Parece que estou a ouvir #177

Duas letras do fado corrido gravadas por Amália Rodrigues, ambas polvilhadas de despeito, desacatos e lições de moral. Eu desconhecia a primeira.

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Fado corrido

A barra da minha saia
Foi você que ma queimou
Com a ponta do cigarro
Quando comigo dançou!

Mal de amor raro se perde
É como a nódoa d'amora
Só com outra amora verde
A nódoa se vai embora

Ó minha moça trigueira
Quem te fez tão trigueirinha
Foi o calor da braseira
Que me aquecia à noitinha

Chamaste-me preta, preta
Que eu sou preta bem o sei
Também a azeitona é preta
E vai à mesa do rei
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Fado Corrido

Lá porque tens cinco pedras
Num anel de estimação
Agora falas comigo
Com cinco pedras na mão!

Enquanto nesses brilhantes
Tens soberba e tens vaidade,
Eu tenho as pedras da rua
P'ra passear à vontade!

Mas não passas sorridente
A alardear satisfeito
Pois hei de chamar-te à pedra
Pelo mal que me tens feito!

E hás de ficar convencido
Da afirmação consagrada:
"Quem tem telhados de vidro
Não deve andar à pedrada"

Ditto #275

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

―Heraclitus

Pormenores #108

The real and the fake ladybug

Ditto #274

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

--Buddha

Caprichos #308

Camera experiment

Camera #1 Sony Cyber-shot  DSC-W350

Camera #2 Canon PowerShot S110

Coisas que não mudam #251

23 de Abril: dia do livro e diada de Sant Jordi!

Coisas que não mudam #250

Easter eggs / Ovos de Páscoa

Parece que estou a ouvir #166

You and I

Ingrid Michaelson

Don't you worry there, my honey
We might not have any money
But we've got our love to pay the bills.
Maybe I think you're cute and funny
Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you, 

if you know what I mean

Oh, let's get rich and buy our parents homes 

in the south of France,
Let's get rich and give everybody nice sweaters 

and teach them how to dance,
Let's get rich and build a house on a mountain 

making everybody look like ants,
From way up there, you and I, you and I

Well, you might be a bit confused
And you might be a little bit bruised
But baby how we spoon like no one else.
So I will help you read those books
If you will soothe my worried looks
And we will put the lonesome on the shelf

Oh, let's get rich and buy our parents homes

in the south of France,
Let's get rich and give everybody nice sweaters 

and teach them how to dance,
Let's get rich and build a house on a mountain

making everybody look like ants,
From way up there, you and I, you and I

Oh let's get rich and buy our parents homes

in the south of France,
Let's get rich and give everybody nice sweaters

and teach them how to dance,
Let's get rich and build a house on a mountain 

making everybody look like ants,
From way up there, you and I, you and I

Caprichos #307

Empire State Building Easter colors

Camera experiment 18-04-2014

This is the last pair of pictures of the experiment. Revelation to follow.

Caprichos #306

Wonderful NYC shop windows: Zaro's bakery at Grand Central Station;

a fresh pasta store in Little Italy; 

challah bread and spices at Grand Central Market at Grand Central Station;

typical shop window in the diamond district on Passover;

The Little Pie Company at Hell's Kitchen

Caprichos #305

New York temptations: Lindt store 665 Fifth Ave.

Tentações de Nova Iorque: loja Lindt 665 Fifth Ave.

Primavera #39

In comparison to Tennessee, New York's spring has just started with the magnolias just coming out. Over here, magnolias are gone and trees (all except dogwoods) are already covered in small and undeveloped leaves that give them a provisional light green tone. In a dense city like New York, the season is less visible on the streets where only the sparse trees give a notion of the passing time. To compensate, there are multiple flower beds in the small soil squares around trees or in tall stone vases on the sidewalks.

Comparada com a do Tennessee, a primavera em Nova Iorque ainda agora começou com as magnolias acabadas de despontar. Por aqui as magnolias já não se vêm e as árvores (todas à excepção dos dogwoods) já estão cobertas de pequenas folhas subdesenvolvidas que lhes dão um tom verde claro provisório. Numa cidade densa como Nova Iorque, a estação é menos visível nas ruas onde apenas as árvores dispersas dão a noção da passagem do tempo. Em compensação existem múltiplos canteiros de flores nos pequenos quadrados de terra à volta das árvores ou em altos vasos de pedra pelos passeios.

Caprichos #304

City scenes

Camera experiment 18-04-2014 

Caprichos #303

Cannoli in Little Italy

Camera experiment 18-04-2014

Primavera #38

Cherry blossom & Dogwood

Camera experiment 17-04-2014

Numa sala perto de mim #268

Finding Vivian Maier (2014) uncovers the art of the street photographer who earned her life as a nanny. The movie also provides an insight on the remarkable investigation to find the person behind the camera... made me think about compulsive behavior, social unfitness, old age, and the legacy one leaves behind.

Primavera #37

Camera experiment 16-04-2014