Brazil – Carnival
Picture hundreds of thousands of people dancing along the street in different groups surrounding enormous trucks. The trucks are walls of sound, packed with speakers, a 10 piece band on top, possibly a naked painted girl. The band is playing at a ridiculous speed, there's the traditional drum kit, a few guys on congos and various other drums, saxophones, trumpets, a bass guitar, a lead guitar doing 80's style guitar solos and a lead singer. They play for four or five hours straight as the truck edges along the road surrounded by a few thousand people all wearing the same tshirt, mimicking each other doing the same dance.
Brazil – The importance of appearance
So here goes my thoughts on Brasil. Salvador, its 13 degrees south of the equator, its the middle of summer, there's rarely a cloud in the sky, everyday is hot, I haven't seen it under 28 degrees yet. There's a reltenlessnes to it, everyone walks slow, talks slow but their own genre of music, axe, is ridiculously fast and they dance at high speed. I catch buses everywhere that are driven by guys who feel that life has dealt them a harsh blow, leaving them driving buses when in fact they should be in fomular ones. Every corner is a moment to hold on as they slam the bus into it and forty people hold on.
