A street fight happened in San Francisco, and this guy turned it into an amazing musical
(Warnings: contains NSFW language)
There’s a lot going on on the streets of San Francisco these days: Linux graffiti, Rude AirBNB ads, guerrilla fruit grafters.
And now this: A street fight that has been turned into a brilliant, DIY musical.
Blake Ross, a founder of Mozilla Firefox, caught the tussle as it unfolded on a corner in the city’s Mission District and began filming.
Rather than simply upload it to YouTube, he created a brilliant musical that addresses street etiquette in 2015, white male interactions, city administration, and tech bubbles. It’s basically the first-ever musical about Silicon Valley.
The protagonists:
- “Bullhorn guy”
- “Momentarily shirtless guy”
- “Meter maid”
The plot is more elliptically Beckett than baroque Rodgers and Hammerstein: Basically, it’s two guys yelling at each other over nothing.
Rob covers business, economics and the environment for Fusion. He previously worked at Business Insider. He grew up in Chicago.