I will continue

As long as there's a road to travel . We will continue . As long as there's a road to travel.
As long as there's wind and sea . We will not stop . As long as there's wind and sea.


Cheers

man in catharsis

Minutes are losses to lived stories. Instants are not enough to lick the wounds.
And time comes after me. Bring of me. And time comes after you. Bring of you. And time comes after us. Bring of us.


A port, when it's cheerful, is the right place to dock. And we want to stay, And... we want to stay.
A port, when it's cheerful, is the right place even far from the sea. And we want to stay!

I can't give everything away

"I Can't Give Everything Away", is the last track of "Blackstar", the last studio album of David Bowie, released on 8 January 2016, Bowie's 69th birthday. Bowie died 2 days later, 10 years and 49 days ago.
Maybe Bowie is telling us that he cannot tell anyone everything about himself. We'll never know...


Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails made a remix called Farewell Mix, which he performs live singing along with Bowie's vocals recording.
The following song selected for this post is The Lovers.

Days Of Ash

U2 just released on Ash Wednesday, "Days Of Ash". It's an EP with six songs condemning current regimes of violence in many places in the world, their injustices, and the resulting deaths.
Here's two songs of the six included in that EP:

1 - About the authoritarian government in America, its brutal ICE, and homaging Renée Good:
Renee Good born to die free. American mother of three.

American Obituary

2 - And about the war in Ukraine and the heroic resistance of the people of that nation:
Don't sleep. Don't even think about it. No need. Maybe a little bit. Still dream. About waking up free.

Yours Eternally

teenage lust

The Jesus and Mary Chain, 1992

hot air balloon

Originally a duo with Portuguese guitarist Tiago Machado and Irish singer Sarah-Jane Burkeis, HOT AIR BALLOON is a band formed in Guimarães, in northern Portugal. Here are presented two songs about loss and a relationship at risk, from their most recent album, Come This Far.

Keep me Going


Come This Far

kiss me

MARO, two weeks ago.

Love is urgent

Urgentemente

É urgente o amor.
É urgente um barco no mar.
É urgente destruir certas palavras, ódio, solidão e crueldade, alguns lamentos, muitas espadas.
É urgente inventar alegria, multiplicar os beijos, as searas, é urgente descobrir rosas e rios e manhãs claras.
Cai o silêncio nos ombros e a luz impura, até doer.
É urgente o amor, é urgente permanecer.

 Eugénio de Andrade, 1951

Urgently

Love is urgent.
A boat at sea is urgent.
It's urgent to destroy certain words, hate, loneliness and cruelty, some laments, many swords.
It's urgent to invent joy, to multiply kisses, the harvests, it's urgent to discover roses and rivers and clear mornings.
Silence falls on the shoulders and the light impure, until it hurts.
Love is urgent, it's urgent to remain.


Have a beautiful Valentine's Day <3

nothing to win and nothing left to lose

U2 - With Or Without You, 1987

pour toujours

Benjamin Biolay - Little Darlin' (2003)

Because there are also good souls in America

Renée Nicole Good was a fatal victim of ICE brutality*. Minutes earlier, she had dropped her 6-year-old son off at school.
John Fogerty is helping Renée's son in multiple ways.

Here's John Fogerty on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2025 playing his first great hit, Proud Mary, in Tiny Desk Concert - NPR session, and explaining how he wrote it in 1968.


*ICE illegal and abusive actions include:
- Illegal actions or misconduct by officers violating citizens' rights and public trust, such as excessive force, false arrest, and corruption. It includes, but is not limited to, coercion, sexual misconduct, racial profiling, and unlawful searches. These acts often breach constitutional protections.
- Excessive Force/Brutality: Unwarranted violence, including physical beatings, improper takedowns, and use of deadly force.
- False Arrest/Imprisonment: Detaining individuals without probable cause or legal justification.
- Unlawful Search and Seizure: Conducting searches, entering homes, or seizing property without a warrant or legal justification.
- Psychological/Verbal Abuse: Intimidation, harassment, mockery, or excessive stops.

Because there are also nice people in America

Deerhunter, "Cover Me /Agoraphobia" (2008) live 2009 and "Desire Lines" (2010) live 2018.

Because there are also heroes in America

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis


Through the winter’s ice and cold . Down Nicollet Avenue . A city aflame fought fire and ice ‘Neath an occupier’s boots . King Trump’s private army from the DHS Guns belted to their coats . Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law . Or so their story goes . Against smoke and rubber bullets . By the dawn’s early light . Citizens stood for justice . Their voices ringing through the night . And there were bloody footprints . Where mercy should have stood . And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets . Alex Pretti and Renee Good .
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice . Singing through the bloody mist . We’ll take our stand for this land . And the stranger in our midst . Here in our home they killed and roamed . In the winter of ’26 . We’ll remember the names of those who died . On the streets of Minneapolis .
Trump’s federal thugs beat up on . His face and his chest . Then we heard the gunshots . And Alex Pretti lay in the snow, dead . Their claim was self defense, sir . Just don’t believe your eyes . It’s our blood and bones . And these whistles and phones . Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies .
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice . Crying through the bloody mist . We’ll remember the names of those who died . On the streets of Minneapolis .
Now they say they’re here to uphold the law . But they trample on our rights . If your skin is black or brown my friend . You can be questioned or deported on sight .
In chants of ICE out now . Our city’s heart and soul persists . Through broken glass and bloody tears . On the streets of Minneapolis .
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice . Singing through the bloody mist . Here in our home they killed and roamed . In the winter of ’26 . We’ll take our stand for this land . And the stranger in our midst . We’ll remember the names of those who died . On the streets of Minneapolis . We’ll remember the names of those who died . On the streets of Minneapolis .

Because there are also some good monsters in America

Joseph Donald Mascis Jr and Dinosaur Jr, "Out There". 1992 recording and 2013 live performance.

Starting the year 2026

And this is a year that tastes old.
We should be concerned, the most powerful nations are being led by dangerous fools. People are losing rights, safety decreased, the economy weakened...
We can still try to have some fun... While we still can, without some crazy person forbidding us from doing so...