Showing posts with label Laurie Anderson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laurie Anderson. Show all posts

July 11, 2009

se ao menos a internet existisse há mais tempo...

Acabo de encomendar os livros escolares do meu filho. Não, não é maneira de dizer. Passam de facto quase todos os minutos da meia-noite e eu acabo de encomendar os livros escolares do meu filho. Aconteceu assim: mandaram um e-mail do site da editora onde os tinha encomendado no ano passado (eles devem saber que a boa memória não é um dos meus encantos), um e-mail com um link para o sítio certo no site; depois foi escolher o distrito da escola, o concelho da escola e a escola propriamente dita. Seleccionei o ano, abri o site da escola, confirmei a lista dos livros, marquei-os no site da editora, empurrei-os no carrinho de compras virtual e passei logo a uma página com as referências multibanco (OK, não foi bem "logo", tive de papar com alguma publicidade de alguns livritos mais, que eles, lá na editora, consideram indicados para atormentar as férias e os fins-de-semana do puto), abri o site do banco e disse-lhes que sim, que podiam dar aquele dinheiro aos senhores. Algumas autorizações e códigos secretos depois, posso considerar-me a feliz e esperançosa mãe em stand-by de todos aqueles volumes, cheios de coisas novas para me ensinar e entediar a descendência.

Que fique claro que esta proeza, merecedora de tão minuciosa descrição, por prática e despachada que pareça, deixa-me um amarguinho de boca e iça-me um pesar filosófico, inspira-me uma reflexão egótica que se verte num muito singelo aieu: porque raio é que só agora, agora que eu já lido quase sempre, quase bem com o contacto comercial com os outros humanos, é que se me depara todo um universo de profícuos e descomplicados contactos à distância?! Um mundo sem desentendimentos, sem filas, sem manuseamento de dinheiro, maçanetas ou corrimões, sem olhares aborrecidos e movimentos corporais a denunciar vítimas de injustiças sociais e baixas remunerações... O meu silêncio, o meu barulho, a totalidade da matéria e da energia existentes no espaço e no tempo concentradas no meu teclado! E tudo sem ter de fazer um ar simpático para ser melhor atendida! Ah, e com provas documentais para reclamar do atendimento deficiente.

Forrarem os livros online é que ainda não parece que esteja acessível...

January 03, 2009

gourmetorrino





















Chega um dia em que os geeks do áifái nos convencem e obrigam a admitir que andámos todos estes anos a negar à partida uma ciência que desconhecíamos... Foi convenientemente estreado com o From the Air, do Big Science, da Laurie Anderson. Estes ouvidos já mereciam um amplificador assim.

March 06, 2008



Gravity's Angel
(For Thomas Pynchon)

Laurie Anderson

You can dance. You can make me laugh. You've got x-ray eyes.
You know how to sing. You're a diplomat. You've got it all.
Everybody loves you.
You can charm the birds out of the sky. but I, I've got one thing.
You always know just what to say. And when to go.
But I've got one thing. You can see in the dark.
But I've got one thing: I loved you better.

Last night I woke up. Saw this angel. He flew in my window.
And he said: Girl, pretty proud of yourself, huh?
And I looked around and said: Who me?
And he said: The higher you fly, the faster you fall. He said:
Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall. Gravity's rainbow.
Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall. Gravity's angel.
Why these mountains? Why this sky? This long road. This ugly train.
Well he was an ugly guy. With an ugly face.
An also ran in the human race.
And even God got sad just looking at him. And at his funeral
all his friends stood around looking sad. But they were really
thinking of all the ham and cheese sandwiches in the next room.
And everybody used to hang around him. And I know why.
They said: There but for the grace of the angels go I.
Why these mountains? Why this sky?
Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall. Gravity's rainbow.
Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall. Gravity's angel.

Well, we were just laying there.
And this ghost of your other lover walked in.
And stood there. Made of thin air. Full of desire.
Look. Look. Look. You forgot to take your shirt.
And there's your book. And there's your pen, sitting on the table.
Why these mountains? Why this sky? This long road? This empty room?
Why these mountains? Why this sky? This long road? This empty room?

