Lulu Santos Transformou o Rock Groselha do Rei Roberto Carlos em Rock Raul | Silas Correa Leite

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Lulu Santos Transformou o Rock Groselha do Rei Roberto Carlos em Rock Raul
(Cedê LULU CANTA & TOCA ROBERTO E ERASMO)

-Crescemos, parimos, regurgitamos, sonhamos amor & flor,  e amamos os Beatles e Tonico e Tinoco, ouvindo a Jovem Guarda do Rei Roberto, que gritava no auge que tudo mais fosse pro inferno, mora? Erasmo Carlos, lado a lado mas ele mesmo muito roqueiro de origem e mentalidade, era o parceiro-rock que gritava contra a banda dos contentes. O rei era o rei. Mas jovem, guarda, né não? Daquilo para tropicália, festival universitário, bossa nova, foi um pulo. Para não dizer que não falei de flores, ficamos com um rei na cabeça e o rei com o rei na barriga.  Os deuses quando querem detonar os reis, enlouquece-os, desde Shakespeare.
-Pois não é que o rei proibiu a biografia não autorizada, virou padrão global (o que não significa nada), cantou bregas e idolatrias, cristianizou-se, e, desde As Baleias não se viu um reinado tão coxinha-daslu e uma mesmice tão brega que perdeu a graça. Mas Roberto é Roberto.
-Elis cantou Roberto de arrepiar. Caetano abrilhantou Roberto, na veia. Agora, Lulu Santos botou as letras que o Roberto fez pra mim, e as músicas suaves, em arroubos de rock mesmo, e, falando sério, ficou bonito, tudo muito mais Jovem Guarda a la Rock Raul Seixas e Rita Lee do que Roberto Carlos rock groselha. Claro, aqui e ali Lulu botou um e outro para cantar, quando o cedê é dele e era ele quem queríamos ouvir com sua guitarra empolgante e forte e brilhante. Tampem podia tirar as tais vinhetas, e mesmo, a musica bobinha É preciso Saber Viver que já deu o que tinha de dar de falso pop, mas, no frigir dos ovos, Lulu acetou na maioria das escolhas entre tantas (não é fácil), embora devesse também ter gravado As Baleias,  Quando as Crianças Saíssem de Férias, Maria Carnaval e Cinzas, e, ainda, Quero Que Vá tudo pro Inferno, ou o rei refugou essa, de novo?

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J’accuse! | Lettre d’Emile Zola à Félix Faure

Zola_Jaccuse_Manuscrit 25013 janvier 1898

Monsieur le Président,

Me permettez-vous, dans ma gratitude pour le bienveillant accueil que vous m’avez fait un jour, d’avoir le souci de votre juste gloire et de vous dire que votre étoile, si heureuse jusqu’ici, est menacée de la plus honteuse, de la plus ineffaçable des taches?

Vous êtes sorti sain et sauf des basses calomnies, vous avez conquis les cœurs. Vous apparaissez rayonnant dans l’apothéose de cette fête patriotique que l’alliance russe a été pour la France, et vous vous préparez à présider au solennel triomphe de notre Exposition universelle, qui couronnera notre grand siècle de travail, de vérité et de liberté. Mais quelle tache de boue sur votre nom – j’allais dire sur votre règne – que cette abominable affaire Dreyfus ! Un conseil de guerre vient, par ordre, d’oser acquitter un Esterhazy, soufflet suprême à toute vérité, à toute justice. Et c’est fini, la France a sur la joue cette souillure, l’histoire écrira que c’est sous votre présidence qu’un tel crime social a pu être commis.

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Charlie Chaplin | The Great Dictator | with color

“I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an Emperor – that’s not my business – I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible: Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say “Do not despair”. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you – who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate – only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers – don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty. In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written: “the kingdom of God is within man “. Not one man, nor a group of men – but in all men – in you. You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let us use that power – let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers – in the name of democracy, let us all unite!”