Today is the Technoparade in Paris. All parades come traipsing through my neighborhood, as do all protests and Take Back the Night-esque gatherings.
Usually I don't mind these types of things, but the Technoparade is so obnoxious. Maybe if I liked techno, I'd find the whole thing really fun and exciting. But for right now, the parade has come to a full stop half a block away from my bedroom window, and I can feel the bass in my floor. It has been bam-bam-bamming for the last hour and a half. They just finished - no joke - a techno rendition of Rod Stewart's "If You Want My Body (and You Think I'm Sexy)" song.
My plan for the day was to drink tea, finish an essay, go to the natural foods store, and finish Memoirs of a Geisha. A techno backdrop is too bright and colorful for what was going to be a more beige-toned day. It just feels wrong to sit and casually sip chamomile while your entire body is thudding from the hammering sounds in your ears.
I just don't get techno, and I don't think today is going to push me any closer towards understanding.
; "Catching fish")
Memoirs of a Geisha- top 10 favorite book, I *think* (that's always hard to say, but I loved it).
And I went to the Love Parade in Berlin when I used to live in Europe- I'm not a big fan of techno either, but that was amazing. Mainly for the way the huge city was taken over by the music and crazily dressed kids
(dancing at the subway stations...weird). And the men wore these long skirts and damn, I thought they were hot, which kinda shocked me. All in all, it was a fun experience. Then again, I didn't have to work or sleep near the noise.
Urgh... A Techno parade sounds like the sort of thing that might drive you to insanity before the day is out.
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