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Part 2: Wednesday Shows
Days- This is a science fiction show about the end of the world. Scientists discover that the world will end as we know it within 1,000 days from an asteroid hitting the earth and a series of solar flares. At first the show is about the people who discover these things and wonder if they should even tell everyone or if its better if people live their remaining days oblivious and happy . By episode 6 the info gets out and it really starts changing the dynamics of society as people react differently to the news of their impending doom. The government tries its best to find ways to stop the disasters from happening but it doesn’t look like they can stop it but only lessen the damage. Season 2 would start with the painful selection process of who to save and let stay in secret government bunkers with the slight hope of rebuilding society after the disasters happen.. Tagline: How will you spend your last days? (syfy)
Debugger- When the government needs only the best to protect the world from computer viruses and cyber crime they called the Debugger. Each week presents a new case for the debugger as he battles against the wily computer hackers to stop them from destroying the country. The show is shown in real time and is hoped to be a hit amongst computer geeks as actual pathways and code are shown and explained to the clueless commander played by Ed Asner. Stars Rob Lowe as the Debugger (cbs)
Deckard- This a weekly spin off of the film Blade Runner. Every week Deckard hunts down replicants while maintaining a secret. Also new characters are added including a young attractive female android who is a crack shot and a saucy female love interest for Deckard who believes all replicants should be free which comes in conflict of Deckard’s work. The fate of Rachael is learned through flashbacks throughout the episodes which explains her absence from the show. Sadly Harrison Ford isn’t interested in reprising his role. Ridley Scott has also gone on record as saying this is a bad idea.(syfy)
Distortion- A music video show where they play music videos (this is a real one) (proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ7JF_GUa5w )(fuse)
Dreamsie- This is just an infomercial about a bed and pillow made of memory foam that is coated in oils that help promote sleep. Hosted by the Slap Chop/Sham wow guy. Not to be confused with the baby clothes called Dreamsie
( http://www.kiddopotamus.com/p_dream.php)
Emo knickers – A british show about young goth teen girls growing up together in a flat in London. Some of the episodes are titled : "Nancy Done Her Arm In With A Bleeding Knife On Purpose" " I Wear Black Knickers Cos I’m Knackered Of It All" and "A Bank Holiday Isn’t A Holiday When You’re Flat Broke" (bbc)
FallenAngel89- Anime about fallen angels who become robot warriors and fight evil trying to redeem themselves. Our hero is number 89 which is the number of souls he must save before he is forgiven.
Feedback – When a boy buys a guitar amp really cheap from a strange old man he is surprised to find out that the dead live among us. While playing guitar the young boy starts hearing the voices of the dead through the amp and after a week of doubt finally gives in and starts asking questions to the voices he mysteriously hears from the other side. When he tries to let others hear all the wise and interesting conversations with the voices that he taped on his 4 track, all they hear is guitar feedback noise. His worried mother takes him to the ear doctor who says that he has a unique shaped ear canal which may make certain feedback noises should like words to him. Is he really crazy or really communicating with the dead? (cbs movie of the week)
Glenda (the good witch)-Set in Salem Mass many years ago during the famous witch trails. This hour long romantic fantasy drama is about Glenda who only does good things and only uses spells to help people fall in love or help however she can. She must be careful though to not use her powers openly for fear of being killed. Things get more complicated when she falls in love with the handsome lead prosecutor of witches. Meanwhile Glenda’s evil (and less attractive) sisters try to expose her as a witch for they are jealous of the attention she receives from men.
GeoX- This is a travel show about eXtreme teens traveling the globe and then doing eXtreme things like base jumping or snowboarding after learning about the foreign culture from a local teen who shows them the best spots to be eXtreme.. (travel channel)
Gimmie Some Truth- This is a weekly show that that lifts the veil on the advertising world of infomercials . At the beginning of every episode, bits of an informerical is shown and then the Gimmie Some Truth Team springs into action. Testing every fantastic claim to see if it is true or not with recreations of the things shown in the ads exactly. If it is indeed honest in its claims it gets the "Truthful Seal of Approval" but if not the product gets thrown into "The Burning Trash Can of Lies" while the Gimmie Some Truth Team yells things at it while it burns. The first episode involves testing the Dreamsie: a scented memory foam pillow and bed set.
