Bucking-Spam Palace: "Lost In Translation"-- China Journal Entry #1

If your wondering....that's me in the vip bathroom at club Bonbon in Shanghai....and oddly enough i was sober. I've been in Shanghai for 3 days now and i feel like an alien on another planet. Besides the music in the clubs and a few other things here and there that are similar to home it's safe to say Kansas doesn't even exist where i'm at. I walked out of the airport into a sea of faces, wandered around for a bit and tried to be as calm as possible while running the scenario of no one picking me up through my head. After about 10-15 minutes looking around in and outside this cat from the club walked up to me and said "Miller?"....I dont think i've ever been so happy to hear my last name. (I've come to later find out that the residents who work at the club never got my name and have been calling me MC Miller ever since..and that's prounounced Mc MEEELAA..LOL..)

We got a dope little apartment off in the cut. 3 bedrooms occupied by myself, Dj Idee, and Dj Infader from Jacksonville. Until the first show we didn't do much except take an introductory walk around the neighborhood and a trip to the nearest little market, mall, and the craziest supermarket i've ever been to in my entire life (more on that spot later). Other than that it's really just been laying around shaking the jet lag...eating idee's grilled cheese sandwiches and watching dvd's (Mostly Simpsons, Old Trinidad fights, and you know I had to watch Grandma's Boy at least once already).

We did our first show last night at club Bonbon. The club is out of hand. People pay a flat rate to get in and then it's open bar all night long. I dont recommend the vodka and orange though. I had like 5 of those last night and i swear to you I didn't even feel a bit buzzed. Maybe that explains the open bar. I'm gonna have to try beer next time. We got on at 1 am and it was thick. The crowd was pretty responsive and it never ceases to amaze me what songs people across the globe do and do not know. Idee played songs that got a lot of response and then there were records I thought would get them hype but they didn't seem to know them. It was weird. We figured that's the jist of the month long residency. By the end of the month we'll have felt them out and figured what works and what doesn't.

Here's a clip from the first couple of minutes of the set at Bonbon.

When i started writing this blog i was sitting in soaking wet shorts from what was supposed to be a small trip to the market which then turned into us getting caught in a freak storm. At least we made a pitstop to hide from the rain in a bootleg dvd spot.