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JohnJohnTaLegal

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

About you:
In fact, just about everywhere......
Can you feel it?
Thanks for stopping by... 2008, album in progress, with one new song a month! Hear them all...
... Yes, I know I am running late. 12 steps of 2008
1. River of January ( Lyric )
2. London in the Seventies ( Lyric )
3. Reception (may contain traces of nuts, afoxe, Lyrics )
The Green Man Samba ( Lyrics )
(Hmmmm... an unplanned break between 3 and 4. O: Here is a special Samba enredo, for the competition of London School of Samba, Friday May 2, 2008)
4. Rue de Bethune ( Lyrics )
Other stuff:
Against Heathrow Expansion!
Not always right, but usually funny...I get some politics ready made from Blueball, Editor and other shady guys at The Daily Beef
About me really:
    guitar off and on since 1980, compositions play cavaquinho, a four stringed guitar from Portugal, beginner's workshops, exercises and samba! 2006 samba de enredo "Cada viagem uma ponte: Cidades, Corações e Hémisférios Unidos pelo Mar" for the London School's 1st place presentation at the Notting Hill Carnival.Aquarela (Paris): play in bateria and harmony, and bureau. In 2007 we composed a samba to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the group: "O sonho virou garra" www.aquarela-paris.com Pagochti (Lille)--non profit musical organisation for exchanging ideas/skills in rhythm and harmony... and complaining in Portuguese. Performances every Tuesday. Last but far from least... since 2004 I have been having a good ol' time on many courses of the GuitarCraft experiment. And you too can check it out.. right... over ... here.... --- www.guitarcraft.com

Myspace: I am having a great time listening to music I never would have heard otherwise. Did we meet somewhere? Even here on the myspace? As the Beach Boys said: Let's be friends!
Finally, thanks to all and every and each one of you, yes YOU, for existing.. here... and now. Ta Légal!
John²

My Interests

Science, Music, Dance, Philosophy, Relationships, Entente, Detente, La Quête, La Chute, La Renaissance

Music:

Too many favourites to put here, so instead it's time for...... "Let's list all the bands we've ever been in"

Incandescent Rabbits 84-85
Hinkley and the Minkmen 86
Mr Sharp's R&B Ensemble 86
Crash & Burn 87-88 M
Allegro con Queso 88
Rake 89-90 M
Quid Rides 91-92
TESS 94-01
Interference at Low E 94 M
Hix 94-95
Giraffe Piano 95 M Hiccup 95
LSS 96 M
Aquarela 97-98 M
Banda Cachaça 98-00
Bloco Vomit (1 gig only) 99
Boca de Leao 01
Aquarela 02-Now! M
Cachaça 03
Sabors de Brasil 03-04
PagoCh'ti 04-Now!

Ghosts of Buccleuch
past efforts...

4 Weddings & a Minor 3rd
perhaps a uk nst page...

My Blog

Rue de Bethune

The long road homeA voice that talks until it can't go onWalked all the way from St Maurice to RomeOn the edge of a songI thought about it daily for two yearsThe way we circled around in the cloudsHol...
Posted by JohnJohnTaLegal on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:58:00 PST

The Green Man Samba

A chegada de Malandro Verde no Carnaval do Notting Hill!(obrigado à IsaP, Ana, César)--------------------------------------------Eu estou esperando, esperando malandro, malandro verdeNo carnaval de No...
Posted by JohnJohnTaLegal on Fri, 02 May 2008 12:51:00 PST

The Reception

Wild waters are all our eyes can seeWalking the path along the border, checking every frequencyThis device ought to pick up the signal, faintest breezeGot in a lot of fights but I never saw you winnin...
Posted by JohnJohnTaLegal on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:18:00 PST

London in the Seventies

In a recent garden the story unfoldedEvery piece of furniture had a number on a post-itSummertime hits home in Regent's Park They're setting up for Twelfth NightBut will we ever find each other now?On...
Posted by JohnJohnTaLegal on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:15:00 PST

River of January

Cast the boat off from the dockWe could see the village hallThe tower and the clockUntil we reached the waterfallAnd then everything's a hazy blurPassing down this course insideJanuary's River sends a...
Posted by JohnJohnTaLegal on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:27:00 PST

Hats off To Professor Stafford Beer! RIP (2003)

In the summer of 1996 I got permission from Kluwer Academic Publishers to post Stafford Beer's Preface to Maturana and Varela's Autopoiesis: The Organization of the Living on the internet... it is a g...
Posted by JohnJohnTaLegal on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:52:00 PST

As if to the Washingtonians

104 years after we left the railsAnd slightly higher, 35,000 ftSão Pãolo - Washington, skip the detailsWoke up a liar in the window seatThose straight lines hide a secret, vorticesThe spiral echos of ...
Posted by JohnJohnTaLegal on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:59:00 PST