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Good friends of mine, I hope that you're all in better conditions than me this fine morning.. I'm outside at a construction sight and it's freezing.. prrrrr.....
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A lot has happened in the last 10 years. The first decade of the 21st century.Via Yes But No Yes
Want a recap? Newsweek has done a pretty good, snarky summary.
Tim Burton exhibition opens at New York's Moma
Have your private tour of Moma's celebration of the art of Tim Burton, film-maker behind Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The exhibition is on until 26 April 2010. ||Fotos||
*watch the video @ Lurid beauty of monsters*
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Venn diagram showing the bittersweet territory between happiness and sadness... finally a smiley-face I can associate to Saudade :)(:
A World Divided
From 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall was the literal manifestation of a world divided by the Cold War—a concrete barrier, eventually 12-feet high at points, demarcating East and West Berlin, and by extension, the Soviet and Western worlds. Patrolled by armed guards, eerily clean and white on its Eastern side, covered with graffiti on its Western face, the Wall turned West Berlin into a veritable island of democracy in the middle of a Soviet client state, and served as a mute, and seemingly immutable, reminder of how tenuous peace between East and West really was.
Photo: KEENPRESS/Getty Images
Jan 01, 1981
"This law makes selling video games to anybody actually worse than giving real guns or cigarettes to a minor, or even forcing him or her to work, as you get less jail time and lower fines if you do any of those things. I have to be protected from them, so I don't go into a killing spree. (If I were so impressionable, I would not be writing this, I would have swallowed completely the huge amount of propaganda they feed to us). Our Parliament, instead of addressing our real needs, behaves like the bunch of escapist, authoritarian demagogues they are, imposing their decrees on us, because they are know they are right, and those of us who dissent, surely are rich elitist bastards who hate the poor, traitors who hate Venezuela and work for sinister, evil and shady foreign powers (If you follow American politics, this attitude should ring some alarms to you).
Surely a government that calls itself Socialist would have corrected a gross mistake by previous administrations: our marginal tax rate for the richest citizens is 34%, which is less than what the American marginal tax rate was when Bush gave tax cuts to Donald Trump and Warren Buffet. One would think that after ten years of Socialist government focused on the poor and against the evil rich, the fiercely egalitarian Venezuelan MPs would have found the time to increase the taxes of the hated rich to the same level of such boring, bland, flavorless, countries as Finland, New Zealand, Sweden or Canada. Instead, they have been too busy forbidding video games, porn (2 to 6 years in jail for filming porn, as it goes against "good customs" and family) and human genetic engineering (The law is written in such an imprecise language than creating Human Recombinant Insulin could lead me to jail), while our president befriends murderers, genocides, golpistas (coup makers, like Gambia's president Yahya Jammeh), and tyrants and replicas of the sword of Bolívar, The Liberator."
Venezuela: Accelerating the Bolivarian Revolution
Bogotá/Brussels, 5 November 2009: Against the spirit of the constitution, President Hugo Chávez is accelerating his “Bolivarian Revolution” by implementing radical laws that affect basic rights and liberties and thwart the political opposition’s fair chances in the December 2010 legislative elections.
Venezuela: Accelerating the Bolivarian Revolution,* the latest update briefing from the International Crisis Group, examines how in 2009 the Chávez government has progressively abandoned core liberal democracy principles guaranteed under the Inter-American Democratic Charter and the American Convention on Human Rights. The executive has increased its power and provoked unrest internally by further politicising the armed forces and the oil sector. It is exercising mounting influence over the electoral authorities, the legislative and judicial branches of power and other state entities.
“The December 2010 legislative elections promise to further polarise an already seriously divided country”, says Nicolás Letts, Crisis Group’s Colombia/Andes Analyst. “Unresolved social and mounting economic problems are generating tensions that exacerbate the risk of political violence”.
The government’s lack of capacity to correct serious deficiencies in the management of the state is provoking increasing social protest. The continued targeting of the political opposition and the mass media, coupled with growing economic, security and social problems, are deepening discontent. The opposition, which continues to be divided, is challenging Chávez through democratic means. However, it may in the future look to more violent alternatives for confronting him, if his government continues to shut off space for participation and restrict critics from expressing their views through democratic mechanisms.
Society at large is experiencing critical levels of insecurity and stark deficiencies in basic public services. Tense relations with Colombia may take a toll on the president’s popularity at home. While Chávez’s bellicose rhetoric towards Colombia is unlikely to elicit an armed reaction, it does stimulate the potential for mounting trouble along the border.
