☆ハナ☆

☆ハナです。☆

I'm reading Jackie Chan's blog, catching up with it. Read about Yushu and Yunan already, and now about Shanghai Expo. I finally posted a new journal on dA, it had been some time. Answered all my messages on my main page (LoveItaDei), too. I still have things to check, make sure things at Projeto Puma are going okay, and post more news on that.

I didn't sleep last night, but I fell asleep as soon as I came home. Then I woke up at night, managed to watch CSI Las Vegas and New York, and I won't sleep again. Tomorrow I have to return a Bruce Lee film, and then go out to get egg boxes with Aoi - we need them for the studio and we can't buy thousands of egg boxes, can we? - in the afternoon, and I also have guitar class. Aside from that, we have tests.

I'm calmer than before, actually... There's another week with koi around, but I don't know if I'll be able to come on tonight. It depends, I think I'll be dead tired. I just realized I'll never really get my sleeping back to normal, even because I'm seriously planning on continuing in music - and a musician tends to sleep at the oportunity most of the times, having to grab onto some things for money since music alone is a hard thing to live by.

Speaking of music, I missed Paul McCartney's birthday on the 18th, so here I'll say happy birthday to him. So close, his birthday and this day... it's almost the 25th, isn't it? It'll be one year since Michael died, I wonder if I'll have time to do something for that.

And it's getting colder - as cold as it's never been down here. They say it'll hit the record down here, of the last century perhaps. We're in Brazil, damn it, and close to the sea. Sure, we're down South, meaning it's not as hot as up in the Amazonas - hell, if I lived up there I'd... die from the heat -, but this is more than only cold. It's the kind of cold you'd expect from Lages and São Joaquim, they say.

Lages and São Joaquim are some of the coldest - if not the coldest - cities in Brazil, it snows there at times... if it gets that cold down here, I don't want to know how it'll be there, up in the mountains. Dad and my sisters are probably going to freeze, but Olga's more used to low temperatures.

But I wonder how to survive this - we don't have a heater, probably won't afford one -, so I'm counting on soup and a hot mug of tea, with meat and chicken if it's needed to keep the bodies well fed, and vegetables to keep the immune system running. I've developed a particularly bad sensitivity to the cold - at times, Aoi and Koinu say I pale so badly from the cold they think I'm with hypothermia, and in the worst days I even had Koinu lend me one of his jackets because I was so much colder than him.

One of the worst things is that in the cold, the guitar strings burn your fingers open, cut and tear... and really, I don't want to stay without playing. I'ma see if I can get a heater because I don't want to stop playing for an age just because of the stupid cold.

I also need warmer clothes, I don't have thick pants so I've been using tight pants underneath jeans to make me warm enough, even so it's freezing. Leather boots, leather jacket over long sleeves, long gloves and wristbands, my hat to protect my ears and just messing with the collar of the jacket to protect my neck.

I'm running from warm baths into hopefully warm clothes all the time, and having to heat any drink but water.

Anyway, onto my long comments on things.

Jackie Chan is incredible, I don't know how that man even exists. His past, the way he was born and the hospital being payed by others, the opera school, the way he can sing, dance, act, be that funny and kind person he is, always work for others and putting sleep as his last thing, and those martial arts... I don't know what to say.

I've always been a fan of his since the first movie I watched with him in it - since then I've watched all I can find, too - and then the animated series, and recently his music as well. And the charity events, the way he changes his schedule to visit cities and villages damaged by earthquakes and all other stuff, and planning parties and projects to help people... it's just insane.

He works so much and so well, that's one reason why I want to start taking martial arts seriously too - not to mention it would help my endurance which will be needed, I just know it.

He's one of those that influence me so much, along with Teruki, Steven, Izzy, Slash, Axl and all those...

And now more than ever I want Exile On Main St. and Stones in Exile, I've just been listening more to the Rolling Stones recently and the way they recorded that album - fires, light problems, power, recording in a freaking basement, in exile - is just insanely impressive. I know, I have a passion and admiration for insane things! *laughs*

It's examples like these - the Stones recording in that condition but not giving up, Jackie overworking himself for the good of other people but still being himself, Slash and Nikki and the others having survived all that, Steven's story, and... Mick Mars is just wow, just... wow - that make me know I have to go on even if it's the hardest path. I'm not about to give up. And Teruki did teach me not to give up, after all.

I don't know if I've mentioned it, but my grandmother is going to give me a DVD - the Michael Jackson: Live In Bucharest - The Dangerous Tour - from 1992. I LOVE that concert, it's just... the man wants to continue on stage, his management practically drags him away.

Other than that, I want Izzy's albums too... and the Slash album. Man, I need to list everything I want down, seriously! It's so much...

Anyway, I have things to do before school.

Kissu~