Hurts so bad, yet feels so good

Feist - Intuition

Good vibrations!

Currently favorite: this music from Playing For Change.

Let's not worry my brother

In this world we're all the same

We must find peace

We must find it together

It's not far away from your heart

Playing For Change - Good Vibration

Best friend's portrait

De repente olhei para o lado e estavas assim...

Archangel - Chet Faker

Overnight

At this very moment, I'm on one of my favorite moments of the day. It's late in the night, everything's calm and quieted... That's only me, all alone, wrapped on a blanket and listening to Gonzales. 

On a random thought, I realized yesterday was 11-12-13... Yeah, randomness.

Overnight - Gonzales

Hurts so bad

One bended knee is no way to be free
Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently
All my destinations will accept the one that's me,
So I can breathe

Circles they grow and they swallow people whole
Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know
A mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul
And so it goes

Don't come closer or I'll have to go
Holding me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you

Everyone I come across, in cages they bought
They think of me and my wondering, but I'm never what they thought
I've got my indignation, but I'm pure in all my thoughts
I'm alive

Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead
Overhead

Leave it to me as I find a way to be
Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting
I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me
Guaranteed.

Eddie Vedder - Guaranteed (Into the Wild)

Autumn days

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Amstrong - Autumn in New York 

Autumn comes on fiery wing 

of flaming leaves

and redbirds sing. 

And twirling leaves fall to the ground

igniting magic all around. 

So Winter waits, and Summer sleeps,

And Autumn, in the middle, keeps.

Belle Whittington

Photo: Ann Street Studio 

I'm dreaming of a white christmas

I think this is actually a well done post, as it encompasses 3 of my favorites: Christmas, Michael Bublé and nordic interior decoration. Christmas all around indeed!

Michael Bublé - White Christmas

 Photos: The Style Files

Rainy days

Bill Frisel - Gimme a Holler

I love rainy days. I love lying in bed and listening the rain on the skylights. Pull up rainy day playlist. The music fills my soul when I look out the window at the beautiful simplicity of water falling and washing away all our yesterdays.

 

Photo: Ann Street Studio

Jazz kinda days

Tea, readings, jazz, cold-sunny-Fall-sundays... Lovely!

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Foto: Mafalda

This is love?

The thing is: how love is explained to us is all very fairytale - "love is perfect, is beautiful, is divine". But actually when you fall in love it makes you feel very sick: your tummy turns upside down, you get headache and you can't eat properly and you can't sleep and it's like, oh, this is love? Oh no!... But in a weird way, it's kinda nice.

Joss Stone - Jet Lag live at Java Jazz Fest*

* What about those last 40 seconds between Joss and the drummer? Oh boy, let's get high on sensuality! More here.

A woman's skin...

At a friend's place who is a musician and violin-maker. Also and obviously not coincidently, the birth place of Antonio Stradivari.

Cremona, Italy.

This is love!

Joss Stone live at Java Jazz Festival 2013

The Garden

I've been deadly nostalgic lately and don't even let me start on that (again!)... Right now I'm reminiscing what was my Eden for few months one year ago.
I mean, how can I not miss those good old days and nights in this winter wonderland with the most incredible people?!

Zero 7 - Throw it all away

 

 

Milano.

The Sound of Water

Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau - The Sound of Water

The Sound of Silence

I'm addicted to silence and privacy; I wallow in it.

Valorie Wesley

Pat Metheny - The Sound of Silence

Why do you go away?

Come fly with me - Frank Sinatra  

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Terry Pratchett

Summer days of fun!

Cais Sodré Funk Connection - Summer days of fun

Get high on freedom

Fooling myself, or should I say ourselves?, just until I/we can get high on freedom!

I am looking for freedom, looking for freedom
And to find it cost me everything I have
Well I am looking for freedom, looking for freedom
And to find it, may take everything I have

I know all too well it don’t come easy
The chains of the world they seem to moving tight
I try to walk around if I’m stumbling so come

Trying to get up but the doubt is so strong
There’s gotta be a winning in my bones

Freedom - Anthony Hamilton & Elayna Boynton

Dreamer II

Eu quero uma casa no campo
Onde eu possa plantar meus amigos
Meus discos e livros e nada mais

Casa no campo - Elis Regina

 

 

 

Pia Dehne and Mark Ohe house in Catskill

Photos: Freunde von Freunden

Another "dream" house here.

Count Basie

The Golden Years, Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4