“Ten years of ‘Bolivarian Revolution’ have failed to produce significant and sustainable improvements in the living conditions of the poorer segments of society”, says Markus Schultze-Kraft, Crisis Group’s Latin America Program Director. “Chávez has proved to be a poor manager, with difficulties to administer the vast state apparatus he has created and cater for citizens’ legitimate demands”.
"What! I've never noticed English not being your first language at all! GET OVER THERE NOW! Conquer your fear :)"
Este é um transcrito de uma cena do último capitulo de Grey's Anatomy, chamado “Give Peace a Chance”. A historia é sobre um paciente (Isaac) que irá ser operado com a intenção de retirar um tumor -em principio não operável- da sua espinha dorsal . Esta conversa acontece na sala de operações entre o cirurgião e o paciente. Acho simplesmente formidável.
Derek- Isaac, If I get in there and it looks to dangerous to remove… the responsible thing is to close you up.
Isaac- No don’t close me up. If you get in and it gets too complicated, cut the chord. Paralyze me if you must. I survived a war, did you know that? I survived a war where they put bodies into mass graves where there was once a playground. I survived the death of my family; my parents, my brothers and sisters. Then I survived the death of my wife and child, when they starved to death in a refugee camp. I survived the loss of my country, of hearing my mother tongue spoken, of knowing what if feels like to have a place to call home. I survived, and I will survived the loss of my legs. If I have to… I’ll survive it. Okay? But Derek…
Derek- Yes?
Isaac- There is always a way. When things look like there’s no way, there is a way… to do the impossible, to survive the un-survivable. There is always a way, and you… you and I have this in common… we’re inspired. In the face of the impossible, we’re inspired. So if I can offer one piece of advice to the world’s foremost Neurosurgeon… today, if you become frightened, instead, become inspired. Okay, I’m ready now… put me to sleep.
Now that punk rock is alive and kicking a** again, you may want to put the most various thoughts and things you heart so much in the form of artistic pins and wear them on your clothes... you may as well be happy too because you can dress all black again without people judging you, paint your nails black, buy some converse/doc martens/military boots and put them on, listen to emo rock music - excellent btw -, darken your hair, etc etc... and while you are at it you might as well be a vampire too. MAYOR KUDOS for those of you that have been doing these things BEFORE the revival riot/punk rock with a twist of early 80's wave kicked in again several months ago!!!
-- Be sure it's true when you say
"I love you"
It's a sin to tell a lie
Millions of hearts have been broken
Just because these words were spoken --
It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie by the Ink Spots.
"Sometimes one channel wins over the other, and you see the smile, sometimes others take over and you don't see the smile," says Luis Martinez Otero, a neuroscientist at Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante, Spain, who conducted the study along with Diego Alonso Pablos...
So did Leonardo intend to sow so much confusion in the brains of viewers, not to mention scientists? Absolutely, Martinez Otero contends. "He wrote in one of his notebooks that he was trying to paint dynamic expressions because that's what he saw in the street."
The Cat Piano from PRA on Vimeo.
Lets contemplate today's word @ Urban Dictionary:
October 19: Attention whore --
Label given to any person who craves attention to such an extent that they will do anything to receive it. The type of attention (negative or positive) does not matter.
So... I wish I could get this def on a mug and send it out to some people - I know - as a gift from me.
... and not because I'm laughing MAO... but at least it's Monday and the kids at xkcd created another amazing comic shot!
hehehe little geeks....
I just started following The Big Bang Theory and let me tell you, it is absolutely engaging...!
It really feeds my need for geeks.
As GoLisbon previously reported, Hollywood has a new home in Portugal, and this week it was announced that a new movie starring Brad Pitt, Al Pacino, and Penelope Cruz will be filmed around Portugal next year. Most of the scenes will be shot in Algarve, but will also move up the country to Lisbon, Porto, and Aveiro. It’s a remake of the classic “Le Mans” which starred Steve McQueen in 1971, and this time it will be directed by Wolfgang Peterson who directed 2004’s “Troy”. The scheduled dates for filming are the month of August, as the script is still being worked on at the moment. The total budget for this film is 52 million dollars and is expected to have a crew of 600. Another production planned for Portugal is a movie starring Richard Gere playing the role of Aristides Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese diplomat who allowed over 30,000 Jews to escape the Nazis during WWII. Other productions include a vampire thriller with Kevin Bacon, a science-fiction film starring Sigouney Weaver, a western with Val Kilmer as the star, and a Larry Cohen thriller starring Ethan Hawke.