Glitterfairy- Ever wonder where glitter comes from? Well wonder no more. It comes from the glitterfairy who lives in New York. In this documentary, you get to meet her and her family as they gear up for New Years Eve (their biggest holiday) and talk about how disgusted they feel that so many strippers use their products as they are very religious . (documentary film channel)
Good Morning- This is a show for toddlers that teaches them how to say "good morning" in every language from someone who speaks that respective language. If this is successful there are talks of more in the series entitled "hello", "how are you?", "friend" , "my name is" , and "goodbye". Sesame Street has also expressed interest in using shortened versions as a clip shown between character/puppet driven live action sequences
Goosey- aka "Goosey (The Boy Who Was Raised By Geese)". An inspirational movie about a young boy who was raised by geese and a British family’s struggles as they try to get him to readjust to society. At first he sqawks a lot and knocks stuff over trying to flap his wings but soon he begins to learn English and he says his name is Goosey. The more he learns of our ways ,the more he is shunned by his gander which leads to a moral dilemma. Stay human and create a new life as a human or go back to his family of geese? Watch this heartfelt movie of the week on Hallmark Channel
Gregor the Drummer- Behind every great band is a great drummer. In this documentary, we investigate the urban legend that most of the greatest drummers of all time were taught by someone called Gregor the Drummer when they were young. This film is about the search for this mythical Gregor to see if he actually exists or is just an urban legend.
Hamdy- A sitcom about the town’s favorite butcher named Andy whom the locals nickname Hamdy. Every week the regulars come in and give Hamdy a hard time and he gives them a hard time back in a playful way. When an old enemy shows up and finds out what Andy has been doing he sets up a competing market across town to undercut him with hilarious results.
~Harri- ~Harri is a Japanese program about a girl named Holly who has a mustache.She is a student by day, but at night fights against robot pandas who want to shave off her mustache (which gives her superpowers when she chants certain phrases).The robot pandas are made by an evil corporation that is trying to awaken a sleeping monster that will herald the glorious end of the world. Also, there is a talking cat for some reason.
Headphone Music- This a short documentary on albums that were made with headphone listening in mind. Filled with interviews of different producers who reveal some of the tricks of the trade in making a great headphone album. Highlights include interesting insights by Nigel Godrich , Bob Ezrin and Butch Vig and how they helped make some of the best albums of all time.
Heyimafishy- This is a movie about a friendship between a talking fish and a young boy. The fish grew up in the waters outside of Three Mile Island and due to the radioactivity developed rudimentary talking skills by observing workers that walked by. One day a young boy finds the fish flapping on the shoreline and saves it. The fish tells the young boy "Thank you". The boy soon gets over the shock of a fish talking and develops a friendship and meets it at the pond everyday as he is walking home from school. Things take a turn when the boy starts developing radiation sickness by being near the pond so much and its set to be drained after his parents complain to the county. The boy tries to tell people that the pond has a talking fish in it but no one believes him. Can he convince anybody in time?
Homer – This a drama about minor league baseball stars who hope to make it in the big leagues and poses the question: How long someone should hold onto a childhood dream of playing baseball? We see the sacrifices, the success and the disappointments of all the players on the team. In the first episode the players all hope to hit a home run to impress a talent scout. One of the main characters hits a home run and is nicknamed Homer by the team. The show title is somewhat misleading as the one named nicknamed Homer gets in a stupid accident that (while not life threatening) ruins his chances of ever playing pro ball. His nickname still stands though and becomes a mascot and cheerleader for the team. There are hopes such plot twists like these will keep people intrigued.
Hoot- They made this one already . It’s a movie about owls. Here’s the trailer, and if a movie about owls isn’t enough for you it has new music by Jimmy Buffet!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgT_xT587MY)
Ich Bin Ein Popstar- A young girl traveling abroad before college visits Germany but gets in a horrible accident near an old cemetery. She goes into a coma and when she awakens she claims she is a famous German (male) pop star named Das Blitzkrieg. When she got into the accident, the ghost of Das Blitzkrieg entered her body and now every time something beeps her personality changes between her regular self and Das Blitzkrieg who often likes to sing his favorite song " Puttin' on the Ritz" at the moment of transformation. Also, she works at a hospital and has to be careful not to get to close to hear the beeping of the heart monitors. Hilarity ensues.
