terça-feira, junho 23, 2026
Alfred Kinsey, o fundador da Sexologia, nasceu há cento e trinta e dois anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 13:20 0 comentários
Marcadores: Alfred Kinsey, Educação Sexual, entomologia, sexologia, vespas
Poema para recordar Anna Akhmatova...

A palavra
caiu pétrea
no meu seio ainda vivo.
Não importa, eu já esperava,
de certo modo eu sabia.
Tenho muito
a fazer hoje:
matar memórias de vez,
para a alma ser de pedra
a viver mais aprender.
Ou ... o estralejar
do ardente Estio
como, além da janela, um feriado.
Há muito tempo já que vinham vindo
o luminoso dia e a vazia casa.
E não
me consentirá
que leve nada comigo
(por mais que eu peça e suplique,
por mais que a moa a rezar):
não
os olhos do meu filho,
sofrimento como pedra,
o dia de tempestade,
nem a hora da visita,
o suave frio
das mãos,
o rugir de sombras de árvore,
nem o distante som leve -
consolação das últimas palavras.
Anna Akhmatova
Postado por Pedro Luna às 13:07 0 comentários
Marcadores: Anna Akhmatova, estalinismo, poesia, Rússia, Ucrânia, URSS
Que saudades dos Mamonas Assassinas...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 11:11 0 comentários
Marcadores: anos 90, Mamonas Assassinas, música, Robocop Gay
June Carter Cash nasceu há 97 anos...
June Carter Cash (born Valerie June Carter; Maces Spring, Virginia, June 23, 1929 – Nashville, Tennessee, May 15, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter and dancer. A five-time Grammy award-winner, she was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. Prior to her marriage to Cash, she was professionally known as June Carter and occasionally was still credited as such after her marriage (as well as on songwriting credits predating it). She played guitar, banjo, harmonica, and autoharp, and acted in several films and television shows. Carter Cash won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle (née Addington) and Ezra Carter. Her parents were country music performers and she performed with the Carter Family from the age of 10, in 1939. In March 1943, when the Carter Family trio stopped recording together at the end of the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, formed "Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters" with her daughters, Helen, Anita, and June. The new group first aired on radio station WRNL in Richmond, Virginia, on June 1. Doc (Addington) and Carl (McConnell) - Maybelle's brother and cousin, respectively, known as "The Virginia Boys", joined them in late 1945. June, then 16, was a co-announcer with Ken Allyn and did the commercials on the radio shows for Red Star Flour, Martha White, and Thalhimers Department Store, just to name a few. For the next year, the Carters and Doc and Carl did show dates within driving range of Richmond, through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. She attended John Marshall High School during this period.[4] June later said she had to work harder at her music than her sisters, but she had her own special talent —comedy.[5] A highlight of the road shows was her "Aunt Polly" comedy routine. With her thin and lanky frame, June Carter often played a comedic foil during the group's performances alongside other Opry stars Faron Young and Webb Pierce. Carl McConnell wrote in his memoirs that June was "a natural-born clown, if there ever was one". Decades later, Carter revived Aunt Polly for the 1976 TV series Johnny Cash & Friends.
After Doc and Carl dropped out of the music business in late 1946, Maybelle and her daughters moved to Sunshine Sue Workman's "Old Dominion Barn Dance" on the WRVA Richmond station. After a while there, they moved to WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee, where they met Chet Atkins with Homer and Jethro.
In 1949, Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, with their lead guitarist, Atkins, were living in Springfield, Missouri, and performing regularly at KWTO. Ezra "Eck" Carter, Maybelle's husband and manager of the group, declined numerous offers from the Grand Ole Opry to move the act to Nashville, Tennessee, because the Opry would not permit Atkins to accompany the group onstage. Atkins' reputation as a guitar player had begun to spread, and studio musicians were fearful that he would displace them as a 'first-call' player if he came to Nashville. Finally, in 1950, Opry management relented and the group, along with Atkins, became part of the Opry company. Here the family befriended Hank Williams and Elvis Presley (to whom they were distantly related), and June met Johnny Cash.
