Pateira

Estragon:  Wait!

Vladimir:  I'm cold!

Estragon:  Wait!  I sometimes wonder if we wouldn't have been better off alone, each one for himself.  We weren't made for the same road.

Vladimir:  It's not certain.

Estragon:  No, nothing is certain. 

Vladimir:  We can still part, if you think it would be better.

Estragon:  It's not worthwhile now.

Vladimir:  No, it's not worthwhile now.

Estragon:  Well, shall we go?

Vladimir:  Yes, let's go.

They do not move.

Curtain.

by Samuel Beckett

... Vi um travesti, vestindo um colete de mulher, na bicha de um cinema;  vi inúmeros travesti nesse Verão.  Houve o jantar com a Blair, no Morton's, quando ela me pediu que não fosse para New Hampshire.  Vi um anão a entrar para um Corvette. Fui com o Julian a um concerto das Go-Go's.  Uma festa em casa de Kim, numa tarde quente de domingo.  B-53s no estéreo.  Gaspacho, chili do Chasen's, hamburguers, daiquiris de banana, gelados Double Rainbow.  Dois rapazes ingleses, deitados junto à piscina, a dizerem-me como gostavam de trabalhar no Fred Segal;  aliás todos os ingleses que conheci naquele verão estavam a trabalhar no Fred Segal.  Um rapaz francês, magro, com quem a Blair foi para a cama, fumando um charro, com os pés metidos no jacuzzi.  As dentadas do grande Rotweiller preto a brincar na água, e provas de natação.  Rip com um olho de plástico na boca.  Eu continuo a olhar para além das palmeiras, observando o céu.

Bret Easton Ellis in "Menos Que Zero"

Três coisas tem o homem superior que ensinar-se a esquecer para que possa gozar no perfeito silêncio a sua superioridade - o ridículo, o trabalho, a dedicação.

Como não se dedica a ninguém, também nada exige de dedicação alheia.  Sóbrio, casto, frugal, tirando o menos possível da vida, tanto para não se incomodar como para não aproximar as coisas de mais, a ponto de destruir nellas a capacidade de serem sonhadas, elle isola-se por conveniência do orgulho e da desilusão.  Aprende a sentir tudo sem sentir directamente;  porque sentir directamente é submeter-se à acção da cousa sentida.

Fernando Pessoa in Moral, Regras de Vida, Condições de Iniciação

O que parece distinguir os líderes carismáticos é a sua visão estratégica e a sua habilidade para motivarem os seus colaboradores a alcançarem objectivos ambiciosos.  Estes líderes também aparecem associados com transformações radicais em grandes organizações burocráticas ou com a criação de iniciativas empresariais de sucesso. 

Conger & Kanungo cit. in "O Líder Sedutor", Clara Pracana, 2001

Um músico deve fazer música, um pintor deve pintar;  um poeta deve escrever;  se se querem sentir, em última análise, felizes.   Aquilo que um homem tem capacidade de ser, deve fazer por ser.  A esta necessidade podemos chamar auto-realização.

Maslow cit in Mills & Simmons, 1995

 Ama tu verso, y ama sabiamente tu vida,

la estrofa que más vive, siempre es la mas vivida.

Un mal verso supera la más perfecta prosa,

aunque en prosa y en verso digas la misma cosa.

 

Así como el exceso de virtud hace el vicio,

el exceso de arte llega a ser artificio.

Escribe de tal modo que te entienda la gente,

igual si es ignorante que si es indiferente.

 

Cumple la ley suprema de desdeñarlas todas,

sobre el cuerpo desnudo no envejecen las modas.

Y sobre todo, en arte y vida, sé diverso,

José Ángel Buesa, poeta cubano (1910 - 1982)

From TED, a religious leader's words for the weekend? Maybe, but most of all, words of wisdom from Rev. Billy Graham - a TEDtalk recorded back in 1998. 

 

Proa de Europa, busca

en la corriente

las ondas ancestrales,

la marítima barba de Camoens.

(...)

Navega, Portugal, la hora

llegó, levanta

tu estatura de proa

y entre las islas y los hombres vuelve

a ser camino.

En esta edad agrega tu luz,

vuelve a ser lámpara:

aprenderás de nuevo a ser estrella.

 

Pablo Neruda, "La lámpara marina" in Las Uvas y el Viento, 1954

Não é aquilo que pensamos que nos leva a empreender novas acções;  são as nossas acções que nos levam a pensar de uma nova maneira.

The Woodstock Music and Art Festival was a rock festival held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 km²) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969. For many, it exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s and the "hippie era". Many of the best-known musicians of the time appeared during the rainy weekend, captured in a successful 1970 movie, Woodstock. Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock", which memorialized the event, became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Though attempts have been made over the years to recreate the festival, the original Woodstock festival of 1969 has proven to be unique and legendary.

