Descobri por acaso esta série num fórum na net. É uma série de terror/thriller com bastante qualidade. Os episódios são individuais, sendo realizados por diferentes realizadores. Já vi dois episódios e aconselho vivamente( ou deverei dizer mortalmente). São episódios que por sí dariam para um filme, o que é bom; pois ainda este mês vi o último filme dos X-Files e soube-me a um bom episódio e pouco a um filme, o que é mau.
By Wikipedia:
Fear Itself is a horror/suspenseanthologytelevision series shot in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with some additional shooting in the city of St. Albert and the town of Devon, Alberta. It began airing on June 5, 2008 on NBC.[1] The show airs Thursday nights at 10/9c. Its title is derived from the famous Franklin D. Roosevelt quote "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."[2] The anthology was borne out of Masters of Horror and shares several of the same creative elements: self-contained horror/thriller stories directed by the biggest horror directors working in features today; both shows were created by Mick Garris and both shows are produced by Industry Entertainment's Andrew Deane, Adam Goldworm and Ben Browning. Stuart Gordon, Brad Anderson, John Landis and Rob Schmidt all directed at least one episode of each series. The song in the opening credits is entitled "Lie, Lie, Lie" by System Of A Down front man Serj Tankian, off of his solo album Elect the Dead.
Aimee Mann lança um novo disco de estúdio . "Smilers" é como se chama o sétimo trabalho da norte-americana, editado através da sua própria editora, a SuperEgo Records. O registo conta com a colaboração do cantor e compositor norte-americano Sean Hayes e a respectiva produção ficou a cargo de Paul Bryan, que já tinha trabalhado com Aimee Mann no disco de Natal "One More Drifter In The Snow", editado em 2006. «O som é um pouco diferente para mim. (...) Soa um pouco a Cars», afirmou a cantora, em declarações à Billboard. «Não há guitarras eléctricas. (...) Gira tudo em torno dos teclados, o que é fantástico. É uma amálgama de sons interessante», completou.'True Believer' é um dos temas do novo longa-duração de Aimee Mann, que foi escrito em parceria com Grant Lee Phillips.O reconhecimento da crítica perante a carreira de Aimee Mann tem sido um processo gradual, cujo ponto alto aconteceu em 1999, quando o tema "Save Me", incluído na banda sonora do filme "Magnolia", foi nomeado para um Óscar da Academia. A cantora, que aos quatro anos de idade foi raptada pela mãe adoptiva e levada para a Europa, frequentou a Berklee School of Music, em Boston, até ao final dos anos 80, altura em que deixou de estudar para se dedicar à música a tempo inteiro. De entre as várias colaborações de Aimee Mann em bandas sonoras, onde se contam filmes como "Jerry Maguire", "Sliding Doors", "Cruel Intentions" e a série de televisão "Melrose Place", o destaque vai definitivamente para "Magnolia". A cargo da cantora ficaram dez de um total de treze canções, que compõem a banda sonora do filme de Paul Thomas Anderson, sendo uma delas uma versão do tema "One", original de Harry Nilsson. Alguns dos temas presentes na banda sonora de "Magnolia" foram posteriormente incluídos no sucessor de "I'm With Stupid", intitulado, "Bachelor No 2", editado em 2000, e cuja produção da maioria dos temas ficou a cargo de Aimee Mann, que contou com o apoio de Brendan O'Brien e Buddy Judge. Em Setembro de 2002, chegou às lojas o novo trabalho de originais da cantora, "Lost in Space".
