Oh My God?! I Think ... I´m a Pseudo Indie...

Ceci n´est pas la fin...#2

Ridwan — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:54:09 GMT

Depois de 19 anos em Portugal e uma passagem fugaz por Madchester,o retorno inglório a Maputo.Quanto á parte que vos interresa,o blog vai de férias forçadas,2 ou 3 anos,quando houver tempo,entretanto se tiver paciência ou algo para dizer estarei pelo twitter sem esquecer o L is for Links.

Vemo-nos daqui a uns anos.Aquele abraço!

Jazzofonia*

Ridwan — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:39:53 GMT

Bob Willoughby

* "Olha! Já tocas esse trompete com três partes do teu corpo. Com a cabeça, com os beiços e com o coração. Percebes, filho? Tás quase um músico completo."

Synecdoche, New York

Ridwan — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:28:09 GMT

Everything is more complicated than you think.You only see a tenth of what is true.There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make.You can destroy your life every time you choose.
But maybe you won't know for 20 years and you may never, ever trace it to its source.And you only get one chance to play it out.Just try and figure out your own divorce.
And they say there is no fate,but there is,it's what you create.
And even though the world goes on for eons and eons you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second.Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born.
But while alive,you wait in vain wasting years for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right.And it never comes,or it seems to,but it doesn't really.
So you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along.
Something to make you feel connected.
Something to make you feel whole.
Something to make you feel loved.
And the truth is,I feel so angry.
And the truth is,I feel so fucking sad.
And the truth is,I've felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long.
And for just as long,I've been pretending I'm okay just to get along,just for...I don't know why.Maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery because they have their own.
Well, fuck everybody.
Amen.

rex comix: amor platônico

Ridwan — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:06:47 GMT

Rocket Science

Ridwan — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:48:41 GMT

Sometimes, I don't know,
I guess I just wonder when it all starts to make sense, you know?

Well, I guess there comes a point, you see, when you reach a certain age and you're in Jersey,or someplace just like it,and...you stop trying to figure it all out.

You just...are glad for what you have.

Oh.
And that...that just, like, happens for everyone?

Yeah. Pretty much.
But you let me know if it turns out different for you.

IMDB|Torrent

"...and they lived happily ever after."

Ridwan — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:47:08 GMT

Dill Pixels

An industry of excess

Ridwan — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:50:29 GMT

"It was 1999 when I got my first taste of the inner-workings of a major record label - I was a young college student, and the inside of a New York label office seemed so vast and exciting. Dozens of worker bees hummed away at their desks on phones and computers. Music posters and stacks of CDs littered every surface. Everyone seemed to have an assistant, and the assistants had assistants, and you couldn't help but wonder "what the hell do all these people do?" I tagged along on $1500 artist dinners paid for by the labels. Massive bar tabs were regularly signed away by record label employees with company cards. You got used to people billing as many expenses back to the record company as they could. I met the type of jive, middle-aged, blazer-wearing, coke-snorting, cartoon character label bigwigs who you'd think were too cliche to exist outside the confines of Spinal Tap. It was all strange and exciting, but one thing that always resonated with me was the sheer volume of money that seemed to be spent without any great deal of concern. Whether it was excessive production budgets or "business lunches" that had nothing to do with business, one of my first reactions to it all was, "so this is why CDs cost $18..." An industry of excess. But that's kind of what you expected from the music business, right? It's where rock stars are made. It's where you get stretch limos with hot tubs in the back, where you get private jets and cocaine parties. "

"For the major labels, it's over. It's fucking over. You're going to burn to the fucking ground, and we're all going to dance around the fire. And it's your own fault. Surely, somewhere deep inside, you had to know this day was coming, right? Your very industry is founded on an unfair business model of owning art you didn't create in exchange for the services you provide. It's rigged so that you win every time - even if the artist does well, you do ten times better. It was able to exist because you controlled the distribution, but now that's back in the hands of the people, and you let the ball drop when you could have evolved."

When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide.

Provocação* Religiosa #26

Ridwan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:54:53 GMT

*Porque hoje é Sexta-feira ,dia de virar-me para Meca

The Party Forces Awake

Ridwan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:32:55 GMT

grand geometrician’s ball from Patrick Wright on Vimeo.

O tipo de festas organizadas pela The Adventure School que nunca,mas mesmo nunca se deve ficar de fora.

...and i was left in my little odd world*

Ridwan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:05:36 GMT

Bilene,12-2008

Cachorro Grande - Conflitos Existenciais

Conflitos existenciais tomam conta da minha cabeça
De onde eu vim e quem sou?
Por que estou aqui e pra onde vou?
Conflitos existenciais tomam conta da minha consciência
Porque nada é como eu queria que fosse

*2 meses de conflitos existenciais ou como recuperar a cor natural depois de 5 meses sem apanhar sol em Madchester

Indigènes

Ridwan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:24:50 GMT

Escutem-me, meus irmãos!
Quando me alistei, ouvi o que disse o General De Gaulle.
Ele disse que a França lutava pela liberdade no mundo.

Pensei que a guerra nos daria os direitos dos nossos irmãos de armas franceses.
Estamos todos a lutar contra Hitler.
Pela liberdade, a igualdade e a fraternidade.
Está na hora de nos darem alguma dessa liberdade,dessa igualdade e, acima de tudo, dessa fraternidade!

Estamos a mudar o destino da França.
As coisas também têm que mudar para nós!

