The FHE vid that we've been working on for days

I'm sure this is only interesting to those of you involved in the video. I mean, who would care about this otherwise??

8:47am

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for at least the last three weeks I have woken up on my own at 8:47 and groggy. Since I don't have to be up until a little bit later I take a cat nap I look at my watch and think, "Wow. I'm weird."
Now that I've written about this, I think that it probably won't happen again.

Ahhhh! Romanians attack!

So I'm sitting at this very computer about 25 hours ago (1am) and I hear a scream coming from Stick's room followed by a thud that was obviously the sound of her leaping from her bed. Once Stick's asleep, she sleeps deeply, so I was worried thinking maybe she was sick or something. Then I hear her door open. I honestly thought that she was going to puke--why else would she be out of bed--so I went to go check on her and stop at the entryway of the hallway because she's sorta doubled over standing by her door. Great, she's sleepwalking. I know that sleepwalkers can be dangerous and extra strong, so I scream Stick's name. She looked up at me and I could tell that she was sort of asleep still because her eyes were glassy. Then she looked right at me and let out a blood-curdling scream like you've never heard before. I called for Newt just in case Stick attacked me b/c it looked like she was going to at first. As Newt comes out of her room I see that Stick's finally totally awake. Newt forcefully asked her if she was alright and she responded with mumbling. I asked her what on earth she was dreaming about and she said something about Romania...mumble...mumble...Attack... I tried hard not to laugh. But I am right now. In fact I've continued laughing since she went to bed (for the 2nd time). When I laid down to go to sleep at 5ish, I started laughing again. I woke up and I was laughing.
Newt told me today that when she woke up the Stick, she saw that she'd slept with her light on she was so freaked out. I'm laughing again. I really do feel bad for the poor kid, but my gosh it was funny. She doesn't remember her dream anymore, but all she knows is that she had to get out of her bed and room immediately. Those must have been some bad Romanians, hating on her hard core.
Now she's trying to blame it on the Blueberry Pie that she ate. I find that foul and mean. I know that she's doing it to hate on me. And that's seriously vitriolic hating on me.
But I'm going to be laughing about this until I day. Then I'm going to watch it again and again in the Big DVD in Heaven.

a great cover of a song

Sometimes the things you find on YouTube are golden. The song is actually by Mason Jennings (plug for an awesome musician), but this version of "If you ain't got love" just might be better.

SGAT Outreach Doc for Chamizal

Thanks to tons of footage taken by lots of people and Sarah Butler's help making the documentary look cool and professional, here's the 7 1/2 minute doc that we make for the Chamizal performance. They ran it before the Narciso Wednesday, Feb 28.

Este brasil brasileiro

Este brasil brasileiro
é extraordinário
“Nós somos um povo alegre.”
“O brasileiro é bom,

tão amoroso
achegado
amigo.”

Mas a verdade do meu brasil brasileiro
é supremamente ordinária
“Uma moça tão bonita

Pele clara
Olhos claros
Rica
Inteligente”

“Mas por que este menino?

Moreno,
Mas moreninho!
Pobre,
Mas pobrinho!”

Juntos são meu brasil brasileiro
Mas o brasileiro xinga,
é óbvio! O brasil não é racista!
(Mas é claro)
O brasil brasileiro
é socialista
seu status social é tudo

O que faz o meu brasil brasileiro
é o que desfaz o brasil pro brasileiro

Claro
Moreno
Rico
Pobre
Inteligente
Sem-educação

Se juntarmos todos, saem

Patrão
e
servo

Este é meu brasil brasileiro

Que é claro que já preconceberam

Shhh ... é segredo


July 21, ‘06

Meu brasil brasileiro

Meu brasil brasileiro
Dicotomia és tu
Minha percepção flutua
Entre uma veracidade bela tua
E outra, óbvia, dolorosa
Saio na orla exclamando
“Este! Este é meu brasil brasileiro.”
Saio da orla triste e ando
Gritando dum canto interior do coração
“Este. Mas este é meu brasil brasileiro.”
“Ó moça, dá um real.”
“Tácum fome, menino?
.........Vâmo pegar salgadinho.”
Chocolate e guaraná não bastam
Aqui em meu brasil brasileiro.
Nos States um guaraná me sacia
Da saudade do meu brasil brasileiro.
Mas este mesmo guaraná não satisfez
Meu brasileiro

July 21, ‘06