tão longe e tão perto...

Nazi book burnings

terry jones e a sua fogueira

pensamento do dia...

paco pomet

Andre Baptiste Sr.: Welcome to Democracy!

Yuri Orlov: Democracy? What have you been drinking Andy?

Andre Baptiste Sr.: Heh, you have not seen the news. You know, they accuse me of rigging elections. But after this -
[holds up a newspaper with the headline "U.S. Supreme Court Reverses Recount Ruling"]

Andre Baptiste Sr.: - with your Florida and your Supreme Court of Kangaroos, now, the U.S. will shut up forever!
[laughs]

lord of war

pensamento do dia...

daqui

We’re so self-important. So self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these fucking people kidding me? Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven’t learned how to care for one another, we’re gonna save the fucking planet?

I’m getting tired of that shit. Tired of that shit. I’m tired of fucking Earth Day, I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world save for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. They don’t care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.

Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked. Difference. Difference. The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We’ve been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we’ve only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we’re a threat? That somehow we’re gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that’s just a-floatin’ around the sun?

The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles…hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worlwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages…And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet…the planet…the planet isn’t going anywhere. WE ARE!

We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. A little styrofoam. The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.

You wanna know how the planet’s doing? Ask those people at Pompeii, who are frozen into position from volcanic ash, how the planet’s doing. You wanna know if the planet’s all right, ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble, if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. Or how about those people in Kilowaia, Hawaii, who built their homes right next to an active volcano, and then wonder why they have lava in the living room.

The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new pardigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?” Plastic…asshole.

So, the plastic is here, our job is done, we can be phased out now. And I think that’s begun. Don’t you think that’s already started? I think, to be fair, the planet sees us as a mild threat. Something to be dealt with. And the planet can defend itself in an organized, collective way, the way a beehive or an ant colony can. A collective defense mechanism. The planet will think of something. What would you do if you were the planet? How would you defend yourself against this troublesome, pesky species? Let’s see… Viruses. Viruses might be good. They seem vulnerable to viruses. And, uh…viruses are tricky, always mutating and forming new strains whenever a vaccine is developed. Perhaps, this first virus could be one that compromises the immune system of these creatures. Perhaps a human immunodeficiency virus, making them vulnerable to all sorts of other diseases and infections that might come along. And maybe it could be spread sexually, making them a little reluctant to engage in the act of reproduction.

Well, that’s a poetic note. And it’s a start. And I can dream, can’t I? See I don’t worry about the little things: bees, trees, whales, snails. I think we’re part of a greater wisdom than we will ever understand. A higher order. Call it what you want. Know what I call it? The Big Electron. The Big Electron…whoooa. Whoooa. Whoooa. It doesn’t punish, it doesn’t reward, it doesn’t judge at all. It just is. And so are we. For a little while.

george carlin - the planet is fine

pensamento do dia...

daqui

John Milton: Let me give you a little inside information about God.
God likes to watch.
He's a prankster.
Think about it.
He gives man instincts.
He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusement, his own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition.
It's the goof of all time.
Look but don't touch.
Touch, but don't taste.
Taste, don't swallow.
Ahaha.
And while you're jumpin' from one foot to the next, what is he doing?
He's laughin' His sick, fuckin' ass off! He's a tight-ass! He's a SADIST! He's an absentee landlord!
Worship that?
NEVER!

the devil's advocate

um bocadinho acima da lepra...

daqui

Diana: Somethings are not for sale.
John: Such as?
Diana: Well you can't buy people.

indecent proposal

poder antes do tempo...

senhor das moscas

"The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering."

senhor das moscas

mas não se sabe já que dá sempre asneira?

e depois fica toda a gente muito admirada...

...cristo anti cristo...

The Last Temptation of Christ


Antichrist

a casa do zé...

pensamento do dia...

daqui

isto está bonito está..

o triunfo dos porcos...

fredlenta

diz que a ameaça não vem do ar...

Leng Tch'e

execution of Fu-zhu-li

"As I said before, humans are the only species that systematically tortures and murders its own for pleasure or personal gain. In fact, we are the only species that systematically tortures and murders its, own period.

Most animals, when fighting one of their own, will show aggressive behavior, but very little hostility or intention to harm.

And when the outcome of the struggle is inevitable, the losing animal will signal its defeat by exposing its most vulnerable part to the victor, affording it the opportunity to finish the kill.

The victor then walks away without inflicting further harm.