Laurie Anderson, Mister Heartbreak, 1984

January 08, 2008

2007 quase não existiu para quem não viu

  • Amélia Muge, 17-02-2007, Culturgest
  • Cristina Branco canta Zeca Afonso, 17-02-2007, Teatro Municipal São Luiz
  • Vitorino, 11-05-2007, Teatro da Trindade
  • Ana Moura + Amélia Muge, 22-06-2007, Castelo
  • Tinariwen, 5-07-2007, Cinema São Jorge
  • Laurie Anderson, 15-07-2007, Culturgest
  • Aimee Mann, 25-07-2007, Coliseu Lisboa
  • Gogol Bordello, 27-07-2007, Castelo Sines
  • Xutos & Pontapés, 9-12-2007, Praça Touros Campo Piquêno
  • Mafalda Arnauth, 15-12-2007, Teatro da Trindade

2007 por tipologia

  • Brad Mehldau, 24-01-2007, CCB - o segundo mais longo (em bom)
  • Amélia Muge, 17-02-2007, Culturgest - o amor
  • Cristina Branco canta Zeca Afonso, 17-02-2007, Teatro Municipal São Luiz - o amor puro
  • The Devastations, 19-02-2007, Santiago Alquimista (1.ª parte, do imenso Mazgani) - o que melhor esqueci, excepto a parte do Mazgani
  • Camané e a Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, 27-04-2007, Teatro Municipal São Luiz - o mais arriscado
  • Vitorino, 11-05-2007, Teatro da Trindade - muito amor também
  • Sérgio Godinho, 16-05-2007, Teatro Municipal Maria Matos - o que teve mais brinquedos
  • Bloc Party, 18-05-2007, Coliseu Lisboa - o "porque raio me meto eu nestas merdas?!"
  • Maria João, 24-05-2007, Cabaret Maxime - o quase a perdoar uma data de coisas
  • Jay Jay Johanson, 21-06-2007, CCB - o mais booooooooooooring
  • Ana Moura + Amélia Muge, 22-06-2007, Castelo - mais amor, mas com frio
  • Bajo Fondo Tango Club, 4-07-2007, Paradise Garage - o do bandoneonero giro
  • Tinariwen, 5-07-2007, Cinema São Jorge - o com mais freaks e calor
  • Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau Trio, 8-07-2007, Aula Magna - o que teve mais azeite
  • Laurie Anderson, 15-07-2007, Culturgest - o que quase não era
  • Aimee Mann, 25-07-2007, Coliseu Lisboa - o da interrupção das férias
  • FMM, 20 a 27-07-2007 (com tudo o que isso implica), Sines e Porto Côvo - o que se esticou mais
  • Beduínos a Gasóleo + Petra + Janita Salomé, 6-10-2007, Santiago Alquimista - o de que tenho mais fotos
  • Ana Moura, 7-10-2007, CCB - o que recordo menos
  • Mazgani + Kurt Wagner, 17-10-2007, Santiago Alquimista - o da primeira parte
  • Seu Jorge, 12-11-2007, Coliseu Lisboa - o mais longo
  • Vitorino, 7-12-2007, Teatro da Trindade - o da repetição quase desnecessária
  • Xutos & Pontapés, 9-12-2007, Praça Touros Campo Piquêno - a melhor surpresa
  • Mafalda Arnauth, 15-12-2007, Teatro da Trindade - o da quase reconciliação
  • Cristina Branco canta Zeca Afonso, 17-02-2007, Teatro Municipal São Luiz - o que teve menos piada que o que foi a brincar.

October 16, 2007

I will not be there you when you fall



Laurie Anderson, Walking and Falling, Big Science, 1982


Nota: o clip é da categoria "o que se conseguiu arranjar"

I'll huff and I'll puff


Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall. Gravity's rainbow.
Send it up. Watch it rise. And fall. Gravity's angel.




