Back in the day....
Sexta-feira, 6 de Junho de 2008 11:22
The average U.S. citizen completely ignores the regularity with which the automobile kills him, maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it into his garage as fondly as an Arab leading a prize mare into his tent. He woos it with Simoniz, Prestone, Ethyl and rich lubricants -- and goes broke trading it in on something flashier an hour after he has made the last payment on the old one.
By last week, this peculiar state of mind had not only sucked thousands of American oil wells dry, stripped the rubber groves of Malaya, produced the world's most inhuman industry and its most recalcitrant labor union, but had filled U.S. streets with so many automobiles that it was almost impossible to drive one. In some big cities, vast traffic jams never really got untangled from dawn to midnight; the bray of horns, the stink of exhaust fumes, and the crunch of crumpling metal eddied up from them as insistently as the vaporous roar of Niagara.
- Time magazine, 1947.
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postado por Luciano às
Para Tabyta, minha irmãzinha
11:16
No NY Times, em 1895, nas primeiras críticas de filmes, quando os primeiros filmes dos irmãos Lumiere passaram em Paris:
A fotografia deixou de gravar a imobilidade. Ela agora perpetua a imagem do movimento. Quando essas máquinas estiverem nas mãos do público, quando qualquer um puder fotografar aqueles que lhe são amados, não só em sua forma imóvel, mas com ação, gestos familiares e as palavras de suas bocas, então a morte não será mais absoluta.
Marcadores: Filmes, Filosofia
postado por Luciano às
A vida
Quinta-feira, 5 de Junho de 2008 10:54
A vida é um live action.
E o plot é o convívio social.
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Friends will be friends :)
Quarta-feira, 4 de Junho de 2008 07:34
Today is the national day of me, and I arrive at work to this lovely email:
Happy Birthday to the smiliest and most perverted man I know! x
"smiliest and most perverted" usually would make my day, but coming from Vicky, it's just extra-special :D
Thanks dear ! Miss you a lot!!
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postado por Luciano às