A Momentary Lapse of Reason

Bernardo Sassetti (1970-2012)

Bernardo Sassetti deixou hoje o mundo dos vivos. De uma forma repentina e chocante para mim e para muita gente. Ele tinha na sua página de facebook uma citação de um poema de Poe, que por acaso conheci há uns dias e que espelha concerteza os sentimentos dos seus entes mais queridos. Aí fica, em jeito de homenagem a um grande músico, compositor e pianista. Fica a obra para o recordar.

Today Bernardo Sassetti has left the world of the living. In a very sudden and chocking way, for me and many others. He had this quotation of a Poe’s poem, that I actually discovered a few days ago and that surely mirrors the feelings of his loved ones. Here it is, as a homage to a great musician, composer and pianist. His work remains so we can remember him.

“Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow-

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.


I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand-

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep- while I weep!

O God! can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?”


Edgar Alan Poe

It’s Alive!!!

Os filmes do Wes Anderson são sempre ricos na variedade musical. O mesmo se pode dizer dos trailers. Não sei se foi ele que o realizou (suspeito que sim), mas a escolha da banda sonora para o trailer de “Moonrise Kingdom” apraz-me muito! | Wes Anderson’s movies are always musically rich. We can say the same about their trailers. I’m not sure if he was the director (I suspect so), but I like very much of the “Moonrise Kingdom” trailer soundtrack.