Roupa

Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (27)

Sometimes a god comes," Selver said. "He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time and the world-time. When he has done this, it is done. You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretenses. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another.

 

The Word for World is Forest, Ursula K. Le Guin

Critics' Choice Television Awards

A cerimónia de entrega dos Critics' Choice Television Awards está marcada para 19 de Junho com transmissão no canal CW. Nessa altura saberemos quais foram as escolhas dos críticos de televisão norte-americanos. Abaixo, ficam os nomeados.

Melhor Comédia
The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Broad City (Comedy Central)
Louie (FX)
Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)
Silicon Valley (HBO)
Veep (HBO)

Melhor Actor de Comédia
Louis CK, Louie (FX)
Chris Messina, The Mindy Project (FOX)
Thomas Middleditch, Silicon Valley (HBO)
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Adam Scott, Parks and Recreation (NBC)
Robin Williams, The Crazy Ones (CBS)

Melhor Actriz de Comédia
Ilana Glazer, Broad City (Comedy Central)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep (HBO)
Wendi McLendon-Covey, The Goldbergs (ABC)
Amy Schumer, Inside Amy Schumer (Comedy Central)
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation (NBC)
Emmy Rossum, Shameless (Showtime)

Melhor Actor Secundário em Comédia
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine (FOX)
Keith David, Enlisted (FOX)
Tony Hale, Veep (HBO)
Albert Tsai, Trophy Wife (ABC)
Christopher Evan Welch, Silicon Valley (HBO)
Jeremy Allen White, Shameless (Showtime)

Melhor Actriz Secundária em Comédia
Mayim Bialik, The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Laverne Cox, Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)
Kaley Cuoco, The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Allison Janney, Mom (CBS)
Kate Mulgrew, Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)
Merritt Wever, Nurse Jackie (Showtime)

Melhor Participação Especial em Comédia
Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)
Sarah Baker, Louie (FX)
James Earl Jones, The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Mimi Kennedy, Mom (CBS)
Andrew Rannells, Girls (HBO)
Lauren Weedman, Looking (HBO)

Melhor Drama
The Americans (FX)
Breaking Bad (AMC)
Game of Thrones (HBO)
The Good Wife (CBS)
Masters of Sex (Showtime)
True Detective (HBO)

Melhor Actor em Drama
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad (AMC)
Hugh Dancy, Hannibal (NBC)
Freddie Highmore, Bates Motel (A&E)
Matthew McConaughey, True Detective (HBO)
Matthew Rhys, The Americans (FX)
Michael Sheen, Masters of Sex (Showtime)

Melhor Actriz em Drama
Lizzy Caplan, Masters of Sex (Showtime)
Vera Farmiga, Bates Motel (A&E)
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife (CBS)
Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black (BBC America)
Keri Russell, The Americans (FX)
Robin Wright, House of Cards (Netflix)

Melhor Actor Secundário em Drama
Josh Charles, The Good Wife (CBS)
Walton Goggins, Justified (FX)
Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad (AMC)
Peter Sarsgaard, The Killing (AMC)
Jon Voight, Ray Donovan (Showtime)
Jeffrey Wright, Boardwalk Empire (HBO)

Melhor Actriz Secundária em Drama
Christine Baranski, The Good Wife (CBS)
Anna Gunn, Breaking Bad (AMC)
Annet Mahendru, The Americans (FX)
Melissa McBride, The Walking Dead (AMC)
Maggie Siff, Sons of Anarchy (FX)
Bellamy Young, Scandal (ABC)

Melhor Participação Especial em Drama
Beau Bridges, Masters of Sex (Showtime)
Walton Goggins, Sons of Anarchy (FX)
Allison Janney, Masters of Sex (Showtime)
Joe Morton, Scandal (ABC)
Carrie Preston, The Good Wife (CBS)
Diana Rigg, Game of Thrones (HBO)

Melhor Filme Televisivo
An Adventure in Space and Time (BBC America)
Burton and Taylor (BBC America)
Killing Kennedy (National Geographic Channel)
The Normal Heart (HBO)
Sherlock: His Last Vow (PBS)
The Trip to Bountiful (Lifetime)

