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
1 Comments:
shit. forget about eritrea. let's start a club in egypt. it could a non-profit venture... since we probably wouldn't make any money.
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