Event #4/5 Mando Basso

I went to It’s a Grind Coffee Shop in Carlsbad on Friday Novemeber 19. I went to see Mando Basso perform and I loved them! I had Bill Bradbury for a music class over the summer and would love when he would play his instruments for our class. I really liked the Jazz music that they played, the other music that they played were not really my taste but were still good never the less. My friend had just studied abroad in England and would tell me stories about how she would go to this coffee shop daily and there would be guys playing their music there and how fun it was. I felt like that when I was here, like I was in another country far away not just little Carlsbad. This was one of my favorite events that I have attended because it was just so relaxing and I got to go with this event with my friends as well as my friends from class, not to mention my delicious coffee that I got to drink! Mando Basso’s band did not have the normal instruments that I usually see in most Jazz bands these days and I really liked that, it was a nice change. I especially liked how they improvised and got the audience involved by having us clap our hand to the beat of the drums.Defiantly an exciting experience!

The Year of Living Dangerously

I did not mind watching this movie at all. I think that Guy Hamilton is a great character and easy on the eyes as well! In the beginning of the movie it didn’t really make since, I got that he was a reporter in Indonesia where no one liked him because he was an America. I thought it was funny the comment one guy made about guy stating, “Oooo American, where did you go to college”. Good well at least they know the Americans are educated. Then the creepy little person , Billy Kwan that is always with him was very strange and his voice really freaked me out. The more I watched it however the more I warmed up to Billy. I like how he states, “ the good thing about being this little is I see things others don’t”. Then he shows Guy his photographs and puppets, he really is a quirky guy. You can sense that there is an imitate attraction between Guy and Jill Bryant from the first time they meet at the pool. I love how Guy and Billy go through the crazy mob of protesters just for that “perfect shot,” that shows true courage and love of your work. When Jill and Hunt are looking through Billy’s house, Guy expresses his concerns to Jill that he thinks Billy is an agent and I agree. Why else would he have a folder with all of Guys information in it? As the movie progressed it was more about the romance between Jill and Guy then anything else. I like when one of Guy’s friends makes an inappropriate comment about Jill and Guy just punches him in the face and the guy who got hit calls him crazy and the other guy says, “no, he is just in love”. Of course he is! Guy discovers that the Chinese are arming the PKI, through Jill and he wants to stop it before the arms shipment reaches and all terror breaks out. The saddest part of the movie is when Billy hangs a sign up stating his dissatisfaction with the non help of his Indonesian people and is thrown from the window only to have Guy catch him in his arms. So so sad. Overall not my type of movie, was very confusing and didn’t make much sense.