Bulgarian pogo

yesterday, my friend dessi asked me whether i'd like to accompany her and her boyfriend to a punk concert. a german (!) punk concert in the middle of sofia :D i had never even heard the name of that band - "stoned age" - nor did i really know what would expect me music-wise. however, i decided to go and thus experienced my first underground punk concert. actually, i liked the support act - a bulgarian band called "remont" - better than the german main act, but it was definitely quite an interesting performance. all of the band members had covered themselves in mud and fake blood and two of them wore some of the most beautiful mohawks i'd ever seen *lol* in the end, i really enjoyed it, although i did not join the pogo dancers or screamed along with the songs ( i still wonder, how the rest of the audience could distinguish one word from the other when i didn't even realize that there were "words" in the songs at all).

anyway, this was not the only concert i went to last weekend: rihanna gave an open-air charity concert last friday. unfortunately, the square was way too small for the huge audience (mainly consisting of teenaged girls yelling "rriiii-haaaaa-naaaaa" all the time. besides that the acoustic was bad and the music itself not much better. okay, okay, what else should i have expected, it was a concert by rihanna after all - nothing for which i would pay money, but intersting enough to take a look at it. in the end we didn't stay much longer than for three or four songs and then went to have "perzheni kartofi ses sirene" and some beers instead.

oh, yeah, and there was yet another "concert" that i saw this saturday - please note the wonderful decoration:

as the german embassy had orgnized some kind of "christmas bazar" on its premises, some of the other german erasmus students and i decided to take the chance and visit some familiar grounds. oh my, the german embassy must be one of the ugliest ones in all of sofia! anyway, it was kinda weird to listen to so much german being spoken around me - i hadn't imagine there'd be THAT many germans around. hahaha. well, at least the amount of germans could remind me of a real christmas market - the rest of the setting (glühwein, candles, leberkäs and sauerkraut) didn't really succeed in setting me in the right mood.

hmmm, we didn't stay in the embassy too long, but continued our evening with some "moving pictures". i'm slowly getting the idea that bulgarians are either ignorant of the cold or they are simply a tiny bit insane with regard to the weather. seriously, first, there is an OPEN-AIR concert on the last day of november - okay, okay, such things can happen, especially, since there is more space outside than in some kind of hall, and who would have expected it to be cold AND rain at the same time? - but then, who gets the idea of showing short films on public walls OUTSIDE on the first day of december?!? whereas i have to admit that i was one of the crazy people who went along with the shivering group. so maybe it isn't such a stupid idea after all. in any case, i had fun and the cold was a wonderful excuse to warm up in a bar afterwards :D