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Hello y'all,
I'm Jorge, 51 years old, from a tiny little town called Guaranésia, MG (Brazil) where I gain my life as a farm manager. What I most like on my job is the Nelore cattle and the Mangalarga horses we breed, the permanent need for the use of
- old-fashioned 4x4 heavy duty bush-drive cars and pickup trucks, mine are a 1989 Toyota Bandeirante OJ50LVB bush-drive and a 1991 GMC D-20 single cabin pickup; modern ones will hardly ever do the job, or they will, but spending more time at the workshop than operational.
- horses, mine is a Mangalarga called Cigano; Mangalargas - don't confound with Mangalarga Marchador, that's another breed - are a Brazilian horse breed extremely fine for cattle droving and handling, like America's Quarter Horses, Mexico's Aztecas or Canada's Cutting Horses.
- last generation computers and notebooks; a good opportunity to jerk around on my Slackware Linux, and to get to music.
And sometimes I earn myself an extra with translations between Portuguese, English and French, and with translations from Spanish into the three others.
To classical music I got in April this year and I simply did not stand it before; I'd always run from it. But my girl-friend, an African-Brazilian fabric worker called Elis, has such a passion for classical music that she managed to do what my parents, music teachers at school, classical music loving friends, and one of my favorite book authors, Charles Bukowski, did not succeed with in half a century: she onforwarded her passion for classical music to me.
My special interests about classical music are primarily Zarzuelas and Brazilian Operas and Sacred Music, the latter two genres we have an extremely rich and highly ignored heritage at both. But I've also started researching on Brazilian Operettas, Mágicas, Vaudeville, Musical and musicated Revue Theater.
To non-Hispanic foreign composers I'm already getting here at this forum, but I'll have to get deeper on them at a later point.
What I like besides classical music is Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, root Sertanejo (kinda Brazilian way of Country Music), Country Music, Blues, MPB and Jazz.
Other interests of mine: my Comics collection, Literature, Railway History, Linux computing (Slackware, Vector and Zenwalk), Railway Modelling, History, Riding, and everything related to equines, bovines, bush-drive cars and pickup trucks.
Well, long post, but that's me
I'm Jorge, 51 years old, from a tiny little town called Guaranésia, MG (Brazil) where I gain my life as a farm manager. What I most like on my job is the Nelore cattle and the Mangalarga horses we breed, the permanent need for the use of
- old-fashioned 4x4 heavy duty bush-drive cars and pickup trucks, mine are a 1989 Toyota Bandeirante OJ50LVB bush-drive and a 1991 GMC D-20 single cabin pickup; modern ones will hardly ever do the job, or they will, but spending more time at the workshop than operational.
- horses, mine is a Mangalarga called Cigano; Mangalargas - don't confound with Mangalarga Marchador, that's another breed - are a Brazilian horse breed extremely fine for cattle droving and handling, like America's Quarter Horses, Mexico's Aztecas or Canada's Cutting Horses.
- last generation computers and notebooks; a good opportunity to jerk around on my Slackware Linux, and to get to music.
And sometimes I earn myself an extra with translations between Portuguese, English and French, and with translations from Spanish into the three others.
To classical music I got in April this year and I simply did not stand it before; I'd always run from it. But my girl-friend, an African-Brazilian fabric worker called Elis, has such a passion for classical music that she managed to do what my parents, music teachers at school, classical music loving friends, and one of my favorite book authors, Charles Bukowski, did not succeed with in half a century: she onforwarded her passion for classical music to me.
My special interests about classical music are primarily Zarzuelas and Brazilian Operas and Sacred Music, the latter two genres we have an extremely rich and highly ignored heritage at both. But I've also started researching on Brazilian Operettas, Mágicas, Vaudeville, Musical and musicated Revue Theater.
To non-Hispanic foreign composers I'm already getting here at this forum, but I'll have to get deeper on them at a later point.
What I like besides classical music is Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, root Sertanejo (kinda Brazilian way of Country Music), Country Music, Blues, MPB and Jazz.
Other interests of mine: my Comics collection, Literature, Railway History, Linux computing (Slackware, Vector and Zenwalk), Railway Modelling, History, Riding, and everything related to equines, bovines, bush-drive cars and pickup trucks.
Well, long post, but that's me
