The others

Pedants are people who knows subjects we don't understand.

Pedantes são todas as pessoas que dominam assuntos que não entendemos.

Ludwig van Beethoven 5th Simphony. Orquestra Simón Bolívar. Gustavo Dudamel. Paris, 2015.

Those are people who died

My friend Gaspar died last night.

Meu amigo Gaspar morreu esta noite.

Elis

Elis: bigger than language

Elis Regina is great. Bigger than herself. I heard yesterday: "Don't speak portuguese, but understand everything she sings."

Two margins

1
Brazilian artists censored. Art galleries and museums boycotted by people who do not go to art galleries and museums. A crusade of morality is led by politicians, religious and people of dubious history.

2
Flames destroy the country while politicians swap accusations of which party is most responsible for environmental chaos and deaths. The Pinhal de Leiria, one of the oldest national forests in the world, was almost completely devastated. But while the country is shocked, emotionally unstable and politically divided, a big business that enriches investors and creates unemployment and wealth concentration is about to happen.

1.1
An uncertain contingent of venezuelans, bolivians, haitians, paraguayans, and other nationalities works in a situation analogous to slavery in Brazil. They are exploited in the textile industry, crops, domestic service, prostitution and drug traffic. In addition to foreigners, thousands of brazilian rural workers live in situations analogous to slavery (abolished 11 years before the 20th century) on cattle ranches, sugar cane and other degrading services, generation after generation.

2.1
Altice is a multinational corporation from the Netherlands with business in eight countries (mobile telephony, internet and entertainment). Altice plans to take over the portuguese Media Capital, which includes the open channel TVI, radios, internet providers and video production, among other businesses. Altice already produces owns the operators MEO and Nowo.

1.2
The brazilian coup government officially abandons the alignment with the guidelines of the International Labor Organization and softens the law that penalizes slave labor. A law whose penalties are already mild: 2 to 8 years. It has now become more difficult for workers to prove they were abused. From now on, to apply the classification of slave labor, only with images of private prisons and shackles.

2.2
By acquiring open TV channels, operators and audiovisual production clusters, Altice violates all possible ethical standards, but who can stop a lobby giant? The subject is discussed at the moment in the Regulatory Entity of Social Communication.

Conclusion
The cases have in common the fact that predominant subjects in media and social networks (trending) are useless. Thus, any changes in laws for the benefit of the 1% go unnoticed.

Visionary

A arte do futuro será coletiva e para o coletivo. (Proudhom, circa 1845)

Satanists

Satanists are dissatisfied customers.

Satanistas são clientes insatisfeitos.

Mischa Maisky & Jacek Kaspszyk perform Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191

Listening Lambchop in a lamp's shop.

The damage is done.

The damage is done. And if it is too late to fix the damage of living a delegitimating era? How to repair the damage of hopelessness (impression about the future) in the present?

Alien Ally

Every ally

is an 

alienated 

alien.

Todo aliado é um alienígena alienado.

Viva a Europa

Dia da Europa. Uma embarcação com 400 pessoas, refugiados sírios, tenta chegar à costa da Itália. A gravação com vozes desesperadas, via rádio e celulares, mostram que a marinha italiana ignorou o pedido de socorro por 5 horas. Quase todos morreram.

Fênix

O trompetista Ben Cauley foi o único sobrevivente do acidente aéreo que matou Otis Redding e quase toda a banda de apoio (The Bar-Kays) em dezembro de 1967. Como o pequeno avião estava lotado, o baixista James Alexander teve que pegar outro voo e também sobreviveu. Juntos, Cauley e Alexander recriaram os Bar-Kays. A banda está em atividade desde 1966.

Parole

Trabalho com a palavra há 30 anos. Entrevistei músicos, políticos, homicidas, lendas vivas e mortas. O jornalismo ameaçava morrer, virei professor. E novamente estudante. Ainda trabalho com a palavra. Ainda ganho por falar e escrever. Ainda que não acredite. Ainda que a palavra tenha sido usurpada por hordas ágrafas e mantida refém em redes antissociais.

Da arte da trapaça

Bryan Cranston conseguiu fazer de Sneaky Pete (Amazon) um sucesso à altura de Breaking Bad. Séries como Game of Thrones são grandiosas, mas não há figurino ou grande incêndio que supere um bom roteiro. 

Aquele disco do Supertramp

Ouvi tantas vezes o Paris do Supertramp, que lembro de gritos da plateia. Um dos grandes discos de rock gravados ao vivo, com versões definitivas de Hide in your shell e Logical Song. Para minha surpresa, foi inteiramente filmado. Reza a lenda que Roger Hodgson reprovou o trabalho feito por um realizador da BBC. Muitos anos depois as imagens e o áudio original foram encontradas num depósito empoeirado na fazenda do baterista Bob Siebenberg. Transformado em Blu-ray em 2012, o vídeo contém versões de Goodbye Stranger e Breakfast in America ausentes do disco duplo de 1980. Agora esta preciosidade pode ser apreciada no Youtube.

Free - Be My Friend

Precisamos reconhecer o papel de Paul Weller nas nossas vidas.