Aaah...o amor

Love ain't nothing but...

Lux Interior (1946-2009)

John Updike (1932-2009)

For life’s a shabby subterfuge,
And death is real, and dark, and huge.
The shock of it will register

Nowhere but where it will occur.

- John Updike

Em 2009 indie é ser pai de família

Animal Collective "My Girls"

Is it much to admit I need
A solid soul and the blood I bleed
With a little girl, and by my spouse
I only want a proper house

I don't care for fancy things
Or to take part in a precious race
And children cry for the one who has
A real big heart and a father's grace

I don't mean to seem like I care about material things like a social status
I just want four walls and adobe slabs for my girls

*o melhor disco de 2009 saiu em Janeiro, podem fechar o ano.

Coraline

Have you ever wished for a different life? Be careful what you wish for.

http://coraline.com/

Bye Bye Bush

Os Silver Jews acabaram e o pai do David Berman é um sacana.

Lista de felicidade musical de 2008

Aqui fica o meu resumo do ano transacto em termos de felicidade musical:

1. PORTISHEAD "Third"

2. DEERHUNTER "Microcastle"

3. BEACH HOUSE "Devotion"

4. SPIRITUALIZED "Songs In A & E"

5. THE KILLS "Midnight Boom"

6. FLEET FOXES "Ragged Wood"

7. BONNIE PRINCE BILLY "Lie Down In The LIght"

8. NICK CAVE "Dig Lazarus Dig"

9. SILVER JEWS "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea"

10. VAMPIRE WEEKEND "Vampire Weeekend"

11. BON IVER "For Emma, Forever Ago"

12. HOT CHIP "Made In The Dark"

13. TV ON THE RADIO "Dear Science,"

14. THE WALKMEN "You & Me"

15. ELBOW "The Seldom Seen Kid"

16. SHE & HIM "Volume One"

17. CUT COPY "In Ghost Colours"

18. KINGS OF LEON "Only By The Night"

19. MGMT "Oracular Spectacular"

20. PETE & THE PIRATES "Little Death"

A melhor prenda

O meu Pai Natal está atento ao que eu gosto, compra online e manda vir do estrangeiro.

Feliz Coiso

I wish New York was bringing me down

Um pedaço de vídeo awesomeness que é a resposta de James Murphy às criticas que o comparavam com o Kermit nesta música. Ter sentido de humor é uma coisa muito bonita.

Edit: Já se consegue ver o sapo de novo

Beach House "Used to be"

Estes meninos deram um óptimo concerto no Passos Manuel, no qual tocaram também esta música inédita, agora editada em single e com direito a vídeo. Ao vivo a melancolia é temperada por uma postura acriançada e irrequieta. Completamente heartbreak and ponytails, um charme portanto.

[Sim, resgatei a máquina fotografia depois de meses sem lhe pegar. Sim, viram-me a tirar montes de fotos. Não, não se aproveita nenhuma.]

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson "Buriedfed"

And they took her to the doctor
To fix her heart, and heal her head
She said, "Goddamn, I'm tired of being polite
Go save somebody else instead"

In your face, Mozz!

"In America, The land of the free, they said,
And of opportunity, In a just and a truthful way.
But where the president, is never black, female or gay,
and until that day, you've got nothing to say
to me, to help me believe"

- America is not the world, Morrissey

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Changes?

Ler a dois

[for booklovers only]

Love as a weapon

i)
We are hard on each other
and call it honesty,
choosing our jagged truths
with care and aiming them across
the neutral table.

The things we say are
true; it is our crooked
aims, our choices
turn them criminal.

ii)
Of course your lies
are more amusing:
you make them new each time.

Your truths, painful and boring
repeat themselves over & over
perhaps because you own
so few of them

iii)
A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you

is that a fact or a weapon?

iv)
Does the body lie
moving like this, are these
touches, hairs, wet
soft marble my tongue runs over
lies you are telling me?
Your body is not a word,
it does not lie or
speak truth either.
It is only
here or not here.

Margaret Atwood

Afinal como é que foi que o subprime lixou isto tudo?

Se os meus professores explicassem isto assim era muito mais fácil.

Artes e Lavores

Tenho que aprender a bordar. Uma mensagem com este trabalho passa uma intenção com muito mais intensidade.