September 2, 2006, 2:40 pm : Flip-flops outside Apartment Zero

I’ve spent the last week in South America, whirlwind trip through Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires. I was on a meeting, setting up and meeting some more trip for work, which is always good fun, hard work and everything in between. I didn’t get enough time to see much of Sao Paulo, aside from our cool offices, cool people and a cool restaurant. The hotel was really fun and funky, with a great pool, bar and just enough crap from the desparely cool staff to let me know that this was somewhere cool and that I was damn well lucky to even get a drink, let alone pay for it. Restaurant Figuera was a recommendation which was dead-on, great food and a fuck-of decorating idea: build the restaurant around, I don’t know…how about….a GIANT TREE! Branches everywhere, dressed-up, surgically enhanced (or reduced, take your pick) women and men nibbling on amazing food beneath the tree’s branches – the most expensive picnic I’ve ever had. I bought piles of Habeineros for about $8 bucks, rather than shelling out $80 at Kitson. You can check out some pics here.

The next couple of days were in Buenos Aires, which is etched in my mind from one of my favourite movies of all time, the campy ‘Apartment Zero‘, with the hunky Hart Bochner and Colin Furth. Hard to find on DVD, but worth the search. Went to Evita Peron’s grave with the rest of the folks at our meeting, which I thought was a little weird, but what the hell, we like big brands and Evita is certainly a big brand. The creepy cats added to the atmostphere, reminding me of the time I was in Pere Lachaise at dusk and the biggest fucking crows I have ever seen started appearing around us, followed by cats lurking near the crypts. I was waiting for Carmina Burana to start playing and some dude hacking open a crypt and discovering the Jim Morrison was….really….a jackal!! This graffitti was in one of the plaza’s of the old part of BA and Andrea from our BA office told us that protests happen regularly and that the fences which cut the plaza in half are permanently in place.

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