Thursday, October 25, 2012

Ship of woes

S.&Y.




It takes awhile
To settle down
My ship of hopes
Wait 'til the past leaks out

It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break

Matt Berninger






[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=330UqSBEXaU]

Monday, October 22, 2012

Cimentando o desespero


"Tenho um copo meio cheio de derrota na secretária, junto das folhas soltas onde guardo pensamentos como quem cultiva em solo estéril mas não perde a esperança. Folheio abrasivamente o catálogo de loucuras: procuro um produto económico, mas eficaz; os caules de papoila que não tenho fumado tardam em cimentar o desespero. Quando olho, olho pela janela que não tenho, mas vejo sempre o outro eu rindo-se e perseguindo os fantasmas de lama das enxurradas estivais – parece-me feliz. Pergunto-me se saberá o que é ser a angústia travestida de vertigem e amordaçada observando as auroras sempre tão perfeitas nos olhos dos outros. Entretanto, as páginas vão-me marcando desinteressadamente os dedos. Fecho a janela para a luz não me julgar."


Lima, 'o orvalho da tua voz'
reconhecerei o volume da alma
agarrada com unhas e dentes às
réstias do corpo


valter hugo mãe, estou escondido na cor amarga do fim da tarde

Where have you gone?


... are you in there?

Y.



Saturday, October 20, 2012

"Isto, aparentemente, não significa nada e, no entanto, faz-nos vibrar como cordas."*

 

*António Lobo Antunes

It really proves nothing





"Just listen to me breathe
but that proves nothing

In the middle of my circles
but their centre I am not

motionless
waiting
waiting"

Blixa Bargeld
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BBmN6JtG58]

Friday, October 19, 2012

ich hab’ dich unglücklich erwischt


B.
bleib
bleib
bleib
bleib
es fehlen stäbe, stäbe fehlen
die zwischenräume sind gross genug
dein schnelles herz wenn ich dich halte
ich hab’ dich unglücklich erwischt
bleib
bleib
bleib
bleib
ich kann dich nicht
am fliegen hindern
aber selbst zwei kontinente weiter
noch singen hören
bleib
bleib
bleib

Blixa Bargeld
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEPJ3It_lTQ]
[stay
stay
stay
stay
bars are missing, missing bars
the gaps between are big enough
your rapid heart when I hold you
I caught you in a bad way
stay
stay
stay
I cannot
stop you flying
but even two continents away
can still hear you singing
stay
stay
stay
stay]

"para adultos de pé e olhos abertos"


"Se há pessoas que olham para o que construí como difícil de entender é porque não compreendem a complexidade da vida, e isso não é culpa minha, é defeito delas. (...) O medo de saber apavora-nos. A ideia de tomar consciência arrepia-nos. Recusamos a possibilidade de viver no interior de nós mesmos. O facto de um livro contar uma história apazigua o nosso lado infantil. Não serve de nada salvo para nos tranquilizar. E continuamos por fora do que nos inquieta, nos assusta, nos alerta (...) Fiz livros para adultos de pé e olhos abertos. (...) Não é possível falar racionalmente do que não é racional, explicar o que se passa antes das palavras, desarticular o que é feito de uma peça apenas e a vida do autor só para ele mesmo e, na melhor das hipóteses, para mais meia dúzia de criaturas, poderá ter interesse. A arte, mistério impenetrável, não cabe na razão lógica e qualquer tentativa de a desmontar será sempre inútil. (...) Permanecerá para sempre secreta e insolúvel. Pode bordar-se em torno mas fora da muralha, nada tem que ver com a inteligência, a razão, o raciocínio dedutivo: existe em si mesma, por si mesma e para si mesma, apenas permeável ao inconsciente e, no entanto, ao tocar-nos no inconsciente muda a nossa percepção do mundo e de nós mesmos em consequência de um mecanismo que nos escapa. (...)
Pelo teu amor dói-me o ar
o coração e o chapéu.
Isto, aparentemente, não significa nada e, no entanto, faz-nos vibrar como cordas."

