Céu, La promesse du Brésil

"Maria do Céu, 25 anos, intérprete e compositora, tem a música nas veias desde o berço. La promesse du Brésil é sua estréia solo, mas a moça já deu o ar de seu belo timbre em trilhas de comerciais, seriados e longa-metragens, e já é conhecida e aclamada nos esteites e na europa. Talvez daí venha o título em francês do álbum, mas não se engane, o que ele traz é mpb de primeira!"

O pedaço do texto acima é do sítio
http://mercadodepulgas.blogspot.com/search/label/nacional . Foi lá que ouvi falar em Céu pela primeira vez. Achei a lista de músicas em http://www.mp3fiesta.com/la_promesse_du_bresil_album68997/.
Só consegui baixar músicas pelo Limewire.

01 vinheta quebrante
02 lenda
03 malemolencia
04 roda
05 rainha
06 10 contados
07 vinheta Dorival
08 mais um lamento
09 concrete jungle
10 veu da noite
11 valsa pra Biu Roque
12 ave cruz
13 o ronco da cuica
14 bobagem
15 samba na sola

Estou meio que achando muito bom, muito bom mesmo.

Mão quebrada

Um acidente transtorna a vida da família.
Minha mãe escorregou antes de entrar no carro e quebrou a mão.
A cirurgia é amanhã.

Dry The Rain

Dry The Rain
This is the definition of my life
Lying in bed in the sunlight
Choking on the vitamin tablet
The doctor gave in the hope of saving me
In the hope of saving me

Walked in the corner of the room
A junk yard fool with eyes of gloom
I asked him time again
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain the rain
The rain the rain the rain now

Dusty brown boots in the corner
By the ironing board
Spray on dust is the greatest thing
Sure is the greatest thing
Since the last since the last

Walked in the corner of the room
A junk yard fool with eyes of gloom
I asked him time again
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain the rain
The rain the rain the rain now

I asked him time again
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain
The rain the rain the rain now

If there's something inside that you wanna say
Say it out loud it'll be okay
I will be your light
I will be your light
I will be your light
I will be your light

If there's something inside that you wanna say
Say it out loud it'll be okay
I will be your light
I will be your light
I will be your light
I will be your light

I Need Love, yeah
I Need Love

If there's something inside that you wanna say
Say it out loud it'll be okay
I will be your light
I will be your light
I will be your light
I will be your light

If there's something inside that you wanna say
Say it out loud it'll be okay
I will be your light
I will be your light
I will be your light
I will be your light

I Need Love
I Need Love


Enxugando gelo com uma toalha de feltro

(É verdade. Para entender isso direito, primeiro é necessário ter lido Alta Fidelidade, de Nick Hornby, e escutado a famosa “Dry the rain”, na interpretação de The Beta Band, presente no CD soundtrack do filme. )

Turtles all the way down

“Turtles all the way down” refers to a infinite regression belief about the nature of the universe.

The most widely known version today appears in Stephen Hawking’s 1988 book A Brief History of Time, which begins with an anecdote about an encounter between a scientist and an old lady:

“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the Earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.
“At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: “What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.”
“The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, “What is the tortoise standing on?”
“You’re very clever, young man, very clever,” said the old lady. “But it’s turtles all the way down.”

Tartarugas até lá embaixo

Outra expressão semântica muito legal, mas sem paralelo em português.

Yak Shaving

Yak Shaving
[MIT AI Lab, after 2000: orig. probably from a Ren & Stimpy episode.] Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.

http://joi.ito.com/archives/2005/03/05/yak_shaving.html:

In the section Life Hacks: Overclocking your Productivity, there was fun little article called Yak Shaving by Danny O'Brien and Merlin Mann. "Yak shaving is the technical term for when you find yourself eight levels deep - and possibly in an recursive loop - in a stack of jobs." The example they give is:

You start out deciding to tidy your room and you realize that in order to do that you'll need some more trash bags, so you need to go to the shops, which will involve you getting out the car, but the car needs gas, so you'll need to go to the gas station first, which means you should probably find your gas discount card, which involves finding your keys, which are in the room somewhere...

They talk about many hackers spending a lot of their time "lost in life's subroutines" and that "some of us like solving puzzles a bit more than we like solved puzzles." They suggest that super-efficient hackers "learn when to say no to the temptation of endless fiddling." Veeeery interesting. So this is what I've been doing all my life. Shaving Yaks.



Tosar o Iaque
Umas das mais curiosas expressões que aprendi nos blogs da vida é “Yak Shaving”. A correspondente em português seria “Tosar o Iaque”. Reproduzi acima a melhor definição que encontrei na Internet. Também copiei trecho do arquivo onde vi estampada pela primeira vez a tal expressão. Não vou me dar ao trabalho de traduzir.