It's been a week since I arrived in London.  I've used these past days to say goodbye to this city and friends that I love so much. I fly back to Brasil on Friday... I have no clue when I'll be back in the UK.

My good friend live_life_like  started this journal in Brasil in May 2001 as a way of keeping in touch with myself and another friend we had in common. ( Read more... )

millionreasons has pointed me in the direction of this post by Rebecca Solnit in the London Review of Books that perfectly encapsulates my feelings (and possibly yours as well) about going off the grid:

In or around June 1995 human character changed again. Or rather, it began to undergo a metamorphosis that is still not complete, but is profound - and troubling ( Read more... )

Do any of you know if there's an easy way of searching for info in your old LJ posts?  I want to find the posts where I wrote about "The History Game" - the game where I move chronologically through history books, trying to get to modern times.

I have a new bad idea game: I'm purchasing one album per week and listening to it non-stop, with the ( Read more... )

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I want to dance to this in the early hours of the morning in neenaw's basement disco.

Hi amypops!  Waving hello. :-)

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Thank you naturalbornkaos for introducing me to Porcelain Raft. They have a very unique sound, with echoes of Jane's Addiction, Girls and shoegazer summers in the early 90s. I'm in serious danger of developing an obsession: