Serj Tankian

O vocalista dos System Of A Down, Serj Tankian, enviou um breve e-mail para os seus fãs dando conta dos projectos que está a fazer. Ele disse que tem vindo a trabalhar bastante no seu novo disco a solo, "Elect The Dead" e pretende lançá-lo mais perto do fim do ano. Ele falou também sobre a banda chamada Fair To Midland, que contratou para a sua editora Serjical Strike Records. "Eles são impressionantes, uma banda de rock progressivo, com bastante energia, que eu acho que toda a gente vai gostar", disse ele a respeito da banda, que, está a lançar o seu CD de estreia, "Fables From A Mayfly:What I Tell You Three Times Is True".

Make much more sense to live, in the present tense...

Present Tense
Pearl Jam


Do you see the way that tree bends?
Does it inspire?
Leaning out to catch the suns rays
A lesson to be applied
Are you getting something out of this
All encompassing trip?
You can spend your time alone
Redigesting past regrets, oh
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
Makes much more sense
To live, in the present tense
Have you ideas on how this life ends?
Check your hands and study the lines
Have you ever believed that the road ahead
Ascends off into the light?
Seems that needlessly it's getting harder
To find an approach and a way to live
Are we getting something out of this
All encompassing trip?
You can spend your time alone
Redigesting past regrets
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who cannot forgive yourself
Make much more sense
To live in the present tense

A perfeição de TOOL!

Rosetta Stoned
Tool


Alrighty then
Picture this if you will

10 to 2 AM
And actually eating up an old box of Krispy Kremes
And my need-to-know potion.
I was just outside Area 51
Contemplating the whole chosen people thing
When a flaming stealth banana split the sky like, wide open.
I never expected to see it in a place like this.
I do believe I spilled a diamond sundae
Or something wet on my Birkenstocks
And [you're yelping]
Holy fucking shit

Then the x-file beings who were like
some kind of blue-grey [Jackie Chan]
With Isabella Rossellini lips and breath that reeked
[They're wicked-shot terrorists all by making the sound]
abananadabanana so when I opened up my bug eyes, my gaping jaw and my sweaty lower and upper lip
And all I could think was
I hope that my partner here doesn't notice
that I pissed my fucking pants

So alive in this way
Like an apparition
You have me crying out
Fuck me
It's got to be
Dead head
Chemistry
The blotter got
On top of me
Got me seeing
E mother-fucking T

And after calming me down with some orange slices
And some fetal spooning
The ET revealed to me his singular purpose
He said you are the chosen one
The one who'll deliver the message
A message of hope for those who chose to hear it
And a warning for those who do not
Me, the chosen one, they chose me
And I didn't graduate from fucking high school

You had better...
You had better...
You had better...
You had better listen

When he looked right through me
With somniferous almond eyes
Don't even know what that means
Must remember to write it down
This is surreal
Like the time they floated away
See, my heart is pounding
Cause this shit never happens to me

I can't breathe right now

It was surreal
Like I woke up in Wonderland
All sort of terrifying
I don't want to be all alone
When I tell the story
And can anyone tell me why
It was a repeat experience
will I ever be coming down
This is surreal
Finally it's my lucky day
See my heart is racing
Cause this shit never happens to me

I can't breathe right now

You believe me don't you
Please believe what I just said
See they're telling the truth
And this wasn't all in my head
See they took me by the hand
And invited me right in
Then they showed me something
I don't even know where to begin

Strapped down my bed
Feet cold, eyes red
I'm out my head
Am I alive am I dead
Can't remember what they said
God damn shit the bed

hey hey

Overwhelmed as one would be placed in my position
Such a heavy burden now to be the one
Born to bear and read to all the details of our ending
To write it down for all the world to see
But I forgot my pen shit the bed again
Typical

Strapped down to my bed
Feet cold and eyes red
I'm out of my head
Am I alive am I dead
Sunkist and Sudafed
Gyroscopes and infrared
won't help the brain dead
Can't remember what they said

God damn shit the bed

I Can't remember what they said to me
Can't remember what they said to make me out to be A HERO
I can't remember what they said to me
Can't remember what they said

Don't know, oh no (repeated 12 times)

God damn shit the bed


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Pearl Jam no Alive

Em Portugal os Pearl Jam gozam de um estatuto, dificilmente superado por qualquer outra banda, a que não será alheia a combinação de dois factores: idolatração e proximidade.

Daí não ser de estranhar que mesmo sendo esta a terceira actuação do grupo de Seattle, em Lisboa, em menos de um ano - depois de dois concertos seguidos no Pavilhão Atlântico, em Setembro de 2006 - os Pearl Jam tenham voltado a juntar uma romaria de público que os confirmou como a banda mais aguardada do festival Alive.

Igual a si próprio, Eddie Vedder, tal como tinha feito no Atlântico, falou em português ; o alinhamento também não foi substancialmente diferente e não faltaram as garrafas de vinho e de cerveja , a pose melancólica e as menções - como aconteceu com a música 'Big Wave', que dedicou a meio do concerto, aos surfistas Bubas e Tiago. Também não falharam as músicas, as de sempre, aquelas que os fãs queriam ouvir, autênticos hinos que os Pearl Jam foram construindo ao longo da sua carreira.

'Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town', 'Alive', 'Even Flow' ou a mais recente 'Worldwide Suicide' foram alguns dos temas com que Eddie Vedder e companhia presentearam o público, em jeito de retribuição por Portugal os presentear com tão boas ondas, como disse Eddie , surfista nas horas vagas.

Fossem os coros fossem os improvisos instrumentais por parte da banda, sobretudo do guitarrista Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder "ausentou-se", parando de cantar, para contemplar o que se ia passando.

Os Pearl Jam não desiludiram quem esperava pelo encore e reservou para o primeiro e depois para o segundo uma mão cheia de outros tantos sucessos, onde não faltaram 'Why Go Home', Better Man', 'Black', 'Rockin' in the Freeworld' (de Neil Young) e 'Given To Fly'. Esta última dedicada a dois gémeos que o cantor conhecera essa manhã e com uma pequena adaptação da letra, no ínicio, alusiva a Lisboa.

A noite ficou completa com 'Yellow Ledbetter'.

No dia seguinte os Pearl Jam actuavam em Madrid, mas tal não impediu que o cantor satisfizesse o pedido de um amigo português e dissesse que «se foda Madrid», estendendo mais um pouco o espectáculo. Afinal, como ele próprio já tinha confessado estar em Lisboa é "apenas" demorar dezasseis horas para atravessar para o outro lado da rua, em Seattle. O sentimento é de quem está em casa. Esta como se viu, está sempre de portas abertas para os Pearl Jam.

Vilar de Mouros em stand-by!

A organização do Festival de Vilar de Mouros cancelou a edição deste ano do festival, responsabilizando a Câmara de Caminha pela falta de apoios, disse à agência Lusa fonte da Portoeventos.

Filipe Guimarães, da Portoeventos, afirmou que a anulação foi decidida em conjunto pela concessionária do festival e pela Junta de Freguesia de Vilar de Mouros, após a sistemática falta de resposta da Câmara de Caminha, ao pedido de apoio feito em Dezembro de 2006.
O responsável referiu que a Portoeventos e a Junta de Freguesia pretendem reatar o Festival de Vilar de Mouros 2008, renegociando algumas das condições preparadas para a edição deste ano.

Filipe Guimarães reconheceu que este cancelamento acarreta custos para a Portoeventos, nomeadamente a anulação do contrato com o ex-Beach Boys Brian Wilson, concerto já anunciado para este ano, desde a edição de 2006 do festival.

A Portoeventos tinha reservado para o festival desde ano, marcado para 20 a 22 de Julho, concertos com outras bandas, nomeadamente os norte-americanos Marky Ramone e The Queers, os argentinos Super Ratones, os portugueses Blasted Mechanism e The Gift e grupos de heavy-metal, que nunca chegou a confirmar, dado o impasse da falta de resposta camarária.

THE SIMPSONS with THE WHITE STRIPES

Education, Pearl Jam

Education
Pearl Jam


I'm questioning my education
Is my education no i'm not
While you're deciding i've been finding
Looking around in the here and now

If I'd been taught from the beginning
Would my fears be winning now?

I'm questioning my own equation
Is my own equation relevant somehow
The flags will wave and the news is breaking
See the man who came, forgot his own tie

If I'd been taught from the beginning
Would my fears be winning now?
A wild world, figured out the answers
I'll be in my own, dancing out, ou-out yeaaah

I'm questioning my education
Rewinding, what does it show?
Could be, the truth, it becomes you

I Believe In Miracles

I Believe In Miracles (Ramones Cover)
Pearl Jam

Composição: Ramones

I used to be on an endless run.
Believe in miracles ’cause I’m one.
A have been blessed with the power to survive.
After all these years I’m still alive.

I’m out here cookin’ with the band.
I’m no longer a solitary man.
Every day my time runs out.
Lived like a fool, that’s what I was about, oh.

I believe in miracles.
I believe in a better world for me and you.
Oh, I believe in miracles.
I believe in a better world for me and you.

Tattoo your name on my arm.
I always said my girl’s my good luck charm.
If she could find a reason to forgive,
Then I could find a reason to live.

I used to be on an endless run.
Believe in miracles ’cause I’m one.
A have been blessed with the power to survive.
After all these years I’m still alive.

I believe in miracles.
I believe in a better world for me and you.
Oh, I believe in miracles.
I believe in a better world for me and you.

I close my eyes and think how it might be.
The future’s here today.
It’s not too late.
It’s not too late, yeah!

I believe in miracles.
I believe in a better world for me and you.
Oh, I believe in miracles.
I believe in a better world for me and you.

...

Inside Job

Inside Job
Pearl Jam


Underneath this smile lies everything
All my hopes and anger, pride and shame
Make myself a pact not to shut doors on the past
Just for today I am free

I will not lose my faith
It's an inside job today

I know this one thing well…

I used to try and kill love. the highest sin
Breathing insecurity out and in

Searching hope, I'm shown the way to run straight
Pursuing the greater way for all human light.

How I choose to feel is how I am.
How I choose to feel is how I am.

I will not lose my faith
It's an inside job today

Holding on, the light of night
On my knees to rise and fix my broken soul
Again

Let me run into the rain
To be a human light again

Let me run into the rain
To shine a human light today

Life comes from within your heart and desire
Life comes from within my heart and desire
Life comes from within your heart and desire