sexta-feira, 22 de setembro de 2006

Uriah Heep

Show semana que vem!

Para esquentar o pandeiro:
  • Sunrise
  • Gypsy
  • Rainbow Demon
  • Bird of Prey
  • Lady in Black
  • Look at Yourself
  • The Wizard
  • Easy Livin'
  • Love Machine
  • Traveller in Time
Só velharia...

terça-feira, 12 de setembro de 2006

Música para o dia 11

"Hassan I Sabha", do Hawkwind:

Hashish-hashin Hashish-hashin (3x)
Hashishin

Black-September Black-September (3x)
Black-September

Death unto all infidels in oil
Guide us o thou genie of the smoke
Lead us to a thousand and one nights
In the perfumed garden of delights

Petro-dollar Petro-dollar
Petrol-D'allah Petrol-D'allah
Petro-dollar Petro-dollar
Petro-dollar

It is written in the song of the desert
It is written in the signs in the stars
It is written in the sands of the hour-glass
It is written
It is written in the eye of the falcon
It is written in the shade of the scorpion
It is written in the wealth of the sun
It is written
It is written that man's truth is a mirage
It is written that death's an oasis
It is written for all unbelievers
It is written

Death unto all infidels in oil
Guide us o thou genie of the smoke
Lead us to a thousand and one nights
In the perfumed garden of delights

quarta-feira, 6 de setembro de 2006

Para quem ficou curioso...

Para bebês

Esta é a primeira coletânea musical que fiz para meu filho. Chama-se "Psychedelia for Babies". Na verdade não é só um ajuntado de músicas - entre cada uma há uma transição suave, misturando os ritmos.
  1. Pink Floyd - Echoes
  2. H. P. Lovecraft - At The Mountains of Madness
  3. Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused
  4. Hawkwind - Master of The Universe
  5. Pink Floyd - The Narrow Way p. 2
  6. Kraftwerk - Spiegelsaal (Hall of Mirrors)
  7. Goblin - Profondo Rosso
  8. Hawkwind - (sem título)
  9. H. P. Lovecraft - Spin, Spin, Spin
  10. UFO - Star Storm
  11. Pink Floyd - One of These Days
  12. Ravi Shankar - Hari Om
  13. Kodo - Ibuki
  14. Pink Floyd - On The Run
  15. Kodo - Ibuki (cont.)
  16. Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun (versão Pompeii)

terça-feira, 5 de setembro de 2006

Corona

Captain´s Log do doutorado:

In electricity, a corona discharge is an electrical discharge brought on by the ionization of a fluid surrounding a conductor, which occurs when the potential gradient exceeds a certain value, but conditions are insufficient to cause complete electrical breakdown or arcing.

Coronas can generate audible and radio-frequency noise, particularly near electric power transmission lines. They also represent a power loss, and their action on atmospheric particulates, along with associated ozone and NOx production, can also be disadvantageous to human health where power lines run through built-up areas. Therefore, power transmission equipment is designed to minimise the formation of corona discharge. Corona discharge is generally undesirable in:

  • Electric power transmission, owing to loss of power in corona processes and noise
  • Inside electrical components such as transformers, capacitors, electric motors and generators. Corona progressively damages the insulation inside these devices, leading to premature equipment failure.
  • Situations where high voltages are in use, but ozone production is to be minimised

(fonte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_discharge )

sexta-feira, 1 de setembro de 2006

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Este é um enquete do Monty Python, que pra variar é muito sem sentido. O texto assim, de forma crua, não mostra a bizarrice dos inquisitores malucos entrando com "nice red uniforms". Mas hoje em dia com os recursos da rede, este vídeo é facilmente encontrado.

(fonte: http://people.csail.mit.edu/paulfitz/spanish/script.html )

In the early years of the 16th century, to combat the rising tide of religious unorthodoxy, the Pope gave Cardinal Ximinez of Spain leave to move without let or hindrance throughout the land, in a reign of violence, terror and torture that makes a smashing film. This was the Spanish Inquisition...

(...)
Chapman: *I* don't know - Mr Wentworth just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble at the mill, that's all - I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.

[JARRING CHORD]

[The door flies open and Cardinal Ximinez of Spain [Palin] enters, flanked by two junior cardinals. Cardinal Biggles [Jones] has goggles pushed over his forehead. Cardinal Fang [Gilliam] is just Cardinal Fang]

Ximinez: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.

[The Inquisition exits]

Chapman: I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.

[JARRING CHORD]

[The cardinals burst in]

Ximinez: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms - Oh damn!
(...)

Ximinez: Our chief weapons are...
Biggles: Our chief weapons are...um...er...
Ximinez: Surprise...
Biggles: Surprise and --
Ximinez: Okay, stop. Stop. Stop there - stop there. Stop. Phew! Ah! ... our chief weapons are surprise...blah blah blah. Cardinal, read the charges.
Fang: You are hereby charged that you did on diverse dates commit heresy against the Holy Church. 'My old man said follow the--'
Biggles: That's enough.
[To Cleveland] Now, how do you plead?
Clevelnd: We're innocent.
Ximinez: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

[DIABOLICAL LAUGHTER]

Biggles: We'll soon change your mind about that!

[DIABOLICAL ACTING]

Ximinez: Fear, surprise, and a most ruthless-- [controls himself with a supreme effort] Ooooh! Now, Cardinal -- the rack!

[Biggles produces a plastic-coated dish-drying rack. Ximinez looks at it and clenches his teeth in an effort not to lose control. He hums heavily to cover his anger]

Ximinez: You....Right! Tie her down.

[Fang and Biggles make a pathetic attempt to tie her on to the drying rack]

Ximinez:Right! How do you plead?
Clevelnd: Innocent.
Ximinez: Ha! Right! Cardinal, give the rack [oh dear] give the rack a turn.

[Biggles stands their awkwardly and shrugs his shoulders]

(...)