Sunday, June 18, 2006

Trying not to make a spring break reference

I'm not that into clubs, or electronic music, or DJs. But there's this Sonar thing that's going on this weekend (a big modern/multimedia art and "advanced" music festival), and I was interested mostly because it's a big deal. People come from all over. Last night some of the Sonar DJs were spinning for free at the beach, and it was perfect. It wasn't smoky, or hot, or even that loud, or crazy crowded, because the beach is pretty big so you can spread out. Way more laid back than your typical club scene. I liked the music, too--maybe I like electronica but I'm just very selective? And it was a really mixed crowd which is always fun. There were the requisite scantily-clad beautiful people, but there were also old people and goths and dorks and this one guy who looked a lot like Ozzy Osbourne (who, now that I think about it, is kind of an old goth dork) and a French Belgian in a pink cowboy hat. Very cool. And of course Pakistanis selling cans of beer for half the bar price. They must have made a killing last night.

The festival of Corpus Christi is going on now (there's always some kind of religious festival happening here). I don't really know anything about it, but during the festival, in the cloister of the cathedral, they have this fountain with an egg balancing on it. It's just one stream of water shooting up (think kitchen sink faucet turned upside down), with a hollowed-out (chicken's?) egg dancing on top. The egg rolls and moves around a little bit, but it stays up. That's some kind of trick, right? An egg can't just balance on top of a little stream of water. Right?

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