Wednesday, April 24, 2013

DEVENDRA BANHART - MALA, 2013

Devendra Banhart,Venezuelan American singer-songwriter and visual artist who had played in Portugal a couple of times -  Optimus Alive and Festival Para Gente Sentada -, is back with a new album "Mala". The single (video below) is a delightfull folk-rock song, an easy-going melodie that could enter in Silver Linning Playbook's soundtrack. In "Mala" Devendra breaks up with its freak-folk past and achieves, after 8 albums, musical maturity. 3.5/5

Shows:
Casa da Música - 2 de Agosto 
CCB - 3 de Agosto


Friday, April 19, 2013

Weekend



In its seventh edition, Dias da Música em Belém, in CCB (Centro Cultural de Belém) addresses the Romantic Impulse in two aspects: the historical and popular music. From Beethoven to Rachmaninoff, Chopin to John Lennon, Berlioz to the French chanson d'amour, the festival proposes a musical journey into the roots of Romanticism and detects the persistence of romantic feeling, erudite or ordinary, until today. It aims to deliver answers  to what is romanticism today, for us and if we can still be romantic in the XXI century. 

More informations:


Thursday, April 18, 2013

INDIE LISBOA 2013



Independent Film Festival Indie Lisboa is back, under the slogan "Hollywood is running out of ideas",  from April 18th to 28th you can see a wide range of  non commercialised movies, well at least it's the main ideology but we all know that it's hard to make a medium and profitable film festival for niches, that's probably why there's a premiere of Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers, next thursday 25th, and I intent to be there. Unfortunately today I will miss the opening ceremony with No by Pablo Larraín, for the plot the movie promises a good approach on Chile's history and culture. "An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.", says IMDB.


Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Festivals 2013: the shows you can't miss


Coachella, South by Southwest (US) Primavera Sound (Spain), Glastonbury (England) are, beyond question, the greatest music festivals in the world. One week after Coachella, which reminds me a bit of Woodstock fever, here’s a list of the best 2013 music festivals we've got in Portugal and the live shows you really can’t miss. 

  • Optimus Primavera Sound May 30th - June 01st - Porto
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
James Blake
Blur
My Bloody Valentine
Savages
  • Optimus Alive July 12,13,14 - Oeiras
Tame Impala
Alt-J
Django Django
Dead Combo
Twin Shadow
  •  Super Bock Super Rock July 18,19,20 - Meco
Toy
Arctic Monkeys
Johnny Marr
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Gary Clark Jr
  • Festival Paredes de Coura August 13,14,15,16,17 - Paredes de Coura
Toy
The Kills
Palma Violets
Alabama Shakes
Playlist



Monday, April 15, 2013

Casa das Histórias - Paula Rego



Casa das Histórias is a museum in Cascais which is an homage to the works of Portuguese painter Paula Rego (Lisbon 1935 -) and her husband future artist Victor Willing. Designed by Eduardo Souto de Moura it opened in 2009 and includes a collection of painting, drawings and engraving.
 
“The collection has been put together thanks to the generous donation made by Paula Rego of all of her etchings, amounting to 257 in total, along with a set of 278 drawings, most of which have never been seen before.”    

Paula Rego (today an English citizen as well) was influenced by aesthetic surrealism in the 1960 (Juan Miró) but in 1990 her career took a boost with the change of style following Rego's appointment to be the first 'Associate Artist' of the National Gallery, London, which ended up in a series of works which came to characterise the popular perception of Rego's style, comprising strong clear drawing, with depictions of equally strong women in sometimes disturbing situations.
 
This antithesis of what is considered feminine behaviour, and many other works in which there appears to be either the threat of female violence or its actual manifestation, has associated Rego with feminism, and she has acknowledged reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex at a young age and this making a deep impression on her.

Let's say you’re visiting Lisbon is definitely worth seeing. Bonus: free entrance, beautiful café with balcony inside the garden that surrounds the artistic building. Below some paintings you might see there.

 








 


Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Walden conclusion



I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the licence of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, you work need not to be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry D. Thoreau, in Walden, p 288.




While I'm finishing read Walden I've found online some nature pictures that are true inspirations.


