VINTAGE (X)

Pink Floyd


"See Emily Play"



"Corporal Clegg"



"Apples And Oranges"



"Arnold Layne"

(2010)

THE BOX - REAL. RICHARD KELLY

Uma matryoshka infinita concebida por M.C. Escher. Sartre em versão sci-fi realizada por David Lynch. The Third Man reescrito por Philip K. Dick. Lulu On The Bridge em colisão frontal com The Day The Earth Stood Still. O Milgram Experiment (sort of) redesenhado por Arthur C. Clarck. O mito de Adão e Eva a flutuar entre Barton Fink e The Shining. Uma "morality play" em formato "mindfuck" dirigida por Richard Kelly mas sem coelhos gigantes. Muito provavelmente, um mau filme. Se calhar, ridículo. E absolutamente fascinante. Com uma magnífica banda sonora de Win Butler, Régine Chassagne e Owen Pallett (sim, esses mesmos).

(2010)

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM - "THE '59 SOUND"
(sequência daqui)


Performance only version



Videoclip oficial

(2010)

ANO DO TIGRE (XIV)

Emily Duncan e Melissa (tigres de Hélia Correia)

(2010)

E PRONTO, FOI SÓ MAIS UMA QUERELA À PORTUGUESA, COM ESCRITOR PORTUGUÊS, TROPA À PORTUGUESA E HERÓIS PORTUGUESES: NINGUÉM FOI AO FOCINHO DE NINGUÉM, DUAS CARTITAS E AMIGUINHOS COMO ANTES

"Duas cartas apenas - trocadas entre António Lobo Antunes e o presidente da Liga dos Combatentes, general Chito Rodrigues - bastaram para que acabasse a polémica à volta das memórias do escritor sobre a guerra colonial, consideradas 'insultuosas' por um grupo de militares. As ameaças de 'ir ao focinho' do autor ou de lhe 'dar um par de murros em público' acabaram, literalmente, por ficar no papel" ("Expresso" de hoje)

(2010)

PORQUE HOJE É O DIA DE SANTO AGOSTINHO,
DOUTOR DA IGREJA, AQUI SE RECORDA COM A
MÁXIMA DEVOÇÃO UMA SANTÍSSIMA TRADIÇÃO
CRISTÃ POR ELE JÁ PRATICADA E APROVADA E
QUE CONTINUA BEM VIVA NA CASA DO SENHOR


Santo Agostinho - Philippe de Champaigne, 1645-1650

"Augustine, as bishop of Hippo, appointed his monk, Antoninus in the 410s to be bishop of a subordinate diocese in Fussala, one of Africa's relatively few villages, in the hills of what is now eastern Algeria. Antoninus turned out to be a bad man - he was young and from a poor family, he was promoted too fast - and he terrorized the village, extorting money, clothing, produce and building materials. He was also accused of sexual assault. Augustine removed him, but did not depose him, and tried to transfer him to the nearby estate of Thogonoetum. Here, the tenants told Augustine and their landowner that they would leave if he came. (...) Augustine was very embarrassed, as indeed he should have been ('I did not dare look the people of Fussala in the eye'). (...) It is not surprising that Augustine's main fear was that the peasants would revert to the Donatist church, abandoning Catholic Christianity altogether" (The Inheritance Of Rome/A History Of Europe From 400 To 1000 - Chris Wickham)

(2010)

VINTAGE (IX)

The Who - "I Can See For Miles"



(2010)

PROGRAMAÇÃO DE VERÃO (III)

Reposição integral do label da grande-tournée-2010: Papa In Rio.

(2010)

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE - HYMN TO PROSERPINE
(After the Proclamation in Rome of the Christian Faith)
(sequência daqui)



(...) Though the feet of thine high priests tread where thy lords and our forefathers trod,
Though these that were Gods are dead, and thou being dead art a God,
Though before thee the throned Cytherean be fallen, and hidden her head,
Yet thy kingdom shall pass, Galilean, thy dead shall go down to thee dead.

(...) Therefore now at thy feet I abide for a season in silence. I know
I shall die as my fathers died, and sleep as they sleep, even so.
For the glass of the years is brittle wherein we gaze for a span;
A little soul for a little bears up this corpse which is man.
So long I endure, no longer; and laugh not again, neither weep.
For there is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

(poema integral aqui)

(2010)

ALEGRE AMSTERDÃO (VI)

Gay Pride 2010 - 4

(2010)

FOOD FOR THOUGHT (II)


(daqui)

(2010)

E O MUNDO PODERIA TER SIDO TÃO DIFERENTE E TÃO MELHOR...

Flavius Claudius Julianus (331/332 – 26 June 363), commonly known as Julian, Julian the Apostate or Julian the Philosopher, was Roman Emperor from 355 to 363. He is also a noted philosopher and Greek writer. (...) He was the last non-Christian ruler of the Roman Empire and it was his desire to bring the empire back to its ancient Roman values in order to save it from "dissolution". He purged the top-heavy state bureaucracy and attempted to revive traditional Roman religious practices at the cost of Christianity. His rejection of Christianity in favour of Neoplatonic paganism caused him to be called Julian the Apostate by the church. Interestingly, he was also the last emperor of the Constantinian dynasty - the empire's first Christian dynasty. (...)