António Lobo Antunes, Adeus, Visão nº 1024, 18/10/2012


Heart undone




"Slowly unravels
In a ball of yarn
The devil collects it
(...)
He'll never return it"

Björk

Thursday, October 18, 2012


"He offers
A handshake
Crooked
Five fingers
They form a pattern
Yet to be matched
(...)
This time
I'm gonna keep me all to myself
'She loves him, she loves him'
And he makes me want to hand myself over"

Björk
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqF8_UcUQdQ]

A tempestade aparece mesmo num dia azul


Pensava que já não doía mais, que não era possível que pudesse doer mais. Infelizmente, esqueci-me do bocadinho de vidro que continua enterrado junto às terminações nervosas ainda activas.

Parece que já não há mais nada para chorar - porque chorar - e isso não impede as lágrimas de cair. As putas insistem em não secar, ao contrário do resto de mim.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

"What is normally called religion what I would tend to call music (...) I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language. I don't think people think about God so much as they think about themselves and how they're going to get through life."

Will Oldham

What has not disappeared in the storm...

Y&B
S&B

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Não é coragem


... é apenas inevitabilidade. 

Transportar um cadáver junto ao coração faz-nos morrer um pouco também. Se já perdemos quase tudo... então não é coragem... é um não poder deixar de ser.

Through "the gloom and the blazing"

Monday, October 15, 2012

Surprised by what I found




"you've been on my mind
'cause it's about time to see things just as they are
(...)
I was surprised by what I found"
There's only so much damage a heart can take. And so much pain one can endure.


(I can assure it only fuckin' stops when there's nothing left of you.) 

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uctrQBJSY8]

Thursday, October 11, 2012

A labyrinth without walls




There is a labyrinth 
but it has no walls
there are no exit signs
no arrows, no red lines
and there is you and me
goes without saying

Where would you go without me?

We have to make decisions
before it gets too dark
the sunset is behind us
we're facing terra incognita
it's still hard to make decisions
in a labyrinth without walls

But where would you go without me?

Make up your mind
by chance or intuition
you can't just turn around 
stand motionless and wait
I could follow you 
or you could follow me

In this labyrinth 
without it's walls
where no ways are clearly marked
we find untrodden paths
we as you and me
goes without saying

And where would you go without me?

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Homage to L. (who got caught in a storm)



It's been 5 years now. The memory of that night, of that moment, remains brutal. It still...
Miss you.

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Maybe not




"Listen to me, don’t walk that street
There’s always an end to it
(...)
We all do what we can
So we can do just one more thing
We won’t have a thing
So we’ve got nothing to lose
We can all be free
Maybe not with words
Maybe not with a look
But with your mind

But with your mind"

Chan Marshall

Friday, October 05, 2012

Question to self

"What's a place like that doing in a girl like you?"

The Devastations

Things must be different from now on


I always knew what I was doing
I knew every face in the cast
Now who the hell let you in?
I thought I buried you way back, back in my past

I have waited so long
That whoever loved you is gone
So things will be different
From now on

Things will be different
From now on
Things will be different
From now on

The Devastations
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3SUy30vFi4]

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Monday, October 01, 2012

Nota para S.

É tempo de parar quando: já não te preservas; ignoras o instinto natural de sobrevivência e te transformas numa suicida em potência; não evitas as lâminas que te rasgam a pele e as entranhas; és inconsequente no acto de acreditar; te permites uma existência enquanto desperdício vagamente humano.

Ultrapassaste os limites do razoável. Lembra-te disso sob pena de não conseguires regressar.

Enough is enough...

Resignar-me-ei. Aceitarei, por fim, a tua condição. Serei mais um ficheiro no teu arquivo morto. Partilharei a mesma sala escura com tudo o que atormenta a tua existência de estufa.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKnTjYu4c44]

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Keep you apart deep in my heart (...) and keep the things you forgot





Drink up, baby, stay up all night
The things you could do, you won't but you might
The potential you'll be, that you'll never see
The promises you'll only make

Drink up with me now and forget all about the pressure of days
Do what I say and I'll make you okay and drive them away
The images stuck in your head

People you've been before that you don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still

Drink up, baby, look at the stars
I'll kiss you again between the bars where I'm seeing you
There with your hands in the air, waiting to finally be caught

People you've been before that you don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still

Drink up one more time and I'll make you mine
Keep you apart deep in my heart separate from the rest
Where I like you the best and keep the things you forgot

The people you've been before that you don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still, I'll keep them still, I'll keep them still…

Elliot Smith

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

How can it feel this wrong?

