what.s/from/here

segunda-feira, 27 de dezembro de 2010

addicting song

/best/dubstep out there:
Ellie Goulding - Your Song (England)
/there's/even a free download... keep pressing play.

ending 2010 with some great sounds.

/most/played song on my comp right now is a remix of a Portuguese song done by the Puerto Rican king of Spanish Reggaeton: Don Omar's remix of Lucenzo's Danza Kuduro

#2 & 3 - i still can't stop playing ANYTHING by David Deejay. especially Sexy Thing and Temptation (Romania)

#4 - annnnd... yeeeah, aaahh. you know what it is, reppin my 'Burgh is Wiz Khalifa - Black And Yellow (Pittsburgh, AKA the best city)

/other/iNCREDiBLE hits:
#5 - Pitbull's Bon Bon (remix of We No Speak Americano) (Cuban American mix of an Italian hit)

#6*sooo good!*Official remix of Milan Stankovic - Ovo je Balkan (Serbian)

#7 - DJ Tiesto feat. C.C. Sheffield - Escape Me (Dutch DJ & French singer)

#8 - Uffie - Pop the Glock (she's pretty neat - born in Miami, grew up in Hong Kong, lives in France)

#9 - also by Uffie feat. Pharrell Williams - ADD SUV (Virginia)

#10 - Vampire Weekend - Horchata (NYC)
... even better is the GMGN remix! (Good Morning Good Night is from Boston)

/keep/listening!!...

#11 - Fiona Apple - O' Sailor (New York)

#12 - Steve Aoki's remix of Kid Cudi's Pursuit of Happiness (Miami mix of NY)
and best cover: Lissie's cover of Kid Cudi's Pursuit of Happiness (Illinois)

#13 - gotta throw in some Drake! - Over (Ontario)

#14 - annnd some Bruno Mars - Grenade (Hawaii - Filipino/Puerto Rican/American)

/and/some honorable mentions:
#15 - RJD2 - Ghostwriter (born in Oregon, raised in Ohio, lives in Philly)

#16 - Passion Pit - Sleepyhead (Massachussetts)

#17 - The Naked and Famous - Punching In A Dream (New Zealand)

#18 - Shiny Toy Guns - Major Tom (LA)

#19 - Sunlounger feat. Zara - Lost (Armin Van Buuren Mix) (German feat. Vancouver mixed by the Netherlands)

#20 - Saul Williams - Black Stacey (NY)

#21 - Samantha Jones - Rise (England)

#22 - offfff course Kanye's Runaway made the list... (Chicago)

/not/tyypical - but a great love song:
#23 - Michel Teló - Fugidinha (Brazil)

/.../Beethoven knew the power of the doublebass - one of the BEST classical pieces ever:
#24 - Beethoven - Symphony 7 (Germany)

/it's/kinda strange... but i keep repeating it:
#25 - Skream - Midnight Request Line (England)

/let/me know of any good finds!

sábado, 9 de outubro de 2010

finally writing again.

/tulsa/i am back for yet another semester.

/life/is good.

/friends/are the best.

/missing/my brazilian buddies.

/classes/are fun yet work.

/brown/village is a far walk anywhere.

/construction/is everywhere on-campus and off.

/let's/play tennis.

quarta-feira, 16 de junho de 2010

Best songs 2010

domingo, 23 de maio de 2010

life

/many/adventures. parties and sights in rio. iguazu falls. crazy market city in paraguay. outrageous hair styles in buenos aires. biking in uruguay. wandering around porto alegre. lounging in georgeous (and clean) florianopolis.

/each/city in brazil is another world. i am learning so much about the country. every day. (especially south of rio from the whole country.)

/last/week. i was at broken bottle point. from a homeless man wanting money. to supply get crack. i´m sure he was on it at the time. i threw my cell phone. he did not cease. yanking me by the hair. he revealed a broken beer bottle from under a plastic bag. went for my head. my guardian angel was definately watching me. bottle fell on the ground. after i started screaming ´´jorge.´´ the name of our buildings doorman. he took off. so did i. realizing i was covered in blood. found another homeless guy going through the trash. he walked me back to my building.

