amateur music night in Changchun

Friday night we went to a little music festival at Changchun university Some thoughts.

You gotta love the guy who came up with the chinese language. They didn't bother coming up with crazy complex words for things. They just put together little words and call it good. The word for school is 'xue xiao' (pronounced shoe-eh she-ow if you're curious). So when it came time to come up with the word for college or university they thought about it and went with 'big school', da xue. Don't make things more complicated than they need to be

A classmate of Emily's was in the show so we went to check it out. She was the bassist in her little VanTrap family band. Her older bro does lead guitar/vocals/writing and her younger brother plays the drums. Seeing an 8 year old french kid on the drums was a pretty big hit for the chinese crowd. It was tough to get quality video, but I did my best.

My personal favorite was the russian kid rapping in English to a chinese crowd. I couldn't understand a word he said, so I'm guessing the locals probably didn't catch much either. It's not everyday you see a russian guy in leopard skin pants and a darth vader t-shirt rapping in English in a remote ciy in China. You never know

The craziest bit was a deal where 20 people got dressed up in pokemon-like costumes and pranced around on-stage. I'm not entirely sure what the point was, but Nathan was pretty fired up about the girl who was dressed up as the pokemon character 'hussy' (in the white fur bikini) I don't think she made it onto the video which is probably ok.