Smilers
"One of the greatest female songwriters out there? Yap, for sure. And she's back with another excellent album. Yes, it's Mrs Michael Penn!She still looks great for 48 too!This one is scheduled to be released by SuperEgo Records on June 3, 2008. The album was produced by Mann's bassist, Paul Bryan, and features guest appearances by singer-songwriter Sean Hayes, who duets with Mann on the track "Ballantines," and author Dave Eggers, who whistles on "Little Tornado" !!In addition to the standard CD package, Smilers will be available in a limited-edition package with a book-bound cover, a die-cut 32-page book with illustrations by renowned artist Gary Taxali, and held together with metal screw binding.Aimee speaks in the press release about how she hates those smiley smiley mofos you see everywhere! Man, I hate those fucking smiley smiley mofos too! The press release for the album goes something like this; "I've always been fascinated with eccentric personalities," says Los Angeles singer songwriter Aimee Mann. On Smilers, her seventh solo CD, Mann presents thirteen exquisitely-crafted new songs about the inner life of people living far from the bright lights of success or fame. Some of them are wanderers searching for meaning on the road, others look for it in a shot glass or by losing themselves in the blue trance of a tv set, and still others believe their deliverance will come through money. From the punch drunk characters haunting the twilight world of a dusty downtown boxing gym, to a onetime financial big shot who's returned home after taking a tumble, Mann paints spare, vivid portraits of people who seem to always wind up with the smallest slice of American pie. The songs are soulful, empathetic and somehow ultimately hopeful and optimistic. Says Mann; "When I write about them -- the narcissists, performers, eccentrics, know-it-alls - it helps me recognize some truths about the world and about myself." The title Smilers gets its name from a phrase Mann has long used to humorously lampoon the unrelentingly happy, shiny, smiley-faced pop culture that surrounds us all today. "I read an article that said that across all cultures, the single thing that people respond to most is a smiling cartoon face," says Mann. "A friend of mine and I used to laugh at how there's always somebody in an office or on the street who smiles all the time and is the first one to say, 'hey, smile!' I get that all the time from people who say 'why can't you be more smiley? So we jokingly nicknamed them @#%&! Smilers. You can provide your own curse word there. I think everybody knows someone like that." The record goes behind the smiles to get at something a little deeper and a little more revealing. Smilers reaffirms Mann's place as one of pop music's most distinctive songwriters, with an exceptional talent for beautiful melodies and insightful lyrics that go beyond platitudes.Smilers took shape during the last two years as Mann was releasing her concept album, The Forgotten Arm (2005) and then her seasonal CD Another Drifter in the Snow (2006). "After doing a concept album I wanted to go back and just do a set of songs that were not linked quite so tightly," she says. "I didn't have a specific vision I was after so I kept writing and after a while the album began to take on its own sound." She approached the making of the record almost like a novelist or journalist approaches a story, finding characters, learning what makes them tick, and writing and rewriting until something clear begins to emerge. Many of the songs underwent further evolution in rehearsals in 2007 as she and producer Paul Bryan settled on a sound that they liked. Where previous Mann albums have frequently tended toward a lonesome, spacious sound, Smilers sounds fuller and larger, with uncommon touches. “We tried not to echo any previous albums…for this one we wanted to use a different palate, thus replacing electric guitars with distorted Wurlitzers, Clavinets, and analog synthesizers. We wanted the rhythm section to sound full and organic with detailed, interwoven keyboards on top. We also knew we wanted to have real string sections and horn arrangements for select songs.” The rich arrangements provide a wonderfully captivating counterpoint to the haunting, plainspoken poetry of Mann's lyrics. For Smilers, she and Bryan preferred to refine their ideas in rehearsals and then keep the studio work brief to unleash a certain spontaneity, keeping takes of each song to one or two apiece. "It keeps the music fresh. It makes it much more of a real musical experience," says Mann. "It makes it a little closer to something live and real." Smilers also reflects a unique creative phase in Mann's career. After the runaway success of The Magnolia Soundtrack, which received nominations for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Grammy, Mann's music and career took a new direction. "Magnolia got me focused on the idea of music and movies in a different way," she explains. "I started looking at songwriting from a different angle. Forgotten Arm I wrote as a sort of soundtrack to an imaginary movie. It’s a great way of looking at songwriting. It gets me out of my own head and into the head of another character. I don't have to write about myself all the time." That feeling was