SPCC A Casa Amarela

it seems that now not only some beer is left for the next day, but people are opening up more and more. the hard drugs issue has come up again, and most residents feel it should be a house rule not to allow them. we might have a meeting soon because of this.

the peaceful has now become the cathartic. we're working out all the personal issues with each other, each of our own personal issues, and with it, creating a better, happier community.

godspeed starstuff ☆★☆☆★★★☆☆☆☆☆

our helpex host listing has been approved! check it out: http://www.helpx.net/host.asp?hostid=7824

i'm curious about what this will bring. CS requests are pouring down again, like blood pumping into SPCC!

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Yeah, i think a new era for spcc is starting. CS'ers all over the place, good mood, residents spending more time at home, great parties without broken stuff and beer till the next day (Yes, that's right. It's not a mistake).

Also, thanks to mighty J we have electricity all day. Each room as their own light, so my design works also during the night!!! They remind me of little space ship cells. <3 I'll take a picture today.
Also looks like a summer festival with the variety of "sound systems" going on. "So...Here we have the metal Tent, back there the psy-trance, over there the punk, etc". I love it!

We have two more super-cute canine residents: Durga (my princess) and Kikas (O's princess). They're the daughters of Hexe (which means Witch in german) from Harald. Photos later.

As for the CS business. J, is getting a lot of requests, as usual. I've put up on my CS profile only a picture of the building, and took of my personal pictures, and since then page views are frozen. Wtf? So, in a talk with J, we talked about making an experience: i'm going to upload more personal pictures and choose one of them to be the main picture, and maintain the pictures of the squat, and see what changes. Guess what? Like...40 seconds after i uploaded one fucking picture of my face, one page view came. Man...Let's see how it goes. Going put up some more i guess.

Anyway...

Plans for this week is to finish the damn chill out/free shop. Maybe i'll invite somebody to paint the fucking walls. They need coooolooors!!!!

Happy again (:

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so we've been lazying out a bit, 'cause we now have a HUGE swimming pool 5mins away, music all day, internet, computers, etc etc. i also think we're slowly bouncing back from all the bullshit that has been going on.

on to the good news. one of my non profits (Associação Musical INDUSTRIAL PT) met at the squat on sunday to assert a possible artistic residency. the associates are interested in trying it out but they don't want to use our legal status for the squat. that means this non profit will be a "customer", not a manager. anyway we're having the non profit birthday party at the squat. probably it will be mostly DJs and a couple of bands, but i'm happy to say we're starting our cultural offering. if we don't get kicked out, that is. this means that we might have to start our own non profit again. i'm considering making it part of my exuberantist non profit project and make it a subsidiary. but for now, these are minor issues.

next on the list is another non profit i work for (Chili Com Carne), this one focusing mostly on publishing and graphic works. i'll be talking with them soon about the same kind of possibilities.

our guest stream is now steadily rising again, with a lot of CS requests filled out correctly, so i'm running another study: visual perception. i'm switching my picture every thursday and counting requests. my prediction: an anonymous picture generates less requests than my fancy laying out in the grass picture. we're also considering putting up a sexy picture too. maybe that one with the mustache.

we now down to 7 residents. it's quieter and more peaceful and personally i'm being productive again. happiness does feed creativity and they are interchangeable.

godspeed starstuff ☆★☆☆★★★☆☆☆☆☆

P and M are gone, as J said in the last post. It was a hard weekend, specially because the house was starting to bloom, and a hard decision for all of us. I never wanted to reach this point, but it was necessary. They were hurting all of the other residents with the constant fighting and pulling bottles and knifes, all the time for nothing, and our guests were always leaving the place. It opened my eyes when everyone started to claim that they wanted them out of this house. It was really hard because me and J defended them and tried to help them change since we met them. I realized that they can only change and improve with medical help. The sad part is that they are not guilty for what they are and represent right now and they will not look for medical help. More people will need our help and this house's help. And we can't destroy that just because of 2 individuals.

We will continue to open our doors.

Now it's all calm. People are smiling more and working more. I think that's because this event also showed them that this is also their home, where they have something to say and that they can contribute the same way that me (one of the many who started the project) or any other person does.

I also learned more with this situation. Although i had the chance to remember myself of many years ago, which was difficult and something that i didn't wanted, once again i've gain more courage and became stronger, to deal with these situations, which will not end up here, unfortunately.

SPCC will continue to bloom. J is waiting for some confirmations of more CSers. Let's wait for our next guests!

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yesterday we went to the big tank the kids were talking about. it's fucking huge. we can add another star to our hotel: swimming pool 5 mins away (check the picture).

we hit tipping point with P and M. M left by herself, and the whole house decided that both P and M must go.

Here are some photos of the progress of the chill out area on level 2.

Before:

After:

we have resumed international hosting. we mostly finished the guest room and now we should start having the usual endless stream of people that i used to have at escotilha8. it's good to see that guests bring a different kind of stimulus to the house, they pacify the mood and put us all on learning mode.

the new guests are very experienced in permaculture and other eco lifestyle techniques, so we are learning from them stuff like dry toilets, permaculture principles and other eco techniques.

here we go again. someone cut the chain to go and steal some construction material from our street. among other things, they also got into fights and threw some rocks at the house. so we called the police and the person in question is now identified. the irony of it all: we used the police to protect our squat. law enforcement really is different (for the better) in portugal. i've also stopped worrying about our illegal immigrants. one of them was taken to court (S), only to hear the judge defend him and complain about the lack of employment and integration for immigrants in this country.