June and her sisters, with mother Maybelle and aunt Sara joining in from time to time, reclaimed the name "The Carter Family" for their act during the 1960s and '70s.
While June Carter Cash may be best known for singing and songwriting, she was also an author, dancer, actress, comedian, philanthropist, and humanitarian. Director Elia Kazan saw her perform at the Grand Ole Opry in 1955 and encouraged her to study acting. She studied with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. Her acting roles included Mrs. "Momma" Dewey in Robert Duvall's 1998 movie The Apostle, Sister Ruth, wife to Johnny Cash's character Kid Cole, on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–97), and Clarise on Gunsmoke in 1957. She was notable as Mayhayley Lancaster playing alongside husband Cash in the 1983 television movie Murder in Coweta County. June was also Momma James in The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James. She also acted in occasional comedy skits for various Johnny Cash TV programs.
As a singer, she had both a solo career and a career singing with first her family and later her husband. As a solo artist, she became somewhat successful with upbeat country tunes of the 1950s such as "Jukebox Blues" and, with her exaggerated breaths, the comedic hit "No Swallerin' Place" by Frank Loesser. June also recorded "The Heel" in the 1960s along with many other songs.
In the early 1960s, June Carter wrote the song "Ring of Fire", which later went on to be a hit for her future husband, Johnny Cash. She co-wrote the song with fellow songwriter Merle Kilgore. June wrote the lyrics about her relationship with Johnny Cash and she offered the song to her sister Anita Carter, who was the first singer to record the song. In 1963, Johnny recorded the song with the Carter Family singing backup, and added mariachi horns. The song became a number-one hit and went on to become one of the most recognizable songs in the world of country music. In her autobiography, “I Walked the Line”, Johnny's first wife Vivian Cash disputes the myth that June Carter co-wrote the song, "Ring of Fire". Vivian relates the story that Johnny told her in 1963 that he wrote the song with Merle Kilgore and Curly while fishing and that he was going to give June half credit because “She needs the money. And I like her.”
Her first notable studio performance with Johnny Cash occurred in 1964 when she duetted with Cash on "It Ain't Me Babe", a Bob Dylan composition, that was released as a single and on Cash's album Orange Blossom Special. In 1967, the two found more substantial success with their recording of "Jackson", which was followed by a collaboration album, Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter. All these releases antedated her marriage to Cash (upon which event she changed her professional name to June Carter Cash). She continued to work with Cash on record and on stage for the rest of her life, recording a number of duets with Cash for his various albums and being a regular on The Johnny Cash Show from 1969 to 1971 and on Cash's annual Christmas specials. After Carryin' On, June Carter Cash recorded one more direct collaboration album, Johnny Cash and His Woman, released in 1973, and along with her daughters was a featured vocalist on Cash's 1974 album The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me. She also shared sleeve credit with her husband on a 2000 small-label gospel release, Return to the Promised Land
Although she provided vocals on many recordings, and shared the billing with Cash on several album releases, June Carter Cash only recorded three solo albums during her lifetime: the first, Appalachian Pride, released in 1975, Press On (1999), and Wildwood Flower, released posthumously in 2003 and produced by her son, John Carter Cash. Appalachian Pride is the only one of the three on which Johnny Cash does not perform, while Press On is notable for featuring June Carter Cash singing her original arrangement of "Ring of Fire".
One of her final appearances was a nonspeaking/nonsinging appearance in the music video for her husband's 2003 single, "Hurt", filmed a few months before her death. One of her last known public appearances was on April 7, 2003, just over a month before her death, when she appeared on the CMT Flameworthy awards program to accept an achievement award on behalf of her husband, who was too ill to attend.
