Counting down...

So here I am at the end of another year, at the end of 2006...how to sum it all up...Perhaps the main lesson was the learning of letting go. Yes, indeed that was the biggest lesson of the year, the letting go of many things that were truly important but that weren't making any sense at all, they had their moment and now it was time to leave.Maybe top moments were meeting the girls (they know who they are and YOU ROCK!), the adventure of SBSR, of travelling to Furadouro (haha! :p) and most of all of having fun of life just for the pleasure of it. The moments of darkness were mainly my fault so it's time to learn from them and just enjoy myself.(And I think I just made a New Year's Resolution!)

A big THANK YOU to my friends, the ones who are always there no matter what,and here's to 2007, a new phase with new energies and many things to discover. :)


P.S. Film scoring is an important part of my world, and it is a bit more fulfilled now with Michael Nyman, thank you :)

Right where it belongs

'Right where it belongs' - Nine Inch Nails

See the animal in this cage that you built
Are you sure what side you're on?
Better not look him too closely in the eye,
Are you sure what side of the glass you are on?
See the safety of the life you have built,
Everything where it belongs,
Feel the hollowness inside of your heart,
And it's all...right where it belongs.

What if everything around you,
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you used to know,
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection,
Is it all you want it to be?
What if you look right through the cracks,
Would you find yourself...find yourself afraid to see?

What if all the world's inside of your head?
Just creations of your own,
Your devils and your gods, all the living and the dead
And you're really all alone
You can live in this illusion,
You can choose to believe,
You keep looking but you can't find the words,
While you're hiding in the trees

What if everything around you,
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you used to know
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection,
Is it all you want it to be?
And if you look right through the cracks,
Would you find yourself...find yourself afraid to see?

(P.S.: This song played for the radio show KROQ_Breakfast with NIN is really amazing.)

El gaton

Este bicho que aqui vedes, aqui há dias quis testar as minhas capacidades aventureiras...eis que estava eu, muito sossegada, às voltas com os senhores Lefevere e o Even-Zohar, quando a senhora minha mãe entra de rompante no meu quarto "aiiii anda lá fora...o TEU gato já fez das dele!" E eu, pacífica, lá fui...pois que o bichano costuma gostar de 'brincar' com a boxer do vizinho, ou seja, põe-se na extremidade do muro quando a boxer está presa...mas desta vez, a figuraça não lhe saiu bem e quando subiu ao muro, a boxer saltou em direcção ao bichano..armado em artista, subiu o limoeiro da vizinha (outra) e não descia...miava..miava...até que euzinha aqui tive de subir ao limoeiro para retirar o bichano, que teve a amabilidade de cravar as unhacas nos meus ombros e daí fazermos uma descida triunfante. Deixo-vos com a figura do bichano (que ninguém me tira a convicção de que ele pertence à mafia felina cá da terra).

What?! Where?!

A friend sent me this video that I haven't seen in a while... as fundações de todo o humor (mas do bom!) que se tem feito em Portugal e um bocadinho around the world: Monty Python, os grandes!

(O vídeo dá ao clicarem no que aparece em azul, neste caso onde diz "Monty Python"...muitos pensarão: ah mas ela ta mas é aqui a chamar-nos todos de burros!! Ao que eu respondo: se ponho esta indicação é porque tenho as minhas razões...e acabei de dar por mim a fazer uma pergunta e a responder a essa mesma pergunta de seguida...acho que me vou deitar...)

Os vídeos

E em jeito de remate final do post anterior, aqui ficam links para os vídeos de duas músicas lá tocadas no concerto, com a cortesia da Marta:

"Sad Empire" e "Absent without Permission"


Cheers!

Presente de Natal

E a pedido de muitas famílias, eis que chega um post em Português.
Pois bem, passado domingo, 10 de Dezembro 2006, eu e mais uns..sei lá..20..estivémos no estúdio MB em Gaia para assistir a um presente de Natal oferecido pelos Blind Zero: um concerto acústico, intimista onde tocaram músicas de todos os álbuns. Para mim, a 'Skull', a 'Another One' e a 'You owe us blood' são sempre fantásticas, não contando com a 'Shine On' que com a participação do outro senhor na percurssão (peço desculpa, não me recordo do nome) arrasa com tudo. Mais um grande concerto, na companhia de grandes amigos :D No final, ainda trouxemos as almofadas onde estivémos sentadinhos, autografadas, pois claro :p Aqui ficam alguns momentos registados. (Excepto a foto da almofada que é minha, as restantes são da autoria da Izabella http:\\wingsforizabella.blogspot.com ) Obrigada!

Woohoo!

I've just received this most wonderful news related to this:

Me wants to go!! :D




P.S. Photo credits to eXcer (http:\\excer.deviantart.com) :)

Question

The experience of disappointment is something that always gets me surprised.
When you think that feelings have already gone..still remembered sometimes yes, but used as a daily lesson of how important it is to let go...
And that is exactly my question: how do we let go something that brought us so much joy and yet so much anguish, something that has become part of our life for quite a while...how do we let that go and not feel an imense loss, a vast loleliness inside..and besides knowing that perhaps that's the right thing to do, we feel scared...fear that, that same loneliness won't go away..

To this new adventure

And beginning today this new adventure of blogging....many ideas, many thoughts to just..let them all out. So this is Day 1.