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5 de março de 2015

A Espiral de Bukowski lança EP Quanta mole

Quanta mole (ep), o mais novo lançamento do selo DIY O Bosque/Woodland, d'A Espiral de Bukowski, é um aperitivo até o lançamento do primeiro álbum físico próprio do duo, chamado AEdB (a ser lançado em maio).

Para ver, escutar e baixar, (inclusive) GRÁTIS:
http://woodland.blogspot.com.br/2015/…/quanta-mole-2015.html


Quanta mole (ep) is the newest release by A Espiral de Bukowski from DIY label O Bosque/Woodland and it is a teaser for the duo's first physical full album, called AEdB (to be released in May 2015).

You can see, know about, stream and download Quanta mole, (also) FREE:
http://woodland.blogspot.com.br/2015/…/quanta-mole-2015.html

31 de outubro de 2011

Enough Gringoland! :-D

I lived in Brighton from Oct/2008 until Feb/2011. I used to run a club-night in London, called Goo Nite, and a DIY label called O Bosque / Woodland, and play around with a few acts, I am about to resume writing.

After 18 years with my first girlfriend and mother of my only son, I became single in Oct 2010.
I then almost died and afterwards took some time to travel:
Between Nov and Dec 2010 I drove for the Tamborines, who were on tour in mainland Europe (Italy, Germany and Denmark).
On the last days of 2010 I was on the road with my son and his girlfriend across the Southwest of England (Stonehenge, Bath and Cornwall).
In Jan 2011 I've hosted some great friends and we went to beautiful places around Brighton and London.
In Feb 2011 I visited a couple of great friends in Glasgow and traveled a little more in Europe, to Latvia and Iceland.
From March to May 2011 I was in the USA, first playing/recording with the Strobosmiles in NYC, then backpacking across North America, up and down through different parts of the USA, Mexico and Canada.
Then I backpacked in South America, passing through Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru and different parts of Brazil.

Now I'll try to spend some time in Asia as well, or isolated somewhere in order to write/read/record/contemplate/have fun/etc.

Only after all this I'll decide where to settle and what to do for a living (I would love to open a business like a bar/venue)...

27 de julho de 2011

Books along the way

Now I'm in a small and rough room of a tenement on the back of a poor restaurant, some blocks away the bus station, which is located in the outskirts of the extremely hot and strange city of Porto Velho, in the Brazilian Amazonia. 

Tomorrow I'll catch a plane to Manaus, my last destination before coming back to São Paulo in order to settle for a while...

On this series of travels through Europe, North and South America, from the end of November 2010 to the beginning of August 2011, mostly after I definitely quit my job in Brighton in January 2011, I have been reading books while traveling, as usual, for I love reading...

Since I was changing my life, when I started these travels, leaving behind a failed marriage/family, I decided to sell out everything I could, and to give away what I couldn't sell...
I forgot to advertise my books, so I decided to bring some of them with me...

When I finished reading one of them, I just gave it away to someone along the way, a host, a friend or anyone I had just met and thought deserved the book!

Here goes the list with the books and where I left them behind!
I hope their new owners enjoy them as much or more than I did!
:)

Glasgow (Feb/2011)
Our Band Could Be Your Life - Michael Azerrad
The Yage Letters - Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs
City - Alessandro Baricco

Brighton (February)
Uptight: The Velvet Underground Story - Victor Bockris and Gerard Malanga
And the Hippos were Boiled in Their Tanks - Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs
Pé na Estrada - Jack Kerouac
Renegade: The lives and tales of Mark E. Smith
Desobediência Civil - Henry David Thoreau

New Jersey (March)
Martin Eden - Jack London
I took with me Gilson's Siddartha - Hermann Hesse

Philadelphia (April)
Taccuini di un Vecchio Sporcaccione - Charles Bukowski

Athens (April)
The Fall - Albert Camus

New Orleans (April)
Siddartha - Hermann Hesse

Austin (April)
The Wall - Jean-Paul Sartre

Ciudad de Mexico (April)
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan - Howard Sounes

Merida (April)
La Confraternita dell'Uva - John Fante

Monterrey (April)
The Road - Jack London

San Diego (April)
A Idade da Razão - JP Sartre
I took with me two books by Henry Rollins from the trash can of Raul's punk neighbor.

