who we are

Ok, you've read "what is meio desligado". Pretty words, uh? But how to trust in something written by someone who you don't know and barely speaks english?

Oooooh.

To know that people who writes in Meio Desligado are not a bunch of stupid motherfuckers, nothing better than some lists about us and our favorite bands, movies, and books, don't you think?

Read the things below to make sure that we have a good knowledge and feeling for music and that we are cool and sexy young brazilians...

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Marcelo Santiago

{ Student of journalism at PUC Minas and graphic design at Uni-BH; editor of Cinema Em Cena; the man behind P.U.T.A.; responsible for the empire Mazzacane = indie vs pop; director of some videos; photographer beginner; portfolio here, podcast there, orkut here, myspace there and all works you find here }

Favorite bands in all time:

• Idlewild
• ... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
• Turbonegro
• Death From Above 1979
• Nirvana
• Silverchair
• Tool

Favorite brazilian bands:

• Mombojó
• Hurtmold
• Los Hermanos

5 cds near perfection:

• The Remote Part, Idlewild
• 100 Broken Windows, Idlewild
• Source Tags & Codes, Trail Of Dead
• Relationship of Command, At The Drive-In
• Ænima, Tool

Last.fm




Favorite films:

• Fight Club
  
• Donnie Darko
• I Heart Huckabees
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  
• A Clockwork Orange
  
• 21 Grams

Worst movies seen in the last times:

• Charlie's Angels
  
• Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle
  
• The X-Men
• Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story

Books:

• Fight Club
  
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
• No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs
  
• Trilogia Sucia de la Habana
  
• 1984
• Porno
  

Television? It's so archaic, but sometimes I see...

• Nip/Tuck
• The Office
• The Simpsons
• My Name Is Earl
• SpongeBob SquarePants
  

Favorite porn star:

• Brittney Skye

Favorite shows:

• The Flaming Lips
• Nine Inch Nails Live
• Silverchair
• Mogwai
  

How people usually describes him:

• idiot
• megalomaniac
• pretensious
• the one
  
• incredible
• fucker
  
• marvelous
• uh!
• undescribable

Juliana Semedo

{ Journalism student, when there is time for it. Working at Biblioteca Pública since a year and half ago (I need another job, you if know a good one, please tell me!). Pseudo critic and reviewer of films, books and other cultural objects (Visit my blog, www.estrelatorta.blogspot.com). Eats a lot, cries a lot, talks a lot, likeable, scoffer, sometimes ironic and a little confused }

Bands

...outside Brazil

* Radiohead
* Smashing Pumpkins
* Nirvana
* The Strokes
* Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
* Belle And Sebastian

Anytime, anywhere:
Bob Dylan

...brazilian bands

* Los Hermanos
* Mombojó
* Ludovic
* Monno
* Blemish

Last.fm


Films

* Paris, Texas
* Pulp Fiction
* 21 Grams
* The Godfather
* Almost Famous

Literature

* Anything of Carlos Drummond de Andrade – always!!!!
* Chronicles: Volume One (Bob Dylan)
* On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
* Uma aprendizagem ou O livro dos Prazeres (Clarice Lispector)
* High Fidelity (Nick Hornby)

what is MEIO DESLIGADO

Meio Desligado purpose is simple: a blog about brazilian indie rock music, to keep you informed of what is happening into these musical scenes in Brazil.

We're brazilians, we're part of this indie / rock scene. We are just a few people trying to make brazilian alternative music a little bit more knowed outside our country.

As you can see, our english is not very good, but we'll do our best here to be understandable.
Again, as you all can see, we don't have money to pay a service of web hosting. That's why meiodesligado.com redirects you to nemparece.blogspot.com, our original-portuguese version of Meio Desligado.
But we thought: "why restrict our musical knowledge to people who speaks portuguese? Why don't we make a english version of it?". Yeah! That's what we did and here we are!

Every year brazilian indie scene gets bigger and better, but it still needed a place to reunite all the information about the best bands coming from it. That's why Meio Desligado exists.

Here you can read about brazilians indie rock bands, reviews of albuns and shows, interviews, see photos, videos, listen to podcasts and lots of mp3, and find links to know and download the best bands of indie rock in Brazil.


We hope you have a good time.

Enjoy.


Ps.: we choose the name "meio desligado" because of the well-knowed brazilian band Os Mutantes. Os Mutantes is one of the most influencial brazilian bands of all time and Ando Meio Desligado is the name of one of their best musics.