S.
Oh, can't anybody see,
We've got a war to fight,
Never found our way,
Regardless of what they say.

How can it feel, this wrong,
From this moment,
How can it feel, this wrong.

Storm,
In the morning light,
I feel,
No more can I say, 
Frozen to myself.

Beth Gibbons

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1jyL3cr60]

Monday, September 24, 2012

"Mañana te digo que el amor / que el amor se ha ido"*

Todos os dias desejo que o esquecimento me envolva no seu manto de chuva morna.

(Este corpo exausto necessita de tréguas.)

*Lhasa de Sela

Saturday, September 22, 2012

On being happy

Entrega de Y.





Autumn's child
You sweet young thing

Devendra Banhart

Friday, September 21, 2012

Fuck conscience!

Continuas a não perceber que não tens direito a pedir-me mais nada. Ou, se calhar, nem te dás conta que já não sobra nada... nem sequer a dignidade.



He venido al desierto pa irme de tu amor,
¡Que el desierto es más tierno y la espina besa mejor!
He venido a este centro de la nada pa gritar,
Que tú nunca mereciste lo que tanto quise dar...
¡Que tú nunca mereciste lo que tanto quise dar! 

He venido al desierto pa irme de tu amor,
¡Que el desierto es más tierno y la espina besa mejor!
He venido a este centro de la nada pa gritar,
Que tú nunca mereciste...

He venido yo corriendo, olvidándome de ti,

¡Dame un beso pajarillo no te asustes colibrí!
He venido encendida al desierto pa quemar,
Porque el alma prende fuego cuando deja de amar...
Porque el alma prende fuego cuando deja de amar.

He venido yo corriendo olvidándome de ti,
¡Dame un beso pajarillo, y no te asustes colibrí!
He venido encendida al desierto pa quemar,
Porque el alma prende fuego...

He venido yo corriendo olvidándome de ti,
¡Dame un beso pajarillo, y no te asustes colibrí!
He venido encendida al desierto pa quemar,
Porque el alma prende fuego cuando deja de amar...
Porque el alma prende fuego cuando deja de amar...

He venido al desierto pa irme de tu amor,
¡Que el desierto es más tierno y la espina besa mejor!
He venido a este centro de la nada pa gritar,
¡Que tú nunca mereciste lo que tanto quise dar!

He venido yo corriendo olvidándome de ti,
¡Dame un beso pajarillo, y no te asustes colibrí!
He venido encendida al desierto pa quemar,
Porque el alma prende fuego


Lhasa de Sela

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Soon this space will be too small





Soon this space will be too small 
And I’ll go outside 
To the huge hillside 
Where the wild winds blow 
And the cold stars shine 
I’ll put my foot 
On the living road 
And be carried from here 
To the heart of the world 

I’ll be strong as a ship 
And wise as a whale 
And I’ll say the three words 
That will save us all 
And I’ll say the three words 
That will save us all 

Soon this space will be too small 
And I’ll laugh so hard 
That the walls cave in 

Then I’ll die three times 
And be born again 
In a little box 
With a golden key 
And a flying fish 
Will set me free 

Soon this space will be too small 
All my veins and bones 
Will be burned to dust 
You can throw me into 
A black iron pot 
And my dust will tell 
What my flesh would not 

Soon this space will be too small 
And I’ll go outside 
And I’ll go outside 
And I’ll go outside

Lhasa de Sela

And no one knows where the night is going...


"And all go stumbling through that house 
in lonely secrecy 
Saying "Do reveal yourself" 
or "Why has thou forsaken me?"

And no one knows where the night is going...

All at once the torches flare 
The inner door flies open 
One by one they enter there 
In every style of passion

(...)

Those who dance, begin to dance 
Those who weep begin 
Those who earnestly are lost 
Are lost and lost again

And no one knows where the night is going...