She won a Grammy award in 1999 for, Press On. Her last album, Wildwood Flower, won two additional Grammys. It contains bonus video enhancements showing extracts from the film of the recording sessions, which took place at the Carter Family estate in Hiltons, Virginia, on September 18–20, 2002. The songs on the album include "Big Yellow Peaches", "Sinking in the Lonesome Sea", "Temptation", and the trademark staple "Wildwood Flower". Due to her involvement in providing backing vocals on many of her husband's recordings, a further posthumous release occurred in 2014, when Out Among the Stars was released under Johnny Cash's name. The album consists of previously unreleased recordings from the early 1980s, including two on which June Carter Cash provides duet vocals.
Carter was married three times and had one child with each husband. All three of her children went on to have successful careers in country music. She was married first to country singer Carl Smith from July 9, 1952, until their divorce in 1956. Together, they wrote "Time's A-Wastin". They had a daughter, Rebecca Carlene Smith, professionally known as Carlene Carter, a country musician. June's second marriage was to Edwin "Rip" Nix, a former football player and police officer on November 11, 1957. They had a daughter, Rosie Nix Adams, on July 13, 1958. The couple divorced in 1966. Rosie was a country/rock singer. On October 24, 2003, Rosie, aged 45, died from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. She and bluegrass musician Jimmy Campbell were on a school bus, which had been converted for travel. Several propane heaters were being used to heat the bus.
Carter and the entire Carter Family had performed with Johnny Cash for a number of years. In 1968, Cash proposed to Carter during a live performance at the London Ice House in London, Ontario. They married on March 1 in Franklin, Kentucky, and remained married until her death in May 2003, just four months before Cash died. The couple's son, John Carter Cash, is a musician, songwriter, and producer.
She also gained four stepdaughters from her third husband’s previous marriage to Vivian Liberto; including Cindy and Rosanne.
Carter's distant cousin, the 39th U.S. president Jimmy Carter, became closely acquainted with Cash and Carter and maintained their friendship throughout their lifetimes. In a June 1977 speech, Jimmy Carter acknowledged that June Carter was his distant cousin.
Carter was a longtime supporter of SOS Children's Villages. In 1974, the Cashes donated money to help build a village near their home in Barrett Town, Jamaica, which they visited frequently, playing the guitar and singing songs to the children in the village.
June Carter Cash also had close relationships with a number of entertainers, including Audrey Williams, James Dean, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Jessi Colter, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Robert Duvall and Roy Orbison.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 09:07 0 comentários
Marcadores: Americana, Appalachian, Cause I Love You, country, country folk, folk, gospel, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, música, rockabilly
A Exposição do Mundo Português começou há 86 anos
A Exposição do Mundo Português (23 de junho de 1940 - 2 de dezembro de 1940) foi um evento realizado em Lisboa na época do Estado Novo, com o propósito de comemorar simultaneamente as datas da Fundação do Estado Português (1140) e da Restauração da Independência (1640), constituiu-se na maior de seu género realizada no país até à Expo 98.
A exposição foi inaugurada em 23 de junho de 1940 pelo chefe de estado, Marechal Carmona, acompanhado pelo Presidente do Conselho, Oliveira Salazar e pelo Ministro das Obras Públicas, Duarte Pacheco.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:06 0 comentários
Marcadores: estado novo, Exposição do Mundo Português, Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Salazar
A Batalha de Bannockburn foi há 712 anos
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No conhecido filme sobre o herói escocês William Wallace, que venceu a Batalha de Stirling Bridge, em 11 de setembro de 1297, as forças comandadas por Andrew Moray e William Wallace derrotaram as forças inglesas, a tática militar mostrada é a das tropas escocesas nesta batalha (de Bannockburn) e não a realmente usada.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:12 0 comentários
Marcadores: Batalha de Bannockburn, Eduardo II, Escócia, Inglaterra, Robert Bruce
Leee John, dos Imagination, faz hoje 69 anos
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Leslie McGregor "Leee" John (Hackney, London, 23 June 1957) is an English musician, singer and actor of St Lucian descent. He rose to fame as the lead singer of the soul band Imagination, which had three UK top 10 hits in the early 1980s. He is known for his falsetto voice and his flamboyant sense of fashion and outfits.
