Same old...

Ultimamente tem-me dado muito para escrever mas acabo por nunca o fazer. Em parte por preguiça, em parte porque acho que nunca consigo fazer justiça aos meus pensamentos quando os transponho para o écran... Nesta altura em que toda a gente está a admirar a grandeza do meu intelecto (ou a incomensurabilidade do meu ego...) vou deixar-me de merdas...

Como já disse num post prévio, a música provoca sérias mudanças nos meus estados de espírito. Talvez devesse conseguir, mas a verdade é que nunca consigo alienar-me verdadeiramente da música que estou a ouvir a dado momento. E se é verdade que tal facto me perturba e acarreta vários problemas, também me trás enorme alegria. Neste momento estou eufórico... Porquê? Talvez seja uma daquelas alturas em que a depressão cede lugar à exaltação, ou então talvez seja porque estou a ouvir uma música que me eleva e me faz tocar piano, guitarra e bateria em frente à porcaria do meu monitor... E nestes momentos em que faço parte da banda, não há stress, não há drama, não há tristeza... Apenas energia, pura energia...

The Who - Baba O'Riley... a idade não interessa, apenas conta a qualidade... e essa, é inegável!

Na música como na vida, vale sempre a pena recordar os que nos precederam... Nunca se sabe que surpresas é que os mais antigos nos reservam, como eu descobri hoje!

V

Remember, remember
The Fifth of November
The gunpowder treason and plot

I know of no reason
why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot

Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’97.
Wear Sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by
scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable
than my own meandering experience…
I will dispense this advice.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth;
oh never mind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.
But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself
and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before
you and how fabulous you really looked….
You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as
effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that
never crossed your worried mind;
the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing everyday that scares you

Sing

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts,
don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss

Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind…
the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.

Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults;
if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…
the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives,
some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t,
maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t,
maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…
what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either –
your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
Enjoy your body,
use it every way you can…
don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it,
it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own..

Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.

Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.


Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings;
they are the best link to your past
and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle
because the older you get,
the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard;
live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths,
prices will rise,
politicians will philander,
you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young
prices were reasonable,
politicians were noble
and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you.
Maybe you have a trust fund,
maybe you have a wealthy spouse;
but you never know when either one might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair,
or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but,
be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia,
dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off,
painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen…

PS: Um dos melhores discursos de sempre... Se quiserem uma versão musicalizada da coisa, pelo Baz Luhrmann, peçam-me no msn!