On Sundays, almost nothing is open in Germany apart from restaurants and churches. And since everything was closed, you'd think that Sundays are pretty boring in Germany, right?
Wrong. Because Sunday is when the street performers shine. Check out this guy that makes music from wine glasses:
(Pardon the occasional video freezes, it's not your computer buffering, it's my crappy iPhone)
He calls himself the crystal harmonica, and I loved this guy because one of the pieces he knew was the Asian piano staple:
There were also an abundant number of accordion players roaming the streets, searching for your spare change. I didn't film all of them, but I did film this one guy, who looks like he has hands fast enough to make his girlfriend very very happy:
But the best performers ever? These guys, who we happened to catch right as we were about to get on the train to leave downtown Munich. Lucky we caught them because these guys are AMAZING.
Word of warning, yes, the video is 10 minutes long. But the entire thing is so worth it. The music starts at around 2:30, but if you watch the beginning parts of the video, you can see just how entertaining these guys are.
GOD, these guys blew my mind, they have EVERYTHING. They're funny, they're musically talented, they have a GREAT act, they're batshit insane, they were INCREDIBLE. Earlier, they played Get Lucky and that was incredible too, but I couldn't record it because my iPhone sucks. However, I did buy this:
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| Album of the year? Hell yeah. |
So I'll be listening to their smooth tunes later when I get back to America. Because my laptop doesn't have a CD/DVD player.
If you want to hear them too, just look them up! You can see their website if you just click here. They also apparently have their album for free download there, so if you want some of their music, you can find it there!
We also decided to watch this art exhibit called "Clouds," currently on tour across Europe. This is how the display looks before it starts:
Those white things hanging on the ceiling are a bunch of strings. From what I've read, the artist uses a combination of lights and sounds to simulate clouds, and it's supposedly very pretty.
And it was. Although it ran slow sometimes, especially in the beginning when it seemed like it was just dumb lights shining onto dumb strings for ten minutes, the show really got good when it was supposed to look like a thunderstorm. I got a video of it, but no video is gonna do that art exhibit justice because it really is something better experienced in person.
During the art show, I talked to a guy named Phil who was also visiting Germany from America. He was from New Orleans, and when he heard I was going to UCLA, he instantly assumed that I was going to Torrey Pines, which I thought was pretty funny. I told him if I went to Torrey Pines, I would probably die from the competitiveness of the school. Then he laughed because I was going to UCLA and I didn't like super-competitive environments.
ANYWAY, back to the art exhibit, my family liked it so much that we bought a hat! And we got it signed by the artist, Michael Pendry!
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| Even though we literally have never heard of the guy until today. |
I'll be selling that hat, by the way. Bidding starts at 100,000 USD.
RFotD: YouTube takes forever to upload videos.
