27.10.10

"bitter suite" (fish, mark kelly, ian mosley, steve rothery, pete trewavas)



(fotografia de erica pratt, "le douhet", 2009)


"I. Brief Encounter

A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow
Not the regal creature of border caves
But the poor, misguided, directionless familiar
Of some obscure Scottish poet

The mist crawls from the canal
Like some primordial phantom of romance
To curl, under a cascade of neon pollen
While I sit tied to the phone like an expectant father
Your carnation will rot in a vase.


II. Lost Weekend

A train sleeps in a siding
The driver guzzles another can of lager
To wash away the memories of a Friday night down at the club

She was a wallflower at sixteen
She'll be a wallflower at thirty four
Her mother called her beautiful
Her daddy said, "A whore".


III. Blue Angel

The sky was Bible black in Lyon
When I met the Magdalene
She was paralysed in a streetlight
She refused to give her name

And a ring of violet bruises
They were pinned upon her arm.
Two hundred francs for sanctuary and she led me by the hand
To a room of dancing shadows where all the heartache disappears
And from glowing tongues of candles I heard her whisper in my ear
"'J'entend ton coeur"
I can hear your heart


IV. Misplaced Rendezvous

It's getting late, for scribbling and scratching on the paper
Something's gonna give under this pressure
And the cracks are already beginning to show
It's too late
The weekend career girl never boarded the plane
They said this could never happen again
So wrong, so wrong

This time it seems to be another misplaced rendezvous
This time, it's looking like another misplaced rendezvous
With you
The parallel of you, you


V. Windswept Thumb

On the outskirts of nowhere
On the ringroad to somewhere
On the verge of indecision
I'll always take the roundabout way
Waiting on the rain
For I was born with a habit, from a sign
The habit of a windswept thumb
And the sign of the rain
It's started raining" (1)

marillion

(1) retirado do cd dos marillion, misplaced childhood (1985) e daqui.

23.10.10

Ecologia



(fotografia de ansel adams, "clearing winter storm, yosemite national park, california", s/d)


"Diversity is necessary for the health of the ecology itself, to permit the system to survive continual and perhaps chaotic change. Monoculture - a fake, brittle ecology - gives sensational results for a short time, then completely fails" (1)

bonnie a. nardi e vicki l. o. day



(1) NARDI, Bonnie A. ; O'DAY, Vicki L. apud MAXIMINO, Pedro Manuel Cardina - Metodologia para a avaliação de colecções: estudo aplicado a uma biblioteca portuguesa. [Em linha]. Barcelona : Universitat de Barcelona, 2006. [Consult. 27 Ago. 2010 04:44]. Disponível em: http://www.moyak.com/papers/collection-development-portugese.pdf.

20.10.10

positivismo vs. fenomenologia



(desenho de larry rivers, "sky", 1990)


"El positivismo busca la comprensión de as causas de los fenómenos sociales, con independencia de la subjectividad de los individuos. La fenomenología, por su parte, intenta entender esos mismos fenómenos desde el punto de vista de la persona que los experimenta." (1)

angel borrego huerta


(1) BORREGO HUERTA, Angel apud MAXIMINO, Pedro Manuel Cardina - Metodologia para a avaliação de colecções: estudo aplicado a uma biblioteca portuguesa. [Em linha]. Barcelona : Universitat de Barcelona, 2006. [Consult. 23 Ago. 2010 20:06]. Disponível em: http://www.moyak.com/papers/collection-development-portugese.pdf.

"scarborough fair / canticle" (paul simon / art garfunkel)



(desenho de william kentridge, "dancing couple / middle age love" (2003)

"Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
(On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)
Without no seams nor needlework
(Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain)
Then she'll be a true love of mine
(Sleeps unaware of the clarion call)

Tell her to find me an acre of land
(On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Washes the ground with so many tears)
Between the salt water and the sea strand
(A soldier cleans and polishes a gun)
Then she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather
(War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Generals order their soldiers to kill)
And to gather it all in a bunch of heather
(And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten)
Then she'll be a true love of mine

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine" (1)

simon & garfunkel


(1) retirado do cd dos simon & garfunkel, parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme (1966) e daqui.

2.10.10

"i'm waiting for my man" (lou reed)



(pintura de shimon okshteyn, "cocaine", 2008)


"I'm waiting for my man
Twenty-six dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington, 125
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
I'm waiting for my man
Hey, white boy, what you doin' uptown?
Hey, white boy, you chasin' our women around?
Oh pardon me sir, it's the furthest from my mind
I'm just lookin' for a dear, dear friend of mine
I'm waiting for my man
Here he comes, he's all dressed in black
Beat up shoes and a big straw hat
He's never early, he's always late
First thing you learn is you always gotta wait I'm waiting for my man
Up to a Brownstone, up three flights of stairs
Everybody's pinned you, but nobody cares
He's got the works, gives you sweet taste
Ah then you gotta split because you got no time to waste
I'm waiting for my man
Baby don't you holler, darlin' don't you bawl and shout
I'm feeling good, you know I'm gonna work it on out
I'm feeling good, I'm feeling oh so fine
Until tomorrow, but that's just some other time
I'm waiting for my man" (1)

the velvet underground

(1) retirado do cd dos velvet underground, live at max's kansas city (1972)

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/v/velvet+underground/#share