Woodstock was assembled through the joint work of Michael Lang, John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, and Artie Kornfeld.  Among others, these were the mos renowed performers:

John Sebastien, Richie Havens, Country Joe McDonald, John Sebastian, Ravi Shankar, Melanie, Aldo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Santana, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Ten Years After, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Jimi Hendrix. 

John Sebastien, Woodstock 1969

Give Peace a Chance" is a song written by John Lennon and issued as a single under the name Plastic Ono Band. maximize media exposure, newlyweds John Lennon and Yoko Ono originally intended to host their second "Bed-In" event in New York City (the first was held in Amsterdam), but U.S. immigration officials refused to allow Lennon in the country because of his November 1968 drug conviction in London. The couple instead chose Montreal because it was close to the U.S. border. The song was recorded on 1 June 1969 in Room 1742 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada. The recording session was attended by dozens of journalists and various celebrities, including Timothy Leary, Joseph Schawarts, Rosemary Woodruff Leary, Petual Clark, Aleen Ginsberg and othe celebrities, many of whom are mentioned in the lyrics. Lennon played acoustic guitar and was joined by Tommy Smothers of teh Smotehrs Brothers, also on acoustic guitar.

Give Peace A Chance - John Lennon at the Montreal "Bed-In"

After a debut in October 1967 at Joseph Papp's Public Theater, the show Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical opened on Broadway in April 1968 and ran for 1,750 performances, followed by a successful London production, which ran for 1,997 performances.

Hair tells the story of the "Tribe", a group of politically active,l ong-haired "Hippies of the Age of Aquarius" fighting against conscription to the Vietnam War and living a bohemian life together in New York City. They struggle to balance their young lives, loves and the sexual revolution with their pacifist rebellion against the war and the conservative impulses of their parents and society.

Hair was conceived by actors James Rado and Gerry Ragni.  Hair challenged many of the norms held by Western society in 1968. It caused controversy when it was first staged, and much publicity was provoked by the Act I finale which included male and female nudity, the first time a Broadway show had seen totally naked actors and actresses.

On March 2, 1969 in Toulouse, France, the first Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde test flight, piloted by Andre Turcat.  the Concorde service commenced in 1976 and continued for 27 years. It flew regular transatlantic flights from London Heathrow (British Airways) and Paris Charles de Gaulle (Air France) to New York JFK and Washington Dulles, flying these routes at record speeds, in under half the time of other airliners. Concorde also set many other records, including the official FAI "Westbound Around The World" and "Eastbound Around the World" world air speed records.

The development programme was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, with 20 aircraft built. The costly development phase thus represented a substantial economic loss. Air France and Bristish Airways were subsidised by their governments to buy the aircraft.

As a result of the type's only crash on 25 July 2000, world economiv effects arising from 9/11 attacks, and other factors, operations ceased on 24 October 2003.  The last "retirement" flight occurred on 26 November that year.

The Graduate, when released in 1967 (i.e. Summer of Love 1967), was a stirring, hugely entertaining event for the generation that embraced sex, drugs and rock and roll.

The plot tells us that a young boy, Benjamin, has recently graduated from college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt him when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter.

Mike Nichols won the Best Director Oscar and had 6 other nominatins including Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman for leading roles.  Unfortunately, none for the music of  Simon and Garfunkel, whose soundtrack album (The Graduate Original Soundtrack), on the strength of the hit single "Mrs. Robinson", rose to the top of the charts in 1968.

Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson

Dr. No is the first film in the James Bond series, filmed in 1962 and the first to star Sean Connery as MI6 British agent - double 0 7 - James Bond. Based on the 1958 novel Dr. No by Ian Fleming, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkeley Mather. The film was directed by Terenc eYoung, and produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Brocoli, a partnership that would continue until 1975.

is the first film in the James Bond series, filmed in 1962 and the first to star Sean Connery as MI6 British agent - double 0 7 - James Bond. Based on the 1958 novel Dr. No by Ian Fleming, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkeley Mather. The film was directed by Terenc eYoung, and produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Brocoli, a partnership that would continue until 1975.

In the film, Bond is sent to Jamica to investigate the death of a British agent. The trail leads him to the island home of reclusive Dr. Julius No, a reclusive member of SPECTRE, a global criminal organization. Bond uncovers Dr. No's plot to  disrupt American rocket tests, and scuttles his operation.

The first Bond Girl was Ursula Andress as Honey Rider, a seashell collector. The most famous composition in the soundtrack is the " James Bond Theme" written by Monty Norman.

Henry Mancini plays The Official James Bond Theme