Well I stumbled in the darkness I'm lost and alone Though I said I'd go before us And show the way back home There a light up ahead I can't hold onto her arm Forgive me pretty baby but I always take the long way home
Money's just something you throw Off the back of a train Got a head full of lightning A hat full of rain And I know that I said I'd never do it again And I love you pretty baby but I always take the long way home
I put food on the table And roof overhead But I'd trade it all tomorrow For the highway instead Watch your back if I should tell you Love's the only thing I've ever known One thing for sure pretty baby I always take the long way home
You know I love you baby More than the whole wide world You are my woman I know you are my pearl Let's go out past the party lights Where we can finally be alone Come with me and we can take the long way home Come with me, together we can take the long way home Come with me, together we can take the long way home
Já lá vai algum tempo sobre a última publicação nesta rúbrica. O interregno deve-se, entre outros motivos, ao cansaço demasiado que a actividade de apontar o dedo a factos tristes que não deviam existir me provoca. Hoje, no entanto, quebro o silêncio porque o caso José Sócrates toma detalhes de monumental anedota. A paciência já não é muita para as notícias a conta gotas sobre a mediática personagem. Cada manhã se sabe mais um pequeno detalhe da vida ilícita do ex-primeiro ministro e quando isso não acontece é o advogado extravagante que dá nas vistas. O update de hoje faz saber que o livro de Sócrates afinal não é de Sócrates... nem ficção de novela de qualidade poderia alvitrar este cenário. Palmas por favor!
Red Army (2014) on the best hockey team that ever played the sport from the perspective of one of their own, Viacheslav Fetisov. A movie about hockey, politics, regimes, war, propaganda, personal dilemmas, beliefs, and money.
The Other Son (2012) a movie about the discovery of the switch of two babies at birth, eighteen years after the fact. In the meantime a Jew has been living with a Palestinian family in the West Bank and an Arab has been raised a Jew in Tel Aviv. What is identity? What are genetic traits? What are innate preferences? What is family? What part of an individual is shaped by the environment? The Israeli and Palestinian cultures are quite distinguished but their take on this problem is rather similar, and very different from Japan's.
On March 7th 1965, in Selma AL, 600 people initiated a peaceful Civil Rights march to protest the systematic denial of voting rights for blacks in Alabama and also the death of Jimmy Lee Jackson a week earlier, beaten and fatally shot in a similar Civil Rights march in Marion AL. Fifty years ago today, the march was violently broken up after crossing the Edmund Pettus' bridge, in (yet another) Bloody Sunday.
The event made it to national tv headlines shocking people throughout the country. Many, including religious people, travelled to Selma to join the 2,500 march led by Martin Luther King two days later in what became known asTurnaround Tuesday: after marchers crossed the bridge, troopers stepped aside to let the march progress while marchers knelt in prayer and turned around back to Selma so not to disobey the court order that prohibited the march. On that same night, three white ministers were brutally attacked by local KKK members. Reverend James Reeb 38, from Boston died in the hospital on March 11. Ironically it was his death, not Jimmie Lee Jackson's, that triggered demonstrations and vigils in various cities and gave the final push for the Voting Rights Act, outlined by President Johnson on TV on March 15 and signed into law on August 6, 1965.
The historical events of Selma are remembered in the remarkablemovieof the same name, so deserving of the Academy's nomination for best movie.
A 7 de Março de 1965, em Selma AL, 600 pessoas iniciaram uma marcha pacífica protestando a negação sistemática do direito de voto a negros no estado do Alabama e também a morte de Jimmy Lee Jackson uma semana antes, espancado e abatido a tiro pela polícia numa semelhante marcha pelos Direitos Civis em Marion AL. A marcha de há cinquenta anos foi violentamente dispersada depois de atravessar a ponte Edmund Pettus num (outro)Domingo Sangrento.
Este evento chegou aos noticiários nacionais chocando todo o país. Muitos, incluindo religiosos, viajaram até Selma dois dias depois para se juntarem à marcha de 2,500 pessoas liderada por Martin Luther King naquela que ficou conhecida comoTurnaround Tuesday (terça-feira do volta atrás): depois de os manifestantes atravessarem a ponte a polícia afastou-se para os deixar passar, mas estes ajoelharam em oração e depois voltaram para trás regressando a Selma para não desobedecer à ordem judicial que proibia a marcha. Nessa mesma noite, três pastores brancos foram brutalmente atacados por membros locais do KKK. O reverendo James Reeb de Boston, de 38 anos, faleceu no hospital a 11 de Março. Ironicamente foi esta morte, não a de Jimmie Lee Jackson, que motivou manifestações e vigílias por todo o país e deu o impulso final à Lei do Direito de Voto, apresentada na televisão pelo Presidente Johnson a 15 de Março e efectiva desde 6 de Agosto de 1965. Os acontecimentos históricos de Selma são recordados no filme com o mesmo nome, tão merecedor da nomeação para o óscar de melhor filme.
Touch of Evil (1958) tells about the troubled enforcement of the law in a border town where drugs and crime are rife and the police has earned a "reputation". Celebrating 100 years of Orson Welles.
The Third Man (1949) set in occupied Vienna after WWII, tells the story of a newly arrived, who soon discovers the person that invited him to go and work there is dead. All to the sound of excellent music! Celebrating 100 years of Orson Welles.
Ida (2014) on the remnants of the Second World War. Never easy to bury the memories. Quite difficult to learn about facts that were never told. Still, I expected more.
At the World of coca-cola in Atlanta, the overwhelming presence of the utmost symbol of America's corporate culture is expected... but it's still quite impressive.