Feliz Dia das Bruxas!!!

Deixo aqui os meus desejos de um feliz Dia das Bruxas e Dia de Todos os Santos (apesar de sempre ter preferido a designação de "Dia dos Mortos"...) para todos os meus visitantes! Aproveito a ocasião para relembrar como foi este dia no Nocturna há um ano atrás, para isso cliquem aqui. Este ano deixo-vos como sugestão um divertido jogo sobre a época ("Dark and Stormy Night") e outro que, digamos, tem mais a haver com o Dia dos Mortos ("Gimp Roulette"). Hihihi! Para os interessados em enfeitar o ecrã do computador com um wallpaper da época basta que cliquem aqui.

Fontes: BLOGotinha, Obvious e Vladstudio.

Bem, quanto à sugestão principal é a mesma de sempre: visualizar novamente o filme em cima até à exaustão, cantarolando as músicas e dançando com as personagens...

"This is Halloween"

Boys and girls of every age
wouldn't you like to see something strange
Come with us and you will see,
this our town of Halloween
This is Halloween, this is Halloween,
pumpkins scream in the dead of night
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene,
trick or treat till the neighbours come and die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream,
in this town of Halloween
I am the one hiding under your bed,
teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red
I am the one hiding under your stairs,
fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair
This is Halloween, this is Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween
In this town we call home,
everyone hail to the pumpkin song
In this town, don't we love it now,
everybody's waiting for the next surprise
Round that corner, then,
hiding in the trash cans,
something's waiting now to pounce and how you'll..
Scream, this is Halloween,
red and black and slimy green,
Aren't you scared?
Well, that's just fine,
say it once, say it twice,
take a chance and roll the dice,
ride with the moon in the dead of night
Everybody scream, everybody scream,
in our town or Halloween
I am the clown with the tear-away face,
here in a flash and gone without a trace
I am the who when you call "Who's there?",
I am the wind blowing through your hair
I am the shadow on the moon at night,
filling your dreams to the brim with fright
This is Halloween, this is Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween
Tender lumplings everywhere,
life's no fun without a good scare,
that's our job but we're not mean
in our town of Halloween
In this town, don't we love it now,
everyone's waiting for the next surprise
Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
and scream like a banshee,
make you jump out of your skin!
This is Halloween, everybody scream,
won't you please make way for a very special guy
Our man Jack is king of the pumpkin patch,
everyone hail to the pumpkin king
Now, this is Halloween, this is Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween
In this town we call home everyone hail to the pumpkin song
La la la la la...

Tim Burton & Danny Elfman

Lord of War

Provavelmente o filme do ano, provavelmente a melhor realização/argumento de Andrew Niccol, provavelmente um dos melhores trabalhos de Nicolas Cage... Provavelmente perfeito!

Jonh Kascht

Um dos melhores caricaturistas que vi até hoje! Além disso tem uma enorme vantagem em relação a todos os outros... Conseguiu desenhar a caricatura de uma, já em si, caricatura, Cosmo Kramer!!! É totalmente indespensável fazer uma breve visita ao site de Jonh Kascht, para isso cliquem aqui.

Fonte: BLOGtinha

VladStudio

"VladStudio is a design company run by graphics enthusiast and digital artist Vlad Gerasimov. Since 1998, I have been providing competition-winning user interfaces for web sites and software applications. I specialize in web design and development, database-driven sites, skins, icons, logotypes and collateral graphics. In my spare time, I create wallpapers for your desktop. My commercial work and artwork has received enormous positive feedback. I love my job, and I am happy to play a part in my clients' success."

Um dos melhores artistas digitais e designer gráfico que já tive o prazer de encontrar no mundo virtual. Além disso, disponibiliza gratuitamente mais de 200 wallpapers de alta resolução para download... Ninguém pode deixar de passar ao lado desta página perfeitamente elaborada!

Kimmo Pohjonen no TAGV

O melhor acordeonista do mundo está de volta a Portugal e vai passar pelo TAGV, na próxima quinta-feira. O início do espectáculo está marcado para as 21:30. Para mais informações cliquem na imagem. Uma oportunidade a não perder!

Gostaria também de informar os mais distraídos que inicia-se hoje a Feira do Livro que a Casa da Cultura promove, anualmente, em Coimbra. Fica aqui a sugestão para visitas nocturnas...

Vodafone Now

Já todos viram o novo anúncio da mais recente imagem/filosofia da Vodafone? Sem dúvida, um dos mais bonitos de sempre... Para os interessados em saber de quem é a música que é utilizada no vídeo, informo que é desta banda e intitula-se "The Love Song".

