Sexual Healing

As everybody knows, John Paul II's Holy Spirit has taken Bush and his John Birch Society acolytes. What everybody doesn't know (and when I say everybody I say the Brazilian media in general) is that Pedro Chequer, the director of Brazil's HIV/Aids programme, had rejected the faith-based AIDS funding, a variation of the infamous condom ban promoted by almighty Vatican.

Team Korea

Who'd say that the only cultural product from North Korea would be pansori or films shot by kidnapped South Koreans directors? Cunnilingus in North Korea is here to oppose this silly and somewhat PI thought. This is a smart flash edited by the artist Young-Hae Chang, a piece of animation that mix a Kim Jong Il's discourse about sex equity with a soul music background. It is probably one of the most acid critics to PKR's Dear Leader, widely known for his instrumentalisation of art for political ends. The piece is publicly available in the skybox of Internet, which certainly was not previewed by the great movie buff.

Drones and Droids

The appearance of Lezama Lima in Before Night Falls (with Javier Bardem in the role of Reinaldo Arenas) is absolutely stunning and unexpected. "Dictators hate art, because beauty cannot be dominated". Fidel's pursuers are like Cylon pursuers, as in Battlestar Galactica.

Folksonomy Sartori

As I was tagging my recent photos in Flickr, something struck me hard in the head. I was using the tag "Trips" for the photos of a travel I did in 1998 to Europe. But I've noticed that "Trips" is an ambiguous word, for it can means either "traveling" or "drug driven experiences". Moreover, the tag "travel" has already been released in the wild inside the Flickr universe, so why not be leveraged by it? Immediately, Thomas Vander Wal's spirit descended upon me and put me closer to other folks that are using the same tag. Somehow, I felt a structural connection with others human beings, a relationship created by a common cultural practice. It is as simple as name an imaginary friend, but it gives empowerment to the people. There is a "revolution going on in the art and science of categorization", as said the prophet Bruce Sterling.

Delicious Sin

It must be the most frivolous thing to do in the face of the earth, but Alf Eaton knows how to skin del.icio.us. Install URIid extension, put a small style sheet in a special folder and make a little editing of userContent.css. Presto! The desert of real is no more. Hey, how many of you really believe that Rogers Cadenhead registered Benedict XVI.com just to prevent evil doers from acquiring this domain? Maybe I won’t see he down there...

Rare Word

"ABRUPTIVE CELERATION OF ALL DERVISHES CARRYING BIBUGGISH PYRITES VIA TURMAND HIGHLY RECOMMENDED." (Memoirs Found In a Bathtub, Stanislaw Lem, p.62, 1973). This is the second time I read the word "pyrites" in the literature (in the first occasion I've read it in the title of a book written by a Brazilian schizoid writer). A word so rare, that it should return some gold to the perpetrator.

[ Zero 7 - Passing By ]

Singing Head

WOW!
UPDATE 05/22: Is it a perpetual playlist? Or the music industry put a spell on it, making it round in an eternal recurrence movement?

[ The Jimi Hendrix Experience - One Rainy Wish ]

American Politics Archeology

Robert Drew's Primary (1960) is an example of Americana cinema verité. The ones who are not political junkies will bash it as a great waste of time, but still it deserves some attention span. Using technologies new for the time - portable cameras and sync audio - Drew shows the critical points in 1960 Democratic primary in Wisconsin, between Senator Hubert Humphrey and Senator Kennedy (Nixon is just shadowy referred). Focusing in the urban constituencies, Kennedy anticipatedly conquers the hearth of the swing state. On the other side, Humphrey directs too much his chautauquan chanting towards the folksy people. Remarkable the scenes in which Draw capture the feet of the registered voters inside the ballots choosing the candidate for the party's nomination. Kennedy addressing a sort of Manifest Destiny is another great moment.

Things To Come

David Fenech has quoted a "song" by Wesley Willis: I like audioblogging is fucking good a lot. You can really jam harder like a magicist. Right on brother. About 93300 people like audioblogging is fucking good. AUDIOBLOGGING IS FUCKING GOOD!!! The music industry notwithstanding, their gonna sail. Oh, they will.

