Beware of the Female Driver

Well… This is uncomfortable! 

Random Awesomeness
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First of all, I just want to clarify that women are awesome drivers! They just have more personality when it comes to steering a vehicle that reaches high speed. Also, we are not very good at following lots of rules at the same time, and traffic signs don’t help with that. Sorry guys… Less is more! 

With this in mind, there are some little things that are difficult for us to overcome. There are some challenges that women will conquer (to be independent, to study, to vote, to rule the world, etc.), and there are those that are impossible to win. These are my personal favorites: 

Space: For a girl, there is never enough space to park. You can drive a small car, you can drive a big car, you can even drive a bike, it just won’t do. When people are getting annoyed about the time I take to park my big car on a small space I just want to shout “get over it”. Actually, I do, and then they have to wait more time because I got off the “zone” and I have to do it all over again. Merci. 

Speed: Please Mr. Officer, don’t be mad. Women are always in a hurry to do something. It’s Monday morning and I’m going to work, I’m in a hurry. It’s Sunday afternoon and I’m going to the beach, I’m in a hurry. You get the point. We are just so productive that we can’t follow those non sense speed limits. 

Documents: Every time a police officer pulls me over I just want to give him those million papers with different colors that are on my glove compartment and tell him “well, you figure it out, since you’re so smart”. I’m just not very good with paper, sorry. My bad. That was rude. I’m stressed from work, can I pay you a bribe or something? 

Attitude: This is simple. A woman has the same attitude driving around in her car as she has in life: we are always right. So... Just don’t.

Admit it, we are awesome. 

Your TopCrusher, 

Daniela

Arctic Monkeys, what a band!

AM
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One of my huge crushes? Arctic Monkeys, as you may have noticed.  It was simple amazing their performance at NOS Alive’14 and when you have a band that speaks right through your heart and you know almost all the songs like you’re insane, you know that you’re going to love every second of the show.

It was the performance of the day, over 50,000 fans waiting for the opening moment with one of the most enthusiastic crowds ever.
From AM, their most recent album, they played 10 of the album's 12 tracks. The opening, with the crushing hit  ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ and the final set with ‘R U Mine?’, were big moments that kept the crowd singing with strong emotion. And the classics? First album tracks like ‘I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor’, ‘Brainstorm’, ‘Dancing Shoes’, ‘Fluorescent Adolescent’, were there too to makes us happy.

Arctic Monkeys have been making music for more than a decade, and their latest album, AM, is a career defining moment, given a turn into their rock style in a mature and, we can say, more seductive way.

Beyond all this, they are unique in the way they carefully write their songs and how they gracefully play with the words at the same time.

About their live performances? The best! Check it out TopCrushers.

Your TopCrusher,

Dúnia

Orange is the new black, my new addiction

Alex Vause
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I recently started watching Orange is the New Black and it was a breath of fresh air to me when it comes to TV series. Knowing that I have to wait a million years before I have Game of Thrones to watch again, I was so depressed that I decided to give Orange is the New Black a chance and, honestly, I loved it and I highly recommend.

I watched the entire first season in a weekend, and now I’m watching the second, and I think this one is even better (I’m just missing Vause a little)!

The thing I like about this show is that they have really nailed it when they chose the different actresses and the characters are so interesting and different, they are such an awesome group of drama queens/ criminals/ sensitive, smart women, they actually represent all of us.

I also like the way that Piper is forgotten from time to time and the other characters come to the spotlight with flashbacks from their lives before prison. That involves us in their stories and makes us just want to know more and more about every inmate in Litchfield.

Finally, you can also count on some laughs in the middle of all the drama! The dialogues are hilarious and one hour will fly like it was a ten minute episode!

Your TopCrusher,

Daniela

Happy Birthday Alex!

Hi guys,

Today is Alex's birthday and we want to wish her an awesome day! 

Remember, you're like Port wine: the older, the better!

Your TopCrushers,
Daniela and Dúnia

When did he stop treating you like a princess?

This is not the first time Saint Hoax uses the Disney princesses to pass a certain message. First, it was about child abuse and now he’s using our most beloved Disney princesses to approach another subject: domestic violence.

Put an end to it
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I believe that this is a really powerful image and that he surely found a way to spread the message against this horrific problem that is still increasing in our society. In Portugal the numbers are still going up every year. This is something very daunting that people shamefully hide in their homes, and sadly pretend it’s not happening.

I won’t even mention the statistics of countries like India, where women are seen like objects and don’t even deserve to be treated like equals in the eyes of most men. It’s disgusting and makes me sick to think that cows are sacred there, but women are rapped, hanged and lead to death by fire, without anyone to protect them. That’s not culture, that’s not mentality, that’s not religion, that’s not politics, that is pure violence and evil.

I think that because I am a woman, this subject is particularly important to me and deeply moves me and that’s why I value all these ways to raise awareness to domestic  - and any other kind of - violence against women. 

Hopefully, campaigns like these will help people, I believe we can change our society for the better and I appreciate artists like Saint Hoax for creating new, clever and productive ways to do it!

Like the princesses we are, we should never stop demanding the treatment we deserve!

Your TopCrusher,

Daniela

Are we there yet?

Caution: angry post ahead!

This is one of those days with required formal clothing, to be inside the office, with air conditioned on your face doing boring things and watching the sunny hot weather outside! 

Come on, it's not fair! So, just to extend my suffering, I did some research and I want to show you where I wanted to be right now!

Paradise
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So... Are we there yet?

Your TopCrusher,

Daniela 

Are you alive?

One of Europe's best festivals
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According to the Time Out London, Optimus Alive is “one of Europe's best festivals” and The Times compares it to “Glastonbury with guaranteed sun and a pool”.

The first edition took place in 2007, in Lisbon, and the festival, promoted by Everything is New, has won many awards since then, including six Portugal Festival Awards (Best Major Festival) and the recognition of the UK magazine New Musical Express (NME) as one of the 12 European festivals in 2009.

All the best compliments and we deserve it.



Only two days left to the big day, the first day of this big party full of good live music with one of the best line-ups I’ve ever seen!

From Thursday July 10 to Saturday July 12, Optimus Alive'14 gives us, with grace, a bill that includes (I’m so excited to say it!), Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys, The Libertines, Imagine Dragons, Foster the People, MGMT, Interpol, The Lumineers, Ben Howard, Bastille, Nicolas Jaar and so many other great bands, that I almost lose my breathe saying something so beautiful like this.

Music is power
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Are you already jumping in your room full of happiness? I am. Music is full of power and combining this with being in a place with thousands of people singing out loud, with the soft air of a summer night, it’s all you could ask for.

If only I had a super power, I will be attending all the days of this festival, but life is made of choices... So, party people, see you there 10th of July? Arctic Monkeys lover, busted!

Can't wait for it, TopCrushers! 

I will give you a proper post about this when I come back.

YourTopCrusher,

Dúnia