Poet´s Best Book List

Michel Melamed is a Brazilian poet, theater director, performer, playwrighter and actor. Here is a Book List with incredible suggestions for you to read.

Some of the names are in portuguese, but you can guess by the author what book it might be. I am sorry, I am too lazy to translate and the beach is calling me. Today is Saturday, so I have an excuse.

Here you go, THE BEST BOOK LIST:

1. Ulisses (1922) - James Joyce
2. Em Busca do Tempo Perdido (1913-27) - Marcel Proust 
3. O Processo - Franz Kafka 
4. Doutor Fausto (1947) - Thomas Mann
5. Grande Sertão: Veredas (1956) - Guimarães Rosa
6. O Castelo (1926) - Franz Kafka
7. A Montanha Mágica (1924) - Thomas Mann 
8. O Som e a Fúria (1929) - William Faulkner
9. O Homem sem Qualidades (1930-43) - Robert Musil
10. Finnegans Wake (1939) - James Joyce
11. A Morte de Vírgilio (1945) - Hermann Broch
12. Coração das Trevas (1902) - Joseph Conrad 
13. O Estrangeiro (1942) - Albert Camus
14. O Inominável (1953) - Samuel Beckett
15. Cem Anos de Solidão (1967) - Gabriel Garcia Márquez
16. Admirável Mundo Novo (1932) - Aldous Huxley
17. Mrs. Dalloway (1925) - Virgínia Woolf 
18. Ao Farol (1927) - Virgínia Woolf
19. Os Embaixadores (1903) - Henry James 
20. A Consciência de Zeno (1923) - Italo Svevo
21. Lolita (1958) - Vladimir Nabokov
22. Paradiso (1960) - José Lezama Lima 
23. O Leopardo (1958) - Tomaso di Lampedusa
24. 1984 (1949) - George Orwell 
25. A Náusea (1938) - Jean-Paul Sartre
26. O Quarteto de Alexandria (1957-1960) - Lawrence Durrell 
27. Os Moedeiros Falsos (1925) - André Gide
28. Malone Morre (1951) - Samuel Beckett
29. O Deserto de Tártaros (1940) - Dino Buzzati
30. Lord Jim (1900) - Joseph Conrad 
31. Orlando (1928) - Virginia Woolf 
32. A Peste (1947) - Albert Camus
33. O Grande Gatsby (1925) - Scott Fitzgerald
34. O Tambor (1959) - Günter Grass
35. Pedro Páramo (1955) - Juan Rulfo 
36. Viagem ao Fim da Noite (1932) - Louis-Ferdinand Céline 
37. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) - Alfred Döblin
38. Doutor Jivago (1957) - Boris Pasternak
39. Molloy (1951) - Samuel Beckett 
40. A Condição Humana (1933) - André Malraux
41. O Jogo da Amarelinha (1963) - Julio Cortázar
42. Retrato do Artista quando Jovem (1917) - James Joyce 
43. A Cidade e as Serras (1901) - Eça de Queirós
44. Aquela Confusão Louca da Via Merulana (1957) - Carlo Emilio Gadda
45. As Vinhas da Ira (1939) - John Steinbeck
46. Auto de Fé (1935) - Elias Canetti
47. À Sombra do Vulcão (1947) - Malcolm Lowry 
48. O Visconde Partido ao Meio (1952) - Italo Calvino
49. Macunaíma (1928) - Mário de Andrade
50. O Bosque das Ilusões Perdidas (1913) - Alain Fournier
51. Morte a Crédito (1936) - Louis-Ferdinand Céline 
52. O Amante de Lady Chatterley (1928) - D.H. Lawrence
53. O Século das Luzes (1962) - Alejo Carpentier
54. Uma Tragédia Americana (1925) - Theodore Dreiser
55. América (1927) - Franz Kafka 
56. Fontamara (1930) - Ignazio Silone
57. Luz em Agosto (1932) - William Faulkner
58. Nostromo (1904) - Joseph Conrad
59. A Vida - Modo de Usar (1978) - Georges Perec
60. José e Seus Irmãos (1933-1943) - Thomas Mann 
61. Os Thibault (1921-1940) - Roger Martin du Gard
62. Cidades Invisíveis (1972) - Italo Calvino
63. Paralelo 42 (1930) - John dos Passos
64. Memórias de Adriano (1951) - Marguerite Yourcenar
65. Passagem para a índia (1924) - E.M. Forster
66. Trópico de Câncer (1934) - Henry Miller
67. Enquanto Agonizo (1930) - William Faulkner
68. As Asas da Pomba (1902) - Henry James 
69. O Jovem Törless (1906) - Robert Musil 
70. A Modificação (1957) - Michel Butor
71. A Colméia (1951) - Camilo José Cela
72. A Estrada de Flandres (1960) - Claude Simon 
73. A Sangue Frio (1966) - Truman Capote
74. A Laranja Mecânica (1962) - Anthony Burgess
75. O Apanhador no Campo de Centeio (1951) - J.D. Salinger
76. Cavalaria Vermelha (1926) - Isaac Babel 
77. Jean Christophe (1904-12) - Romain Rolland
78. Complexo de Portnoy (1969) - Philip Roth 
79. Nós (1924) - Evgueni Ivanovitch
80. O Ciúme (1957) - Allain Robbe-Grillet 
81. O Imoralista (1902) - André Gide
82. O Mestre a Margarida (1940) - Mikhail Bulgákov Afanasevitch
83. O Senhor Presidente (1946) - Miguel ángel Asturias
84. O Lobo da Estepe (1927) - Herman Hesse
85. Os Cadernos de Malte Laurids Bridge (1910) - Rainer Maria Rilke
86. Satã em Gorai (1934) - Isaac B. Singer 
87. Zazie no Metrô (1959) - Raymond Queneau
88. Revolução dos Bichos (1945) - George Orwell
89. O Anão (1944) - Pär Lagerkvist
90. A Tigela Dourada (1904) - Henry James
91. Santuário (1931) - William Faulkner
92. A Morte de Artemio Cruz (1962) - Carlos Fuentes
93. Don Segundo Sombra (1926) - Ricardo Güiraldes
94. A Invenção de Morel (1940) - Adolfo Bioy Casares 
95. Absalão, Absalão (1936) - William Faulkner
96. Fogo Pálido (1962) - Vladimir Nabokov
97. Herzog (1964) - Saul Bellow
98. Memorial do Convento (1982) - José Saramago
99. Judeus sem Dinheiro (1930) - Michael Gold 
100. Os Cus de Judas (1980) - Antonio Lobo Antunes