Thom
Jonny Greenwood 2010 Popcorn Superhet Receiver Premieres
http://www.ilikemusic.com/music_news/July_1st_Is_A_Night_Of_Avant_Garde_Experimentalism-10028
http://www.rncm.ac.uk/component/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,1844/333/
RNCM Symphony and Concert Orchestras with André de Ridder and special guest Ólafur Arnalds
Jonny Greenwood Popcorn Superhet Receiver
Avner Dorman Spices, Perfumes, Toxins! (UK première)
Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Ólafur Arnalds Songs from ‘...and they have escaped the weight of darkness’ (world première)
André de Ridder conductor
DYAD Percussion Duo
Ólafur Arnalds composer, piano
As the guitarist for Radiohead, Jonny Greenwood has helped push the boundaries of rock music by integrating electronics and unconventional song structures.
Greenwood is also a classically trained violinist and contemporary composer and Popcorn Superhet Receiver, his brilliant slice of avant-garde romanticism, takes its name from a shortwave radio catalogue − inspired by ‘white noise’. Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!, Avner Dorman’s concerto for two percussionists and orchestra, references three substances that are extremely appealing, yet filled with danger: Spices that delight the palate, yet can cause illness; Perfumes that seduce, yet can also betray; and Toxins that bring ecstasy, yet are deadly. This high-energy score combines Middle-Eastern drums, orchestral percussion and rock drums with symphonic forces to create a unique sound that, like the title, is both enticing and dangerous. The inspiration for Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring came to the composer in a fleeting vision: ‘I saw in my imagination a solemn pagan rite: sage elders, seated in a circle, watched a young girl dance herself to death. They were sacrificing her to propitiate the god of spring’. A score of unprecedented rhythmic and harmonic ferocity, this seminal, highly influential piece caused a riot at its 1913 Paris première and established the composer as the prince of the avant-garde.
The final part of tonight’s event features Icelandic composer and pianist Ólafur Arnalds. Ólafur has already played a sell-out show at the Barbican and opened for Sigur Rós on their most recent European tour. His exploration of the space between classical and pop generates a uniquely graceful musical language. He defies traditional terminologies, melding piano, strings and discreet electronics into delicate orchestral compositions. This will be a world première of songs from his latest album, performed with a full orchestra.
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Richard Tognetti: 21 years with the ACO
It's hard to believe, but one of our young, funky, new-guard music leaders is about to notch up 21 years with his ensemble.
Richard Tognetti has been directing the course of the ACO - the Australian Chamber Orchestra - since 1989, and no-one finds the passage of time more bewildering than the man himself.
To mark the event, the ACO is super-sizing to twice normal capacity, so that they can fulfill a few big ambitions. This will be the first time the ACO has attempted a Brahms symphony, and they're starting at the very beginning, with Brahms Symphony No. 1. They're also going to perform Schubert's 8th (and unfinished) Symphony. But the great contrast of the night will come with a piece called Popcorn Superhet Receiver. If you saw the film There Will Be Blood, you'll have heard some of the work, which was written by Jonny Greenwood, the very gifted guitarist and songwriter with innovative British group Radiohead. And it's this sort of collision of creative ideas that still captivates Richard Tognetti, after more than two decades of orchestral leadership.
Michael Shirrefs asked Richard Tognetti if he understands the sort of chemistry that has made him so visible on the musical skyline.
Richard Tognetti Artistic Director and Lead Violin
GREENWOOD Popcorn Superhet Receiver (Australian Premiere)
SCHUBERT Symphony No.8, Unfinished
BRAHMS Symphony No.1
Sidney; 29 May, Sidney Opera House; 30 May, Melboure 6 - 7 June
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLdwvqp6bfc
http://www.aco.com.au/Default.aspx?url=/romanticsymphony
http://www.filmink.com.au/filmbiz/notice/2376/
The ACO plays two of the great Romantic symphonies! That doesn't happen every day. In fact, the ACO has never played a Brahms symphony till now. We do, however, play a Beethoven symphony most years and Brahms’ first symphony is nicknamed Beethoven’s 10th. Poor Brahms, he took decades to finish it, such was the pressure to produce a symphony on a par with Beethoven’s. Most people think he did. Certainly he created a bold, sweeping symphony, perfect for the massed sound of ACO and ACO2 combined.
The ‘Unfinished’ may be Schubert’s most popular work, two movements of tension and turmoil, serenity and lyricism: the Romantic era well and truly underway.
