The Perks of Being a Savages Looper

As (des)vantagens do pior filme do ano? Bocejos e rolar de olhos.

Oliver Stone com uma crise de meia idade? Só pode.

A dupla de Brick, Rian Johnson e Joseph Gordon-Levitt, em grande? Grandes.

Dos meus livros...

...The Book Thief de Markus Zuzak, adaptado a filme com Geoffrey Rush (spot on!) e Emily Watson.

Cousas mai' lindas num há

Bruno looks out of his transport box before making his way to the water on the beach of the island of Juist in Germany. Bruno was one of four young seals which werre released after six weeks of recovery at the rescue centre

Oh I like this #9

and this

Das guerras e dos ursos

1. The most charitable way to describe the result is complete and utter nonsense. I do not want to exaggerate, but this paper is not even a mess.

2. (T)hat study on the polar bear numbers. The problem is that it’s not based on counts of polar bears. It’s based on computer models. So where they have counted the polar bears, as I understand it, all but one sub-population of polar bears are increasing. And there’s one in which a small, and as I remember it, statistically insignificant decrease in numbers. Al the rest of it is computer simulations, based on ice-declines therefore the populations must have gone down. Again, this is a hypothesis, it’s not science.

Muitas Verdades Inconvenientes

e que os mídia não divulgam:

Via Espectador Interessado. Tutorial do vídeo aqui. Por exemplo:

"Every serious skeptical scientist has been consistently saying essentially the same thing for over 20 years, yet most people have never heard the message. (...) The serious skeptical scientists have always agreed with the government climate scientists about the direct effect of CO₂. The argument is entirely about the feedbacks.

Predictions of the IPCC's First Assessment Report in 1990, compared to the subsequent temperatures as measured by NASA satellites.

(...)

(T)he "debate" is about politics and power, and not about science or truth."

Só descobri hoje

que a Anna Calvi vem cá (em Dezembro). Escusado será dizer que comprei o bilhete no mesmo minuto.

"Dear friends,
I hope this finds you well,
I'm excited to tell you that my new record 'One Breath' will be released on 7th October!"

Do metano

"What we really need is more research and less sensationalizing."

"(Incidentally, when burned, methane produces less greenhouse gas than both oil and coal, not to mention energy. Japan is already working on tapping in to this resource. Perhaps new techniques could be applied to northern Russia as well—though we would be surprised if this were a solution to the basic problem the Arctic methane study points to.)"

"Greens are very good at making dire predictions that don’t come true — otherwise we’d all be starving and shivering in the dark in a world of peak oil and population bombs. But the impact of human activity on world systems large and small is a real concern;"

The American Interest

Dos festivais

"preciso é de não ter de deixar o carro em santa cona de assobio" loool 

"Os festivais são máquinas de produzir lixo, tudo descartável, até a música"

Da Febre dos Fenos.

Este foi o 1º ano que senti que já não tenho exactamente a mesma paciência para festivais, especificamente para o Alive (sim, porque há dois anos fui ao Meco e jurei para nunca mais). 

O mais irritante foi mesmo estar em Alt-J numa aflição porque estava a gostar tanto mas daí a 5 minutos começavam os Kings of Leon. Ah, e os Of Monsters and Men foram uma agradável surpresa (não suporto o single deles, nem me lembro do nome).