What's on your Mind? Spit it Out NOW

Criações relevantes (quase sempre) continuam relevantes.

Ramona Falls, "Russia"

Atmosférica
Sensivel

Sim, há tanta beleza escondida a ser encontrada num dia em que a garganta está inflamada...
Essa certeza, quando é sentida, traz grande felicidade para quem vive no futuro
Como eu





Aí depois você acha um videozinho do pós-criança que fez a música acima e tem um sentimento controverso. Simultaneamente, a magia é quebrada e recriada, diferente, mais humana, porém mais ordinária, quase uma não-magia. Não só os mágicos deveriam esconder seus métodos de ilusão.

1808

I do not normally like to read a book when everybody is reading. I feel a bit unnoriginal. Today, however, I bought the book which is in the first place on sales ranking for about three months already here in Brazil. On my defence, it is a very interesting book, made by a renowed and good journalist, called laurentino Gomes.

The title, "1808", refers to the year when the portuguese royal family, including the king, moved from Portugal to Brazil, running away from Napoleon's army, which was invading Portugal, as it did all over Europe. It was the first time an european monarch came to America and it represented a large step in both Brazilian development and underdevelopment, since many of the countrie's corrupt and unefficient habits find their roots in 1808.

Actually, the fact is that the portuguese royal family is seen here as a joke (they do deserve such fame), but it is also acknowledged that despite the land of Brazil have been discovered in 1500, the country at it is was "invented" in 1808. I read only the first chapter until now. It has been very intersting and really fun.

Grafitti

As I still didn't find an apartment to live, I am staying wíth a cousin in a neighborhood called "Perdizes", in the west zone of São Paulo. Therefore, I am coming to work on the Paulista Avenue by bus. It is not that far, but it takes almost an hour to arrive here, due to the perfectly hellish traffic of São Paulo. One of the few advantages of the nearly-still-traffic of the city is to appreciate the grafitti that is on the way, which I really like. I will take some pictures... as soon as I find an apartment, but here is a taster:

Another new best song of the hour

I swear that I will stop simply posting videos from you tube as soon as I do anything interesting here in São Paulo. However, all I do is looking for appartments. But come on, this song is great. It makes me want to do out right now to a club and dance all night. But then, I guess they won't play this song anywhere, so I will stay here and wake up early in the morning to look for the apartment that will make me stop looking for apartments.

You tube saves a life from boredom

What is worst: to look for a new job or to look for an apartment in a new city? I have the answer: looking for an apartment in a new ciy is worst. I cannot do anything but checking at apartment websites. Well, I can at least find gems on youtube while I search. I found a video of "After Hours" by We Are Scientists. It is so cute...
And, btw, if you think well, you can see that this video represents a combat between a weasle and a hamster. In the end, well, the obvious happen. :)

Who cares about... if R.E.M. has new wonderful songs?

In my last blog, I wrote once about a great new song by R.E.M., which is going to be in their new album, "Accelerate". The song is "living well's the best revenge", which now seems more beautiful and relevant than half a year ago. The good thing is that it's got the company of "Supernatural Superserious", another great new song.

So, it is a saturday night and I decided not to go out. Actually, my life this week was full of "deciding not to...". Is it a sign of depression? It is probably the lack of exercise (my prominent belly reminds me) together with being absolutely lost about present and future, but, as the title says, who cares? There is still R.E.M. and it is still very very good.

Supernatual Superserious:


Living well's the best revenge

How do You Relate to Your Country?

First night in Brazil, shocked, as expected, on how the slums are big, the steaks are good, people looking in my eyes, understandable conversations (unfortunately) all around, Sao Paulo’s noise, its harsh beauty, people walking slow…

So I went to see a Brazilian movie, “My name is not Johnny”. It is about this guy, this charismatic guy, this middle-class-liberal-with-good-friends kind of guy, who from smoking a joint and sniffing some dust becomes quite a drug dealer. He ventures in Europe, makes a big deal there, gets loaded and burns it all before coming back. He was having a blast.

While in this blast, of course, he faces the corrupted cops, who he pays in order to have it taken easy on him, and then he faces less flexible cops, who send him to jail. And then, of course, the film shows the Carandiru-like scenes in the detention and so on…

Eventually, his lawyer convinces the judge that he could not entirely respond for his acts (he sniffed 100 grams of cocaine a week, for Christ’s sake) and so he is removed to a judicial mental institution. He manages to survive there and he was freed in 2 years time. Today he is a music producer.

Yeah, the movie was based on true facts and the judge who convicts João (that’s his name, not Johnny) affirms he is an example that it is POSSIBLE to recuperate someone.

But, coming back to my initial question, how do you relate to your country?

In a letter addressed to our cool guy, the judge also says that “the true place of birth is the one where you look intelligently upon yourself for the first time.” …

Brazil challenges me, it puzzles me. Fundamentally, it destroys my innocence. How do I relate to that? How we, Brazilians, can relate to such thing? Maybe, possibly, by creating a fresh “innocence” on a daily basis, conscientious that it will be very soon destroyed, but creating it nonetheless. I reborn here, probably not by looking intelligently upon myself, but by reinventing fresh beliefs, opinions and values to be soon challenged and destroyed.

So maybe that is how we relate to one another and to this amazing (for good and bad) part of the Earth. After the movie, people stare at me. I wonder what kind of innocence they created today and, more importantly, how tonight will destroy it. I stare back. I cannot hide from them. They know, deep inside, my innocence is to be destroyed soon as well.