DM

"A Pain That I'm Used To"

I'm not sure what I'm looking for anymore
I just know that I'm harder to console
I don't see who I'm trying to be instead of me
But the key is a question of control

Can you say what you're trying to play anyway
I just pay while you're breaking all the rules
All the signs that I find have been underlined
Devils thrive on the drive that is fueled

All this running around, well it's getting me down
Just give me a pain that I'm used to
I don't need to believe all the dreams you conceive
You just need to achieve something that rings true

There's a hole in your soul like an animal
With no conscience, repentance, oh no
Close your eyes, pay the price for your paradise
Devils feed on the seeds of the soul

I can't conceal what I feel, what I know is real
No mistaking the faking, I care
With a prayer in the air I will leave it there
On a note full of hope not despair

All this running around, well it's getting me down
Just give me a pain that I'm used to
I don't need to believe all the dreams you conceive
You just need to achieve something that rings true




"The Sinner In Me"

If I could just hide
The sinner inside
And keep him denied
How sweet life would be
If I could be free
From the sinner in me

I'll never be a saint
That's not a picture that your memory paints
Not renowned for my patience
I'm not renowned for my restraint
But you're always around
You can always be found
To pick me up when I'm on the ground

If I could just hide
The sinner inside
And keep him denied
How sweet life would be
If I could be free
From the sinner in me

I'm still recovering
Still getting over all the suffering
More known for my anger
Than for any other thing
But you've always tried
To be by my side
And catch my fall when I start to slide

If I could just hide
The sinner inside
And keep him denied
How sweet life would be
If I could be free
From the sinner in me




"The Darkest Star"

Oh you sad one
Playing the Angel
Isn't so easy where you're from

Oh you wild one
Devil's companion
You won't stay satisfied for long

I don't want you to change
Anything you do

I don't want you to be
Something else for me

Oh you dark one
Eternal outsider
Caught in the spider's web you've spun

Oh you blind one
Gentle and kind one
Seeing the world as a loaded gun

I don't want you to change
Anything you do

I don't want you to be
Someone else for me

Stay as you are
The Darkest Star

Shining for me
Majestically




"Precious"

Precious and fragile things
Need special handling
My God what have we done to you
We always tried to share
The tenderest of care
Now look what we have put you through

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we'd manage
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

Angels with silver wings
Shouldn't know suffering
I wish I could take the pain for you
If God has a master plan
That only He understands
I hope it's your eyes He's seeing through

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we'd manage
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

I pray you learn to trust
Have faith in both of us
And keep room in your hearts for two

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we'd manage
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give




"Damaged People"

We're damaged people
Drawn together
By subtleties that we are not aware of
Disturbed souls
Playing out forever
These games that we once thought we would be scared of

When you're in my arms
The world makes sense
There is no pretense
And you're crying
When you're by my side
There is no defense
I forget to sense
I'm dying

We're damaged people
Praying for something
That doesn't come from somewhere deep inside us
Depraved souls
Trusting in the one thing
The one thing that this life has not denied us
Taken from OldieLyrics.com
When I feel the warmth
Of your very soul
I forget I'm cold
And crying
When your lips touch mine
And I lose control
I forget I'm old
And dying




"Lillian"

Oh, Lillian
Look what you've done
You've stripped my heart
Ripped it apart
In the name of fun

Oh, Lillian
I'm a poor man's son
And precious jewels
Weren't found in schools
Where I came from

Pain and misery always hit the spot
Knowing you can't lose what you haven't got

Oh, Lillian
I should have run
I should have known
Each dress you own
Is a loaded gun

Oh, Lillian

Oh, Lillian
I need protection
I hear your voice
And any choice I had is gone

Oh, Lillian
Once I begun
I couldn't stop
'til every drop of blood was sung

Pain and misery always hit the spot
Knowing you can't lose what you haven't got

Oh, Lillian
Look what you've done
You stripped my heart
Ripped it apart
In the name of fun

Oh, Lillian
Oh, Lillian
Oh, Lillian
Oh, Lillian

DM

Alguém possui o antídoto para me "desviciar" deste álbum...?

Depeche Mode "Playing the Angel"

Na minha modesta opinião, o melhor álbum dos DM até à data. Talvez mesmo a obra-prima da carreira desta banda inglesa. Imprescindível audição e posterior dissecação! É extremamente complicado escolher uma música favorita das 12 que o álbum contem, mas deixo aqui uma delas...

