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CREDO MIO
Credo cum fide et sine dubitatione
Sí, creo, no dudo, no vacilo, no me tiemblan las manos, ni los labios, ni los ojos… Creo con firmeza, con todo mi cuerpo, alma, espíritu, con todas mis fuerzas… Sé que si pido recojo, si busco encuentro, si toco me abres, me abre, me abren, y me refugio dentro… Sin dudas me manejo y no me lío, me zambullo en verdes mares y en el azul de los campos… En los arbustos milenarios anido como un pájaro feliz… si le pido al sol que brille en las penumbras de la noche sé que saldrá y el cielo entero brillaría. Creo en quien tu niegas, con fe y nunca con dudas, en el Alfa y el Omega en quien me escuda…
Numquam solus in via ad aeternitatem cogito…credo…
C.2021, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 15 de diciembre de 2021, Valencia, España.
Soy demasiado blanco, burgués y europeo… A veces derechista, y tras dos copas monárquico, indiferente, sonámbulo, y con mi boina, y look arcaico, atravieso tus placeres.
Cuando quiero puedo ser la fruta dulce, pero cuando no, tu trago de hiel, amargo e infiel.
Soy el fruto de manchegos y asturianos, con acento valenciano, me impongo así en mi grandeza, voz y presencia.
¿Mi discurso y mi placer? El viento del mar y el vino…
No respeto ni el silencio del pasado, pues sabrás que las esquelas de los siglos anteriores he borrado y sus cuartillas las empapo con la tinta del presente, y las lleno de mentiras, de calumnias, de inocentes. Soy el cabrón que ahora admiras, pero al llegar el otoño mas te vale confesarte con el cura de la esquina…
Soy heredero del hedor del viejo barrio, hijo huérfano del miedo, casco viejo y forastero, voy detrás de las colillas, cabizbajo y de rodillas añorando lo que fueron mis pecados cuando niño…
Soy blanco, burgués y pijo, y en mi mente, ahora ya fijo, oigo voces que me anuncian que ha subido la marea…
¿Seré la otra cara de esta moneda?
C.2021, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 14 de diciembre de 2021, Valencia, España.
I’m too white, too bourgeoisie, too European… Maybe I’m the spectre that you fear on solitary nights, walking alone, feeling forgotten, and not recognising you are home…
I could be the voice inside your head that loudly whispers, or the noisy quiet puppy that amuses.
I’ve a smile that’s hard to handle, I am confident, sublime, swimming in the shame you’ve left behind.
I am penitent, but still ungrateful, unashamed and disrespectful, lying fully clothed and careful on your antique water-bed.
Drink with me my foolish lady, I’m your macho, Macho Man, impolite and condescending, I’ll seduce you, you’re so blind…
Yet I’m far too good to pass by, eyes that penetrate your soul, hands that wipe away your helplessness, voice to sing, voice to control…
Yes I’m far too good to pass by, I am rich and misbehaved, intolerant, brave, intransigent, slave, misogynist, pure, old-fashioned, obscure, too white, too conceited, too much Europe, too defeated…
Is that me? Or am I the side of this coin you cannot see?
C.2021, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 14 DEC 2021, Valencia, España
Our Art History course has gotten as far as completing the Early Renaissance, sometimes called the Quattrocento in Italy. I have paused to bring forth some different artists from more contemporary times, but although I will feature these «special editions» from time to time, we will soon continue on course with the High Renaissance and beyond. Hope you like it, get something from it and comment.
Muy bien que lo ha dicho, este hombre que es ahora el Papa.
La lucha por la libertad, la igualdad y por los pobres del mundo no es la lucha de los comunistas. Lo que quieren ellos es esclavizarnos con su sistema anti Dios y anti humano. La lucha por un mundo mejor solo se logra con Dios y en libertad.
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Well, I was going to write about it but really, the video says it all, take a look and a listen and let me know what you think of «contemporary expressionism» and of art (modern or classical) in general. Art is a contrived form of expression and never intuitive.
