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Marcus

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About Me

A vida sem a música é simplesmente um erro, uma tarefa cansativa, um exílio.
Life without music is simply an error, a pain, an exile.
Nietzsche - Cartas a Peter Gast / Lettres a Peter Gast

"when you shine
you brighten up my day"

"I love to sing-a
About the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a,
I love to sing-a,
About a sky of blue-a, or a tea for two-a,
Anything-a with a swing-a to an I love you-a,
I love to, I love to sing!

I was born a singin' fool-a,
Lah-de-dah!
Ol' Major Bowes is gonna get me,
Got through Yale with boula-boula,
Lah-de-dah!
Old microphone's got me!

I love to sing-a,
I love to wake up with the south-a in my mouth-a,
And wave a flag-a,
With a cheer for Uncle Sammy and another for my mammy,
I love to sing!"

I Love To Sing
(Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg)



My Interests

music + computer + arts + cinema + literature + thinking

Music:

Hermeto Pascoal, Mr. Bungle, Kronos Quartet, Debussy, Tom Jobim, Gershwin, Dillinger Scape Plan, Tortoise, Radamés Gnatalli, Lee Perry, Fanfare Ciocarlia, John Zorn, Rancid, Bad Religion, Jacob do Bandolim, Pixinguinha, Mutantes, João Gilberto, Tomahawk, Edu Lobo, Dorival, Black Rio, Medusa, Grupo Um, Metalurgia, Brazilian Octopus, Sambrasa Trio, Meireles, Fantômas, Jorge Ben, Ben Harper, Massive Attack, DJ Shadow, Chicago Underground (Duo e Quartet), Fugazi, 12 Rods, Zappa, Opa, Mystikal, Cartola, Nelson Cavaquinho, Gotan Project, Piazzola, Air, Coltrane, TS Monk, Billie Holiday, Novos Baianos, Nação Zumbi, all my friends over there (on the right)... (and the list keeps growing)

Movies:

O Processo/The Trial (Welles), O Sétimo Selo/The Seventh Seal, Pi, Cidade de Deus, Waking Life, Requiem for a Dream, Pulp Fiction, E La Nave Va, Goonies, Yellow Submarine, The Wall, Mulholland Drive, Natural Born Killers, ...

Television:

Twin Peaks

Books:

Chega de Saudade (Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World) , Admirável Mundo Novo (Brave New World), A Metamorfose (The Metamorphosis), Humano, Demasiado Humano (human, All Too Human), Um Estranho no Ninho (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), On the Road, Um Estudo em Vermelho (A Study in Scarlet), O Processo (The Trial), Como me Tornei um Estúpido (How I Became Stupid), ...