Big Mama Thornton - Summertime

One of these mornings
You gonna rise up singin'

Yes, you'll spread your wings
And you'll take to the sky

Mm, but 'til that morning
There is nothin' can harm you
Yes, with daddy and mommy standin' by

Robert Towne, Screenwriter of ‘Chinatown’ and More, Dies at 89

 

 

 "“The characters I write about are men who control events far, far less than events control them. My characters get caught, they try even though they don’t prevail or even significantly influence events. These guys muddle through.”

But he continued to maintain that the muddling was worth the effort. In a 1991 essay for Esquire, he explained why movies were his medium of choice.

“There are no novels or plays I’m itching to write and there never have been,” he wrote. “I love movies. I think movies best communicate whatever I have to say and show; or to put it another way, when what you want to show is wat you have to say, you are pretty much stuck with movies as a way of saying it.”"

READ OBIT BY BILL MORRIS

 

Someone Needs to Take Biden’s Keys

 

 by Franklin Foer

My grandfather was a mortal threat behind the wheel of his Oldsmobile. In imperfect anticipation of yellow lights, he would stop unexpectedly at intersections. He drove 30 miles an hour on the freeway. One day his vision occluded, and he couldn’t see clearly into the distance. Yet he would still occasionally grab the keys, put my grandmother and her clutch of coupons in the passenger seat, and head to the grocery store. We failed to take the keys away at the opportune moment, and then struggled when the risks he posed were unquestionably worse. That’s the nature of families confronting the mortality of a loved one.

The group around President Joe Biden is familial to the core. The newbies in his inner circle have worked for him for 20 years; the veterans have been around since the early ’80s. To his closest advisers, Joe Biden is a figure frozen in time, still the domineering patriarch who dispenses love and throws tantrums. They crave his affection, they navigate his anger, they calibrate their arguments to appeal to his predilections. In the structure that Biden has erected around himself in the White House, he is his own top adviser.

Watching a parent age is inherently difficult. Nobody wants to believe that the most important figure in their life is approaching the end. It’s even harder for staffers whose entire identity is wrapped up in their association with the career of one political figure. To admit his end is to provoke a crisis in their own professional life. If I’m not whispering in Biden’s ear, then what am I?

Aging is nonlinear, which makes it difficult to track. Biden, as anyone who watches cable news knows, has good days and bad days. At moments, he resembles his old self, bristling with feisty energy. Those are the wishful data points that become the basis for comforting stories about how he always pulls through in the end.

And aging accelerates in reaction to events. Campaigns, even one lightly prosecuted, are famously hell on the body. The stress of managing multiple wars turns even youthful aides into sad middle-aged specimens. A child of the Cold War, Joe Biden is consumed with worry about possible nuclear war, not a relaxing thought to have constantly coursing through one’s brain. Biden is a different human being than he was a year ago, because the presidency is the opposite of a hyperbaric chamber.

That makes the failure of the Democratic establishment to take the age question more seriously harder to understand, because the notion of having an 86-year-old president has always defied understanding.

When I talk with aides on the inside, they never question Biden’s governing capacity. Perhaps this is their own wishful thinking. Perhaps they are better able to see how the benefits of experience overwhelm his inability to recall a name. But it’s also the product of a delusion among the Democratic elite about what constitutes effective leadership. Governing competently is different from campaigning competently. The ability to think strategically about China, or to negotiate a complicated piece of bipartisan legislation, is not the limit of politics. It’s not enough to deliver technocratic accomplishments or to prudently manage a chaotic global scene—a politician must also connect with the voters, and convince them that they’re in good hands. And the Biden presidency has always required explaining away the fact that the public wasn’t buying what he was selling, even when the goods seemed particularly attractive.

So here we are, at a very late hour, when changing the nominee would be hard for Democrats, but remains a plausible option. But if there are problems with the Democratic establishment, at least it’s still an establishment, with the capacity to impose its will. And based on every despairing text that I received last night, even from senior members of the administration, many of whom self-medicated their way through the debate with booze, that will is now abundant. (Take it away, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer.)

