A "Jubilee" of Faces in Moscow

There is a phenomena in nature called a “jubilee”, wherewith the mixing of salt and fresh water -- which can only occur in certain conditions of tide, wind, moon, season -- makes sealife “drunk”, and they head en masse to the shore where people may yell “jubilee”. This is an extraordinary occurrence, and one is lucky to experience it, even if one lives permanently in the few locations in the world where it is known to occur.

Tonight in Moscow, there was what could be called a jubilee of faces. Unexpectedly, one begins to see attractive and interesting faces everywhere. It can last for 30 minutes, up to an hour, in my experience. Perhaps like a “jubilee” in the sea, it might occur in one location, and not even nearby…but I have experienced only about 5 such “jubilees” in the 25 years I have visited and then lived Moscow.

There was a jubilee of faces in Moscow.

"Unchained Melody" in Moscow 2012

After some 40 years of observation, study and reflection, it seems to me that the human being prefers to dream: homo somnians.
Most want blue jeans and Disney, the same old songs and burgers... to conform to the (current) now global standards of style, taste and "cool". Once they conformed to their village life, then perhaps to their national...
I had another example of this two days ago here in Moscow -- after observing such since the collapse of the USSR -- when I heard a string of songs from my "60's" coming from an apartment somewhere below me in my building, and echoing in the courtyard area.
I recall hearing even the Beatles' "I wanna hold your h a a a n n n d d d", and my favorite music to smooch by: "Unchained Melody". I do not know now who might have been playing these songs, but to hear them in a residential  apartment building in Moscow in 2012, while not completely unexpected and surprising, is another instance of how the world is passive to American culture, and that of even more than 50 years ago.