I can see that look in your eyes

 

Make me feel alive
Make me feel so sweet
Make me feel complete
Make me feel so plaint
Feel divine
Make me feel so real
Make me feel so proud
Make me feel like a star
My golden days.

 

 

 

 

Listening

 

 

About love

 

 

 

"Pode-se às vezes encontrar de novo uma criatura, mas não abolir o tempo. Até o dia imprevisto, e triste como uma noite, em que já não se procura a essa jovem, nem a qualquer outra, e em que encontrá-la chegaria até a assustar-nos. Pois já não nos sentimos com suficientes atrativos para agradar, nem com forças para amar. Não que a gente esteja, está visto, no sentido próprio do termo, impotente. E quanto a amar, amar-se-ia mais do que nunca. Mas sente-se que é uma empresa demasiado grande para o pouco de forças que nos restam."

 

 

(Marcel Proust in: Em busca do tempo perdido vol. 4 - Sodoma e Gomorra)

What have you been doing ?

 

 

Nostalgic.

 

Cine Me

 

Now You See Me

 

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1670345/

 

 

Considering the cast (and to a lesser extent, the director), this had some real potential to be awesome.

And you know what? This film does mostly deliver.

It's a fun, breezy, and dazzling caper film about a group of magicians known as The Four Horsemen (even though one of them is a woman) who pull off a series of heists, but dress them up as magic acts. Hot on their tail in a game of cat and mouse are a determined FBI agent, a specialist from Interpol, and an ex-magician turned debunker, all of them with the shared goal of bringing the Horsemen down.

If you've seen a few movies about magicians, then you'll probably be able to see where some of this is going. There's plenty of twists and turns, but I wasn't able to guess all of them. That was part of the fun. Now, the film doesn't really hold up to much scrutiny, and it's probably not worth many repeat viewings, but it's a decent way to kill a couple of hours.

Where the film is lacking with character development, plotting and story, it more than makes up for it with stylish, flashy direction, tons of energy, and a top notch cast who all bring their A game. The Horsemen are played by Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, and Dave Franco, and they have pretty good chemistry with one another, and seem to really be having a blast. Michael Caine is a financier for the group, the debunker is played by Morgan Freeman, and Mark Ruffalo and Melanie Laurent are the FBI and INTERPOL agents, respectively. Like I said, they all seem to care, and put some effort into this, and they really make the film worth seeing. Perhaps one of the best parts is a fight scene where Franco uses flash paper, playing cards, and sleight of hand techniques against Ruffalo and his cohorts. That's pretty funny and cool.

All in all, this is a better than average caper, and a pretty fun ride. It may not be airtight or intellectually stimulating, but I didn't feel duped by the time the end credits rolled.

 

On this the day of summer solstice

 

 

Foi um momento
O em que pousaste
Sobre o meu braço,
Num movimento
Mais de cansaço
Que pensamento,
A tua mão
E a retiraste.
Senti ou não ?

Não sei. Mas lembro
E sinto ainda
Qualquer memória
Fixa e corpórea
Onde pousaste
A mão que teve
Qualquer sentido
Incompreendido.
Mas tão de leve!...

Tudo isto é nada,
Mas numa estrada
Como é a vida
Há muita coisa Incompreendida...

Sei eu se quando
A tua mão
Senti pousando
‘Sobre o meu braço,
E um pouco, um pouco,
No coração,
Não houve um ritmo
Novo no espaço?
Como se tu,
Sem o querer,
Em mim tocasses
Para dizer
Qualquer mistério,
Súbito e etéreo,
Que nem soubesses
Que tinha ser.

Assim a brisa
Nos ramos diz
Sem o saber
Uma imprecisa
Coisa feliz.

 

Fernando Pessoa, in "Cancioneiro"

 Listening

Each time

 

 

Each time you happen to me all over again.

