Para o Dia da Música

John Falter, Jam Session (1954)

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E aqui ficam duas canções das minhas bandas preferidas do momento: Coldplay e Imagine Dragons:

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Permane(S)er

Umberto Boccioni, States of Mind III: Those Who Stay (1911, Museum of Modern Art, New York)

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Vi este filme há algum tempo, e este diálogo ficou-me na cabeça. Será mesmo assim? Parece-me demasiado determinista, mas talvez tenha algum fundo de verdade.

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«Céline: And, what really surprised me, is that I was feeling with life, the same way am now. I was much more hopeful and naive, but the core, and the way I was feeling things, is exactly the same. It made me realize I haven't changed much at all.

Jesse: Yeah, I don't think anybody does; people don't want to admit it, but it's like we just...we have these innate set points.

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Jesse: You know, it's like...nothing much that happens to us changes our disposition.

Céline: Really, you believe that?

Jesse: I think so. I read this study where they followed people who had won the lottery, and people who had become paraplegics, right. I mean you'd think that...you know, one extreme is gonna make you...euphoric, and the other suicidal. But the study shows that after about 6 months…

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Jesse: Right...as soon as people got used to their new situation, they were more or less the same.

Céline: The same?

Jesse: Well, yeah...Like if they were basically an optimistic, jovial person, they're now an optimistic, jovial person, in a wheelchair. If they're a petty miserable asshole, OK, they're a petty miserable asshole with a new Cadillac, a house and a boat.»

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Before Sunset (2004)

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2013

Florentijn Hofman, Floating Duck Sculpture – “Spreading Joy Around the World” (Link)

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