"going round in summer shirts going, 'jesus christ. i can't see! i can't see! fog, there's fog!'"
As I really haven't summered --did I really just use that as a verb?-- anywhere but here, I am awake and wondering:
How are summer nights like around the world? Or even just the country? I mean, cos right now it's 59 Fahrenheit/15 Celsius and I'm huddled in a blanket. And this is pretty much normal for here. I am not dumb; I know in most places there's a thing called a Long Hot Summer Night, but...
Does it always stay hot after the sun goes down? Is it pretty much just a general rule -- you can walk around in the dark with a tank top on? Are you ever kept awake by fog horns? Would you be able to identify a fog horn by its sound? Do they even have fog horns in many other areas?
I mean, during the beginning of first term I'm always basking in the awesome that is New York City warm nights, but I've never lived there earlier than late August, and so. The questions remain.
The worst thing about warm Manhattan nights is that there are no crickets.
The best thing, possibly, about the Berkeley Radiohead show was the fog. The heat waves had just gotten started that week, and the Sacramento Valley was sucking in the marine layer so I figured there would be some, but... Rather, as the concert started and the machines began to pour out 'fog' for the lights to play against, I looked up and out of the amphitheatre to the surrounding eucalyptus trees which were being actively submerged in white. As the band played on, the fog crawled in, seeped lower, further and further until I would have sworn that the people sitting down couldn't see a thing. And by Like Spinning Plates, I was convinced that this was Weather Fate, because there was nothing more perfect to set the mood.
Thom Yorke, on the other hand, wasn't so sure and asked the crowd, "Are you all warm enough?"
"This fog is strange."
How are summer nights like around the world? Or even just the country? I mean, cos right now it's 59 Fahrenheit/15 Celsius and I'm huddled in a blanket. And this is pretty much normal for here. I am not dumb; I know in most places there's a thing called a Long Hot Summer Night, but...
Does it always stay hot after the sun goes down? Is it pretty much just a general rule -- you can walk around in the dark with a tank top on? Are you ever kept awake by fog horns? Would you be able to identify a fog horn by its sound? Do they even have fog horns in many other areas?
I mean, during the beginning of first term I'm always basking in the awesome that is New York City warm nights, but I've never lived there earlier than late August, and so. The questions remain.
The worst thing about warm Manhattan nights is that there are no crickets.
The best thing, possibly, about the Berkeley Radiohead show was the fog. The heat waves had just gotten started that week, and the Sacramento Valley was sucking in the marine layer so I figured there would be some, but... Rather, as the concert started and the machines began to pour out 'fog' for the lights to play against, I looked up and out of the amphitheatre to the surrounding eucalyptus trees which were being actively submerged in white. As the band played on, the fog crawled in, seeped lower, further and further until I would have sworn that the people sitting down couldn't see a thing. And by Like Spinning Plates, I was convinced that this was Weather Fate, because there was nothing more perfect to set the mood.
Thom Yorke, on the other hand, wasn't so sure and asked the crowd, "Are you all warm enough?"
"This fog is strange."