The Bhagavad Gita

Krishna gives Arjuna 4 approaches to life and deliverance (i.e., samadhi):
- bhakti yoga, the path of love and devotion;
- karma yoga, the path of selfless work;
- jnana yoga, the path of knowledge;
- and raja/hatha yoga, the path of discipline or force.

Glenn Gould

23/09/2008: Glenn

Pantera - Baudelaire

Let's all get some Baudelaire! It's been 10 years I can't really go around Nietzsche's ideas... Baudelaire is the incarnation of some of Nietzsche's ideas. The inversion of the (wrong) dichotomies between good and evil and between Apollonian and Dionysian are everywhere in Baudelaire's poems. This is just the start of his giant book:

Si le viol, le poison, le poignard, l'incendie,
N'ont pas encore brodé de leurs plaisants dessins
Le canevas banal de nos piteux destins,
C'est que notre âme, hélas! n'est pas assez hardie.

English translation (taken from wikipedia):
If rape and poison, dagger and burning,
Have still not embroidered their pleasant designs
On the banal canvas of our pitiable destinies,
It's because our souls, alas, are not bold enough!

This is a farewell to the most beautiful _non classic_ songs ever. Who said it has to be beautiful? What's beauty? Fuck off! Play it loud and bang your fucking head!

23/09/2008 - Pantera - Walk

Alfama

After travelling so much... I don't really feel Portuguese. I see Portuguese people just as I see Brazilians, or Timorese, or Indians.

Nevertheless, and in complete contradiction, there's something that I can't really share with most of the Portuguese people I know, that is, Portuguese culture, that is, Portuguese poetry and Portuguese music.

06/09/2008 - So, today's most beautiful song ever tastes like bread with sadness: Amália singing Alfama

Runners up are Saudades de Coimbra:


and my old time favourite: