"scarborough fair / canticle" (paul simon / art garfunkel)

(desenho de william kentridge, "dancing couple / middle age love" (2003)

"Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
(On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)
Without no seams nor needlework
(Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain)
Then she'll be a true love of mine
(Sleeps unaware of the clarion call)

Tell her to find me an acre of land
(On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Washes the ground with so many tears)
Between the salt water and the sea strand
(A soldier cleans and polishes a gun)
Then she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather
(War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Generals order their soldiers to kill)
And to gather it all in a bunch of heather
(And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten)
Then she'll be a true love of mine

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine" (1)

simon & garfunkel


(1) retirado do cd dos simon & garfunkel, parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme (1966) e daqui.

"i'm waiting for my man" (lou reed)

(pintura de shimon okshteyn, "cocaine", 2008)


"I'm waiting for my man
Twenty-six dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington, 125
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
I'm waiting for my man
Hey, white boy, what you doin' uptown?
Hey, white boy, you chasin' our women around?
Oh pardon me sir, it's the furthest from my mind
I'm just lookin' for a dear, dear friend of mine
I'm waiting for my man
Here he comes, he's all dressed in black
Beat up shoes and a big straw hat
He's never early, he's always late
First thing you learn is you always gotta wait I'm waiting for my man
Up to a Brownstone, up three flights of stairs
Everybody's pinned you, but nobody cares
He's got the works, gives you sweet taste
Ah then you gotta split because you got no time to waste
I'm waiting for my man
Baby don't you holler, darlin' don't you bawl and shout
I'm feeling good, you know I'm gonna work it on out
I'm feeling good, I'm feeling oh so fine
Until tomorrow, but that's just some other time
I'm waiting for my man" (1)

the velvet underground

(1) retirado do cd dos velvet underground, live at max's kansas city (1972)

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/v/velvet+underground/#share

"wooden ships" (david crosby / stephen stills)

(quadro de henryk gotlib, "uliczka w korwalli", 1941)


"- If you smile at me, I will understand
`Cause that is something
everybody everywhere does in the same language.

- I can see by your coat, my friend,
you`re from the other side,
There`s just one thing I got to know,
Can you tell me please, why?

- Say, can I have some of your purple berries?
- Yes, I`ve been eating them for six or seven weeks now,
haven`t got sick once.
- Probably keep us both alive.

Wooden ships on the water, very free and easy,
Easy, you know the way it`s supposed to be,
Silver people on the shoreline, let us be,
Talkin` `bout very free and easy...

Horror grips us as we watch you die,
All we can do is echo your anguished cries,
Stare as all human feelings die,
We are leaving - you don`t need us.

Go, take your sister then, by the hand,
lead her away from this foreign land,
Far away, where we might laugh again,
We are leaving - you don`t need us.

And it`s a fair wind, blowin` warm,
Out t`south off my shoulder,
Guess I`ll set a course and go" (1)

crosby, stills & nash


(1) retirado do cd dos crosby, stills & nash, crosby, stills & nash (1969) e daqui.

"Victor Jara's Hands" (Joey Burns ; Jairo Zavala)

(imagem de victor jara)


"Wire fences still coiled with flowers of the night
Songs of the birds like hands call the earth to witness
Sever from fear before taking flight

Fences that fail and fall to the ground
Bearing the fruit from Jara's hands

Me siento solo y perdido una vela alumbra mi camino
Cruzando tierras que nunca he visto
Cruzando el rio de mi destino
Solo soy un chico mas que suena en alto y mirando al mar

Fences that fail and fall to the ground
Bearing the fruit from Jara's hands
Fences that fail and fall to the ground
Bearing the fruit from Jara's hands" (1)

calexico


(1) retirado do cd dos calexico, live in nuremberg (2009) e retirado também daqui

"tired feet" (alela diane menig)

(pintura de leiko ikemura, "blue horizons", 2007)


"My tired feet
My tired, tired feet
My tired feet
Oh my tired feet
My tired feet brought me to that red boat
So still and foreign waters

And although i've never been here
Although i've never been here
I know that here i've swam before
Here i've swam before

And soon i came
Oh so soon i came
Soon i came
Oh so soon i came
Soon i came to the silent place of choir voices

In excelsis Deo
Deo

Where Jesus, he keeps the streets out
Jesus he keeps the heat out
Jesus he keeps the noise out
And here oh here I've sung before
Here I've sung before
I know that here I've sung before

Here I've sat, I've run, I've walked, I've cried
I've died
I've slept in till noon and I've laughed and I've sighed
I know that here I've sung before
Oh here I've before
I know that here I've sung before
Here I've sung before" (1)

alela diane


(1) retirado do cd de alela diane, the pirate's gospel (2006) e daqui

alan schneider, film (1965)

e qual é o nosso olhar
perante a arte e perante
nós mesmos?

jorge vicente





(film, realizado por alan schneider e com argumento de samuel beckett)

interpretação de textos

(fotografia de ilse bing, "greta garbo poster", 1932)


"Interpretar textos é muito mais que compreender o sentido da linguagem é, de facto, pensar com o autor. Entender um texto é, pois, fazê-lo nosso, com a expectativa de o relacionarmos com alguma experiência particular [...]" (1)

pedro maximino



(1) MAXIMINO, Pedro Manuel Cardina - Metodologia para a avaliação de colecções: estudo aplicado a uma biblioteca portuguesa. [Em linha]. Barcelona : Universitat de Barcelona, 2006. [Consult. 6 Ago. 2010 19:46]. Disponível em: http://www.moyak.com/papers/collection-development-portugese.pdf.