Democracia: Entre o Ideal e a Farsa
domingo, 2 de março de 2025
A banalização / adulteração da Democracia
sábado, 1 de março de 2025
Excelente filme Português
Balas e Bolinhos – Só mais uma coisa foi o filme que assisti ontem à noite, 28 de fevereiro de 2025, no Canal 75 da NOS, TVCine TOP. Estava a fazer zapping e deparei-me com esta ótima comédia Portuguesa de 2024. Excelente naipe de atores e atrizes. A sociedade é retratada de uma forma irónica, cáustica, onde nada é deixado por dissecar: os costumes, o submundo, o poder político, o desporto, a religião, o casamento, … São 115 minutos hilariantes, de puro divertimento. Um filme Português como há muito não via. Vale a pena passar algum tempo em frente ao ecrã, até porque estamos em época carnavalesca. Cinco Estrelas. Vejam e revejam.
Ivo Eduardo Correia
01-03-25
A Parentalidade! M. E C. no jornal o Público de 01-03-25
O desfalque da imaginação
- Público - Edição Lisboa
- Miguel Esteves Cardoso
Há uma discussão permanente num casal nosso amigo em que a mãe gosta de fantasiar com a filha de quatro anos nas explicações que lhe dá sobre o mundo, mas o pai acha mal, preferindo uma base científica. A mãe tinha explicado a chuva à filha da seguinte maneira: a chuva é o chazinho que a Terra toma quando está cheia de frio, para ficar mais quentinha. A miúda continua a odiar a chuva, mas reconhece que fica menos frio depois de uma chuvada.
O pai está muito descontente. Queria falar da evaporação e na água que bebemos. Acha que a história do chazinho que a Terra toma vai ser como a do Pai Natal: vai ser uma desilusão quando souber que não é verdade; e que pode prejudicar o desenvolvimento de uma atitude científica.
Há livros muito bonitos para crianças que explicam a realidade à nossa volta. Mas não deixam de parecer propaganda.
A fantasia é preciosa não porque apresenta um mundo que não corresponde à realidade, mas porque puxa pela imaginação. A imaginação é o que nos defende da crueza da realidade. Dizer que uma coisa é valiosa só por ser real é justificar todas as selvajarias que existem.
Noto que os adultos agora falam com as crianças como se fossem pequenos adultos tremendamente estúpidos e mal informados, a quem é urgente explicar o funcionamento das coisas em palavras muito simples, de forma a impedi-las de fazer má figura na televisão ou cair dentro de um poço.
Na verdade, são as crianças que dão aos adultos uma oportunidade de largar momentaneamente os espartilhos da ciência e da racionalidade e voar pela imaginação sem haver um júri chato de pares a dar notas e a apontar inconsistências.
Sabemos lá se todos os adultos apaixonados pelos romances e jogos fantásticos não são uma consequência de não terem fantasiado condignamente quando tinham idade para isso?
Para fantasiar como deve ser, é preciso não saber ao certo que não é verdade. E isso só acontece quando se é criança. O prazer está em pensar que pode ser verdade.
Best albums of the year so far - Ivo E. Correia
The Delines - an American band from Portland, Oregon. Their original line-up was vocalist Amy Boone, Jenny Conlee (The Decemberists) on keyboards, Sean Oldham, Freddy Trujillo and Willy Vlautin (Richmond Fontaine) and pedal steel player Tucker Jackson (Minus 5). The band was formed in 2012 and is self-described as a "retro country soul band". Mr Luck & Ms Doom - 2025.
The record sprang out of a challenging period for Cruickshank. “My first EP [2019’s Worn Through] came out pre-transition, and then I got really sick during Covid and transitioned while having long Covid,” she told Rolling Stone. “I left an abusive marriage and was homeless for a period after I wasn’t accepted by my family.”
Chris Eckman - Musician/songwriter/ producer. Released more than a dozen albums with the Seattle-based cult band The Walkabouts. Discography includes several solo albums plus collaborative records with Carla Torgerson (Chris & Carla). Current projects are Dirtmusic, The Strange, Distance, Light and Sky and The Frictions. The Land we Knew Best 2025 - Folk / Country Soul / Americana!
