Hope doesn't cease to exist and it slowly destroys...

EVERYBODY'S GOTTA LEARN SOMETIME
Change your heart, look around you
Change your heart, it will astound you
I need your loving like the sunshine

And everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime

Change your heart, look around you
Change your heart, it will astound you
I need your loving like the sunshine

And everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime


Nothin’ Hurts
Nothing hurts you like the pain
From someone you love

There ain't nothing you can gain
To prepare you enough
Come on baby stop your crying


I Didn't Mean to Hurt You
I love you
Like I love the sunrise in the morning
I miss you
Like I miss the water when I'm burning
I didn't mean to hurt you, dear
The words just came out wrong
Now I'm broken down and lonely
And I'm so cold at night...

Ghost World

This is a movie I saw by chance Saturday night while I was updating my father’s database (ya, I missed some images of the movie as it’s impossible to write on your laptop and see a movie at the same time), but at least I heard all the movie and I’m pretty sure I saw a lot of it.

Sometimes you are lucky to see these fantastic movies that you have never heard about, that haven’t even reached Portugal’s independent circuit and this was one of those movies. So this fluke was one of those that will stay in my memory for a while. It’s really a pity most people don’t have the opportunity to see movies that unlike most in the mainstream, actually make you think and are amaze you at how much a character may touch so of you inner thoughts and feelings! This is one of those movies and I highly recommend it, even if most of you have passed already you difficult 18’s, some have decided to start to work and some study and are now starting to work, I really don’t know when does a person really begin to enter his/her young adult life, I suppose it all has to do with how soon you have to face some problems and how soon life disappoints you and your dreams of changing the world start to be slowly crushed…

Anyway it has a great blues song, I know a lot of people will classify it as vintage jazz, but I think it has a blue’s soul and after all most people confuse the two types, although I find them different and I really prefer blues and rock n’ roll.

This one is the best one in the movie:

Devil Got My Woman (Skip James)


Ah! It has a young Scarlet Johanssen and an actor that is gradually going up in my great actor’s list ;)

Sorry about the inactivity

I've been helping my father and I've been uptating a database for him, so I'm pretty busy on my spare time and I really want to finish it. Anyway maybe, I will get some time tomorrow... Specially as I need to send some emails, otherwise people will start thinking I'm negleting them...

Keeping in touch

This little wonder has brought some happiness to my mother, she was able to speak with one of her best and dearest friends in South Africa at a very low cost. But then seeing her eyes sparkling and her smile after more than an hour at a microfone speaking with her friend is worth whatever cost! However the best part is that calling Europe, including Portugal, and the USA to landlines is free and that is amazing for all the Portuguese all around the world who are homesick!

Hora de embarque 21h30 - 20/10/2005

In other words, time of lifting sails ;)

From what I've heard and read these guys seem pretty well centered in a pretty odd way ;) Introducing caos into order seems always a fantastic way of composing and playing music! Anyway the word is that their new album is a must, so if you are curious it's "Feels" and these guys

call themselves Animal Collective (http://www.paw-tracks.com/artists.htm)

Well the sailing bit is because they are going to play in Lisbon in a rather original place, at least, from the point of view of Portugal's reality: they are going to play in one of the ferries that cross Lisbon's river... Unfortunately, the problem of now living once again in my hometown is that going to Lisbon on a weekday and returning means about 15 or more euros just in gas and highway fares, that adding to the fact that my parents will already freak out when they get to know that I'm going to 2 concerts next month in Lisbon on a weekday...

I wished that at least all the sacrifice was well worth it, but I'm waisting loads of money on gas just on trips from my hometown to Santarém and then on top of all I've to eat in coffees every lunch to be a sports and as normally the kitchen where I'm working is being used for training and is so small with no space to eat... So my sacrifice is concerts, CD's and so many other things and all for a job I hate...

The funny thing of having lunch with co-workers is that they all say they hate their jobs, because they are doing tedious work or there is too much pressure to sell at any cost plus tedious work and I've had already a vice-manager of one of the bank branches I worked at saying that I should keep my job until I find something better because the Portuguese economy sucks and will suck in the next years and it will became worse...

