CURRENT MISSION

Live!

ABOUT ME

Sunny, talktive, cheerful, deep thinker, patient, helpful and happy!

PHILOSOPHY

I keep wishing I was somewhere else
Walking down a strange new street
And hearing words that I have never heard
From a person I've yet to meet.

Interests

Travelling, music and festivals, camping, gastronomy, instruments, politics and literature.

• literature
• festivals
• walking
• politics
• traveling
• music
• camping

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:

Pink Floyd, Ravi Shankar, Jimmy Smith, Novos Baianos, Mike Bloomfield, John Coltrane, Baby Huey, Walter Wanderley, Black Merda, Cotie Williams, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Yuseef Lateef, Freddie King, Elmore James,The Incredible String Band, Blind Willie McTell, Tim Maia, Serge Gainsbourg, John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, Blind Boy Fuller, James P. Johnson, The Kinks, Shangri-las, Beatles, The Doors, Thelenious Monk, Amy Winehouse, Raul Seixas, Vevelt Underground, Bob Dylan, Beirut, Os Mutantes, Alice Coltrane, Skatalites, The Ventures, Cream, Charles Mingus, Eric Clapton, Miles Davis, Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings, Pão com Manteiga, Tame Impala, Bixiga 70, Nina Simone, Lula Côrtes, Zé Ramalho, Pedro Santos, Dorival Caymmi, Elis Regina, João Gilberto, Céu, Ash Ra Tempel, Tom Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Chico Buarque, Cannonball Adderley, Allah Las, James Moody, Ornette Coleman, The Animals, Ray Charles, Cartola, Grateful Dead, The Zombies, Secos e Molhados, Ray Manzarek, Lee Morgan, Gilberto Gil, Django Reinhardt, Vinicius de Moraes, Iron Butterfly, Jacob do Bandolim, Pinxinguinha, Wes Montgomery, Jorge Ben Jor, Ave Sangria, Nação Zumbi, Caetano Veloso, Bud Powell, Desmond Dekker, Clue J and his Blues Blasters, Belchior, Leo Kokte, Earl Scruggs, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Blues Busters, Chuck Berry, Freddie Hubbard, Quicksilver Message Service, Oregon, Tom Zé, Marva Whitney, Cordel do Fogo Encantado, James Booker, Ary Barroso, Mestre Ambrósio, Nelson Cavaquinho, The Chantays, Lightin Hopkins, and The Ink Spots.

Books: Walden, Mochileiros nos anos de Chumbo, On The Road, A Very Irregular Head, Existentialism and Humanism, Iracema, Chariots of the Gods, The Human Conditon, Crime and Punishment, Phaedo, Symposium, Critias, The Doors of Perception, O Cortiço, Birth of Tragedy, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Cousin Bazilio, The Myth of Sysyphus, Subjection of Women and Os Sertões.

Movies: Dead Poets Society, Vivre Sa Vie, Le Dernier Jour, Ágora, Pierrot Le Fou, The Motorcycle Diaries, Into The Wild, Zabriskie Point, Life is Beautiful, Downfall, A Woman in Berlin, Blue is the Warmest Colour, Olga, A Febre do Rato, Le Mépris, Cannabis, The Holy Mountain, Terra em Transe, Et Dieu Creá la Femme, Trainspotting, Inglorious Basterds, Tropicália, George Harrison Living in a Material World, Don't Worry I'm Fine, One Night in 67', Brazil a Report on Tourture, Buena Vista Social Club, The Day that Lasted 21 years, A Clockwork Orange, Love i Time of Cholera, Down by Law, Masculin et Feminin, Alabama Monroe, Django Unchained, Atlantis the Lost Continent, Nynphomaniac, El Exilo de Gardel, Ex Drummer, Pink Floyd in Pompeii, La Verité, La verité, Caramuru, Night and Fog, Orpheus, Brazil, Calígula.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Netherlands