Memphis (April)
Le Belle Immagini - Simone de Beauvoir

Toronto (April)
The First Four - Henry Rollins

New York (April)
Walking - HD Thoreau

Bogota (May)
The Outsider - A. Camus

Sao Paulo (May)
As Cidades Invisiveis - Italo Calvino
I bought A Sul de Lugar Algum - C. Bukowski in a newsstand.

Curitiba (May)
I bought at the bakery near Neri's:
Viajante Solitário - Jack Kerouac
1933 Foi um Ano Ruim - John Fante Verdes
Vales do Fim do Mundo - Antonio Bivar Tristessa - J. Kerouac

Blumenau (May)
A Sul de Lugar Algum - C. Bukowski

Porto Alegre (May)
Numa Noite de Inverno um Viajante - Italo Calvino

Montevideo (May)
As Cidades Invisíveis - I. Calvino

Buenos Aires (June)
The Critique of Pure Reason - I. Kant

Santiago (June)
Nossa Senhora das Flores - Jean Genet

Ciudad Del Leste (June)
Razor's Edge - WS Maugham

Cusco (July)
Viajante Solitário - Jack Kerouac

Brasileia (July)
1933 Foi um Ano Ruim - John Fante

Manaus (August)
Tristessa - J Kerouac
Verdes Vales do Fim do Mundo - Antonio Bivar

9 de fevereiro de 2011

Yeah Medeiros

Pessoas com vidas interessantes não têm fricote. Elas trocam de cidade. Investem em projetos sem garantia. Pedem demissão sem ter outro emprego em vista. Aceitam um convite para fazer o que nunca fizeram. Começam do zero inúmeras vezes. Sobem no palco, fazem loucuras por amor, compram passagens só de ida. ...Para os rotuladores de plantão, um bando de inconseqüentes.
(Martha Medeiros)

--

People with interesting lives have no frills. They go to live in other cities. Invest in projects without recourse. Ask for dismissal without having another job in sight. Accept an invitation to do what they never did. Start from scratch many times. They climb on stage, do crazy things for love, buy one-way tickets. ... for the labelers on call, just a bunch of inconsequentials.
(Martha Medeiros)

--

Persone con una vita interessante non si fanno problemi. Vanno a vivere in altre città. Investono in progetti senza garanzie. Si licenziano senza un altro lavoro in vista. Accettano un invito a fare ciò che non hanno mai fatto. Ripartono da zero molte volte. Salgono sul palco, fanno cose folli per amore, acquistano biglietti di sola andata. ... per le etichettatrici su chiamata, solo un mucchio di inconseguenti.
(Martha Medeiros)

9 de novembro de 2010

Oh Pablo!



Those who do not turn things on their head, who are unhappy at work, who do not risk certainty for uncertainty, thus to follow a dream, those who do not forego sound advice at least once in their lives, die slowly.

Those who do not travel, who do not read, who do not listen to music, who do not find grace in themselves, die slowly.

Those who slowly destroy their own self-esteem, who do not allow themselves to be helped, who spend days on end complaining about their bad luck, about the rain that never stops, die slowly.

Those who abandon a project before starting it, who fail to ask questions about subjects they don’t know, those who don’t reply when they are asked something they do know, die slowly.

Let’s try and avoid death in small doses, reminding ourselves that being alive requires an effort far greater than the simple fact of breathing.

--

Morre lentamente quem não vira a mesa quando está infeliz com o seu trabalho, quem não arrisca o certo pelo incerto para ir atrás de um sonho, quem não se permite pelo menos uma vez na vida, fugir dos conselhos sensatos. 

Morre lentamente quem não viaja, quem não lê, quem não ouve música, quem não encontra graça em si mesmo. 

Morre lentamente quem destrói o seu amor-próprio, quem não se deixa ajudar. 

Morre lentamente, quem passa os dias queixando-se da sua má sorte ou da chuva incessante. 

Morre lentamente, quem abandona um projeto antes de iniciá-lo, não pergunta sobre um assunto que desconhece ou não responde quando lhe indagam sobre algo que sabe. 