Brazilian Selection:

1. Grande Sertão: Veredas (1956) - Guimarães Rosa
2. Dom Casmurro (1900) - Machado de Assis 
3. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (1881) - Machado de Assis 
4. Macunaíma (1928) - Mário de Andrade
5. Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma (1915) - Lima Barreto 
6. Quincas Borba (1892) - Machado de Assis
7. Vidas Secas (1938) - Graciliano Ramos
8. São Bernardo (1934) - Graciliano Ramos
9. Memórias Sentimentais de João Miramar (1924) - Oswald de Andrade
10. A Hora da Estrela (1977) - Clarice Lispector
11. A Paixão Segundo G.H. (1964) - Clarice Lispector
12. Serafim Ponte Grande (1933) - Oswald de Andrade
13. O Ateneu (1888) - Raul Pompéia
14. O Tempo e o Vento (1949-1961) - Érico Veríssimo
15. Fogo Morto (1943) - José Lins do Rego
16. Esaú e Jacó (1904) - Machado de Assis
17. A Menina Morta (1954) - Cornélia Penna
18. Menino de Engenho (1932) - José Lins do Rego
19. Os Ratos (1936) - Dionélio Machado
20. Iracema (1865) - José de Alencar
21. O Amanuense Belmiro (1937) - Cyro dos Anjos
22. Corpo de Baile (1956, 3 volumes) - Guimarães Rosa
23. Angústia (1936) - Graciliano Ramos
24. O Cortiço (1890) - Aluísio de Azevedo
25. O Quinze (1930) - Rachel de Queiroz>
26. Água Viva (1973) - Clarice Lispector
27. Crônica da Casa Assassinada (1959) - Lúcio Cardoso
28. Mar Morto (1936) - Jorge Amado
29. Terras do Sem Fim (1942) - Jorge Amado
30. Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias (1854-55) - Manuel Antônio de Almeida 


Foreigner Selection:

1. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
2. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
3. Fairy Tales and Stories - Hans Christian Andersen
4. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
5. Old Goriot - Honore de Balzac
6. Trilogy: Molloy - Samuel Beckett
7. Trilogy: Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
8. Trilogy: The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
9. Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
10. Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
12. The Stranger - Albert Camus
13. Poems - Paul Celan
14. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis Ferdinand Celine
15. Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
16. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
17. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
18. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
19. Jacques the Fatalist and His Master - Denis Diderot
20. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
21. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
22. The Idiot - Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
23. The Possessed - Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
24. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
25. Middlemarch - George Eliot
26. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
27. Medea - Euripides
28. Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner
29. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
30. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
31. A Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
32. Gypsy Ballads - Federico Garcia Lorca
33. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
34. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
35. Mesopotamia - Gilgamesh
36. Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
37. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
38. The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
39. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - Joao Guimaraes Rosa
40. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
41. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
42. The Iliad and The Odyssey - Homer
43. Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
44. The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC) 45. Ulysses - James Joyce
46. The Complete Stories - Franz Kafka
47. The Trial - Franz Kafka
48. The Castle Bohemia - Franz Kafka
49. The Recognition of Sakuntala - Kalidasa
50. The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata
51. Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
52. Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence
53. Independent People - Halldor K Laxness
54. Complete Poems - Giacomo Leopardi
55. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
56. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
57. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - Lu Xun
58. Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC)
59. Children of Gebelawi - Naguib Mahfouz
60. Buddenbrook - Thomas Mann
61. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
62. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
63. Essays - Michel de Montaigne
64. History - Elsa Morante
65. Beloved - Toni Morrison
66. The Tale of Genji Genji - Shikibu Murasaki
67. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
68. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
69. Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300)
70. 1984 - George Orwell
71. Metamorphoses - Ovid
72. The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
73. The Complete Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
74. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
75. Gargantua - Francois Rabelais
76. Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
77. Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
78. Mathnawi - Jalal ad-din Rumi
79. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
80. The Orchard - Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi
81. Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
82. Blindness - José Saramago
83. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
84. King Lear - William Shakespeare
85. Othello - William Shakespeare
86. Oedipus the King - Sophocles
87. The Red and the Black - Stendhal
88. Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sternethe
89. Confessions of Zeno - Italo Svevo
90. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
91. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
92. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
93. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories - Leo Tolstoy
94. Selected Stories - Anton P Chekhov
95. Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500)
96. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
97. Ramayana - Valmiki
98. The Aeneid - Virgil
99. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
100. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
101. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
102. Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar


I am always in doubt on what to buy on a book store. Having a book list with great names on it, its great. You can not miss a good read.


Also, check if you can find any of the Brazilian authors in your language. I am sorry but Paulo Coelho is not so good comparing to the author we have here. You should know better.

Recently, I have watched "Veronica wants to die", a movie based on his book with Buffy (yes, that actress from Buffy) and it was not so good. The plot was empty, the main arguement was weak and the movie was slow. It seemed that it wanted to give you a message for life in every scene. Thats how I feel reading Paulo Coelhos books. There always a passage from the Arabia giving some message in the form of a moral history.

Just say it, the important stuff is invisible for the eyes, for example. Its easier.

Raghava KK: Five lives of an artist

With endearing honesty and vulnerability, Raghava KK tells the colorful tale of how art has taken his life to new places, and how life experiences in turn have driven his multiple reincarnations as an artist -- from cartoonist to painter, media darling to social outcast, and son to father.


Raghava KK's paintings and drawings use cartoonish shapes and colors to examine the body, society, our world.


Check is speech at TED:

No knight, no shining armor - by Seth Godin

Today's post by Seth Godin is very inspiring for who has an on going project. Which is my case. I have two books already designed to be published. One is taking endlessly to be picked by a publisher. Its being more than 9 months now. Its about time its born, but its there burning inside the oven.

The other one decided to take a fun trip. Its been transformed into a governamental incentive project. Check its paths and how it works in Brazil here!

So, in resume, I have been patientily waiting and waiting...Its about time I do something...Gosh...

Read below Godin's post:

"Sure, Seth can do that (release his book without a publisher), because he has a popular blog."


Some people responded to my decision to forgo traditional publishers (not traditional books, btw) by pointing out that I can do that because I have a way of reaching readers electronically.