A courageous politician can seize the first-mover advantage and make the argument that was plain to all viewers last night. Biden aides have always disparaged Kamala Harris sotto voce, undermining the very notion of her potential candidacy. But if she’s not the right candidate to step forward, then it’s imperative that another prominent Democrat immediately fill the void. The alternative is too horrible to contemplate.

Article originally published atThe Atlantic

 

Procissão de São Pedro

 

Barracão - Elizeth Cardoso, Jacob do Bandolim e Época de Ouro

Vai, barracão
Pendurado no morro
E pedindo socorro
À cidade a teus pés

BLEU BLANC ????

MIGUEL PAIVA

 

 

 

THIAGO LUCAS

 

 

 

CARVALL

 

Imunidadepara Trump

FRAGA

 

The World’s Next Big Drag Queen Is Brazilian

 

  "In addition to being home to a crew of breakout drag stars, Brazil has adopted some of the world’s most expansive gay rights. Gay couples can marry and adopt children; transgender people can legally choose their gender; homophobic slurs are a crime; and so-called conversion therapy, which seeks to make gay people straight, is banned.

Yet for years Brazil has also ranked among the deadliest countries for gay and transgender people. Since 2008, more than 1,840 transgender people have been murdered in Brazil, more than double the next deadliest country, Mexico, according to tracking by Transgender Europe, an advocacy group. Brazil has led the rankings every year since tracking began.

“We never know when it will be my friend, when it will be my family, when it will be me,” Pabllo Vittar said in an interview. “This is the biggest goal of my career: To make it so younger people don’t feel this fear when they go out.”

Pabllo Vittar has emerged as one of Brazil’s loudest gay voices against a right-wing movement in the country, led by conservative Christian groups, that has made a heterosexual vision of gender, sex and marriage a central part of its political strategy."

 READ REPORT BY JACK NICAS

 

On a journey through Germany, the horror of the past lurks close to the surface | Euro 2024 | The Guardian

 

 "Germany is an easy country to be in. The people are friendly. The bars and bakeries are lovely. The cities are a potent mix of cultures: Cologne baklava, the kebabs of Essen, the mind-bending schnitzel-overload of the Munich cafe scene, schnitzels the size of stingrays, schnitzels that will haunt you.

Germany is warm and rich in detail. Germany is wealthy and comfortable. And of course, Germany is also, to me, terrifying.

Sorry, Germany! But this is still the case. "

read article by BARNEY RONAY

On a journey through Germany, the horror of the past lurks close to the surface | Euro 2024 | The Guardian

Dia do Progresso

JBOSCO

 

Bangkok Post - Biden"s lapses are said to be increasingly common and worrisome

 

In the weeks and months before United States President Joe Biden’s politically devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta, several current and former officials and others who encountered him behind closed doors noticed that he increasingly appeared confused or listless or would lose the thread of conversations.

Like many people his age, Biden, 81, has long experienced instances in which he mangled a sentence, forgot a name or mixed up a few facts, even though he could be sharp and engaged most of the time. But in interviews, people in the room with him more recently said that the lapses seemed to be growing more frequent, more pronounced and more worrisome."

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Bangkok Post - Biden"s lapses are said to be increasingly common and worrisome

Recuaram!

LAERTE

 

Procissão de Sao Pedro

 

Nao tem um remedinho homeopático?

JOTA CAMELO

 

The Ghastly vs. the Ghostly

 

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  "He’s being selfish. He’s putting himself ahead of the country. He’s surrounded by opportunistic enablers. He has created a reality distortion field where we’re told not to believe what we’ve plainly seen. His hubris is infuriating. He says he’s doing this for us, but he’s really doing it for himself.

  I’m not talking about Donald Trump. I’m talking about the other president.