Something else that doesn't happen every day is a rock star writing great orchestral music, but Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood is the real deal. Described by the New York Times as classical music on “steroids, or acid, or both”, Popcorn Superhet Receiver won the Listeners’ Award at the BBC British Composer Awards. The work was featured in the Academy Award-winning film, There Will Be Blood, and was called “a movie music breakthrough” by the Boston Globe and “revolutionary” by Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly. The New Yorker compared it to Bernard Herrmann’s Citizen Kane score for the significance of its contribution to the film.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/radioheads-jonny-takes-a-bow-20100530-wnen.html
RICHARD Tognetti wants this made absolutely clear.
Yes, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, as part of a program involving Schubert and Brahms, will be performing a piece by the composer Jonny Greenwood. Yes, that's the Jonny Greenwood who has a day job as the floppy-haired, noise-making guitarist of Radiohead, the most adventurous rock band of the past 20 years. But no, his Radiohead gig is not why his work for string orchestra, Popcorn Superhet Receiver, is on the orchestra's program.
Greenwood is there ''because of the piece rather than being a famous rock composer. Otherwise we could have chosen someone even more famous on which to hang the marketing flag,'' Tognetti says, suggesting with a slight shudder in his voice Paul McCartney's classical excursion Ecce Cor Meum as an example of the bums-on-seats choice one could make if quality wasn't your criterion.
Thom Yorke previu a morte da indústria da música. O guitarrista e vocalista do Radiohead --que deixou a gravadora EMI em 2007 após gravar seis álbuns-- advertiu aspirantes a músicos a fazer as coisas por conta própria em vez de assinar um contrato com uma gravadora.
Em uma entrevista, Thom alegou que a grande indústria musical está morrendo e que "não será uma grande perda para o mundo", antes de dizer aos músicos para "não se amarrarem ao navio que está afundando".
Falando no "The Rax Active Citizenship Toolkit", ele adicionou: "será apenas uma questão de tempo --meses, em vez de anos-- até que a indústria musical desapareça por completo".
Após a amarga saída da EMI, o Radiohead lançou seu sétimo álbum, "In Rainbows", inicialmente via download em uma ação na qual os fãs puderam pagar o quanto quiseram.
O grupo ficou furioso quando sua antiga gravadora lançou a coletânea de hits "Radiohead: The Best Of" em 2008, chamando-a de "sem sentido".
Thom disse na ocasião: "nós nunca tivemos hits, então qual exatamente é a ocasião desse lançamento? Não há nada que possamos fazer. De qualquer forma, esse trabalho é público agora, pelo menos na minha cabeça. É uma oportunidade perdida, pois se estivéssemos por trás disso, e nós gostaríamos de estar, teria sido algo bom".
outra matéria
Thank you all for the inspiration over the years and putting up with my silliness with a smile:)
Part 1: TUESDAY SHOWS
(2) 2- (aka Squared) This is a sitcom about a math nerd couple who are deciding to move into together. It is full of math jokes that go completely over the head of the hippie parents who come to visit every other episode. Best episode to see if you might like it is about "a pi eating contest".(It is sort of like Dharma and Greg meets Big bang theory)
A- This is a new comedy starring Tony Danza, Matt Leblanc and Joey Lawerence. They are all teachers of down and out kids who they hope will earn “A”’s but the title is likely in reference to the amount of ‘ey’s (which sound like a drawn out A) said in every episode. Also stars Henry Winkler as the school principal (cbs)
Abductee- This is a weekly tv show about people who have been abducted by aliens and their stories recalled through hypnotism. The stories are re-enacted and the aliens look and act so creepy it is sure to give children nightmares for years to come! Hosted by David Duchovny
Angel in Limbo- A documentary about the former stars of Charlie’s Angels and their lives today as they struggle for acting work and raising their families. (also includes touching tribute to Farrah Fawcett )
Asabp- British hospital drama where asabp is commonly called out everyday on the er. (as soon as bloody possible!). Watch the young doctors fall in and out of love and deal with crazy patients in this hour drama coming to the bbc
Ask a Leprechaun – A call in show where you can ask a leprechaun anything (but most questions tend to be either about leprechauns or relationship advice). Sometimes the leprechaun goes on rants though, which is why a doctor is there to help answer questions as well. (Similar to Loveline but with a leprechaun).
