The best day of the weekend.

No matter where you are around the world, Saturdays are meant to be sunny and fresh: the air is new and full of opportunities. You've got the whole day and night ahead of you.

Saturdays have a 'film grain' quality to them. It's a feeling of warmth, comfort, and tranquility. So, my playlist today was inspired off of those feelings. And of course, the hunger for some indie.

Praca da Espanha- Curitiba

*Para o final de semana- For the weekend*

Weekends come with hopes, expectations, and sometimes a false sense of free time.  Then, before you know it, its gone by. So....

I'm making a weekend playlist for different moments of your weekend- so you can enjoy it one song at a time.

Friday Night!

E para aqueles em Curitiba, é recomendadíssimo ir ao VI Bazar Lúdica. Amo de paixão o bazar! Tudo de bom dos estilistas locais + performance da banda Uh-la-la + apresentação de coreografia do Swasthya Yoga + diversão, felicidade, e muitooo estilo. 
Sério, tem coisa melhor?

 E nessa sexta-feira deixo vocês com o cover da musica do Kid Abelha 'Grand Hotel', tocado pela banda Monno de BH para dar aquela animada=) 


Grand Hotel (Kid Abelha - Versão monno) by MONNO

Old Notebooks

I was never one to write everyday in a diary. I was the kind (and still am most of the time) that had bursts of inspiration.
Looking through my old high school journal I found an old part of myself; one that questioned the world and human beings. I really tried hard to understand everything. My perception of the world was so fresh and willing and hopeful. Reading that journal gave me a sense of who I was then- parts of me, that now have slightly transitioned and shifted to something different.

How do you measure personal growth? Is there ever a period you stop evolving and are stuck? And, again I go to one of my constant questions, do people change?

Wonka Bar- Curitiba

----Junior Year Entry-------
I wish I lived in a world where I could step away and be a third person narrator, just like in a book. I would see so many things clearer. I would be able to go back and see people at a distance and notice things I'd never notice before. 


All of us have a frame of perception. We perceive only a limited amount of things that surround us. As a third person I wouldn't be biased. Both consciously and subconsciously we end up choosing what we want to see,  who we want to be with, and what we want to do. But we miss so many other things.
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O Dia do Basta!

When enough is enough and corruption is too much. 

O povo foi as ruas e protestou contra a corrupção da Assembléia Legislativa do Paraná. Queremos transparência e justiça!

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Para saber mais, siga o link:
http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vidapublica/diariossecretos/conteudo.phtml?tl=1&id=1011905&tit=O-Dia-do-Basta

My Old Friend John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) believed in a social transformation in which everyone would have the same opportunities of enjoying what he called 'high quality pleasure'. To understand high quality pleasure you first have to acknowledge that Mill followed Bentham's moral science in which he claimed “We are chained to the throne of two sovereign masters- pleasure and pain.” This meant that as human beings we made choices based on what gave us more pleasure and less pain.

Is this true? Do we function so simplistically that we go for whatever 'feels' better and avoid facing any form of pain? Even those who self-inflict pain do so because it brings them a form of pleasure.


Back to my old friend Mill. He took Bentham's concept of pleasure and pain further, incorporating it into high and low quality of pleasure and pain, but mostly relating to pleasure. High quality pleasure involved mental/ spiritual feelings and efforts, while lower quality pleasure involved only bodily feelings and efforts.

So why am I babbling about 19th century philosophies in my blog in this day and age? Well, because I think Mill's idea about high and low pleasure can give us insight about culture. And what is my favorite aspect of culture-> well music of course=)

If you apply his concept to music, then high quality musical pleasure is music that is more complex; music that touches you on a mental and spiritual basis. Jazz perhaps? Experimental? Alternative Indie? (I'd like to think so...)

Low quality musical pleasure is one that touches your bodily senses(huh?) or music that makes you move and doesn't involve mental activity. Catchy Pop?

Does this explain musical tastes? Does it explain how in every music scene there is a mainstream and an alternative subculture? What about music that tries to be high quality but is unsuccessful? How do we evaluate high from low? Is it all subjective? I have to think more about this...

Amarelo. Verde. Azul.

É só chegar época de Copa do Mundo que todo mundo vira patriota; bandeirinhas, camisetas, e tudo pintado de verde e amarelo. Mas, não vamos deixar, como no passado, o entusiasmo da copa nos cegar dos problemas atuais- especialmente os políticos. 


A série da Gazeta do Povo "Diários Secretos" tem revelado a corrupção da Assembléia Legislativa do Paraná e vamos ser sinceros- foi um escancaramento. Descobrimos entre fantasmas e laranjas um nepotismo total; uma corrupção involvendo o desvio de um estimado de 100 milhoes em dinheiro público (ai que dor no coração)


Para saber em mais detalhe, siga o link: http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vidapublica/diariossecretos/

Recomendo a todos que lêem a série. 

Se você já esta sabendo desses escândalos e quer manifestar-se, amanhã as 18h haverá manifestações na Boca Maldita em Curitiba protestando contra a corrupção e a favor de mais transparência política.



Abaixo Os Mutantes- Panis et Circenses, pois a Copa do Mundo muitas vezes tem o mesmo efeito do 'Circo'- o entreteinimento levando a distração e escapismo do povo.

Um domingo inspirado- Inspired Sunday

Domingo tem um significado diferente para cada pessoa. Agora que estou de férias, domingo é o meu dia favorito da semana. E aquele dia de ler o jornal sem pressa, tomar o café tarde, assistir um filmizinho e, como minha mae diz, "morgar" a vontade.

Nesse domingo acordei inspirada, com uma musica na minha cabeça. Sabe a sensacao? A musica era "Bem Você" de uma banda nao muito conhecida por aqui chamada Nova Bossa. Entao, tive um jam session com a minha irma e acabou resultando na musica ai abaixo.

Bem rustica essa versao, pois gravei no celular mesmo. Mas deu pra se divertir (o que é o mas importante numa jam session) e usar a minha escaleta! (que aparece em alguns posts atras)

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