Cultura Inglesa Goes Into Rock! (And Cobain Pulled a Jesus)

Don’t tell Courtney Love about PSICODRAMA, a band from our city. The black widow of rock would definitely flip the noodle and fall in love with Psicodrama lead singer “give a damn to Daniel Johns” Luam Gabriel. This skinny guy with hard glasses and his band; a crazy teddy bear drummer called Panacho and a tall and weird “I’m sorry I gotta pee” bassist, Luimar, yeas, a trio! performed fac-similes of Nirvana anthems last Wednesday at Cultura Inglesa.
Some say Cultura Inglesa is kind of dreary reserved school… Could you crack a better joke, please? Rock and hot wine warmed our souls up on that cold day and knock this (if it really exists) square image out! The band and the school environment get married very well, so much it happened that I heard some “I’m pregnant” screams by girls. Girls got pregnant and boys go crazy singing, altogether, along with Psicodrama that, beyond the teen spirit of grunge stuff, also shook our bones and hearts with beautiful songs from Weezer till The Stereophonics.
We keep rooting for other rock days! These days in a life make us feel forever young and still the kids are loving The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.


Thank you

Adrian Lincoln

This is the letter received during the aftermath of the two gigs Cultura held on May 30th and 31st. Adrian is a Writing Club member and our dear friend.

PONTA GROSSA AND THE COFFEE SHOPS

This might be too late, but someone should complain about this random problem that ended up happening because of the ignorance of people: coffee shops -- or the lack of them. Ponta Grossa (Roça) has some coffee shops (two that actually HAVE coffee). I'm saying this 'cause most of the coffee shops here have the "coffee" word on its name, but no coffee actually to sell.

Some people need places like that -- to write, think, talk with friends, but mainly, to drink a nice, warm and GREAT cup of coffee -- but unfortunatelly we don't have that here.

What we do have is: bad service, noise, bad coffee, no cables for the notebooks of the rich writers (they might be writing the next best-seller that you're going to read).

People don't like coffee. People don't like to read, write, and they can't keep their freaking mouths shut.

Once a really wise friend of mine told me that we only have (quote) "like... 12 nice soldiers in the world" -- maybe we really need more of those, 'cause someone gotta solve the complains that I'm making.

Once again, introducing the wiz kid Amanda Pertinhes, Conversation Club and Writing Club member. Let´s have coffee, dude!!!

7 REASONS WHY I LOVE JOHNNY DEPP...

1- Johnny Depp is talented.

2- He is a movie star.

3- He is funny.

4- He has two kids.

5- Johnny Depp is american, you know?

6- He is married.

7- He is forty three years old.

The list above was written by the multi-talented and cute Bruna E. Campos, our Yelllow Flash 9 years old student. Go Bruninha!!!

R U STILL IN 2 IT

Are you still into it? It´s hard to know if there´s any hope for anyone, in any kind of relationship. And it´s even harder to know if there´s something left after a post-rock song.

Mogway (one of the most influential bands from the second half of the 90s and from the post-rock moviment), has been showing te world how a single song can provoke an explosion of feelings on those who listen to them. "R U STILL IN 2 IT", from their first album "Young Team", has the guest singer Aidan Moffat from Arab Strap (his vocal are close enough to speaking) and a banal lyric.

When the guitar starts, forming a circle with sad repeating notes, the melancholy takes me, I have the sensation that I miss something that happened a long time ago (somethig I really don´t know what it is), that I miss something that is happening right now ("We´d share a popcorn and we can go to the pub at night, we can get right tanked up and go home and have a fight") and that I miss something that won´t even happen, like I´m afraid to miss something in the future. The story itself isn´t terribly significant. There are no names, few details. For me the song is not about the end of a relationship with shame, hurt, love, anger or hope. I think that death is the only certainty in the song, it´s a goodbye song, where someone is dying, and this person is just missing his/her life, and also missing the one this person loves ("I will now leave here but don´t follow me / I will leave you and I will miss you"). As far as I´m concerned, this song comes down to one single feeling: DEATH, and it´s too late to do a damn thing about it. Maybe, this song (like so many other from Mogwai) says more about me than I can imagine.

For two more minutes the piano plays. It´s over. It ends like: gimme a razor I just wanna finish this shoot once and for all. Love will tear us apart, always.

We are now having these short essays on favorite songs, inspired by Nick Hornby´s "SONGBOOK". The piece above was written by the "you see, the cells of my eyes are dead" Maria Fernanda Rodrigues, PET 1 student.