Ecology
Music
Philosophy and Spirituality
Photography
Sensitive people, who share the same interests or have positive word to say to the world !
"The poet is alive with your mills of wind for impelling the great wheel of the history ..." - Lyric of the song "O Poeta Está Vivo", by Barão Vermelho.
In memorian of Renato Russo (03/27/1960 - 10/11/1996)
Alanis Morissette
Capital Inicial
Chopin
Coldplay
Creed
Duncan Sheik
Duran Duran
Echo & The Bunnymen
Evanescence
Giuseppe Povia
Incubus
Information Society
James Blunt
Keane
Led Zeppelin
Legião Urbana
Linkin Park
Moby
New Order
New Radicals
Nickelback
Oasis
Olam Ein Sof
Pearl Jam
Radiohead
Renato Russo
Simple Minds
Simple Red
The Chemical Brothers
The Cranberries
The Cure
The Rolling Stones
The Smiths
U2
Van Halen
Wladyslaw Szpilman (interpreted by actor Adrien Brody) plays "Ballade nº 1" by Chopin, in a unforgettable scene from the movie "The Pianist".
Documentaries :
An Inconvenient Truth
Brazil : Beyond the Citzen Kane
Ilha das Flores (Isle of Flowers)
Super Size Me
Movies :
O Ano em que Meus Pais SaÃram de Férias (The Year My Parents Went on Vacation)
Big (1988)
The Boy Who Could Fly
Braveheart
Bullitt
Citizen Kane
Contact (1997)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Finding Neverland (2004)
The Greatest Game Ever Played
The Green Mile
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Impromptu (1991)
Joan of Arc (1999)
Ladyhawke
The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
The Matrix
Men in Black
Million Dollar Baby
The Net
Notting Hill
Patch Adams
The Pianist (2002)
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Roman Holiday (1953)
Schindler's List
The Secret Garden
The Shawshank Redemption
The Sixth Sense
Star Wars (1977)
Star Wars : Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars : Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
The Truman Show
La Vita è Bella (1997)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Cold Case
CSI : Crime Scene Investigation
Discovery Channel
Ghost Whisperer
House M.D.
Heroes
History Channel
Jericho
MTV
Numbers
Old TV Shows :
Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1986)
La Femme Nikita (1997-2001)
MacGyver (1985-1992)
Seinfeld (1989-1998)
Touched by an Angel (1994-2003)
X-Files (1993-2002)
"1984", by George Orwell
"Chariots of the Gods ?", by Erich von Däniken
"The Alchemist", by Paulo Coelho
"The World in Grey (Dom Bosco's Prophecy)", by Ryan J. Lucero
Any book of Allan Kardec and Francisco Cândido Xavier and some Brazilian and Portuguese writers.
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The Prologue to Bertrand Russell's Autobiography :
What I Have Lived For
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness - that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what - at last - I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me."
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967-1969, 3 vols.)
My grandfather's life would be a great history for a book ...