sábado, setembro 21, 2002

VERY SOON... THE REVIEW, COMMENTS AND PHOTOS OF FRIDAY'S PARTY (AS REQUESTED BY CHICAO).

Meanwhile I leave u guys with Na's picture (You can visit her blog through the link that appears on this page). Cause of her request to appear. Which I had wrongly forgotten.

Just as an apple tree gives apples. The fruit from love, is only and only hate. Cause the growth and development of love is only one product, a product that becomes too big for our hands to grab, to loud for our ears to hear, too strong for our body to sustain too powerful for our heart to tolerate. So, we simply convert it in something our body hasn’t got the challenge to absorb and hold. Something that cannot decay any more, this feeling which has been hand to hand with love for time: HATE.

Cause after hate, eventually follows suffering, then self-destruction, then harm, then death. And just as a rotten apple can give the fertile land, for another apple tree to grow strong, is hate. Such a small fruit, can give hope for another branch, another leave, another seed. After death comes only remembering and from it compassion, for it sympathy, for it brotherhood, for it hope, for it relationship, for it friendship, for it love, for it dreams, for it doubt, for it consciousness, for it reality, for it harm, for it sadness, for it anger, madness and to it hate. And so it is that the cycle begins once again.

A cycle which has rounded since we recognized our emotional capabilities. Such discovery that will eventually end in a unique possible fatal destination. The falling of a big tree, for the birth of a new seed.

quarta-feira, setembro 18, 2002

STATUS: Dangerously Moody.

I was just lying at my bed, torturing myself about the nothing, disturbed about the something, talkative about the mind, silent of my mouth. Wondering if I’ll be able to keep on what I once though was at my capabilities of reaching, what once seemed next door, now just seems distant and blury.
But well, here I am, and I decided that if I’m gonna be waiting for a call, expecting a message, asking for sleepless… I better use my anxious conscious and allow it to be free at these so wonderful place to confess those fears we think no one will here.

I wanted to make a few announcements. First of all we already decided the name for the band: it’s INDIGO GINAVA. For those smart enough you’ll get the GINAVA ;-) and for those special ones, the INDIGO is in the name of your cause.
-Caroline you know the city-

We’ll do our first public appearance at Ale’s and Martine’s party. Remember we are just starting. And we still need a bass player, as well as a singer. They me told that Rafa is interested and Ale told me she really likes the idea of singing.

I think the plan on Friday is still on. Hope you guys can come. Che Robo, Moroco, Leyenda e Bunny nos tenemos que juntar de vuelta, ya ha pasado bastante que no nos reunimos. El grupo original, el comienzo, los que hablamos y siempre hablaremos por nuestro idioma madre. Además de todas sus ventajas como decir: bola de pinche cabrones trolos huecos. Y nadie nos entiende.

I promise I’m gonna post something more interesting, or let’s say, something not so selfish and “bubble”. Meanwhile I am going to leave you with some of the films that in my opinion should never be missed. Some of my favourites. Let’s see who agrees:

Fight Club
Kids
Memento
Mulholland Drive
The Shinning
2001: Space Odyssey
Clockwork Orange
The God Father
Requiem for a Dream
PI (3.14…)
Barry Lyndon
Lola Rennt
Pulp Fiction
Schindler's List
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Others
Rain Man
Eyes wide shut
Abre tus Ojos/Vanilla Sky (Regardless of what some critics may say)

Plus some others… These are only some of the films, which after getting out the movie theater I never saw life the same way again.
Hey everyone...Following this post you'll encounter a long, but interesting piece of work form the BSS (Brazilian Social Studies) class about globalization in general. We are asked to answer 3 questions, each one containing sub questions. My work partner is Vitor, some of U may know, af if not here's his photo.



He and Rafaela ’ll post a photo of her too- were the inspiration and motivation to start this crappy tequila fan blog. You can visit his blog by clicking the ling on the left section of the page.

Here are the questions and the answers we have done so far. If U find any wrong ideas (we haven’t done a spelling check) or u have any suggestion please, don’t hesitate, just comment. Better 18 minds than 2.

1-a) About B.Woods conference
b) Creations of it and their objectives.
c) Link between the “Cord? sanitario? Truman Doctrine and “Domino effect?

2-a) Capitalism phases
b) Changes of capitalism in an economic perspective. Considering the previous economical systems.

3-a)Evolution of Capitalism
b) Bipolar order established afer 1945
c) Relate two economical blocks.

*You may imagine how bored I’m to be posting these type of texts?
(If U see some chinese letters above, you are probably drugged)


Here are our answers: Be polite.
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1)
A- Wood localiza-se nos Estados Unidos e teve lugar no ano 1944.

B- Na CONFERENCIA DE b. Woods, foram constituidos varios organismos. Entre eles esta o FMI (anteriormente conhecido como GATT), a ONU, a OMC, o BIRD. A seguir se descreverao os objetivos e ideas de algumas dessas organizacoes.

