Diários (III)

I put food on the table
and a roof over our head
but I'd trade it all tomorrow
for the highway instead
watch your back
keep your eyes shut tight
your love's the only thing I've ever known
one thing's for sure pretty baby
I always take the long way home
Long Way Home, Tom Waits

Diários (II)

Diários (I)

Suddenly, all your history's ablaze

Try to breathe, as the world disintegrates

Just like autumn leaves, we're in for change

Holding tenderly to what remains

And all your memories, are as precious as gold

And all the honey, and the fire which you've stole

Have you running through all your red-cheeked days

Shaking loose these souls, from their sacred hiding space

Province | TV On The Radio

Música de 2017 | "Hippopotamus", Sparks

"There were no smoky dives
Few amours, fou or not
There were no petty crimes
Foreign substances bought
There were no midnight drives
With a crime boss's wife
Need a sentence at most
In assessing my life

Edith Piaf said it better than me
“Je ne regrette rien"
Pretty song, but not intended for me
Time to put some Muzak on"

Sparks, Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me)

Só por este álbum já valeu a pena o tempo que passei nas listas de "melhores de 2017", à procura do que me escapou durante o ano. Tinha saudades de uma boa canção "esquisita" como a Hippopotamus, algo que consiga soar realmente diferente e entusiasmante, mas sem uma carga de pretensão demasiado irritante. Já a canção Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me) atingiu-me bem no centro: que mistura assombrosa de desencanto na letra e fuga para a frente na música, e que melhor descrição para a minha idade, por aquilo que vejo em mim mesma e no meu círculo de amigos? Um dia talvez fale mais disto, quando arranjar palavras justas.

This album alone would be enough to justify the considerable amount of time I spent on "best of 2017" lists, looking for what I might have missed throughout the year. I love a good, old "weird song", and Hippopotamus hits the right tone, feeling new and exciting,  but not annoyingly pretentious. The song Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me) is an whole other story: I was blown away by its mix of disenchanted lyrics and energetic music. Thinking about my own experiences, as well as those of my close friends, the  mixture feels very familiar, heart trying to convince mind not to give up on enthusiasm yet. Maybe one day I'll find the right words to talk about that.

Playlist | Setembro

Belle & Sebastian - We Were Beautiful (single)
Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder
Death From Above 1979 - Outrage! Is Now
Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
Hercules & Love Affair - Omnion
Iron & Wine - Beast Epic
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
Liars - TFCF
Nine Inch Nails - Not The Actual Events (EP)
Nine Inch Nails - Add Violence (EP)
The Horrors - V (singles)
The National - Sleep Well Beast
The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
The Shins - Heartworms
Spoon - Hot Thoughts

(em actualização)

Belle and Sebastian | We Were Beautiful

LCD Soundsystem | Tonite

"And you're getting older

I promise you this

You're getting older

And there's improvements 

Unless you're such a winner

That the future's a nightmare

And there's nothing I can do

Nothing anyone can do about this

And oh, I'm offering you a chance to get even

But oh, you know very well the dialect of negation

Sure enemies haunt you with spit and derision

But friends are the ones who can put you in exile

But that's not right

(...)

And luck is always better than skill at things

We're flying blind

Oh good gracious

I sound like my mom"

Moderat | Bad Kingdom

Bill Callahan | All thoughts are prey to some beast

An eagle came over the horizon
And shook the branches with its sight
The softer thoughts: starlings, finches, and wrens
The softer thoughts, they all took flight

(...)

All thoughts are prey to some beast
All thoughts are prey to some beast
 Sweet desire and soft thoughts, return to me

Otto | Tento Entender

Tento entender
Um pouco mais da alma
Alma que me faz dançar nesta festa
Venho atender
Ao teu pedido d'água
Águas salgadas de mar
Algas que param na areia
Ondas gigantes crescendo
No mar dos sertões na minha cabeça
A mente em meu caminho
A mente em todo lugar
São tortos os santos, querida

My Brightest Diamond | Soirée de Poche #46

"It’s so hard, it’s so heavy
To be hungry, to be happy
It’s so light, it’s so easy just to be

(...)

Be brave dear one
Be changed or be undone
Be brave dear one
Be changed, be changed, be changed
Changed"

My Brightest Diamond | Soirée de Poche #46

Coisas que salvam uma noite (isso e reler o Orlando, naquele volume velho e amado).

How to redeem a night (this and rereading Orlando on this worn and much beloved edition).

Vampire Weekend | Cousins

Wolf Parade | I'll Believe In Anything

Give me your eyes
I need sunshine
Give me your eyes
I need sunshine
Your blood
Your bones
Your voice
And your ghost

We've both been very brave
Walk around with both legs
Fight the scary day
We both pull the tricks out of our sleeves

But I'll believe in anything
And you'll believe in anything
Said I'll believe in anything
And you'll believe in anything

If I could take the fire out from the water
I'd share a life and you'd share a life
If I could take the fire out from the water
I'd share a life and you'd share a life
If I could take the fire out from the water
I'd take you where nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn
Said nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn

Música - Kite Base

Véspera de não partir

Voz de Margarida Pinto e palavras de Fernando Pessoa.

A Severa (Linda Martini)