thats why I was born

Yes My brother and I where born on a rainy day. However my mother, being a cook, was stil working in the restaurant. The restaurant was my grandfathers and mainly served lunch to the working class of the industrial quarters of Zurich. SInce "Das Parfüm" os Patrick Süsskind we do know, that being born in special conditions leaves marks. Since we where for a long time kept in a salad bowl and decorated with cranberries to avoid flies I developed a deep aversion to cranberries and rarely ever eat salad. I, however, had made a salad bowl for myself once an adult which lifes in my garden house and where I retreat sometimes to meditate. p

in the sinai

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when i was young I did some crazy trips. see pictures of my 1990 trip Zurich-Athens-Haifa-Sinai and back with my friend Martin Grüber.

that's how I want to be remembered

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tataaa... thats the band I play in.

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this is a really good picture, taken by théo craveiros in front of SESC Pompéia (a local culture center) where we played that night. taken just after the sound check we where all in high spirits and very happy that such an important stage would even feature such a young (exept me...hehe) band.
How many times can you make so many people smile at the same time.

sky over São Paulo

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took this photo today at around six after a heavy rain.

see the show

sabado

estou lendo a minha querida WELTWOCHE que foi fundada por um tio meu em 1933 a, ao contrário de muitas até hoje não faliu. Este mes ela fez 75 anos e a edição traz muitas reportagens sobre a história, as pessoas que passaram por ela e muito mais. Nada que interesse aqui no Brasil. hehe Na terça tocarei no SESC com a trupe chá de boldo. Que emoção. Vamos tocar na choperia do SESC Pompéia. 

what I'm reading

I got the book "The black Swan" from my mother recently after a journalist in the Weltwoche has written an article in the WELTWOCHE about the books author Nassim Nicholas Taleb see his site here. 

Basically his theory goes that we are behaving like christmas-goose that get fed during two years. Every day somebody nice comes, gives you good food and shelter. So you make an economic model and say: "hey..in the average every day I get food and feel fine". 

Until.....the 24 of Dezember....

I love the idea. After the recent crash and all the mis-management in the Banking industry his book became quite a bestseller. 

Taleb is Christian Lebanese World citizen and his book is quite entertaining with a mix of history, matematics, statistics real world examples. 

On youtube you have a lot of interviews with him.

The other day

At the show of Duofel in moema. They play beatles

The other day

At Sonny Rollins  show at the Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo. Under intense heat and Sun we watched to grandmaster of Jazz swing along. 

With his white beard he looks really cool. Played like hell. Ended his show with a Blues that left everybody standing. 

Afterwards we went home and cooked pasta. It is a nice wonderful summer evening here in São Paulo. 

jokes

Now we are in the times of the "crisis jokes". 

"The crisis is worse than divorce: Half my assets are gone but my wife is still in the house!"

Or Ze Simão, a columnist of the folha de São Paulo came up with:  

a bolsa de valores agora se chama "pochete de valores". 

Here it is, after long, dark cold days very hot. In my car it showed 34C. 

bailout and more

Uffa, what a week. Because of the trouble in the US we have seen the Real going through the roof. From 1,5 it went to 2. Furthermore the US government decided to throw more money at the system liberating their "packet" of short-time measures. 

My opinion is that it will not stick, it is outright wrong. It is even to little. The whole mess built up with the subprime crisis and the derivatives written on these foul loans amount to 62 trillion (Credit-Default Swap market, The Economist, 20. Sept. issue), and we are talking of a "rescue" of 0,8 trillion. 

Well it is a try. However an ill fated. 

Throwing liquidity at the system created the problem in the first place. The fannies where 150 times leveraged because of government guarantees. High commodity prices and "bubbles" all over the place have been the effects of such behaviour. 

Totally unjustified the Brazilian Stock exchange lost some 20% in the last weeks and the US Dollar rose from 1.5 to 2 in a week. This is really not understandable for me. 

Brazil should be THE winner of this situation. No subprimes, no excess liquidity, very strong in commodities. 

My guess is, that in 6 month the R$ will be at 1.2 to the USD and the US and Europe are in for a huge recession unfortunately. 

So much for my 5 cent opinion. 

I am sitting in the garden. Valeria had to work, so we are not traveling to the beach. Here the summer is coming. After very cold an dark days a fine english rain has started and the air is awash with flower scents. Very nice. 

I am reading "Ei professor" by Frank McCourt. The second book after "Angela's Ashes" .

Also read "Kukuckskind" of Ingrid Noll. Read it in a day. Very good. Both of them. 

Lot's of probing with the band because on 9 of September we will play at Teatro Mars in Bixiga, the old italian quarter in São Paulo. 

the burger at av. dr. arnaldo

I Liked the view of the guy eating his hamburger. However the taxi accelerated before I could take a good "hooper" like shot of the famous Burg-Dog Diner at Av. Dr. Arnaldo near Av. Paulista. It is 26C at midnight. Too hot.

fotos from the band

trupe cha de boldo, which would translate into "the vervain tea band" is a band I play in ( as avid readers of my blog must be knowing by now). Well whatever. Recently we have gotten a new photographer in your group who makes astonishing pictures of the band in action. Follow this link to see some.

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playing in studiosp that night.