Bin' there, done that!

Street Entertainment 18 Jan 2005

All around the world, no matter what city you find yourself in, there are always buskers or street performers. Some you can laugh at, others are groovy to watch that make you want to tap your foot while others are just so horrific you would pay them to just shut up. Cause the street performer is not a well paying job, in fact they probably earn less than the average social security benefit they get a special mention in my journal. I saw some fantastic buskers in San Francisco and some poor buggers in New York that needed some extra clothing from the cold wind rather than money for booze and a bit of monkey. Europe on the other hand has embraced the busker that doesn´t speak. I think this might have something to do with a law that they bought into the UK that prohibits music buskers, guess it was getting out of control, or perhaps the guy standing near No.10 was pissing Blair off! No singing or dancing allowed, just standing being a statue. In Rome I saw a golden statue of liberty, in Barcelona a man standing next to the metro station that really did look like a statue and a man painting a wall on his back. However, one street performer that did stand out was one man that had decided to take advantage of loo paper and a metro grill. What the...? This man had tied loo paper to the street grill of a metro station where air was blowing up from below. He must have used about half a roll of industrial strength paper and created trees out of paper. Well worth the stop! Bravo to the street performer though that can take advantage of some arcane spot and a bit of paint. I´ll leave it to the professionals!

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