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O lado bom da crise: o preço dos CDs tem caído muito.
Assim, pude me dedicar, no feriado, a um prazer já quase esquecido: comprar CDs de artistas que não conheço. Pode ser que eu descubra uma música incrível... Pode ser que o CD seja uma bomba... Mas, fazer o quê, se eu gosto de viver perigosamente?
;)
Dei sorte.
O CD "The Age Of The Understatement", o primeiro do The Last Shadow Puppets, é todo muito bom.
Tão bom que a banda foi indicada em 2008 ao Mercury Prize, que escolhe o melhor álbum do ano no Reino Unido. The Last Shadow Puppets é formado por Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) e por Miles Kane (The Rascals).
A minha música favorita, por enquanto, é "Standing next to me":



You want to have her
Two years have gone now
But I can't relate to the never ending games that you play
As desire passes through and you're open to the truth
I hope you understand
And your love is standing next to me
Is standing next to me

The one you fell for
But it's seemed you deny
And you laugh at yourself again and again
But as you drink to the thoughts she'll remember you
maybe tomorrow

And your love is standing next to me
Is standing next to me
And your love is standing next to me
Is standing next to me, is standing next to me.
Is standing next to me

You want to have her
Two years have gone now
But I can't relate to the never ending games that you play
As desire passes through, then you're open to the truth
I hope you understand

And your love is standing next to me, is standing next to me
Is standing next to me, is standing next to me

Glauco e Aline

imagine a cena:
após o jantar, os noivos se aproximam do centro do salão. ela com rosas vermelhas no cabelo. ele com o cabelo arrepiado e piercing na orelha.
aí começa a tocar "Elephant Gun" e eles rodopiam e se abraçam e se olham de um modo que a gente até esquece da própria presença e acredita que, sim, eles estão sozinhos. não há mais ninguém nem ali nem em qualquer lugar.
então, para surpresa de ambos, começa a chover pétalas de rosas.
sobre eles. sobre nós.
foi lindo.




If I was young, I'd flee this town
I'd bury my dreams underground
As did I, we drink to die, we drink tonight

Far from home, elephant gun
Let's take them down one by one
We'll lay it down, it's not been found, it's not around

Let the seasons begin - it rolls right on
Let the seasons begin - take the big king down

Let the seasons begin - it rolls right on
Let the seasons begin - take the big king down

And it rips through the silence of our camp at night
And it rips through the night

And it rips through the silence of our camp at night
And it rips through the silence, all that is left is all that i hide

Encontros e Desencontros

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Um dos filmes de que mais gostei no ano passado foi o irlandês "Once". É superdespretensioso, meigo, bonito. Ganhou, merecidamente, o Oscar de melhor canção, então é provável que muita gente já tenha visto o filme ou ouvido a trilha. Ou seja, esse post está atrasado mesmo... Mas, para quem já conhece, meu convite é: aperta aí o play e ouça "again".
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Primeira: "Lies"
Muitas músicas falam sobre o amor quando ele está no auge ou quando a separação já ocorreu. Essa tem a singularidade de traduzir aquela fase cinzenta, em que não somos mais o que fomos, mas ainda não temos coragem de soltar as mãos. O beijo não emociona mais. Os carinhos ficam cada vez mais raros...
Repetimos "eu te amo" na esperança de acreditar em nossas próprias palavras.
Será que isso é mentir?



I think it's time, we give it up
And figure out what's stopping us
From breathing easy, and talking straight
The way is clear if you're ready now
The volunteer is slowing down
And taking time to save himself

The little cracks they escalated
And before you know it is too late
For making circles and telling lies

You're moving too fast for me
And I can't keep up with you
Maybe if you slowed down for me
I could see you're only telling
Lies, lies, lies
Breaking us down with your
Lies, lies, lies
When will you learn

The little cracks they escalated
And before you know it is too late
For making circles and telling lies

You're moving too fast for me
And I can't keep up with you
Maybe if you'd slowed down for me
I could see you're only telling
Lies, lies, lies
Breaking us down with your
Lies, lies, lies
When will you learn

So plant the thought and watch it grow
Wind it up and let it go
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Segunda: "Falling Slowly"
É a principal música do filme. Eu chorei quando tocou.
Essa é para soltar a voz e cantar junto.



I don't know you
But I want you
All the more for that
Words fall through me
And always fool me
And I can't react
And games that never amount
To more than they're meant
Will play themselves out

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice
You'll make it now

Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can't go back
Moods that take me and erase me
And I'm painted black
You have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It's time that you won

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice
You've made it now
Falling slowly sing your melody
I'll sing along

Detalhe: o moço ruivo, Glen Hansard, compôs as músicas que ele mesmo canta no filme _ele tinha uma banda com o diretor, John Carney , e já tinha atuado no filme "The Commitments". já a moça, Marketa Irglova, é pianista, e não atriz _a sugestão de tê-la no papel foi de Glen, de quem ela já era amiga.

emotional landscapes

De férias, gripada, enrolada no edredon, ouvindo Björk. Adoro esse vídeo e acabo de descobrir que ele foi dirigido pelo Michel Gondry. Aproveito para recomendar o novo filme dele: "Be Kind Rewind" (sem a expectativa do "Brilho Eterno de uma Mente sem Lembranças", ok?).