«Sloop John B.» from the first time I heard it, back when I was a wee lad, and just recently transplanted to the United States, I loved it. The harmonies enticed me, the melody seduced me, the story, well, I did not really understand the story at all, but the words sounded nice and well the song fascinated me and it still does…
I heard it on the Beach Boys seminal album (released in May 1966) Pet Sounds. This album, which pre-dated Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and possibly influenced Paul and the lads, is considered by musicologists to be a concept album with new and sophisticated means and ways of musical production. Brian Wilson, genius behind The Beach Boys, and Pet Sounds introduced intricate vocal harmonies, incorporated elements of pop, jazz, exotic (world beat) and classical music, to create a genuine vanguard movement album. The band was not able to replicate the album live during those years. Now Brian Wilson has…
(2019)
Pet Sounds allowed for the development of the culture of pop music. This album was absolutely crucial for the development of progressive and art rock and definitely opened the door to psychedelic music which would become very popular after that and lasting through the late sixties. Without a doubt it is one of the most influential albums in rock/pop music. Many have considered it the best album…of that genre…of all times, like the music magazines New Musical Express, The Times and Mojo. In 2003 it was second place in Rolling Stone magazine best 500 albums of all times. In 2004 Pet Sounds was inducted into the National Registry of Recordings of the US Congressional Library. They said it had cultural, historical and tremendous aesthetic values. And in 2015 Acclaimed Music named Pet Sounds as the album statistically more acclaimed of all times.
Here is the version from Pet Sounds:
(1966)
Here is possibly the «original», if not an older version, which gave Brian Wilson the idea for his arrangement in Pet Sounds. This is by the Kingston Trio:
(1958)
And here is what 1966 kind of looked like:
Georges Pompidou defeats Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and is re-elected as president of France.
Simon and Garfunkel release «Sounds of Silence».
US President Lyndon Johnson met with his Vietnamese counterpart in Honolulu to talk about the course of the war in Vietnam.
The Australian dollar is introduced at 2 to pound.
The Flintstones airs its finale.
The Rolling Stones release «Paint it Black» in the US on 07 MAY.
Martin Luther King makes his first speech against the Vietnam War.
«It’s a Small World» attraction opens in Disneyland.
US warplanes begin bombing Hanoi and Haiphong in Vietnam.
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A la ciutat de València la Porta de la Mar (Porta del Mar) és una atracció molt important. A Trip Advisor ocupa el lloc número 41, és a dir entre els 50 monuments de referència entre la nostra ciutat. Va ser construïda per inspiració de l’Alcalde Juan Antonio Gómez-Trénor Fos el 1943 i costaria unes 1.140.688,98 pessetes de l’època, ara més o menys 6.855,68 euros.
A la Porta de la Mar es veu el nostre símbol, el ratpenat i la creu de Jesus el nostre senyor.
En la ciudad de Valencia la Puerta del Mar (Porta de la Mar) es una atracción muy importante. En Trip Advisor ocupa el lugar numero 41, o sea entre los 50 monumentos de referencia entre nuestra ciudad. Fue construida por inspiración del Alcalde Juan Antonio Gómez-Trénor Fos en 1943 e iba a costar unas 1.140.688,98 pesetas de la época, ahora mas o menos 6.855,68 euros.
En la Porta de la Mar se ve nuestro símbolo, el murciélago y la cruz de Jesus nuestro señor.
In the city of Valencia, the Porta de la Mar is a very important attraction. In Trip Advisor it occupies number 41 among the 50 most important monuments of our city. It was constructed from the inspiration of then Mayor Juan Antonio Gómez-Trénor Fos, in 1943. It was to cost the citizens of Valencia 1,140,688.98 pesetas (of the time), which now amounts to about 6,855.68 euros.
The Porta del Mar one can see the bat, symbol of our city and the cross of Jesus our Lord.
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JaZzArt en València 