Early life and beginnings
John was born in Hackney, London, and educated in New York City, later studying drama at the Anna Scher Theatre School.
His mother is Jessie Stevens MBE SLPM (born 1927), who moved with her then husband from St. Lucia to Britain in 1955. She is the first black woman to have worked at Companies House. Part of the Windrush Generation, she is a well-known figure in the St Lucian community and she received a MBE from Queen Elizabeth in 1982, after having worked in the Haringey Police Liaison Group, which helped facilitate relations between the police and the community.
John, then a young child, moved to New York City with his father, after his parents’ divorce. Despite signing, aged 10 or 11, to a record label and notably working as a background singer for The Delfonics, the Chairmen of the Board, The Velvelettes and The Elgins, he moved back as a teenager to England to live with his mother. His father didn’t really support his musical ambitions and rather wanted John to continue studying. While in college, he recorded an album for EMI with family friend Russel Fraser (under the name Russ and Leee), but only had very little success.
Career
John was still working as a backing singer when he met Ashley Ingram (born 27 November 1957, Northampton, England)
a guitarist/bassist. They formed a songwriting partnership, working in a
short-lived band called Fizzz. Together with Ingram and Errol Kennedy (born 9 June 1953, Montego Bay, Jamaica) they formed Imagination, a three-piece soul music band, in the early 1980s. The band was named after Imagine, the John Lennon song, whom had died a year earlier. The band worked with Grammy-winning record producer Trevor Horn, which had them discovered by the production duo Jolley & Swain. The duo produced their hit "Body Talk" reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1981. Their biggest hit, "Just an Illusion", peaked at number 2 in March 1982. The trio frequently appeared on Top of the Pops and other pop music programmes. Imagination released 7 albums in total, the most famous being first 3: Body Talk (1981), In the Heat of the Night (1982) and Scandalous (1983).
Despite not being an actor, John made a guest appearance in the Doctor Who story Enlightenment
in 1983, playing the character Mansell; he replaced actor David Rhule,
who had dropped out at short notice due to an industrial strike at the
BBC after the rehearsals had begun.
The group's fortunes waned but they continued to perform, tour and
record until the early 1990s. John went back to acting, but in 2003
resurfaced in the reality television show Reborn in the USA, alongside other singers such as Elkie Brooks and Tony Hadley.
He released a number of dance singles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the UK garage and house tracks "Your Mind, Your Body, Your Soul" on Locked On Records and "U Turn Me" with Ten City vocalist Byron Stingily (2000). Under the artist name Johnny X, he also co-wrote and performed vocals on "Call on Me" which was released on Higher State. In 2005, John released a jazz album, Feel My Soul, on Candid Records, featuring a mixture of jazz standards and original compositions. Since the album's release, John has been touring the UK and Europe with his jazz quartet, as well as performing with Imagination.
John is an ambassador for SOS Children's Villages, an international orphan charity providing homes and mothers for orphaned and abandoned children. He supports the charity's annual World Orphan Week campaign which takes place each February. In 2012, he performed at the Leicester Square Theatre. Special guests included Mike Lindup from Level 42.
In 2020, John appeared on the track "The Lost Chord" by Gorillaz for their Song Machine project, which was followed by the album Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez.
In 2023, Leee John and his mother, Jessie Stephens, were invited, alongside celebrities such as Raymond Blanc and Jay Blades, to King Charles' birthday celebration, at Highgrove House.
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 06:09 0 comentários
Marcadores: Britfunk, funk, Imagination, Just An Illusion, Leee John, música, pop, Post-Disco, soul
Boris Vian morreu há 67 anos...