liberating, and endows much of Manns' new work with a vivid, almost visual story-telling sense that makes her music jump off the CD. Smilers opens with "Freeway," an almost Cars-esque synth-pop song that was inspired by a drug-addicted friend who had came to LA in hopes of getting clean and making a break with the past. The track "Stranger into Starman” was spurred by an afternoon crossword puzzle and the memory of an Anne Sexton poem that made an anagram out of the word "rats" -- morphing it into "stars." As Mann describes it, "it’s about glorifying people who don't deserve the glory." The song "Looking for Nothing," as Mann explains, was inspired by a couple of ex-boxers at her gym. The song is about "that moment in life where you get older and stop chasing after that thing you always thought would make you happy. It’s when you let go of the trapeze bar and nobody's caught you yet and you don't know if you're going to hit the ground." "Phoenix" delves into love's impotence in the face of the world, and the aftermath of a relationship gone sour: "Its hard to know when to cut and run," the character sings; "You balance heartache with your fun." The song "Borrowing Time" plays out like a vaguely menacing Snow White-style fairy tale; "The needle has pricked her little finger/She wants the beautiful child the blood will bring her," but it has echoes of a cautionary tale that could apply to a modern innocent's path in Hollywood. "31 Today" says Mann, is slightly autobiographical, recalling the feeling of insecurity she had as a young artist living in Boston. “The song captures the anxiety of getting older and feeling that you really should have it together more than you do.” As her character sings: "Drinking Guinness in the afternoon/taking shelter in the black cocoon/I thought my life would be different somehow/I thought my life would be better by now." "The Great Beyond" looks at the outdoors and the wilderness not as an adventure but as a dark refuge from society. The track "Columbus Avenue," a reference to the San Francisco street, plumbs the tale of the sad ambition of an addict, asking "What is Columbus Avenue to you now?/A place where you failed to make your story go over?/A place where you bailed and let the bottom drag you under?" And "Little Tornado" and Ballantines" (named after the classic American beer) are portraits of troubled personalities and the chaos and healing they can provoke. "Medicine Wheel" is based on a poem written by Mann's sister, the painter and artist Gretchen Seichrist. Another song on Smilers, "True Believer," was written with Grant Lee Phillips, a Cafe Largo pal and maverick singer songwriter who toured with Mann for Another Drifter in the Snow. Says Mann, "I had some music and a sketch idea for a chorus for this song and Grant came in with this wonderful idea of how to turn the song into a ghost story." Longtime Mann fans will find that Smilers has plenty of the tunefulness they have come to expect from her albums. New fans will be struck by the power of her spare language. Smilers is a welcome return of unparalleled songcraft."
Não se pode acabar uma carreira com um álbum como o Urban Hymns.
The original line-up of iconic nineties band The Verve have kissed and made up and are returning later this year with a brand new album and tour. Richard Ashcroft, Nick McCabe, Pete Salisbury and Simon Jones have reportedly already started work on the as yet untitled release, and will continue work after a summer break. Simon Tong will not be re-joining the band due to current commitments with The Good, The Bad & The Queen.
As an added bonus the newly reformed Wigan-ites will play a six date tour of the UK. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday, July 6th. The dates are:
November 2nd & 3rd - Glasgow Academy November 5th & 6th - Blackpool Empress Ballroom November 8th & 9th - London Roundhouse
This will be the first time the original line-up has appeared on the same stage since 1998 after the fractured relationship between McCabe and Aschcroft came to a hault. The band officialy split in 1999 after touring with replacement guitarist B.J Cole. Hilariously, since the split Ashcroft said that it was more likely that all four of The Beatles would be getting back together than them reforming.
Take a trip down memory lane below and check out the band performing a track from their homecoming show at Haigh Hall in Wigan back in 1998. This was The Verve’s Spike Island. A band at the peak of their powers, and it still stands as one of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen. In the immortal words of Ahscroft “Come Oooooonnnnn”…
The Fourth
Forth, the new album by legendary UK band The Verve, drops August 19th. It's a return to form after ten years.
Tracks: Sit And Wonder Love Is Noise Rather Be Judas Numbness I See Houses Noise Epic Valium Skies Columbo Appalachian Springs
Dexter... deixem-me dizer... é um bálsamo, calmante, que me relaxa da rotina. Sim... é a história de um serial killer...mas e então... qual é o problema?
A estreia da 3º temporada é no dia 28 de Setembro no Showtime. Fica cá o Preview.
Deliciem-se.
Setembro já por si é deprimente. Fim das férias. Inicio do trabalho. Faz-me sempre lembrar aquela música dos Green Day, "wake me up when September ends..." Mas nem tudo é mau...
