Chapter 119： city ​​of shoulders

Although there was some delay at home, the brothers arrived at JFK in time for the flight to Chicago.

The United States has a vast territory. New York and Los Angeles are the two largest metropolitan areas in the United States, and the Greater Chicago area, which consists of Chicago and its suburbs, is the third largest metropolitan area in the United States. Gu Luobei had been to Chicago twice before, but he had only walked and didn't stop there. He probably didn't have time to hang out in Chicago this time.

The windy city of Chicago is close to the curved shore of Lake Michigan. It looks like one from three directions, east, west, and west. The "pocket" surrounds Michigan Hu. The cold wind blowing from Canada, which is a neighboring country to the north, is directly poured into this wind pocket. Coupled with the wide scale of streets and rivers in the urban area, the cold wind can easily blow to most areas of the urban area. This is the origin of the name of the Windy City. winter".

Chicago, also known as the City of Great Shoulders, comes from the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and famous Chicago poet Carl Sandberg wrote in his 1916 poem "Chicago": "The world's pig slaughter farm. ...the big shoulder city...". Since then, Fengcheng has another interesting nickname.

However, the city of giant shoulders has another explanation in Gu Luobei's dictionary. Chicago is the source of skyscrapers. After the birth of the first high-rise building in 1885, it opened up a new history of architecture and even formed a A new school of architecture, the "Chicago School" is based on the principle that form follows function. The city of giant shoulders, is it not a release of the image of giant shoulders?

Browsing Chicago is like visiting an architectural art fair or reading a lively history of modern architecture. For Gu Luobei of the Department of Architecture, Chicago is undoubtedly more profound.

As soon as he arrived at the hotel where he was staying," Gu Luobei couldn't wait to go out. Teddy Bell was not interested in architecture, so he stayed and waited for Sean Mayer.

Standing on the shore of Lake Michigan, you can admire many special skyscrapers.

Not far from the lakeside, there is a building with silver light shining like a huge white hosta. It is one of the brightest skyscrapers in Chicago, called Amoco Building, with 82 floors and 346 meters. It is the tallest marble veneer building in the world. At this end of the lake, there is a Hancock Building with a hundred floors and 343 meters. It is a cone with a rectangular cross-section. Root antenna, straight into the sky. These two buildings are ranked fourth and fifth respectively in the high-rise group in the United States.

There is also a "Lake Spire" on the lakeside. It is not very conspicuous in appearance, but it is the tallest apartment building in the world. All the seventy floors are residential. Looking back along the Chicago River, the twin towers like corncobs, Sixty stories high, there are shops, restaurants, banks, garages, cinemas, ice rinks and offices below, and apartments above.

It is no wonder that this pair of parallel buildings is named Malina City, which is a veritable city within a city.

On the east side of Marina City, stands the thirty-five-story Wrigley Building, where the headquarters of the Wrigley Company is located. manufacturer. Its products are popular all over the world, and some people even juxtapose Wrigley chewing gum with Coca-Cola and hamburgers as a symbol of the American way of life. The building is also very special, and the square shape is really reminiscent of chewing gum.

The surrounding buildings were dizzying, but Gu Luobei was willing to stay by the lake for a while, but the cold wind almost made him unable to open his eyes, and even walking was difficult. It was only slightly better until we reached the road inside the windbreak forest. Gu Luobei was also unlucky. It was already evening when he arrived at the lake, and it was windy. In addition, Chicago had cooled down in the past two days, so it was cold.

Fortunately, before going out, Katherine Bell asked to wear a coat again, otherwise she really couldn't resist.

Leaving Grant Park, night has come, and although the sky has not completely darkened, the lights of the city have already turned on. A little bit of light depicts the outlines of the skyscrapers, and the uneven buildings depict the undulating nose lines on the dazzling sky. At the end of the high-rise building, you can see the skyline where red and blue communicate with each other, but it is blurred by the dazzling array of high-rise buildings. Under the searchlights on the pointed roofs of several high-rise buildings, it is even more unclear. .

The urban night scene, the combination of movement and stillness, the night scene of New York is amazing, but the night scene of Chicago is also unique. Gu Luobei was not in a hurry to go back to the hotel. Although the wind was still raging, it was a pleasure to stretch his jacket and walk in the city.

When he started walking, Grant Park was five meters behind him, and Gu Luobei's path was blocked. There were three girls who looked like students in front of him. The other party stopped and looked boldly at Gu Luobei's face. , The look on his carefully scrutinized look was like the look in the eyes of a rogue ruffian who molested a good family girl, which made Gu Luobei laugh dumbly. He never thought that he would also be molested one day.