 

Uncover

 

Nobody sees - Nobody knows
We are a secret - can't be exposed
That's how it is - That's how it goes
Far from the others
Close to each other

In the daylight - in the daylight
When the sun is shining

On a late night, on a late night
When the moon is blinding

In plain sight - Plain sight
Like stars in hiding

You and I burn on

Put 2 and 2 gether - 4ever
We'll never change
2 and 2 gether
We'll never change

Nobody sees - Nobody knows
We are a secret - can't be exposed
That's how it is - That's how it goes
Far from the others
Close to each other
That's when we uncover

My asylum - My asylum
Is in your arms
When the worlds gives heavy burdens
I can bare a thousand tons
On your shoulder - on your shoulder
I can reach an endless sky
Feels like paradise

Put 2 and 2 gether - 4ever
We'll never change
2 and 2 gether
We'll never change

Nobody sees - Nobody knows
We are a secret - can't be exposed
That's how it is - That's how it goes
Far from the others
Close to each other
That's when we uncover

We could build a universe right here
All the world could disappear
Wouldn't notice, wouldn't care

We could build a universe right here
The world could disappear
Yeah I just need you near

Nobody sees - Nobody knows
We are a secret - can't be exposed
That's how it is - That's how it goes
Far from the others
Close to each other

Here
 

That's when we uncover

I want you

 

 

 

 

 

Show me the way.

 

 

Love you

hate you, miss you.

 

P.S- But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them ?

Cine Me

 

The Internship 

 

  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234155/

 

 http://www.theinternshipmovie.com/

 

You can Google it.

       

Alma mater

 

 

E por que haverias de querer minha alma

Na tua cama?

Disse palavras líquidas, deleitosas, ásperas

Obscenas, porque era assim que gostávamos.

Mas não menti gozo prazer lascívia

Nem omiti que a alma está além, buscando

Aquele Outro. E te repito: por que haverias

De querer minha alma na tua cama?

Jubila-te da memória de coitos e de acertos.

Ou tenta-me de novo. Obriga-me.

Hilda Hilst

Caríssimas Canções

 

 

Sérgio Godinho cantou Dylan, Doors, Caetano, Beatles, Stones, José Afonso, Brel ou Violeta Parra e fez das canções alheias casa sua.

 

 



P.S- Momento mais alto da noite: não sob o sol mas sob as trevas, uma versão poderosa d’ Os Vampiros de José Afonso, densa e espectral, um cenário banhado a vermelho e em primeiro plano cantor e músicos como sombras, a guitarra barítono de Hélder a desenhar a melodia a traços negros com uma batida cadenciada de bombo e percussões a completarem uma atmosfera de mistério. “No céu cinzento/ sob o astro mudo…” E no refrão a sentença: “Eles comem tudo/ e não deixam nada”. Ainda.

And indeed you are

 

I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.

(From the moment we started talking) I knew that I wanted you around

 

"(...) e parecendo estabelecer entre ambos uma espécie de laço romanesco, o que o fizera sorrir. Mas na idade já um pouco desenganada de que se aproximava Swann e em que a gente sabe contentar-se em estar enamorado pelo simples prazer de o estar, sem exigir em troca, essa união dos corações, se já não é, como na primeira juventude, o fim a que tende necessariamente o amor, lhe fica ligada por tão forte associação de ideias que pode tornar-se a sua causa, quando se apresenta antes dele. Antes, sonhava-se possuir o coração de uma mulher amada; mais tarde, sentir que se possui o coração de uma mulher pode bastar para que nos enamoremos dela".

(Proust in: No Caminho de Swann. Tradução de Mario Quintana)

Missing

 

 

Invent me a word
that can encompass this ache,
‘missing’ is too small.

It would be so nice

 

 

Lo que me gusta de tu cuerpo es el sexo.
Lo que me gusta de tu sexo es la boca.
Lo que me gusta de tu boca es la lengua.
Lo que me gusta de tu lengua es la palabra.


Julio Cortázar

Santo António, meu santinho

 

 

 

Santo António de Lisboa
Era um grande pregador
Mas é por ser Santo António
Que as moças lhe têm amor.

 

 

Fernando Pessoa

Come over here

 

Come over here

All you got is this moment
The twenty-first century's yesterday
You can care all you want
Everybody does, yeah, that's okay

So slide over here and give me a moment
Your moves are so raw, I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know you're one of my kind

I need you tonight cause I'm not sleeping
There's something about you girl that makes me sweat

How do you feel, I'm lonely
What do you think, can't think it all
Whatcha gonna do, gonna live my life

So slide over here and give me a moment
Your moves are so raw, I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know you're one of my kind

I need you tonight cause I'm not sleeping
There's something about you girl that makes me sweat

So how do you feel, I'm lonely
What do you think, can't think it all
Whatcha gonna do, gonna live my life
How do you feel, I'm lonely

What do you think, can't think it all
Whatcha gonna do, gonna live my life

So slide over here and give me a moment
Your moves are so raw, I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know
So slide over here and give me a moment
I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know you're one of my kind.

