Day III

January 17, 2010
Manzanares, Spain

Rural Alberta Advantage

Dear Friend,

Oh Oh Oh, I’m really trying. Changed my heart into petrified wood. Want to know what I did yesterday? Well. I’ll tell you. But you have to know that you were with me while I was doing it. I mean you HAVE been traveling with me the whole time. Anywhere that I go, anything that i do you’re with me. So let’s cut the chase:
Yesterday I was PAGAN. Yes. Pagan. Let’s go through the check list of what I did within the first thirty minutes of the night:

Went to a HUGE fire celebration. In this they threw in chairs, doors, and other random wooden objects.
Rang a 500 year old bell
Drank PIG’S BLOOD
Got Drunk
ATE A STICK (It cost 1 euro)

Apparently every year the village that I live has this ceremony 3 times a year. All the while, the young girls are walking by, waving at Ricky. (obviously)
After the pagan festival, we went to Ciudad Real for the DISCOTECH! I met a girl named Ashley from Arlington who knows the same fucked up stories about the same people that I know. I won’t say it, but you can imagine how un-big the world is.
At the discotech, we danced to horrible music. Absolutely horrible. We call the music here “Cranked out”, because it sounds like it’s cranked out of the basic, stamped, producer bullshit machine that is used to make millions. Although the music isn’t anything to write home about (or i guess... obviously it is), we danced as hard as we could.

“Oh, you’re from Lithoania?”
“Oh you’re from Vermont? I hear it’s beautiful this time of year.”
“Oh you’re from Mexico?”

We arrived at 7 in the morning, and woke up at 4 pm. After waking up, we nursed what little bit of hangovers that were obtained from the night before. Another festival titled “Lord of the Beast”, was put on to honor St. Antone and the village pets. This began around 5 o clock RIGHT outside of our window. I recorded the marching band playing this hideously menacing death song. I suppose this song was to honor the pets, but it sounded utterly horrifying. Ricky made a suggestion to use it as a hook for this song that Grease and I were throwing around. How perfect would it be if i used the actual audio from the parade for my song?

ahhh... life,

-Andy