American Culture is an Unstoppable Bounty Hunter

Greeting feverish readers here’s a little chicken soup and vitamin C to calm that fever. Adventure is not only my business; it’s my passion, my muse, my middle name, my love child with Lady Gaga. Ok that last one’s not true, our love child’s name is Lola not Adventure. I am now at the two week point of the trip and a daily routine is finally taking shape. The BVC has finally given me given me a class schedule. I will be lecturing the youth on my favorite subject, my adventures. Naturally the students are chewing at the bit in anticipation for the class, although that may be an offensive phrase as I will be teaching two centaurs. Oh well we deal with new challenges everyday and I suppose adding half-man half-horse public correctness to the list is not the strangest thing I have encountered. An aside our proud Red Lions have come one competition closer to becoming island champions.

Now back to my aptly named title for this post. My love of adventuring is motivated by a desire to experience the new and in some ways avoid the old. Most recently I spent a good deal of time in America which happens to have its culture permeate almost every other culture I have recently visited. The Philippines is no different. Paco, my faithful friend, has but one great weakness and that is for American Hip-Pop music. From T.I. to Katy Perry he loves it all. It is here where I will introduce the personification of the Bounty Hunter that is American Culture which in this current form is known as SUPAFEST 2010. What it is, is a 4 act concert celebrating the music that Paco loves so. As you can guess I have a soft spot for the requests of Paco and when he invited me to the show I begrudgingly acquiesced. It was when I was informed of who the performers were that I realized that my hope to avoid the old had in part failed. The show was to feature none other than; Sean Kingston, Kelly Rowland, Flo Rida, and the master of Auto-Tune, if you can call it that, T-Pain. I sighed a sigh so exasperated that some might mistake it for a death gasp. Yet I remained true to my word and accompanied the giddy Paco.

I must confess that some of the show was enjoyable with some of the acts actually showing some talent. I will not tell you which but leave you to research or experience yourself. Having enjoyed myself in some fashion is something I am still trying to come to grips with. Nonetheless this in its own way has proven to be an adventure which I will find a way to treasure along with all the rest. Who knows maybe even some of my students were at the show. It will give us a jumping off point.

And what do you know your temp is finally coming down, until next time…