Kinky Boots

 

 

“Não te perdoo que me ames. Não perdoo a ninguém que me ame. É o que não tem remédio que nunca está remediado. E amares-me não tem remédio. Deixa-me. Vai. Quero que vás mas não suporto imaginar que vais.”

                                            Pedro Chagas Freitas

 

We sit and talk quietly

 

with long lapses of silence,
and I am aware of the stream that has no language,
coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.

 

William Carlos Williams

Of your kiss

 

 

those moments after.

Cine Me

 

Searching for Sugar Man

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125608/

 

http://www.sonyclassics.com/searchingforsugarman/site/

 

This is such a dont-miss I can't tell you - the story, the back story, the MUSIC, the Man (Rodriguez). A heartbreaker yet it put me on such a high, I floated out of the theater.

 

Well, the broad thesis holds up, and Searching for Sugar Man is an interesting footnote to a species of secret or denied cultural history: the history of South Africa's white liberal classes, the fabric of whose lives may be overlooked by social historians. Not all whites were philistine racists: many were trapped by history and fate and the apartheid laws they detested. Rodriguez's music gave them a voice – and helped indirectly to change things. This movie might itself make a modest contribution to rewriting the history of white South Africa.

 

Four decades after his last album, Rodriguez may be recording something new. The 70-year-old singer-songwriter, who has become something of a cult hero since his story was told in the film Searching for Sugar Man, has plans to reunite with one of his original producers.

 

 

Sunday mood

 

 

Nem sempre me incendeiam o acordar das ervas e a estrela despenhada de sua órbita viva.

- Porém, tu sempre me incendeias.

(Herberto Helder)

Cine Me

 

 

Before Midnight

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2209418/

 

http://www.sonyclassics.com/beforemidnight/

 

Before Midnight might not be the final installment in the series, but it’s the one with the greatest sense of finality, and accordingly, the one most in touch with the loss and fear that can shock you into realizing that your life has not worked out the way you wanted it to.

 

Just great dialog from two excellent actors.

 

To remember

 

I've got dreams to remember.

As tears go by

 

 



Write me

 

Escreve-me! Ainda que seja só
Uma palavra, uma palavra apenas,
Suave como o teu nome e casta
Como um perfume casto d'açucenas!

Escreve-me!Há tanto,há tanto tempo
Que te não vejo, amor!Meu coração
Morreu já,e no mundo aos pobres mortos
Ninguém nega uma frase d'oração!

"Amo-te!"Cinco letras pequeninas,
Folhas leves e tenras de boninas,
Um poema d'amor e felicidade!

Não queres mandar-me esta palavra apenas?
Olha, manda então...brandas...serenas...
Cinco pétalas roxas de saudade...

 

 

                                                                    Florbela Espanca

This

 

 

 

I'm not open to many people. I'm usually quiet and I don't really like attention. So if I like you enough to show you the real me, you must be very special.

So not over you

 

Quiero Tenerte
Quisiera Odiarte
Quiero Besarte
Quiero Olvidarte

Both of us, what a sight,
In the morning screaming,
Believing it could be so right,
‘Cause you know that your mine baby, yes you are

Still you’re in my dreams,
(Not constantly)

Your perfect love
Your perfect love
Your perfect love
Your perfect love

Through the day and the night,
Dreaming of you baby,
Here with a love that feels so right,
I know it's hazy but maybe,

Yo Quiero Amarte
Quiero Olvidarte
Debi Sacarte
Pero no puedo

But believe me enough,
To be eternally (para siempre)
Eternally

Your perfect love

About love

 

 

Podíamos saber um pouco mais
da morte. Mas não seria isso que nos faria
ter vontade de morrer mais
depressa.

Podíamos saber um pouco mais
da vida. Talvez não precisássemos de viver
tanto, quando só o que é preciso é saber
que temos de viver.

Podíamos saber um pouco mais
do amor. Mas não seria isso que nos faria deixar
de amar ao saber exactamente o que é o amor, ou
amar mais ainda ao descobrir que, mesmo assim, nada
sabemos do amor.

                                                                        Nuno Júdice