Saturday, October 10, 2009

Why is the Mariachi singer screaming like Hitler?

We are watching a show that is the Bavarian equivalent of Lawrence Welk and is completely surreal, not only because it is in German. It is a musical variety show and when we first turned to it, there was a man with feathered blond hair singing some sort of love song in German. Tons of women from the audience (wearing dirndls) kept coming up bringing him flowers and giving him kisses, except for one, who brought him a bag of chili cheese chips. I have no idea and neither does Matt as to the significance of the chips. Eventually, there was a large group of women standing around the guy, all swaying in time to the music. Then, in a move designed by some horrible public relations person, children with downs syndrome in lederhosen came running up to hug the singer.

Next, an older woman named Dagmar came out and sand a song with a bunch of dancers dressed like Vegas showgirls behind her and two young men continually kissing her hands.

Next came a few German brothers singing very earnestly while the women in the audience (all in dirndks) swooned.

Next came a guy who began singing with flamenco dancers in the background and then passed by a mariachi band, where to be funny (??) some guy started yelling at him in German and sounded as though he was issuing the orders to invade Poland (again).

Then, the marching bands arrived, including one whose name Matt began giggling at as soon as he saw because its name translates to "the blowing orchestra," which while true, is still a "no really" sort of name, the equivalent to "the musician orchestra." After them came a parade of women bearing linzer torte on platters.

Lesson for the evening: the Germans may be way more perverse than the French (in our limited, not intending to stereotype entire countries and cultures, opinion). C'est vrai.

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