What they missed is that this asset is a choice, not an accident.

Does your project depend on a miracle, a bolt of lightning, on being chosen by some arbiter of who will succeed? I think your work is too important for you to depend on a lottery ticket. In some ways, this is the work of the Resistance, an insurance policy that gives you deniability if the project doesn't succeed. "Oh, it didn't work because we didn't get featured on that blog, didn't get distribution in the right store, didn't get the right endorsement..."

There's nothing wrong with leverage, no problem at all with an unexpected lift that changes everything. But why would you build that as the foundation of your plan?


The magic of the tribe is that you can build it incrementally, that day by day you can earn the asset that will allow you to bring your work to people who want it. Or you can skip that and wait to get picked. Picked to be on Oprah or American Idol or at the cash register at Borders.


Getting picked is great. Building a tribe is reliable, it's hard work and it's worth doing.

How often do you read?

That's an interesting question, principally for a city that was invaded by Coffee Shops + Book Stores in the last 5 years. Brazilians do not read much, I've got to admit, but we are getting better.

I am a slow reader myself. I read a book per month. But I have a piece of information to clarify. I don't read silly books like the ones you find everywhere. Silly vampire, murder romance or self-help books. I mostly read theory books. Yes, I am that kind of person. yeahh...blurh...

So the readings are more dense and take more time. I just finished the last book I suggested in this blog: The Paper Canoe by Eugenio Barba about theater antrophology. It was amazing. He builds a paralel between the ocidental and oriental theaters, its costumes, its inpirations, ideologies, theories and thecniques.
It is a good choice of book for theater lovers.

Now, I am reading another book. Its called The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden. This is a great book for fashion lovers. It is an inside history from one of the most glamourous brands. My father and my sister work with fashion. I gave this book as a present but they did not reas it yet. So, I am confiscating and reading.

Another great book I have read before, is From Zero to Zara about Zara's history.
Its worth it! It tells the whole Inditex sucess history.

Cliffs along the sea - by Christian Hansen

Cliffs Along The Sea from Christian Hansen on Vimeo.


Nice, calm video to relax and be inspired in this hell sunny Monday!

Where the Hell is Matt?

This is a funny dancing video and a huge effort.
14 months + 42 different countries + one strange dance.



Matt´s Outtakes!




And find out how Matt got all those people to dance with him. This video was watched by more than a million people. Get to know his secret to get more than 2387 people to dance with him, so peharps you can persue someone to dance with you in a nightclub! Gotta try anything!

Mystery Guitar Man - Bali Instruments + Pa Panamericano

Here is the orginal Pa- Panamericano Video!




Enjoy it! Its electro version is the hit of the moment.

OSPOP - Chinese Proud Shoes

OSPOP (One Small Point of Pride) was the first footwear brand to use Chinese workers as not only the manufacturing labor, but also the product's design inspiration.

The shoes are based on a style commonly worn by Chinese laborers but constructed with superior materials, positioned at a premium price of USD 75 and intended to appeal to Western consumers. Part of the increased cost covers improved working conditions for employees and a portion of revenue also goes to charities. The company has widened its product range to include three canvas bags, also inspired by the equipment of Chinese workers.

Happy Fashion Halloween

I dont know if you know, but here in Brazil we dont celebrate Halloween as other countries do.

There is no treat or trick or somethign like it, just small thematic parties.

I wish we had a Halloqeen custom as I love pumpikin pie.

So, for the ones that enjoy and have a appropriate Halloween, please enjoy!!!

As I have heard, this is the only occasion that women can dress like horns  and not be considereted one!

Go crave it!

My Nankin Drawing

This is an old drawing of mine. I made it when I was 14 years old. This is my High School called Nossa Senhora do Carmo. I spent two days inside the square's church with my easel in order to do it. Professor Adi helped me back then. 

Lovely and calm days when kids would throw their friends inside the square fountain or throw dozens of eggs and flour on their friends for their b-day. Lovely custom!

Camille Allen's Babies

Doll sculptor Camille Allen lives in Canada and learned the art of doll making with her husband's grandmother eight years ago. No, she is not a mother yet, but I think she would be a great one. Camille captures the babie's shapes in detail using clay or resin and all kinds of professional doll making materials. The babies are little small going from 1 inches to 4 inches. The prices vary from $99 to $4000 depending on its rarity and else. It is worth checking it out. I have selected some of her best dolls here! Moms-to-be, you will love and get inspired by these babies!