"Macrovision"

Overflowing senses
Heightened awareness
I hear my blood flow
I feel its caress
Whispering cosmos
Talking right to me
Unlimited, endless
God breathing through me

See the microcosm
In macrovision
Our bodies moving
With pure precision
One universal
Celebration
One evolution
One creation

Thundering rhythm
Pounding within me
Driving me onwards
Forcing me to see
Clear and enlightening
Right there before me
Brilliantly shining
Intricate beauty

See the microcosm
In macrovision
Our bodies moving
With pure precision
One universal
Celebration
One evolution
One creation

Depeche Mode

Um beijinho de agradecimento à Mary pela "amostra" deste álbum.

PTalunos.com

"Esta página tem como principal objectivo criar uma extensa lista dos ex-alunos das escolas portuguesas. É também possível aos actuais alunos inserirem os seus dados. Para tal a sua ajuda é fundamental. Inclua os seus dados gratuitamente e sem necessidade de registo. Com esta base de dados será possível encontrar antigos colegas de escola e quem sabe reavivar antigas amizades. Obrigado pela colaboração."

[clicar na imagem para visitar página]

H. P. Lovecraft "Os Melhores Contos"

Aqui está a minha última aquisição literária. Esta foi a minha escolha para a troca de um vale de desconto no valor de 20€ que a Bertrand me enviou, comodamente, para casa. Já enviei uma carta para esta empresa requisitando um vale de desconto igual a este todas as sextas-feiras. Utopia... Bem, relativamente ao livro, foi editado em Setembro passado e aconselho a sua leitura a todos os amantes deste género literário. Lovecraft é, indiscutivelmente, um dos melhores escritores de terror do século XX. A leitura desta obra é um passeio delicioso e assustador. Uma obra tão importante como a de Edgar Allan Poe ou Tolkien, que influenciou pessoas tão diferentes como Umberto Eco e John Carpenter. Este livro ainda conta com a particularidade de todos os contos conterem uma fascinante e enigmática introdução de Fernando Ribeiro, vocalista dos Moonspell. Para os interessados, aqui fica o registo áudio da apresentação, no Chiado, deste livro pelo músico. Também gostava de deixar uma referência ao excelente e original grafismo desta primeira edição. Trabalho este realizado pelo lisboeta Luis Corte Real, e sugiro aqui a visita, quase obrigatória, às entranhas das suas galerias fantásticas. Espero que tenham gostado desta pequena introdução à obra e que tenha conseguido despertar algum interesse nas vossas insanes e perturbadas mentes. Boas leituras nocturnas!

Moonspell "Nocturna"

"Nocturna"

High heels of crystal
stuck in the heart
daylight that heals
the fullmoon scars
Spider strategy
and the wish to be
at one with me
throughout the fright

It is so real
So full of light
(when)Nocturna steals the night

Sister of cain
all our breed slain
the youthful oath
is still the same
le mal de vivre
that never ends
but the hunt (for you) goes on
throughout the night

It is so real
So full of light
(when) Nocturna steals the night

Moonspell

Nocturna está quase a chegar...

Sudoku Nocturno

Depois de milhares, ou talvez mesmo, centenas de pedidos, o Nocturna disponibiliza diariamente aos seus visitantes um Sudoku. Como não podia deixar de ser, este blog também apresenta a solução do jogo do dia, mesmo ao fundo da página. Ou seja, todos os dias um Sudoku fresquinho para os iluminados que visitam este famoso blog. Aposto que a concorrência não tem destas ofertas... Para os mais preguiçosos, que não tenham muita pachorra para copiar os esquemas para o papel todos os dias, deixo aqui também aquele que considero um dos melhores sites para resolver Sudoku's online, para isso cliquem no logotipo em baixo. Há por aqui muitos viciados nestes puzzles lógicos?

Infernet V6

[a partir de 31 de Outubro]

Blasted Mechanism "18 Strings"

"18 Strings"

I just hope
You're on a better place
Where peace really exists
Where thoughts can fly
Like yellow birds
And land where everything wish

I just hope
That you can really see me
And guide my way though the marge
Cause it's so hard to live
With all this memories
And no support from your arms

Come and take me
Come and take me
Let me rest in your breast
I just hope I will
Never wake up again, and

I just hope
You're on a better place
Where peace really exists
Where thoughts can fly
Like yellow birds
And land where everything wish

Come and take me
Come and take me
Let me rest in your breast
I just hope I will
Never wake up again, and

Forever be with you
Forever be with you

Blasted Mechanism

Festa das Latas Coimbra 2005

[clicar na imagem para mais informações]

Darkness and Hope

"So here I have-your act of love
within the poison-of your every word
each night you stay in-each night I will have to run
knowing from darkness and hope
there is no return."

