'I never dreamed that I´d meet somebody like you'


friends at Blooks exhibition at Sesc Pinheiros/SP:
MarCELo and DOna FaleiROs

emir kusturica and the no smoking orchestra

[Imaginative post about Kusturica at Barbican]

- I will talk about the concert I went on Barbican few days ago.
- I will give my impressions, opinions and I will badly criticize the first band playing before Kusturica for some discordance on stage, but I will also recognize their impressive quality as a musician.
- About Kusturica, I will list some good moments and that will be a giant list.. I will revealing the bad ones, even being insignificant and balancing later, which will be not balanced at all...
- Perhaps I will write in Portuguese so I will have more adjectives to use and to enrich the text, feeling more comfortable and writing faster. Also a poetic license will help to play with words.
- I will not say straight away that was one of the best concert I have ever went to, because would be better to leave it for the end of the text as a climax and as well as a conclusion.
- I can't forget to ask my brother for those pictures and I will attach the recording I made, even with distortions.
- I will probably write rude words on the text, as I am feeling a bit punk - rock today.
- I will say that I never saw the boring Barbican like that and I would never expected to saw it, and I will write my reasons; but I will hide some, because it can offend someone and I am not feeling that punk - rock.
- I could also ask my brother, olaya, my brother's boss (forgot his name) and the Italians Ciara and Veronica for some impressions to add it here.
- yes, I will..
- but I will do that later.. now I will keep listening some punk-rock-japanese-electronic music on the web...
Melt Banana listened at last.fm. They were playing at Birmingham yesterday..


kusturica at barbican.mp3
can you realize?

was one of the best concert I've ever went to!

Hayley Newman

APPLAUSE for her fictitious performances!! applause!!
bravo, bravo!!


http://www.hayleynewman.com/

link to:: a self-interview by herself (extraction)

dOp + bukowski

Charles Bukowski - The Genius Of The Crowd there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace those who preach god, need god those who preach peace do not have peace those who preach peace do not have love beware the preachers beware the knowers beware those who are always reading books beware those who either detest poverty or are proud of it beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world not being able to love fully they will believe your love incomplete and then they will hate you and their hatred will be perfect like a shining diamond like a knife like a mountain like a tiger like hemlock their finest art ---------------- listen to dOp's composition for this poem. http://www.myspace.com/dopdopdop also, 'Pizzetta Klezmer'!!!

do it and tell me why

I read few days ago a news about Ekaterina Maximova, the Russian ballerina who died on April 28. The news was very interesting, she is interesting! but besides her talent and the curiosity I got about her after reading, something stuck on my mind and two days ago my teacher said the same sentence in the class... Ekaterina worked as teacher as well as dancer and she explained how important is to talk to the pupils and to encourage them to try their own ideas, "but they must be able to tell me why".

On Tuesday this week, I had an interim presentation about the work we are doing to hand in on 8th June, so I came with the toy I have been building and I showed to the class. I am planning to make a film with it representing an ordinary journey of this character throughout the city, choosing the way to cycle guided by the sound of the environment. I must confess that I wasn't prepared enough as I should be for that day, so after I talked about my idea, the tutor and my classmates started asking me many things about the work and how it is going to be concluded. They couldn't understand the reason of the existence of the toy and what is the relationship with the movie I described to them and blah blah blah… Of course, they are not seeing the whole thing, the film will tell you the story I am just depicting.. and the toy is the main character.. and well… is quite easy for me to understand, but I realized that I should have showed them some pictures as well, or something else to help them to visualize.

That was my fault, I know. However, two things keep intriguing me about that discussion in class and that is why I am writing here. One is, of course, that the presentation is so important as well as the work, and I have to be considerably more prepared next time, be better organized and sketch the sequence of what I will show first and what I intend to say with it. (also, I must look up some words on the dictionary that I might use there, considering that English is not my mother tongue.. I came very relaxed for this presentation and I stuck in some stupid words like: train, environment.. ridiculous!)

And second, well, I am still thinking of it..
I must say, at the end, the presentation was quite good, even not perfect; I could say, not everything I wished, but most of it, and was not so bad. But I confess I got a bit surprised with those question and the curiosity about the reason of making the toy to represent my idea.. (the teacher suggested only exhibit the sound of the journey and take the toy out of the way) heheh, I found that funny for the simple reason that, in fact, I can't understand either why people want to represent the reality of a particular environment or better saying, transpose the environment to another without any imaginative element that represents the concept of what you aim to state. I am not judging the idea, but the point of what exactly intrigues us; it is easier to understand a work that shows us something real (or the representation of the reality), but not easy when we abstract the shapes and figures. For me, imagination and illusion is the simple answer… I see infinite meanings of doing an imaginative work...

Nevertheless, I completely agreed that we must be able to understand what we are doing and be able to discuss it, so that is why, at the end, I liked our discussion on class. I hope I will be better prepared next time to face a longer argumentation...

Check the famous toy on my flicker:

sophie clements

What a great work of this woman!
http://www.sophieclements.com/

of course I loved the 'bicycle samba' and 'competing colours' I don't understand my fascination for bikes....

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