Well... I just feel a little naked when I show you the songs from Regeneration. They are printed in my soul, so you better Close your eyes and listen to this song.
From the same album of "Beauty regime", Regeneration, my and my brother's favourite album of Divine Comedy! We surely recommend.
Lyrics of Eye of the Needle
They say that you'll hear him
if you're really listening
And pray for that feeling of grace
But that's what I'm doing,
why doesn't he answer?
I've prayed 'til I'm blue in the face
The cars in the churchyard are shiny and German
Distinctly at odds with the theme of the sermon
And during communion
I study the people
Threading themselves through the eye of the needle
Today I'm Happy. I have found this song on youtube. Press the title to see lyrics. It's just fantastic. If I was a song writer this would be my masterpiece. Why? "Look again in the mirror and see exactly how perfect you are..."
Original by Tim Buckley ( Jeff Buckley's father).
This version by This Mortal Coil is just amazing.
I heard this song when I was sixteen, then I belived that angels had a voice.
Elizabeth Frasier is her name. She was also the Cocteau Twins vocalist.
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Wow, I’m sick of doubt
Live in the light of certain South Cruel bindings
The sevants have the power
Dog-men & their mean women
Pulling poor blankets over Our sailors
I’m sick of dour faces Starong at me from the t.v. Tower,
I want roses in My garden bower; dig?
Royal babies, rubies
Must now replace aborted
Strangers in the mud
These mutants, blood-meal
For the plant that’s plowed
They are waiting to take us into The severed garden
Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful
Comes death on a stranger hour
Unannounced, unplanned
for Like a scaring over-friendly guest you’ve Brought to bed
Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings
Where we had shoulders
Smooth as raven’s claws
No more money, no more fancy dress
This other kingdom seems by far the best
Until it’s other jaw reveals incest &
loose obedience to a vegetable law
I will not go Prefer a feast of friends
To the giant family
Acabei de receber no correio o Scrapbook do Jim, mais um item para a minha colecção. Está muito bem conseguido, para além de ter uma apresentação em capa dura e um grafismo excelentes, vem cheio de bonús: cd de Spoken Words inédito; reproduções fieis e perfeitas de muitos documentos: desenhos, poemas, fotos, bilhetes de concertos, publicidade de concertos, posters, e até o testamento do Jim. A juntar a isto, temos de forma inédica, as versões de algumas histórias da família do Jim ( pai, mãe, irmãos) da família da Pam ( pais), etc. Pena que só agora as famílias começaram a digerir o final épico do The End.
As músicas Until the End of The World , Acrobat e Even Better Than The Real Thing fazem parte do album Achtung Baby, durante o ano de 1992 e 1993, ouvi religiosamente este álbum todos os dias. Havia, nesta altura, com os meus colegas, discussões sobre o significado das letras, como por exemplo " a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" da música Throwin' Your Arms Around the World, onde eu e o Lula perdemos uma aposta para uma cachopa ainda mais fanática, enfim, insistíamos que o verso era " a man needs a woman like a fish needs a bycicle...". Mais tarde , com a net, descobri ser um slogan femininista. Todas as músicas deste álbum são de uma beleza rara. Confesso que é o álbum que mais me delicia e atormenta tais são as recordações que nele estão impregnadas. Tenho originais em vinil e cd e estou a pensar arranjar novas cópias pois estão a ficar riscadinhos... Este post será actualizado até ter todas as músicas do álbum e algumas histórias que têm quase 20 anos.
U2 Achtung Baby (1991)
Until The End Of The World
Until The End Of The World
Haven't seen you in quite a while I was down the hold, just passing time Last time we met was a low-lit room We were as close together as bride and groom We ate the food, we drank the wine Everybody having a good time Except you You were talking about the end of the world
I took the money, I spiked your drink You miss too much these days if you stop to think You led me on with those innocent eyes And you know I love the element of surprise In the garden I was playing the tart I kissed your lips and broke your heart You, you were acting like it was the end of the world
In my dream I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim Surrounding me, going down on me Spilling over the brim In waves of regret, waves of joy I reached out for the one I tried to destroy You, you said you'd wait until the end of the world.
