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One of my (many) favorite parts of the weekend was when Danny Tenaglia played the Timmy Regisford quentin harris remix of R.E.M. - Loosing My Religion as his last track. The vid I shot doesn’t do the quality of the sound justice, but if you could feel the energy of that place, you’d be right there with me.

 

 

Just to mention, we were pretty close at this point, there was probably another football field of tent behind us of people rocking the hell out.

 

I found a higher quality sample of the track here (direct audio link), some people in forums think it’s horrible, I beg to disagree. At least in this set, it was magic.

So it’s officially started, my one week countdown to a two week trip through China is on. It’s a bit maddening to say the least, however the tour I’m taking is fairly americanized, which means the culture shock should be a little easierto handle, but from what I’ve heard from friends I really don’t have a whole lot to worry about.

Clothes, Camera & Computer, the three c’s for a winning trip.  I wish it could just be the first two, but I realize there’s no way I can take a 12 hour flight without being semi-productive with as much work as i have to do these days.  Hopefully on the way over if by pure luck there is a power adapter, I can re-build the whatsopen site with the new features and framework I’m pioneering for our revision.  Maybe on the way back I can start going through all my photos and hit the US with a jump start on all the shotty I’ll be taking.

There are two phrases I need to master before I go.  “Where is the bathroom” and “Can I take your picture”.  I honestly feel if I have those covered, the rest will just fall into place.  I’m also adding the data package to my iPhone this week so I should be able to moblog some photos along the way.  I wish Val could get the time off to go with me, but hey it’s not the last time I plan to travel to Asia, so at least the first time around I’ve got a base for what to expect.

I leave May 5th @ 7am, so if you need any Jimmy-lov’n before that hit me up, this week is already going faster than it should be and the work level is not going down as fast as I’d hoped.