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Breakfast, then bike ride with Cacau, along Garnet St. Some nice stores, but the gold mine was Thrift Trader, a second-hand clothes store. Four items for $20. Perfect! Home, lunch, Albertson's, sunbath in the backyard... By night, we wenty to Gage's Warehouse, for another show. Well, it seems we're growing a fan club here, hehe! Stephanie, Maria and Linda are the headmasters'. We played two sets of 9 songs each, very cool. Later, Jack in the Box, our savior. As I couldn't get to sleep, I went for a night walk, all by mysef. Nobody on the streets. Only the shivering cold fuckin' wind and a cat or two...Cool...
(by Chokito)
Ihop's pancake breakfast with Sergio, Madalena, Cacau e Damaceno. Delicious! Then we went back home, picked some clothes up and went to John's studio, to shoot some photos of the band. Awesome session, the guy is pretty damn good! Later, chating with Sergio, he told me that John is one of the most expensive photographer of S. Diego. Cool... lucky us! There were solo photos as well, very good vibe. We got back home, dinner, then John showed up with 2 dvds full of of photos and a printed one of myself, fuckin' cool! The freezing weather continues. Sleep!
(by Chokito)
Breakfast burritos with Cacau and Damaceno, then a lonely bike ride along Pacific Beach, till it's south end, while everybody stayed at home, minding their own business. No problem going south, but the return... against the wind... stupid wind! After, Gabo, Cacau, Madalena and I went to Ralph's in order to buy meat and other things for evening's barbecue. Damn, today was really shivering cold! By night, full house: Sergio and Norah, Madalena, Robert, Maile, John, Charlie, Jennifer, Carol and Fred. Tons of beer, meat (excellent!) and burguers (blearght!). Later Gabo and I left for a night walk, it was freezing! He went to a party, and I headed home. Green dreams...
(by Chokito)
It's not an easy task to sleep on a inflate bed that just lets the air go away slowly while you're sleeping, but that's ok, it's part of the game... Slow, quiet day, everybody just relaxing. I only went out to buy some things at the supermarket, then came back and spent some hous inside the jacuzzi, just like a rich guy, hehe! Plus, if I could, i'd just live there, immersed in 103'F...
Later, we went to Gage's Warehouse. Amazing place. Very hard to describe. It's a crazy mix of house, bar, cuisine, factory and show-bar. They built their instruments, in fact 90% of everything there, hardware included, is produced by then. We started to set things up to the show, while Cacau went to the kitchen to help Gage and Brenton with the feijoada. at the time of the show, the entrance of the place became just a whole in a very big stitch, cool! The gig was very cool, too much fun. We played The smiths' This Charming Man, everybody singing, awesome! Home, 7-eleven, backgammon and bed.
(by Chokito)
Uau! Que noite longa... E boa! Damaceno conhece todo mundo. Tipo eu no Rio. Aqui na casa tem uma jacuzzi show de bola!! Pra relaxar a carcaça da nêga! Fui dar um rolé de bike com o Choki , o Damaceno e o pai dele. Fui, fui, fui tanto que me perdi de todo mundo. Greentimes... Hoje à noite a gente toca como banda convidada de um músico local, Israel Maldonado, amigo do Batera, no "The Office" uma boate por aqui. Maneiro... Um rango, umas beers, etc e tal...
4th Mar- Yeah, another show popped up today, we gonna be support band to Israel (Damaceno's friend) Maldonado's band. Bike ride, Damaceno, Sergio and I. after 2 minutes we lost her already. Unbelievable... Gabo and Felipe preferred to stay at home. We printed some band cards, and visited some stores at Garnet St. On our way back the wind was almost moving buildings, damn! By night we went to The Office, North Park. It's quite a modern neighbourhood, more alternative, very different from the beach-style of P.B. The place really surprised us, nice stage, and the sound equipment was very good too. The original plan was a pocket-show, maybe 5 or 6 songs, but Israel gave us a hour and 20 min., so we played a full set. One of the best shows until now! Going home, we stopped at Jack in the Box to kill our green-hungry. Oh, bud, why is San Diego so green...