 















Edition by rollip

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Conversa Sentimental


 No velho parque deserto e gelado

Duas formas passaram há bocado.

Com os olhos mortos e os lábios moles,
Mal se ouvem, a custo, as suas vozes.

No velho parque deserto e gelado
Dois espectros evocaram o passado.

— Recordas-te do nosso êxtase antigo?
— Por que razão acha que ainda consigo?

— Bate, ao ouvires meu nome, o coração?
Vês ainda a minha alma em sonhos? — Não.

— Ah! bons tempos de prazer indizível
Unindo as nossas bocas! — É possível.

— Como era azul, o céu, e grande a esperança!
— Mas é prò negro céu que hoje se lança.

Lá caminhavam pelas aveias loucas
E só a noite ouviu as suas bocas.

Paul Verlaine, in "Festas Galantes"
*Obrigada Fernando Pinto do Amaral pela tradução



 //

(Colloque sentimental se situe à la fin de Fêtes Galantes)

Dans le vieux parc solitaire et glacé,
Deux formes ont tout à l'heure passé.

Leurs yeux sont morts et leurs lèvres sont molles,
Et l'on entend à peine leurs paroles.

Dans le vieux parc solitaire et glacé,
Deux spectres ont évoqué le passé.

- Te souvient-il de notre extase ancienne ?
- Pourquoi voulez-vous donc qu'il m'en souvienne ?
- Ton cœur bat-il toujours à mon seul nom ?
Toujours vois-tu mon âme en rêve ? - Non.

- Ah ! les beaux jours de bonheur indicible
Où nous joignions nos bouches ! - C'est possible.

- Qu'il était bleu, le ciel, et grand, l'espoir !
- L'espoir a fui, vaincu, vers le ciel noir.

Tels ils marchaient dans les avoines folles,
Et la nuit seule entendit leurs paroles.
 







Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Oh nature!

they are too pure to have a market value; they contain no muck. how much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters, are they! we never learned meanness of them. T.


Monday, March 25, 2013

As Pinturas do Meu Irmão Júlio (Manoel de Oliveira, 1965) *



*My first experience with Manuel de Oliveira's movies. I really loved the approach and the mix of painting, music and poetry (sensitive).

Friday, March 15, 2013

Les Caffés you shound't miss

Caffé Nero in Notting Hill - Through its big glass windows you can view all Portobello Road, hectic saturdays and vintage music stores nearby. Worth stopping by for a coffee if you're in London.

Always



Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot - Bonnie & Clyde (86 remix) from Ji-Yun Jung on Vimeo.


Vous avez lu l'histoire de Jesse James ?
Comment il vecut, comment il est mort ?
Ca vous a plus hein ? Vous en demandez encore
Eh bien, écoutez l'histoire de Bonnie and Clyde

Alors voilà, Clyde a une petite amie
Elle est belle et son prénom c'est Bonnie
A eux deux ils forment le gang Barrow
Leurs noms : Bonnie Parker et Clyde Barrow

Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde

Moi lorsque j'ai connu Clyde autrefois
C'était un gars loyal, honnête et droit
Il faut croire que c'est la société
Qui m'a définitivement abimée

Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde

Qu'est-ce qu'on a pas écrit sur elle et moi
On prétend que nous tuons de sang froid
C'est pas drôle mais on est bien obligé
De faire taire celui qui se met à gueuler

Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde

Chaque fois qu'un policeman se fait buter
Qu'un garage ou qu'une banque se fait braquer
Pour la police, ça ne fait pas de mystère
C'est signé Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker

Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde

Maintenant chaque fois qu'on essaie de se ranger
De s'installer tranquille dans un meublé
Dans les trois jours, voilà le tac tac tac
Des mitraillettes qui reviennent à l'attaque

Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde

Un de ces quatre, nous tomberons ensemble
Moi je m'en fous; c'est pour Bonnie que je tremble
Quelle importance qu'ils me fassent la peau
Moi Bonnie, je tremble pour Clyde Barrow

Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde

De toute façon, ils ne pouvaient plus s'en sortir
La seule solution c'était mourir
Mais plus d'un les a suivis en enfer
Quand sont morts Barrow et Bonnie Parker

Bonnie and Clyde

Thursday, March 14, 2013

When you're seventeen

Sometimes I just wonder, where would I be today if I had made European Studies in the Uni? When you're seventeen the ideia of choosing a path in your life is absolute idealism. Years go by and then you realise how ridiculous it was thinking that bachelor's or master's or whatever they want to call it today would make a difference in your professional life.
Because you change with life: your tastes change, your friends change, your aims change... it's the process of becoming mature. So, what difference does it make?

