interviews

well i feel accomplished. :) i managed to find someone to take over my lease so i'll be getting my security deposit back woo. ordered my plane ticket to shenzhen. so i'm leaving shanghai now, it's treated me well, but it wasn't everything i was looking for. hopefully i can find the stuff i'm looking for in guangzhou. i'm going to shenzhen to check out a b-boy/popping battle organized by the tripline crew. exciting, exciting... the first real dance battle i'll get to see here. after spending the night in shenzhen i'll take a train to guangzhou (which is only an hour away) and try to set up shop there. i know a dj there named dave who's part of the hip-hop group deerna/chan, said he'd help me find a place to stay for awhile so that's good. i'm going to try to not sign a lease so i can get up and leave when i see fit, especially since there's hong kong and shenzhen nearby.. might want to live there instead or maybe even go back to beijing and stay for a month or something. but yeah, a new leg of my adventure will begin soon. i'm excited and nervous...

i got my first interview done, i interviewed stanley, the founder of dragon dance studio. i was nervous at first for some unknown reason, but i got some good stuff taped and got some of the things i've been thinking about answered. i wish i had some footage of him dancing, i just have him doing some locking at the DMC competition but it was taped on my digital camera so the quality isn't all that good. maybe i'll try and make it back here in march or something when they have their big studio performance just to tape some stuff. but yeah, after the interview i had dinner with stanley, dongdong, dapigao, xiaofei, and joy at the xinjiang restaurant next to the studio... they were asking me all these questions about hip-hop in america so they got to interview me a little haha. oh, i also got about 40 full videos of house, popping, and locking dance styles, so that's exciting (even though i had to pay quite a bit for them : \ but its all in the name of the project and to improve my own dancing of course haha).

so i'm going to interview v-nutz on wednesday which should be interesting... maybe i should schedule a few more since i have the time and more interviews and footage wouldn't hurt. problem is i have no more room on my hard drive and i'm going to start accumulating a bunch of minidv tapes. i think i'm going to have to invest in a large external drive (a 3.5 in. one since the notebook drives are way expensive... and i need something like 300 gigs of storage for music and videos). i'm just scared it might crash (since i always seem to have this luck) and i'll lose everything.. so i need to spend sometime archiving stuff to dvd and send it back home. why do i never have enough storage space...