(by Chokito)
Wake up, mfuckers!!! Let's go to the beach! Porra, estamos tirando onda. Eu, Batera e Choki fomos dar um rolézão de bike, tipo quase duas horas pedalando. Lembra o Rio, às vezes Búzios, outras Barra (humm...) mas sempre o Rio, babado forte, falando em babado, inda não vi nenhuma bibinha por aqui, mas é questão de tempo, já já elas se manifestam... Hoje vamos ensaiar muito, fazer uma jam maneira. Tem uma canja amanhã e quinta tem show. Tá pintando um monte de coisas... ah, a cerveja, ou melhor, as cervejas são um capítulo à parte... Stand by.
Pra não perder o hábito, vamos fazer um típico barbecue brasileiro. Muito green no meu vale. Many beers! Conhecemos uma produtora de moda, trampo à vista... Very excited... Xangô é rei! Café Funquê!
P.s.- A Norah, madrasta do Batera, é a nossa Marianne Faithful!!
3rd Mar- Woke-up very early, and went with Damaceno to take her sister to her work. Riding her Mustang! What a car! Coming back, supermarket (lots of vitamin C just to bear the unstopable cold wind), then a huge bike ride with Cacau and him around the bay. Ok, everything here in the United States is very big and/or fat, but fat seagulls are really something... A quick visit to Guitar Center in order to get another Ampeg Ba115. Cool! Later, Gabo, Felipe and I went to Albertson's to buy some meat. Brazilian barbecue. And hundreds of different beers! After our meal, we played a small set, almost acoustic, in our living room to a very special audience: John, Sergio, Madeleine, Nora (Sergio's wife) Shauna and Kara. Then, 7- Eleven, backgammon and sleep!
(by Chokito)
Puta que los pari! Como demorou! Tem um fuso foda por aqui, por um momento achei que tava voltando pro Rio, viagem longa da porra! Ah, só rolou biscoitos e suquinhos, pobreza... FINALMENTE CHEGAMOS EM SAN DIEGO!!!
E chegamos bem. Ficamos uns 40 minutos esperando a Maile, nossa madrinha na área, e o Sergio, pai do Gabriel batera. A Maile rapidinho deixou todo mundo calminho, relax, ai, como era verde o meu vale... num to tintindo nada. Que lugar lindo, praieiro e ensolarado. Muito surf. E cheio de mulher bonita. Tá ficando bom, tá ficando legal!!
Nós vamos ficar hospedados numa casa show de bola, a uns 200 metros da praia, Pacific Beach: a casa pertence a um dos melhores fotógrafos da america, John Durant, que é padrinho da Madalena, irmã do batera. Desculpa...
A rapeize pega umas ondas maneiras por aqui. Tem muito veterano de guerra (Vietnam neles!) doidão da cabeça mesmo por aqui. Cachorros, gatos (ai, que saudades...) Vamu nanar... Foi o dia mais longo da minha vida. acho que do resto da banda tambem... Voltei 3 ou 4 horas no tempo. Me sinto ate mais novinha... Inté!
(by Cacau)
2nd Mar- After hours, we at last arrived in San Diego. Cool! Shining sun, hot weather, yeah! Maile and Sergio, Damaceno's father, came to pick us up. What a green place, if you know what i'm talking about... We're here only for 20 minutes and already lost our minds... We left our stuff at Sergio's garage ( a typical american garage), then Damaceno, Felipe and Robert went to Best Buy, and Sergio, Cacau, Gabo and I went for a walk at Pacific Beach. Cool place, and some good waves too. And a shivering cold wind! Back to Sergio's house ,we moved our stuff to the house where we are going to stay, which belongs to John Durant. He is a well-known photographer, and Madeleine (Damaceno's sister) godfather. Very cool fellow. After we went to Fatburguer, then back home. My nose simply cannot get used to the local humidity, nor my brain cells to the local flora... Bath, backgammon and bed.
(by Chokito)
