it´s

its hot and sunny and its freakin awesome! freakin later rain!

hmmmm

finally it wasnt raining today when i got out of class so i went downtown and skated for a bit then like clockwork it started to rain again. my board was broken anyways. a new board here (just the board) is 100 american dollars. ugh. we went to a brazilian skateboard premier at a cinema but the videographer forgot the dvd. i stood around and talked to a man named arthur about jorge ben and brasilian musical culture samba bossanova a bunch of other names i couldnt understand but wish i couldve written down. he said wed get a beer and see some music in vila madelena which is near where i am living. i took the metro back and walked home in da rain.
i learned that sao paulo has two seasons: winter, and now which is humid sun in the morning and rain in the afternoon. this is what global warming will be like at its mildest so best get used to it!

ugh

so im sick with some throat thing... i guess a gotta go through these weird sicknesses so my body is ready to go off. i go to drug stores, grocery markets, all sorts of places asking for vitamins, vitaminas, and no one has a clue what im talking about. so i went to a homeopathic remedy store haha and got some tea. it tastes horrible.

transformerz

last night the transformer on the power line outside my window exploded so crazily! electricity was blastin sparks everywhere it was so loud. dang dood it really goes off out here! tonight we had a bit of dry weather so i went and skated avenida paulista it was fun, but still no sun.

today

so.. yes i do have pink eye. it sucks. good news, its clearing up (i hope). bad news its still storming, when it clears up i go walk up the hill to skate and it starts raining again. i took the metro a little bit outside of sao paulo city to a skate park and as soon as i got out of the train it was raining hella hard. oh well. i took my first portugese class and its cool. learning stuff is easy and fun when you actually want to do it...
ok i think thats it
i miss all my bros!

its all about

animal collective and os mutantes right now


im about to go to my portuguese class. whut!

im hella east right now

its 20:34 zulu right now talkin to my momz on skype. more rain.....

buh

thunderlightningandrainstorms all day and night.

bife a paulista

when i woke up this morning the sun was shining bright and it was hot as a mother. we went out to skate and as soon as we got to the spot it started to rain so freakin hard. so i decided to go to the museum but i couldnt find it so i got a big plate of beef instead, beef rice and fries. hell yea!

500

sao paulo is over 500 years old... how old is the united states? 200? one south american city that is older than our entire western civilization!?!?!?!? i bet some t t t t twisted stuff has gone down here!

skate problemz

on the first day here i cracked my new board. its still skateable though, then yesterday my truck broke completely in half just from riding around... went to a skateshop and spent 90!!!!! american dollars on new trucks. WHAT!!!! so probably tomorrow my board will break and i will spend an unimaginable price on a new board...

language

the more i think about it the less i want to learn portuguese and the more i want to learn spanish. there are way more places that speak spanish plus Noe speaks spanish and i miss Noe at pizzaiolo.

ps

they put ketchup and mustard on their pizza here. WEIRD!

ola

oh man im tired. yesterday my friend jeorge and i went all over sao paulo skating. bombing hills was probably the best part. these streets go on for days! we went to old downtown sao paulo, it was amazing the architecture was crazy and... i dont know how to explain it, it felt like i was in europe even though ive never been there i imagine thats what an old european city looks like. after skating we went to avenida paulista and went to a club. well if youve been to one bar youve been to all the bars im going to assume at this point, its just who you go with that makes it fun or not. oh there was a live brazilian band playing there though it was pretty cool. i didnt get back until sunrise but that was pretty insane seeing the sunrise across the sao paulo skyline, i like da purty buildings. oh we ate brazilian pizza too.... no comment on that. all in all it was a pretty insane day that i am still recovering from.
i dont know what i was thinking coming here not knowing ANY portugese. its embarassing really. im THAT guy that comes to a country that doesnt speak english and expects them to speak english for me. i guess people do come to america and they dont speak english, but thats pretty irritating... god im a moron!
ok later yo soy muy cansado

woah

so sao paulo is pretty freakin nuts. its by far the biggest place ive ever seen, heard of , or been to. the hostel is nice, free internet, free breakfast, and the weather is nice enough we sleep with the windows open. speaking of the weather, it feels like its 70 or 80 degrees with mad humidity and its been cloudy every day and light raining, at least its not a new york winter! portuguese!!! i have to learn portuguese cause english is just not cutting it, i pretty much cant talk to anyone outside the hostel cause no one understands very well (anyone who says you can speak spanish to portuguese people and they will understand you was lying, odelay wey is not a proper form of what up here). what was i thinking! good news, theres a language learning school across the street from the hostel. i went skating up and down avenida paulista which is kinda like a giant times square with less flash, sao paulo is all business yo! and then i went to a giant park called.... ibirapuera, i had heard it was a good skate spot. the skate spot was a giant flat ground hall of smooth concrete and it was covered but that was pretty much it. flipped a couple tricks and this guy comes up to me, i dont know what he said and i dont think he knew what i said but he motioned to follow him over to the other skaters and i went, they spoke enough english to say `lets skate` so ive pretty much been skating with them all day today and walking around the park. im hungry now. later

i made it

there is no way to possibly explain today, today. this place is freaking gigantic. i rode a bus to a train station. found my way across like 20 different stations in portuguese to get to the hostel. its pretty awesome here. i have no idea whats going on, im out of my mind from having the worst flight ever. im gonna go to sleep for about 2 days. later

resume

i can, as of last night, add to my extensive pizza resume, drumroll, that i ate at the very first pizza place in america. WHAT EVER! bow down please to the lord of pizza! the pizza was alright i guess, it was a REAL NEW YORK PIZZA though, i guess im a west coast guy forever, 2 pac, big crust pizzas, and no snow. alright well im off to eat a steak the size of my head. later

check it out

chelsea hotel

whuh

look me in the eyes. look me in the eyes and tell me hot dogz arent the best, you will be lying to yourself and to me so dont do it. oh man. last night was wild, one thing about new york that was a nice little suprise is that the bars dont close til 4. i met up with my tour guide sarah lee at the hotel and she took me to mamas soul food kitchen which was rad. fried chicken, greens with garlic, broccolis, and some mac n cheese. whatever. no big. then we went to bar after bar after bar in the lower east side, then to a place called teany for vegan snackz. toast with beans = yes sir can i have some more? back to the cold night (my beard was freezing stiff) for birthday parties of pretty people i dont know and wandering around. it was great.
thanks to sarah for showin me around, and hookin it up with all the beverages and food.
now im off to find me a REAL NEW YORK PIZZA. spagettaboutit

new york new york

this place is crazy. crazy COLD! what the hell. the chelsea hotel is cool i can feel burroughs thinkin about crazy naked lunch stuff in my room. is that a good thing? i dont know. have you ever posted up at the madison bear i mean square garden and mean mugged a million people? i have. dont be jealous though. k later fed ex kinkos is charging me an arm and a leg for this nonsense.

new year

last night was my last night of work for soooo freaking long, its called vacation buds, time to go off. it feels good to have no responsibility whatsoever except to stay alive.

thanks to everyone at pizzaiolo for being super sweethearts and thanks to pizzaiolo and the bay area association of alcohol drinkers for helping me go to freakin brazil. hard!