The English guitarist, songwriter, and song interpreter Jim Ghedi came to folk music through a side door. He grew up playing in bands and putting on shows at a DIY collective in his native Sheffield, where it was far more common to see an experimental noise gig than an acoustic guitar. A fateful Bert Jansch CD, gifted to Ghedi by an aunt, changed his trajectory. He started to dig into folk-rock groups like Pentangle and Steeleye Span, fingerstyle guitarists like John Fahey, and traditional singers like the Watersons. Before long, he was putting on folk nights at the DIY space. Wasteland -2025
The band currently consists of Mike Cooley (lead vocals, guitar, banjo), Patterson Hood (lead vocals, guitar), Brad Morgan (drums), Jay Gonzalez (keys, guitar, accordion, backing vocals), and Matt Patton (bass guitar, backing vocals). Patterson David Hood (born March 24, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and co-founder of the band Drive-By Truckers. Exploring Trees & Airplane Screams - 2025.
The artist known until now as Ulla, or Ulla Straus, U.e. makes music so delicate it’s almost weightless, propelled less by a guiding hand than by the mercurial drift of air particles warmed by the first rays of the sun. At their gentlest, Ulla’s ambient miniatures seem to consist of little more than a soft breeze brushing against guitar strings, or dust motes settling between the keys of the synthesizer. Hometown Girl is as quiet as anything Ulla has done until now, but an important shift has taken place. Instead of the softly burbling electroacoustic sound design of Tumbling Towards a Wall or the intricate digital swirls of foam, the new album foregrounds an almost purely acoustic palette: clean-toned guitar; woodwinds laid on like strips of cotton batting; watery piano, redolent of mildew and mothballs, with the creaky beach-house vibe of Grouper’s Ruins. Ulla even plays drums on a few songs, tapping away at the cymbals and toms with slow, careful movements.
Horsegirl open their second album, Phonetics On and On, with a question. On the jaunty “Where’d You Go?,” singer-guitarist Penelope Lowenstein poses that titular query and is immediately answered by singer-guitarist Nora Cheng: “Far, far, far away.” No longer high schoolers, the members of the Chicago-formed indie-rock trio moved across the country for college, temporarily abandoning that city’s nearly fairytale youth scene. While drummer Gigi Reece, the oldest of the three musicians, crafts zines and waits for the others to graduate, Lowenstein and Cheng have immersed themselves in their English majors at New York University, fawning over linguistics and using the new album as a sonic playground to rearrange syllables.
John Glacier’s debut studio album, Like a Ribbon, arrives with all the laudatory press (“perhaps one of the most London-defining artists of her era”) that comes baked into a release on Young, two years after she was featured, standing in front of Big Ben, in Daniel Lee’s first campaign for Burberry. It liberally references both the stylish post-punk rasp of London’s contemporary pop underground and the cool-kid electronic music that’s defined Young and sister label XL in the 21st century.
Chris Imler is an industry veteran, a jack-of-all-trades, a drum dandy, a beat prophet, and an unmatched player in the Berlin indie scene. He has generated rhythm for artists as diverse as the Golden Showers, Peaches, Jens Friebe, and, most recently, Oum Shatt, but most of all he works for himself: Chris Imler – Chris Imler solo – Chris Imler live. Imler’s live performances always grow out of rhythm. His beats and samples, which are both pre-programmed and played live, form the backbones of his songs. In a cold-sweated style à la DAF or evoking a present-day Cabaret Voltaire, these songs bring together melodies and lyrics that take root somewhere between the gold buyers of Kreuzberg and the concrete techno dungeons of the big city. His last album - The Internet will break my Heart, 2025.
1st March 2025
Ivo Eduardo Correia
O Coração das Trevas - Joseph Conrad!
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a haunting and introspective novella that explores the darkness within humanity, the illusions of civilization, and the devastating impact of imperialism. First published in 1899, the novel follows the journey of Charles Marlow as he ventures deep into the African Congo in search of the enigmatic ivory trader Kurtz. Through its layered storytelling and unsettling themes, Heart of Darkness has cemented itself as one of the most profound and controversial works in modern literature.













