Since nothing particularly interesting happened today, I'm going to take the opportunity to make a list of all the ridiculous, crazy performers that are there most of the time.
- mimes painted entirely in silver with weird props, like a silver hoe
- a guy playing horrible music on an electric guitar under a beach umbrella, selling his CDs
- some pyscho evangelicos who sing terrible christian music, including a lady with hair longer than her butt
- a guy who plays the steel drums, but he only seems to know 2 or 3 songs, one including "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (haven't found out if he's actually Jamaican)
- some guys who blast a comedy CD way too loud and sell the CDs
- some guys who dress up like North American Native American Indians, play Andean pipes, and are from Bolivia or Peru and always attract huge crowds more from their feather headresses than from their music
- then today, the best: a group of male and female "dancers" dressed up in flowy dresses and costumes inside a circle made from other flowy costumes on the ground, not really dancing so much as spinning around drunkenly to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" (definitely one of the strangest things I've ever seen)
PS. There is a guy who sells hot dogs out of the back of his van in front of the Copacabana metro station on a little grill with all the disgusting toppings they have here. He has a sign for his "stand" which reads: HOTDOG MOVEL (Hot dog mobile). Awesome.
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