Julia
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Liiim now your Nomi. I like it
I like you.
1. Maracana
2. Samba Tranquilla - Thievery Corporation
3. Inspira
weeeeeeeeeee ! music for kitten 
weeeeeeeeeee ! music for kitten
its soo good weeeeeee
Track Listings
1. It's Samba
2. Nos Vida [MAW Mix] - Anan
i think i have a few songs, but weeee thank you porquinho 
btw ..
i got a tattoo !
its small but .. i got a tattoo ! weee
btw ..i got a tattoo !
its small but .. i got a tattoo ! weee
Did your mom also get one?
i think i have a few songs, but weeee thank you porquinho
I know your dad is gonna like this one for sure
http://www.blogthings.com/couldyoupasseigh...adesciencequiz/
take this test LOL i got a 7/8 
i really dont wanna think right now.
im at Carnaval for God's sake 
i really dont wanna think right now.im at Carnaval for God's sake
i've been watching it on the news 
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) -- Rio de Janeiro's Carnival got into full swing on Sunday night as 14 elite samba schools paraded through a 60,000-seat stadium, with the troupe from the coastal city's biggest slum singing about the struggle to be happy amid crushing poverty.
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A dancer sways to the music during the Salgueiro samba school parade Sunday in Rio de Janeiro.
Some 4,000 members of the group named after Rocinha -- a sprawling hillside shantytown, or favela, with breathtaking views of Rio's bay -- danced to a tune about being born penniless and dreaming of pots of gold, only to find out later that "money can't buy happiness."
Its costumes included the trappings of a poor girl's dreams: dresses made of gold coins and credit cards, hundreds of pink piggy bank hats, lollipops and chocolate bars.
Another school, Vila Isabel, sang about the mix of cultures in Latin America and the liberator Simon Bolivar. It was co-sponsored by Venezuela's populist President Hugo Chavez. He wasn't present, but other celebrities, including Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona, showed up for the festivities.
Each school, with multicolored costumed dancers bouncing and swaying to pulsing samba music, has 80 minutes to march through the stadium. It must sing its theme without stopping.
Schools are judged on choreography, their colorful floats and the enthusiasm and precision of their 300-strong drum corps. The current champion is Beija Flor, or Hummingbird.
But most participants say they aren't out to win -- just to dance all night.
"Carnival is all about getting a rush from the boiling energy of dancing for so many people," said Dandan Silva, 20, beads of sweat dripping from her forehead. She was dressed in jeweled platform sandals that rose to the knee, a feather headdress and little else.
Drummers from her group, Salgueiro, wore hats of red and magenta ostrich feathers stuck into shiny white bicycle helmets adorned with strands of pink rhinestones.
Social customs are thrown out and roles inverted during the pre-Lenten bash that started Friday and ends on Ash Wednesday.
During parties at the stadium and in city neighborhoods, ordinary people dress up as royalty or in drag to celebrate before Lent, the period of repentance that lasts until Easter.
Samba schools use forklifts and metal baskets to put dancers on tiny pedestals that sprout upward from tall floats. Thin columns of decorated scaffolding support the pedestals, which shake wildly as dancers gyrate to thundering drums.
"It's scary. They just put you up there without any rehearsals. But all the cheering people help you get over the fear," said Anne Rose, 32, a lawyer and Rio native.
While most costumes were full of colorful feathers celebrating life, one group of marchers dressed as orange skeletons. Black crows perched on their shoulders, and on their backs were gravestones.
Carnival, which draws on pagan and Christian heritage, is celebrated in other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, but Brazil's is the most raucous and a popular tourism destination.
"I love carnival and I love samba music," said Dan Olivier, 53, a Frenchman on his third trip to Brazil.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/02/...reut/index.html
Rio's Carnival celebrates beauty, brains
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) -- Female beauty and brains were extolled on Monday night as Brazil's Carnival dancers shimmied, stomped and sang in sensual celebration.
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A dancer shines during the Viradouro samba school parade Tuesday at the Sambodrome in Rio de Janeiro.
A naked pregnant woman danced on a float to a song about feminine beauty and brains as a second batch of elite samba schools marched into a stadium before thousands of cheering fans.
She rubbed her belly provocatively as some 4,000 troupe members sang "Indian, white or black, it's all seduction."
But the sensuous display had a serious side: "Women have knocked down barriers and built equality," the dancers sang.
One float from the Porto da Pedra troupe featured graphic scenes of childbirth. Another shone with four enormous gold busts of female gods, while the sides of a third were plastered with photos of Brazilian mothers and social leaders.
Pink and green flags waved in the stadium filled with 60,000 people as the 300 drums of Mangueira, whose trademark colors are magenta and chartreuse, rattled a booming backbeat.
The Sao Francisco troupe, its elaborate costumes of green parrots and orange fish reflecting the natural diversity of one of Brazil's great rivers, were expected to win high marks from the judges. But Carnival dancers said they were moved by the homage to women.
"It was very touching," said Josiane Gomes, 22, dressed in a red feather headdress, a metallic bikini and gold high heels with tussled buckles reaching up her leg.
The men were also appreciative: "Carnival is all about beautiful women," said Maurcio Souza, 41.
Monday was the second night of parades by the city's 14 elite samba schools, and the winner won't be crowned until Ash Wednesday -- when Carnival ends, tourists leave Rio de Janeiro's stunning beaches and haggard Brazilians put away their fantasy lives as kings, queens and knights riding silver unicorns to head back to work.
Morals are tossed aside during the pre-Lenten bash, which started Friday. Brazil's government distributed 25 million free condoms this year as part of its acclaimed anti-AIDS program, which provides free antiretroviral drugs to all HIV-positive Brazilians.
Samba schools are rigorously judged on their choreography, floats, costumes and song lyrics. They also compete for the crowd's praise with thunderous fireworks.
Every school has dozens of subgroups, each with its own brilliant costumes, and special sections for young children and the elderly attest to Carnival's appeal for all ages.
Marchers were focused on getting their moves right and singing on cue, squeezing in as much partying as they could before Carnival ends on Ash Wednesday, when a period of repentance starts that lasts until Easter.
"Carnival is my world. It's about all the good things in life. Brazil stops everything for Carnival," said Patricia Silva de Franca, 19, a high-heeled dancer from the Viradouro troupe, which sang about the architecture of Brazil.
They sang in tribute to everything from Portuguese baroque to shantytowns and the modern structures of Oscar Niemeyer, who designed the stadium where the competition was held.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/02/...reut/index.html
i liked these stories from the news
Fuck all those Schools .. BEIJA-FLOR is the best. I love beija-flor since i was born. I want to cry, i love them !