I’m going to start a new series of posts on the blog introducing my friends in Brazil (lifted from my friend Sarah, although I’m not going to interview anyone. I don’t really care what they have to say) and it’s a goddamned treat to present to you Miss Carmen Burns.
Carmen is Matias’s girlfriend (Matias, who will never make it on here. He’s got some ego problems) and is equal parts charming, hilarious, angry, beautiful, helpful, don’t take no shit from nobody, volatile, thoughtful and…angry. I know I said it twice …

And by popular (Sarah) demand…videos coming soon.

Matias drinking beer in the gas station at 2 in the afternoon on a Saturday. Quality of life.

Third world ingenuity.

On Thursday night Matias, Carmen and Maíra came over to watch Californication, drink some beers and eat some tasty viddles. After some David Duchovny love, six or seven beers and as many cigarettes we decided to watch the latest Chris Rock special and as we all watched and laughed the girls would constantly shout out commentary.; a peculiar trait in Brazilian people (women). They would laugh and say all kinds of things in Portuguese, some that I understood and some that I didn’t. Maíra, although less vocal than Carmen, continually …