This is near the top of my favorite Brazilian bands/ albums list. Please enjoy. Download the full album.
Keep Reading » 0My Summer, in a video nutshell… Brazil – Summer 2007 from kremdela and Vimeo.
Keep Reading » 2I am sitting in an Internet cafe in Morretes, Parana which for those keeping score at home is a crazy three hour train ride (through some seemingly impassable spaces) from Curitiba.  Since I last wrote, we returned to Joao Pessoa, took a bus to Recife. Were thinking of staying in Recife to see the [...]
Keep Reading » 0I don’t really have enough time to post more pictures or description, but lessons learned: When tour books say don’t drive at night in Brazil, listen to them. Roads that are not on maps usually involve very tiny wooden bridges. Having not seen any tourists for almost 2 months makes you resent and hate them [...]
Keep Reading » 1And finally going on some real traveling vacation… Plans include: Natal, Praia De Pipa, Recife, Porto de Galinhas then bus to Salvador to hopefully buy *lots* of records. Then Curituba, Rio and São Paulo, then New York, and finally Columbus!! Things I can’t wait to do in New York. 1. get a good bagel 2. [...]
Keep Reading » 1Played a crazy game of pool the other night at a place called Bebe Blues e Come Jazz. (Drink blues and eat jazz, (god I love Brazil!)) Weird game, each team has four balls, small table, tiny pockets. I lost the game for us… Then we went to a Peter Tosh tribute show with some [...]
Keep Reading » 1Recap of the last week in JoãoPessoa. Went to see this band called (I’m not joking) The Omelettes at a Chinese Restaurant at MAG Shopping. Unfortunately no camera, but it was four band members in leopard print shirts and Brazilian Flag sunglasses. Highlight: sing along to the famous Elvis hit, typed phoenetically: “Blue Sude Shoes” [...]
Keep Reading » 0I saw a Brazilian (one l?) wearing this shirt the other day, which is both awesome and brilliant. I’m pretty much over my sickness now, but my day is still broken up in weird chunks thanks to a terrible mattress, sunset at 5:30 pm and no real structure to my life. There is this Mike [...]
Keep Reading » 1Things have been fun and yet crazy… I’ve been really sick the past couple of days, but have been taking a good mix of tylenol and cipro and am starting to get back to somewhat normal. This past weekend was the São João (St. John) festival, and we took a tourist bus to Campina Grande [...]
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