Green Day - Working Class Hero

As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so ------- crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still ------- peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like all the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside

Chorus:
How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I don't
I don't believe it's bad
Slit my throat
It's all I ever

I heard your voice through a photograph
I thought it up it brought up the past
Once you know you can never go back
I've got to take it on the otherside

Centuries are what it meant to me
A cemetery where I marry the sea
Stranger things could never change my mind
I've got to take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on
Take it on

Chorus

Pour my life into a paper cup
The ashtray's full and I'm spillin' my guts
She wants to know am I still a slut
I've got to take it on the otherside

Scarlet starlet and she's in my bed
A candidate for my soul mate bled
Push the trigger and pull the thread
I've got to take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on
Take it on

Chorus

Turn me on take me for a hard ride
Burn me out leave me on the otherside
I yell and tell it that
It's not my friend
I tear it down I tear it down
And then it’s born again

Chorus

How long I don't believe it's bad
Slit my throat
It's all I ever

O segredo da longevidade

"Em breve chegaremos aos 120", um post de Ana Carvalhas, sobre o segredo da longevidade, no De Rerum Natura.

Holden Roberto

Morreu Holden Roberto, líder histórico da Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola (FNLA) e da União dos Povos de Angola (UPA). Fundador da UPA, inicia a luta armada em Angola, a 15 de Março de 1961. Signatário, com Agostinho Neto (MPLA) e Jonas Savimbi (UNITA) dos Acordos de Alvor, cimeira para a partilha do poder na ex-colónia, e que conduziu à independência de Angola em 1975. Holden Roberto, muito próximo do então presidente zairense Mobutu, aliou-se à UNITA contra o MPLA. Depois da independência e com o início da guerra civil em Angola, Holden Roberto deixou o país, exilando-se em Paris, regressa a Luanda, na sequência dos Acordos de Bicesse, em 1991.

Fundação Alentejo- Terra Mãe acolhe VISIO Alentejo 2007

"VISIO Alentejo 2007" é o título da exposição colectiva de artes plásticas que vai ser inaugurada, dia 17 de Agosto, na Fundação Alentejo-Terra Mãe, em Évora, apresentando trabalhos de jovens criadores oriundos do Alentejo, na área das artes plásticas e visuais.

Esta associação cultural sem fins lucrativos, fundada em 2003, em Évora, pretende ser uma "fonte de criação e divulgação da nova arte nacional e internacional" e de "programação cultural dinâmica e regular", no Alentejo.

Franz Ferdinand - Walk Away

Innocence for pride, crush the end within my stride
Said I'm strong now I know that I'm a leader
I love the sound of you walking away, you walking away
Mascara bleeds a blackened tear
Oh, and I am cold, yes I'm cold, but not as cold as you are
I love the sound of you walking away, you walking away
I love the sound of you walking away, walking away, hey, hey

Why don't you walk away? Why don't you walk away?
Why don't you walk away? No buildings will fall down
Why don't you walk away? No quake will split the ground
Why don't you walk away? The sun won't swallow the sky
Why don't you walk away? Statues will not cry
Why don't you walk away? Why don't you walk away?
Why don't you walk away? Why don't you walk away?

I cannot turn to see those eyes, as apologies may rise
I must be strong and stay an unbeliever
And love the sound of you walking away, you walking away
Mascara bleeds into my eye
Oh, and I'm not cold, I am old, at least as old as you are
I hear the sound of you walking away, you walking away
I hear the sound of you walking away, walking away, hey hey

And as you walk away, oh, as you walk away
And as you walk away, my headstone crumbles down
As you walk away, the Hollywood winds will howl
As you walk away, the Kremlin's falling
Oh, as you walk away, Radio 4 is static
As you walk away, oh, as you walk away
Oh, as you walk away, oh, as you walk away, hey

The stab of stilettos
On a silent night
Stalin smiles and Hitler laughs
Churchill claps Mao Tse-Tung on the back

Ben Harper "Burn one Down"

Let us burn one from end to end,
And pass it over to me my friend.
Burn it long, we'll burn it slow,
To light me up before I go.