Teatro Nacional D. Maria II – First Shakespearean plays


If you fancy theatre, then Teatro Nacional D. Maria II is a place you shouldn’t miss. It’s sited in historical Pedro IV Square, or Rossio, its popular name, right in Lisbon’s Pombaline Downtown. The first inauguration was on April 13, 1846. It was D. Maria 27th birthday celebrations and to her homage the queen’s name became part of the theatre’s officinal designation.


It was the historical drama play “ O Magriço e os Doze de Ingalterra”, by Jacinto Aguiar de Loureiro, that debuted on stage. However the history of Teatro Nacional D. Maria II starts earlier. 

Following the revolution of September 9, 1836, Passos Manuel takes over the government and one of his measures was to rethink Portuguese theater in a global context, a job he delegated to write and politician Almeida Garrett. Here’s the “manifesto”: "without loss of time, a plan for the foundation and organization of a national theater, which, being a school of good taste, contribute to civilization and moral improvement of the Portuguese nation." By that decree, Almeida Garrett was commissioned to create the Inspection General of Theatres and Shows and National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts General, establish premiums dramaturgy, regular copyright and build a National Theatre "that could decently represent national dramas ". 

The romantic atmosphere at this time in Europe determines the urgency to find a model and dramaturgy national repertoire, thus the appearance of a theater (and its repertoire) wasn’t only cultural but a national issue, closely linked to the independence of the nation, coming out of trouble times after the French invasion and the fighting liberals.
Between 1836 - the legal creation theater date - and 1846 - the inauguration’s year - the existing and decrepit theatre in Rua dos Condes served as interim. And, after much controversy, the final location were the ruins of the palace Estaus, former headquarters of the Inquisition, destroyed by a fire in 1839. Also, the choice of an Italian architect, Fortunato Lodi, to design and run the theater wasn’t exempt from criticism and only in 1842 Almeida Garrett started the work.

During a long period of time, the National Theatre was managed by companies of artists to empower its management. After the establishment of the Republic, the theatre was renamed Teatro Nacional de Almeida Garret. Rosas e Brasão was the most epic theater group in charge, between 1881 and 1898, as they made the first creations of Shakespeare's plays in Portugal.

In 1964, the National Theatre was the scene of a huge fire that spared only the outer walls and the entrance of the building. The place was completely rebuilt and reopened in 1978. Today it respects the original neoclassical style.

In March 2004, Teatro Nacional D.Maria II (TNDM II) turned into a public limited company and at present it has its own governing body, under supervision of the Ministries of Finance and Culture. In 2007, TNDM II was integrated in the business sector of the state.

In addition to this, there’s inside tours every Monday mornings with insights about theater, history and architecture. The shows are from Wednesday to Saturday. On Thursday tickets have discount.



Monday, March 11, 2013

Portuguese Fado


Once upon a time in the streets of Lisbon (XIX Century) people started to sing about their fate, then it invaded bars and restaurants: a singer (man or woman) and a Portuguese guitar (12 chords) that’s what compose this music. They use to say about Fado and its meaning that is unforgettable world music. In so many ways, its melancholic lyrics and melodies encompasses a sense of navigation and a journey in the sea.  Imagine going back to 1500 when the great great navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral discovered Brazil, and to 1498 when Vasco da Gama, discovered maritime route to India (the first person to sail directly from Europe to India), Fado reminds golden times. Fado is emotional for it is brave, outrageous, and blue. Its organic production is made to touch everyone’s heart, apart from social class stereotypes.


Amália Rodrigues had the most known voice. She travelled the world singing Fado, the club Mocambo was among those many places, in 1954.

Amália’s sadness, love and despised love (artistic temperament) nourished her success.



