segunda-feira, 25 de maio de 2009
Some never awaken - Anaïs Nin
Some never awaken.
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place: a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”
-Anaïs Nin
sexta-feira, 22 de maio de 2009
Eu, a cópia
Hoje li uma frase boa. 'Todos nascemos originais. E morremos cópias'.
domingo, 10 de maio de 2009
Whatever Happened to Gus
Não sei se meu primeiro contato com essa música foi acordado ou não.
Sei que não parece ter sentido até você ouvir entendendo a letra. And then...
Sonhei outro dia que conversava com um gato, coisa que motivou uma decisão e uma mudança na minha vida. Acordei com essa música na cabeça.
Ainda não sei se lembro dessas músicas do sonho ou se a manhã seguinte é que faz parte deles.
"It had something to do with Max.
With Max and Bird, Billy Eckstein and Lester Young, back in the day. Them cats, coming out of
You see, it was like this. Yeah, there I was in the basement of this office building, down there around
Than his image kept changing, than he started looking like Billy Eckstein, than back to Lester, than Billy, than Lester, than Billy. And ran up to him and I said "
And I said to him, I said "Say man, who's got the key?", he looked at me and he said "Key, what key?". He said "Gus got the key." I said "Gus, Gus who?" He said, "Don't you know, Gus Johnson got the key."
And that's when I did my research, searched around the jazz scene through the history of the music. Inside out, outside in. Talked to one old timer way back when, and he said, "Yeah, don't you known Gus Johnson, he was a drummer, back out of