Back from the Dead –This is a generic zombie movie with a title that could be changed to a misleading title that sounds very close to any new zombie movie that is released to trick the stupid people at Blockbuster into renting it. Possible retitles could be 29 days later, Zombieworld, Shawn of the Dead, Residential Evil, Dawn of the Deads, I are Legend. There are hopes to sell this one to the people who bought and put out Transmorphers and Transmorphers 2: Fall Of Man (direct to DVD, later sold to syfy)
(actual Transmorphers case art:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transmorphers.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transmorphers2.jpg)
Belwether- Meet Mr. Bell. He’s the new weatherman for channel 8 but it seems every forecast he says comes true. You see a week earlier he saved an Indian chief’s life and now his tribes perform rain dances to make his forecasts turn out correct. But when the calls pour in with brides asking for sunny days on weddings or farmers asking for rain for their crops how do you choose who gets their way?
And what happens if you don’t please everyone all the time? Find out in “Belwether “on Hallmark
Board Itself Speaking- When a long time member of an online message board dies its ghost resides within the board itself. It is there to help people and uses its ghostly powers to search the internet and the world for solutions to his former friend’s problems. When the ghost says who he is most dismiss him as a distasteful troll mentioning their dead and faithful friend. So it takes on the new name ‘Board Itself Speaking’ and helps his friends with his supernatural powers from beyond the grave. Drama ensues with a beautiful young noob girl falls in love with the person behind the new screen name and sets up romantic meets for them and he never shows up. (made for tv movie on cbs)
Brain of Nazareth- This is a comedic look at Biblical times starring an unknown townsperson in Nazareth named Brian just living his life oblivious to the historical moments going on around him in the background. Though it was respectful of Christianity it was cancelled after the first episode due to complaints and sponsors dropping out based on people finding the idea of a sitcom being set in Biblical times distasteful and sacrilegious. Others claimed it was almost a rip off of the Monty Python movie “Life of Brian.” The creators said their show had similarities to the film but was different as it dealt with a family man who was oblivious and “not a goofy way to messiah type story that the film was”.
Brpple- A quirky show about a girl named brpple. She’s only 6 (and her real name is Ramona) but wants everyone to call her brpple because that’s her fairy princess name. Shes precocious and precious and says the darnest things at the worst times. Her catchphrase is “Well aren’t you a big bag of mean!”
Cannot Tell Water From Champagne- This is a show about reforming country girls into proper ladies. Watch what happens when you take trailer park girls and put them into a 10 million dollar mansion. In this cross between the Beverly Hillbillies and the Simple Life. The girl that becomes the most cultured wins the mansion and enough money to maintain her new lifestyle for 2 years. May set the record for the amount of “y’alls” spoken per hour in tv history. (Fox)
Cinnamon-Carmine- Do you ever wonder how they make cinnamon? This 45-minute doc shows you how it is made with a visit to the Carmine family’s spice processing plant. From the root, to your table, to the corporate dealings you will see it all.
Cisum Tixe- How do you fill a whole desert with screaming rock fans at one of the biggest rock festivals in all the world? This documentary shows how difficult it is to get a big festival without going through Ticketmaster. Somehow the International Cisum Festival of Music in Death Valley Committee finds a way and you’ll see how.
Cloaked Romulan Warbird – In this Star Trek spin off movie we follow an intrepid crew of Romulans in the early days of space travel as they travel the galaxy in the first and experimental Romulan Warbird with cloaking technology. The first time a weapon is used in battle one has the element of surprise. How and when to use that is the main dilemma of the captain when he sees a fellow warbird being fired at by a large group of Klingons ships. He could save his fellow Romulans but give up the element of surprise of the cloaking device which could turn the tide of war they are traveling to. Do the needs of the many really outweigh the few? (syfy)
Cloudscapes- This is a painting show entirely dedicated to teaching people how to paint cloudscapes. Whether its puffy little clouds or angry grey clouds you will learn how to paint them with ease (public television)
Com-lag- A romantic film about long distance lovers. One in America and one in Japan after meeting on vacation. It was planned to be the sequel to Lost in Translation but none of the actors wanted to reprise their roles and now it is being made as a new and separate film with a new cast.