Carlos Coelho da Silva is the Portuguese director of biographical movie Amália, here you can go through her life, from childhood to the early days of Gloria, but ever biography has its flaws, and some pointed out that dates weren’t that accurate. Despise that the movie is worth seeing, a lot of Lisbon is shown, the Lisbon of the 50’s – the rich and the working class arrived from the countryside , in search of a better life,  even if that meant to be selling fruits to the sailors of Tejo River and tourists, likewise Amália did.



There’s two songs of Amália: one, an ode to Lisbon light, the other to saudade, a word that has no translation in English. It describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves





Thursday, March 7, 2013

Patti Smith vs Karen O

I was just listening to the realease of new Yeah Yeah Yeahs' album and I came across Patti Smith and Karen O are physically and musically alike. I've never heard Karen O speaking about her influences but there's no need for that. New song:


Sacrilege from Mosquito (2013)


Patti Smith was probably the best female rock n' roller artist in the XX Century ( don't disagree or I kill you with my arguments) and Karen O is pure girl power. Yet Yeah Yeah Yeahs' lyrics needed more element to be as good as Patti's. This first single of Mosquito doesn't sound that brilliant, but let's wait for the entire album to come out. Remember Show Your Bones from 2006? So so so heartbreaking.




Patti Smith used more sophisticated words, like a poet she was, she is... she will always be an alleluia.



Gloria from Horses (1975)

Friday, March 1, 2013

Rediscovering Poetry - Edgar Allan Poe

Alone

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view. 




Edmund Dulac (1882 - 1953)




This poem is sad though full of life and I found this illustration of Edmund Dulac which is so magnetic and matches so well, rather than the vast majority of Poe's illustrations, often too much darkeness - Note this grey blue sky. What makes you feel? Fear? Sadness? Anguish? Solitude? Why do the cloud took the form of a demon in Poe's view?





  

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Running





I read on NYT that exercising four times a week is better than six. That’s a really nice article for gym addicts - bodybuilders.

I’ve underlined some parts for you:

“The women working out twice a week had become as powerful and aerobically fit as those who had worked out six times a week” but “the women exercising four times per week were now expending  for more energy, overall, than the women in either of the other two groups”. Doctor Hunt says that less may be more.

Cheer up spring isn't all that far away  for us in the north hemisphere, then we’ll have time to practice outdoor activities.

Besides Yoga I run (above the picture of my current favourite runing landscapes - Parque Tejo, sited in north west Lisbon), I try to go at least once per week, saturdays and perhaps more often from now on, not that I’m a big runner, only keep on running for one hour, while I listen to good music and here’s three energetic songs for my next saturday's playlist, how about yours?



Sunday, February 10, 2013

Gym and Yoga


Yoga can relax your body and soul, unlike gym.




I’ve always been a gym enthusiastic but come on it’s not proper relaxing…you do it because you got this urgency to be all shape and toned or the most common reason lose weight. Baby, wake up, it’s fantasy, actually you might put a few pounds as your muscle and lean mass grow, replacing fat.

After one and a half year of daily gym and intensive workout (running, bicycle for cardio and body-combat, body-pump aerobic exercise) I ended up with a hard body and very gym fan knows how difficult is the moment of stepping into that door (If your friends say know don’t believe it please, it’s so untrue) and that’s when I turn to other kind of workout.

Yoga gives you an extra and the feeling “I’ve paid I must go” fades away. It starts with breathing exercises (shoes off), inhale and exhale…so good. At some point teacher tells us to hold our breaths for one minute or more if we can, then breathe freely and again 1, 2, 3, 4 hold…exhale… and by this time you feel like a reborn person.

Yoga masters say breathing is crucial to become a better learner. Therefore they advise you to do a training course. Poses are also something to improve. Do you think you can cross your legs easily, with your back straights? Well once you buy a monthly pass that you can be amongst the clumpiest in the room. Nevertheless always do your best to achieve any of the hundreds poses Yoga teaches you and get in touch with your chakras – energy centers of the body.

