another day another rambling

Suede's new album is fantastic. I honestly think it's one of their best work to date. The songs, concept, art, everything is pretty solid. I am currently obsessed with when you are young/when you were young. 

Here it is the album sampler:

My excitement is ridiculous right now because I bought tickets to Primavera Sound and they will play there. My indie heart is happily dancing. 

My fave tracks now:

I can't express how much I love all things Hamilton. And I didn't even watched (yet, I am going in september and I am already counting the days because feels).

Anyways, if you don't know what is Hamilton - HOW COME?? Shame on you - you should google it, read all the amazing interviews because all the artists involved are amazing. Lin-Manuel Miranda, the most sensational-fantastic-inspirational person ever, who not only created Hamilton but it is the main character as well has a twitter account that you should follow because he is basically a perfect human being. For real. 

Aaaaand I talked about all the amazingness of Hamilton just because two days ago the ham4ham (lottery to get tickets to the show) was a mashup of Stars and Wait for it. I was so overwhelmed because Wait for it is my favourite Hamilton song and Stars is fucking Les Mis. Les Mis & Hamilton. I don't even need to say anything, just listen to Leslie's brilliant voice (I sure hope that he stays until september. And wins the Tonys).

Hopefully they will come to West End while I'm in UK because I am sure in Brazil we don't have a chance to have this kind of musical. Musicals are only now becoming a thing and mainly the "classic" ones. 

January is a dead month, we all know that. Here in UK is cold as fuck and in Brazil it's vacation time. Thus, people don't tend to release stuff now because they are aware that no one actually cares to do anything. February yeah, january? Not so much. So I did my list based on songs that I discovered on my favourite series, some "old stuff" that I love and I will throw a bone with a new release that is currently on looping here on my spotify.

Oh, this week is kind of a ˜relaxed˜ playlist, I have zero power ballad/rock anthem here, only let's have sex-or-maybe-cry-together.

#5 Sara Bareilles - Hercules

I love Sara Bareilles and as a huge fan os musicals I was reading this week about her new show, Waitress that will be on Broadway after Spring Awakening (same theatre). She wrote all the songs. She is that talented. I actually love everything she produced, ever. And Hercules is a very good jam that I constantly put on to sing my ass off. 

#4 Stateless - Bloodstream

I am not going to lie to you and say that OH I STUMBLED ACROSS THIS VERY INDIE PLAYLIST. Bullshit. It was damon and elena's song on Vampire Diaries and since then I was absolutely obsessed with this song. It is quite good, you can listen and agree with me. Sexy slow jam good for your let's get it on/sex playlist, let's be honest. 

#3 Allen Stone - Unaware 

This is my current jam and yeah I watched the country-but-not-really guy audition this song on American Idol and you should do the same because it is quite amazing. This is a strong jam to listen on looping, trust me. 

#2 Kris Allen - Lost

I have a soft spot in my heart for Kris Allen, even if he is the reason Adam lost American Idol season 8. It is pretty impossible to hate Kris though, he was the sweetest guy ever and I remember the gold old days with shipping (Kradam, Krallison) and fun, when American Idol was still pretty good. I wasn't even looking for a Kris' song when I saw this on spotify. It is a great slow jam as well and his voice is so soothing it makes you relax instantly. 

#1 Daughter - Numbers

Let's talk AGAIN about this amazing album Daughter released this month. I don't even know how to chose a song but I guess Numbers is my favourite jam as of now. Next week I am sure I will have another one. 

this post was solely made to talk about Daughter's new album "Not to disappear". Go buy/download/stream this thing because you won't regret. It is the best kind of music to close your eyes and think about your life. And maybe cry a little - a lot - while doing so.

Favourites as of now: Numbers, No care, Fossa (the name of this song is so appropriate in portuguese)

I abandoned Grey's Anatomy with Yang (forever the best character for me) but I am pretty sure Shondaland will use this album as her soundtrack for whatever season they are filming now. 