Laurie Anderson, Gravity's angel, Mister Heartbreak, 1984

July 16, 2007

mas aconteceram mais coisas...

Por exemplo, isto, que também existe no Tubo, e que ontem teve diferenças apenas ao nível, digamos, do acompanhamento:



Lost Art of Conversation

E ainda:



Only an Expert / Maybe if I Fall

também teve isto


The Lark

Before the world began, there was just sky.
No earth, no land.
Only air and birds everywhere.
Billions and billions of birds.
And one of these birds was a lark and one day her father died.
And this was a really big problem
because there was no place to put the body
because there was no earth.
And it went on for five or six days and
they were all trying to think of what to do with the body.
And finally the lark had a solution:
She decided to bury her father in the back of her own head.
And this was the beginning of memory.
Because before this no one could remember a thing.
They were just constantly flying in circles.
Constantly flying in huge circles.

acabou assim

it tango

She said: It looks. Don't you think it looks a lot like rain? He said: Isn't it. Isn't it just. Isn't it just like a woman? She said: It's hard. It's just hard. It's just kind of hard to say. He said: Isn't it. Isn't it just. Isn't it just like a woman? She said: It goes. That's the way it goes. It goes that way. He said: Isn't it. Isn't it just like a woman? She said: It takes. It takes one. It takes on to. It takes one to know one. He said: Isn't it just like a woman? She said: She said it. She said it to no. She said it to no one. Isn't it. Isn't it just? Isn't it just like a woman?

Your eyes. It's a day's work to look in to them. Your eyes. It's a day's work just to look in to them.

July 13, 2007

voto útil


Após profunda reflexão (ou então foi o destino), constatámos que estão criadas as condições para juntarmos a nossa voz e a nossa vontade aos que primeiro ousaram, para, no próximo Domingo, eleger a única candidata de que Lisboa precisa.

July 10, 2007

não esquecer o Google e o Sitemeter

Outro dia descobri que tinha vindo alguém cá parar quando procurava a Amélia Muge, mas resolvi não tocar no assunto porque eu aparecia antes do João Lisboa e do António Pires e deusmeguarde de os enxovalhar em público (ainda que se trate de uma restrita audiência). Hoje tropeço num internauta que procurou por "Beckett + Molloy" e logo no primeiro resultado ele depara-se com quem? Yours truly. Outro (ou outra) procurou "laurie anderson 2007 records"e também me apanhou altaneira (do Lisboa nem sinal >:>).

É claramente um upgrade depois da última contagem.

May 18, 2007

hoje almocei com a Laurie Anderson

Walking & Falling

I wanted you. And I was looking for you.
But I couldn't find you.
I wanted you. And I was looking for you all day.
But I couldn't find you. I couldn't find you.

You're walking. And you don't always realize it,
but you're always falling.
With each step you fall forward slightly.
And then catch yourself from falling.
Over and over, you're falling.
And then catching yourself from falling.
And this is how you can be walking and falling
at the same time.

Laurie Anderson, Big Science, 1982

May 18, 2006

Big Science

From the Air

Good evening. this is your captain. we are about to attempt a crash landing. please extinuish all cigarettes. place your tray tables in their upright, locked position. your captain says: put youD on your knees. your captain says: put your head on your hands. captain says: put your hands on your head. put your hands on your hips. heh heh. this is your captain-and we are going down. we aL going down, together. and I said: uh oh. this is gonna be some day. standby. this is the time. and this is the record of the time. this is the time. and this is the record of the time. uh-thisOur captain again. you know, I’ve got a funny feeling I’ve seen this all before. why? cause I’m a caveman. why? cause I’ve got eyes in the back of my head. why? it’s the heat. standby. this is tMe. and this is the record of the time. this is the time. and this is the record of the time. put your hands over your eyes. jump out of the plane. there is no pilot. you are not alone. standby.Is the time. and this is theRecord of the time. this is the time. and this is the record of the time.