Friday, May 27, 2005

After midnight




The summer vibe is finally here. Warmer, longer days, and nights that get you drunk with moonlight and dreaming before a tender ocean sprayed by it. To me, it always feels like a primitive awakening, a sensual strumming of the senses that makes you want to breathe and live the summer to the fullest. Have been taking some time off to do some reading and quiet thinking, giving my mind some space of its own. And some corners of it that seemed asleep for some time seem to be coming back to life. And for better or for worse, I want to keep them that way. How much of us do we leave behind at some points, not knowing how, or when, or why? How many times do we look back at ourselves as long lost friends, grieving for lost innocences and strengths? And do we ever realize how much we left behind?
"It's never too late", I said to myself. It was that amazing hour after midnight, when summer nights bloom to the fullest. I was staring at the ocean, gentle and covered in moonlight. I had old friends beside me.

"In that year there was
an intense visitation
of energy.
I left school and went down
to the beach to live.
I slept on a roof.
At night the moon became
a woman's face.
I met the Spirit of Music."
- Jim Morrison

Into starlight.

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Any which way the wind may be blowing...

A fresh breath of air. Just back from Coimbra, after a weekend at the "Queima das Fitas" university festival. Best of all, I was in the loveliest company possible, with my sweet Catarina as my own private tour guide… :) She reunited with friends and her hometown of four years, I enjoyed new sights and sounds, met some very nice people and had my camera ready at all times to capture as much as possible. It was amazing to see all this energy in the air, all day and especially all night long... Wonderful to see the city captured by the spontaneous energy of this amazing, wonderfully insane tribe, shining and spinning for a week that everyone wishes it would never end...

Thank you to all the lovely people who made us feel at home, for your sympathy and kindness and party spirit. Thank you for the great weekend, and I hope you keep on rockin' the whole week long! I'll definitely be back next year! Take care.

There’s nothing ever gained
By a wet thing called a tear
When the world is too dark
And I need the light inside of me
I’ll walk into a bar
And drink fifteen pints of beer
I am going, I am going
Any which way the wind may be blowing
I am going, I am going
Where streams of whiskey are flowing

- Shane MacGowan

Into starlight.

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Straight To You



All the towers of ivory are crumbling
And the swallows have sharpened their beaks
This is the time of our great undoing
This is the time that I'll come running
Straight to you
For I am captured
Straight to you
For I am captured
One more time

The light in our window is fading
The candle gutters on the ledge
Well now sorrow, it comes a-stealing
And I'll cry, girl, but I'll come a-running
Straight to you
For I am captured
Straight to you
For I am captured
Once again

Gone are the days of rainbows
Gone are the nights of swinging from the stars
For the sea will swallow up the mountains
And the sky will throw thunder-bolts and sparks
Straight at you
But I'll come a-running
Straight to you
But I'll come a-running
One more time

Heaven has denied us its kingdom
The saints are drunk howling at the moon
The chariots of angels are colliding
Well, I'll run, babe, but I'll come running
Straight to you
For I am captured
Straight to you
For I am captured
One more time

- Nick Cave

Into starlight.