you have got to be kidding!

rose colored????

I am dizzy

because of so many laps around the sun...
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I feel so grateful

do you think YOUR friends love you?

go THERE, then.

and, well, think again...

Sky. Heaven.

brunette, shiny curly hair, young, thin, smooth jazzy voice.
disgustingly sexy.
her name means sky. or heaven.
she looks and sings like an angel.
she makes me sick. but proud.

thank god there are still brazilian girls who make us proud.



please, just ignore the weird men introducing the girl in german.

I heart my ESL

Thank God I am fluent enough to understand everything Morrissey says. It really feels like the world is a better place when you can identify with sorrow and joy in several languages...
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what if I decided to stop?
just quit. finish. do no more.
what if I just stood here?
what if?

don't see a reason whatsoever to keep on going.
dragging myself around for what?
what if I just gave up?
so tired of all this.

No man is an island

"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...
As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....
No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII
John Donne (1572-1631)


Google Earth has just found a perfectly heart shaped island in Croatia. It is called Galesnjak and it lives bathing in the Adriatic Sea.
I think this image speaks for itself...
... but if you want to read something adorable about it, you go see what my friend just did HERE. It is a blog in Portuguese, so I will ease your live with a humble translation atempt.

Camp Fire
They found me a hart shaped island, bat the land was bare and desert dry. They found me a heart shaped island without potable blood, despite all the veins filled with blood. They found me an island in Croatia, that crashes over the bad weather. They found me an island inside my heart, that needs to eat and drink, where the sun shines the whole year.

The Fabulous Valse of Amelie

Once upon a time, there was a girl who learned that the meaning of life was being part of other people's lives. And that the best of all is the meeting and the chance of being really special to someone.

If you want to feel good, press play.




La Valse d'Amelie de Yann Tiersen
Sound track of the movie Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain
(France, 2001, director Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
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It's all so quiet

The armchair is missing the coins escaping from your pocket.
The ice cubes are untouched, waiting all together on their tray.
The volume button is feeling soooo down...
( 'cause it hasn't reached above 7 for a while! )
Our CDs are all confused, scrambled up in the wrong cases.
Your pillow says it's missing your smell.
It hasn't been too hot under the blankets.
And the cold weather has given me the only chills I'd had.

Perhaps you should consider coming back home soon.

















Edward Hopper: "Room in Brooklyn"
1932, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


this post was written for the love of my life, and inspired by my friend: writer, poet, liar.

Happy New Fear

When facing unequivocal danger, animals act instinctively. Their most commom natural responses are the following behaviors: avoidance, defensive threat, defensive attack, risk assessment or freezing. Those are the innate responses, meaning the animals do not have to learn or think about them. Those reactions were given by Mother Nature and selected throughout the evolution of species as a - lets put it this way - efficient and smart way of dealing with danger evolutionarywise.

I find pretty easy to understand good uses for such behaviors, but I have some doubts about freezing. Ok, it may work in some situations, for example, if a rodent is trying to deceive an evil eagle flying up high. Hey! I am not moving, so the eagle thinks I am a rock, or a statue, whatever. Nevertheless, there are cases where just standing still makes no sense at all. When a mouse is facing a cat, for instance. Unless the mouse defies its predator for a staring contest or something like that, it is just useless, right?

Well, I do not want to go to far with this. I don't mean to bore people to death here.

I just wanted to introduce a very realistic observation about myself, as a representative of the animal world: I am having a very stupid instinctive response to my challenges and duties that are being brought by this brand new year. I am just not able to do anything but freezing. And I know for sure this will not do me any good...

I am looking 2009 in its eyes and I am f#cking paralyzed!
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The plane! The plane!

I have just found out that Mr. Rourke has flown away from the Island...

I think he went upstairs to join Tatoo.

I caught myself a bit sad, you know? Kinda liked him. And another page of my history has been turned.