U2 Achtung Baby (1991) Acrobat
Acrobat
Don't believe what you hear Don't believe what you see If you just close your eyes You can feel the enemy
When I first met you girl You had fire in your soul What happened your face Of melting in snow? Now it looks like this!
And you can swallow Or you can spit You can throw it up Or choke on it And you can dream So dream out loud You know that your time is coming 'round ...don't let the bastards grind you down
No nothing makes sense Nothing seems to fit I know you'd hit out If you only knew who to hit
And I'd join the movement If there was one I could believe in Yeah I'd break bread and wine If there was a church I could receive in 'Cos I need it now
To take a cup To fill it up To drink it slow I Can't let you go
And I must be An acrobat To talk like this And act like that And you can dream So dream out loud ...don't let the bastards grind you down
What are we doing to do now it's all been said? No new ideas in the house, and every book has been read
And I must be An acrobat To talk like this And act like that And you can dream So dream out loud And you can find Your own way out You can build And I can will And you can call I can't wait until You can stash And you can seize In dreams begin Responsibilities And I can love And I can love I know that the tide is turning 'round ...don't let the bastards grind you down
U2
Achtung Baby (1991)
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Give me one more chance, and you'll be satisfied. Give me two more chances, you won't be denied.
Well my heart is where it's always been
My head is somewhere in between
Give me one more chance, let me be your lover tonight.
(Check it out)
You're the real thing
Yeah the real thing
You're the real thing
Even better than the real thing.
Give me one last chance, and I'm gonna make you sing
Give me half a chance to ride on the waves that you bring
You're honey child to a swarm of bees
Gonna blow right through ya like a breeze
Give me one last dance, we'll slide down the surface of things
Pouco há a dizer sobre esta banda, por ser recente, mas já me chamou à atenção. Há aqui a mão de John Cale dos Velvet Underground, Van Dyke Parkes orquestrador de Brian Wilson ( Beach Boys), logo há pop psicadélica, logo há Beatles também. Que dizer mais, é colocar no leitor de MP3 e fazer deste álbum a banda sonora deste Verão que anda tão tristonho...
Fans de Iron & Wine, este não fica atrás... bem dita dor de corno que o fez fechar-se numa cabana nos bosques de Wisconsin!
"Bon Iver is the work of Justin Vernon. He isolated himself in a remote cabin in Wisconsin for almost four months, writing and recording the songs on For Emma, Forever Ago, his haunting debut album. A few parts (horns, drums, and backing vocals) were added in a North Carolina studio, but for the majority of the time it's just Vernon, his utterly disarming voice, and his enchanting songs. The voice is the first thing you notice. Vernon's falsetto soars like a hawk and when he adds harmonies and massed backing vocals, it can truly be breathtaking. "The Wolves (Acts I & II)" truly shows what Vernon can do as he croons, swoops, and cajoles his way through an erratic and enchanting melody like Marvin Gaye after a couple trips to the backyard still. "Skinny Love" shows his more of his range as he climbs down from the heights of falsetto and shouts out the angry and heartachey words quite convincingly. Framing his voice are suitably subdued arrangements built around acoustic guitars and filled out with subtle electric guitars, the occasional light drums, and slide guitar. Vernon has a steady grasp of dynamics too; the ebb and flow of "Creature Fear" is powerfully dramatic and when the chorus hits it's hard not to be swept away by the flood of tattered emotion. Almost every song has a moment where the emotion peaks and hearts begin to weaken and bend: the beauty of that voice is what pulls you through every time. For Emma captures the sound of broken and quiet isolation, wraps it in a beautiful package, and delivers it to your door with a beating, bruised heart. It's quite an achievement for a debut and the promise of greatness in the future is high. Oh, and because you have to mention it, Iron & Wine. Also, Little Wings. Most of all, though, Bon Iver. "
Tracks
1 Flume 3:39 2 Lump Sum 3:21 3 Skinny Love 3:58 4 The Wolves (Act I and II) 5:22 5 Blindsided 5:29 6 Creature Fear 3:06 7 Team 1:56 8 For Emma 3:40 9 Re: Stacks
