In the last couple of months I lost touch with my blog - end of the semestre, loads to do, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, most people stop blogging when they are on holidays but, although I am not formally on holidays, I will have a bit more time to listen to music while *everyone else* in Spain, including the baker across the street, is enjoying a jolly good time on the beach or in the pyrenees. So let's start the "holiday" blogging with this :-) :
*dica do Jean Boechat
Monday, August 04, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Talk Nerdy to Me
I just read a NYT article (David Brooks) about the nerds and geeks taking over the world.
"At first, a nerd was a geek with better grades. The word described a high-school or college outcast who was persecuted by the jocks, preps, frat boys and sorority sisters. Nerds had their own heroes (Stan Lee of comic book fame), their own vocations (Dungeons & Dragons), their own religion (supplied by George Lucas and “Star Wars”) and their own skill sets (tech support)."
"Geeks not only rebelled against jocks, but they distinguished themselves from alienated and self-pitying outsiders who wept with recognition when they read “Catcher in the Rye.” If Holden Caulfield was the sensitive loner from the age of nerd oppression, then Harry Potter was the magical leader in the age of geek empowerment."
"The jock can shine on the football field, but the geeks can display their supple sensibilities and well-modulated emotions on their Facebook pages, blogs, text messages and Twitter feeds. Now there are armies of designers, researchers, media mavens and other cultural producers with a talent for whimsical self-mockery, arcane social references and late-night analysis."
"They can visit eclectic sites like Kottke.org and Cool Hunting, experiment with fonts, admire Stewart Brand and Lawrence Lessig and join social-networking communities with ironical names. They’ve created a new definition of what it means to be cool, a definition that leaves out the talents of the jocks, the M.B.A.-types and the less educated. In “The Laws of Cool,” Alan Liu writes: “Cool is a feeling for information.” When someone has that dexterity, you know it."
Dani gave me a t-shirt that says "talk nerdy to me".
Well, leave you with Tina Fey, the queen of geekland (my hero). And she can actually sing!
"At first, a nerd was a geek with better grades. The word described a high-school or college outcast who was persecuted by the jocks, preps, frat boys and sorority sisters. Nerds had their own heroes (Stan Lee of comic book fame), their own vocations (Dungeons & Dragons), their own religion (supplied by George Lucas and “Star Wars”) and their own skill sets (tech support)."
"Geeks not only rebelled against jocks, but they distinguished themselves from alienated and self-pitying outsiders who wept with recognition when they read “Catcher in the Rye.” If Holden Caulfield was the sensitive loner from the age of nerd oppression, then Harry Potter was the magical leader in the age of geek empowerment."
"The jock can shine on the football field, but the geeks can display their supple sensibilities and well-modulated emotions on their Facebook pages, blogs, text messages and Twitter feeds. Now there are armies of designers, researchers, media mavens and other cultural producers with a talent for whimsical self-mockery, arcane social references and late-night analysis."
"They can visit eclectic sites like Kottke.org and Cool Hunting, experiment with fonts, admire Stewart Brand and Lawrence Lessig and join social-networking communities with ironical names. They’ve created a new definition of what it means to be cool, a definition that leaves out the talents of the jocks, the M.B.A.-types and the less educated. In “The Laws of Cool,” Alan Liu writes: “Cool is a feeling for information.” When someone has that dexterity, you know it."
Dani gave me a t-shirt that says "talk nerdy to me".
Well, leave you with Tina Fey, the queen of geekland (my hero). And she can actually sing!
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Fidelio!
back by popular demand (i.e. Edgar and Dani)...
so, on a break from our *very* important discussions about the usefulness of the concept of "practices" for our dissertations, I asked Edgar what has to be THE question of the decade: how come Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise couldn't have children and adopted two kids and *now* Tommy has a child with Katie Holmes and Nicole is pregnant of Keith Urban? Seriously, I don't get it!
Leave you with a GREAT song by Chris Isaak, "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing", which is on the soundtrack of "Eyes Wide Shut":
so, on a break from our *very* important discussions about the usefulness of the concept of "practices" for our dissertations, I asked Edgar what has to be THE question of the decade: how come Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise couldn't have children and adopted two kids and *now* Tommy has a child with Katie Holmes and Nicole is pregnant of Keith Urban? Seriously, I don't get it!
Leave you with a GREAT song by Chris Isaak, "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing", which is on the soundtrack of "Eyes Wide Shut":
Friday, April 13, 2007
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Now I Know What Was Missing
I am starting to feel that I *belong*.
Dani is starting to feel she belongs too.
We bought a doormat with a pink elephant drawing.
And a set of loudspeakers.
The house says "hello!"
Goldfrapp sings "Lovely Head".
Almost home :)
Dani is starting to feel she belongs too.
We bought a doormat with a pink elephant drawing.
And a set of loudspeakers.
The house says "hello!"
Goldfrapp sings "Lovely Head".
Almost home :)
Monday, April 09, 2007
The Gossip: How did I miss them?
Beth Ditto is cool. Even better, a cool lesbian. With curves!!! :D. She screams a bit too much for my ears, but hey, when I am drunk I just feel like jumping and boxing in the air when I listen to Standing in the Way of Control.
"The band's breakthrough song "Standing in the Way of Control" was written by Ditto as a response to her government's decision to deny gays the right to marriage in the U.S. "Nobody in the States was that surprised or shocked by what Bush did, but it made everyone I know feel helpless and cheated," Ditto says. "I wrote the chorus to try and encourage people not to give up. It's a scary time for civil rights, but I really believe the only way to survive is to stick together and keep fighting."" (Wikipedia)
Standing in the way of control, we will live our liiiiiiives (liiiives, liiives, liiives, ooooouuuuuu, heeeeeeeeey)
The Gossip
I have to go back to Razzmatazz, where the "children" go dance, the only place in Barcelona where they would play such songs... (we missed Cansei de Ser Sexy live last Friday, but it was worth it). I don't mind at all getting older, don't mind becoming a fake academic intellectual, but I want good music!!!! Tired of the 80s...
"The band's breakthrough song "Standing in the Way of Control" was written by Ditto as a response to her government's decision to deny gays the right to marriage in the U.S. "Nobody in the States was that surprised or shocked by what Bush did, but it made everyone I know feel helpless and cheated," Ditto says. "I wrote the chorus to try and encourage people not to give up. It's a scary time for civil rights, but I really believe the only way to survive is to stick together and keep fighting."" (Wikipedia)
Standing in the way of control, we will live our liiiiiiives (liiiives, liiives, liiives, ooooouuuuuu, heeeeeeeeey)
The Gossip
I have to go back to Razzmatazz, where the "children" go dance, the only place in Barcelona where they would play such songs... (we missed Cansei de Ser Sexy live last Friday, but it was worth it). I don't mind at all getting older, don't mind becoming a fake academic intellectual, but I want good music!!!! Tired of the 80s...
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