surreal night in egypt #1

--thursday august 12--

start by listening to the muslim call to prayer funkifed and sultrified by a group of western-suited arabs and view "chinese acrobatics" in the middle-aged citadel, a huge compound of mosques and palaces and other now-defunct buildings that once housed all of egypt's rulers.

move on to a standard cairo-night-out at a sheesha bar and then to a danceclub featuring an egyptian band playing the finest music i've heard since first opening a copy of jesus + mary chain's "psychocandy," this may be a slight exagerration. but only slight. as the night wears on the band leaves and the music devolves into a mix of arabic and western pop with the occasional bloated long-guitar-soloed rock song accompanied by the crowd's hips moving, arms double-pumping and chemically-induced love blooming.

don't settle for second best, put your groove to the test and opt not to go to bed at 4:00am, but to watch the sunrise over the great pyramids at giza. have it out with the a tour guide here and a tourism police officer there, climb onto a roof, rip your clothes, fall asleep on a bench to wake just before sunrise and watch the brooding black silhouettes turn into enormous golden triangles. now start a cult.

another place another time.
xox
tabby