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BAIRRISTA!

THINK GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL!

About Me



"SOMETIMES I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE THIS WORLD OF MYTHS ANYMORE
AND I NO LONGER KNOW WHERE THE REAL WORLD IS!"
"AS VEZES EU NAO QUERO ABANDONAR MAIS ESTE MUNDO DE MITOS,
E DEIXO MESMO DE SABER ONDE O MUNDO REAL FICA!"

(Hugo Pratt)

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::MY FIGHTS, CAUSES AND IDEALS:

"WHAT DOES IT MATTER WHAT A BUNCH OF CREEPS THINKS ABOUT US?"
"O QUE É QUE INTERESSA AQUILO QUE UMA CAMBADA DE BESTAS PENSA SOBRE NÓS?"
(Schopenhauer)

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::MY NAKED KING:

JOSÉ "Soap Salesman" SARAMAGO:
The biggest portuguese fraud after the Treaty of Tordesillas !
JOSÉ "Vendedor de Sabonetes" SARAMAGO:
O maior embuste português depois do Tratado de Tordesilhas !


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My Interests



Music + Cinema + Writing + BD + Design + New York + Tokyo + Barcelona + Olinda

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I'd like to meet:


Open, cultured and intelligent people!
With humour! Fearless, and without complexes!

Gente aberta, culta, inteligente!
Com humor! Sem medos, nem complexos!


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SERGE "Vieille Canaille" GAINSBOURG
Dieu est un fumeur d'Havanes; je ne suis qu'un fumeur de Gitanes!

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JOHNNY "The Man In Black" CASH
Walk the line!

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Music:


VELVET UNDERGROUND's connexions:
Lou Reed + Nico + John Cale + Modern Lovers + Jonathan Richman + Stooges + Iggy Pop + Brian Eno + David Bowie + Roxy Music + Patti Smith + Feelies + Dream Syndicate + Violent Femmes + Jesus And Mary Chain + Orange Juice + Smiths + Lloyd Cole + Husker Du + Strokes + Yeah Yeah Yeahs + Lambchop

P-FUNK's connexions:
George Clinton + Parliament + Funkadelic + Meters + Sly & The Family Stone + Jimi Hendrix + Bootsy Collins + James Brown + Prince + De La Soul + Public Enemy + Digital Underground + Beastie Boys + Red Hot Chili Peppers + Fela Kuti

PUNK's connexions:
Ramones + Clash + Sex Pistols + Dead Kennedys + Buzzcocks + Undertones + Gang of Four + Siouxsie and The Banshees

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART's connexions:
Tom Waits + Frank Zappa + Ry Cooder + Pere Ubu + PIL + The Fall

ORNETTE COLEMAN's connexions:
Sun Ra + John Zorn + Albert Ayler + Lester Bowie + Lounge Lizzards + Ambitious Lovers

SONIC YOUTH's connexions:
Glenn Branca + Beck + Nirvana + Pixies + Rapeman + Mudhonney + Soul Coughing + + Faith No More + PJ Harvey + Eels + M83 + 65Daysofstatic

TALKING HEADS connexions:
David Byrne + Tom Tom Club + Devo + B-52's + Urban Verbs + Arcade Fire + Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! + Beirut

KRAFTWERK's connexions:
Can + Suicide + Laurie Anderson + Flying Lizzards + Y.M.O + O.M.T.D. + Human League + Heaven 17 + Soft Cell + Depeche Mode + Ladytron + Miss Kittin + LCD Soundsystem + Stereo Boy

JOY DIVISION's connexions:
New Order + A Certain Ratio + Bauhaus + Echo and The Bunnymen + The Organ + U-Clic

IDM's connexions:
(no conexion, at all!)

KURT WEILL's connexions:
Doors + Nick Cave

TIN PAN ALLEY's connexions:
Cole Porter + Chet Baker + Magnetic Fields + The 6ths + Stephin Merritt

BURT BACHARACH's connexions:
Beach Boys + Elvis Costello + Aimee Mann + Abba

SERGE GAINSBOURG's connexions:
Jane Birkin + BB + Charlotte Gainsbourg + Carla Bruni + Divine Comedy + Belle and Sebastian

JOHNNY CASH's connexions:
Cramps + Wall of Voodoo + X + Gun Club + Stray Cats + Spain + Jim White + Wilco

BOB DYLAN's connexions:
The Band + Byrds + Neil Young + Joni Mitchell + Leonard Cohen + Van Morrison + Bruce Springsteen + Tom Petty + Jackson Browne + J.J.Cale

MOTOWN & ATLANTIC's connexions:
Marvin Gaye + Stevie Wonder + Aretha Franklin + Sam Cooke + Curtis Mayfield + Isaac Hayes + Beatles + Rolling Stones + Chic + Edwyn Collins

STUDIO ONE's connexions:
Lee Perry + Coxsone Dodd + Prince Buster + Duke Reid + King Tubby + Leslie Kong + Skatalites + Bob Marley + Jackie Mittoo + Sly and Robbie + Horace Handy + Jimmy Cliff + Desmond Dekker + Specials + Beat + Selecter + Madness

MANU CHAO's connexions:
Mano Negra + Les Negresses Vertes + Ojos de Brujo + Macaco + Los De Abajo

TROPICALISMO's connexions:
Joao Gilberto + Jackson do Pandeiro + Jorge Ben + Mutantes + Tom Zé + Raul Seixas + Zé Ramalho + Arnaldo Antunes + Marisa Monte + Chico Science + Lenine + Pedro Luis e A Parede

