Hair, Bad Photography and a Night Out

Last night was 'La Notte Bianca' in Milan, which means that the whole city including the shops and public transport were open up all night and there were exhibitions and concerts held everywhere in the city. Its supposed to be a great night with food stalls everywere and concerts and of course, people.

Random Sidenote - This is a special post because for the first and the last time you are all going to see TPF's hair. Well, we all know how much she is obsessed with it and yesterday it was looking so spectacularly fabulous that I just had to take a picture of it and beg her to let me post it, so next time when she has a hair post, we all what to imagine. Oh, by the way, a special prize to anyone who can give it the most fitting colour description because we certainly can't decide what colour it is.

We all decided to go out to have some fun. It was TPF, Micky, Anorexic Stick Insect, Alternative Junkie and me. Obviously from the above description you can make out that I dont have much regard for Anorexic Stick Insect, who has been anorexic for more than a year now and who had forced herself to throw up in my wash-basin at a party last year and I still havn't gotten over it. Every time I use my wash-basin all I can think of is Anorexic Stick Insect throwing up in it (ew!). Alternative Junkie is alright, she annoying sometimes and pardon me for mentioning it, but rather stupid because all she does is keep telling people how alternative she is and how alternative music defines her life, but she's nice and which is what ultimately matters.

So instead of mentioning the evening in detail I shall just mention the small rather insignificant details that made up the evening/night. So the night consisted of bad Italian rappers who TPF knew and liked on the Mtv TRL live show that was going on in the main square. I'm never going to stop making fun of her for liking them. Italian Rap is the worse than German humour (and no offence to all the Germans out there, I'm sure you're all great people but you're not exactly known for your sense of humour, are you?). The Mtv TRL was going on and I have never seen so much crowd in that square in my four years in Milan. The place was full of wannabe Italian Punk Rappers. It was disguesting really. We also saw the Russian? Lesbian group Tatu who came to accept a random award. We were rather disappointed that they didn't even kiss or anything. The least you can expect from a lesbian band is a random making out session on stage to make the show interesting. We also saw Duncan James from the the English boy band Blue. I must say, whatever qualms I may have against Blue, Duncan James is rather attractive. Anyways, this is my artistic version of the main square in Milan known as Piazza Duomo where the TRL was being held. Sorry, I know its a really bad image but if you saw the crowd there, you'd be surprised how I even managed to get the picture.

Then TPF and I really wanted to go for a photography exhibition by Helmut Newton but after learning that you had to pay 9 euro to see the exhibition everyone else flatly refused. I wish we could have seen it. What can be better than watching photos of naked women? Naked women and landscapes!

We somehow managed to cross the main square thanks to Alternative Junkie who is used to moving through crowds of concert people because she goes to Alternative concerts ever so often. I was in a terrible mood and was pmsing and TPF was mad at me for snapping at her. Fortunately, TPF and I can never stay really mad at each other for more than 10 mins so it was alright. We then had a random wannabe American rapper asking TPF for a cigarette in a weird rapper like manner in Italian, so it was even funnier. TPF always attracts the weirdest of people. She should really do a post on this guy in a disco who came up to us once and told her 'Hi, I'm Louis, Louis like the king of France'. That has to be the worst pick up line I've ever heard.

We then decided to walk towards the castle because there were some exhibitions going on there. Milan has a huge castle near the centre of the city, which is rather beautiful. Here is a pictures I took on the way. Its just me being artistic again but I quite like it. It doesn't show much but its rather pretty because it look like a painting rather than a photograph. The best part of the evening was this street singer who gave us an average rendition of the Carole King's fabulous song You've Got a Friend. He wasn't a great singer, but he sang such beautiful songs, that you didn't really care about his vocal talents but his music. He also sang John Denver and I love John Denver, he's one of my secret favourites. He's not someone a teenager and publically admit to like, is he?

We finally reach the castle and unfortunately I don't have any pictures of the castle because it was too dark for photographing. We sat on a nice bench and were looking at the crowd and then suddenly Anorexic Stick Insect and Alternative Junkie start making joints and smoking. Argh, don't I just hate people who desperately want to be cool. But it was beautiful sitting there in the grass listening to a distant jazz tune someone was playing in open air. I know, I didn't particularly enjoy the company I was with, but at that time, I really didn't care and enjoyed myself. There was a funk, kind-of-rock concert of an unknown American? band going on that we went to watch. It was great. I liked the music, it wasn't too heavy but something you can keep on listening to without concentrating too much on the music or the lyrics. We also were flirted with by a group of guys who thought that kicking a football at us was a very intelligent way to make us like them.

There were also those funny float things that kids jump on and inflatable slides for children, and I hereby feel the need to protest against the age limit to these things. Seriously, I don't think its right to restrict people from going on them. We had the ardent desire to go on the inflatable slides. It looked like to much fun. So TPF took the onus of asking the person in charge of the slides the age limit and this is how the conversaton went -

TPF: Is there an age limit for people to go on the slides?

Kid younger than TPF who was in charge of slide: *weird look*

TPF: *waiting for a response trying to look as if what she had asked is something completely normal*

Kid: umm *clears his throat* ten

TPF: Oh

Kid: *random awkward noise*...I mean kids younger than ten years old, not older.

TPF: Ah, I get it now (leaves trying to look nonchalant)

Anyways, I had to leave by midnight. The others stayed on and did umm... I'm not really sure what they did, but in any case, I wasn't thankfully there. I cant say that I enjoyed the company I was with too much, but then again that's just me becuase I'm just a misfit in normal human society. I'm sure everyone else had a great time. Hopefully I never have to go out again with Alternative Junkie and Anorexic Stick Insect because school ends in two weeks.