- Get married and stay like that until death tear us apart.
- Have two or three kids, and at least one boy.
- Have a decent job, it doesn't need to make me rich, but it can't drive me (more) insane either.
- Buy a red Honda Civic VTi '93 (without that hideous black hood, of course).
- Visit Hong Kong, Paris and Tokyo at least once.
- Learn how to read in Japanese.
- Travel around Latin America in a jeep.
- Spend about 500,000 yen in random videogames in 秋葉原電気街 (Akihabara Electric Town).
- Live near the sea.
- Watch racism disappear.
- Buy this, this, this, this, this and this.
- Be a little less lazy.
- Learn to play keyboard and maybe guitar too.
- Beat the Alex Kidd in The Miracle World game for Master System.
- Visit all my friends who live far away and tell them how important they all are to me.
- Buy a Minimoog (and learn how to play it too).
- See Palestine, Tibet and Korea free.
- Go skiing there.
- Do not ever forget who I am.
- Remember what were the other ones.
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
Dreams...
Sunday, 25 June 2006
We got nothing better to do than watch TV and have a couple of brews!
Hello mates,
When I started watching MTV Brazil, back in 1995, most of its programming was devoted to actual music. And when I say "music", I mean "bands/singers who weren't created by a pack of media tycoons in a cozy office in a tall building in some huge and affluent neigbourhood of a metropolis".
Okay, let's get back to the topic.
For some reason, the quality of the music there started deteriorating to a point that the non-music related shows like "The Real World", "Rockgol" and "Hermes & Renato" started to look more interesting than the music itself. Then, I gradually stopped watching MTV regularly by the end of last millennium and would only tune it when there wasn't anything else to do in this small world.
So, in a dark and stormy night, approximately at 3:40 AM, I was zapping through the channels until I found Phil Collins signing "Dance Into The Light". So when the song ended, was ready to switch channels again, but I decided to wait for the next song. David Bowie's "Underground". I thought to myself: "Okay, four more minutes and I'm going to watch some preacher freeing a poor person from an evil spirit."
But I had to change my mind when I heard a VERY familiar synthesizer sound. Gary Numan, in persona, singing "Cars", followed by a plethora of bands who got lost in the 80's: Oingo Boingo, Echo and The Bunnymen, The Police, The Smiths, Joy Division, Twisted Sister, Europe (do they have any other song that isn't "The Final Countdown"?) and Soft Cell, among others (not necessarily in that order).
It was almost 6 o' clock when the first chords of Black Flag's "TV Party" (where I took this post title from) struck my ears and I was trying to keep myself awake at any costs...but I failed, and when I reopened my eyes, I saw a black Michael Jackson dancing with some zombies. I almost had a stroke...I couldn't believe that MTV would display a 14-minute video in the 21st Century!!
But even that couldn't keep me awake for long...so I feel asleep again, and when I woke up, at 10:30... Simple Plan!!! Crap!!! Someone turn me into a vampire now!!!
When I started watching MTV Brazil, back in 1995, most of its programming was devoted to actual music. And when I say "music", I mean "bands/singers who weren't created by a pack of media tycoons in a cozy office in a tall building in some huge and affluent neigbourhood of a metropolis".
Okay, let's get back to the topic.
For some reason, the quality of the music there started deteriorating to a point that the non-music related shows like "The Real World", "Rockgol" and "Hermes & Renato" started to look more interesting than the music itself. Then, I gradually stopped watching MTV regularly by the end of last millennium and would only tune it when there wasn't anything else to do in this small world.
So, in a dark and stormy night, approximately at 3:40 AM, I was zapping through the channels until I found Phil Collins signing "Dance Into The Light". So when the song ended, was ready to switch channels again, but I decided to wait for the next song. David Bowie's "Underground". I thought to myself: "Okay, four more minutes and I'm going to watch some preacher freeing a poor person from an evil spirit."
But I had to change my mind when I heard a VERY familiar synthesizer sound. Gary Numan, in persona, singing "Cars", followed by a plethora of bands who got lost in the 80's: Oingo Boingo, Echo and The Bunnymen, The Police, The Smiths, Joy Division, Twisted Sister, Europe (do they have any other song that isn't "The Final Countdown"?) and Soft Cell, among others (not necessarily in that order).
It was almost 6 o' clock when the first chords of Black Flag's "TV Party" (where I took this post title from) struck my ears and I was trying to keep myself awake at any costs...but I failed, and when I reopened my eyes, I saw a black Michael Jackson dancing with some zombies. I almost had a stroke...I couldn't believe that MTV would display a 14-minute video in the 21st Century!!
But even that couldn't keep me awake for long...so I feel asleep again, and when I woke up, at 10:30... Simple Plan!!! Crap!!! Someone turn me into a vampire now!!!
Friday, 23 June 2006
Kick Off!
Good evening,
This is not my first attempt to set up a blog, I have had several throughout my career as a professional idler. But for some strange reason beyond me, I always ended up deleting them and creating new ones some months later.
Maybe I was dissatisfied with what I posted. Maybe I lost interest. Maybe I was afraid of getting (too) criticized. Maybe I didn't have anything interesting to write. Maybe, maybe, maybe... that's probably the word I use the most! Heheheh!
But anyway, if this infant of mine manages to survive long enough to open its eyes, maybe I'll start posting more interesting stuff, about things I do, things I like, things I think, things I don't do, things I hate, etc. etc. etc.
Cheers,
Gui
This is not my first attempt to set up a blog, I have had several throughout my career as a professional idler. But for some strange reason beyond me, I always ended up deleting them and creating new ones some months later.
Maybe I was dissatisfied with what I posted. Maybe I lost interest. Maybe I was afraid of getting (too) criticized. Maybe I didn't have anything interesting to write. Maybe, maybe, maybe... that's probably the word I use the most! Heheheh!
But anyway, if this infant of mine manages to survive long enough to open its eyes, maybe I'll start posting more interesting stuff, about things I do, things I like, things I think, things I don't do, things I hate, etc. etc. etc.
Cheers,
Gui
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