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Movies:

A Noite do Cacador / The Night of The Hunter (Charles Laughton) + As Vinhas da Ira / The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford) + O Feiticeiro de Oz / The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming) + Citizen Kane (Orson Welles) + Blue Velvet (David Lynch) + Trust (Hal Hartley) + Rumble Fish (F.F.Coppola) + Magnolia (P.T.Anderson) + Asas do Desejo / Der Himmel uber Berlin (Wim Wenders) + Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch) + Blood Simple (Joel and Ethan Coen) + Mo Better Blues (Spike Lee) + Eduardo Maos de Tesoura / Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton) + Esplendor na Relva / Splendor in The Grass (Elia Kazan) + Manhattan (Woody Alen) + Lawrence da Arabia/Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean) + O Leopardo / Il Gattopardo (Luchino Visconti) + La Dolce Vita (F.Fellini) + O Acossado / A Bout de Souffle (Jean-Luc Godard) + O Carteirista / Pickpocket (Robert Bresson) + A Mulher do Lado / La Femme D'A Cote (F.Truffaut) + Jules et Jim / Jules e Jim (F.Truffaut) + O Homem que Gostava das Mulheres / L'Homme qui Aimait Les Femmes (F.Truffaut) + ...


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Television:



Seinfeld + 6 ft Under + Twin Peaks + Sex and The City + South Park + Brideshead Revisited + Dexter + Trio de Ataque + Jogos do F.C.P. + ...


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Books:



O Livro do Desassossego (Fernando Pessoa) + Lirica (Camoes) + Massive Change (Bruce Mau) + Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) + It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be (Paul Arden) + O Principezinho (Saint-Exupery) + Uma Apologia dos Ociosos (R.L.Stevenson) + Monsieur Jean (Dupuy/Berberian) + High Fidelity (Nick Hornby) + Le Journal de Mon Pere (Jiro Taniguchi) + O Capital (Karl Marx) + The World as Will and Representation (A.Schopenhauer) + Man and His Symbols (C.G.Jung) + O Anti-Christo (F.Nietzsche) + Biblia (Varios) + A Balada do Mar Salgado (Hugo Pratt) + ...


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Heroes:


Zapata + D.Afonso Henriques + Nietzsche + Phil Spector + Batman + Marx + Miró + Hemingway + Bonnie & Clyde + Almada Negreiros + Joana D'Arc + Bakunin + Airton Senna + Johnny Cash + Robin Hood + Picasso + Infante D.Henrique + Viriato + Howard Hughes + Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso + Peter Pan + Jesse Owens + Van Gogh + C.G.Jung + Manu Chao + D.Quixote + Jorge de Sena + Schopenhauer + Zé do Telhado + Proudhon + George Best + Orson Welles + Lampião e Maria Bonita + Agostinho da Silva + Lawrence of Arabia + Eddie Mercks + W.S. Burroughs + George Clinton + Fernando Pessoa + Corto Maltese + ...

My Blog

DREAMS / SONHOS

ING: The development of our dreams is like Justice:slow, complex and most of the times disappointful!PT: A evolucão dos nossos sonhos é parecida com a Justiça:lenta, complexa e quase sempre decepciona...
Posted by BAIRRISTA! on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:09:00 PST

MY AFTER-YEAR-2000 RECORDS TOP 25

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Posted by BAIRRISTA! on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:00:00 PST

MY ALL-TIME POP-ROCK RECORDS TOP 50

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Posted by BAIRRISTA! on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:57:00 PST

MY ALL-TIME JAZZ AND WORLD RECORDS TOP 20

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Posted by BAIRRISTA! on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:22:00 PST

IN THE SHADOW / NA SOMBRA

ING: It's in the shadow that we see our light!PT: É na sombra que vemos a nossa luz!FR: C'est dans l'ombre qu'on voit notre lumière![JCS]...
Posted by BAIRRISTA! on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:49:00 PST

FAKE

ING: There is no mask that doesn't fall and no varnish that doesn't break!!PT: Não há máscara que não caia, nem verniz que não quebre!FR: Il n'y a pas de masque que ne tombe pas et du vernis que ne fe...
Posted by BAIRRISTA! on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:55:00 PST

AS 4 DIMENSÕES

Quanto mais sabemos das dimensões que conhecemos,mais percebemos que elas não nos chegam![JCS]...
Posted by BAIRRISTA! on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:22:00 PST

A BELEZA DE VERDADE

Aquele que vislumbrou, pela primeira vez, o potencial de beleza de um bloco de carvão, viu a verdadeira beleza que um diamante contém![JCS]...
Posted by BAIRRISTA! on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:33:00 PST

THE ROLE OF OUR LIFE / O PAPEL DA NOSSA VIDA

ING: Why do so many people accept to play a second role in their life movie?!PT: Como é que pode haver tanta gente que aceita desempenhar o papel de actor secundário no filme da sua vida?!FR: Comment...
Posted by BAIRRISTA! on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 07:40:00 PST

À MERCÊ DAS MULHERES!

O mundo está à mercê das mulheres!Os homens não passam de um bando de patetas rendidos a qualquer saia que passe por eles.O problema das mulheres foi terem começado a usar calças![JCS]...
Posted by BAIRRISTA! on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 04:48:00 PST