The pose I want to do most is sirsasana, will write about it once I get enough mind power and body balance, my teacher always points that our body has no limits; one can be cosy and peaceful in this pose for over 10 minutes. I share my class with 60 years old men and they can do it like walking, in Yoga age doesn’t matter but mind focus. Be thoughtless. Now tell me is this all very zen for you?  Be my guest to share your thoughts on Yoga.

Monday, January 28, 2013

Community Manager Appreciation Day

 Every 4th Monday of January world celebrates the CMAD, say Community Manager Appreciation Day. That's right, you heard , the role is growing so let's write down a few notes about it. I'm turning into such a geek ;-)


Tuesday, January 15, 2013

First PR in English.



EUROFIRST distinguished as PME Lider –  FINCRESCE Program

Lisbon, January 14th 2013 – Eurofirst, wall access panels, was distinguished as PME Lider 2012 by IAPMEI (Institute for Support to Small and Medium Enterprises and Innovation).

The PME Lider status distinguishes domestic companies that stand out for their superior performance. It is awarded in partnership with Tourism Portugal and a set of Banks Partners, based on the evaluation of the best credit ratings, economic and financial indicators.

Encourage efficiency of banking intermediation and enhance capital market expansion to companies of intermediate size are also part of the objectives of this program.

"Eurofirst achieved an excellent year in terms of sales and brand internationalization. Nearly 80% of our production is exported. We have just launched a new model of wall access panel specific to tile and will continue to invest in geographic expansion, production and service" said José Dias, Eurofirst’s Managing Director.

At the end of 2011 there were about 6.600 PME Lider, which benefited from advantages laid down by PME Invest.

About EUROFIRST

The company was established in 2006 by a professional team of installers of suspended ceilings and plasterboard partitions and specializes in suspended ceilings and wall partition products. Eurofirst focuses on offering best quality-price rating, as well as ensuring packed transport worldwide.
It’s currently present in Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Morocco and Tunisia, throughout a network of distributors.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

My day


Gosh! I feel between Bukowski (Post Office)  and kafka (The trial) preparing postcards the old fashion way.
I'm just looking forward to social media evening classes.

Friday, December 7, 2012

B(r)ad boy is back

Today on my way to work I almost lost control of my car when I saw Nº5 parfum newest campaign. Brad is in shape and I love the chosen picture. He's gonna turn 48 guys! Thumbs up for Channel as well.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Frases que se escutam em ambiente de escritórios onde existem "tios"

Atenção não se recomenda a leitura deste post a pessoas sensíveis a um certo e determinado tipo de atrasos mentais.

Secretária: Mas pode fazer ctrl + c que copia da mesma forma.
Director (com sotaque à tio) : Ah! não deu! Ai pois eu sabia! Quer dizer os computadores são inteligentes mas também não fazem tudo, não é?
Secretária: (LOL)

Director (com sotaque à tio): Olhe, veja lá que este mês estive tãoooo ocupado que até tive de pagar os ordenados pelo meu Iphone!
Secretária: Ai que canseira, pensou, (LOL)                        

Director (com sotaque à tio): Nunca foi a Nova Iorqueeeeee? Ai, como é que é possíveleeee? Tem de tratar disso.

Director (com sotaque à tio): Olhe tenho aqui um telefonema de um senhor Espanhol que começou a falar em inglês, veja lá, em inglês porque pensava que nós não tínhamos ninguém que soubesse falar espanhol!!! E ainda por cima um inglês miserável.

Director: (com sotaque à tio): O que é isto do gosto?
Secretária: (LOL)

Saturday, November 17, 2012

O fado pode ser Património Imaterial da Humanidade mas Alfama é uma miséria


Muitos de vós podem ter chegado a este post pela curiosidade despertada no título, pois não é normal ver Alfama pelo lado pejorativo da coisa, o que é normal é ver blogs que expressão um amor incondicional por este bairro alfacinha. Imagino muitas cabecinhas a trabalhar “ então mas a terra-berço de um dos patrimónios imateriais mais valioso de Portugal é uma miséria, como assim?” Do ponto de vista de alguém-que-viveu-lá-dois-meses é e passo a explicar.

