Morad Bouchakour

Da série "Cultural" de Morad Bouchakour.

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Interpol, Turn On The Bright Lights (Matador, 2002).

The difference, however, lies in the music itself: what Joy Division played was sparse and jagged-- punk with a melancholy, but often minimalist bent. Interpol, meanwhile, are punk in ethic alone; their music bears few of that genre's signatures, with the band instead immersing themselves in a grander, more theatrical atmosphere with lush production that counters their frustrated bombast.

Parar

My name is Dwayne Hoover and I am an experiment by the creator of the universe. I am the only creature in the entire universe who has free will. I am the only creature who has to figure out what to do next and why. Everybody else is a robot.

I am pooped. I wish I were a robot too. It is perfectly exhausting having to reason all the time in a universe I never made.

Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut.

The XX

Não são os melhores cantores, nem os instrumentistas mais dotados. Mas sabem manipular o espaço, provocar momentos de tensão e de distensão como poucos. Talvez seja instintivo. Talvez seja porque se conhecem muito bem. Seja o que for, conseguem criar canções que não se ouvem apenas. Absorvem-se, flutuantes e livres. Aos 20 anos acabam de lançar um álbum que até pode não passar de um golpe de sorte, por mais improvável que o pareça. Até podem não voltar a fazer nada de jeito. Não sabemos. Nunca sairemos da especulação. Neste momento, parece não existir outra música que faça tanto sentido. E é isso que interessa.

Acho que concordo.

Hyderabad, Pakistan

A girl collected oil Friday spilt from tankers after two cargo trains collided near Hyderabad, Pakistan. At least five people were injured, officials said. (Pervez Masih/Associated Press)

It's a very very mad world

In a way I think it's because you like to keep things neat and tidy, in a chaotic world. And in your little corner of design you're allowed to. So, you're making your little poop pile nifty, it's neat, it's tidy, in your little corner, and you can say: Look mommy, I've made a nice little poop pile! This is my deep and intrinsically complex analysis of why designers are designers: it's because they wish to please their mothers and order the world which feels chaotic.

Age of Consent

New Order, Power Corruption & Lies, FACT 75 (Factory, 1983).

Adoro a capa do disco, por Peter Saville.

Narcissism of small differences

The Narcissism of small differences is a term coined by Sigmund Freud in 1917, based on the earlier work of British anthropologist Ernest Crawley.

The term describes the manner in which our negative feelings are sometimes directed at people who resemble us, while we take pride from the "small differences" that distinguish us from them.

The term appeared in Civilization and Its Discontents (1929-1930) in relation to the application of the inborn aggression in man in ethnic conflict.

Glen O. Gabbard, M.D. suggested Freud's "Narcissism of Small Difference" provides a framework within which to understand that in a loving relationship there can be a need to find, and even exaggerate, differences in order to preserve a feeling of separateness and self.

"Não acho que somos de mundos diferentes".
Nem eu. E se formos, seremos exploradores.