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My Gosh, lens, please?

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I want!



If you want attention, here are some tips from Seth Godin

Any kind of art needs attention and audience. Understand why people pay attention and spread your art with Seth Godin's newest post below entitled "I spread your idea because..."

Ideas spread when people to choose to spread them. Here are some reasons why:

I spread your idea because it makes me feel generous.
...because I feel smart alerting others to what I discovered.
...because I care about the outcome and want you (the creator of the idea) to succeed.
...because I have no choice. Every time I use your product, I spread the idea (Hotmail, iPad, a tattoo).
...because there's a financial benefit directly to me (Amazon affiliates, mlm).
...because it's funny and laughing alone is no fun.
...because I'm lonely and sharing an idea solves that problem, at least for a while.
...because I'm angry and I want to enlist others in my outrage (or in shutting you down).
...because both my friend and I will benefit if I share the idea (Groupon).
...because you asked me to, and it's hard to say no to you.
...because I can use the idea to introduce people to one another, and making a match is both fun in the short run and community-building.
...because your service works better if all my friends use it (email, Facebook).
...because if everyone knew this idea, I'd be happier.
...because your idea says something that I have trouble saying directly (AA, a blog post, a book).
...because I care about someone and this idea will make them happier or healthier.
...because it's fun to make another teen snicker about prurient stuff we're not supposed to see.
...because the tribe needs to know about this if we're going to avoid an external threat.
...because the tribe needs to know about this if we're going to maintain internal order.
...because it's my job.

I spread your idea because I'm in awe of your art and the only way I can repay you is to share that art with others.

Youtube Play Exhibit Unveiled at Guggenheim Bash

Nancy Spector, Marilyn Minter, Stefan Sagmeister, and the musicians of OK Go were among those who turned out for the packed and star-studded unveiling of YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video, an interactive exhibit of 25 videos that will be on display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City through Sunday, October 24.


Anyone with access to the Internet was invited to submit an artwork for consideration in the exhibit, and the top 25 were chosen from over 23,000 online videos that were submitted to a YouTube site by creators from 91 countries. The goal of YouTube Play is "to reach the widest possible audience," explained Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Guggenheim at the event. A jury of 13 people, including Laurie Anderson, Takashi Murakami, and the band Animal Collective, helped choose the videos. Spector noted that the intention had been to select 20 videos, but that "they jury was so moved by the quality of work submitted that we decided to honor a final list of 25."

Check out some of the top 25 videos! There are 13 videos below.

Enjoy them!

iPhone Band!

This band had its instruments stolen and improved by playing on their iphones in subways. Check it out! Its amazing!

Sand Art

Illana Yahav´s videos bellow are amazing. Check what she can do with sand, hands, video and lightening.

Eugenio Barba - Italian Theater Diretor

I am reading a really interesting book by Eugenio Barba called The Paper Canoe. It is a Theater Antrophological Treaty which describes Barba's cultural experiences between Oriental and Ociental cultures and theater techiniques. Barba describes oriental theater schools and bring up references such as Decroux, Brecht, Meyerhold, Craig, Copeau, Artaud, Stanislavisk and Grotowisk. The author presents a really comprehensive study about acting and its different ideologies.

Eugenio Barba (born in Brindisi, 29 October 1936) is an Italian author and theatre director based in Denmark. He is the founder of the Odin Theatre and the International School of Theatre Anthropology, both located in Holstebro, Denmark.

Odin Theatre came to Brazil a little while ago to present its whole repertoire at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in downtown. The tickets were really hard to get. The demand was an absurd. After standing a long while in the line, I had the chance to watch one of their plays called Andersen's Dream.

The play was amazing. The arena stage had a mirror on top of it, so we had the chance of watching the play looking at the mirror upside down. There were more than 8 middle aged actors from all other the world. The play was acted in 8 different languages including portuguese (Augusto Omolu - a bahiano - joins the company for a long time). I can just say that i understood it all and it was so poetic.
No words were necessary for the message to be passed to the audience.






If Odin Theatre ever passes by your city or country, it is definitly worth to watch it!

