Mattias and I went to the English Gardens today and mostly just tossed around the frisbee. But we also stopped to watch a drum circle. Talk about attracting strange people: muscled Jamaican dudes making a collab-o with white Germans, everyone doing their part, even if their part was simply producing a very specific little dinging noise every 4 beats; a bare-naveled chick with Zack de la Rocha dreds hopping around formlessly; an old witch of a woman looking up religiously at the trees (affectation?), then joining in with ceremonious chest-shaking; a beat guy with limp skanky hair and limp skanky clothes prowling around slowly, tooting on a sax, then panning the crowd, paranoid, trying to see what kind of impression he had just made, all the while leaning forward like maybe he was going to hit you with his sudden sax-weapon if your face betrayed the wrong one.
Posted by Alan at August 18, 2002 12:34 AM