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Jul. 2nd, 2005 01:29 amMy second houseguest showed up this afternoon (the first arrived yesterday, but then left for Seville to collect an award given to a collective he belongs to). My apartment is actually quite small: bedroom, living room, kitchen, bathroom, and a small hallway linking the four other rooms. The bed can fit two and the living room has a fold out couch that can sleep one.
Had been wondering where to put everyone. Especially since the other two have not met, and was wondering if perhaps they might hit it off, I could give the two of them the bed and sleep alone on the couch.
But it turns out one of them has already found other accomodations with a boy they'd met last weekend who is also in Madrid for gay pride. Which is just as well, since it leaves more room for the two of us who are still sleeping here tonight. (Plus, it means my friend will be having some fun.)
The streets are absolutely packed with people, mostly drinking out on the sidewalks. It's reminiscent of New Orleans Mardi Gras. Not really my cup of tea. Hence, I've bid good night to my friends and have already come home.
Tomorrow will be more of the same after the march.
And all sorts of disco parties I've no interest in going to.
It's nice to see some friends (either from out of town or locals), but you can't really talk to anyone because everyone is all squashed together and you're both with groups of friends who're dragging you in opposite directions so as not to lose momentum in thrusting their way through the crowds.
At the march tomorrow I'll hopefully meet the family of the comics artist I'm doing some projects with, who're showing up to support him, and that sort of thing.
But they've changed the route this year, which is strange and awkard now. And all the people who do attend will now flood Chueca (my eighborhood) whereas in the past they've sometimes gotten distracted between the end of the gay pride march in Sol and getting up to Chueca. This year there is nothing between the end of the parade and Chueca. And if last year there was over a million people, this year with the new law and everything promises to be even more of an agglomeration. Which is on the one hand good, but is a hassle for those of us who actually live here. But it'll all be over by Monday and life can return to normal.
Had been wondering where to put everyone. Especially since the other two have not met, and was wondering if perhaps they might hit it off, I could give the two of them the bed and sleep alone on the couch.
But it turns out one of them has already found other accomodations with a boy they'd met last weekend who is also in Madrid for gay pride. Which is just as well, since it leaves more room for the two of us who are still sleeping here tonight. (Plus, it means my friend will be having some fun.)
The streets are absolutely packed with people, mostly drinking out on the sidewalks. It's reminiscent of New Orleans Mardi Gras. Not really my cup of tea. Hence, I've bid good night to my friends and have already come home.
Tomorrow will be more of the same after the march.
And all sorts of disco parties I've no interest in going to.
It's nice to see some friends (either from out of town or locals), but you can't really talk to anyone because everyone is all squashed together and you're both with groups of friends who're dragging you in opposite directions so as not to lose momentum in thrusting their way through the crowds.
At the march tomorrow I'll hopefully meet the family of the comics artist I'm doing some projects with, who're showing up to support him, and that sort of thing.
But they've changed the route this year, which is strange and awkard now. And all the people who do attend will now flood Chueca (my eighborhood) whereas in the past they've sometimes gotten distracted between the end of the gay pride march in Sol and getting up to Chueca. This year there is nothing between the end of the parade and Chueca. And if last year there was over a million people, this year with the new law and everything promises to be even more of an agglomeration. Which is on the one hand good, but is a hassle for those of us who actually live here. But it'll all be over by Monday and life can return to normal.