Although his eyes were burning, Gu Luobei was an old hand, how could he be frightened, and his eyes looked back with a faint smile. Before Gu Luobei could speak, the girl in front of her shouted vigorously. "Evan Bell," the voice seemed to be called by the tall girl in the middle. Then the other two girls were pulling each other vigorously, as if they could only calm down their excitement by shaking their bodies.

Encountered song mí? This was Gu Luobei's first thought. He had encountered songs a few times before, but it was the first time that he was so excited today, in a small group. A smile appeared on Gu Luobei's face.

During this pause, another man and a woman came around, also in the appearance of young people. Before they approached, the shout of "Evan and Bell" overflowed from their mouths, and then ran up and down. come over.

How is this going? Isn't the single "Just a Dream" only a week away? Listening to Teddy Bell say that physical sales are really bad, but the sales of digital audio sources on itunes make 〖Free〗Choice overjoyed. Then what happened to this small group of songs in front of me?

But it’s not hard to understand after thinking about it. Most of the people who play on the Internet are young people. Before, the video of the Eagle Rock Music Festival was well received on the Internet, and then it was vigorously promoted by the music blog of Eleven Music Studio. With itunes, you can create gods to spread digital sound sources. Gu Luobei already has a lot of songs in the group of young people. The April 1 performance at Hollywood's 1ù Tian Theater did not receive a response as soon as it appeared, and it was only because of the first day of the single. Now, after a week and a half of accumulation, Gu Luobei's awareness has naturally started to snowball.

"Can you make a **** to sign me?"

"Excuse me, can you take a photo of the gods with me?"

"May I ask God to give me a hug?"

One after another, the shouts are trembling with jitter, and they can even create a **** to make others feel the uncontrollable vibration of the vocal cords. But before I could wait for the answers to these questions, another voice screamed, "Ahhh, Bell, Bell, Bell! "Passers-by who don't know why thought it was the reunion of long-lost best friends.

The encirclement that originally consisted of five people changed rapidly, and it turned into eight people, adding three girls.

Gu Luobei saw that people still tended to gather here. Now is the rush hour, and there are already many passers-by. Coupled with the traffic jam, boring people are busy and don't watch it for nothing, so it's time to play. Immediately, "You can create a god!" In fact, he could completely deny it and run away, but at this time, Gu Luobei didn't have a big self-awareness, and he didn't think about it. When I think about it later, I can't help but regret it. If I run away, there will be no subsequent containment.

Autographs, photos, hugs, fans saw the idol's three-piece suit, and the people around Jimou did not miss one of them, and after finishing their share, they still stayed by the side and refused to leave. Obviously, seeing the idol appeared like this Some can't be themselves around.

When Gu Luobei secretly counted the eight copies signed, he thought it was over, but the pieces of paper that he didn't want to sign were handed forward continuously. When he looked up again, there were already people standing around. People, because he relies on his height advantage, he can only vaguely see the road outside the crowd.

In the periphery of the crowd, you can still hear the gods, such as "who is that" and "what star is that", the voices of "Evan" and "Bell" are more and more one after another, and occasionally there is "just a dream" faint The melody of the song part is interspersed with the noise. It is estimated that someone did not know who Evan Bell was, so someone performed it live.

Standing in the center, Gu Luobei could directly feel the creation of the gods, and there were more people on the periphery, because many people squeezed in the middle, and the air became more and more sultry.

Gu Luobei thought for a while and knew that he couldn't continue like this Now it is estimated that there are not many people who sing mí by himself, and the others have come to watch the fun.

Watching the excitement is just the word "watch", and often a small matter becomes a big event because of the increasing number of onlookers. Gu Luobei's current reputation would not attract so many people, but at this time, many people were on their way home from work, and it was not a bad idea to see Retong to relieve the tension at work, so the battle became more and more larger trend.

Gu Luobei made a decisive decision, and stopped signing and taking pictures, and walked away from the crowd. Gu Luobei is a tall man, plus there are many people watching the fun, the real song mí will drag Gu Luobei, hoping to keep the idol for a while, so Gu Luobei resisted when he went out. Much smaller than expected.

Going out step by step, when Gu Luobei was completely free, someone outside asked him, "Man, what are you looking at inside? I heard that a singer appeared.

Logically speaking, as the singer himself, the object of onlookers, he would definitely feel embarrassed to hear this question. Gu Luobei felt very happy, and nodded with a smile, but without saying a word, he walked forward and surrounded the sixty or seventy people behind him, and he didn't know what was going on.

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