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3/13/03:

Voc? n?o sabe...

Greetings. I'm really wondering whether or not to let La beta corpo collect weeds this month, or to at least attempt to keep up some texting. I'd hate to pass up adding a brief bit of Brazilian flair to this little blognapse, but my few Internet outlets here are much less than accomodating (not to mention my illiteracy to both Portuguese and the Windows OS). And, of course, I've much more to talk/ link/ think about than ever before. It's not that I'm necessarily uninterested in these communiqu?s at the moment, but I've far too much to talk about than what will fit in this little picture postcard space. And, of course, I haven't the slightest interest in surfing the web right now, despite my desperate lack of updates on looming wars that don't loom quite so ominously over here.

However I've brought a really quite amazing read with me - Once by Wim Wenders - and it's inspired me to keep writing these little vignettes about all the strange little scenes that pass my eyes constantly way out here. I think on Saturday, I'll spend the six reais on an hour of Internet cafe time and copy over some of these better journalings.

And for a quick rundown of life out here as a flashy list - I'm eating the best food I've had in my life; I'm snapping up amazing Tropicalia and Bossa records on the street for a song; the noise of Rio is like standing under the Wells street El tracks from 9 to 5; I saw someone get his cell phone stolen and it's actually kinda funny to watch (the thieves just punch it out of their hands, catch it and take off - then they sell the rest of the minutes on carts outside of real cell phone dealers); fresh fruit juice is a whole other spectrum of tastes; and this whole delightful inefficiency makes me astounded at why Americans (especially Chicagoans) want everything to be so smooth and hurried.

Take care all, pardon the dust on this site, I know it's embarrasing, and go look have a look at the quality blogheros lining my sidebar until I can finally put up some diary writing from Rio.

Tchau...

posted by jeremy @ 11:29 AM