C’mon? I know, it is a great hulking piece of sturdy furniture and craftsmanship be damned, you don’t want it either. Bah and pheh.
I finally have a name, and it isn’t stupid, which makes me really happy. Moreia, because apparently I play like an eel. Shy and deaf with bacteria on their teeth.
Bought a new dresser from Eddie this weekend, which means the old one is up for grabs. Posted it on craigs list, but if you want it the price is negotiable for friends. Just say the word.
Also, to file under upcoming, another batizado, October 13 at 5:30, PS 77 Auditorium, 62 Park Place between 5th and 6th Ave. In Brooklyn. You should come. It is just $10, and I’m graduating.
Flickr is agonizingly slow lately. For some reason I suspect it dislikes me and me alone. Still, from Onion, a lazy Saturday:
and then from Tarikh, an action shot, and other photos from our road trip through the Hudson Valley:
I’m still waiting for photos of a midnight picnic, dancing under a fountain, j’ouvert.
They’re calling it The Greatest Yardsale Fundraiser which might be an exaggeration, but they have a great selection of clothes, books, cds, videos, a sewing machine, boxing gloves, skiing goggles, a brand new ski bag, a couch, a small-framed woman’s mountain bike, bamboo window shades, bags, purses, jewellery, fresh baked vegan and non-vegan goodies, smoothies….the list goes on.
This is a fund-raiser for Capoeira Brooklyn’s 2007 Batizado. Stop by if you’re in the area, I’ll be around for an early shift probably.
Many years ago (not that many, actually) I started playing capoeira with Mestre João Grande. I had no idea he was a legend, I have no idea how I decided to start taking clases. I feel like someone else proposed it and I followed along. For about a year, I took classes. I even made it into a photo in The Village Voice. But then I drifted, and after drifting and drifting I was too embarrassed to go back to Mestre Grande’s classes. By then I’d realized that it was an enormous honor to study with such a legend and that only made it all worse.
This summer, though, I stayed with a friend of mine in Seattle who left me to my own devices while he went off to capoeira class and I realized that I had now been planning to go back to playing for fully five years. The stars all aligned when I discovered that Edna Lima, a capoeira legend in her own right, was teaching just around the corner from my office. Classes are a lot less convenient now that I’ve left LINC, but I plan to keep it up and, since I never had a “batizado” or baptism at Mestre Grande’s, the ABADA Capoeira 06 Batizado will be my first.
It will also be a hell of a show–you won’t have to suffer through watching me play too much, but you will get to see me flail around a little bit. Just enough to amuse the hell out of you, before the game is handed back over to the big kids.
Which brings me to the tickets. They are $10-15, sliding scale, and I’ve got 10 to sell. I paid $10 for them, and I’m happy to sell them for $10, but if you feel like playing more the money will go back to the Axe Abada Capoeira organization to subsidize in-school capoeira programs in NYC.
You know you want to see this. Give me a call to get your tickets.
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