I have ordered this album via Amazon UK because I couldn't find it in Portugal, and it's terrific. Well, it become one of my favourites... just listen
Critic by Heather Phares Devotion,Beach House prove once again that they're one of the more strangely named bands around. Their music is so lonely, so haunting, that the only beach house it evokes is a deserted one, stranded on a winter night so desolate that summer isn't even a memory. Then again, that atmosphere is precisely what made Beach House's self-titled debut so striking, and Devotion is even more so, since Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally bring more focus, depth, and warmth to their unmistakable sound. Tracks like "Gila" and "Turtle Island" show that all the pair need to build a mood are their vintage-sounding drum machines, keyboards, and layers of Legrand's womanly, velvety voice, but Beach House spend just as much time expanding their horizons as they do delivering their definitive sound. Devotion begins with "Wedding Bells," which, with its fuzzed-out guitar, keyboard filigrees, harpsichords, and pedal steel, is one of the duo's most elaborate songs yet. It's also one of Beach House's most immediate, fully formed songs, something that this album has far more of than the band's debut. "You Came to Me" is a stunner, melding dark chamber pop ambience with lyrics that feel like they came from a surreal '70s AM radio hit. "Heart of Chambers" is downright soulful, with Legrand's keening voice and swelling organs giving it a truly devotional cast. Not surprisingly, given the album's title, Devotion's songs deal with love and loyalty, or the lack thereof: "Some Things Last (A Long Time)" is an aptly torchy, country-tinged ballad about carrying a torch for someone; "Astronaut" pines for a crush to be requited, filtering the innocence and drama of girl group pop through the band's gauzy approach. "Home Again" is just as sweet — but not nearly as reassuring — as its title suggests, setting lyrics like "Something about the way a heart is nailed above a hand" to finger snaps and a melody with a wintry sparkle. Like Beach House, Devotion sounds like it was made for, and possibly in, the dead of night. This time, though, Beach House's dark moods have more shades, and even a little bit of light, making them all the more compelling.
Album Tracks
1 Wedding Bell Legrand 3:54 2 You Came to Me Legrand 4:05 3 Gila Legrand 4:46 4 Turtle Island Legrand 3:59 5 Holy Dances Legrand 4:18 6 All the Year Legrand 3:36 7 Heart of Chambers Legrand 4:25 8 Some Things Last (A Long Time) Fair, Johnston 2:31 9 Astronaut Legrand 5:04 10 D.A.R.L.I.N.G. Legrand 3:18 11 Home Again Legrand 4:0
Um documentário que traça a curta e fascinante trajectória de uma das mais influentes bandas britânicas que, apesar de não ter resistido ao suicídio do seu líder, Ian Curtis, deixou um legado musical que perdura até hoje. A história contada pelos ex-elementos da banda pós-punk de Manchester formada em 1976 (Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris e Peter Hook, agora New Order), retrata ainda a época conturbada de mudanças sociais e políticas em que se moviam.
O documentário conta, entre outros, com testemunhos de Anton Corbijn (o célebre fotógrafo e realizador da biografia ficcionada de Ian Curtis, "Control") Tony Wilson (antigo director da Factory Records, entretanto falecido), do "designer" Peter Saville e de Annik Honoré, jornalista belga e ex-amante de Curtis. Inclui ainda material de arquivo inédito, fotos pessoais e gravações recém-descobertas, além, claro, de muita música e actuações ao vivo.
Desde 1993 que a conheci... que o sol entrou na minha vida.
Todos temos a nossa diva, ela é sem dúvida a minha.
Nesses anos partilhávamos a inocência,o "campus universitário" da Penha e Gambelas e todo o nosso amor.
Hoje, que passaram 15 anos continuo a acordar virado para o meu sol e a desejar-lhe uns bons dias!
Ela é uma "rastafari" disfarçada de betinha, acreditem... e como tal para lhe desejar os parabéns hoje o Blog é do Sr. Bob Marley.
Descobri por acaso esta série num fórum na net. É uma série de terror/thriller com bastante qualidade. Os episódios são individuais, sendo realizados por diferentes realizadores. Já vi dois episódios e aconselho vivamente( ou deverei dizer mortalmente). São episódios que por sí dariam para um filme, o que é bom; pois ainda este mês vi o último filme dos X-Files e soube-me a um bom episódio e pouco a um filme, o que é mau.