Evitemos a morte em doses suaves, recordando sempre que estar vivo exige um esforço muito maior que o simples fato de respirar.

--

Lentamente muore chi non capovolge il tavolo, chi e' infelice sul lavoro, chi non rischia la certezza per l'incertezza per inseguire un sogno, chi non si permette almeno una volta nella vita di fuggire ai consigli sensati.

Lentamente muore chi non viaggia, chi non legge, chi non ascolta musica, chi non trova grazia in se stesso.
Muore lentamente chi distrugge l'amor proprio, chi non si lascia aiutare; chi passa i giorni a lamentarsi della propria sfortuna o della pioggia incessante.

Lentamente muore chi abbandona un progetto prima di iniziarlo, chi non fa domande sugli argomenti che non conosce, chi non risponde quando gli chiedono qualcosa che conosce.

Evitiamo la morte a piccole dosi, ricordando sempre che essere vivo richiede uno sforzo di gran lunga maggiore del semplice fatto di respirare.

--

Muere lentamente quien no voltea la mesa cuando está infeliz en el trabajo, quien no arriesga lo cierto por lo incierto para ir detrás de un sueño, quien no se permite por lo menos una vez en la vida, huir de los consejos sensatos.

Muere lentamente quien no viaja, quien no lee, quien no oye música, quien no encuentra gracia en sí mismo.

Muere lentamente quien destruye su amor propio, quien no se deja ayudar.

Muere lentamente, quien pasa los días quejándose de su mala suerte o de la lluvia incesante.

Muere lentamente, quien abandona un proyecto antes de iniciarlo, no preguntando de un asunto que desconoce o no respondiendo cuando le indagan sobre algo que sabe.

Evitemos la muerte en suaves cuotas, recordando siempre que estar vivo exige un esfuerzo mucho mayor que el simple hecho de respirar.

17 de setembro de 2009

My 104 favorite albums

I preferred not to repeat artists, even if there are other albums by some of these artists that should be on the list as well.

  1. The Smiths - Hatful of Hallow
  2. The Velvet Underground and Nico
  3. Durutti Column - LC
  4. Sonic Youth - Sister
  5. New Order - Low Life
  6. Beatles - Revolver
  7. The Fall - Bend Sinister
  8. Helmet - Strap It On
  9. Legiao Urbana - Dois
  10. Nick Drake - Bryter Later

  11. VA - Clube da Esquina
  12. VA - Trojan Dub
  13. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
  14. Sergio Mendes - Bossa Nova York
  15. Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
  16. Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
  17. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
  18. My Bloody Valentine - Ecstasy and Wine
  19. Chopin - Nocturnes
  20. Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk 1
  21. Joao Gilberto - Chega De Saudade
  22. Perturbazione - In Circolo
  23. Lou Reed & John Cale - Songs For Drella
  24. The Modern Lovers
  25. Os Mutantes - Mutantes
  26. Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
  27. Harold Budd and Cocteau Twins - The Moon And The Melodies
  28. Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits
  29. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
  30. Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
  31. Morrissey - Bona Drag
  32. Stooges - Fun House
  33. Jesus and Mary Chain - Stoned & Dethroned
  34. Novos Baianos - Acabou Chorare
  35. Portishead - Dummy
  36. The Cure - Desintegration
  37. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
  38. David Bowie - Pin Ups
  39. Nirvana - In Utero
  40. The Sundays - Reading Writing and Arithmetic
  41. Jorge Ben - Samba Esquema Novo
  42. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
  43. Verdena - Requiem
  44. Beck - Odelay
  45. Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
  46. Artemoltobuffa - L'aria Misteriosa
  47. Beulah - Yoko
  48. Blueboy - Unisex
  49. Ira! - Psicoacustica
  50. Nico - Chelsea Girl
  51. Pink Floyd - Relics
  52. Ultraje a Rigor - Vamos Invadir Sua Praia
  53. Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
  54. Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
  55. Loop - A Guilded Eternity
  56. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
  57. Von Südenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions
  58. Sepultura - Roots
  59. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
  60. Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
  61. Racionais MCs - Sobrevivendo No Inferno
  62. The Sea and Cake - One Bedroom
  63. Chico Science & Nação Zumbi - Da Lama Ao Caos
  64. Brian Eno - Another Green World
  65. Swervedriver - Raise
  66. Fellini - Amor Louco
  67. The Clash - London Calling
  68. Magic Crayon - s/t
  69. Johnny Cash - The Legend
  70. Neu!
  71. Specials
  72. Animal Collective - Feels
  73. Ride - Nowhere
  74. MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
  75. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
  76. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
  77. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
  78. Cartola
  79. The Russian Futurists - Me Myself & Rye...
  80. Avalanches - Since I Left You
  81. Violeta de Outono
  82. B-52's - Wild Planet
  83. Titãs - Cabeça Dinousauro
  84. A Certain Ratio -The Graveyard and the Ballroom
  85. Guided by Voices - Human Amusements at Hourly Rates
  86. The Stone Roses
  87. Hacia Dos Veranos
  88. Roberto Carlos - Em Ritmo de Aventura
  89. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
  90. Il Teatro degli Orrori - A Sangue Freddo
  91. Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
  92. Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus/Plastic Trees
  93. Morphine - Yes
  94. Rein Sanction - Broc's Cabin
  95. Rocketship - A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
  96. Radiohead - In Rainbows
  97. Television - Marquee Moon
  98. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
  99. Roni Size - New Forms
  100. Pin Ups - Time Will Burn
  101. The Drums 
  102. Nicola Conte - Jet Sounds
  103. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
  104. Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind

18 de março de 2009

Keyboard, in fourteen acts

Act 1:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130284615499
I am the buyer, waldenbarin, and the seller is 888bart.

Act 2:
I won the bidding. Just £ 10.50, a bargain! I paid straightway. The thing is I just forgot to see it was a pick up only item, that is no postage was fixed, I should go to Malvern, Worcestershire, to collect the keyboard. I live in Hove.
I wrote to 888bart asking if he could post the keyboard to me anyhow, explaining that I live in Hove and that I forgot to see it was a pick up only item, I made clear that I knew it was my fault. And I wrote that if he couldn't, ok, no problem at all, I just would ask some directions and his address.

Act 3:
He wrote "hi, to long for standard parcel force. delivery by business post (fed-ex) £37.76. i'm sure this would be cheaper than travelling to me to get it, but it's up to you. let me know asap regards 888bart"
-
Humn, if I could catch funfares with National Express I could spend less than £37 to go there and pick up the keyboard...
And I had just received another keyboard I bought through ebay, paying £15 for the postage (with, imagine, standard parcel force, and this other keyboard was coming from Denbighshire, North Wales!).

Act 4:
Ok, I think I can take something good out of it.
It will be good to have a day out, I saw Malven is not so far from Tanworth-in-Arden, and I always wanted to go to Nick Drake's home town. When I told about this Nick Drake thing, my son got excited to go with me and this only made me sure and decided to go.
So I wrote to 888bart that I would go there and pick up the keyboard.

Act 5:
He was almost unfriendly, but no worries. He gave us the keyboard without any packing. The keyboard was dirty. And there was no power supply.
On ebay the Description was clear:
"Seller assumes all responsibility for listing this item. Casio CTK 511 keyboard, includes folding adjustable height stand and power supply, 94cm x 37cm approx, buyer to collect."
I asked about the power supply then and he told me he forgot it elsewhere and that he would be sending it to me.
I said ok.

Act 6:
After two weeks I was still waiting for the power supply.
So I wrote to him again:
"Hi, I am still waiting for the power supply. Regards"

Act 7:
There's no act 7, just silence.
Two more weeks waiting...

Act 8:
From waldenbarin to 888bart:
"Ok, if you don't post the power supply until next Friday I will report this item as "not as described". This is your last chance to get a positive feedback from me about this transaction and this is your last chance to conclude this transaction in a honest way. Regards."

Act 9:
From 888bart to waldenbarin:
"i posted the power supply a few days after you picked up the keyboard. i can only conclude that it is lost in the post. i will buy another and post it on to you. please mail your address again as i thought this sale was concluded. regards bart"

Act 10:
From waldenbarin to 888bart:
"I am sorry the power supply you say you posted may be lost in the post, I think you really should complain about this to the post. But I wrote to you saying that I was still waiting for the power supply. I didn't get any response from you. My address is .... And believe me, I wish this transaction could be concluded weeks ago, and in a much more positive way, after all I paid you very quickly and I was there to collect the item with all its accessories as scheduled. Regards."

