Once in a lifetime

Saw David Byrne at the Palau de la Musica Catalana last night. I am a little bit biased when to it comes to this mans´ talent. I have been a fan of his since back in the late seventies, the name of this band is talking heads, and have followed his work ever since. For many years I have missed his shows. Last night one of my fantasies came true.
I got VIP passes so far in front I interfered with his dancing. Him and the Band wore blinding white suits on a sober minimalist stage consisting merely of a few lighting towers. He didn’t need more than that. He could have easily made a whole show with his classic tunes and make everyone happy, however, the quality of his work during the years made it for a show with new stuff that felt like heaven, a night to discover that Mr. Byrne is in no lack of good ideas and important messages. Sophisticated and polite to the extreme, Mr. Byrne delighted us all with his intelligent pop music filled with profound and eye opening lyrics. A night to remember.
P.S. Picture courtesy of Gaby Weisheit (copyright), cheers gaby, I also enjoyed the show.

Empty skull

Check this out. This is the latest mail I recieved from people who think I have shit for brains.


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Minimum impact

The North Pole is melting. Polar bears are drowning. Amazon basin is disappearing. Gorillas are going deeper and deeper into the woods threatened by tractors and wood companies. One third of the population is dying for a miracle drug to loose weight while the two thirds remaining die of starvation. Tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and forest fires sprung everywhere.
According to ecologists and environmentalist, everything is wrong: The air, the water, the soil, and plants are fucked up - and they demand action from our side. This is the funniest thing I have ever heard. Demanding human kind to have consciousness about the planet convincing a lesbian not to like pussy. Impossible.
They lead us to think that it is in our power to save the Planet. Before I go on, lets think about this phrase. SAVE THE PLANET. Can we be more arrogant as to think that we can save the planet? What this tree huggers mean is that we need to save our homes, our habitat. They refer to our way of life rather than the planet. They tend to ferget that Earth is a self-correcting organism, it will be here looooooong after we have vanished.
Lets see this from another point of view. Our lovely home (earth) has approximately 4.500 billion years. During this preposterous amount of time it has been shaken by unimaginable earthquakes, melted down by voracious volcanic eruptions, shaped and reshaped by plaque tectonics, redesigned by continental drifts, carbonized by solar flares, exposed to solar spots, entangled in magnetic fields, disentangled by magnetic reversal of the poles, bombarded by thousands upon thousands of asteroids, comets, meteors, drowned in world wide tidal waves, cosmic rays, ice ages and many other things we are yet to discover. And still we think a little un-recycled plastic bags will make the difference. Get the fuck out of here. It will make a difference to our habitat, but not the planet. Earth is a living organism and knows how to take care of itself. Believe you me, when we really start being a nuisance to the planet, it will shake us off like a bad case of fleas, as it has done with millions and millions of animals and still does by a rate of 25 species a day. We might be next.
There is something I never quite understood. Some groups of people around the world have a knack for building their homes right unders an active volcanoe. You can see these people in the news complaining their homes are burned down to ashes. Other choose to live right next to a river that constantly floods and appear in the evening news grasping a floating tree branch reaching for the helicopter rope - and so on. What I do not understand is that they rebuild their homes right in the same spot again and again. Let me give these people a word of advice - GET THE FUCK OUT!
Now if, the enviromentalists´ point is to save ourselves, then it is another matter. Still, I consider it ridicolous, but we can make a difference by consuming less, fucking less, eating and drinking less and acting more responsible towards our enviroment. Which is a long way from saving the planet.
My point is that Earth is not going anywhere, we are.

Short note

Lately been too busy and no time to write. Will be back soon with more. Very soon!

Gimme gimme gimme

What a difference. Mr. Obama is being what all presidents should be. Cordial, educated and open to discussions. Can you remember Bush and his arrogance, his way to move around like an ox in a glass shop, his mentally retarded comments and attitudes? Thank god those days are over, and now they have this agreeable black man.
There is no question that Europe loves this guy. Everywhere he goes he is received like an old friend, someone you expected for a long time.
The G20 submit in Strasburg is proving once again that the rich nations do not give a rats ass about the poor. Even countries like Brazil, India and Mexico who have a tremendous portion of its population living below the poverty level are now sending their representatives to the submit full of rhetoric and demagogies. These nations should be the ones pushing a new agenda towards a new economic plan that once and for all fits all. Rather, they are mingling with the big boys offering their raw materials at sale prices so that the rich can continue to be rich and the poor, well the poor…fuck´em.
Established in 1999, G-20 reflects the diverse interests of the systemically significant industrial and emerging-market economies -Which means that their goal is to find ways to get to these markets in the cheapest, most easy ways. Remember that the main issue of this submits is how to face this economic crisis. We all fail to see that in most of the planet the crisis has been going on for decades. So, don’t be fooled, we are there to solve our crisis at any price.
However, among all these thieves and cynics, there is one that beats them all. Mr. Berlusconi. Italians should all go to the streets and demand he is hanged by his balls in a Mussolini style. In honesty I should also mention Mexico’s´ president, Calderon who is taking his country into the dark ages unable to control the Cartels and supporting the most corrupt police in the world, or Saudi Arabia’s `Abd Allah ibn `Abd al-`Aziz Al Faysal Al Sa`ud who is not only a murderer, but also an arrogant piece of shit who believes Allah speaks through his mouth and tells him to decapitate men and lapidate women in public.
But I must still insist that Berlusconi bets them all. Italy’s´ prime minister is the uncle you always pray not to show up at your children’s birthday, - The asshole who says something inadequate at your daughters wedding, the drunk imbecile that sits at your desk and fucks up your night. With a little luck he will fuck up their meeting.

Open season

My brother in law lent me a news magazine today. Ever since I arrived in Mozambique, other than reading the Popes verbal turds, I have been a little disconnected from the world happenings. So I took to the Café del Sol in the poshest neighborhood in town. It was full of women. Not that I am complaining, but I found it weird. And then it hit me; these are the wives of big corporation guys that have nothing to do all day but drink Frozen Lattes and plan the evening’s dinner with other peers. Needless to say all these women were very white, very rich and very disconnected from the reality occurring just a few blocks away from their electric fenced homes.
Granted I also like to get away from it all once in a while and go to a place where you can just relax and think about other things, but their case is different. From what I know these people live in this bubble of civilization and seldom explore their immediate surroundings. But who can blame them. It is not easy, I know.
Driving or just moving about Maputo will usually be quite an experience. First of all, the driving here is terrible. I imagine drivers here go to New Delhi to relax. I don’t know what it is with drivers here that the respect for life is completely forgotten. In a city where the potholes are so many and so big that it makes you wonder how could you have missed the meteor shower. With cars in a less than acceptable condition, speeds here are comparable to herd of buffaloes escaping from a jungle fire. No rules, no sense, high speeds and disrespect for human life make driving here a unique experience. Just yesterday I witnessed a tragedy that is meant to happen every five seconds in Maputo; A school bus carrying youngsters back home from afternoon activities was hit sideways by a 4x4 driving at F1 speeds, killing three kids, the driver and the monitor. Six more kids are in critical condition in South African hospitals.
And while we are talking about hospitals, one of the firsts things you are told when you arrive in Maputo is that, in case of accident unless you are decapitated and can’t talk, your last and only words should be – ¨Do not take me to a local hospital¨. I have witnessed and heard many stories about hospitals here that would make Poe jealous. I know a few guys who went in with a broken wrist and came out with AIDS and Tuberculosis, passing away a few days later. I have seen interns trying to get information from a dying friend and getting angry at him because they could not understand what he was saying. I have been to the emergency rooms in many local hospitals and trust me when I say that you do not want to go there under any circumstances.
Walking, on the other hand, is great if you are a member of the Cirque do Soleil. There is no way on earth that you can walk in a straight line for more than two feet, among the many things you have to avoid are; Stray dogs, potholes, tree roots, street vendors, unbelievable amounts of garbage, broken glass, small fires from people selling cooked goods and 2000 thousands street kids begging for money. Walking here is the closest you will get to being a female egg attacked by millions sperms.
I will not go into the crime issue longer than to tell you that you are honey and they are bees.
Mozambique is weird country in which hardly anything ever happens. But when it does, it can turn your world completely upside down. No middle terms. Now if you excuse me, I have an appointment with the ladies in Café Del Sol. We are planning tonight’s´ dinner.