"On s'engage et puis on voit."

'Oh! But it's raining outside!'
'Oh! But the house is on fire, don't forget!
Rather than be burn alive
Let's go out and get wet!' 
          
(SONG OF THE YOUNG PIONEERS)

Bertolt Brecht, Threepenny Novel, Book Two "The Shoopkeeper Mary Sawyer", chap.8, Penguin Modern Classics, 1964, p.139.

das leituras

Em Lisboa.

A bigger splash ou do meu Verão

Enquanto começam a aparecer as fotografias do Verão de toda a malta por Portugal na praia, em bikini, bem expostas no facebook, aqui fica uma imagem do meu Verão. Divirtam-se! 

Hockney, A bigger splash, 1967. No Tate Gallery, em Londres.  

na verdade, o que importa?

[...] e, em termos alegóricos, Timofey Semyonitch tinha razão quando dizia que eu estava deitado como um cão. Mas vou provar que mesmo estando deitado como um cão, não, que apenas estando pousado como um cepo, podemos revolucionar o destino da humanidade. Todas as grandes ideias e movimentos patentes nos nossos jornais e revistas foram sem dúvida obra de homens que estavam pousados como cepos; é por isso que dizem que são alheados das realidades da vida, mas o que importa se disserem isso?!

Fiódor Dostoievski, O Crocodilo, Estrofes & Versos, 1ª ed., 2010, p.62.

"só se morre de amor no cinema"

Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964), de Jacques Demy

The Survivor

"For he was intending to beg, and he was ashamed. He was not ashamed of having had a bullet in the leg, nor of having bought a public house that didn't pay, but because he was reduced to asking complete strangers for money. In his opinion no one owed him anything. 

Begging came hard to him. It is the profession for those who have learned nothing; only it seemed that even this business had to be learned. He spoke to several people one after another, but with a courageous expression on his face, and taking care not to stand in people's way so that they should not feel that they were being pestered. Also, he chose rather long sentences that were only completed when this person was a long way past; neither did he hold out his hand. And so, by the fifth time that he had humiliated himself, scarcely anyone had noticed that he was begging." 

Bertolt Brecht, Threepenny Novel, Penguin Modern Classics, p.8. 

esperar

Uma pessoa continua porque espera chegar a algum lugar melhor do que este. Mas o pior é que é esta espera que mata. E assim se continua esperando, enquanto se mantém a esperança que, na verdade, sabe-se lá bem se nos faz aqui continuar ou avançar. 

There's more to life than books you know, but not much more.

The Electric side of Freddie Hubbard

Ku-Umba and Frank Lacy, The Electric side of Freddie Hubbard 1/2.

Live at JAZZ A VIENNE festival 2009. 

Silver Fishes

Hoje, enquanto me passeava pelo Tate Modern Museum, estremeci, entre muitas outras obras colossais, com as de Max Ernst. 

Celebes (1921), Max Ernst.

The Entire City (1934), Max Ernst.

Tu n'as rien vu à Hiroshima...

Hiroshima, mon amour (1959), de Alain Resnais

Life

"Life", álbum The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane and other favorites (2001), Jeffrey Lewis.