Act 11:
888bart didn't respond again, waldenbarin reported it to PayPal.

Act 12:
from 888bart to waldenbarin:
"i purchased a brand new power supply on saturday. i am posting today so you will recieve it in the next few days. first one has obviously been lost in the postal system. the new supply cost me £12.99 so i have lost money on the whole deal. At the end of the day you have a working keyboard and stand for £10. dispute with paypal needs to be removed as you will recieve power supply soon. i suggest when you have got all the kit you go back to the revolting 3rd world country you have come from and play it.
ungratefull fool"

Act 13:
from waldenbarin to 888bart:
"Thank you for posting the power supply, I will certainly remove the dispute with PayPal when I will receive it. I wish I could have had it before so I could have at least turned on the keyboard but that's ok, no worries anymore. So you've got almost 100 stars on Ebay and you don't know how it works yet... Humn, let me tell you, sometimes you earn good money, sometimes you don't, that's it. And you should be "ungrateful" to the British post system, not (to) me, after all you've just needed to buy a new power supply because the one you sent to me was lost (by them), is that right? The taxi driver who took me to your house told me that Malvern was a place full of racist people, I didn't want to believe... I could say to you I lost lots of money "on the whole deal", because I spent £ 10.50 for the keyboard and I paid to go there and collect it, but as I had told you, I used this as an opportunity to travel, to know a little of the Midlands... And it was good, as I had a day out with my son. But I must say, even if you tried to smile to me, I saw something hostile/threatening in your eyes. Well, I was born in Brazil, a 3rd world country (by the way, what an old definition... so cold war...) but not revolting (at least not yet), but I was born from an Italian family and that means I am an Italian citizen too. So I am sorry for you but I think I am going to play here in the UK for a while. Ah, I've came from Italy, which is not a 3rd world country I suppose, where I lived for many years. And please, keep your xenophobic suggestions for yourself or at least for you and NF-minded people. There's always time to reflect and reconsider about things in life, everyone of us has made a mistake or two in life, no one is perfect, I hope you reflect about this power supply story, and maybe one day you will be able to realize we're all the same old homo sapiens... Have a good day."

Act 14:
888bart didn't respond, of course.
But waldenbarin finally received the power supply (which looked whatever you could think of except 'brand new').
So the dispute on PayPal was closed...

2 de março de 2009

ID, baby



Just a quick note here, talking about Intelligent Design. 
What a superb excerpt, concise, so simple and reasonable yet reputedly polemical: 

"Proponents of ID frequently lament the scientific claim that humans are the product of purely material forces. At the same time, they never define how non-material forces might work. I have yet to find a definition that characterises non-materialism by what it is, rather than by what it is not."

(by Amanda Gefter, from http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126975.800-how-to-spot-a-hidden-religious-agenda.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news )

New Scientist is my favorite magazine around here, along with Mojo. 

13 de agosto de 2002

Olha só o que eu acabei de receber (valeu Márcia!):

"Italy is braced for a mass return of economic migrants as thousands of South Americans of Italian origin have applied for passports in recent months. Millions more could be entitled to do so, the foreign ministry undersecretary Mario Baccini has warned.

He cited the recession as an explanation of why the region was causing concern in a report to the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.

...
In Brazil, 25 million people can trace roots back to Italy and 150,000 are currently applying for Italian passports.

A massive influx of economic refugees could severely stretch Italy's public finances, as returning immigrants are entitled to the same social security provisions as other citizens.

One way of stemming the tide is to erect bureaucratic hurdles, ...according to a report in the Rome daily La Repubblica.

"At the [Buenos Aires] consulate they accept 80 personal files a week, 3,000 a year. Someone turning up today will have a first appointment in three years time, in 2005," it reported. There are ways of speeding up the process, however. "Getting an Italian passport, even if you are not entitled to it, can cost up to $15,000 (£11,800)," La Repubblica said."

Leia a palhaçada toda aqui no The Guardian.

Assim que eu conseguir me acalmar eu traduzo e coloco aqui também.

soundtrack: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead