Michael Jackson, John Lennon [link] ...do you see the connection?

Both sang for a better world, both killed by who? I think you know the question.

"Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace(...)"

Imagine - John Lennon

-There's A Place In
Your Heart
And I Know That It Is Love
And This Place Could
Be Much
Brighter Than Tomorrow
And If You Really Try
You'll Find There's No Need
To Cry
In This Place You'll Feel
There's No Hurt Or Sorrow

Heal the World - Michael Jackson


This type of strong concepts harm the people that are on governments, because they need us to support them by our ignorance, they need us to fight their oil wars.

The superstars ended with MJ, no one will reach so many people as a Superstar reach.


You may say - "Alexandre, you are so fucking paranoid, this don't make any sense."
Me - Maybe...maybe not!

Should anyone have afraid of the Power that Michael had?

In the end I quote Tyler Durden from Fight Club
"Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables — slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."

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the OTHERS got 11% on the Portuguese Elections, more then the 3rd party.

[link]

WOW - Just look at the chart from Estonia - [link] - It seems that Estonians are extremelly pleased with their government.

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I will vote in Blank in the next European Elections.

We are working for them, but I don't see much work from them.
I'm not satisfied.


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"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around."

- Sofia Serrano
in Vanilla Sky


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"What is Bad? I've told you already: everything that has in it's foundation, weakness, jealusy and revenge."

Chapter LVII
THE ANTICHRIST
NIETZSCHE

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Samuel Barber - Agnus Dei - [link]

The Voices of the Great Spirit.

When we say the right thing, when we do the right thing, we are working for the Great Spirit.
The Great Spirit is the best of the Mankind can do.

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BLINDNESS is a magnificent movie, it touches you, definetly. When the first part of the movie ended and I went to the toillet it seemed that I was blind. No connection between eyes and brain just the other senses were communicating with the head.
very good.

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Building with Light - Robert Elwall

Suggested by ~cyrus-inc, a very good book that explains the history of architectural photography from it's beginning till today.


The Eyes of the Skin - Juhani Pallasmaa

Suggested by ~stkennedy it was one of the best books I've read about architecture.

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I just saw the german film - Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei - The Edukators

it's so much what I feel and wanted to do, I recomend it to everyone, that is a bit revolutionary, but who's energy is absorved by the television.


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"What is architectural quality? It's easy, it doesn't mean to appear on architecture guides or in architecture history neither being published. Architectural quality can mean only one thing, that a building touches me"


-Peter Zumthor

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I think these movies can prepare people to know what life is all about, some talk about good things, others not really.


Zeitgeist
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain
Fight Club
Die Welle
Match Point
Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei - The Edukators
American Beauty
La Vita e Bela
Donnie Darko
Good Will Hunting
Hero
Matrix
Animatrix
Vanilla Sky
Habla con Ella
Love Actually
Dead Poets Society
Butterfly Effect
Schindler's List
12 Monkeys
Green Mile
Crash
Trainspotting
Collateral
The Hours
Lost in Translation
Alice
Saw
Saw II
Cube Zero
Cube
HyperCube
Snatch
American History X
La Pianiste
Meet Joe Black
Sweet November
Der Himmel uber Berlin
Shawshank Redemption
Elephant
Paranoid Park
Koyaanisqatsi
Powaqqatsi
Naqoyqatsi
Forrest Gump
Cidade de Deus
Monster's Ball
An Inconvenient Truth
The Departed
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Oldboy
Blood Diamond
Babel (japanese part)
Bowling for Columbine
Fahrenheit 9/11
Manhattan
Kingdom of Heaven
Cinema Paraiso
The Notebook
Blindness
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ein Freund von Mir
Peacefull Warrior

these movies are all related, they fit in the blanks of each other.
if you wanna say something, just tell me.


MUSIC
here are my favourites...

Apparat
Bjork
Bernardo Sassetti
Carlos Paredes
DeadcanDance
Ellen Allien
Faithless
Fat Boy Slim
Felix Mendelssohn
Hans Zimmer
James Horner
Jeff Buckley
Madonna
Madredeus
Mark Isham
Massive Attack
Moby
Nelly Furtado
Nitin Sawhney
Nina Simone
Pavarotti
Philip Glass
Pink Floyd
Portishead
Prodigy
Radiohead
Samuel Barber
Susumu Yokota
Sigur Ros
Schiller
Swod
Tan Dun
Yann Tiersen


BOOKS

The Twilight of the Idols - Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy - Nietzsche
The Antichrist - Nietzsche
Portugal, Hoje - O medo de Existir - Jose Gil
Architecture: choice or fatality - Leon Krier
Ornament and Crime - Adolf Loos
La Modernidad Superada - Josep Maria Montaner
Thinking Architecture - Peter Zumthor
Conversacoes ( Chats ) - Gilles Deleuze
Atmospheres - Peter Zumthor
Rethinking Architecture - Edited by Neil Leach
The Non-Places - Marc Auge
The Eyes of the Skin - Juhani Pallasmaa
Building with Light - Robert Elwall