Mr. Galiano must be short of mirrors at his house. And now that he is unemployed it is less likely that he goes shopping for some.
Check out this video. Sir, I understand you're getting old and it feels lonely and stuff. But you should think twice before calling someone ugly. Dude, you look like Zezé Macedo aka Biscoito...
Natalie,
You looked so beautiful, kind and glowing at the oscars yesterday.
I was happy you won....
but for me... THIS is your best performance to date
Just logged in as the blog admin to check the blog traffic and found out we got 3 New Zealanders checking our super official website right now... I wonder who could that be. Tamati, is that you? Is it??? Tamati!
Since we're still gaying this blog up today, check out Tamati in motion for curious.org.nz, the place for young people in Aotearoa New Zealand to meet and talk about sexuality and gender identity.
Adriano and Lovefoxxx always complain that I never post here. So, I figured I should post something in honour of our greatest divas.
You probably heard about Gal Costa and Maria Bethania, and you might know Rita Lee from Os Mutantes and Baby Consuelo from Novos Baianos, but you probably don't know that we have our own Tina Turner.
Her name is Tina Pepper, and she is currently retired. This is her hit song:
Another Brazilian Diva is Katia Cega, or Katia the Blind. She was a big hit in 1987. Her godfather is our own Frank Sinatra. His name is Roberto Carlos.
Finally, the last Brazilian diva I wanna share with you is Neuzinha Brizola. She is the daughter of a famous deceased Brazilian politician. Her hit song, Mintchura, have been an amazing inspiration. The lyrics are both classic and classy. It's about when you're invited to a party, and then you go to a sketchy place and realize the party is not true. The poetry of the begining of the song is something you can only compare with the great Lyricists: "Cheguei no baixo-gavea solteirinha e assanhada da silva/Depois do sexto chopp pinta um broto me chamando a atenção" Unfortunately I cannot translate this, because, like Finnegans Wake, it's too hard, but trust me. It's amazing. Below is the video. She already sung on the Telephone 20 years before Lady Gaga. Unfortunately, due to her drug abuse, Neuzinha is no longer on the show bizz.
YOU GO JEAN WILLYS! FIGHT THOSE STUPID IGNORANT EVANGELICAL POLITICIANS THAT WANT TO TURN BRAZIL INTO A GIANT JESUS CAMP. STAY STRONG YOU MIGHTY GAY! DON'T LET THOSE SCUMBAGS TRICK YOU.
You know, Brazil is a huge country in South America surrounded by Spanish speaking countries. In case you don't know, we speak Portuguese. It feels SO DAMN LONELY.
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So we wrote a song in Spanish to celebrate our neighbors hermanitos and hermanitas. We're mixing it today.
I love the way Lovefoxxx speaks Spanish. The spectrum of her accent is so broad that goes from the Argentinian Pampas crossing the Amazon River, going up the Central America through the Mayan Ruins all the way to the Texan boarder. Exquisitely enough, I can even hear some Catalan flavor in it. PROIBIDIS FUMARIS TABACS. CRACKS TAMBENS.
I heard people talking about it and never thought I'd feel it... It has finally arrived for me... When I saw this picture I felt a whole purpose in life... Instinct hitting me. I felt that I need to be a full woman. A proper adult. REPREZENT. Put my shit together... Unconditional love. I'm ready to be a mother for you and only you. . . . .
I've studied piano for a long time. A really long time. I started at the age of 7 and studied with a teacher in a conservatory till my early 20's. Not that I can actually play something that I can make myself proud of, I studied classic piano, spent hours and hours doing technical exercises like Czerny and Hannon. My teacher was sort of a mythical creature, 100 years old, like a Harpy you would sympathize coz she resembled you of your grandmother. She held this plastic ruler and every time i made a mistake she would kindly snap the faulty finger with it. She would never mistake the finger! Sometimes I was playing some really fast shit like Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu Op66 in C#m and she scared the hack out of me, she always hit the right finger. I was so sure she was not from this world, she was some robot equiped with super vision. Also I never understood how could one play that shit by heart without making one single mistake.
It simply wasn't for me. I didn't really want to play that, I didn't want to play that kind of music.
I wanted to play like Mike Garson.
Instead of playing the Well Tempered Clavier I wanted to play the solo of Alladin Sane. I even showed it to my teacher. I thought she was going to have a seizure. "Oh my god. I would never let this person lay his filthy hands on my piano!" was what she said. And I secretly stopped trying to pretend I was enjoying my piano lessons. And I finally stopped them. And bought me a guitar and locked myself in my bedroom playing along to Daydream Nation till the neighbors called the police. But that's another story.
This post is about piano and my big pianist hero of all time. And I couldn't be happier to be mixing a track of our new album that features his magic piano.
LET ME TELL YOU A LITTLE THING ABOUT ADRIANO... He must have 9 suitcases at his house. If he has less than 9 it's because he gave away some. Every tour is the same thing, he travels with a smaller suitcase to be practical but at the end he always has to buy a new one to fit the stuff he bought during the trip. This time, during the Big Day Out, we were approaching the end of the tour and he was still with the same suitcase. I was mesmerized... but then GOD wanted him to keep up with his tradition and made Quantas break his case. Quantas got him to fix it but it didn't happen and then... yes! It happened again. He got a new suitcase.
Maybe all of this happened on this last trip so that Suitcase #10 could meet it's soulmate... Matt's suitcase.
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I recently heard Matt and Kim's new album and I loved it! It's not THAT new... but it's pretty new for me. I really love the new version of "Silver Tiles". I played in Kyoto at the GanBan party and I think it was the most glorious moment...
Changing the theme of the post...
I got these "ZOMBIE MINTS". I'd buy pretty much anything that has a good picture of a brain on it and also because it says "Mmmm! Brain Flavor!". I opened this morning and it smelled really skanky. Kinda like Cheetos... but mixed with pee, ketchup and powdered soy sauce (is there such thing?)? So of course I had to eat it. It tastes really bad... I had to spit it out. I will try to like it. If I was the maker of this I'd make it taste like blood.