/after/a hospital visit. left with a neck brace. could not hold my head up on it´s own. my host dad stopped counting after 10 stitches in my finger. my whole hand had to be wrapped.

/now/i only have a small bandage over the stitches on my finger. because of some missing skin. glass in my finger. it still needs a while to seal up.

/bartended/last night. birthday party. of my host-cousin. she is also a study abroad student. from lesoto/south africa. (looking into bartending this fall. anyone have connections.?) the party had people from all over the globe. the best music. (which includes more hip hop than forró.) never went to such an eventful party. now. our international and brazilian friends are saying americans throw the best parties. yes.

/classes/are winding down. got less than a month left of classes. (yes.) professors have to make sure their classes end before: são joão & world cup. or no one would keep going to classes. bahians just like to relax. party. drink. dance.

sábado, 1 de maio de 2010

florianopolis

/is/beautiful.

/tip/do not make long travels with people you do not normally spend a lot of time with.

sexta-feira, 23 de abril de 2010

3 countries

/buenos aires/now!! and looving it! the city has a looot of green space still and is more spred out that sao paulo, which it litterally JUST skyscraper for miles and miles to the world´s edges, here it´s more like the old pittsburgh buildings just three to 6 stories and made out of really pretty old stone and designs.

/yesterday/arrived here from iguazu falls. (it was a 18-hr ride, and arentina`s highway is only two-lanes (one lanes for each direction) so they are expanding it now by two lanes, which they don´t pave the temporary side routes around where they`re working so we went through dirt roads a lot of the way... in the future i`m sure it`ll be a lot faster travel.

/long drive/... saw nothing but cows and flat land... THAT`s A LOT! i mean not even crops. or a single house. i think that´s about a lot of south american countries. some brazilians explained to me how you have to be rich to live in the country, but then if you`re rich you probably don`t want to/still need to be close to a city for business.

/left/for BA at 7:30 pm two days ago (it`s now 8:35 am) from Iguazu Falls, that same day we woke up at a hostel in Brazil but spent about the whole day in Paraguay... Paraguay´s Ciudad del Leste and Brazil´s Foz de Iguacu has really interesting dinamics!

/talked/to some braizlians and paraguayans, they say almost everyone who lives in foz de iguacu works in paraguay. and really, i`ve never crossed a river and had the world around me change soooooooo much!!! it was INCREDIBLE!

/guy/on the bus warned me- ´´why are you taking a bag? you`ll have to watch it really well! paraguay is a verrry poor country and everything over there is diiiirt cheap, so everyone goes over there to shop.´´

/asked/him why ´ppl don´t want to live over there on the paraguayan city, he said ´´you´ll see it`s really dirty and violent and a lot of people everywhere´´ (which is a HUUUGE contrast to foz de iguacu, when we were walking around there was never a single other person in viewing distance... except when we were at mcdonald`s) but when we crossed the border- PACKED with ppl and vendors and people walking back across the border carrying maaaany new enormous bags of newly purchased items.

/i/wanna live in paraguay, even though it`s i`m sure exponentially more violent, the government is almost nonexistent, and saw lots of guns... enormous guns on ppl lots of places... it was really really neat, exciting, and i even thought pretty.

/crossing/ the border to paraguay there and back - we just took a bus and successfully made it. :] which was exciting, cause we illegally entered w/o a visa. but they checked the bus and guess we didn`t appear english speaking, pretty much all english-speaking ppl need a visa there... oh yeah our bus broke down leaving paraguay.. so we were in paraguay a few more hours than we thoguht we`d be.

/getting/ into argentina took not too long. zack, laura, and me were approved quickly but celesse was denied. had to go talk to them... cause sao paulo entered her as a tourist and she`s here as a student. so that was quickly corrected.

/this/adventure has started off incredibly. already taken a plane. city bus. top-floor front-seats of a traveling bus. train. taxi. been to 3 countries: brazil. paraguay. argentina. 2 languages: portuguese. spanish. =touuugh transition. we are only 3 days into our 2-week trip!