Just For Laughs!
Jul. 19th, 2010 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bee_yorkSince I spent so much money at the two Fringe festivals I attended this summer, I can't afford to see anything at Just For Laughs. But there's all the free stuff that's going on outside, and it's all set up around like Place-des-Arts, just like the Jazz fest was. Lucky me! This means, of course, that's a 5-minute walk from my place. So guess where Mike and I went last night when we got home from having a BBQ at his parents'? ;)
Well, a 5-minute stroll down to Place-des-Arts ended up being quite the surreal experience.
Like the Jazz fest, there's a bunch of stuff set up to look at or play in or do whatever, and there's stages set up with free shows going on. But it's a million times crazier and trippier than the Jazz fest was, and that's putting it mildly.
Last night we arrived at the free stage at Place des Festivals to see a crane suspending a bunch of girls over 50 feet in the air, dressed as some kind of fairies or angels who played with sparklers and shot glitter and other stuff down at the audience all set to crazy violin music.
While this was happening, a giant woman-fish-hybrid balloon-float thingie wandered around the audience.
The glitter angels were finally brought back down to the ground as we walked to the other side of Place des Festivals, just in time to see someone carry a GIGANTIC fox head the size of a smart car into the back of a truck. Then a bunch of people dressed as robots climbed onto the stage and started dancing with someone dressed as the Green Bonhomme (I refuse to call him Victor) and a bunch of people in other weird costumes and a Michael Jackson impersonator while fireworks were shot off into the sky set to We Are the World.
(Sorry, photos of that insanity did not come out.)
Then thereal-life LSD trip show finished and as the audience clapped, the robots and the woman-fish and the other people in weird costumes broke out and spilled into Ste-Catherine street. I went to get a photo taken with (a picture of) Green Bonhomme.
After we took this photo, two girls dressed as giant tongues ran by as fast they could, shrieking "Excuse, excuse, excuse-moiiii!" as they ran by, and as we moved to get out of there way, I found myself facing a little boy covered head-to-toe in SUDS, washing himself off in some random shower that was set up. WTF.
We wandered around some more and found, among other things, a wall of plates that you can write on; a truck that played videos of seemingly random people laughing (it was kind of creepy); a screen that you can write/draw on, and whatever you wrote would show up projected on the wall of one side of Place-des-Arts;
GIANT Marx Brothers heads;
and lots of green bonhomme-themed stores where I bought a cup for only 2$! No tax! What a deal! ;)
There's so much more I wanna see. I'm going back tonight with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
obskura so that should be awesome. I'm gonna take more pictures!
I also realized, upon making this post, that I didn't take any photos at the Jazz fest, and this makes me sad. :(
PS Bonus pic! JFL-themed pay phones! lol
Well, a 5-minute stroll down to Place-des-Arts ended up being quite the surreal experience.
Like the Jazz fest, there's a bunch of stuff set up to look at or play in or do whatever, and there's stages set up with free shows going on. But it's a million times crazier and trippier than the Jazz fest was, and that's putting it mildly.
Last night we arrived at the free stage at Place des Festivals to see a crane suspending a bunch of girls over 50 feet in the air, dressed as some kind of fairies or angels who played with sparklers and shot glitter and other stuff down at the audience all set to crazy violin music.
While this was happening, a giant woman-fish-hybrid balloon-float thingie wandered around the audience.
The glitter angels were finally brought back down to the ground as we walked to the other side of Place des Festivals, just in time to see someone carry a GIGANTIC fox head the size of a smart car into the back of a truck. Then a bunch of people dressed as robots climbed onto the stage and started dancing with someone dressed as the Green Bonhomme (I refuse to call him Victor) and a bunch of people in other weird costumes and a Michael Jackson impersonator while fireworks were shot off into the sky set to We Are the World.
(Sorry, photos of that insanity did not come out.)
Then the
After we took this photo, two girls dressed as giant tongues ran by as fast they could, shrieking "Excuse, excuse, excuse-moiiii!" as they ran by, and as we moved to get out of there way, I found myself facing a little boy covered head-to-toe in SUDS, washing himself off in some random shower that was set up. WTF.
We wandered around some more and found, among other things, a wall of plates that you can write on; a truck that played videos of seemingly random people laughing (it was kind of creepy); a screen that you can write/draw on, and whatever you wrote would show up projected on the wall of one side of Place-des-Arts;
GIANT Marx Brothers heads;
and lots of green bonhomme-themed stores where I bought a cup for only 2$! No tax! What a deal! ;)
There's so much more I wanna see. I'm going back tonight with
obskura so that should be awesome. I'm gonna take more pictures!I also realized, upon making this post, that I didn't take any photos at the Jazz fest, and this makes me sad. :(
PS Bonus pic! JFL-themed pay phones! lol