If you don't like my fire, then don't come around,
'cause I'm gonna burn one down.
Yes, I'm gonna burn one down.

My choice is what I choose to do,
And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you.

Your choice is who you choose to be,
And if you're causin' no harm, then you're alright with me.

If you don't like my fire, then don't come around,
'cause I'm gonna burn one down.
Yes, I'm gonna burn one down.

Herb the gift from the earth,
And what's from the earth is of the greatest worth.
So before you knock it try it first,
Oh, you'll see it's a blessing and not a curse.

If you don't like my fire, then don't come around,
'cause I'm gonna burn one down.
Yes, I'm gonna burn one, oohhh

A "arte efémera" no Alentejo: Dragan Vojvodic

Fotografia: Alentejopress.com

O artista Dragan Vojvodic está de 30 de Julho a 3 de Agosto em Évora para apresentar o seu mais recente projecto de arte visual. A arte que o sérvio apresenta pretende "despertar consciências para a fragilidade e transição da existência humana". Dragan Vojvodic usa materiais que desaparecem passado algum tempo, criando por isso "arte efémera", Vojvodic escolheu os materiais típicos da região para criar as suas instalações. Os trabalhos representam a sua silhueta em tamanho real e foram feitos com cortiça, mármore e a pedra vermelha.
Dragan Vojvodic inspira-se e presta também homenagem através do seu trabalho ao poeta sérvio Milos Crnjanski (1893-1977) que produziu o poema “Pelo Hiperboreano” que trata da paixão de Apolo pelo mítico paraíso da Hiperborea, onde a mitologia grega afirmava que este passou a sua juventude.

A selecção do Brasil e as bebedeiras no Mundial 2006

O presidente da Confederação Brasileira de Futebol (CBF), Ricardo Teixeira, afirmou numa conversa informal que o Brasil perdeu o Mundial da Alemanha porque alguns jogadores chegavam bêbados, ainda que não fizesse menção aos nomes dos boémios. "Tinha jogador que chegava entre 4 e 6 horas da manhã, bêbado", afirmou o presidente da CBF, segundo o jornal O Estado de São Paulo.

The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)

"Sleeping in is giving in, no matter what the time is.
Sleeping in is giving in, so lift those heavy eyelids.
People say that you'll die faster than without water.
But we know it's just a lie, scare your son, scare your daughters.

People say that your dreams are the only things that save ya.
Come on baby, in our dreams, we can live our misbehavior.

Everytime you close your eyes (Lies! Lies!) x 4
Everytime you close your eyes. x 4

People try and hide the night underneath the covers.
People try and hide the light underneath the covers.
Come on hide your lovers underneath the covers.
Come on hide your lovers underneath the covers.
Hidin' from your brothers underneath the covers.
Come on hide your lovers underneath the covers.
People say that you'll die faster than without water.
But we know it's just a lie, scare your son, scare your daughters.
Scare your son, scare your daughter.

Now here's the sun, it's alright! (Lies! Lies!)
Now here's the moon, it's alright! (Lies! Lies!)
Now here's the sun, it's alright! (Lies! Lies!)
Now here's the moon, it's alright! (Lies! Lies!)

But everytime you close your eyes. (Lies! Lies!) x 4
Everytime you close your eyes. x 3"

FearNot (Não Tenhas Medo!)

O FearNot é um programa que ajuda a lidar com violência na escola. O projecto está a ser desenvolvido pelo Instituto Superior Técnico, trata-se de «um software interactivo para ajudar as crianças entre os nove e os 11 anos a lidar com situações de violência por parte de colegas», um fenómeno conhecido por bullying.

Interrupção Voluntária da Lei do Aborto na Madeira

Excelente cartoon no humoral da História, o blogue onde as notícias são dadas a rir.