quarta-feira, 27 de janeiro de 2010

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!

Well, we have a follower! And no post whatsoever. Must be some kind of record.

Anyway, now I feel impelled to write, and a good idea has come to mind, or to my ears: Derek Bailey, which I am listening to right now. I will write about him (though I don't know much yet).


Right now I am busy with adding subtitles to a Noam Chomsky interview on Democracy Now. And with translating Hamlet (!) or with my primary blog, Leosfera (in portuguese).

So long!

sábado, 16 de janeiro de 2010

Claiming Possession

Hello unexpected visitor. This is intellectual property. Trespassers will be shot.

Blogosphere is a dangerous place. My initial idea for my blog in english (my mother tongue is Portuguese) had been Idle Speculations. It had been taken, but is still fallow. I'll send the landless movement a tip.

So here I am to claim animalcogitans.blogspot.com. The name has been adapted from animal laborans, an aristotelic concept of a man who performs base and fruitless labor (laboring animal), to indicate an individual defined by its thinking (thinking animal). I see it's a bit pretentious, but it sounded nice.

I will be back when I have any idea on what to write. It will be probably a lot about books, music and movies, foreign affairs and Brazil from an international perspective - if I'm entitled to do so.

Au revoir!