Boris Paul Vian (Ville-d'Avray, 10 de março de 1920 - Paris, 23 de junho de 1959), foi um polimata (engenheiro, escritor, poeta, tradutor e cantautor francês), identificado com o movimento surrealista e o anarquismo, enquanto filosofia política. Hoje em dia é sobretudo lembrado pelos seus romances e canções. O seu estilo caracterizou-se por ser altamente individual, com numerosas palavras inventadas e enredos surrealistas passados sempre num universo muito próprio do autor. Como exemplo, o seu romance Outono em Pequim não se passa nem no Outono nem em Pequim!
Je mourrai d´un cancer de la colonne vertébrale
Je mourrai d’un cancer de la colonne vertébrale
Ça sera par un soir horrible
Clair, chaud, parfumé, sensuel
Je mourrai d’un pourrissement
De certaines cellules peu connues
Je mourrai d’une jambe arrachée
Par un rat géant jailli d’un trou géant
Je mourrai de cent coupures
Le ciel sera tombé sur moi
Ça se brise comme une vitre lourde
Je mourrai d’un éclat de voix
Crevant mes oreilles
Je mourrai de blessures sourdes
Infligées à deux heures du matin
Par des tueurs indécis et chauves
Je mourrai sans m’apercevoir
Que je meurs, je mourrai
Enseveli sous les ruines sèches
De mille mètres de coton écroulé
Je mourrai noyé dans l’huille de vidange
Foulé aux pieds par des bêtes indifférentes
Et, juste après, par des bêtes différentes
Je mourrai nu, ou vêtu de toile rouge
Ou cousu dans un sac avec des lames de rasoir
Je mourrai peut-être sans m’en faire
Du vernis à ongles aux doigts de pied
Et des larmes plein les mains
Et des larmes plein les mains
Je mourrai quand on décollera
Mes paupières sous un soleil enragé
Quand on me dira lentement
Des méchancetés à l’oreille
Je mourrai de voir torturer des enfants
Et des hommes étonnés et blêmes
Je mourrai rongé vivant
Par des vers, je mourrai les
Mains attachées sous une cascade
Je mourrai brûlé dans un incendie triste
Je mourrai un peu, beaucoup,
Sans passion, mais avec intérêt
Et puis quand tout sera fini
Je mourrai.
Boris Vian
Nota: para os que não sabem francês, uma tradução do poema:
Morrerei de um cancro na coluna vertebral
Morrerei de um cancro na coluna vertebral
Será numa noite horrível
Clara, quente, perfumada, sensual
Morrerei de um apodrecimento
De certas células pouco conhecidas
Morrerei de uma perna arrancada
Por um rato gigante surgido de um buraco gigante
Morrerei de cem cortes
O céu terá desabado sobre mim
Estilhaçando-se como um vidro espesso
Morrerei de uma explosão de voz
Perfurando minhas orelhas
Morrerei de feridas silenciosas
Infligidas às duas da madrugada
Por assassinos indecisos e calvos
Morrerei sem perceber
Que morro, morrerei
Sepultado sob as ruínas secas
De mil metros de algodão tombado
Morrerei afogado em óleo de cárter
Espezinhado por imbecis indiferentes
E, logo a seguir, por imbecis diferentes
Morrerei nu, ou vestido com tecido vermelho
Ou costurado num saco com lâminas de barbear
Morrerei quem sabe sem me importar
Com o esmalte nos dedos do pé
E com as mãos cheias de lágrimas
E com as mãos cheias de lágrimas
Morrerei quando descolarem
Minhas pálpebras sob um sol raivoso
Quando me disserem lentamente
Maldades ao ouvido
Morrerei de ver torturar crianças
E homens pasmos e pálidos
Morrerei roído vivo
Por vermes, morrerei as
Mãos amarradas sob uma cascata
Morrerei queimado num incêndio triste
Morrerei um pouco, muito,
Sem paixão, mas com interesse
E quando tudo estiver acabado
Morrerei.
