La Bomba del Tiempo

Saturday night, after rejuvinating day in the country, I went out with Estevan, my CLU amigo, and his friend Collin, to La Fiesta de La Bomba del Tiempo (The Time Bomb). La Bomba is a percussion group that plays improvisational concerts every Monday at Centro Cultural Konex, the super modern edgy warehouse/theatre space where I saw La Isla Desierta, the blind theatre peice. Saturday was a special celebration of La Bomba's 3rd year anniversary, so we got their early, like Americans would, to get tickets in time thinking they would sell out or at least stop giving entrance once the place had reached capacity.... nnnnnnnnnnnnno!

The opened the doors at midnight, but all that began was the accumulation of a loud of smoke hovering over the place as practically everyone ther lit up cigarettes and passed around drinks for a good 2 hours. We were beginning to wonder if this fiesta would ever even start or if this was all it was! Finally around 2am, the percussion ensemble takes their places and the masses crowd into the warehouse as embullient beats bombard us from the hands of these drummers. SO COOL! This went on for hours!! Amongst the crowd, nudging shoulders and elbows turned to carefree dancing turned to sweaty moshing and around 5am, the Americans decided it was way past our bedtime and as awesome as the music was, it didn't look like it was wrapping up soon and we needed to call it a night! So we squeezed our way free from the body odor of the warehouse only to inhale the fresh cool cloud of cigarette smoke and Buenos Aires fumes outside. Caught a cab home, had a great conversation with him actually, and was cosily snuggled in bed by 6am, abosolutely aware that the fiesta was PROBABLY STILL GOING!

ARGENTINOS SON LOCOS!