Melhor Mini-Série
American Horror Story: Coven (FX)
Bonnie & Clyde (A&E/History/Lifetime)
Dancing on the Edge (Starz)
Fargo (FX)
The Hollow Crown (PBS)
Luther (BBC America)

Melhor Actor em Filme ou Mini-Série
David Bradley, An Adventure in Space and Time (BBC America)
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock: His Last Vow (PBS)
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dancing on the Edge (Starz)
Martin Freeman, Fargo (FX)
Mark Ruffalo, The Normal Heart (HBO)
Billy Bob Thornton, Fargo (FX)

Melhor Actriz em Filme ou Mini-Série
Helena Bonham Carter, Burton and Taylor (BBC America)
Minnie Driver, Return to Zero (Lifetime)
Whoopi Goldberg, A Day Late and a Dollar Short (Lifetime)
Holliday Grainger, Bonnie & Clyde (A&E/History/Lifetime)
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Coven (FX)
Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful (Lifetime)

Melhor Actor Secundário em Filme ou Mini-Série
Matt Bomer, The Normal Heart (HBO)
Warren Brown, Luther (BBC America)
Martin Freeman, Sherlock: His Last Vow (PBS)
Colin Hanks, Fargo (FX)
Joe Mantello, The Normal Heart (HBO)
Blair Underwood, The Trip to Bountiful (Lifetime)

Melhor Actriz Secundária em Filme ou Mini-Série
Amanda Abbington, Sherlock: His Last Vow (PBS)
Kathy Bates, American Horror Story: Coven (FX)
Ellen Burstyn, Flowers in the Attic (Lifetime)
Jessica Raine, An Adventure in Space and Time (BBC America)
Julia Roberts, The Normal Heart (HBO)
Allison Tolman, Fargo (FX)

Melhor Reality
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (FOX/National Geographic Channel)
Deadliest Catch (Discovery)
Duck Dynasty (A&E)
Mythbusters (Discovery)
Top Gear (BBC America)
Undercover Boss (CBS)

Melhor Reality de Competição
The Amazing Race (CBS)
Project Runway (Lifetime)
Shark Tank (ABC)
Survivor (CBS)
Top Chef (Bravo)
The Voice (NBC)

Melhor Apresentador de Reality
Tom Bergeron, Dancing With the Stars (ABC)
Carson Daly, The Voice (NBC)
Cat Deeley, So You Think You Can Dance (FOX)
Gordon Ramsay, MasterChef (FOX)
RuPaul, RuPaul’s Drag Race (Logo)
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (FOX/National Geographic Channel)

Melhor Talk Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Time Telepictures)
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)
The Colbert Report (Comedy Central)
Conan (TBS)

Melhor Série de Animação
Archer (FX)
Bob’s Burgers (FOX)
The Simpsons (FOX)
Family Guy (FOX)
Phineas and Ferb (Disney XD)
Adventure Time (Cartoon Network)

Maya Angelou

Soft you day, be velvet soft,
My true love approaches,
Look you bright, you dusty sun,
Array your golden coaches.

Soft you wind, be soft as silk
My true love is speaking.
Hold you birds, your silver throats,
His golden voice I'm seeking.

Come you death, in haste, do come
My shroud of black be weaving,
Quiet my heart, be deathly quiet,
My true love is leaving.

The Complete Collected Poems, Maya Angelou

Feira do Livro de Lisboa

Começa hoje a 84.ª Edição da Feira do Livro de Lisboa, organizada pela APEL. De 29 de Maio a 15 de Junho, o Parque Eduardo VII recebe milhares de visitantes que tentam arranjar livros pelos melhores preços enquanto passeiam pelo parque.

Para mais informações: Feira do Livro de Lisboa.

