Things to love São Paulo

São Paulo is not a common city. Due our multiplicity of ethnic references, cultures, religion, architecture, gastronomy…Nothing here is typical from here. São Paulo is one city of many cities or the contrary?!?!. From a neighborhood to another can change everything, the landscape, the faces, the signs, the squares, the shops, the ways, the accents. Uhhh the accents…

This ugly beautiful city that I love with (sigh)…I feel so good here even the problems. I can breathe here and it’s a different air from any city of this planet. I don’t miss it while I’m away I just feel better here, protected. I don’t know.

I Love to explore this city, to learn with this city, to get upset also here. No one cares with anyone here. I grew up with my father telling about his love for this city. How he loved here. I grew up walking every weekend in the city centre. Yeah, everybody hates our city centre. I fucking love that area; People talking alone, people running, people crying, people praying, people and people and people, lovely buildings and lovely streets. I love to walk there staring every street, every corner, every shop, every people, everything.

Good memories in my head…Bad memories in my head.

I’m in love with this city since I was born. Actually I learnt to love and hate at the same time.

Now... one more holiday. Carnival… and the city is gonna be empty… The best part.

So if you will be here and don’t like the typical carnival here are my tips:

Go to the cinema
Go to a nice club
Go to a nice restaurant
Go to drink
Go to the city centre and admire that multicultural experience
Go to Benedito Calixto eat “brigadeiro” and listen to “choros” music
Go to a “feira” and eat “pastel” with caldo de cana” yummy!!!! Soooooo typical from Paulistas
Go to a walk on Av. Paulista
Go and listen to good music
Go to a park
Go to Livraria Cultura
Go to some place you don’t know

Take risks once in your life…

Don’t watch TV
Don’t go to shopping malls
Don’t drive

Enjoy this amazing city!!!!

Good Musics to your Carnival (hyperlinked):

Cartola

Tereza Cristina

Antonio Nobrega

Spok Frevo Orchestra

Enjoy this amazing city!!!!

Philosophers' soccer

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I'll be back from the Carnival land with good songs for you Carnival not get boring!!!
Cant fucking wait for some days off

Staring Girl

I once knew a girl
who would just stand there and stare.
At anyone or anything,
she seemed not to care.

She'd stare at the ground,
She'd stare at the sky,
She'd stare at you for hours,
and you'd never know why.

But after winning the local staring contest,
she finally gave her eyes a well deserved rest

Holiday... Rain...

It’s so weird when you feel you are not in your hometown. When you get the subway, a bus or just walking and you hear people talking and you can’t understand what they are saying. Like other language. I like to fell that weird feeling and be an ugly duck in my own city.

Ok. Today I went to David LaChapelle exhibition at MuBE. Just an “ok” exhibition I was expecting more. If you like colors and sexy pics it’s perfect to you. He has the gift to show that.

Nice and free tip: DAVID LACHAPELLE. MuBE. Avenida Europa, 218, Jardim Europa, 55 11 3081-8611. Terça a domingo e feriados, 10h às 19h. Grátis. Até 5 de fevereiro. A partir de 23 de janeiro.

MUSIC?!? MUSIC?!?

* The Scottish band Sons and Daughters is launching their 3rd album on Jan 28th but is already available to download This Gift. They have already toured with Morrissey and this new album was produced by ex-Suede guitarist Bernard Butler. Nice tracks to dance with your arms up!!

There is a link here!!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvGxzg7-GQo

* Medeski Martin and Wood is also launching a new album and its familiar album. They asked help to some relatives and friends in this album. Let’s Go Everywhere has a lot of experimental music and samplers. A lot of fun to listen to children voices. Have fun with them!!

There is a link here!!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuCXJlfeq7I

* R.E.M. (sigh) announced their new tracks. I can’t fuck wait for that, REALLY!!!

Album: Accelerate (launching April 2008)

“Living Well’s The Best Revenge”
“Man Sized Wreath”
“Supernatural Superserious”
“Hollow Man”
“Houston”
“Accelerate”
“Until The Day Is Done”
“Mr Richards”
“Sing For The Submarine”
“Horse To Water”
“I’m Gonna DJ”

They shot “Supernatural Superserious” videoclip at a Sexshop in NYC…

Drunk?!?!

"Why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you’re told that you’ll be going to this marvelous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it’s a kind of queue-jumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the post office, people tut. Or sometimes they say, “Excuse me, I was here first.” They don’t say, “You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity.” That would be a bit strong."

This blog still lives…

I don’t know if someone will read it but who cares?!

I can shout here and say bullshits and no one will complain about it.

I guess I need to change the page picture. That one from Liniers is too cute for how this blog is gonna be written by now.

We can do a contest. I accept ideas… Remember the title: “Gardening at night”

Since my last HUGE trip I was thinking about write something. I got this conclusion walking and talking with a friend in Paris . I needed to start something. Why not write? I like better than talk…everybody knows that. I’m well known from most of my friends as a monosyllabic person: Uhu, Eh, Aha, Mm, Hein, ??, !! Or just to use face expressions.

Well everybody knows how I love to talk about art so is what I’m gonna write in this blog mostly. I stopped to send cultural schedules to my friends I know…I used to do that very often. So now after I read something or visit something or see something I’ll post here my opinions.

Maybe twice a week, maybe once a month… I can’t promise anything.

Enjoy or DIE!!

TGV is a CRAP!!!!!!!

Last day in Paris was fantastic with my dear friend and a small party at night, tres chique.

So I woke up on Sunday to pack my things and went to Gare de Lyon to take the train to Milan at 15:50pm.

The trip was ok until the train broken down and we had to wait until 22:00 to be rescued until Modena and there we had to continue by bus. This trip to Milan was terrible, terrible.

I was spected to arrive at 10pm and arrived at 04:30am. I arrived in Milano Centrale and all the shops were closed and there weren’t anyone to ask what I could do to go to Malpensa Airport .

When suddenly a police officer came and asked what I wanted to go, uff. He indicated me the way to the airport.

The flight to SP wasn’t good also but here I'm in my safety home