sexta-feira, 31 de julho de 2009

Seven words you can't say on TV - Cômico Americano

I love words. I thank you for hearing my words.
I want to tell you something about words that I think is important.
They're my work, they're my play, they're my passion.
Words are all we have, really. We have thoughts but thoughts are fluid.
then we assign a word to a thought and we're stuck with that word for
that thought, so be careful with words. I like to think that the same
words that hurt can heal, it is a matter of how you pick them.
There are some people that are not into all the words.
There are some that would have you not use certain words.
There are 400,000 words in the English language and there are 7
of them you can't say on television. What a ratio that is.
399,993 to 7. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous
to be seperated from a group that large. All of you over here,you 7,
Bad Words. That's what they told us they were, remember?
"That's a bad word!" No bad words, bad thoughts, bad intentions,
and words. You know the 7, don't you, that you can't say on television?
"Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, CockSucker, MotherFucker, and Tits"
Those are the heavy seven. Those are the ones that'll infect your soul,
curve your spine, and keep the country from winning the war.
"Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, CockSucker, MotherFucker, and Tits"
Wow! ...and Tits doesn't even belong on the list. That is such a friendly
sounding word. It sounds like a nickname, right? "Hey, Tits, come here,
man. Hey Tits, meet Toots. Toots, Tits. Tits, Toots." It sounds like a
snack, doesn't it? Yes, I know, it is a snack. I don't mean your sexist
snack. I mean New Nabisco Tits!, and new Cheese Tits, Corn Tits,
Pizza Tits, Sesame Tits, Onion Tits, Tater Tits. "Betcha Can't Eat Just
One." That's true. I usually switch off. But I mean, that word does
not belong on the list. Actually none of the words belong on the list,
but you can understand why some of them are there. I'm not
completely insensetive to people's feelings. I can understand why
some of those words got on the list, like CockSucker and
MotherFucker. Those are heavyweight words. There is a lot going on
there. Besides the literal translation and the emotional feeling.
I mean, they're just busy words. There's a lot of syllables to contend
with. And those Ks, those are agressive sounds. They just jump out at
you like "coCKsuCKer, motherfuCKer. coCKsuCKer, motherfuCKer."
It's like an assualt on you. We mentioned Shit earlier, and 2 of the
other 4-letter Anglo-Saxon words are Piss and Cunt, which go
together of course. A little accedental humor there. The reason that
Piss and Cunt are on the list is because a long time ago, there were
certain ladies that said "Those are the 2 I am not going to say. I
don't mind Fuck and Shit but 'P' and 'C' are out.", which led to such
stupid sentences as "Okay you fuckers, I'm going to tinckle now."
And, of course, the word Fuck. I don't really, well that's more
accedental humor, I don't wanna get into that now because I think
it takes to long. But I do mean that. I think the word Fuck is a very
imprortant word. It is the beginning of life, yet it is a word we use to
hurt one another quite often. People much wiser than I am said,
"I'd rather have my son watch a film with 2 people making love
than 2 people trying to kill one another. I, of course, can agree. It is
a great sentence. I wish I knew who said it first. I agree with that but
I like to take it a step further. I'd like to substitute the word Fuck for
the word Kill in all of those movie cliches we grew up with. "Okay,
Sherrif, we're gonna Fuck you now, but we're gonna Fuck you slow."
So maybe next year I'll have a whole fuckin' ramp on the N word.
I hope so. Those are the 7 you can never say on television, under any
circumstanses. You just cannot say them ever ever ever. Not even
clinically. You cannot weave them in on the panel with Doc, and Ed,
and Johnny. I mean, it is just impossible. Forget tHose 7. They're out.
But there are some 2-way words, those double-meaning words.
Remember the ones you giggled at in sixth grade? "...And the cock
CROWED 3 times" "Hey, tha cock CROWED 3 times. ha ha ha ha. Hey, it's in
the bible. ha ha ha ha. There are some 2-way words, like it is okay for
Kirk Youdi to say "Roberto Clametti has 2 balls on him.", but he can't
say "I think he hurt his balls on that play, Tony. Don't you? He's holding
them. He must've hurt them, by God." and the other 2-way word that
goes with that one is Prik. It's okay if it happens to your finger. You
can prik your finger but don't finger your prik. No,no.

quinta-feira, 30 de julho de 2009

Eu não tinha este rosto de hoje,
assim calmo, assim triste, assim magro,
nem estes olhos tão vazios,
nem o lábio amargo.

Não te aflijas com a pétala que voa:
também é ser, deixar de ser assim.
Rosas verá, só de cinzas franzidas,
mortas, intactas pelo teu jardim.
Eu deixo aroma até nos meus espinhos
ao longe, o vento vai falando de mim.
E por perder-me é que vão me lembrando,
por desfolhar-me é que não tenho fim.

Desejo uma fotografia
como esta — o senhor vê? — como esta:
em que para sempre me ria
como um vestido de eterna festa.


Cecilia em três tempos. Vêm ai 25 anos.

terça-feira, 28 de julho de 2009

O INIMIGO VEM DE DENTRO

Eu leio isso:
IHAC oferece 400 componentes curriculares na matrícula
Data: 13/07/2009 Autor: Assessoria de Comunicação
O Instituto de Humanidades, Artes e Ciências Milton Santos (IHAC) oferece 400 componentes curriculares dos Bacharelados Interdisciplinares (BI) nas matrículas do segundo semestre para alunos regulares da UFBA.
E isso:

Além desses componentes, os alunos do IHAC poderão cursar diversos componentes nos demais departamentos da UFBa. Tais CCs são denominados de “livres” e a relação completa está disponível na secretaria do IHAC (uma vez que são cerca de 400 CCs distribuídos entre os 4 BIs). Os estudantes do BI de Artes, que não cursaram “Políticas Culturais”, poderão fazê-lo neste semestre.

E fico me perguntando se não tem alguém querendo convencer o mundo de alguma coisa estratégica, passar uma mensagem cifrada, montar uma peça. Acho que estão é pregando uma peça.

Eu sou, por enquanto, aluno do BI de Humanidades da UFBA. Coisa fina. Ao todo, somos cerca de mil alunos, ajudando muito. Ai eu começo a me perguntar algumas coisas mais. 400 componentes curriculares? Esse curso não acaba nunca? 400 componentes curriculares? é uma disciplina pra cada dupla de alunos? 400? Não, claro que não. Uns 50, e oia oia. Não pra sacanear. Como tem pouco funcionario na matricula (mais do que em arquitetura) muitos alunos (menos que em letras, arquitetra, geologia etc etc etc) poucos computadores (mais do que em letras) poucos orientadores (mais do que...) e pouco tempo (o mesmo de qualquer curso), o Ihac pode ter se confundido e contado turmas como Componentes Curriculares... surpresa! Nem chega a 100, mas eu não contei.

Eu ia deixar passar, mas agora deram pra me tratar como o dono da carteira que assusta, e resolveram que eu sou o cristo a servir de exemplo. Vai me custar muito, mas eu não mudo de opinião. Não se assuste dindinha, é subliminar.




sábado, 4 de julho de 2009

Santanna - Caruaru

Antes era fazenda...
assim diz a lenda
de um velho mandacaru
hoje estais tão famosa
te vi na europa
num poster, Caruaru!

A saudade me trouxe
pra ver tuas noites
tão lindas de são joão
rever a velha moradia
que eu deixei um dia
de tras do portão

a tua paisagem me faz delirar
a lua no céu é bela como tu

estrela do agreste sempre vou te amar
no leste,no oeste,
no norte e no sul

seu mestre foi vitalino, Caruaru!
no barro fez teu destino,caruaru!