Benny Benanas!

I know, I know I haven't blogged in a long ass time. There's no excuse for such flaking except that I've kept a busy social calendar in Shanghai. So I apologize to my friends who are living vicariously through me and that are now demanding for new posts. Creative genius cannot be rushed...

So before I start on regaling about Benny Benassi last Friday, I just gotta say that it's nice to finally have the sun come out and get warmer here in SH. So I biked over to Cotton's which is a in/outdoor bar near me. Enjoying their 2-fer-1 happy hour with a few black labels and smoking a nice Cuban cigar, while blogging on the Macbook and listening to my iPod.

Ok so anyways last Friday night I went to check out Benny Benassi at Bar Rouge with a friend. Bar Rouge is this really fancy schmancy bar/club on The Bund, which is this really bougey area of SH. Not really my scene, but I don't expect Benassi to DJ at the neighborhood dive bars that I like. Needless to say, it's also a foreigner magnet. I saw Benny Benassi at Coachella a few years back and he was really good. He's a pretty famous Italian DJ. You've probably heard his DJ mixes before and just not known it's him. (See being in China, my Engrish has already regressed.)

So he finally comes on around 1am-ish. Place is packed, I mean elbow-to-elbow with sweaty drunk foreigners. He's speaking into the microphone and welcoming the crowd. "Where's my Italian people at?!?" A deafening roar of all the Italians there! "Where's my French people at?!!" And again, all the French people in the bar go nutso.

Then he says "Where's my Chinese people at?!?!" I swear to the gods that the place falls silent, like absolutely silent. You could've heard a pin drop on carpet. I think I might've heard some crickets chirping in the corner. So of course, I start yelling "YYYYYEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH!" I realized that I might have been the only Chinese person in the bar that wasn't a bartender or washroom attendant.

So yeah, in the States I was a perpetual minority. I move to Shanghai, go to a bar, and I'm still a gawddam minority. Go figure..

Peas out.

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