"Carnaval toda la vida y una noche junto a vos!"

Well Jimmy Double-click, yesterday rocked.

See, I went to this little event that Coca Cola Corp. Inc. Ltd. Bbq. set up at Fundidora Park to promote their new brand of sweet, poisonous nectar: Coke Zero (which I don't like how it tastes and people down here have been saying it has some sort of unsafe-for-human-consumption chemical). The thing itself was a massive concert with 2 stages doing simultaneous concerts. At first I wasn't interested in the event until I heard that one of the main jigs was going to be Los Fabulosos Fucking Cadillacs.

Yes, Sol: it is Ska. But sweet mother of unredeeming Christ, it's the sweetest mixture of Ska and traditional Latin-American rythms that you've ever heard. You hear this shit and you just can NOT dance.

Findings:

1. Monterrey is full of SUPER HOT girls. Contrary to what my previous experience in day-to-day living has shown me, there are veritable metric tons of hot girls out there that like what I like. My going theory is that they spring from the ground like some sort of sexy flowers (or rising Gangrels-- only cute instead of monstrous) at concerts due to the power of Rock only to disappear into a mist of purple fireflies at the end of the Night.
2. Mars Volta is NOT uncool. Those guys are like poor energy packed into sound. The fucking lead guy somersaulted the drum set. I SHIT YOU NOT.
3. Mars Volta concerts have a heavy, very powerful eau-de-maryjane. XD
4. Los Fabulosos Cadillacs rocked hard.
5. I can still dance and scream-sing non-stop for 1.5 hours. Take THAT cigarrettes!
6. Concert-goers in Monterrey need someone to get them started. When mis Fabulosos started doing their mayhem everyone was kinda just standing there -some doing a slight head-bobbing. Me and a friend (good ol' Arthur Flames) immediately started Skanking FULL FORCE and after a couple of songs everyone within eye-sight of us was dancing and singing. Then again, it's just the natural charisma of Arians at work. :P
7. Previously mentioned Hot Girls don't mind when you elbow them on their heads if you've dancing and seem to be having the greatest time of your life. When I felt the solid KNOCK and turned full of apologies and drunkness she just smiled and said 'Hey, no worries. Just keep on dancing! :3". You girls rocked... er, and sorry. :P
8. Elbow-to-head-girl and Friend-of-elbow-to-head-girl like to sing along with you.
9. When you're having a great time and Girl-with-boyfriend gives you The Glance you know you're doing it right. Now, if only Boyfriend wasn't a foot taller than me and made of solid rock...
10. We gave all the people around us a great show.
11. LFC used the words Luna, Mar and Corazon (Moon, Sea and Heart) a LOT.
12. The new version of "Vasos Vacios" was good, the new girl that took the place of Doña Celia Cruz in the song rocked. Here's to the memory of Celia Cruz. Azucar!
13. Fabulosos rock. They finished the concert and bid their farewells and me and Arturo immediately started doing the "WOOH OH OH OOOOH" chorus from "Amigos" and EVERYONE took it up. 5,000 throats singing along you is just MAGICAL. Some faithless bastards started leaving the place but most of us stayed there singing the same chorus for 15 minutes. When they returned, it was pure fucking apotheosis. XD
14. Of course they closed with "Amigos". :)
15. Censorship. They do it if you have those giant concert screens where you can send SMS messages and you send "I got 8====) for everyone!".
16. Someone put "Claudia is a slut!!1" on aformentioned giant concert screens. It gave me lulz.
17. When you feel tired and your throat is raw and your head hurts a little the day after and you're still smiling you know you want to do this every night for the rest of your life. :)

I am epiphanic and energized and purified and so full of smiles and joy I can only say thanks.

Gracias por el concierto boludos!!!