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In Creole there is a proverb which says Sak vide pa kanpe. It means An empty sack cannot stand up.

I'm surely talking about our CD.

During last few days I spent some time making a new blog about my group Aletheia. It's here. The rest of my time I spent also making a few new songs and lyrics, playing my new Takamine guitar and fooling around. It seems that I'll die before I'll become a common old man being busy with grandchildren and old women, pickin' up some damned mushrooms somewhere in the wood or fishing with some old guys at the end of a week ... Such life is somehow not for me. But - who knows? Maybe one day I'll ... huh ... better not even think 'bout it!

Some of visitors here use from time to time some words, that are hard to understand. To avoid misunderstanding I decided to publish here some explanations and translations. So here is one: caralho 1.vulgar word for 'penis'; (my god! , hardly believe this ...) 2."brazilian slang, a very handy word to express pretty much any sort of emotion when starting up a sentence. NOT to be used in any formal situation or around formal people, unless you want their undivided attention". (shamelessly stolen parts of a small blog) 3.used at the end of a sentence, in order to imply an undefined amount of intensity to some subject/action. (sure! penis can be very intensive ...) caralho! that's it! caralho! (damn!); caralho! que bom! (oh shit! this is great!); pra caralho (as a f..k)!
p.s.: thanks to Bea, who seems to be an expert for some weird species, I am able to proudly inform all of you who might observe this blog, that on the up - posted photo there is a "macaco prego", a very common monkey in Brasil! Mentioned monkey is very well known in some wilder parts of South America, because of his ability to practice auto - fellatio almost all the day long ... So, in next days I'm going to collect more informations and data on this cute and amazing animal, who is (so it seems ... ) without any neurotic syndroms, without frustrations ... living in an exellent harmony with his own body and mind ... And please feel free to join me next year on my expedition in the jungle of Brasil...
A short contest: During my expertize (on macaco prego) a well known Led Zeppelin song ran through my mind! Do you now which one? I'll post this song within my comment on the blog of the winner!

As many of you might know, I'm a buddhist and a linux freak as well. In april this year I was happy more than usual, because I've found this issue (below)on the website of Mr. Richard Stallman , who is one of the spiritual leaders (a guru actually) of the Church of Emacs... Thanks to him and to Mr. Tenzin Gyatso I'm able to publish all about the new Yellow Hat Linux right here:

Dharamsala, India, 1 April 2006

The Dalai Lama today announced the official release of Yellow Hat
GNU/Linux. Produced by the Gelugpa or "Yellow Hat" sect of Tibetan
Buddhism, this GNU/Linux distribution is designed to encourage
benevolence and cooperation. The Dalai Lama said, "The experience of
sharing free software will teach all human beings the principle of
benevolence toward other beings. Software is formalized knowledge,
and sharing knowledge in the GNU spirit is a human duty. The
GNU/Linux system offers beings a way to follow the path of benevolence
while using computers."

Yellow Hat GNU/Linux not only supports the Tibetan language, it also
comes with a full library of Buddhist texts in Tibetan, Chinese and
English. The Tibetan and Chinese versions are in the public domain;
the English translations are newly made and released under a free
license. "Users will advance in programming skill and advance towards
enlightenment at the same time," said the Dalai Lama. To encourage
users to move toward nirvana, a chain of users groups known as GELUGPA
(GNU-Enlightened-Linux User Groups for Passion Abatement) is being
established.

Programmers who have achieved enlightenment become capable of what is
called "egoless programming", and can then use the Dbu debugging
environment. As an integrated development environment, designed
specifically for egoless programming, it also serves as a reminder of
the essential unity of all things. Dbu is named after the Tibetan
province of Dbu, whose name is pronounced "oo" as in "food". If you
see a programmer look at a screen and say "oo!", he is probably using
Dbu, or wishing he were.

Source code for Yellow Hat GNU/Linux is available on CD-ROM; selected
beautiful passages of code can also be ordered as hand-painted tankhas
for display on your office wall.

The Chinese authorities immediately banned the distribution, claiming
that it includes a photo of the Dalai Lama; however, the Yellow Hat
development group says it is really a photo of Phil Silvers, included
so that DeCSS can display it before playing a film.

Chinese spokesmen firmly insisted that "Yellow Hat GNU/Linux will
never catch on in China." When confronted with reports that a
prerelease version is already widely used in parts of Siquan, Qinghai
and Gansu provinces, they said that "This means nothing--those areas
are really part of Tibet."

When asked what response they expect from Red Hat, the Dalai Lama's
spokesmen said that "The Nyingma or Red Hat sect disagrees with us on
various points, but all Tibetan sects regard the Dalai Lama as the
leader of the Tibetan people. So we don't expect them to criticize
the Gelugpa sect for venturing into the software field."

The Dalai Lama's spokesmen refused to comment on rumors that the
Yellow Hat sect plans to merge with the Church of Emacs.


The association between the Dalai Lama and GNU/Linux is an April fool,
but the background information about Tibet is accurate--even the fact
that Dbu is pronounced "oo". Thanks to Mary Fischer for providing
this information. Regarding Phil Silvers, see
http://www.mtgmedia.com/more_intl_business_protocol.htm














A group of egoless programmers in Dharamsala

Mr. Veno Dolenc is my friend and a man of many talents: he is a great poet, a songwriter, an arist - painter, ilustrator ..., and 20 or so years ago he was the leader of one of some legendary groups in Slovenia named SEDMINA (check them on the web, you won't be sorry!). Groups like SEDMINA, KLADIVO, KONJ & VODA, BEGNAGRAD, ALETHEIA... are (were) the representatives of so called "acid - folk" or "psychedelic etno" music ... because of some "weird" influences in our lyrics (mostly telling stories about inner or spiritual experiences, mysteries from the past ...), melodies (based on folk, etno, rock music...), and - most of all - in the music and life attitudes, ethic, life style... At the 1st of september this year we did a great show in Žalec. On this live demo video below you can see Veno performing his song Veter beli konj (Wind, the White Horse) together with a brilliant etno singer Klarisa Jovanović (check her site here!). This song was recorded for the first time with mentioned group SEDMINA in 1979 or 1980 (sorry Veno, a long time since ...). In case you can find a vinyl LP "Melita in Veno Dolenc: SEDMINA" on eBay or somewhere else, it's worth to buy it (do not mind a very high price for the original edition ...).

OK, that's it.