Marisa Monte: Depois

Related to the previous post, I’m in love with the musica Depois, from Marisa Monte, from the telenovela Avenida Brasil, it’s the music from the main romantic couple.

Depois de sonhar tantos anos
De fazer tantos planos
De um futuro pra nós
Depois de tantos desenganos
Nós nos abandonamos como tantos casais
Quero que você seja feliz
Hei de ser feliz também

Depois de varar madrugada
Esperando por nada
De arrastar-me no chão
Em vão
Tu viraste-me as costas
Não me deu as respostas
Que eu preciso escutar
Quero que você seja melhor
Hei de ser melhor também

Nós dois
Já tivemos momentos
Mas passou nosso tempo
Não podemos negar
Foi bom
Nós fizemos histórias
Pra ficar na memória
E nos acompanhar
Quero que você viva sem mim
Eu vou conseguir também

Depois de aceitarmos os fatos
Vou trocar seus retratos pelos de um outro alguém
Meu bem
Vamos ter liberdade
Para amar à vontade
Sem trair mais ninguém
Quero que você seja feliz
Hei de ser feliz também
Depois

The power of procrastination (and brazilian soap operas)

Procrastination sometimes just has to win out! For the first time in I don’t remember how long, I spent the entire weekend doing absolutely nothing! Not one thing! I also did something I hadn’t done in around 14 years: I started to watch a BRAZILIAN SOAP OPERA!

Let me just say that while I was growing up, every single portuguese person watched all the soap operas that GLOBO had to offer! In fact, we are always the first country to run the “Telenovelas” after Brazil. But around the year 2000, one of our television channels started to produce good portuguese fiction, and the brazilian soap operas fell a bit in viewership. Truth is, I followed a few of the portuguese telenovelas since then, but no more of the brazilian productions. That is, until right now!

A few days ago I was watching a spanish channel, waiting for a FIFA World Cup game to begin, and there on my screen was a Telenovela (voiced in spanish off course, which I quickly changed to the original language). And just like that, I was hooked on Avenida Brasil! It took me exactly one day to decide that I wanted to watch the whole thing and to find the episodes online and start to watch them… and now I’m hooked! And I’m (almost) ashamed to say that I managed to watch around 30 hours of the series during this weekend… oh yeah… The couple of kids above totally steel the beginning of the series, they are so damn cute. But if you think it’s not reason enough, take a look at this:

I swear that when I was younger, we usually only got one of these per series… now look at it!