These are the creatures we feel superior to."

george carlin

Leng Tch'e - Naked City - vídeo aqui

para ouvir o ficheiro aqui

o fim da violência...

nine finger - alain plantel

Perversely. That's one thing I think I can define now. It's when things are upside down and you start to like 'em that way.

the end of violence - wim wenders

perguntar não ofende #13

foto algures da net

vamos fazer um exercício, imagina-se que estão a fazer um passeio, agora imaginem que nesse passeio avistam uma paisagem belíssima, agora imagem que essa paisagem é vista de cima de uma ravina, agora imaginem que ao chegarem à beira dessa ravina há uma derrocada, agora imaginem que a derrocada os faz cair pela ravina, imaginem que nesta altura estão entre a vida e a morte pendurados num ramo, agora imaginem que mesmo ao vosso lado atiram lá de cima uma corda que os poderá facilmente salvar da queda abrupta para o precipício, agora imaginem que do outro lado vos dizem que não podem agarrar a corda, aliás, vos convencem que não podem agarrar a corda, mesmo sendo a corda a vossa salvação...

não será isto uma espécie de homicídio de quem diz para não agarrar a corda?

assim daqueles homicídios que se praticam quando se convence outra pessoa para matar outra?

ler isto "a transmissão do vírus da sida constitui uma conduta criminalmente relevante?"

a humanidade é volátil...

foto daqui

"Take off the mask.

What did you expect, a monster?

My name's George.

You probabIy knew that aIready.

Can't get your mind around it, huh?

I don't have any answers.

Nothing I can say wiII make you sIeep easier at night.

I wasn't beaten. I wasn't moIested.

Mommy didn't abuse me.

Daddy never raped me.

I'm onIy what I am.

That's aII there is to it!

There's no mystery.

Things I do, I do them because
I Iike them.

Because I want to."

8mm

pensamento do dia...

9000

qual o desvio sexual mais desviante e perverso que existe?

o celibato... contraria tudo o que é natural na própria natureza humana...

combater fogo com fogo, ou uma outra forma de ver o casamento homosexual...

Ellen von Unwerth

tive uma professora que insistia no conhecimento das leis, não de uma forma subserviente mas de uma forma subversiva… A ideia é: “quanto melhor conheceres as leis mais facilidade tens em dobra-las, contorna-las, mover-te nas suas entrelinhas”… afinal é isso que os advogados fazem…

fiquei a acreditar mesmo nisto...

não sendo um conhecedor das leis deste país, estava aqui a pensar umas coisas em relação ao casamento entre pessoas do mesmo sexo…

nem quero comentar a discussão que anda por aí, igrejas, estados, partidos, preconceitos, ideias feitas, etc., muita razão e razão nenhuma…

a principal questão em causa é uma aceitação social de um conceito novo, a assunção de algo que já existe à muito tempo, a relação entre pessoas do mesmo sexo…

aqui não há muito a dizer, por mais que esperneiem é uma realidade à qual não podem fugir… inclusivamente penso que alterar essa realidade contradiz a própria noção de liberdade que esta terra tanto precisava…

no entanto a negação cria um vortex de falta de liberdade, contra-liberdade por omissão…

e se a própria lei contivesse a possibilidade de existir o casamento de pessoas do mesmo sexo sem este ser casamento civil?

sendo o casamento um acto legal, estamos a falar de leis, o casamento é um contrato entre duas pessoas definido nos termos etc..etc..

e se duas pessoas fizessem um contrato, ou uma série de contratos, que no seu conjunto cobriam todos os pontos do contrato do casamento?

mais uma vez digo que não sou conhecedor das leis, mas se duas pessoas tiverem uma união de facto, a questão fiscal fica resolvida, se duas pessoas fizerem um testamento com as características dos direitos de sucessão presentes num casamento? Se for feita uma procuração de ambas as partes não fica resolvida as questões de representação legal? Se houver filhos, não poderá ser instaurado um processo de adopção ou delegação de um tutor legal? não poderia este contracto cívico ter inclusivamente alíneas que contemplem situações de separação, como o divórcio?

seria uma espécie de pack de casamento do séc. XXI, um verdadeiro acto de guerrilha onde realmente faz mossa…

faz sentido? será que isto é assim tão disparatada esta guerra de fogo com fogo?

porque é que o médio oriente é um território lixado?

someone is going to be dissapointed...*

foto daqui

*

"We're prayin for God to destroy our enemy. Our enemy is prayin for God to destroy us. Someone is going to be dissapointed (...) military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced god was on their side"

george carlin

lobsters...

angelina jolie - david lachapelle

I know something interesting about lobsters.

You don't have to put a lid on the pot when you cook female lobsters, does anybody know why? Well, when you cook a pot of male lobsters--when they realize they're in this pot of boiling water, they all start totally freaking out, they're like 'fuck we gotta get out of here!

' so they start making these little ladders and helping each other get out of the pot so you have to put a lid on the pot to keep them inside.

But female lobsters, you don't have to put a lid on the pot.

Because once they realize they're in a pot of boiling water they all just start grabbing each other and holding each other, they're like, "If I'm gonna die, we're all gonna die," none of them wants to let any of the other ones get out of the pot, it's a real shame, isn't it?

l word season3 episode 3

agora é que vai começar...

cartaz daqui

e esperar que realmente a mudança seja para melhor...

i'm afraid of americans - david bowie