quinta-feira, 29 de janeiro de 2009
Porque sim
Assim, sem objectivos.
Gostar porque sim.
Pela absoluta perfeição de alguém te ser absolutamente perfeito.
Por tudo existir num tempo que sabes ter deixado de existir e então existir para sempre.
Gostar muito porque tudo é de gostar muito e por isso tudo já é infinito.
Como é infinito o modo de gostar assim, sem mais.
Imensamente.
Porque sim.
terça-feira, 20 de janeiro de 2009
Nenhum fim
Numa das mais tocantes letras da música americana, os "The Avett Brothers", inventam uma melodia perfeita.
E então talvez de novo uma vontade imensa de um beijo imenso, de ver o rio e parecer o mar mesmo quando já é mar, de imaginar uma praia deserta e afinal ela ali, deserta, aberta ao meu sorriso feliz.
The Avett Brothers, "The Ballad Of Love And Hate"
Love writes a letter and sends it to hate
My vacations ending, I'm coming home late
The weather was fine and the ocean was great
And I can't wait to see you again
Hate reads the letter and throws it away
"No one here cares if you go or you stay
I barely even noticed that you were away
I'll see you or I won't, whatever."
Love sings a song as she sails through the sky
The water looks bluer through her pretty eyes
And everyone knows it whenever she flies
And also when she comes down
Hate keeps his head up and walks through the street
Every stranger and drifter he greets
And shakes hands with every loner he meets
with a serious look on his face
Love arrives safely with suitcase in tow
Carrying with her the good things we know
A reason to live and a reason to grow
To trust. To hope. To care.
Hate sits alone on the hood of his car
Without much regard to the moon or the stars
Lazily killing the last of a jar
Of the strongest stuff you can drink
Love takes a taxi, a young man drives
As soon as he sees her, hope fills his eyes
But tears follow after, at the end of the ride
Cause he might never see her again
Hate gets home lucky to still be alive
He screams o'er the sidewalk and into the drive
The clock in the kitchen says 2:55
And the clock in the kitchen is slow
Love has been waiting, patient and kind
Just wanting a phone call or some kind of sign
That the one that she cares for, who's out of his mind
Will make it back safe to her arms
Hate stumbles forward and leans in the door
Weary head hung, eyes to the floor
He says "Love, I'm sorry", and she says, "What for?"
I'm your and that's it, whatever
I should not have been gone for so long
I'm your's and that's it, forever."
You're mine and that's it, forever
domingo, 18 de janeiro de 2009
quarta-feira, 14 de janeiro de 2009
O melhor de uma vida
Adele, "Make You Feel My Love"
When the rain is blowing in your face
And the whole world is on your case
I could offer you a warm embrace
To make you feel my love
When the evening shadows and the stars appear
And there is no one there to dry your tears
I could hold you for a million years
To make you feel my love
I know you haven't made your mind up yet
But I would never do you wrong
I've known it from the moment that we met
No doubt in my mind where you belong
I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue
I'd go crawling down the avenue
There's nothing that I wouldn't do
To make you feel my love
The storms are raging on the rollin' sea
And on the highway of regret
Though winds of change are blowing wild and free
You ain't seen nothing like me yet
I could make you happy, make your dreams come true
Nothing that I wouldn't do
Go to the ends of the earth for you
To make you feel my love
terça-feira, 13 de janeiro de 2009
Impossibilidade
A evidência do tempo presente e do ausente e talvez por isso mais presente.
Do que senti e que imaginei um dia que era de sentir mas apenas talvez na imaginação.
Hoje soube da impossibilidade do imenso terminar.
segunda-feira, 12 de janeiro de 2009
domingo, 11 de janeiro de 2009
quinta-feira, 1 de janeiro de 2009
O melhor de 2008 - Canções
E porque nem sempre existem coincidências e a toda a volta nos surgem grandes canções em álbuns que não estão à altura delas, é esta a lista dos mais intensos arrepios de 2008.
KATHLEEN EDWARDS – Goodnight, California
ERIC BIBB - Spirit I Am
KINGS OF LEON – Closer
RAY LAMONTAGNE - A Falling Through
LIZZ WRIGHT - Thank You
JAMEY JOHNSON - High Cost of Living
MARILLION - This Train Is My Life
CARRIE RODRIGUEZ - She Ain't Me
AMOS LEE - Listen
TIFT MERRITT – Broken
JOHH MELLENCAMP – Longest Days
RODNEY CROWELL – Closer to Heaven
BAND OF HEATHENS, THE - Jackson Station
LUCINDA WILLIAMS – If Wishes Were Horses
RYAN ADAMS - Born Into a Light
SUGARLAND - All I Want to Do
CALEXICO - The News About William
QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS - Small
COLDPLAY - Lost
ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN – Seafaring Song
O melhor de 2008 - Álbuns
Num ano talvez apenas mediano, ouve várias grandes surpresas (Jamey Johnson, Fleet Foxes, Justin Townes Earle), alguns inesperados regressos (John Mellencamp) e simples inevitabilidades (Ray, Lizz, Rodney, Kathleen, Tift).
Aqui está a lista dos que foram, para mim, os 30 melhores álbuns de 2008.
Os 10 primeiros estão por ordem decrescente de paixão; os restantes 20 por ordem alfabética.
1. RAY LAMONTAGNE - Gossip in the Grain
2. LIZZ WRIGHT - Orchard
3. JAMEY JOHNSON - That Lonesome Song
4. KATHLEEN EDWARDS - Asking For Flowers
5. KINGS OF LEON - Only by the Night
6. ERIC BIBB - Get on Board
7. TIFT MERRITT - Another Country
8. RODNEY CROWELL - Sex and Gasoline
9. JOHH MELLENCAMP - Life Death Love and Freedom
10. DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
AMOS LEE - Last Days at the Lodge
ASHTON SHEPHERD - Sounds so Good
BAND OF HEATHENS, THE - The Band of Heathens
BON IVER - For Emma, Forever Ago
CALEXICO - Carried to Dust
CARRIE RODRIGUEZ - She Ain't Me
EMMYLOU HARRIS - All I Intended to Be
FELICE BROTHERS, THE - The Felice Brothers
FLEET FOXES - Fleet Foxes
HAYES CARLL - Trouble in Mind
ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN - Sunday at Devil Dirt
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE - The Good Life
KASEY CHAMBERS / SHANE NICHOLSON - Rattlin' Bones
KATHY MATTEA - Coal
LUCINDA WILLIAMS - Little Honey
MARK OLSON & GARY LOURIS - Ready for the Flood
MICAH P. HINSON - Micah P. Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra
RYAN ADAMS - Cardinology
SUGARLAND - Love on the Inside
SUSAN TEDESCHI - Back to the River