A few things about me

Me
I live in the sometimes lovely, sometimes awful city of Porto in northern Portugal, where I was born April 6th 1979.

Signature
I sign my artistic work (film, video, photography) as Eduardo Morais de Sousa, because nobody signing with a single common surname goes far in this country, except for football players.

Works
I have finished a degree in Film and Video, and besides freelance work and artistic endeavours I also teach Editing.

Bubble
Before going to study film I used to work as a freelance webdesigner. Then the bubble burst.

Luck
I was once hit by a window that fell just in the right position so I wasn't injured, and another time a big brick landed just in front of my feet from some construction works a few stories above.

Clothes
But a couple of (dark) blue jeans, all the trousers I own are black. I don't like any kind of shirt with buttons in it. And I refuse to wear any kind of advertising (eg. t-shirts with brand logos).

God
Thank God I'm an atheist!

Football
Inconsistent with my status as an arts person, I enjoy football ('soccer' for those who think football without feet). I support FC Porto (2003/04 European Champions) since I was a kid.

Food
I never had a habit of eating much, I'm even a bit thin and I should eat more. However, I have a special love for pasta dishes, or exotic omelettes.

Coffee
An addict. To the substance and to the social part.

Going out
I dislike discos. Too much highschool drama. I prefer to sit down at a relatively quiet bar having beer or drinking wine with friends.

Film
My tastes are rather peculiar in the sense they are more 'moderate' than people will expect of someone who studied Film and Art. There are always many commercial films I will refuse to watch - focus group marketing drivel -, but I'm not into the extreme opposite of arthouse pure cinema either, which many times strikes me as pseudo-intellectual with a serious Taliban attitude.

Music
I'm currently in nostalgia for the mid 90s and the new styles (mostly around electronic explorations) invented then, as I abhor the 80s music currently under strong revival and I can't seem to find a place for ironic appreciation in my view of things. So I'm a bit disconnected from the music zeitgeist. I find it boring and predictable.

Family
Dysfunctional. Divorced parents, much younger sister. I'd be an entirely different person if I had a normal family, and I suspect I'd be more boring.

Politics
Politics are paradoxical. Politics is what gets in the way of social progressive policies. Therefore you can label me 'leftist', even though I don't share the views of many who define themselves in that way.

Reading
Fitting well into a few stereotypes, I like magical realists and hard science fiction (note that I don't like 'futuristic fantasy', the style in which the hero reverses the polarity of some ultradimentional uselessthingytron to get out of the trap at Zyxion Nebula).

Spectrum
I had my first computer on my seventh birthday. I was still learning how to ride a bike.

Posters
The walls on my room are filled with film posters. I don't like bare walls.

Notebooks
I like to hang on to a few private luxury items, such as expensive notebooks. But then again, I always end up writing the important stuff on the back of some torn piece of paper.

Love
Is Bliss. Then it Hurts.

Temper
Phlegm, cholera, melancholy, I always wobble a bit between the three.

Humour
No matter how dire the situation, may I never stop finding something amusing in it.

Women
Throught my life, women have, metaphorically speaking, dragged me bleeding through the streets and hanged me upside down for everyone to see. Then again, my best friends are women.

Aries
The concept of star signs is, at the very least, flawed. Yet I'm always drawn into intense rows with astrological fundamentalists. I start seeing red, and can't resist it.

Car
I have a small utility automobile and I feel guilty - driving another nail in Earth's coffin - whenever I actually enjoy driving it, mostly at night and weekends. During daytime I really enjoy taking the subway.

Fix
I really, really hate it when people from the highschool I lost contact with years ago somehow got my phone number and call asking how to fix their computers.