In sad news, I am kind of pissed off because they had a gig yesterday in Manchester and next week they will be in Leeds but it is sold out. I refuse to pay loads of money to greedy people reselling for twice the price. Hopefully I will attend Primavera Sound - the line up is out of this world, an indie heaven. 

yeah I am quoting Aladdin, and to be completely honest what I really wanted to do was to quote Aladdin in my mother language, portuguese. It makes more sense to discuss something that I want to talk about for ages: white - rich - privilege. Some people can yawn how many times they want but this is serious business. I am truly bothered with how little people appreciate how fucking lucky they are. I don’t need to do a lot of thinking to get to the point I deep breath and realize that my life was and still is pretty damn easy. I do like to think about it though, because it makes me a whole lot better, humanistically speaking.   I am 26 and I never had to work my ass off, all my life my parents paid for everything I wanted, anything you think about it I probably had a class of it: ballet, painting classes, guitar lessons, volleyball, street dance, english, french, italian, and this list can go on and on because opportunity is something that I always had in my entire life. So I get a little - let’s be honest, a LOT - pissed off when people shout shitty comments about meritocracy in a society that clearly doesn’t give a fuck for poor/black/refugee/gay/any minority in this world.  Another thing that I hate is when people say “just try to do your best” or even worse and more common - because people actually believe they are being awesome -: “I like to put myself in her place and try to understand what happens in her life”. First, from what I’ve learned it is impossible to do your best when you simply don’t have the tools to deliver. I’ve been supported my entire life, not only with a great family and money - money that I know it wasn’t easy to get and demanded a lot of work, this is a subject for another post that I want to write later - but I was born white, which shouldn’t be but it is a relieve in our racist and unequal society. So don’t ask for people do their best when they don’t know how because they spent their whole lives fighting to earn a place in this fucked up world.  Second, and maybe the most important thing I got it in these last few years that I went from clueless-my-father-is-a-doctor-who-pays-everything-for-me-but-I-am-kind-of-a-socialist to someone that wanted to truly learn something about our sick society is the fact that NO, you can’t put yourself in others people’s shoes. You simply can’t. It sounds beautiful to say “let’s change places”, “I wanna know how difficult it is to be you”, but this maybe our biggest problem right now. We need to stop thinking about how people feel and start to ASK THEM what the hell is going on. We don’t need to do an “exercise” to put ourselves in another perspective, we just need to sit down, shut the hell up and listen to people who suffered enough; for us is just a way to show how great we are and how much appreciation we have for other people. For them is their lives. They have something to say. They actually have so much to say and sometimes it is quite difficult to listen because it shows how ridiculous, racist, pathetic we can actually be.  I am well aware that racism and prejudice isn’t new, but now we have ways to report, discuss, photograph, snapchat, periscope the shit out of it. We can support and LISTEN to what people have to say. 

And if you think this is too much, this text clearly is made for you.

Having said that one thing that I was seriously thinking about was how much I love spend my money with concerts and how lucky I am for being able to say that I've already attended SO MANY amazing shows.

I was doing a mental list with every single show I attended and probably I'm skipping some but here we go (this isn't an order, it's just a random memory exercise)

1. Oasis (first time)

2. Oasis (second time)

3. Noel Gallagher (first time)

4. Noel Gallagher (second time)

5. Paul McCartney

6. Beyonce

7. Lady Gaga (first time)

8. Lady Gaga (second time)

9. Pink

10. Florence + The Machine (RiR)

11. Florence + The Machine (Summer Soul)

12. Foo Fighters

13. Arctic Monkeys (first time, Lollapalooza)

14. Arctic Monkeys (second time)

15. Bruno Mars 

16. Muse

17. 30 Seconds to Mars

18. Arcade Fire

19. Alicia Keys

20. Catfish & The Bottlemen

21. Morrissey

22. Jessie Ware

23. Jessie J

24. Justin Timberlake

25. Justin Bieber

26. Lenny Kravitz

27. Adele

28. The civil wars

29. Amos Lee

30. Foster the People

31. MGMT

32. Avril Lavigne

33. Elton John

34. Queen + Adam Lambert

35. Dream Theatre

36. Jason Mraz

37. Soundgarden

38. Red Hot Chilli Peppers

39. Ellie Goulding

40. Imagine Dragons

41. Phoenix

42. Vampire Weekend

43. Devendra Banhart

44. Kiss

45. Roger Waters

46. Goldfrapp

47. The Strokes

48. Vitor Ramil (first time)

49. Vitor Ramil (second time)

50. Vitor Ramil (third time)

51. Vitor Ramil (fourth time and yeah I fucking love Vitor Ramil)

52. Filipe Catto

53. Ney Matogrosso

54. Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)

55. Jorge Drexler

56. The wanted

57. Demi Lovato

58. Madonna

59. Miley Cyrus

60. Lianne La Havas

61. Rox

62. Black Eyed Peas

63. Liliana Herrero

and I'm dying here because I think that's it. Maybe I'm forgetting something but who knows.. I'm actually impressed with this number tbh. Not bad for 25 years haha hope I can "waste" (I prefer the word invest) my money in plenty of other amazing concerts. It's the best feeling in the world.

