At your best, at your worst...

Time for a reflexion: eyerphones on, and Sister Hazel playing...

Everybody takes bad and good decisions, minute after minute, including accepting and facing challanges that you may or may not overcome.

As a matter of fact musics can be meaninful at some stage of your life for any special reason, like presenting a perfect match between the lyrics and the precise moment you're living... but that's not the case, this music represents for me a moment complete disconnection between the actual life and those three minutes during the music on the radio.

The depth of the diving that I took brings with it lots of pressure , that even try to force me to think about a connection between life and lyrics.

But, life is to short to worry to much, and musicavlly pleasent moments are even shorter and must be enjoyed in the depth it deserves, that we deserve!

Glad to present: Sister Hazel, At your Worst

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I won't give it up that easily...

Good old days... I like remembering, every single day, how expending the whole night long dancing was good. Fortunately, my "hang-out-friends" are living happy days in Ireland... I am kind of jealous I must say, but happy to the extreme, challenging myself in every step I take, learning and enjoying each second...Well, but apart from my nostalgy and "Saudade" (english speakers need to create a word for that), let's talk about music, that's why I'm here for!

Few days ago my brother gave me a lift to work (my car was fixing, fu**ing son of a b*tch that hit my rear), and we were listening to a radio program that only plays songs from the 70's, 80's and 90's, and between the songs, people call and talk about the that good old days and what they were doing by that time. Well, listening to all that, we heard this song "give it up", and just like a tsunami, thousands of thoughts and remembrances ran through my head... The three stupid friends jerking around with everyone, dancing and flerting with girls, making all kind of friends, and making the most of now, mainly after two a.m. when they apparentely poured a "magic pouder" in the air that boosted the sensations and the happiness on the floor!

Well.. miss you guys, miss that time, and now I can happily listen to this kind of song, and know that, I am happy now, nevertheless, I've always been!

KC and The sunshine band - Give it Up



Just to let yoy know, I'm 26, and the place where we used to go is called "Trash 80's", nice tribute, isn't it?

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Face the newest with the spaceman!

Well, sometimes life seems to be tough and etc., but it is usually rewarding. My vacation this year was an example of that.

There are two music that were part of my rest this year, but one phrase was remarkable: "doesn't everybody deserve to have this good life?".

Ok, it could sound cliche, but once it's writen by Dave Matthews, we should think of it a little bit more. When I was arriving in one of the most spectacular places in the bolivian desert, I had my earphones on and this song was playing.

A moment of complete epiphany, inspiration and relaxation. Enjoy the scene an the music!

Bolivian desert/ Salar de Uyuni:

By the way, I wrote about all the feeling of travelling on E-Dublin.

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Single or dating, things change, a lot!

Well, there are few things that you get of hearing but you insist in disbelieve, for example: things will change when you have someone, doesn't matter how hard you try....

This song is a symbol of that for me, not because of the lyrics, but because of the situation that it brings me up.

When my friend and partner (living in Ireland), Edu Giansante, had a classic rock band, my friends and I used to go to his concerts and dance like stupid, making some play on words and mimics over the real song. A bunch of friends, free of prejudice, having fun and laughing by no reason! That's my memory...

Nowadays, we're all dating, committed with our jobs and MBA, what happens to make these moments much less often than I wanted. Talking like that, it seems that it was years and years ago, but it hasn't have more than three years.

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Important by itself...

Well, some songs are important because they simply are! Everythig I remember about this song is that it was ALWAYS number 2 or 3 of the daily top 10, just like that Green Day's song, do you remember?

They both are from the same period of my life (obviously, cause they are from 1997 and 1998), when I was just figuring out what music was in my poor life, 2 or 3 years before I start to play the guitar.

I also remember that they performed a concert in São Paulo many years later, I still liked the band, but it was really expensive and I wasn't excited and "rich" enough to pay for it...

This song reached the number 1 in the US (but not in Brazil as I told in the beginning =o)

Music: Never There

Album: Prolonging the Magic

Band: Cake

Realesed: 1998

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São Paulo's City Centre - Rock Gallery

There's a place at Sampa's city centre that's called "Galeria do Rock" (Rock Gallery). It's a 5 floor building where a bunch of stores sell CDs, vinils, t-shirts. In the past it was all about rock, nowadays there stores which sell other kind of music and stuff.

When I was 14, I went to the Rock Gallery with my father and a very good friend of mine (Dezesseis' drummer). I had saved some money to buy everything I could, so did my friend.

My father was driving and he parked in a car park close to the Rock Gallery. Right in front of the car park there was a broken pipe, which was being used as a shower by a beggar. He was completelly naked, using a plastic cup get the wather from the gap of the sidewalk. It was a very warm day and I have never seen someone as happy as him when taking a shower!

After that, we went shopping and bought everythin we wanted. It's wasn't much, because we didn't have much money. My friend bought a CD by Sepultura, and he openned it when we were in the car... sadly, it was falsified.

One of my goods, the only one I can remember, was Insomniac by Green Day. This CD had been reaaally criticised by the audience, but for me, it's as good as the others (even Dookie).

Song number two, Stuck With Me, is my favorite, and we used to play it in Dezesseis. Some say, that it's name is wrong, and had been exchanged with a song called Do da da (From Stuck With Me Single), which says repeatedly "Stuck With Me" in the chorus. It's an unfortune that this song is not part of the main CD, because would definetely be one of the best songs of the album!

Band: Green Day

Song: Stuck With Me

Album: Insomniac

Release: 1995

Band: Green Day
Song: Do da da
Album: Stuck With Me (single)
Release: 1995

(Sorry about the video)

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My First Band and My First Song Ever

Once upon a time, there were three youngster from the south of São Paulo. They were only friends until one day when things changed!

They were "having fun" in a "party" of a "friend" when they first suggested to start a band. Well, the guitar player wasn't good, the bass player (myself) neither, but the most important was that the drummer wasn't actually a drummer, he had never played a drum before that day. However, it was only a small detail: what's the problem about starting a band without a drumset? Easy, anyone can do it! To make things even better, my friends decided to name the band as Porca Loka (I have always hated that name, I was against it, from the beginning, I swear!)

Ok, we finally bought a drum and started playing (or pretending). I still have some tapes of or rehearsals, so disgraceful! Well, it wasn't good as music, but it was awesome as friendiship and good fun!

How can a band be a punk rock band if its first song is not from the Ramones? So, the first song that comes to my head when I remember things from that time is "I wanna be your boyfriend". How dare we play it so badly? Jesus...

The funniest thing is the sound of the drumplates, that were actually demonstration plates, what means, plates to be shown in the front of the store with the drums, but not to be sold with it! Holy shit, it had been better if we used pans, traffic signs or something else!

Very, very good times! I really miss it, thanks to my old Friends Dan and Surf (he loves his nickname =o).

Song: I wanna be your boyfriend

Band: Ramones

Album: Ramones

Release: 1976

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