Completely Unhinged- This a documentary about carnival rides at amusement parks and how dangerous they really are and the stories of the unknown cover ups of these “killer rides”.Special notice goes to the ride “Ring of Fire” which has killed more people than any other ride by derailment.
-(youtube clip of the amusement park ride Ring of Fire in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR_38Xuw3fQ&feature=related)
Crazybikergirl – When the cops are paid off and justice needs to be served there’s only one lady to turn to: Crazybikergirl. Each episode she rides from town to town on her motorcycle. Her mythic status is known among the lands for helping the downtrodden and making things right. Whether it’s cracking the skulls of abusive boyfriends or setting a corrupt town on fire, justice will be served before she reaches the next town. Each episode we get clues to her mysterious past and the deeper agenda of why she travels from town to town.
CS- cs (crime scene) is a mobile phone only spin off of the popular CSI shows. It shows the actual crimes before the episodes air giving the home audience with V- Cast phones the choice of watching the crimes and knowing whodunit ahead of time or watching it normally (standard rates apply)
(disclaimers: I made a lot of stuff up for joke purposes. There is no Carmine Cinnamon Factory or Cisum Music Festival for example. Also the Ring of Fire is not the killer I make it out to be. While I try to keep things plausible, storytelling is basically creative lying. Keep that in mind.)
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tired. lonely.
and again with the atoms for peices.
someone come over pls
I have a confession to make. It`s about work. I work for the government of my country since 2006, right before President Lula`s reelection.
Well, what I have to say is directly linked to my view of my country and my expectations as a citizen. I don`t know! I thought I could help my country, I thought I could change its reality and make it a better place, but at this point I realize that governments are all the same. It doesn`t matter what the ideology is, at the end, all governments try to prove what they`ve improved, what they`ve done better, causing it to become a reckless, oblivious, neglecting entity. It works for the present time and for some specific purpose, which, oftenly turns out not to be the people, the citizens, the vox populi.
I feel so ashamed of myself, when I realize I`m part of it. All the time I thought I was helping, but "just coz you feel it, it doesn`t mean it's there". Even when you try to fight it, or confront it, you feel powerless "crushed like a bug in the ground". I began to think that I did good because I`ve always aimed at presenting new opportunities for my country, bringing changes that would contribute to its improvement; and because I try to do everything by the book, hoping that it would make a difference for its sucess. But then I realized, all this drama was not real. It was surreal. The thing is: I lived a different political moment, if you like that expression, or you could simply say I have a different point of view.
See, by the time I started working for the government, we were building the strategies, making medium and long term goals for our country, we were presenting a national plan for culture, bringing the importance of cultural expression to the core of development of a society. We were setting programs to accomplish our goals based on the information we had, which was very little I supposed. This was really hard and some things didn't really brought us very good results. But we knew that was going to happen, it's difficult to change the reality of a country, especially a big, populated, developing country like Brazil. And at some point we got the results from a study we requested for the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) that shoked us a little. We found out that roughly 80% of brazilian citizens have never been to the movies, theater, concerts and so on. At the same time we found out that brazilians spend around 11% of their income with cultural goods and services.
This numbers made it clear the gap between some regions of Brazil and their population. The typical unequal capitalist distortions of the developing democratic countries of South America. Caused by the unfair distribution of everything. In my country this maldistribution includes the population, health services, educational services, culture, infra-structure, etc. Thus we have rural exodus, in search of better quality of life.
Rouanet law
Well, the Rouanet law is mechanism of fiscal/tax renunciation, where a cultural project can be financed using the tax contribution. Actually, it's a trade, the sponsor pays up until 4% of his taxes to the project and he won't have to pay it later in the end of the fiscal year. So, the sponsor gets the right to have his name or label advertised in the cultural project and the cultural agent gets the financial support he needed. This mechanism is not new and it's not perfect either, and, in Brazil, it does not work as well as we expected. This is because a research made in 2008, I guess, showed that more than 80% of all renunciated taxes goes to only 5% of the projects. Clearly an unfair distribution, even worse is the fact that these projects are all based in the same regions, which is the biggest cities of Brazil (Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro). The north of BRazil gets less than 3% of the taxes. It's a sad distortion, some my say, very sad.
