Wow, as I sit here on a Monday morning (just shortly after 6AM), getting ready for work...Devin Hester just returned the opening kickoff of the Superbowl to the house. Kinda reminds me of Teddy Ginn Jr. in the BCS Championship this year. At anyrate, I haven't been all too excited about the Superbowl festivities this year and haven't gotten myself into all of the hype surrounding it. Not sure how it'll turn out but I'm more interested in seeing the commercials as my line of work now has me in Advertising. Hope to see a good Go Daddy commercial this year!
If I asked you what's the first thing you think of when I say Vietnam and Music, most would say Paris By Night or some form of a Lionel Richie remake of "I Love You". But you would never say Rock Music! Yes, this past Friday, I went to my first Rock Concert courtesy of a few complimentary tickets. The concert venue was virtually sold out and I was lucky enough to find myself pretty much front and center in the mosh pit. I wasn't expecting much but came outta there quite impressed w/ the music. The first act was a Vietnamese rock group named Anh Khoa. The lead singer reminded me of the lead singer for Creed with his deep vocals and even his hair. The female vocalist, Phuong Thanh, sounded good (looked better) at times, but more often than naught she sounded like she was screaming. The next act however, stole the show. Kryteria, by far was the best act all night. The lead female vocalist was Korean along w/ 3 other guys from Germany. Anywhoo...this girl was absolutely amazing from her drop-dead gorgeous looks to her vocals, deep and soulful. Did I mention she was smokin' hot! Damn!
You'd expect the Vietnamese to be their usual conservative selves at rock concert but what I saw was a "let's get rowdy and act like we're at a rock concert" type of crowd! It was great to see the young crowd start to throw beer cans and water bottles into the mosh pit. At one point, the band yelled out to the crowd sitting in the bleacher seats to get up and join us down close to the stage. It was a mad house as the police/security guards made everyone sit down, kinda comical actually. It didn't last too long as the crowd broke thru the police baricade and slammed to the front of the stage. Other than that, it was pretty tame when it all ended...everyone yelled and screamed until the bands left and then they all courteously turned and left the venue, no riots and no smell of refer through the stands.
Well, it was a great experience all-in-all. I'm waiting for my first hip-hop concert to take place. I know they have plenty of hip-hop heads here but haven't found the right place to listen to it yet. Police here are actually cracking down on graffiti artists and the Goverment are urging kids to not destroy landmark buildings. I think it's great to see hip-hop at its finest!
"And to let me know I'm rockin' the microphone everybody say "Ramo! (Ramo!) Raah!
I had no idea Prince (The Sign) was performing this year's Halftime Show...gotta go now and listen for Purple Rain! Peace out!
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the blog-off is on baby!! i wish i could get over to your motherland while i'm in my motherland! we're so close, yet so far. so as like you, i've been getting the, "give your parents kids already!" speeches. but what's great is my relatives are already trying to set me up with chicks over here... that should make for some interesting blogs!! i'll keep you posted! hope all is going great with you J... keep blogging!
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