A organizacao mundial de comercio que é o orgnano internacional responsavel pelo estabelecimento da regulacao e nomras de comercio em um nivel global. Concretamente ela contrloa as taxas alfandagarias dos paises membros. Entre ourtas tambem se econtra a ONU, o FMI, o BIRD, etc.

Um dos maiores objectivos da ONU foi a realizacao dum orgao mundial que marcaria as pautas de seguranca e control mudial de varios aspectos. A grao maioria dos paises pertenecem a tal, e a ONU joga um papel fundamental no apoio e vinculo politico internacional.

O FMI tem o objetivo de zelar pela estabilidade financiera mudial, inclusive garantindo empréstimos, a curto prazo, a esses paises, quando estivessem com dificultaded para fechar seu balanco de pagamentos. O FMI zelaria tambem pela estabilidade nas taxas de cambio, pela paridade e conversibilidade das moedas dos varios paises membros, sempre tendo o dolar como padrao de referencia.

C- Apos a segunda muitos setorires da sovciedade norte-americana acreditavam que se a RUSS estendesse seua unfluencia a outros paises todos sucesivamente, acabariam caindo nas ¡°garras¡±do inimigo. Esse pressuposto geopolitoco, inspirador dos planos Marshall e Colombo, além da ajuda economica ao japao e de varias laiancas militares ficou conhecido como o efeito domino. Estabeleceu-se, na europa e na Asia, um cordao de isolamento en toro na superpotencial rival: cordao sanitario. Atribui-se uma conotacao geopolitica para designar a prática de islolar areas disemindores de doencas infecciosas. Ja que para os olhos ndos ocidentais o socialismo ou comunismo era vista como ta, e portanto deveria rter sua expansao contida.


2)
a) O Capitalismo Comercial apareceu na baixa idade média. Surgiu com a troca de mercadorias entre feudos, criou a idéia de que o País que tivesse mais moedas era o mais rico . Como consequências houve um crescimento da burguesia com o comercial, e a formação de Estados Nacionais o que evouluiu para a expansão marítima em busca de colonias.
O capital obtido com as colonias sul-americanas, a impossibilidade de desenvovelmento agrícola e a grande mão de obra de pessoas que sairam do campo, foram fatores deram início a revolução industrial, que marcou o começo do capitalismo industrial. Essa forma de capitalismo é oriunda das novas tecnologias inventadas, principalmente de máquinas a vapor..
O capitalismo industrial acabou na época da primeira guerra mundial, com a grande acumulação de capitais e riquezas na Europa, e com o aparecimento de grandes empresas (causada pela política liberal de John Adam). Essas empresas passavam por acirrad concorência, o que levou a fusões e incorporações que levaram a monopolização e oligopolização de vários setores da economia.

b) No capitalismo financeiro, as grandes empresas passaram a abir seus capitais nas bolsas de valores <...............UNFINISHED...........>


3)
A- A globalizacao nao é certamente um preocesso dos ultimos anos, o nacimento dela pertenece ao seculo XIX. Os paises mais desenvolvidos tais como Inglaterra, Franca e EUA. Eles faziam investimentos em outros paises, do tipoinstalacao de portos, ferrovias, costrucao de hidreléticas e de sistema de iluminacao. Isso proporcionava vantagens aos paises ricos.
As duas guerras mundias foram importantes marcos para a evlolucaoda economia capitalista. Isso porque a Europa e Japao estavam dstruidos depois das guerras, e quem apareceu como a unica forca nao abalada,e a mais poderosa do mundo foi os EUA. Como eles nao tiveram seu teritorio arrasado eles puderem ofrecer ajuda aos paises europeus em troca de: venda de seus produtos, grande influiencia política no país e impor ao Japao seu comando políticos e economico.
APARTIR DESSE EMNPRESTIMO DOS EUA, OS INVESTIMENTOS INTERNACIONAIS PASSARAMA ROMPER AS FRONTERAS DE SEUS PAISES E TOMAR OUTROS PAISES. O MUNDO TOD SE ABRIU PARA ELES.

B- <...............UNFINISHED...........>

C- <...............UNFINISHED...........>

terça-feira, setembro 17, 2002

Nietzsche, Considered as the father of philosophy, an equal to Freud in his area, once said that we all love just for our own need. We are blocked my all means of ever giving a love, without having any emotional gain. Having no net positive feeling. Well, you may agree, you may care nothing for it.

But well... That's not at all what I relate in ethic and moral perspective. I like to think the whole point of offering love, either to any guy, a friend, girlfriend, Father, Mother, Sister or even for a tutor is just the whole essence of it. What is the purpose of sharing love or emotional dependence if we wont receive it in exchange. What is the internal conformity that we are so gracefully dependent on. What is the seek for such a tendency to feel. Maybe it’s that same feeling we look through drugs, adrenaline, hate and power...