I already have tickets to see brandon flowers in may so there you have it.

My new mantra is: poor but pretty happy.

xo

Another day researching and yeah I kind of forgot that I have a tumblr to talk about my life. So many things happened such as concerts, book clubs, ideas for my thesis, interesting courses and more concerts in the future (today I bought my ticket to see Brandon Flowers ❤️). Right now I’m obsessed with: - Americanah (I am re-reading for a book club and now it feels so much better, I guess it makes more sense to me now that I’m an “outsider” as well. I just love how Chimamanda writes, it flows easily and the characters are so interesting/relatable. I’m happy to be reading again - Kendrick Lamar’s new album, To Pimp a Butterfly. It’s sooo good. The lyrics are solid, the tracks are well produced, it reminds me of Outkast meeting Tupac. Great stuff. (Wesley’s theory, king kunta, I and mortal man are my favourites right now) - Lean On, new single by Major Lazer avec one of my faves, MØ. Pretty catchy with an indian flavour. - Good Wife marathon. I can’t believe I’m so behind. This show is f a n t a s t i c. - Biographies. I’m kind of obsessing towards bios. And it doesn’t matter if it’s about a random person that I don’t know. Actually I’d probably enjoy even more. Give me all the freaking bios. - And Finally I’m obsessed with carrots and hummus HAHAHHAAH I know it sounds weird but I’m loving it. And it’s cheap and nutritive. Oh I’m obsessed with Julia Petit’s lipsticks for MAC. I bought all 3 and each one is prettier than the other. I’d say Boca is my favourite because I’m in a nude mood lately but the other 2 (red petite and açaí) are beautiful as well.

That’s it. Next month I’m going to travel with my folks and I’m super pumped about it. Lots of pictures are coming… At least I hope so.

Today I did my first british tattoo. I spent these last 2 months doing my research about places to go, you can't simply do a tattoo - not a good one - without knowing about the artist's previous works. I found Simon (The Country Gent) on instagram and I really enjoyed his arts. Then I discovered that his shop is just a 5 minute walk from my flat. I went there Tuesday and he was working on a pretty nice sleeve (feeling the need to say here that the man he was tattooing was smoking hawt) anyways, his wife was super sweet and helped me to find some images online that I liked, we chatted a little bit and I scheduled my tattoo. I usually dislike colorful tattoos but I was thinking about doing a black/grey ballerina with red shoes - my favorite colors - and I didn't want to do a specific person, I was going towards something looking like a sketch, as you can see above. Finally today at 9 - no one should do tattoos this early, it's inhuman - I did this beauty. It took barely 40 minutes, Simon was fantastic, he is uber cool and has a Bose bluetooth speaker that has a sound to die for. Plus he told me awesome stories about his 18 years as a tattoo artist. And that yesterday he bought an iphone 6 to his wife and she didn't want it because she prefers her older phone hahaha. 

Other than that I'm slightly sick, the flu finally got me. It took 2 months and a couple of days though, so I guess it is better than I thought.

And I bought tickets to see Morrissey next week in Leeds. Let's hope he actually attends to his concert because you know... it's Moz, we never know.

My Noel Gallagher mode is full on because of next Monday’s concert. I’m listening to oasis and his solo albuns non stop since the beginning of the week and I think no one in this world can define more my feelings towards life than Noel. I love that he is lazy as fuck and loves talking about it. All my life I’ve felt like being lazy is a super awful quality but the thing is, if you can “manage” your laziness, everything is ok in this world. For me, nothing is better than lay in my bed, close my eyes and do absolutely nothing. I love the feeling. And I can be productive when I need to be - it’s difficult not being a little defensive when you talk about/love laziness. It seems we, lazy productive people, need to prove a point all the time but we actually don’t. I love write, music, movies and series, talk to people, dance, travel, shopping and so many other things but nothing feels like doing nothing.

And Noel gets that perfectly.