Quando Lisboa Canta
Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal - Lisboa, Portugal
Lisboa - Portugal - EuroNews - No Comment
Metallica - Sanitarium (Rock in Rio Lisboa 2004)
Assalto ao BES de Campolide, Lisboa - Parte 1 @ SIC
Assalto ao BES de Campolide, Lisboa - Parte 2 @ SIC
A LOVELY CITY, WITH ALL THE 'AMENITIES' OF A 'MODERN CITY', HA-HA-HA
MY DAD DISLIKED HIS 'CHAUFFEUR' SO HE WALKED TO WORK, EVERYDAY, A LOVELY WALK TO CROSS THE PARK (EDWARD VII), ABOUT 15 MINUTES, WITH A FANTASTIC VIEW OF THE RIVER
THAT BANK (BANCO ESPÍRITO SANTO) WAS MUNDET'S (MY DAD'S OFFICE'S) BANK,
PLUS THE OWNERS TWO SONS WENT TO MY CLASS IN SCHOOL, ESPÍRITO SANTO WAS THEIR SURNAME,
AND, CAMPOLIDE IS AN AREA IN LISBON A HOP SKIP AND A JUMP FROM WHERE I LIVED
HYSTERICALY FUNNY, COUPLED WITH 'METALLICA' IN LISBON, A FAVORITE BAND, AND THOSE GUYS FROM THE 'EUROPEAN UNION' OF WHICH PORTUGAL IS PART
MY MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER BOTH SHOPPED AT 'GRANDELLA' THE FIRST DEPARTMENT STORE IN LISBON, DOWNTOWN
ONE OF THE FIRST MOVIES MY DAD TOOK ME TO SEE WAS 'ST LOUIS BLUES' I THINK A B/W
AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY FROM 1929, WITH AN ALL AFRICAN-AMERICAN CAST, STARRING BESSIE SMITH
YOU CAN THEREFORE IMAGINE THE SHOCK I EXPERIENCED WHEN I ARRIVED IN NYC, AND REALIZED AFRICAN-AMERICANS WEREN'T TREATED EXACTLY THAT WELL, AS IN THE MOVIE
'LIVE AND LEARN' WAS MY GRANDMOTHER MARIE'S EXPRESSION THAT MOST IMPRESSED ME, FOR SURE
THERE ARE REALLY SO MANY PLACES THAT EVOKE GREAT MEMORIES IN ALL THESE VIDEOS IT WOULD BE MADNESS TO TRY AND LIST THEM ALL, SO I HOPE YOU JUST ENJOY THEM AS MUCH AS I DO
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