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    What Are You Reading

    The Bride wore Black, by Cornell Woolrich. (readed whole book in just one take and half pack of cigarrettes. Too much coffee to work, and got this wanting to sleep. But then I just could sleep after the "the end"). Woolrich is somewhat strange. I don't think he is a "great" writer. He...
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    Dashiell Hammett's lost works found in Texas

    Wow! 15 new stories! :D :D
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    What Are You Reading

    Not exactly a criminal research, but a fine portrait of a forger. Forgers usually have a strange and strong sense of humour, and so was van Meegeren. I highly recommend this book! The ending becames suprisingly, as Meegeren turned a kind of national hero, fooling art critics, marchands and...
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    Facebook anybody?

    Tv ever looked me to be the most passive ententainment ever created. Except a few "specials" now and hten, never found it really additive (unlike radio, that touch so deeply the imagination). About Facebook. In ten years it will be just another orkut. So popular 5 years ago, and now very few...
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    Unpopular music opinions

    This is probably the most "unpopular" (or foolish) music opinion I've readed last times. Mr Hsio Wen Shih, "The Spread of Jazz and the Big Bands", quoted by Mr LeRoy Jones, "Blues People". (I'm translating the translation, so the text isn't exactly the original). "The popularity of swing...
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    Any writers?

    Certainly! I'm trying it every week for the last 12 years! A brazilian writer that I like vert much, Monteiro Lobato (1888 - 1946) made the same, wanting to just write to himself. Never won - but became rich with literature. Strange world...
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    fountain pens

    I never had problems with most of major ink brands - specially with black ink. Now I'm with a Parker, I'm liking it. With color ink, my preferred is the bright maroon by italian Omas. At least to me, the tone is just beautiful.
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    from CNN's front page: "Vintage Health Advice ~ 1915"

    :D :D :eusa_clap
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    Facebook anybody?

    Since I started living alone, 16 years ago, I don't have a Tv set. One of the good things I decided.
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    from CNN's front page: "Vintage Health Advice ~ 1915"

    The traditional cane sugar is very different than the usual. This is white and dry; the traditional, not refined with sulphites, is maroon, and very better. Not everybody's taste, because have an accentuated cane taste.
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    What Are You Reading

    "I was Vermeer - the legend of the forger who swindled the nazis", by Frank Wynne. The very intersting life of Han van Meegeren. An artist out of his own time, in love with the old masters, Meegeren started to forger paintings by his beloved Vermeer. And became rich with this. His only...
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    The Library

    :D :D :D I have my doubts if Kindle will finish with the traditional book. Anyway, most of my books I buy second-hand. People usually don't like them, specially those that see illness in everything. Better to me, books become cheaper.
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    From New York to New York - The flight of the Graf Zeppelin 1929

    Thanks for sharing this! I really would love to travel by this way...
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    Vintage professions you'd like to see come back.....

    I know only two places like JohnnieT talked about. Both are very old, traditional shops... One here in SP, selling cigars and tobacco for pipes since late 20s. It is in the middle of the "bas-fond" downtown area. The other in a country town, since 1880. Almost speciallized in tobacco in cords -...
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    from CNN's front page: "Vintage Health Advice ~ 1915"

    Agree with a lot of things with sheeplady about our diets. Physical works of course are good to us, specially when we stay a lot of time before a desk. And there are some other things. The modern diet is much more rich in sugar than in past years. How many do you know that everyday consume...
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    Unpopular music opinions

    I think all popular music have appeal with people... As every time has its problems and drawbacks. And I really don't remember a music composed and played to be a solitary audition. I don't think this is something that just happened with swing and disco. What about charleston, ragtime, cakewalk...
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    Pearl Harbor veteran's case sheds renewed light on elder abuse

    I think almonst impossible son and daughter don't know about what were happening... Very, very sad.
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    Unpopular music opinions

    I didn't understand a single word of the original verses, I admit. Anyway, we can call this "art". The trouble begins when we start discussing if representative, profund, etc, art. Or, ever, if "true" art, not only "arty verses".
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    Unpopular music opinions

    If I remember well, "rap" means "Rhythm And Poetry". Poetry IS syncopated; this is one of the points that make the writing and speaking poetry so difficult. (In fact, I need to read poetry hearing my own voice. I'm not a good poetry reader). Is it an art form? I think so. It doesn't touch...
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    Unpopular music opinions

    When recorded in studio, without public, it is Cage's masterpiece... I don't know if it's true, but here goes a little story. Cage had music classes with Schoemberg (THIS is a gerat composer, IMO). Schoemberg told Cage: "you won't be a composer, ever if you brake your head in a wall". Maybe...

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