CURRENT MISSION
To get by with a little help from my friends.

ABOUT ME
Terrestrial, mainly.

PHILOSOPHY
‘And what if I am wrong?’
—Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov

Interests

Good people, good film, good music, good politics, good wine, and writing bad things on them all.

• writing
• wine
• politics
• music
• atheism

Music, Movies, and Books

Books
Notes from the underground — F. Dostoevsky
The Stranger — A. Camus
A lover's discourse: fragments — R. Barthes
Book of disquietude — F. Pessoa
Liquid love — Z. Bauman
The open veins of Latin America — E. Galeano
Book of embraces — E. Galeano
Empire — A. Negri, M. Hardt
Philosophy of love — G. Simmel
The god delusion — R. Dawkins

Movies
Dreams — A. Kurosawa
Delicatessen — M. Caro, J.P. Jeunet
The apple — S. Makhmalbaf
A special day — E. Scola
Family diary — V. Zurlini

Music
Bossa nova, samba, Brazilian folk, salsa, jazz of all sorts (okay, no fusion or acid jazz), blues, 1970's good old rock and roll, protopunk, post-punk. And all hail the Beatles.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'm listening to this epic, Carmina Burana kind of tune, right? As I look to the left, someone off-sight is lifting a clothesline full of sheets.
Although I'm an atheist, the music and my lack of sleep made the blowing sheets look like some sort of biblical gimmick. And that was pretty much it.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach Brazilian Portuguese.

Learn Continental Portuguese. Sounds like Russian to me.

Share Good music. No, no: I mean GOOD music.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Netherlands, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Canada, Sweden

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