vive latino!

and of course, sunday afternoon, vive latino! happened.

it was huge. 4 stages, with almost 40 bands between them.

after an unfortunate incident of getting caught up in a flash mosh pit against that black box in the center of the crowd, robin and i escaped to the bleachers and took in the sight of thousands of people celebrating music together. always a sight for me.

we didn't know many of the bands, but we had a great time walking around, taking in a surprise show by hello seahorse! and just listened to music.

later, we returned to main stage and watched a show by an incredibly popular ska group called ska-p that i had never heard of before. every single one of the thousands of people around us danced and sang along to every word of their incredibly radical sentiment. it was another one of the those odd reflections of the history we had learned about being projected back into the culture. ska-p led the crowd in a rousing cry of "resistencia!" that never really seemed to end.