Fernando Ribeiro

Aqui vos apresento em primeira mão o resultado da tatuagem que há muito desejava fazer. Aproveito para referir, ao contrário do que muita gente pensa, que não dói nada, só faz uma espécie de comichão. Também aproveito para promover o local onde a fiz e o meu amigo tatuador Leitão. Para os interessados neste tipo de serviço a "Dirty Pig" é o local ideal e mais profissional na área de Coimbra e Figueira da Foz. E é claro, a minha Moky também aproveitou a ocasião para fazer uma pequenina no tornozelo. Ficou linda!

Goodbye My Beautiful Love With Tears And Rain

"You're Beautiful"

My life is brilliant.
My love is pure.
I saw an angel.
Of that I'm sure.
She smiled at me on the subway.
She was with another man.
But I won't lose no sleep on that,
'Cause I've got a plan.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw you face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.

Yeah, she caught my eye,
As we walked on by.
She could see from my face that I was,
Fucking high,
And I don't think that I'll see her again,
But we shared a moment that will last till the end.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw you face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.
You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
There must be an angel with a smile on her face,
When she thought up that I should be with you.
But it's time to face the truth,
I will never be with you.




"Tears And Rain"

How I wish I could surrender my soul;
Shed the clothes that become my skin;
See the liar that burns within my needing.
How I wish I'd chosen darkness from cold.
How I wish I had screamed out loud,
Instead I've found no meaning.

I guess it's time I run far, far away; find comfort in pain,
All pleasure's the same: it just keeps me from trouble.
Hides my true shape, like Dorian Gray.
I've heard what they say, but I'm not here for trouble.
It's more than just words: it's just tears and rain.

How I wish I could walk through the doors of my mind;
Hold memory close at hand,
Help me understand the years.
How I wish I could choose between Heaven and Hell.
How I wish I would save my soul.
I'm so cold from fear.

I guess it's time I run far, far away; find comfort in pain,
All pleasure's the same: it just keeps me from trouble.
Hides my true shape, like Dorian Gray.
I've heard what they say, but I'm not here for trouble.
Far, far away; find comfort in pain.
All pleasure's the same: it just keeps me from trouble.
It's more than just words: it's just tears and rain.




"Goodbye My Lover"

Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun,
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.
So I took what's mine by eternal right.
Took your soul out into the night.
It may be over but it won't stop there,
I am here for you if you'd only care.
You touched my heart you touched my soul.
You changed my life and all my goals.
And love is blind and that I knew when,
My heart was blinded by you.
I've kissed your lips and held your head.
Shared your dreams and shared your bed.
I know you well, I know your smell.
I've been addicted to you.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

I am a dreamer but when I wake,
You can't break my spirit - it's my dreams you take.
And as you move on, remember me,
Remember us and all we used to be
I've seen you cry, I've seen you smile.
I've watched you sleeping for a while.
I'd be the father of your child.
I'd spend a lifetime with you.
I know your fears and you know mine.
We've had our doubts but now we're fine,
And I love you, I swear that's true.
I cannot live without you.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

And I still hold your hand in mine.
In mine when I'm asleep.
And I will bear my soul in time,
When I'm kneeling at your feet.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
I'm so hollow, baby, I'm so hollow.
I'm so, I'm so, I'm so hollow.

James Blunt

Segundas...

James Blunt "Back to Bedlam"

Seguindo o conselho do meu amigo Bruno, que por mero acaso faz aninhos hoje mesmo, decidi "adquirir" o álbum "Back to Bedlam" de um artista com o nome de James Blunt. Logo após a primeira audição fiquei maravilhado, recordando aquela sensação única quando ouvimos um álbum perfeito do princípio ao fim, como os últimos do Tim Booth ou Damien Rice. Não deixem de ouvir músicas como "You're Beautiful", "Goodbye My Lover" ou "Tears And Rain". Para acederem às letras das dez pérolas brilhantes e polidas que compõem o álbum visitem o site oficial do artista, um exemplo de simplicidade, beleza e funcionalidade. Sem dúvida, a não perder!

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Por vezes é bom ver filmes como este: leve, descomplicado e divertido. Além disso apresenta na banda sonora uma pequena pérola intitulada "Mondo Bongo" de um tal de Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros...