My job (…) might not be the highest-paying job in the universe, but it pays the bills, pays the mortgage, and leaves me just enough for the odd bit of retail therapy.
Oh, what a lovely novel I just finished reading: “Mr. Maybe” by Jane Green. Thanks Teresa for lending it to me and by that providing me with a couple of moments of intense laughter by myself and also some fun and quirky look at life, love and relationships.
- "Mr. Maybe" posted on July 2nd, 2008 at 2:24, by Mr.WannaB
- Posted in Books, Love, Quote
É a primeira vez que me aventuro a ir a uma marcha do orgulho em Lisboa. Já o fiz em Madrid, como tantos outros portugueses, mas aqui nunca. Porque raio não?
Pois digo-vos que foi uma experiência a repetir - bom ambiente, gente divertida, sol e calor, exercício (sim que aquela caminhada deu-me cabo das pernas)! Não só marchámos pelos nossos direitos, como também ganhámos uma corzita e ainda perdemos uns kilos!!!!
A quem faltou, pelas mil e uma desculpas esfarrapadas, I say: Your loss!
Fiquem aqui com um pedacinho da marcha (fotos tiradas pelo “Poor Guy Fashion Victim“, mais no blog dele!)
Digam lá se não estão arrependidos de terem faltado, hein?
Paz e amor
Death Cab For Cutie - “I will Possess Your Heart”, from their latest album “Narrow Stairs”
- "Sounds for the Summer 2008: #02" posted on June 29th, 2008 at 16:30, by Mr.WannaB
- Posted in Music, Video Box
Hoje é dia de marcha! Tomem nota mental e apareçam às 16h no Jardim do Principe Real.
Faço das palavras do A. as minhas, ora sigam as ligações e vejam:
Vejam também o blog oficial da Marcha LGBT de Lisboa!
Encontramo-nos por lá!
Paz, amor e… orgulho!
Today is a special day because we celebrate the 29th aniversary of my dear Ser.Calvin. Even though this post is entirely about him, most of you will not understand why I chose this video, but Ser.Calvin will get it!
So to you, my dear, who most deffinitely can, I wish you happy birthday!
Peace, love and strawberry cupcakes 
- "Yes You Can! Happy B-day Ser.Calvin!" posted on June 27th, 2008 at 21:11, by Mr.WannaB
- Posted in Friends, Music, Video Box
Distance:
- The extent of space between two objects or places;
- The fact or condition of being apart in space;
- The extent of time between two events.
These are just a few definitions taken out of a dictionary. Distance; sometimes we need it to get a better perception. I remember that, in painting classes, we were taught to get some distance from what we were painting every now and then to get the whole idea of our work and also to look for flaws. Funny how we usually look closer for flaws finding only the small ones and losing the whole picture. Sometimes you need distance in time to see again how beautiful things were.
Yesterday, on my way to a Jazz club, I passed by the place of my original sin. Not the original sin of the flesh but of the heart. As it’s quite close to my apartment, I was bound to face it. When I was a child I’d look out the window of my parents’ car as we drove by and think of all the lives of those out there, lives that I’d never know, people I’d never meet. Again, like a child, I looked at that lit window and wondered who was there now? Were they as happy as I was there years ago? Could they even imagine it? I started remembering little things: how the water always flooded the bathroom whenever I took a shower, how he once fell down the stairs and stood right up and I couldn’t stop laughing, how he snored to the point of leaving the room in vacuum but I loved him anyway, how I learned important things in a relationship such as saying «I need you!», «I miss you!», «I love you!».
Maybe, after all this time, distance is finally helping me to make peace. Maybe I took the long way all these years and coming back to the place it all began will bring closure. Maybe I’ll need some distance from yesterday to come to any conclusion.
Looking back, I can’t help to remember the words of Marilyn and Alan Bergman: «if we had the chance to do it all again, tell me, could we? Would we?» .
“Heartbeats“, a cover from the “The Knife” 2004 track, sang by the lovely José Gonzáles - a Sweedish son of Argentine parents - on his debut album “Veneer” (and what a brilliant album it is!).
This will be on my iPods playlist this summer when I roadtrip down California!
More sounds to come, stay tuned!
Peace and much love
- "Sounds for the Summer 2008: #01" posted on June 21st, 2008 at 4:04, by Mr.WannaB
- Posted in Music, Video Box
The other day I was feeling uninspired. After a rainy, the clouds began to open, and invited me for a walk. Among tourists, I walked about the many point views on the way, from Baixa to Graça. I couldn’t help to notice how beautiful Lisbon is, how fond of the tramways the tourists are, how hot the policemen look in their dark uniforms. It was a wonderful and relaxing experience.
In life, in a job, in a relationship, every day you need and gain experience. It’s a top requisite and a guarantee with the passing of time, no matter what, you become more experienced. So the question would be: what is that experience good for?
Not long ago I heard a curious affirmation: experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want. It left me confused. What if you get what you want? I mean, ok, I didn’t get any hot policeman during my tour. That would be experience! What if I had? What would that be? A great experience? An experience to remember and tell my grand-nephews? A disappointment, perhaps?
When you apply for a job, you deliver a résumé of your experience, work experience, mostly. That experience was acquired with jobs you got! So the affirmation would be untrue. Again, if you’re applying for a new job, maybe the job you had wasn’t exactly what you wanted, but you got it, and with it came the experience. So the affirmation is true again!
When you «apply» for a relationship, why is it that no one asks, up front, for you résumé? Are they afraid of what they may know? Or are people just seeking for experience with whom they don’t really want?
