Brasil e suas danças

Long time ago i discovered the dances from the country of Carlinhos Brown and Caetano Veloso. Those were crazy times with my friend Bruno from Natal and i was surprised to find such a big community of brazilian people in Barcelona.

Yesterday we searched for live music in the center and coincidences made us meet someone with a luggage and a white hat who transformed our boring monday to a cool one to remember. Afterthat, i was trying to dance Forró in a place called Roxy and though i felt a bit like a fish out of the water, i found myself again surrounded by brazilian and fans of their music and culture.

A wise say says "Si no sabes donde vas, acabarás en otra parte (If you don't know where you are going, you will end in another place)". I had a similiar experience in Prague, where some couchsurfers took me to enjoy the Tango night scene. Last night, i was in Brazil for a while, observing people dancing and listening this calm music and of course learning the basic steps through a master teacher. Honestly said, i cook better rice from Delta de l'Ebre than dancing, already tested.

What we remember

The past seems always a good source for feeding your mind, but i read once that you remember just a few and the rest you fill it out in order to fit the whole brain structure. My 90-year-old grandmother tends to mention that the present crisis in spain remembers her the times before the civil war. "A on anirem a parar!(Where are we going to end up?", she exclaims suddenly. Immediately i refuse her fears through arguments based on what i remember saying in the media.

Some people (i would include myself) prefer sometimes to live in or from the past, where one have the impression that everything was better and simpler. A nearly engaged friend was today kind of regretting to have lost the habitude of going out. I remember those party nights and they were not that great, being loyal the truth. But our brain is not precisely fair, and we remember things and people in the way we want to remember.

To sum up, it's a much more healtier attitude to say goodbye to your personal past and live in the present. Have always the feet on the ground it helps and as i saw in a bar from Madrid (a city which i'm visiting soon) if you drink to forget, remember first to pay!

Early morning conversations

It's 7am in the morning, the party is over and we end in a bar close to the market talking about colonization and atoms. I lose the rythm of the conversation for a while, remembering the latest events of our celebration in Gracia like flashing pictures. Lots of couchies, random interesting conversations, drinks and food, strangers united to contribute to the expenses, bad techno music later and finally here.

Honestly said, we had a busy night and it's a pitty i couldn't picture all the eyes i discovered, some of whom have fascinated me and inspired me. We agree with her, probably she is right with her arguments. I like the one saying that materials are empty inside.

We observe the preparations of the firemen run, the city is woking up, pip pip, granollers, home safe and sound.