During the past forty two years Eugenio Barba has directed 65 productions with Odin Teatret and the Theatrum Mundi Ensemble, some of which have required up to two years of preparation. Among the best known are Ferai (1969), Min Fars Hus (My Father’s House) (1972), Brecht’s Ashes (1980), The Gospel According to Oxyrhincus (1985), Talabot (1988), Itsi Bitsi (1991), Kaosmos (1993) and Mythos (1998). Some of the more recent productions are Salt (2002), Great Cities under the Moon (2003), Andersen's Dream (2005), Ur-Hamlet (2006) and Don Giovanni all'Inferno (2006) in collaboration with Ensemble Midtvest.


In 1979 Eugenio Barba founded the International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA). He is on the advisory boards of scholarly journals such as The Drama Review, Performance Research, New Theatre Quarterly, Teatro e Storia and Teatrología. Among his most recent publications, translated into several different languages, are The Paper Canoe (Routledge), Theatre: Solitude, Craft, Revolt (Black Mountain Press), Land of Ashes and Diamonds. My Apprenticeship in Poland, followed by 26 letters from Jerzy Grotowski to Eugenio Barba (Black Mountain Press) and, in collaboration with Nicola Savarese, The Secret Art of the Performer and the revised an updated version: A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology (Centre for Performance Research/ Routledge).

Importance...

I am relaxing, reading, going to the library, taking walks by the beach, watching tv, movies, series, studying, exercising, cooking, being homie and enjoying the calmness as I am on holidays.

One interesting thing you end up discovering during this time you have to think and think and just think about life, your work, self rewarding things that you have or do, the meaning of life, the whys - why do i do what i do - why do i feel like i feel - why do i care like ti do - why is this so meaningful - why - why - is that everything has a new dimension depedning on its referencial.

The work problems and issues I was facing days ago do not bother me anymore. The issues that used to ocupy my mind 90% (ok, 85% of the time) do not even exist now. The daily rush and stress do not pertain to my daily life now. I am sorry, but I have a hard time figuring this out. Or I am crazy to care about those things in the first place or I am relapse not to care now. How can something be so important in one moment and have no importance at all in the next moment?

I just have and I will always have a hard time understanding this...the same thing happens to someone you love. Imagine a boyfriend or a friend you spend all day long together, he or she is the first one you would think or call if you receive a promotion or if something bad happens or if you want to scream or to watch a movie or to curse someone or to drink a soda with ice-cream, so on....and suddenly bounds are "broken" and the person who used ot be SOO but SOOO important is now a TABU.

Or the thing is worth or its not. Or someone is worth or she-he is not. Or I dont know how to value things at first place or things are just screwed up.

Or the tree is a tree or its not!

How can it be art and tree? Instalation and nature?

CO2 and political statement?

I just wish the important things remained as important no matter the time,

the stress, the age, the moment, the color, the status, the health sittuation, etc.

Somethings just change.

Somethings just reamin...

I beleive that's the ultimate test.

Something or someone is important if it remains important no matter what.

And if you come down to that list (whoever's list) it would resume itself to family!

In a brooaaadd way ... whatever family you have or you consider....

Cheers to family, abstract feelings, beliefs and what really matters !

Tim Tim!

* Cultural note: Tim Tim in japanese means asshole or cú in portuguese. So, please, Brazilians do not go "tim tim" everyone.

Mind your tim tim´s, will you?

Theater A La Carte

We sell scenes a la carte!

This was a nice concept I saw in the streets. A theater group was selling a la carte scenes in the middle of the streets. They had a menu with interesting scenes of Anton Chekhov, Pirandello, Neil La Bute, etc.

The group had a great repertoire to be lively presented.

Nice way to get a change and show your work.

I watched Anton's THE BEAR.

My Disease - Music for Twilight by Andrea Riccio

A young Brazilian girl is becoming famous among international blogs and sites for her song "My Disese". The song is inspired by Bella (Kristin Stewart) and  Edward (Robert Pattinson) ´s love in New Moon.

Awwww...

I am not a cat person. I am a dog person.

But he is toooo cute!

Sao Paulo´s Street Walls

During my trip to Sao Paulo, I have clicked some nice grafitti walls.

Check out some grafittis by OSGEMEOS for example.

They are really famous Brazilian Grafitti Artists.

These pictures were taken in Liberdade during a japanese Sunday fair.