"Mark Knopfler is a personal friend of mine."
Well, not of mine but I heard someone say that Mark Knopfler is a personal friend of mine. This was after hanging with the band. I didn't, he did.
Willian Lee plays a lot of street shows and there are multiple videos on YouTube. Here's another one:
It's not that I get off all that much on what he's doing but it is cool how he does it. There's not much difference between how Willian Lee plays "Sultans of Swing" next to how Mark Knopfler plays it as both fingerpick the song but it's an incredible piece of guitar playing and he does it very well.
He doesn't play only on the street but seems to be well-known in Brasil and there are many videos on YouTube beyond the ones I've shown here. I had the impression the "Sultans of Swing" video was recorded during the World Cup but I don't know that for sure.
The reason for running it is that Yevette is on-strike regarding the World Cup because FIFA sucks all the money out of the country. I have no idea how much gets sucked out but there's no difference to the Super Bowl as poor people don't benefit from that either ... except ... money flows around a Super Bowl. People need hotels, food, hookers ... and street musicians. I have no opinion on how much FIFA takes out of the country but my perception is that Brasil gained much more than it lost by hosting the World Cup.
As to hookers, that wasn't as cheap as it seems because there were complaints from Brasilian hookers that many of the attendees had gone home (e.g. USA) after their teams were eliminated and this meant fewer paying customers.
So, no, I don't see any philosophical conflict in watching the game on Sunday.
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