{"id":1227,"date":"2004-10-04T12:09:44","date_gmt":"2004-10-04T07:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2009-07-27T12:23:29","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T07:23:29","slug":"love-parade-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/love-parade-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Parade 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019d heard about the Berlin Love Parade<\/a> festival and stopped by the site once in a while.\u00a0 This is the first year Love Parade San Francisco<\/a> is being held in the US.\u00a0 This city definitely supports electronic music and dj culture, and gave roots to the progressive peace movement to begin with.<\/p>\n

Apparently, we\u2019re right on the parade route for most events here (there\u2019s always seems to be festival going on in SF) so we just went up a few blocks to the start of the parade.\u00a0 People were letting loose – lots of big wigs, wacky costumes, angel wings, cowboy hats, naked people of all ages, genders, and subcultures, giant floats and dancers.\u00a0 Long live faux fur and blue wigs!\u00a0 House music blasted down the parade route with djs spinning on top of flatbeds and floats.\u00a0 We followed the Om Records<\/a> float for a while to catch good house tunes.\u00a0 Then, as we neared the embarcadero, we found ourselves next to the jolly green froggy van, a group dressed like bumblebees, and a dj that was playing funky soulful beats.\u00a0 A great combination with the perfect sunny weather.\u00a0 Feelin\u2019 the love!<\/p>\n