Guardians of the Galaxy

Cinema Fantástico

Realizador: James Gann
Com: Chris Pratt (Peter Quill/Star-Lord), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Dave Bautista (Drax the Destroyer), Vin Diesel (Groot), Bradley Cooper (Rocket), Lee Pace (Ronan), Micahel Rooker (Yondu), Karen Gillian (Nebula), Djimon Hounsou (Korath), John C. Reilly (Rhomann Dey), Glenn Close (Nova Prime Irani Rael), Benicio del Toro (Tameleer Tivan/The Collector).
Estreia: 7 de Agosto em Portugal.

É a grande estreia de Agosto, que promete muito divertimento e muita luta no espaço. Com um elenco de luxo, acompanhamos a história de Peter Quill (Star-Lord) nos limites dos espaço, quando ele se torna alvo de uma caça ao homem, depois de roubar um orbe cobiçado pelo vilão Ronan. Para conseguir evitar Ronan, Quill é forçado a aliar-se a um grupo de desajustados que inlui Gomora, Drax the Destroyer, Groot e Rocket. Mas quando descobre o verdadeiro poder do orbe e a ameaça que este representa para o cosmos, deve reunir a ralé dos seus inimigos para um último confronto desesperado em que o destino da galáxia está em jogo.

O elenco é de facto de luxo, os efeitos espectaculares e a banda sonora parece óptima, só espero não me desiludir quando o filme sair. Abaixo, fica o novo trailer e a música "Hooked on a Feeling" dos Blue Swede.

 

John W. Campbell Award

Nomeações 2014

Já são conhecidos os nomeados para o John W. Campbell Award, prémio que existe desde 1973 e que distingue o melhor livro de ficção científica do ano anterior. O vencedor será anunciado de 13 a 15 de Junho no Campbell Conference Awards Banquet, na Universidade do Kansas, E.U.A.

Lexicon, de Max Barry (Penguin)
Proxima, de Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
The Circle, de Dave Eggers (Knopf)
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, de Karen Joy Fowler (Marian Wood / Putnam)
Hild, de Nicola Griffith (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
The Cusanus Game, de Wolfgang Jeschke (Tor)
Ancillary Justice, de Ann Leckie (Orbit)
The Disestablishment of Paradise, de Phillip Mann (Gollancz)
Evening’s Empires, de Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
The Red: First Light, de Linda Nagata (Mythic Island Press)
The Adjacent, de Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
On the Steel Breeze, de Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
Shaman, de Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
Neptune’s Brood, de Charles Stross (Ace)
Strange Bodies, de Marcel Theroux (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)

The End

As músicas da minha vida (20)

The Doors
"The End"
Álbum: The Doors
1967

"The End", a música dos The Doors foi escrita por Jim Morrison. A música faz parte da banda sonora de Apocalypse Now (1979) de Francis Ford Coppola e aparece na cena inicial do filme e passa durante a morte de Kurtz. Foi quando revi o filme que me apaixonei pela música e resolvi ouvir as músicas dos The Doors que adoro. Abaixo, fica "The End" com a letra.

 

The End

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand
In a...desperate land ?

Lost in a Roman...wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake...he's old, and his skin is cold
The west is the best
The west is not bad
Get here, and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is callin' us
The blue bus is callin' us
Driver, where you taken' us ?

The killer awoke before dawn,
He put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived,
And...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
"Father ?", "yes son", "I want to kill you"
"Mother...I want to...fuck you"

C'mon baby, take a chance with us
C'mon baby, take a chance with us
C'mon baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, On a blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, C'mon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill

This is the end, Beautiful friend
This is the end, My only friend, the end
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end

Festival de Cannes

A Beleza na Passadeira Vermelha

A Passadeira Vermelha em Cannes é sempre motivo para falar nas revistas de moda e as celebridades que por lá passam aproveitam para desfilar os melhores vestidos dos estilistas mais conhecidos. Este ano a rainha da passadeira vermelha foi Blake Lively que conseguiu deslumbrar com os vestidos mais lindos e vistosos. Dezenas de modelos e actrizes mostraram o que está na moda no que diz respeito aos vestidos, jóias e penteados, enquanto o festival acontecia e premiava os filmes. Abaixo, fica uma enorme selecção dos melhores vestidos.