You can't go wrong with the right hat

Hats are everywhere these days. But most of these hats are just awful and most of the people wearing them end up looking like morons and tacky. If you really want to wear a hat and look cool, go for a proprer design from a proper brand. Comme des Garçon has just come up with the right hat. Its looks really cool and the materials are just fine. Wrong Weather sells them in oPorto, Portugal, but you can buy them online as this shop ships worldwide.

Forestry - David Byrne's "The Forest" Remixed

The Forest" is probably the best solo project by David Byrne, right after "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts", with Brian Eno. Composed for Robert Wilson's eponymous play, "The Forest" is inspired in the Gilgamesh and is a true masterpiece where Byrne goes operatic at times, a thrilling emotional and atmospheric record.

But I knew some tracks from that "soundtrack" had been remixed under the name "Forestry" and after a long search I managed to find it and here it is in my hands, courtesy of someone in Oregon. The record features three remixes from "Ava" and finishes with the fantastic album version from "Machu Pichu". All tracks were remixed by Jack Dangers from Meat Beat Manifesto and are a great addition to the original record, with modern industrial tunes, thus bringing it closer to the action of this play which takes place during the industrial revolution rather then in early Babylonian times, when Gilgamesh story first appeared, a story older than the Bible. Some people claim they can find traces of some episodes in the Bible in Gilgamesh's epos.

The Shoe Fetichist - Docs come in many colours

The coolest boots on Earth come also in different colours. Here's some suggestions to brighten up the grey and dull rainy days. If you retailer does not have this, have a word with him. If he can't be bothered to sell these stunning Doc Martens boots, tell him to bugger off and buy them online. There's thousands of sites with a huge selection at great prices.

The Shoe Fetichist

Miguel Flor for Eureka - It was indeed a pleasant surprise to see these shoes by Miguel Flor on the Bloom catwalk in O'Porto. The day  after there I was in the shoe store Eureka in the city centre of O'Porto and I didn't resist - I bought two pairs, one of them was this one pictured below and I will be back there.

  

All-time classics - red Doc Martens

Groovy high tops by Marc Jacobs

Eternal summer classic by the Portuguese fashion designer Alexandra Moura

Classic and elegant by Dries van Noten, one of my favourite fashion designers

 Should you knw where to find this specific pair of Doc, please let me know

They're called Mental, come from Angolo, and they designing both clothes and shoes. They have shown their collection at the Lisbon Fashion Week in October and here you can see their classic models along with  some traditional Angolan footwear.

Good shoes with a cool design are increasingly hard to find. That is why I have come up with the idea of creating a list of my all time favourites, a list that will feature new shoes every now and then.

The Man Who Waved Goodbye

There was once this man who used to stand by the side of the road just waving goodbye, saying Hi!! He died yesterday and dozens of people took the square where he used to wave goodbye and replicated his gestures waving at the cars passing by.

There he was every single night waving goodbye at the cars and the people passing by. He was nearly 80 and coming out to the street and waving was a way to fight his solitude. Good looking, with cool spectacles, he was extremely polite. He came from a wealthy family and he was probably accustomed to interact with people. His story is there for you and me to imagine. But those who drove by, especially at night, on their way to the clubs of central Lisbon, still remember him. He was there and reminded the kids they should not drink to much as they were driving. People talked to him and he was good at talking to people. In a city, like most modern cites, where people do not seem to have time to stop and talk to each other.

But the day he died, suddenly two hundred people headed to that very same square where he used to be and waved goodbye, as he did to everyone passing by. It was a good way to pay tribute to this man who, by having the odd idea of waving goodbye, suddenly reminded everyone in the city of the need to often say Hi!!.

América

Fui à América, mas foi como se tivesse ido a Santo António dos Cavaleiros. Nova Iorque é uma cidade com grande dinamismo, teatros, concertos, lojas, gente, muita gente, museus de fazer perder a cabeça. Mas é muito prédio sem graça. Times Square à noite parece a Amadora ao fim-de-semana só que com mais gente ainda e prédios mais altos. Adoro Paris, Berlim, Roma, Barcelona, onde a cada passo me delicio com belezas arquitectónicas. Em NY fartei-me de prédios espelhados, grandes e vertiginosos. E respirei de alívio quando entrei na Igreja de S. Patrick, ali entalada no meios dos arranha-céus. Nas cidades referidas sento-me deliciado a olhar pessoas elegantes, giras, diferentes. Em NY achei tudo igual, elas e eles muito sem graça. A excepção foi Greenwich Village, um último reduito de cromos e poetas, ou poetas-cromos, como preferirem.


A América nunca me atraiu e não tenho grande vontade de voltar. Já Berlim, dezenas de vezes não me chegam. Quanto a Paris comprava o passe para lá ir de quinze em quinze dias. E no que toca a Barcelona fazia click e punha-me lá em três tempos. Mas Nova Iorque falta-lhe ali a monunentalidade histórica da Europa. Quando mais vou ao Novo Mundo mais gosto da Europa . Manias!!