  In Washington, people often become what they start out scorning. This has happened to Joe Biden. In his misguided quest for a second term that would end when he’s 86, he has succumbed to behavior redolent of Trump. And he is jeopardizing the democracy he says he wants to save."

  read column by Maureen Dowd

Passeando pelo Jardim | Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo | Pra Você, Ilza (2024)

The Police - Next To You

I sold my house
I sold my motor, too
All I want is to be next to you
I'd rob a bank
Maybe steal a plane
You took me over
Think I'm goin' insane

40g

NANDO MOTTA

JOTA CAMELO

 

 

 

DANIEL LAFAYETTE

 

From Hacker to Hunted Figure, the Polarizing Legacy of Julian Assange

"In his two-decade odyssey from Australian hacker to new-age media celebrity, hunted figure, perennial prisoner and finally, a free man, Julian Assange has always been easier to caricature than characterize.

The lack of an agreed-upon label for Mr. Assange — is he a heroic crusader for truth or a reckless leaker who endangered lives? — makes any assessment of his legacy ambiguous at best.

Whatever history’s judgment of Mr. Assange, his appearance Wednesday in a courtroom on a remote Pacific island, where he pleaded guilty to a single count of violating the U.S. Espionage Act, was an appropriate coda to a story that has always seemed stranger than fiction.

From the time he established WikiLeaks in 2006, Mr. Assange, 52, was a polarizing figure, using the internet to solicit and publish government secrets. His disclosures, from confidential diplomatic cables to civilian deaths in the American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, made him courageous to those who believed in his gospel of radical transparency. To others who feared the information he revealed could get people killed, he was destructive, even if there was never proof that lives were lost."

 READ ARTICLE BY  

Mark Landler and Megan Specia

o Bozo morreu

MARCOS VENICIUS

 

Sao Pedro

 

Osgemeos Rocked Brazil. Can the Graffiti Twins Take New York?

 

Their street murals, monumental sculptures, intricate drawings and vivid paintings pop up at Lehmann Maupin gallery on the eve of their Hirshhorn debut.

 "An old class photo hangs nearby, the brothers and the other 28 students all dressed in their blue and white school uniforms.

In it, they look to be about five years old, the same age they were when they started telling their parents about Tritrez, a place they describe in a similar way to heaven: they feel they lived there before they were born and say they will return to it one day when they die. “We’ve always had this strong spiritual connection with Tritrez and with each other,” Otávio said. It is, in a sense, their origin story — it explains where they came from, making a tumultuous entrance as premature babies — a magical world they wanted to replicate and share with others.

“It’s not a religion, but it’s something that has this strong link to our beginning as well as to our destiny,” Gustavo said. “It’s one life divided between two people.”

At the Hirshhorn, the pair are creating a gallery dedicated solely to Tritrez. In it will be everything from their first childhood iterations of the dreamlike world, to “The Tritrez Altar,” a rainbow-colored structure housing sculptures of their trademark characters that will be shown outside Brazil for the first time.

“The more you see of their work, the more you realize they are actually translating their inner world to the outer world,” said Melissa Chiu, the museum’s director. “It’s this impulse that they have to share. I think that’s what really makes them, in some ways, that rare kind of artist for whom categories are irrelevant.”"

READ REPORT By Jill Langlois

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité - só que nao!

AROEIRA

 

Caetano Veloso: O Estrangeiro 1989

O pintor Paul Gauguin amou a luz na Baía de Guanabara
O compositor Cole Porter adorou as luzes na noite dela
A Baía de Guanabara
O antropólogo Claude Levy-Strauss detestou a Baía de Guanabara
Pareceu-lhe uma boca banguela

São Pedro

 

Não pensar em nada

ALVES

 

Canto de Aves do Brasil

MARIO BAGG

 

Maysa → Fantasia de Trombones: Demais / Meu Mundo Caiu / Preciso Aprender a Ser Só (Antônio Carlos Jobim-Aloysio de Oliveira-Maysa-Marcos Valle-Paulo Sergio Valle)

Todos  acham que eu falo demais
E que eu ando bebendo demais
Que essa vida agitada não serve pra nada
Andar por aí, bar em bar, bar em bar

Bruce Springsteen - If I Was The Priest

There's a light on yonder mountain
And it's callin' me to shine
There's a girl over by the water fountain
And she's askin' to be mine

 
And Jesus is standing in the doorway
In a buckskin jacket, boots and spurs so fine
Says, "We need you, son, tonight up in Dodge City
'Cause there's just too many outlaws
Tryin' to work the same line"