Maringá

I´m in Maringá, Paraná. Last night we performed in the most beautiful theater I have ever performed in. I´ll post pics soon. The city is small, 200,000, 60 years old, and very clean with lots of trees. It´snice to come to places like this because you get a sense that Rio is not the center of the universe (or Brazil) and that Brazil doesn´t have to be pessimistic like the cariocas are. There is a Rio-centrism that newspapers and TV networks like Globo like to put out... that the country is corruptand inefficient and that Brazilians are essentially bad. This "realidade brasileira" (Brazilian reality) which these networks like to sell does not apply to the entire country
At night this city is covered with grasshoppers. They cling to every wall and store front.