Caê

Eu acho Caetano Veloso genial! E ele é considerado genial quando compõe musicas como "Felicidade", "Sampa", "qualquer coisa", "você não entende nada", "Alegria, Alegria" etc, etc, etc... Porém, o Caetano é taxado de chato! Quantas inúmeras vezes, ao falar que acho o Caetano um gênio, ouvi de volta: "eu acho o Caetano chato!".

Bom, o Caetano, ao contrario dos músicos com ar blasé, se importa com as criticas e as rebate em público (para deleite dos críticos, quase sempre a margem da intelligentsia cultural)! Isto o torna chato? Talvez... O Caetano esta toda hora experimentando coisas novas! Compõe forró, baião, rock, samba, musicas experimentais, sambas canção, boleros... As vezes as musicas são estranhas e pouco palatáveis!

Mas como todo grande gênio, o Caetano transpira! As diversas tentativas e erros vão construindo um musico maduro, elegante, que diferente de muita gente, ri de si mesmo e vai sublimando estas mundanidades!

Lendo as biografias de grandes personalidades, eu vejo que muitos grandes gênios foram hostilizados... E nenhum deles acertou de primeira, pelo contrario: A relação é de incontáveis fracassos para cada tese revolucionaria.

Acho que pra cada musica estranha do Caetano, ao invés de taxa-lo de chato, deveríamos implorar para que ele tentasse novamente, que tentasse diluir mais aquela experiencia concentrada para que pudêssemos acessar sua criatividade!

Abaixo o Caetano demonstra que, diferente de outros grandes compositores, ele também é um genial intérprete:

I am the 1%

We are Wall Street

“We are Wall Street. It’s our job to make money. Whether it’s a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn’t matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didn’t hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 14,000 and everyone’s 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, its not a problem until you lose. I’ve never heard of anyone going to Gamblers Anonymous because they won too much in Vegas.

Well now the market crapped out, & even though it has come back somewhat, the government and the average Joes are still looking for a scapegoat. God knows there has to be one for everything. Well, here we are.

Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you’re only going to hurt yourselves. What’s going to happen when we can’t find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We’re going to take yours. We get up at 5am & work till 10pm or later. We’re used to not getting up to pee when we have a position. We don’t take an hour or more for a lunch break. We don’t demand a union. We don’t retire at 50 with a pension. We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates, we’ll eat that.

For years teachers and other unionized labor have had us fooled. We were too busy working to notice. Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping? We’re going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months off a year and whine just like you that we are so-o-o-o underpaid for building the youth of America. Say goodbye to your overtime and double time and a half. I’ll be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team for $5k extra a summer, thank you very much.

So now that we’re going to be making $85k a year without upside, Joe Mainstreet is going to have his revenge, right? Wrong! Guess what: we’re going to stop buying the new 80k car, we aren’t going to leave the 35 percent tip at our business dinners anymore. No more free rides on our backs. We’re going to landscape our own back yards, wash our cars with a garden hose in our driveways. Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does yours.

The difference is, you lived off of it, we rejoiced in it. The Obama administration and the Democratic National Committee might get their way and knock us off the top of the pyramid, but it’s really going to hurt like hell for them when our fat a**es land directly on the middle class of America and knock them to the bottom.

We aren’t dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive. The question is, now that Obama & his administration are making Joe Mainstreet our food supply…will he? and will they?”

Hoje

Hoje eu quero a rosa mais linda que houver
E a primeira estrela que vier para enfeitar a noite do meu bem

103

Hoje, 11 de outubro, data para lembrar do aniversário do mestre Cartola.
Diferente do ano passado, em que só fiz uma singela homenagem com foto, para 2011 temos vídeo! Yeeeeeah!

O Youtube, esse maravilhoso, que permite vídeos inteirinhos, nos proporciona a alegria de ver novamente o programa Por Toda Minha Vida. Cinquenta minutos de ~amor puro e simples.

Pra quem perdeu, pra quem já viu e não lembra ou simplesmente pra quem quer rever e rever, taí:



AAAAh, Cartola! Feliz 103 anos!

Provocações

Não aguentava mais entrar no blog e ver aquele quadrinho.... De modo que, segue uma provocaçãozinha do Sr. Antonio Abujamra!