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About Me

I'm a civil servant in Portugal, some of the time(helps pay the rent), a published poet (in the UK), where I lived for 3 years(in Edinburgh), and a playwright with a couple of plays workshoped in Edinburgh, at the Traverse Theatre and in New York (where I also lived in 1996/97 and worked at Naked Angels). I've translated plays by Sam Shepard("Action" and "Cowboy Mouth"), Brad Fraser("Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love"), John Steppling("Standard of the Breed), Stephen Belber("Tape") and Boris Vian("The Empire Builders") into Portuguese. I'm also a fanatical traveler and a big Country Music fan. At the moment I'm tackling the translation of Wallace Shawn's monologue "The Fever".

My Interests

Music, Books, Movies, Theater, Poetry, Travelling, Friends, Hanging out in Coffee-Shops, Diners, Authentic Irish Pubs, Driving with a Soundtrack.

I'd like to meet:

Similar minded people, interested in the theater, music, movies and literature, with a desire to create and engage in art.

Music:

Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Cowboy Junkies, Allman Brothers Band, Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman, Jack Hardy, James McMurtry, David Rodriguez, George Strait, Fred Eaglesmith, Mary Karlzen, Guy Clark, Lynn Miles, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Earl Keen, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Allison Crowe, Glenn Gould, Garth Brooks, Krysztof Penderecki, Gov't Mule, James Carter, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Johnny Cash, Mark Chesnutt, Franz Ferdinand, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Magic Slim and the Teardrops, Luther Allison, Son Seals, Peter Bernstein, Larry Goldings, Loungue Lizards, Joe Jackson, The Waterboys, Johnny Adams, Dwight Yoakam, Marty Stuart, Willie Nelson, 22-20's, Lucinda Williams, Dave Alvin, Lyle Lovett, Chris Wall, David Ball, Nanci Griffith, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jim Lauderdale.

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Movies:

"Johnny Guitar", Wim Wenders, John Cassavetes, John Sayles, "Diner", Aki Kaurismaki, Henry Jaglom, "The Thing Called Love", FranÃ§ois Truffaut, Alan Rudolph, "Paris, Texas", Marx Brothers, Eric Rohmer, "Smoke", Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley, "Vanya on 42nd Street", Victor Nunez, Richard Linklater, "What Happened Was...", Peter Bogdanovich, "High Fidelity", Howard Hawks, John Ford, Christopher Guest, Cameron Crowe, Krzystof Kieslowski, John Carpenter, "Goodfellas", Woody Allen, "North by Northwest", Martin Scorsese, "Metropolitan", Roger Corman, "The Accidental Tourist", Jacques Tati, "Five Easy Pieces", "Swingers", "Georgia", Rudolph Thome's "Love at First Sight", Denys Arcand, Atom Egoyan, "La Turbulence des Fluides/Chaos and Desire", Allison Ander's "Gas Food Lodging", Spike Lee, The Coen Brothers, Nick Gomez's "Law & Gravity", Bertrand tavernier's "Round Midnight", Ann and Eduardo Guedes' "Bearskin", Carl Franklin's "One False Move", Roman Polanski, Andre Techine.

Books:

Jack Kerouac, Paul Auster, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Leonard Cohen, Charles Bukowski, Hubert Selby Jr, John Clellon Holmes, Fernando Pessoa, Mario de SÃ¡ Carneiro, A. R. Ammons, Larry McMurtry, Tom Noonan, Boris Vian, Eduardo Galeano, Octavio Paz, Thomas Bernhard, Ron Butlin, Langston Hughes, Charles Simic, Nathanael West, David Ives, Neil LaButte, John Steppling, James Joyce, Raymond Carver, Nelson Algren, Bret Easton Ellis, Edgar Allen Poe, Anton Checkov, Ivan Turgenev, Thomas Pynchon, John Fante, Norman MacLean, Brian Aldiss, Bob Shaw.

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The Waltzing Fool

The street is empty The moon is full I'm but a servant To the waltzing fool He dances all night He dreams all day I follow his steps There's no other way He hangs around here Still looki...
Posted by Nuno on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:33:00 PST

On Nights Like These

When I'm looking out my window late at night at the empty sky thinking of what I've done to get me here amid all my drunken lies I think there's still time to rectify this course of life But then I ta...
Posted by Nuno on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:13:00 PST

All Over Me

The rain catched up to me yesterdayas I was leaving your placeand I couldn't shake it awaythe rain stuck to meas you do everytime I try to leave you,It's like you struck a bargainwith God or wit...
Posted by Nuno on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:06:00 PST

July 23, 2008

This love has seen better days just like I dreamed of a better way. You still pull me in at will into your inner world but I'm no longer welcomed to prolong my stay. I must break free, I know of your ...
Posted by Nuno on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:03:00 PST

Uintitled New Poem

I tried my best to love you but I fell short of the task You said my love wasn't true and you were sure it wouldn't last. Now I sit here in my room All alone with my misery and gin And I'm look...
Posted by Nuno on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:40:00 PST

K.

There must be a love song out there somewhere That depicts and demonstrates all the things that you are. I know I've tried to write one myself but you're so far out of my reach that I kept falling bac...
Posted by Nuno on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:40:00 PST

The Dreamer Dreams That He Is Awake

I sit cross-legged in the middle of the room. My bare feet touching gently on the carpet. My hands stand at midpoint in the air, like they're reaching for someone or something. My eyes are clos...
Posted by Nuno on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:19:00 PST

Standing Still

There is a solitary quietness about you So rewarding and self-fullfiling, I can tell, That no matter how strong the urge I feel To come near you And disturb your peace, I prefer to stay foreve...
Posted by Nuno on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:44:00 PST

Poema

Passeias pelas avenidas que parecem não ter fim Evitas o olhar denunciador que diz que precisas de alguém E passas o resto do tempo a reflectir e a pensar Como é que chegaste aqui e quem te vir...
Posted by Nuno on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:48:00 PST

Poem under the influence

It took me all this time To know what's left inside Now that I've polished and shined There's nothing left in me but the wine It took me all the space I had stored around my face Now tha...
Posted by Nuno on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:19:00 PST