that should give you a small idea of my experience last night.
misha, xenia, alex and i all went to see ZZ Top at the swankiest concert venue i have ever seen. the crowd was comprised of, as xenia put it, "a part of russia that i have never seen!" guys with leather pants, denim vests, tattoos, absurd hair (facial and head-type) swarmed the venue. a couple of guys wore fake beards. for the uninformed, here is an old picture of ZZ Top that I think personifies who they are as a band:
just beautiful, right? i spent the better half of the show laughing with misha at the images of trucks, clips from the 70s/80s (their heyday) of scantily clad women with terrible hair dancing around them, and sublimely terrible fake-fire graphics (as well as a few bars and truck stops).
the rest of the time i spent trying to come up with a good description for what genre they fulfill ("southern glam biker rock" was the best i could come up with) and imagining various possible beard stylings that would be omg so fun to try.
it was quite an experience. also it was the first time i have a) made it through the day without a nap and b) stayed up until 11:30 pm!!!! and i slept until 10:50!!! huge deal. i feel like i am finally getting over/overish jetlag, which is thrilling. although it is kind of weird to think of myself as truly living in a different time zone from so many of the people i love.
here are some pictures that xenia took at the concert:
here are the dudes rocking out. note the black leather suit covering the sequined shirts underneath.
alex making a face for xenia.
me and xen. my god you can even tell that she's taller than me in this picture.
i feel short.
anyway, beyond that exciting anecdote, a few funny little notes from the day (yesterday, that is. right now i'm in pjs and expect to do nothing):
-It snowed!!! It was pretty but did not stick (except to my hair and jacket and poorly chosen-shoes)
-I dropped Xenia and Alex of at the Anglo-American School (an international school) in the morning and watched the adorable little multicultural parade of children (and some teens) in their halloween costumes.
(the count: 2 harry potters, a highly successful mario and luigi, a couple of caped something-or-others, and way more skeletons than i could count- whats up with that??)
-Read the Moscow Times and decided that i'm a fan.
Note: my favorite (and the most gruesome) article that I found was about bears up north who had lost their food supply due to the local fires and were now digging up graves. Locals have expressed concern that the bears have developed "a taste for human flesh"...oh my god that sounds so much worse and morbid than it did in my head.
ALSO they had a great section on the broader/sometimes very narrow meanings of a Russian word. I think it's a column that some woman does regularly for the Petersburg Times (or at least they print it too). Heres the one I saw:
(Lydia: I really think you'd like this!)
-Realized that if you tilt your head slightly on the impossibly steep and long metro elevators going down, it looks like the people are adopting a gravity defying backwards lean. The degree of hilarity of this realization changes based on the seriousness of the riders expression. Fantastic.
-Later note: If you are going up, it gets even better. It looks like the riders are leaning forwards and sticking their booties out. HILARIOUS. Also I am five years old. Also I will try to get a picture of this.
Ok, more about the host family that I just visited in a bit!!
xoxo
char
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