Olá AMIGOS.
Mais um convite para um concerto dos QUEST.
Desta vez em Sobrado, no próximo Sábado sai 17 a partir das 21:45.
ENTRADA LIVRE!!!
Cartaz em anexo!
Filipe
La prohibición
John Donne (1572-1631)
Guárdate de quererme.
Recuerda, al menos, que te lo prohibí.
No he de ir a reparar mi pródigo derroche
de aliento y sangre en tus llantos y suspiros,
siendo entonces para ti lo que tú has sido para mí.
Pues goce tan intenso consume al punto nuestra vida.
Así, a fin de que tu amor frustrarse no pueda por mi muerte,
si tú me amas, guárdate de quererme.
Guárdate de odiarme,
o de excesivo triunfo en la victoria.
No es que yo a mí mismo haga justicia,
y me resarza del odio con más odio,
pues tú el título perderás de conquistador
si yo, tu conquista, perezco por tu odio.
Así, a fin de que mi ser a ti en nada perjudique,
si tú me odias, guárdate de odiarme.
Mas ama y ódiame también.
Así ambos extremos la función de ninguno cumplirán.
Ámame para que pueda morir del modo placentero.
Ódiame, porque tu amor es excesivo para mí,
o deja que los dos mutuamente, y no a mí, se destruyan.
viviré enttonces para apoyo y triunfo tuyo.
Así, para que tú a mí, a tu amor y odio no destruyas,
déjame vivir, pero ama y ódiame también.
The prohibition
Take heed of loving me ;
At least remember, I forbade it thee ;
Not that I shall repair my unthrifty waste
Of breath and blood, upon thy sighs and tears,
By being to thee then what to me thou wast ;
But so great joy our life at once outwears.
Then, lest thy love by my death frustrate be,
If thou love me, take heed of loving me.
Take heed of hating me,
Or too much triumph in the victory ;
Not that I shall be mine own officer,
And hate with hate again retaliate ;
But thou wilt lose the style of conqueror,
If I, thy conquest, perish by thy hate.
Then, lest my being nothing lessen thee,
If thou hate me, take heed of hating me.
Yet love and hate me too ;
So these extremes shall ne'er their office do ;
Love me, that I may die the gentler way ;
Hate me, because thy love's too great for me ;
Or let these two, themselves, not me, decay ;
So shall I live thy stage, not triumph be.
Lest thou thy love and hate, and me undo,
O let me live, yet love and hate me too.
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Aire y ángeles
John Donne (1572-1631)
Dos o tres veces te habré amado
antes de conocer tu rostro o tu nombre;
así en una voz, así en una llama informe
a menudo nos afectan los ángeles, y los adoramos;
y aún así, cuando adonde estabas me acerqué,
vi una espléndida y gloriosa nada.
Mas, puesto que mi alma, cuyo niño es el amor,
precisa miembros de carne y hueso
o nada haría si ellos,
más sutil que el padre el amor no ha de ser,
sino también ha de encarnar un cuerpo;
por consiguiente, invoco quién y lo que eras,
y al amor insto, y en este mismo instante,
a que se aloje en tu cuerpo, y consienta
que en tu labio, ojo y ceja se instale.
(...)
En tal caso, como un ángel, con rostro y alas
de aire, no tan puro éste, pero que puramente lleva,
de este modo pueda tu amor ser mi angélica esfera.
Justamente igual desemejanza
como impera entre la pureza de los ángeles y la del aire,
como siempre existirá entre el amor
del hombre y de la mujer.
Air and angels
Twice or thrice had I loved thee,
Before I knew thy face or name ;
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame
Angels affect us oft, and worshipp'd be.
Still when, to where thou wert, I came,S
ome lovely glorious nothing did I see.
But since my soul, whose child love is,
Takes limbs of flesh, and else could nothing do,
More subtle than the parent is
Love must not be, but take a body too ;
And therefore what thou wert, and who,
I bid Love ask, and now
That it assume thy body, I allow,
And fix itself in thy lip, eye, and brow.
(...)
Then as an angel face and wings
Of air, not pure as it, yet pure doth wear,
So thy love may be my love's sphere ;
Just such disparity
As is 'twixt air's and angels' purity,
'Twixt women's love, and men's, will ever be.
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