Backstreet Boys at the Rodeo

This was fun.
Last night I went out with my teacher to a concert. We had to take a taxi to get there, it was far away. A bit further than I thought it was going to be since I thought it was going to be within walking distance. It was so far away that I thought, 'Where the fuck are we going?' (btw. . I apologize if swearing offends you, it's just I never really got over the novelty of swear words and, well, I use them when I talk, so I'll use them when I write. . if it really bugs you, you can email me with the reasons why and I'll consider no longer using them). It was so far that I started to get a little nervous, which is probably an appropriate feeling for me to have, being a girl in a strange land with a somewhat strange man. Plus, he didn't know where we were going, the taxi driver didn't know where we were going, and I certainly didn't know where we were going. There was a bit of confusion for a while.

But after stopping to ask for directions, we pulled into a big outdoor concert place. I think it might have been where they have rodeos and such, I'm not sure. It was a dirt floor, there was lots of wind, and there were lots of bright, colorful lights. We were some of the first people there, but the first band was already playing. They separated girls from boys, women from men, inspected our things, and let us in.

The teacher I was with (I´ll call him Rolando, since that's his name) told me that it was a poppy twist on traditional Mexican beats and songs. I asked him if he liked it and he said 'No, well, sort of, it's ok. . it's fun to dance to.' And he was right, it didn't move me deep down in my soul, but it was fun, catchy, and very dancable in that 'Shit I don't really know how to dance to this' kind of way. There were several bands. . one band even played 'In the Summertime' in Spanish. It's much better in Spanish.

The bands on stage danced and had great voices and there was a lot of synthesizer, fog machines were everywhere, several drum machines, lots of cowboy hats, a very short skirt and a pair of shiny green leather pants. And they have this brilliant idea of having two stages on opposite ends of the concert arena so that, when the openers are done, the main band doesn't have to spend all of this time setting up, the audience just turns around.

It was great people watching. It was exactly like a middle school dance or going to the amusment park in middle school, or what a backstreet boys concert would be like, although I never went to one (I swear). Lots of screaming and swooning for the band (especially this one band dressed in matching white suits), lots of flirting, lots of whispering and boys asking girls to dance and then the dance and then each gender running to their friends to giggle and whisper more. Ahh. . young love. . .I definitely felt a little old, although later on in the evening older couples started coming, and that made me feel less old.

When the band dressed in white played, they invited all of the ladies to come up, and all of the ladies came up and filed through, first giving the singer, then the guitarist, then the keyboardist a kiss, sometimes on the cheek, sometimes on the mouth. And the band didn't miss a beat. I was very impressed.

The main band wasn't playing until like 2 or 3 and the third band was a sleeper, and I'm old, so we went home. And that's the end of this story. No great revelations or anything, but it was a good time.