All these accidents,
That happen,
Follow the dot,
Coincidence,
Makes sense,
Only with you,
You don't have to speak,
I feel.

Emotional landscapes,
They puzzle me,
Then the riddle gets solved,
And you push me up to this

State of emergency,
How beautiful to be,
State of emergency,
Is where I want to be.

All that no-one sees,
You see,
What's inside of me,
Every nerve that hurts,
You heal,
Deep inside of me, oo-oohh,
You don't have to speak,
I feel.

Emotional landscapes,
They puzzle me - confuse,
Then the riddle gets solved,
And you push me up to this

State of emergency,
How beautiful to be,
State of emergency,
Is where I want to be.

State of emergency,
How beautiful to be,

Emotional landscapes,
They puzzle me,
Then the riddle gets solved,
And you push me up to this

State of emergency,
How beautiful to be,
State of emergency,
Is where I want to be.

State of emergency,
How beautiful to be,
State of emergency,
State of, state of,
How beautiful,
Emergency,
Is where I want to be.

State of emergency,
How beautiful to be,
State of emergency,
Is where I want to be.

State of emergency,
How beautiful to be.

Um 2009 de muitos sonhos realizados

Sabe o que eu desejo pra você e pra mim no novo ano que vai já começar? Que nossos principais sonhos se tornem realidade. Que 2009 seja um ano de muitas e intensas alegrias.
Beijos!



WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR

When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you

If your heart is in your dream
No request is to extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do

Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fullfillment of their secret longing

Like a boat out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wished upon a star
Your dreams come true

Um dia

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Essas vão sem vídeo.
Mas quero dizer que gosto muito delas na voz de dois brasileiros.
A primeira, Caetano canta em "A Foreign Sound".
A segunda está em "Stonewall Celebration", do Renato Russo.
Eu gosto do nosso sotaque. Do nosso tom.

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The man I love

Someday he'll come along
The man I love
And he'll be big and strong
The man I love
And when he comes my way
I’ll do my best to make him stay

He’ll look at me and smile
I’ll understand
And in a little while
He’ll take my hand
And though it seems absurd
I know we both won't say a word

Maybe I shall meet him Sunday
Maybe Monday
Maybe not
Still I’m sure to meet him one day
Maybe Tuesday
Will be my good news day

He’ll build a little home
Just meant for two
From which I’d never roam
Who would, would you?
And so all else above
I’m waiting for the man I love

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Somewhere

There's a place for us
Somewhere a place for us
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us
Somewhere

There's a time for us
Someday a time for us
Time together with time spare
Time to learn, time to care
Someday!

Somewhere
We'll find a new way of living
We'll find a way of forgiving
Somewhere...

There's a place for us
A time and place for us
Hold my hand and we're halfway there
Hold my hand and I'll take you there
Somehow
Someday
Somewhere!

Walk with me

Semana passada, vi na Marie Claire a dica musical: Mark Lanegan. Nunca tinha ouvido falar dele. Aí fui atrás para aprender. Vi que ele fez diversas participações em álbuns do Queens of the Stone Age, que também nunca escutei, mas já tinha ouvido falar, pelo menos. Hoje ele tem uma banda chamada The Twilight Sisters, que também não conheço.

Enfim, em minha rápida pesquisa descobri que Lanegan gravou, em 2006, com a cantora Isobel Campbell, um CD bastante elogiado chamado "The Ballad of the Broken Seas". Também nunca tinha ouvido falar dela, aí fui atrás e descobri que ela foi vocalista do cult Belle & Sebastian, que também nunca escutei. Li uma informação que me deixou supercuriosa: Isobel fez uma parceria com o pianista de jazz escocês Bill Wells que resultou no CD "Ghost of Yesterday", em que os dois interpretam canções pouco conhecidas de Billie Holiday.

Olha aí: em dois parágrafos, tantas coisas a se descobrir. Com calma eu vou aprendendo.

Escutei algumas das músicas que Mark e Isobel gravaram - de umas gostei muito, de outras, não, mas sugero que você não se contente apenas com essa música que coloco aí embaixo. Tem uma instrumental, "It´s hard to kill a bad thing", que é linda. Outra que curti muito: "Saturday´s gone".

PS. Que marionetes lindas, hem?



(DO YOU WANNA) COME WALK WITH ME
Little girl have I told you
how you light up my life
come and lay down beside me
come and thrill me tonight
do you wanna?

I'm not saying I love you
I won't say I'll be true
there's a crimson bird flying
when I go down on you

I'm so weary and lonesome
and it's cold in the night
when the path to your doorway
is a pathway of light

do you wanna come walk with me?
do you wanna come walk with me?
if you do baby say it now
though we'll both wonder anyhow

do you wanna come walk with me?
do you wanna come walk with me?
do you wanna?

little girl have I told you
you're my guiding north star
and my love travels with you
wherever you are

from the mountains to the valley
leave the light on for me
from Virginia to Alaska
from sea to shining sea

do you wanna come walk with me?
do you wanna come walk with me?
if you do baby say it now
though we'll both wonder anyhow

do you wanna come walk with me?
do you wanna come walk with me?
do you wanna?