IMDB|Torrent

"Acorda rapaz o dia rompe"

Ridwan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:40:07 GMT

Provocação* Religiosa #25

Ridwan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:56:50 GMT

Synaptic Impulse

*Porque hoje é Sexta-feira ,dia de virar-me para Meca

Le Cool Lx

Ridwan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:45:04 GMT

Ricardo Cabral

This is indie rock in 2009

Ridwan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:26:17 GMT

"I hadn't given much thought to SXSW before arriving, and didn't have many expectations. My first experience of the place was waiting in line for "registration" with hundreds, maybe thousands of other musicians. It was the most bedraggled, poverty stricken, drugged out, greasy bunch of insecure losers I have ever stood in a line with, and they were all arrogant to boot. Now this is a sad situation. We were all standing in line, waiting to be tagged, cows at the feed lot waiting for the slaughter, each one fighting to be first in line. Soon as we got our indestructible and unremovable non-transferrable space age bracelets fitted to our skinny wrists, the competition began! Oh my lordy me oh my.

And of course the music didn't matter. At all. We were all wearing earplugs and stumbling around blindly in search of comfort and relief from the 90 degree heat. Targets and sitting ducks. Water was scarce, so we drank a lot of beer. And somebody is making money here, I can see it and feel it. But none of it is going into the hands of musicians. This is indie rock in 2009. I see."[F]

Para perceberem melhor o universo da Larkin Grimm nada melhor do que ouvir a conversa sincera e elucidante que teve com o Sérgio Hydalgo em 2007.

The Big Bang Theory S02E08

Ridwan — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:29:50 GMT

"I'm not watching the Clone Wars TV series until I have seen the movie. I wish to be disappointed in the order George Lucas intended."

Sheldon

" Are you joking? Star Trek V is the standard against which all badness is measured!"

Koothrappali

Ridwan — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:12:58 GMT

Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together + The Whitest Boy Alive's Island

High Five Escalator

Ridwan — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:31:19 GMT

For our latest mission, Agent Lathan gave out 2,000 high fives by standing next to a subway escalator during the morning rush. Five additional agents spread out along the adjacent stairs, holding signs that prepared commuters for the upcoming high five fun.[F]

Die Welle

Ridwan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:30:12 GMT

"Vivemos num mundo onde as palavras dos políticos e a imagética publicitária conseguem convencer a população a abdicar dos seus direitos e liberdades para alimentar um policiamento e vigilância doentios, em nome de uma falsa necessidade de segurança. Os interesses económicos desta “indústria” impedem que se volte atrás mesmo quando o perigo deixa de existir. Até pelas melhores razões, o totalitarismo pode ser tentador. É esse o terror contra o qual temos de lutar, um terror que vive mesmo ao nosso lado e, muitas vezes, dentro de nós mesmos."[F]

Trailer Park Boys # 6

Ridwan — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:44:52 GMT

Trailer Park Boys

Choke

Ridwan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:15:30 GMT

IMDB\Torrent

We're not evil sinners or perfect knockoffs of God.
We let the world tell us whether we're saints or sex addicts...sane or insane...heroes or victims...whether we're good mothers or loving sons.
But we can decide for ourselves.

...and the world was a beautiful place.

Ridwan — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:06:59 GMT

Provocação* Religiosa #24

Ridwan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:50:38 GMT

Religulous\Torrent

The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses,the world actually could come to an end.
The plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live.
The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key decisions made by religious people,by irrationalists, by those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass,but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking.
It's nothing to brag about.
And those who preach faith and enable and elevate it are our intellectual slaveholders,keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction.
Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.
Most people would think it's wonderful when someone says,"I'm willing, Lord.I'll do whatever You want me to do. "
Except that since there are no gods actually talking to us,that void is filled in by people with their own corruptions,- limitations and agendas.
And anyone who tells you they know,they just know what happens when you die,I promise you, you don't.
How can I be so sure?
Because I don't know,and you do not possess mental powers that I do not.
The only appropriate attitude for man to have about the big questions is not the arrogant certitude that is the hallmark of religion,but doubt. Doubt is humble,and that's what man needs to be,considering that human history is just a litany of getting shit dead wrong.
This is why rational people,anti-religionists,must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves.
And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price.
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny,homophobia, violence and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.
To do otherwise is to be an enabler,a Mafia wife,with the true devils of extremism that draw their legitimacy from the billions of their fellow travelers.
If the world does come to an end here or wherever,or if it limps into the future,decimated by the effects of a religion-inspired nuclear terrorism,let's remember what the real problem was:
That we learned how to precipitate mass death before we got past the neurological disorder of wishing for it.
That's it. Grow up or die.

*Porque hoje é Sexta-feira ,dia de virar-me para Meca

Sugar Rush

Ridwan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:21:34 GMT

OK, so it's the 21st century.A 15-year-old using a toothbrush to masturbate about her best friend really shouldn't be that big a deal.

Sugar Rush\Torrent

Normal Job

Ridwan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:25:14 GMT

"I got what the world would call a normal, boring job.
I wake up in the morning, get dressed,drive myself to work, put on a name tag,take my brain out of my skull,and place it in a drawer.
I spend the next nine hours smiling at people,pretending to be interested in their happiness,tolerating the company of my co-workers, staring at the clock.
At the end of the day, I take my name tag off, open the drawer, reach for my brain,plop it back inside, walk to the employee parking lot, drive myself home.
And it's really, really, really boring." in Weeds