos?'; 'Valerá a pena ser-se simpático?'; 'Valerá a pena confiar em alguém?'.
Estou certo que sim…ou quero acreditar que estou certo??; Por que não mudar? Porque não quero mudar, porque…'tudo vale a pena quando a alma não é pequena', porque confio nas pessoas… especiais.

É isto a vida…um misto de sentimentos que nos fará questionar a nossa existência, mas que nos fará ver que ela é importante e que a devemos aproveitar até ao último instante…até ao último suspiro.
É um ciclo onde passamos pelas mais variadas formas de sentir a felicidade e a infelicidade, falando dos dois sentimentos que serão a 'balança' do nosso estado de espírito e que nos guiarão a todos os outros milhentos sentimentos que a vida nos proporciona.
E, depois, quando atravessarmos este ciclo e passarmos por todos os milhentos sentimentos, chegará a altura do ciclo terminar…e é este o sinónimo que significa que tudo chega a um FIM.

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