But when you start analysing things more closely, you realized that this is actually not as bad as it looks. Let's face some facts based on reports of IBGE, 2007 and UNDP, 2005:
1- the north is formed by seven states that combined total up to a population of 15.023.331 and a Human Development Index (HDI) of 0,764 medium;
2 - The northeast of brazil is formed by nine states that combined total up to a population of 53.591.197 and HDI of 0,72 medium;
3- the southeast is formed by four states with a population of 77.857.758 and a HDI of 0,824 elevated;
4- the south part is formed by three states with a population of 26.729.883 and a HDI of 0,831 elevated; and finally
5 - the central-west part is formed by four states with a population of 13.269.517 and a HDI of 0,815 elevated.
Starting with the numbers presented above we can conclude that the population distribution in Brazil is unequal. According to the data 41% of brazil`s total population lives in the southeast region; 8% in the north, 28% in the northeast; 14% in the south; and 7% in the central-west part. Regarding the HDI also one can conclude that the north and northeast part are less developed than the rest of the country.
But the reference used above mentioned the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, both belonging to the southeast part of Brazil. Note that we're not referring to the States of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, but these states` capitals, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. So, if we take the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro which are considered global metropolis in Brazil, we have that:
1- the city of Rio de Janeiro represents 3% of Brazil's total population (6.186.710 inhab) and HDI of 0.842; and
2 - the city of Sao Paulo representes 5% of Brazil`s total population (11.037.593 inhab) and HDI of 0,841.
These two cities combined account for almost 10% of Brazil`s total population and they are both ranked between the most elevated HDI rates of the entire country. So, based on these numbers I don't think it's really a suprise that only 5% of the cultural projects correspond for more than 80% of the taxes renunciated, Do you?
A Sad Conclusion
Of course, we need to correct the unequal distribution that has been occuring with this mechanism, but, let's face it, the problem is hardly the mechanism itself. The problem relies on more difficult paradigms of the brazilian society, but I have to say that today the solution that has been presented, it's simply to redistribute the money. I can't see how this is going to help, seriously. I don't agree with this strategy. I think it's rather immediatist (that is to say: wants to see results immediately), reckless and dangerous, because doesn't take into consideration the distortions this redistribution may cause.
I like to take the safer approach, the approach I think will be better for my country and its citizens, the approach that chooses to tackle a greater issue: the knowledge issue, the inclusion issue, the information competency issue. The approach that searches for the deeper cause of these unequal scenarios and that instantly realizes that what needs to be better distributed is not money but knowledge, information, intelligentsia. The approach that realizes that these kind of goals aren't accomplished by short or medium term agendas. But they will certainly cause an impact and maybe cause something unexpected to happen. Maybe, one day, an e-business insight that will wipe the money factor off of the equation and give birth to a different system with different distortions but yet, something new. Evolution.
I don't know! I fail to obliterate these numbers whenever I hear the political speaches tackeling the Rouanet Law as an unfair mechanism that causes distortions and unequality. I'd rather face the reality, face that my country is unequal in many ways territorially, demographically, financially and so on, and based on these facts I build a strategy.
I must be a naive idealist, but I can't take all the political bull my co-citizens barely have the witz to analyse. I feel paralysed evey time I see the ignorant mass swallow open a bunch of political BS just because they don't know any better.
Anyways. I just needed to vent.
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Bummed out again by your only business friend
The smell of fear is thicker than you think
Don't do it, don't jump
Changed shape to fit, in the end you just feel sick
A million love songs under anaesthetic
Hey don't do it, don't jump
Lewis, save yourself the pain, you'll never get there
Lewis, save yourself the pain, it never really mattered
We never noticed, we never understood
He just get crushed to fit, he never even smelt out the best
It's the best, it's the best day of your life
Lewis, save yourself the pain, you'll never get there
Lewis, save yourself the pain, it never really matters
No, I swear, I swear, I swear
Oh, mistreated, a low corporate
Mistreated, a low corporate
I don't want to talk about it
I don't want to talk about it
I don't want to talk about Lewis, Lewis, Lewis
I don't want to talk about Lewis, Lewis, Lewis
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Severance
The birds of leaving call to us,
Yet here we stand
endowed with the fear of flight.
Overland
The winds of change consume the land,
While we remain
In the shadow of summers now past.
When all the leaves
Have fallen and turned to dust,
Will we remain
Entrenched within our ways.
Indifference,
The plague that moves throughout this land
Omen signs
In the shapes of things to come.
Tomorrow's child is the only child.