Boris Vian
Postado por Fernando Martins às 06:07 0 comentários
Marcadores: anarquismo, Boris Vian, jazz, música, poesia
Música de aniversariante de hoje...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 05:10 0 comentários
Marcadores: Black Horse And The Cherry Tree, blues, country blues, Escócia, folk, KT Tunstall, música, Rock alternativo
Mercy...!
Postado por Pedro Luna às 04:20 0 comentários
Marcadores: Duffy, Mercy, música, País de Gales, pop, Rock, soul
Música para recordar o lançamento de um grande álbum...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 03:10 0 comentários
Marcadores: anos 90, Mamonas Assassinas, Mundo Animal, música
Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida morreu há 215 anos...

Vai, mísero cavalo lazarento
Pastar longas campinas livremente;
Não percas tempo, enquanto to consente
De magros cães faminto ajuntamento.
Esta sela, teu único ornamento,
Para sinal da minha dor veemente,
De torto prego ficará pendente,
Despojo inútil do inconstante vento.
Morre em paz, que, em havendo algum dinheiro,
Hei-de mandar, em honra de teu nome,
Abrir em negra pedra este letreiro:
«Aqui piedoso entulho os ossos come
Do mais fiel, mais rápido sendeiro,
Que fora eterno, a não morrer de fome».
Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida
Postado por Fernando Martins às 02:15 0 comentários
Marcadores: Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida, poesia
Carl Reinecke nasceu há duzentos e dois anos

Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (Altona, Hamburgo, 23 de junho de 1824 - Leipzig, 10 de março de 1910) foi um compositor, professor e pianista alemão.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 02:02 0 comentários
Marcadores: Alemanha, Carl Reinecke, Dinamarca, música, romantismo
Anna Akhmatova nasceu há 137 anos
MUSA
Quando à noite eu espero a sua vinda,
numa balança a minha vida pende.
Que é a honra, a liberdade, a juventude?
Fumo que de um cachimbo se desprende.
Veio, jogando o manto para trás,
e uma atenção cordial me concedeu.
“Foste – eu lhe disse – quem ditou a Dante
as páginas do Inferno?” E ela: “Fui eu.”
Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:37 0 comentários
Marcadores: Anna Akhmatova, estalinismo, poesia, Rússia, Ucrânia, URSS
Eduardo VIII, o rei britânico que abdicou por amor, nasceu há 132 anos
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Eduardo Alberto Cristiano Jorge André Patrício David, em inglês: Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David (White Lodge, 23 de junho de 1894 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 28 de maio de 1972) foi Rei do Reino Unido e dos Domínios da Commonwealth e Imperador da Índia, entre 20 de janeiro e 11 de dezembro de 1936, com o título de Eduardo VIII.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:32 0 comentários
Marcadores: abdicação, Eduardo VIII, Rei, Reino Unido, Wallis Simpson
Alan Turing nasceu há 114 anos...
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Alan Mathison Turing (Maida Vale, Londres, 23 de junho de 1912 - Wilmslow, Cheshire, 7 de junho de 1954) foi um matemático, lógico, criptoanalista e cientista da computação britânico. Foi influente no desenvolvimento da ciência da computação e na formalização do conceito de algoritmo e computação com a máquina de Turing, desempenhando um papel importante na criação do computador moderno e também é pioneiro na inteligência artificial e na ciência da computação. É conhecido como o pai da computação.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:14 0 comentários
Marcadores: Alan Turing, homossexuais, II Grande Guerra, II Guerra Mundial, informática, máquina de Turing
KT Tunstall celebra hoje 51 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:51 0 comentários
Marcadores: blues, country blues, Escócia, folk, KT Tunstall, música, Rock alternativo, Suddenly I See (Larger Than Life)






