Brazil - Sao Paulo

I made it to Brazil after a crazy trip which I wrote nothing about except in emails to friends. Here's a good synopsis of what I've been doing since I left Reno in late September:

- buffalo (visit grandma, dad)
- memphis (goner fest - garagerock festival)
- italy (naples, rome, milan... visiting friends and takin care of business)
- valencia (play a gig with my band, record, hang with friends, take care of business, DJ the funtastic festival)
- milan (do laundry, mail a package, see a friend, catch a train to...)
- zagreb (visit a croatian friend I know from Amsterdam)
- belgrade (meet up with my friends from Rome's band, THE INTELLECTUALS, they play here and...)
- sofia (that's bulgaria, second gig of the little balkan minitour)
- crete (one of the southernmost and largest greek islands, to meet up with the "Ship of Fools")
- rhodes (another large greek island, south of turkey. spent a night in the beautiful 'capital' and then caught a ferry to...)
-bodrum (turkey. hung out a few hours here, ate a kebab, checked out a bitchin museum in a castle, caught a plane to...)
- istanbul! (amazing gigantic town, 20mil people (who knew there were so many turks?), met up with a guy from a garage band I found via another friend on myspace, ate a bunch of great food, drank a lot, walked a lot, saw a lot, wow! gotta go back)
- new york city (stayed a week, halloween, the Cavestomp festival to the THE SONICS (they were great!!), friends from Reno and all over comin' too

Here I am now in Sao Paulo, Brazil! I have a 1-way ticket, I'm going to relax and enjoy the spring (!) and investigate tour possibilities for the bands on my label... THE SUBSONICS... THE SPITS...

I'm recovering from last night... first off went and had some Brazilian pizza, which is surprisingly good, they cook it in a wood-fired oven, with a sesame-seed crust, and topped with the hearts of palm trees. Mmm. Bohemia is my beer of choice down here, a nice lager.

Then to the ASTRONETE club, great place owned by my new friends Claudio and Noemi. Thanks to Joe & Xtine for putting me in contact with them... I'm staying in their place, and I'm DJing in their bar tonight (with what few records I found in NYC)!

There was an AMAZINGLY good Clash tribute band playing the 'Nete... they rocked!! Then I ran over to a club called, er, LAS VEGAS (! - don't you think RENO is a better name for a club? It rolls off the tongue much more nicely...) and, wow, there's a band on stage tearing up "Psychotic Reaction" by the Count Five! And as soon as they're done, Claudio starts his record and I swear he was watching my applause for the band because the beat was synced with my claps. Ridiculous! He's a great DJ and I shook it til 5am. Now I gotta recover for tonight. And figure out where I'm going tomorrow. I'm thinking of heading to Rio...