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.