So if anybody knows of a dream job in marketing, strategy, please do call me, otherwise I'll have to kill myself ;)

Phones and doorbells...

Last Days

They have been marketing this movie has a movie about Kurt Cobain, but it's not, it's just a tribute to Kurt Cobain and a view of what might have happened if a rock star was in a situation similar to his. As in Elephant it's just a story of one of the infinite possibilities as only Kurt Cobain and the killers in Columbia really know why and how...

But from what I've seen from Gus Van Sant's movies I'm really looking forward to see this movie, unfortunately I know I'll have to see it alone and on top of all go to Lisbon on purpose as here in my hometown or the city I'm working don't have movie theaters or such alternative movies on...

Hope...

... is always the last to die and the only one that keeps us alive, even when it doesn't bring the answers we so long desired...

Today Badly Drawn Boy is playing in Fundão, yet another fantastic concert I'm going to miss, I've only been able to see him once, introduced as a favourite of Beck (the man is a genious and on top of all has a fantastic taste), he played before Beck's concert in a summer festival 3 years ago and actually played with Beck one song... It's one of those concerts of a band/musician that we hardly know but after we see them/him/her perform we are totally stunned, just like in the same festival with Belle & Sebastian... How I love concerts and summer festivals, if only all of them had only fantastic concerts the whole time, because Him and many more disgraces I had to hear (unfortunately going as far as possible of the stage doesn't avoid the torture of hearing some bands playing)...

By the way here goes a topic of discussion I heard the other day between 2 teenagers (boys of course, as the girls that were with them seemed completely bored, although I was finding the discussion rather amusing): does love metal exist?

YES, otherwise Him would not exist, as Him exists there is love metal

NO, metal can never be love metal, there is no such thing as love metal or it is love metal or it isn't

For me the question is since when Him do music? How can anybody sane enough call that crap music, it's pure torture, the devil in person trying as hard as possible to torture our poor ears ;) So you may rest, all you metal dudes, there is no such thing as metal love, as what Him do is no more metal than it is music!

2 days...

Santarém

CGD has transfered me from Lisbon to Santarém, for all of you who still haven't heard the news. Well at least it means leaving Lisbon's Bronx neighbourghood but it has it's setbacks, personal setbacks not professional...

Modern Romance

Don't hold on
Go get strong
or don't you know
there's no modern romance

Time, time is gone
it stops stops who it was
well i was wrong
it never lasts
there is no
this is no modern romance

in time, time is gone
never last stops who he was
well i was wrong
never lasts

this is no
there is no modern romance
there is no modern romance
this is no modern romance
there is no there is no

baby im afraid of a lot of things
but i aint scared of loving you
baby i know your afraid of a lot of things
but don't be scared of love
cause people will say all kinds of things
that don't mean a dam to me
cause all i see is what's in front of me
and thats you

well, ive been dragged all over the place
ive taken hits time just don't erase
and baby i can see you've been fucked with too
but that don't mean your loving days are through
cause people will say all kinds of things
that don't mean a dam to me
cause all i see is what's in front of me
and thats you

well i may be just a fool
but i know were just as cool
and cool kids they belong together


Yeah Yeah Yeahs just one of the best RnR bands in the world ;) and here goes another one...

"Maps"

Pack up
I'm straight
Enough
Oh, say say say
Oh, say say say
Oh, say say say
Oh, say say say
Oh, say say say

Wait, they don't love you like i love you
Wait, they don't love you like i love you
Ma-a-a-a-ps, wait!
They don't love you like i love you...

Made off
Don't stray
My kind's your kind
I'll stay the same

Pack up
Don't stray
Oh, say say say
Oh, say say say

Wait! they don't love you like i love you
Wait! they don't love you like i love you
Ma-a-a-aps, wait!
They don't love you like i love you...
Wait! they don't love you like i love you
Ma-a-a-aps, wait!
They don't love you like i love you...

Wait, they don't love you like i love you
Wait, they don't love you like i love you
Ma-a-a-a-ps, wait!
They don't love you like i love you...
Wait, they don't love you like i love you
Ma-a-a-a-ps, wait!
They don't love you like i love you...