Agnostico e curioso. E isso acho que diz muito.
Desportista, leitor e cinefilo compulsivo.

Como diria Gramsci, pessimista profundo pela inteligência, optimista necessário pela vontade.

Agnostic and curious. And I think that tells a lot about me.
I simply cannot live without books, movies or sport.

I'm a people person, but not a real believer in them for quite some time...

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“I consider myself a handicapped person in that I used to believe that everyone, uh, that their intention in the world was to learn more, to do better, to seek out the truth, and the older I get, I realize that’s not the case with most people. They’re pretty content with the way things are and to just kind of live day by day.”

Maynard James Keenan

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Pergunta-me por vezes a razão pela qual ainda mantenho aqui esta espécie de mostruário... e o que me ocorre dizer é algo assim, que escre iem tempos e nem sequer a propósito deste site, embora não esgote, obviamente, todos os argumentos...

"Não raras vezes ouço a questão, normalmente vinda de pessoas com quem tenho alguma proximidade, na qual estas desconhecem a imagem ou efeito que projectam nos outros. não quer isto dizer que se importem com o que outros possam opinar em confronto com a sua identidade pessoal, mas tão somente a forma como serão vistos. Arrisco que qualquer um de nós talvez já tenha gostado de ser invisível e introduzir-se em local onde o próprio é motivo de conversa. Há, para algumas pessoas, um lado semi-perverso/voyeur, mas existe outro que, em meu ver, se prende com o desejo de saber quem somos, nem que seja por espelho conceptual e necessariamente exógeno. Em suma, quem nos vê, o que verá? Se estamos a fazer mais que ocupar espaço e respirar o ar...

(...)

A verdade é que se o velho clichê está certo, e nenhum homem é uma ilha ( com todo o devido respeito, eremitas e capuchinhos, se não estão doidos, ficarão muito rapidamente. Eu pelo menos ficaria, pronto...), a projecção da nossa personalidade, físico, opiniões, capacidades, forma de nos identificarmos enquanto seres humanos com valores expressos na glóriosa lógica da liberdade pessoal, não pode ser despicienda. Nem que seja para nos conhecermos melhor, para que o papel que afinal queremos escrito para nós seja alvo de uma melhor adaptação."


A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down,
Forgot in cruel hapiness,
That even lovers drown..

W.B. Yeats

"As Harold took a bite of Bavarian sugar cookie, he finally felt as if everything was going to be ok. Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And, fortunately, when there aren't any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs, an uneaten Danish, soft-spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange, but I also know that it just so happens to be true. And, so it was, a wristwatch saved Harold Crick."

Stranger Than Fiction - Zach Helm


My personal e-mail stephenking07@gmail.com

Pessoas, Livros, Cinema, Musica, Pessoas, Pintura, Banda Desenhada, Escrita, Pessoas ... ja disse Pessoas?

People, books, Movies, Music, People, and then again... people...

People with a brain, please...

Soundgarden; Pearl Jam, Tool; Perfect Circle, Dave Matthews Band;Bell X 1, Death Cab for Cutie, Maynard James Keenan, The Kills, Days of The New, Recoil, Amplifier, Oceansize, Led Zeppelin, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Thomas Newman, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Cat Power,Bat for Lashes, Ben Harper, Manmade God, Russian Circles, Atomship, Monster Magnet, Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, Sufjan Stephens, The Shins, Ryan Adams, Puscifer, Jeff Buckley, REM, Maps, Gomez, Iron and Wine, etc...

Jeremy - Pearl Jam ; Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden; Todos os de Tool; Three Libras - A Perfect Circle;

American Beauty; Virgin Suicides; 12 Homens em Furia; Big Fish; Shawshank Redemption; Branco; Gilda; LORT I II e III; Donnie Darko; The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Adaptation; Psycho; Pássaros; Shopgirl; Vertigo; Janela Indiscreta; Simple Men; V for Vendetta; Shinning; Wall-E; Lars and the Real Girl; Cat People, Batman the Beggining & Dark Knight, Sleepy Hollow,Ten Items or Less, The March of the Penguins, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, No Country for Old Men, Brother Where art Thou, Scent of a Woman, Serenity, Blade Runner, Seven, Barry Lyndon e Sin City...

X- Files, Millenium, Six Feet Under, Ally Mcbeal, Lost, The Practice, Firefly, Mentes Criminosas, CSI, Dr. House,Heroes, informacao, informacao informacao. Ah, e animais, pois claro, além de basquetebol...

Different Seasons - Stephen King; To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee; Misery - Stephen King; Midsummer Night's Dream - W. Shakespeare; Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee; LORT I II e III; I Am Legend - Richard Matheson; In Cold Blood - Truman Capote, Falling Angel - William Hjortsberg; Tudo de Edgar Allan Poe!; Dracula - Bram Stoker; Os Maias, Primo Basilio, Crime do Padre Amaro, Reliquia de Eca de Queiros; Into The Wild - John Krakauer; Sombra do Vento - R.C. Zaffon, Coração das Trevas - J. Conrad; The turn of the screw - Henry James; Mississipi em Chamas - Joel Morst; Herberto Helder, W.H. Auden, Rudyard Kipling, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Mike Mignola, Bourgeon, Decaux, etc, etc, etc...

"I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me...
but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the
world.
Sometimes I feel like I'm
seeing it all at once, and it's too
much, my heart fills up like a
balloon that's about to burst...

And then I remember to relax, and
stop trying to hold on to it, and
then it flows through me like rain
and I can't feel anything but
gratitude for every single moment
of my stupid little life...


You have no idea what I'm talking
about, I'm sure... but don't
worry...
You will someday."
Alan Ball - American Beauty

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"Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: But it ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first rule of flyin' is? Well I suppose you do, since you already know what I'm about to say.

River Tam: I do. But I like to hear you say it.

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Love. You can know all the math in the 'Verse, but take a boat in the air you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells ya she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her home.

River Tam: Storm's getting worse.

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: We'll pass through it soon enough."

Joss Whedon . "Serenity"

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"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear."

Stephen King - "Different Seasons"


Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will - “I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will” - Antonio Gramsci

"No one can save you" - Somewhere around the Berlin Wall...