You can catch an annular eclipse every few hundred years or so. But the chance to watch the moon turn the sun into a ring of fire while SMAP sings along to celebrate? Just one moment in time, baby. Maybe it was the early hour or maybe it was the fact that this boy band is pushing middle age, but watching them shuffle through their song and half-hearted hip thrusts was painful. They wore matching blue vests (and fedoras? It was early for me, too. [UPDATE: See the newly added photo below for why you should never trust witness testimony.]) and stood on a round stage with a big white ring suspended over it.
In human history, there must have been ancient people who greeted
astronomical events with some form of music and dance to appease the
frightening gods. I can only imagine the performance today would have
the opposite effect.
"Lift your face up a little"... but only with an approved solar viewing device.
UPDATE! Don't take my word for it. Here's SMAP singing what I'm going to translate as Upside-down Sky.
2 comments:
We are indeed lucky to have not been wiped off the face of the earth after that performance.
Ancient rotund bodies passed in front of the sun and made the earth a little darker today. And there was an eclipse too!
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