I'm SomeGuy, 29 years old, residing in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I've studied English Literature, Chinese Martial Arts, and am currently pursuing careers in writing - possibly even in the anime industry itself.
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Yesterday was more involving than I was originally thinking.
So late morning, we had a lion dance at some high school. It was entertainment for some community "get involved, fight racism, come together" kind of thing.
I get the feeling the turnout wasn't anything near where what they were hoping for it. Sucks for them. In any case, we went in quickly, lion did its thang, people were amused enough . . . whatever.
Went for yum-cha after that. That's always fun. But moving on . . .
Evening was our club's annual dinner. Part of my luck is that since I'm old now, I don't have to do as much for these performances. Like, I actually get to sit and eat at these dinners now! Granted, I still had to do a few things, especially for the lion dances . . . but mostly, I got to just chill, eat, enjoy the show . . .
. . . and make great use of my fun little Canon FS100. For example, check out this ridiculous thing the kids put on:
I'll try to upload some of the other kids as time goes on . . . it just takes a long time since the video's set on 6mb/s so files get big fast.
But yeah . . . we were pretty much pissing ourselves with that lion dance. Really amusing.
And I'm definitely looking forward to the YouTube comments from people telling us how disrespectful we're being to the lions and stuff. That'll be good.
I need to take a shower or wipe myself down or something . . . very hot day today!
Alexanity, Day Three:
*bang bang!!* "Hey kid, you awake?"
"Grrmmm... I am now..."
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I'm apparently holding my own quite well on those forums with things actually moving along, an offer to join AE staff (which I won't, seeing as I don't even do theO press work at that con). A mod' also dubbed me "the best poster" there. Hard not to feel good about that one.
Soooo outside of that . . . I was on the news yesterday for a second playing cymbals. Our club did a little lion dance for the Canadian Olympic athletes going to Beijing downtown. Aside from the hot sun that was hot, it went really well. Some marketing guy gave us free bottles of Vitamin Water, we got our picture taken with the opera singer guy who sings the anthem before the Vancouver Canucks games, and we got paid nicely for doing it.
Oh yeah, opera singer guy also asked for our card so he could pass contact info on to the GM Place . . . maybe get us doing lion dances before the Canucks games or something . . . it's a long shot, but we'll see.
This past weekend was very performance heavy. On Saturday we had a lion dance and kung-fu performance at the Chinatown Night Market, which went surprisingly well. I just mean in that pretty much everyone did okay, not too many mistakes . . . and in general we were just having fun. Heh, and once again I got to freak out at just how many kids are actually part of the club now. More importantly, though, I got to mess around with that big ol' monk spade a little more . . . I loves mah zombie-killa . . .
Next day after that, we had another lion dance downtown at the Plaza of Nations. I'm still not sure what the event was for, but the whole thing involved a big convention hall/room, 5 different martial arts clubs (with 2 lions each), and a 20-man dragon - that thing was massive! Anyway, our club only needed 4 people and not many people had the free time, so I worked as a tail for another guy. Compared to the Night Market performance, this thing was a total gong show - everything was late, 5 different clubs all with their own styles and stuff had a 5 minute crash course to learn to put on a presentation together, and all in all it was just ridiculous. But whatever, it's done, we helped our fellow club . . . done.
Then I came home and started headshotting PMCs in Metal Gear. It ended well enough.
Random SomeGuy Trivia: my kung-fu group uses Naruto music in our stage performances (along with the more traditional Chinese movie songs); I'm also currently getting the guy to mix "Kodo" by the Yoshida Brothers into the mix.
Oh! One more thing . . . Kei, if you see this before tomorrow and still wanna do that Tuesday guest post thingy, get back to me before it's too late! Otherwise, waywardwarrior, it's all yours.