After gaining the purple, Julian started a religious reformation of the state, which was intended to restore the lost strength of the Roman state. He supported the restoration of Hellenistic paganism as the state religion. His laws tended to target wealthy and educated Christians, and his aim was not to destroy Christianity but to drive the religion out of the governing classes of the empire — much as Buddhism was driven back into the lower classes by a revived Confucian mandarinate in 13th century China.

He restored pagan temples which had been confiscated since Constantine's time, or simply appropriated by wealthy citizens; he repealed the stipends that Constantine had awarded to Christian bishops, and removed their other privileges, including a right to be consulted on appointments and to act as private courts. He also reversed some favors that had previously been given to Christians. (...) On 4 February 362, Julian promulgated an edict to guarantee freedom of religion. This edict proclaimed that all the religions were equal before the law, and that the Roman Empire had to return to its original religious eclecticism, according to which the Roman State did not impose any religion on its provinces. Practically however, it had as its purpose the restoration of paganism at the expense of Christianity.

Coroação de Juliano em Cluny - Felix Thorigny (1823-1870)

Since the persecution of Christians by past Roman Emperors had seemingly only strengthened Christianity, many of Julian's actions were designed to harass and undermine the ability of Christians to organize resistance to the re-establishment of paganism in the empire. Julian's preference for a non-Christian and non-philosophical view of Iamblichus' theurgy seems to have convinced him that it was right to outlaw the practice of the Christian view of theurgy and demand the suppression of the Christian set of Mysteries.

In his School Edict Julian required that all public teachers be approved by the Emperor; the state paid or supplemented much of their salaries. Ammianus Marcellinus explains this as intending to prevent Christian teachers from using pagan texts (such as the Iliad, which was widely regarded as divinely inspired) that formed the core of classical education: "If they want to learn literature, they have Luke and Mark: Let them go back to their churches and expound on them", the edict says. This was an attempt to remove some of the power of the Christian schools which at that time and later used ancient Greek literature in their teachings in their effort to present the Christian religion as being superior to paganism. The edict was also a severe financial blow, because it deprived Christian scholars, tutors and teachers of many students.

O Imperador Juliano, o Apóstata, queimando os ossos de
S. João Baptista - Mestre do retábulo de S. João, sec. XVI

In his Tolerance Edict of 362, Julian decreed the reopening of pagan temples, the restitution of confiscated temple properties, and the return from exile of dissident Christian bishops. The latter was an instance of tolerance of different religious views, but it may also have been seen as an attempt by Julian to foster schisms and divisions between different Christian sects, since conflict between rival Christian sects was quite fierce.

His care in the institution of a pagan hierarchy in opposition to that of the Christians was due to his wish to create a society in which every aspect of the life of the citizens was to be connected, through layers of intermediate levels, to the consolidated figure of the Emperor — the final provider for all the needs of his people. Within this project, there was no place for a parallel institution, such as the Christian hierarchy or Christian charity. (...)

In 363, Julian embarked on an ambitious campaign against the Sassanid Empire. Though initially successful, Julian was mortally wounded in battle and died shortly after. (...) Considered apocryphal is the report that his dying words were νενίκηκάς με, Γαλιλαῖε, or Vicisti, Galilaee ("You have won, Galilean"), supposedly expressing his recognition that, with his death, Christianity would become the Empire's state religion. The phrase introduces the 1866 poem Hymn to Proserpine, which was Algernon Charles Swinburne's elaboration of what a philosophic pagan might have felt at the triumph of Christianity. (daqui)

(2010)

AGORA E SEMPRE UM SÁBIO PONTO DE VISTA


John Cale - "Fear Is A Man's Best Friend"

Standing waiting for a man to show
Wide eyed one eye fixed on the door
This waiting's killing me, it's wearing me down
Day in day out, my feet are burning holes in the ground

Darkness warmer than a bedroom floor
Want someone to hold me close forever more
I'm a sleeping dog, but you can't tell
When I'm on the prowl you'ld better run like hell
You know it makes sense, don't even think about it
Life and death are just things you do when you're bored
Say fear's a man's best friend
You add it up it brings you down

Home is living like a man on the run
Trails leading nowhere, where to my son?
We're already dead, just not yet in the ground
Take my helping hand I'll show you around
You know it makes sense, don't even think about it
Life and death are just things you do when you're bored
Say fear's a man's best friend
You add it up it brings you down

(2010)

STREET ART, GRAFFITI & ETC (XLVII)

Amsterdão, Holanda, 2010















(2010)

MAS É QUE O PROBLEMA É MESMO ESSE:
NÃO PODIAM MUDAR O RECEPCIONISTA?



(2010)