Halloween weekend Part II

Saturday

So to begin, Daft Punk played their final US tour date for 2007 in las vegas on this day. The only excuse I can think of missing this opportunity is saving up for my japan trip. Granted I can still catch one of their other shows, but they are all out of the country. And the thing that killed me the most about this, is that I didn't catch wind of their tour and set-up till about a day before thier last US date. So I felt like I was two minutes too late. And I'm a big fan of listening to techno live. Especially if its a good band like daft punk. I just want to say dammit. Plain and simple. Here is an example of what I missed.



So instead of being in vegas checking out the show of a lifetime. I ended up being with my other music interest... Hip Hop. More specifically Underground and Funk. Me and my homie rolled up to long beach to visit his girl. And we ended up at some lounge called Jimmy's which had free hip hop and funk playing all night. Now when I say funk, I mean shit that you can bboy to. Also, it was good underground or rare groove hip hop. Not the mainstream BS that you hear nowadays. I mean you can get a hit record for saying "Superman that Hoe", come on now. So at this small place in Santa Monica, it was tight to see bboys doing their thing. And it was also good to see fellow hip hop enthusiasts. I was talking to this one cat who was talking to me about how lyrics nowadays are like nursery rhymes. What ever happened to the lyrics that made you put some thought into it. Which I totally agree. So Saturday was getting more into my hip hop side.

Sunday

The original plan was to visit our homegirl from ill-literacy and see her perform. What me and my homie didn't know was that she was performing at a filipino festival. Now that got me all excited. It's been awhile since I've been to one of these functions. Now the Mabuhay festival was held by Troy Phi at USC. The festival had a variety of filipino based companies. I picked up a shirt from pnoy apparel. Mass props to these cats because these cats are from San Diego.

I feel good visiting these functions because its good to see filipinos reaching out to each other trying to show them their culture, their history and their pride. There was a variety of performances from Jazz, spoken word, dancing and even the Basco Bros performed. The filiipino who tried out for the Pussycat Dolls was also there. Here's a vid of a performer named Gabe Bondoc. I apologize, this is not my video and the quality might be bad.



Being on USC's campus made me miss the feeling of campus life. Hanging out, studying, working only because you need the money and you know your going to quit it soon. For some reason, just chilling on that campus made me consider graduate school. Another thing being on campus made me realize is that I really need a digital camera. There were so many opportunities for artistic pictures but unfortunately couldn't catch because I didn't have a camera. So I might cop one soon.

So as the weekend ends another Monday comes. *sigh* Like Common says "One day It'll all make sense"