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An overview of the best movies in here.

Notebook of Colonial Memories - a love letter to a racist father; exorcising Portuguese demons. It's a new book of Isabela Figueiredo based on the posts of her blog.

Taken from Jugular:

It is a sweet and brutal picture, brutally sweet, written almost as a betrayal. To call her father racist, to take the racism of the settlers, the Portuguese, the Mozambican white, the "system". This is something that ensures furious controversy. A world which belongs Isabela since 2005 (with the blog Perfect World, now replaced by the New World) and where she began her purges - a purge that these memories admittedly are - the unpleasant reactions were swift. "It is normal", Isabela said, She sees the massacres in September 1974 - in which she didn't die by chance - as "a fair retribution". In the country in which one could run over a black man and not go to prison.

Yay! After 2 years taking pictures with my phone or stealing pictures from friends this is going to feel strange. I was regretting not having decent pictures from the places I've been going to - and even the pictures I have are not so great. Now that I got the camera I'll try not to get sucked to that psyche of just taking pictures of something without enjoying it; but at least I'll have some pictures.

Anyway, you can expect these pictures soon. Maybe one of these weekends I'll take pictures of people taking silly pictures to other silly people in front of the tower. That will be fun.

From bad to worse...

This post on Aquaponics is awesome. Makes me want to do that! The blog is eco-geek & cute as well.

Another documentary by the same author, Alison Murray. I didn't see this one yet but also seems worth it.

Did you guys know this concept that it's coming up now? It's still a bit underground but there is one in Barcelona, other in New York and I don't know if it exists in more places. The idea is that you go to this bar and poets read you their poetry in private. It's really like a brothel but with poetry instead of sex. It's a very cool idea. The things I find out in the Ryanair magazine - and it doesn't have a wikipedia page! Here's a link to the article.