Basically anything sparks my interest (aside from gossip)... I like to read a lot, from milk cartons to advanced phisics... I like literature, biology, nuclear chemestry and phisics (as an amateur), music (though I don't play any instruments... yet). I love learning about anything, specially new cultures, and I speak English, French, Spanish and Portuguese (I wanna start learning Italian and German soon). I have my own fields of interest, of course, but I am usually interested in learning whatever you may have to teach me. I love a good conversation (I usually talk too much, if you can't take it, well, we better not become friends... hehe... :)
Well, I'm basically here to chat with prince Erich (hehe)... But hey, if you do think we have that much in common, send me a line, let's see if we can be friends, hehe...
Jazz, blues, rock, MPB (Brazilian Music), Bossa Nova and a bit of pop (when the lyrics are good enough)... Etha James, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, BB King, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Hendrix, Beatles, Fiona Apple, Dave Matthews Band, Cure, Smiths, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Joao Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes, Tom Jobim, Legiao Urbana, Paralamas do Sucesso, Cordel do Fogo Encantado, Funk como le Gusta, great jazz bands like Cab Calloway's and Dizzie Gillespie's, Bill Withers, and pop ones, like U2, Cranberries, Live, well, they are so many I can't really name all... I usually don't buy CDs, I make mix tapes from CDs I borrow, or just download stuff off the net... And I can love one song by a band, and hate all other stuff they make, so I guess I can't really describe what I like... But if it has just a soft guitar and nice lyrics, or great instrumental stuff, like Carmina Burana or the Mission's soundtrack, well, I prolly will like it. Lyrics usually do the trick for me, if I like them, I'll prolly like the music too.
Oh, I just love movies! Except from horror ones, they really freak me out, I'm impressed fairly easily, so I don't like them (I couldn't sleep for over a week when I watched Seven, and that's not even such a scary movie, and I couldn't eat pasta with tomato sauce for six months, so you get how easily I get impressed). Great movies: Le Chien Andalou (Buñuel and Dali), Det Sjunde Inseglet (Ingmar Bergman), The Suspects, Sixth Sense, Bowling for Columbine, Bye Bye Lenin (german, really good), Muriel's Wedding (sort of a classic), Les Invasions Barbares, On connait la chanson, City of God, and mushy love stuff, like The end of the Affair (but not stupid)... All sorts of movies, really, if they can only make me think a bit. I like non hollywood stuff very much, but also some hollywood productions for just laying there on a lazy day... And all sorts of animations, Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, The Land Before Time, Finding Nemo, Alladin, The Little Mermaid, Cinderela... I'm passionate about Disney, even though I know he was an evil bastard... And I'm very emotional, so don't worry if I cry in the middle of an action movie because a dog dies or something... I actually didn't get why people cried during the Titanic, when Leonardo di Caprio died, but I was in tears when they showed a mother and two children lying in bed, or an old couple hugging, or the musicians... No, Titanic isn't a movie I liked,t his is just prolly the best example I could think of, since almost everybody saw this movie.
100 Years of Solitude, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Catcher in The Rye, Hamsés, The Stone of Light, The Cheese and The Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (a book on social and cultural history, great!!!), For whom the Bell tows (both the poem by John Donne and the book by Hemingway), Paris est une fête, the bible... Machado de Assis, Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Baudelaire, Poe, Connan Doyle, Simone de Beauvoir, Kafka, Dostoievsky...
Atom ant, Ghandi, Space Ghost, Batman, my father, John Lennon, Chico Xavier, Jesus Christ, Sidartha, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King... Anyone with good ideas, anyone who can fight back against injustice, who can give humanity a help, who can use their brains instead of the strength of their heavy hand, not because they don't have another choice, but because they choose to be kind, even though they could be harsh... All those are heroes to me... And we can all be heroes, because we all have it in ourselves... It's just a matter of believing so...