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   quarta-feira, novembro 26, 2003

O vestibular é domingo...
Esse últimos tempos estava estudando 4, 5 horas por dia, e assistindo as aulas no cursinho. Isso dá mais de 1/3 do meu dia dedicado ao vestibular. Acho que posso dizer com tranquilidade que fiz a minha parte.
E a UFBA fez a dela! Aumentaram em 50% o número de vagas para o meu curso. Agora são 60. Se fosse assim ano passado, teria passado em 53... Mas a concorrência esse ano caiu de 17/1 para 9/1, então acho que minhas chances aumentaram bastante! Estou muito feliz, animado, e confiante!
Acho que dessa vez vai daar tudo certo, enfim. Torçam por mim!




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*Ganhei na promoção da Zero um DVD autografado do CPM 22. Legal, músicas de amor. É a segunda vez que ganho numa promoção da revista, ano passado ganhei um cd do Primal Scream. Detalhe: Eu não tenho aparelho de DVD...




Meu pai, que parece estar virando meu amigo, mandou pra mim esse artigo sobre o GBV que saiu no NY Times.
Serve pra vocês entenderem que minha fixação pelo Guided by Voices não é algo tão fora do comum assim. E que meus 20 cds ainda são muito pouco.


The Band That Can’t Stop Recording

November 17, 2003
By CHRIS NELSON





Avid record collectors might understand someone acquiring
eight copies of the same album. Truly devoted fans might
even fathom paying $950 for a copy of that album. But
certainly only a fanatic for the indie-rock group Guided by
Voices could sympathize with Breck Rowell, who paid up to
$950 each for eight copies of one of the group's vinyl
records, and Mr. Rowell doesn't even own a turntable to
play them on.

The record is "Propeller," originally released by the
band's own Rockathon Records label in 1992. Each of the 500
copies pressed at the time has a unique cover handmade by
Guided by Voices and its leader, the singer and guitarist
Robert Pollard. Mr. Rowell, a 39-year-old from Placentia,
Calif., who runs the Guidedbyrobertpollard.com fan Web
site, said by telephone that he bought most of his copies
through eBay and one through a former Guided by Voices
guitarist, Tobin Sprout. That he would hunt down so many
copies of "Propeller," and shell out so much for them, is
indicative of the obsessive relationship many Guided by
Voices fans have with their favorite band.

Such zealous devotion "gives me a sense of job security,"
Mr. Pollard, 46, said by phone from a tour stop in Towson,
Md.

His output is, to say the least, rare in pop music.
According to the online Guided by Voices Database, Mr.
Pollard has released 811 songs since forming the band in
Dayton, Ohio, in 1983. By contrast, Bob Dylan has put out
about 450 in 40 years.

The group, still based in Dayton, has issued 15 albums, 16
shorter, extended-play releases and 18 singles, not to
mention a handful of additional semi-official live albums,
piles of tracks on compilations and split-releases with
other bands. And then there are the two dozen albums and
singles cut by Mr. Pollard under his own name or with other
indie-rock bands like Airport 5, Go Back Snowball and
Robert Pollard and His Soft Rock Renegades.

His songs run a short gamut between guitar-driven,
supremely hummable power-pop and spacey progressive rock,
with classic-rock echoes of the Who pulsating throughout.
Mr. Pollard's lyrics are often fanciful; some of his
earlier work is so nonsensical as to border on Dadaistic.
When songs aren't stocked with musings on girls, they're
likely to invoke space ships, airplanes or military
imagery. A song title like "Back to Saturn X Radio Report"
from 1992's "Propeller" would sound right at home next to
"Father Sgt. Christmas Card" on last year's "Universal
Truths and Cycles."

At the moment Mr. Pollard has two new Guided by Voices
albums in the works, along with another box set of unissued
material to be culled from the 500 songs he estimates he
has written but not released. In addition, the band, which
played the Brooklyn club Warsaw last Wednesday, tours
regularly. (The current members are Doug Gillard, guitar;
Nate Farley, guitar; Chris Slusarenko, bass; and Kevin
March, drums.)

Mr. Pollard knows that every album, every single and all
the side-project discs he issues will probably be bought by
at least a corps of diehard fans, which he numbers at about
3,000. Several Guided by Voices albums have each sold about
50,000 copies. While those aren't platinum figures, they're
enough to allow Mr. Pollard to continue answering his
apparently chatty muse.

Earlier this month Guided by Voices released "Hardcore
UFO's: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western
Hemisphere," a five-CD and DVD box set - the band's third
box in eight years. That collection coincided with the new
single-disc compendium, "Human Amusements at Hourly Rates:
The Best of Guided by Voices." Both were issued by Matador
Records, which just put out Guided by Voices' "Earthquake
Glue" in August.

In 2003 alone, additional labels, including Mr. Pollard's
own Fading Captain Series, have released four other new
albums by Mr. Pollard or his extracurricular bands.

All of this would be nearly impossible to keep track of
were it not for the ardent efforts of fans like Jeff
Warren, 32, of Austin, Tex. His Guided by Voices Database
(www.gbvdb.com) is a Guided by Voices geek's dream, a
searchable index of Mr. Pollard's mammoth output. Todd
Robinson, who is both a collector and one of Mr. Pollard's
two partners in the Fading Captain Series, was only half
joking when he called the drive to obtain each release a
sickness.

Mr. Pollard's impressionist songwriting style seems to
attract fans with a, well, fanatical bent, Mr. Warren said.
"You probably get a lot of people who are more, I wouldn't
say artistic, but creative," Mr. Warren said. "Or maybe
just anal-retentive."

Still, some supporters who laud the quality of the music
admit to being exhausted by the quantity. Andrew Carden, a
33-year-old fan from London who began his love affair with
Guided by Voices in 1995 with "Alien Lanes," said he had
finally begun to run out of steam as a collector. "If I was
going to try and keep pace, it was going to damage my bank
balance," he said by phone.

Even Gerard Cosloy, an owner of Matador Records, called the
output "impressive but unwieldy." With so many titles from
Mr. Pollard on store shelves and more always around the
corner, it is difficult to create the sense that each new
Guided by Voices release from Matador is an event, he said.
At the same time, he acknowledged Matador's contribution to
the flood.

A fervent record collector himself, Mr. Pollard said he
understood some fans' fixation on possessing every song he
writes. Yet he said it was strange to know that some
continued collecting even when they had lost interest in
the music. "They need to keep that collection complete, you
know," he said. "Now it's too late; there's no turning
back."

Mr. Pollard was already recording his lyrics at age 9. By
fifth grade he was imagining conceptual albums, and during
high school he created about 150 different album covers,
which he has since destroyed, he said. Even today, Mr.
Pollard designs most of his own album art. It wasn't until
1994, 11 years after he started Guided by Voices, that he
quit his job as an elementary-school teacher to pursue
music full time.

Part of Mr. Pollard's appeal is his stature with his fans
as both an average dude and an artistic genius - as both a
basement-music-player-turned-rock-star and a creator whose
fecundity is legend. Will the well ever run dry?

"I don't think that really Bob's songwriting talent or
prowess is going to falter," said his partner, Mr.
Robinson. Such is the fervent hope, of course, of Mr.
Pollard's loyal following. At Guidedbyrobertpollard.com,
Mr. Rowell admits to having worried about Mr. Pollard's
losing his golden touch.

"I'm not sure how I would deal with that," he said.




Um mês que eu não apareço por aqui...
Tem uma velhinha no pc do lado aqui no Cyber Cafe que está falando sozinha. Ninguém merece...