Um dia vi uma casa, pequena e aconchegante em Alfama e decidi arrendar depois de apenas 1 hora dentro da mesma, à conversa com a senhoria. É normal que quem vá arrendar uma casa corra riscos, pois ninguém sabe como serão os vizinhos e também ninguém adivinha que problemas de infiltração poderá ter. Na primeira tarde de mudanças já queria desistir mas como não podia – contrato de 6 meses – pensei: isto é momentâneo, tem calma Anabela, respira fundo. Assim fiz, enchi os pulmões de ar e lá parti, encorajada, para a primeira semana na casa. Péssima. Comecei a perceber que a construção de Alfama tem mais de cem anos no mínimo e da minha casa que era um primeiro andar ouvia literalmente os vizinhos de baixo e de cima. Só não digo dos lados porque o prédio ancestral só tinha frações de um lado. Enfim, que desgastante que foi durante todas as semanas, todos os dias que lá estive levar com algum género de pessoas que moram em Alfama, que por sua vez são ainda a maioria.

Primeira conclusão,  aferida depois de ter ouvido a minha vizinha do prédio da frente que conversava aos berros da sua janela com todas as outras vizinhas,  e que tem inclusive uma almofada colocada no parapeito para não magoar os braços devido às horas que lá passa a bisbilhotar, os alfamenses não gostam de turistas nem de gente nova no bairro. O que eles queriam era que tudo fosse como antigamente: “não devia morar cá ninguém que não fosse do bairro”, gritou ela.

Segunda conclusão, a maioria dos moradores de Alfama são idosos, os habitantes antigos e por isso os jovens vão ter sempre um entrave em morar ali, pelo menos enquanto não for metade-metade. No início, a minha ideia também foi, ah e tal isto vai ser tão giro morar num sítio cheio de pinta e história, deve haver pessoas tão interessantes no dia-a-dia de bairro, vou poder fazer a vida à volta da minha casa. Desenganem-se pois as mercearias são muito poucos e sem condições e as pastelarias estão a preço de turista, logo a vida local foi-se.

Terceira conclusão, o problema social. Ninguém fala, mas Alfama têm-o incoberto. No andar de baixo para além de morar a idosa de que já vos falei, mora a sua neta que teve uma gravidez na adolescência e a respectiva criança. Esta família completamente disfuncional está acordada até às 3 da manhã diariamente a trocar asneiras entre si, com uma menor de 4 anos, que também já chama filha da puta à mãe, a retribuir a ofensa da própria mãe. A Comissão Nacional da Protecção das Crianças e Jovens já sabe do caso e tentaram intervir mas quando vieram ao local inspeccionar as condições em que a menor estava, a mãe e a bisavó, arrumaram-na colocando tudo o que era supérfluo e de mau aspecto no corredor do prédio e o caso ficou suspenso até à data. 

Falo de um grave problema social porque a somar-se a este caso há o da prima, uma miúda que ofende a mãe, a avó e também não frequenta a escola tal como a outra criança minha vizinha cuja mãe irresponsável dá permissão para estar acordada habitualmente até madrugada. Que futuro têm estas crianças? Não é brilhante de certeza e está em risco o próprio crescimento/ desenvolvimento digno enquanto cidadãs e seres humanos, formação e educação. Estes menores serão sempre problemáticos, herdam dos pais essa faceta, e um dia serão eles a andar pelas ruas de Alfama ou Santa Apolónia o dia inteiro sem trabalho e perspectiva de vida.

Para terminar, à exceção dos sábados à noite em que até se vai a uma tasquinha ter uma experiência gastronómica e musical de bradar aos céus, o local em si sofre por ser às portas de Santa Apolónia, onde passei recentemente por uma experiência de quase tentativa de agressão de um bêbedo a quem não dei dinheiro quando estava a sair do carro.

É a este miserabilismo que me refiro. Voltarei a Alfama muitas vezes espero, em trabalho ou em lazer mas ao fim de poucas horas quero regressar à minha morada segura, sem ter de me cruzar com um alcoólico violento que faz do cheiro de flores e de mar de Lisboa um cheiro putrefacto.


Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Saturday, November 10, 2012

The golden 50's



Ella Fitzgerald & Marilyn Monroe listening to jazz at hollywood’s tiffany club, 1955-