ONCE MORE...

... heartache... :(.

UPDATE OF THE WEEK

UPDATE #1
It’s sunny in Brussels for 4 days in a row. The world must be surely coming to an end.

UPDATE #2
Seems everybody in Brussels is getting some bootie.

UPDATE #3
It’s cold as hell (whatever that means).

UPDATE #4
Não há fome que não dê em fartura.
Translation: All hunger will end in a feast.

UPDATE #5
HEROES, like, sucks. A cheerleader going through flames?? For fuck´s sake...

UPDATE #6
All is well and peaceful in the kingdom of de Araújo.

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT IN CONCERT-BRUSSELS 16/11

Hale Canada!
Amazing voice. Melancholic, beautiful songs. He put on a real show tonight, including putting an Austrian folklore attire, with braces and all, and a Lisa Minnelli in Cabaret disguise (high heels and lipstick included). He even went on stage in a bath robe! Nice acoustic and space too (Cirque Royal). Too bad he didn't sing my 3 favourite songs (Halleluiah, The one you love and Across the Universe).
Lovely moment when he sang Sansouci.
Must remember also not to drink so much before a concert, makes you kinda sleepy... Specially when it´s freezing as was the case!!!
Now I'm going to wish for a Sufjan Stevens concert... and a Jeff Buckley one straight from heaven...

What a voice!

CRISTIANO FOREVER!!

LOST ON MAD TV

Hahahahaha!!!!

SILENCE!I KILL YOU!

This dude is someting!

KING JUAN CARLOS OF SPAIN TELLS HUGO CHAVEZ TO SHUT UP

Excellent.

ON MY MIND TONIGHT

Lazy as Hell (after frozen over)

Too much work.
Too many decisions to make.
Too many moral judgements.
Too much screwing up the people I love.
Not enough sleep.
Too much crap eating.
Too much of missing home.

and yet...

Lots of cuddling my cat.
Lots of friends to put up with me.
Lots of people I will never forget.
Lots of unexpected kindness gestures.
Lots of sms in my phone.

...and something good happening.

And I also managed to fall only twice went I went ice skating last week! In one of them I was knocked down by a 4 year old... And I'm blonde again! And annoyed yesterday because Benfica lost (again)! And I bought an airplaine ticket home for Christmas!

Happy!
Tired!
And waiting to see what happens...

SOMETHING...

There is something strange in the Brussel's air these days. I can feel winds of change coming... Uhmmm...

THE LOVELY BONES

"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections — sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent — that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous lifeless body had been my life."

These are the words of one of the books that touched me the most; it's a somehow unusual plot as it is narrated by a dead girl. She was murdered, and from heaven (yes, from heaven) she watches her family being torn apart after her unexpected demise.

Turns out this book, first novel by Alice Sebold and quite an acclaimed one by critics, is turning into a movie, probably coming out next year. The cast is dreamy: Rachel Weisz (The constant Gardener), Mark Wahlberg (The departed, Planet of the Apes-wow came a long way Marky Mark), and Susan Sarandon (Thelma&Louise and a zillion more). Best thing: director is Peter Jackson so I expect nothing less than a masterpiece!

Will be eagerly waiting for this one. Really. Really really.

Still dwelling on the same subject (masterpiece books being adapted into usually crappy films), not to miss out the adaptation of Blindness by Saramago. Directed by the hype Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, and casting talents like Gael Garcia Benal and Julianne Moore.