One by one the guests arrive 
The guests are coming through 
The broken-hearted many 
The open-hearted few

And no one knows where the night is going..."

Leonard Cohen

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Sunday, September 16, 2012

When will I turn and cut the world?

"my eyes are coral, absorbing your dreams
my heart is a record of dangerous scenes
my skin is a surface to push to extremes

but when will I turn and cut the world?"

Antony Hegarty
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9a1C1qXHfM]

Friday, September 14, 2012

Rudy foolish



"Well, a foolish day is a foolish day
In a beautiful way
(...)
Well, a Rudy day is a Rudy day
In a beautiful way"

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMQbVW4_ce4]

Thursday, September 13, 2012


Há entre nós demasiado ruído. Preciso de silêncio ou de uma melodia.


S.















Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Minudências

S.




A vida é assim: às vezes basta um minúsculo pormenor, uma minudência ínfima, para determinar efeitos devastadores.


Mário de Carvalho, Era bom que trocássemos umas ideias sobre o assunto

Sunday, September 02, 2012

Shameful p.s.


(My fingers sting
Where I feel your fingers have been
Ghostly fingers
Moving my limbs

Oh God I miss you
Oh God I miss you
Oh God I miss you
Oh God I miss you
Oh God I miss you)

Unrecognizable

S.





"I tried to learn your language
But fell asleep half undressed
Unrecognizable to myself"

Polly Jean Harvey




Suits us...

"Following your heart is easy. Following your brain is tough. Especially after years of following that much smaller organ. That's why all parents screw up all children. (...) Your parents made you screwed up by not screwing you up."

Dr. Gregory House

Friday, August 31, 2012

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Ainda te tenho entranhado... nos músculos, nas veias, na pele. Sinto-te o sabor a cada recordação. Sinto-te o cheiro em cada pedacinho de sonho.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXLjPFqiWBs]

Talvez tu não saibas, Léah, o mérito, a graça, o poder da candura. Nesse instante foste o assombro vivo, inocentemente expresso. (Era eu que tinha a alma cheia de venenos).


José Rodrigues Miguéis, Léah e Outras Histórias 

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9txnHyxibY]

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

wait... just give me a minute to prepare

"You know how, like in cartoons, when the building gets hit by the wrecking ball, right before the building falls down, there's always like this moment where it's perfectly still right before it collapses? We're in that moment. The wrecking ball has already hit all of this, and this is just the moment before it all falls down."


The Future

Friday, August 17, 2012

Limp this love around

S.
"Promises, promises
I'm feeling burned
You taught me a lesson
I didn't want to learn

Why did I come here?
Please tell me again
Why did you ask me?
Don't say you forget

I long for, I long for
I long for my home
I long for a land where
No man was ever known


With no neurosis
No psychosis
No psychoanalysis
And no sadness

I'll pick up the pieces
I'll carry on somehow
Tape the broken parts together
And limp this love around

Limp this love around"

Polly Jean Harvey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVbzdQDNKkw

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Show me the place for my head is bending low

S.

"Show me the place
Where you want your slave to go
Show me the place
I’ve forgotten, I don’t know
Show me the place
For my head is bending low
Show me the place
Where you want your slave to go

Show me the place
Help me roll away the stone
Show me the place
I can’t move this thing alone
Show me the place
Where the Word became a man
Show me the place
Where the suffering began


The troubles came
I saved what I could save
A thread of light
A particle a wave
But there were chains
So I hastened to behave
There were chains
So I loved you like a slave

Show me the place
Where you want your slave to go
Show me the place
I’ve forgotten, I don’t know"

Leonard Cohen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCtoVoE5Mm4


abro os olhos e estendo a mão e o corpo para fora do sono, ergo-me por dentro do imenso vazio.
tudo se despedaçou. o sonho, e o amor que é sempre tão breve (…) estou gasto. dei-me sempre mais do que podia. não há nada que me possam roubar, sou um homem espoliado de todos os bens, de todas as doenças, de todas as emoções(…) sou um alfabeto e não sei se terei tempo para me decifrar.


Al Berto, O Medo (3)