White person scheme of the day: intricate network of beer salesmen
Arthur Guinness award: Indian dude “you, me, now”
Parks:
We went to one of the large parks in Barcelona, where we stumbled upon an ongoing music festival. It was supporting some kind of charitable cause, but the Spanish words were too complex for any of us to translate. So we supported something for a while, I guess. One of the acts was Indian dancing (I don’t know if there’s a specific word for the style), and the first round of dancing had only attractive, confident dancer and…some other ones, who looked like they’d just started learning the dance yesterday. The next round involved larger women hitting the ground with sticks that looked exactly like road flares. I guess some people are into that. The third round was amazing. It featured the greatest Indian dancer we had ever seen. He stole our hearts away with his confident, precise movements and head bobbing. I consider not taking a picture of him one of the major failings of my life.
Million dollar idea of the day: Real life myst
The gondola towers in the Barcelona harbor area look like they belong in myst (the video game), which prompted us to have the idea of creating a real-life myst puzzle on a private island in the san juans. Start in base camp, and find the key to unlock the next area, turn the pump on to clear out the water that’s flooding the basement, etc. The one small problem is that the exorbitant cost of participating in our puzzle would mean that only the extravagantly wealthy would be able to play. Extremely wealthy people are usually actors or celebrities, and people belonging to either of those groups would be likely incapable of solving or wanting to solve our puzzles. Also, we were thinking a lot of it could be steam-punk themed, and so we’d take Dylan on as a design consultant.
riley and the myst tower
Best burger king ever:
We visited the nicest burger king ever, filled with intricate woodworking, murals, and multiple levels of dining. They got upset when I took a picture, maybe they think I’m planning on copying their precious BK design. “not possible picture!” We generally ate at culturally relavent restaurants, but the occasional burger was eaten to save money and for convenience.
Las Ramblas and awesomeness:
Las ramblas is the most famous street market place thing in Barcelona. It’s a very colorful, high-energy place, filled with artists and street performers. Most of the street performers are white people schemers, who just stand there and don’t do anything, but we found these awesome dudes:
2nd one's better
Best performance of its kind I’ve seen in real life. Also we’ve adopted the phrase “white person scheme” as any attempt to sell shit in a non-straightforward manner, usually something that’s not wanted or needed either. For example, there was a person who wrote a poem in chalk on the sidewalk and was asking for money for it. White person scheme. There was a dude who juggled a soccer ball really well (displaying talent). Not a white person scheme. At the end of las ramblas there was this lion:
Insufferable child of the day: Eddie
We went back to the beach bars with the girls. We were all drinking outside, but I was really cold (apparently no one else was), so I went inside and made friends with some off-duty Spanish policemen who liked American Dad. By the time I went to rejoin our group, the cops had gotten me wasted. The topic of discussion among our friends upon my return was religion, and I apparently pulled out all stops and just started railing into religion and religious people, even though at least one of the girls was Christian. I even (apparently) started narrating everyone’s actions, claiming they were only doing things because jesus willed it. “You’re only walking to that bench because Jesus wants you to,” etc, etc. I apologized to the religo in the morning, and she was pretty cool about it. It was mean of me to make fun of her (however retarded) beliefs, I just lost my filter…happens when you black out I guess.
I make friends with the off duty cop!
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