A conversation about Açai

Holmes Wilson 

want anything from brazil that can be bought at an airport?

11:54

stark@gmail.com 

yooo

haha

lots of acai ;)

you're coming back??

11:54

Holmes Wilson 

doesn't travel well.

so I ate two bowls today.

11:54

stark@gmail.com 

<3333333 acai

11:54

Holmes Wilson 

a few weeks too see family and friends.

dear god.

acai

Belem is the acai capital

11:55

stark@gmail.com 

ohhhh

then back to brazil??

I FUCKING LOVE ACAI

11:57

Holmes Wilson 

I ate two bowls with fried fish today.

This is what I love about ACAI.

You are eating fried fish, with a purple smoothie-ish thing on the side.

With yucca grapenuts in it

11:58

stark@gmail.com 

oh weird

i've never had that

minitodo.rtf

Get acai icecream

Take shower.

Talk to Arthur (r2)

Stash stuff.

Write down all ticket information.

Prepare backpack with necessities.

Burn CDs of important docs.

Google cheapest way to get from MIA to FLL.

Burn Tricky vidz for G 

Email Mary

Email other folks in Providence.

Send email to Brazil folks with address.

Set alarm for 7:00A

Eat breakfast

Buy sandals for friends at airport.

Wheeeeeeeeeee!

An article about the boredoms drum thing

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/arts/music/09bore.html?

ex=1186459200&en=9b6e9be0dc922e3c&ei=5070

Wow. The time I saw the Boredoms play it was one of the best shows
I'd ever seen. I bet this was really really cool.

I was just reading this Kelefah Sanneh article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/arts/music/23sire.html?ex=1186459200&en=1c9c9cbee7b3cb68&ei=5070 

"To name just a few recent gigs: the 77-drummer Boredoms performance under the Brooklyn Bridge; Vampire Weekend on Roosevelt Island; Animal Collective at South Street Seaport; the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival; Built to Spill and Cat Power at McCarren Pool."

Wait.  77-drummer Boredoms performance in the Brooklyn Bridge space?  Did that really happen?  Fuck, man.  I hope somebody I know went to that.

More Brazilian Food

Maniçoba is a stew based on a leaf that must be cooked for one week
(!) to remove a highly posionous substance. I tried that the day
before yesterday, but it was too salty.

I had Tacaca again last night, which was awesome. It's a soup
consisting of ransparent goo that looks like wheatpaste, with broth,
boiled green veggies, and salty little shrimps on top. I think the
goo and the broth are both made of Yucca.

Videos and photos of party

Up now! Metainformation coming soon.

http://flickr.com/photos/notsurewhen/
http://wstr.org/Videos (all the as-yet un-named ones... if you can't
play them try VLC)

Tecnobrega parties are fucking rad

This has got to be the next shit or something. The first thing I see
when I walk in is this huge bright LED screen with animations that
remind me of the demo scene (including plasma and rotating cubes).

I met one of the producers and barely understood him say something
like "I'm making electro-brega... it's a mix between Benny Benassi
and technobrega". Sure enough, later that night the guy is up in the
spaceship DJ cockpit and I hear the baseline from "Satisfaction" all
cut up to fit into your standard rolling reggaetonish brega beat. So
amazing.

By that point me and my friend Giseli were totally just being DJ ho's
(is that designation still current and/or acceptable?) just laughing
and basking in it.

Other awesome reappropriations included melody rips of Rhianna
"Unfaithful", Ace of Base "Don't Turn Around", "Girls Just Wanna Have
Fun" and this song by the Italian R&B artist Tiziano Ferro (actually
pretty awesome) from back in 2001 that I never thought I'd hear
again. "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" even had a really strong phonetic
imprint from the original version in some of the verses.

Photos should be going up tonight.

Açai

Açai (pronounced "ass-eye-EE") is one of the coolest foods you will
ever find anywhere. Yesterday I ate it as a cold thin soup with ice,
then with a crunchy carb made from roots, and then as ice cream.
There's also a really sweet milkshake form with chopped up nuts and
guarana.

It has a very cool deep purple color.

So amazing. I could eat the ice cream every day. Everybody should
go to the Brazilian bakery on Lincoln Street (right near Forbes) and
see if they have it.

If they don't have it, ask if they can get it! And more generally,
see if you can get Brazilian ice cream in Worcester. It's so cool!