The same search that has encouraged generations, and generations yet to become. The feeling of capacity to modify, deform and alternate the surrounding world we live in. the society we so strongly want to understand, the love we madly want. The hate we so carefully avoid. To feel one, not conjunction of the physical with mental. not just a joint of thoughts and results, of ideas and plans, of dreams and realities. But players of these endless, chaotic but yet potentially beautiful game we commonly call life.

segunda-feira, setembro 16, 2002

Last weekend was really crazy, as you may know. But there was just one moment when I heard something unusually with sense. It was this calming soft voice on my right side saying just the appropriate for the moment. Just the enough to see for an instant things more clearly. For a second I saw things clear, focussed and simple. Fortunately it did not last long.

But this sugar tone voice said the following: “Men, We’re really messed-up people”. Maybe It was it’s ironic tone, or the right thing to say but it made me see who we are. We aren’t just a war-free teenage youth. Careless of our acts, regardless of external conflicts, ignorant of life. We may be less experienced, had never been in combat –thankfully-. But that does not make us unconscious social beings, juvenile naïve minds or fool eager people.

Cause after all…. We were not taught to attack but to defend. Nobody expects anything of us. Our unique task is not to get worst or get better the already messed-up world, just if possible leave it as it is. Witnesses of the decadent of sinking society, the last breathers of the once pure air, the last visitors of what was once free, natural and rich. Which has and is converting into expensive, artificial and empty world.

domingo, setembro 15, 2002

ASKING FOR BIRTHDAYS OF EVERYONE......

PLEASE MAKE A COMMENT TELLING ME YOUR BIRTHDAY....I WON'T LOOSE THEM THIS TIME...
A picture of the famous legend of the CHICOMOBIL..

BORING FRIDAY 13 + AWESOME SATURDAY 14

Well, first of all I have to admit that the way things turned out to be, totally contrasted what I expected of my weekend. First on Friday I thought I would join every one at Downtown, but after a series of strange events I ended up going to Cinema Leblon, leaving 10 min. afterwards getting there, and going to Downtown, after $30 of Cabs and more than an hour of traffic.

But well, once I was at Downtown only a small number of people were there, and no one could drink for a variety of lame excuses... Just kidding. So there we were; Chicao, Vanessa, Guga DJ, Morocotopo, Tinky Winky and Andres all having dinner at Bob's.

So, I go out for a sec (I don't know why there's no signal there) to make a call, and when I got back, they had all left. Except just a few they all had gone. So we all went in the CHICO-MOBIL to Estevan's house. There we stayed hearing depressive slow music. Just the 4 of us, with our silent cell phones and a bottle of rum. We weren’t drunk enough to be stupid, we were not inspired enough to do something wild, we had no ideas and we just spend the night singing improvised songs and trying to stay awake.

So, in conclusion Friday was a real FRI 13. It was not only boring but depressive, random and too slow. But well like around 3 we all went to our respective houses and slept for Saturday’s trip to vassouras. I like to think that after bad things usually a good one comes, but it seemed hard to believe that when I just lied down and though of what tomorrow would be.

DAY II- Saturday 14

The day starts with me getting up from bed to answer my cell phone, which had the alarm set to 6:00 AM. Afterwards the second alarm starts, which because of my diminished capacity for any action I was unable to turn off and woke-up everyone. After 20 min. of discussion I noticed Andres that I wouldn’t be able to make it, and they should leave without me. So I left Estevan’s house where I had spent the night and I got home around 6:30, and it was already pretty hot. I just went to my room and tried to sleep. But I simply couldn’t and stayed awake watching TV.

By 12:00 I was at this reunion in Barra at a house of some friends of my parents. But I already had planned with Samuel and André to play just some GOOD ROCK, and I just waited for Ale and left. On our way Roberto who was supposed to arrive tomorrow called and we picked him up. We all stayed at André’s house like for an hour and a half and left to Caroline’s house. There we stayed for something like 2 hours, and finally we all left to Downtown. What happed there was extremely unique, surprising, and excellent.

After 3 walks around the whole shopping we settled at a Mexican Bar. Where after some Tequila’s the world was already spinning around. A special combination of factors and situations made of that night, an evening never to be forgotten. Malé, Tato and Caroline… I hope you had a good time ;-) I wanted to comment that I’m going to post a “before-and-after” photo of Roberto’s hair. But I think I was not the only one surprised with the night. But Chicao, my friend…. You saw as you said: “The most beautiful thing in years” jeje. Oh and Samuel also got a punch from a guy, but Samuel, you did the right thing. Alexandre and the girls sitting on my right at the Bar… I have to congratulate you in the name of Mexican people because of your outstanding performance with the Tequila ritual. Tato… I’ll get you drunk one of these days….André lets get together on Wednesday to rehearse.

NOW I HAVE TO LEAVE SINCE I GOT SO BUSTED. I THINK WON’T BE ABLE TO GO OUT THE WHOLE WEEKEND…. ALTHOUGH THEY DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT DOING SOMETHING AT MY PLACE…