[ The Notwist - One With The Freaks ]

Spongy Road Trip

If you can't afford the Miles and Jack Wine Tour in real life, you can try doing it through Google Maps application. Take the push-pins path and get all the add-on information in the info-popups. Probably you don't have a Chateau Cheval Blanc bottle to toast the special occasion, but you can get along with that old Piriquita though. For the braves, Los Olvidos Cafe is charging $29.00/per person (plus tax) for the SIDEWAYS Menu.

[ Interpol - PDA ]

Music From Aether

Introducing to the feint of heart my candid playlist in Webjay... Oh, Lord, in the very day I've promised never touch a keyboard again You'd showed me some outstanding MP3 blogs! How to turn away and ignore this, this and this?

[New Folk Implosion - Releast]

Godspeed, Herr Knopper!

Knoppix is a Debian Linux you can burn into a CD and boot it over any computer. A work of art kittened by a Teutonic guy named Klaus Knopper. Knoppix is really a smart and sophisticated piece of art. Inside it, the guy has packed all KDE and a whole wurlitzer of wonderful open source software, like GIMP, Open Office and the cave of wonders, KStars, your personal desktop Planetarium (I'm tracking Orion now, eh). Thanks a lot, Mr. Knopper. May the Force be with you against the cipayos patent holders!

[ Rolfe Kent - Chasing The Golfers ]

Sincere Toast

Sincere Toast
Originally uploaded by Kuja.

Mauricio and Nando toasting with the genuine Zubrowka. Oooh, Zubrowka, as expressed by Suw Charman.

Odd Couple

Odd Couple
Originally uploaded by Kuja.

Me and Teca in "A Polonesa" (Hilario de Gouveia Street, 116, Rio). Why not? look the word "jibble" in the sub-title of this blog...

The Peirogi

The Peirogi
Originally uploaded by Kuja.

The peirogi. Not the Hungarian, but the Polish one.

The Czekoladowy

The Czekoladowy
Originally uploaded by Kuja.

The Souffle Czekoladowy, one of the most delicious deserts I've eaten in all my life. Basically, it is an airy chocolate mousse.

The Hunting Party

The Hunting Party
Originally uploaded by Kuja.

The after-effect posers showing a genuine satisfaction in "A Polonesa". The waiter, standing strategically in the center, was the proof of our repletion. From left to right: Mauricio, Maria, "DCMOUSINHO", Nando and Teca, my wife.

The Gefildt

The Gefildt
Originally uploaded by Kuja.

The primo piatto in a polish restaurant in Rio: a Gefildt Fish. This restaurant, called simply "A Polonesa" (The Polish Girl), is a must. Very impressive experience for a Slavian offspring.

Taskbar of Hell

taskbar
Originally uploaded by Kuja.

Roland Piquepaille disserts about Durl, the new del.icio.us search tool that has the ability to bear things away from their usual places. In my case, I went from Roland Piquepaille to Alexandre B A Villares, non stop. Great displacements, great discoveries. Speaking of which, Napster ATTENS AP2P has discovered my taskbar. Good grief. Scare the hell out of me.

Mister Szantó, Look and See

I've recently seen András Szantó, director of National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University, define culture as something "sensitive to surprising the observer". Surprisingly, he said that Internet was not conferred to such quality. I know that Szantó is a defender of the gate keepers' culture, but say that the Internet is incapable of surprising someone is a crime of, well, lese culture. It is not by chance that the word "serendipity", coined by Horace Walpole in the 18th century, has been gaining scale since the Internet advent! Kublai Khan yesterday and Google Suggest today (by the way, thank you LazyWeb! Some days ago, looking for information about WindowBlinds, I almost lost my head trying to find in plain Google the name of that hatful of graphic software called devianART; my memory were insisting in remember just the prefix "dev" and the word "art". After that ordeal, a thing came into my mind: Why does search algorithms are so dependent of complete words if the mind usually works through fragments?). Please, Mr. Szantó, don't blame me for being an iconoclast! I'm just a poor mortal suffering from "loss of forgetfulness". Iconoclast and, thanks god, atheist. Quoting my new hero, Marshall Sahlins, There is a sure, one word solution to all the world's current problems: Atheism. I'm sure that the great American anthropologist would love Mr. Gruff, OBJECTIVE: Christian Ministries' mascot.

[ Ltj Bukem - Unconditional Love ]