Proximity Butterfly
变色蝴蝶
On May 4th and May 5th we played in Chongqing for a very nice crowd. I was really really sick those few days to the point where I slept until five minutes before we played, but the crowd was so into the show that after even the first song began (Satellite) my body didn’t even know I had been so tired.
May 4th
We played quite a long set, at least an hour and a half. This is the first time we played that many songs (14) in a show, and it felt really comfortable. The crowd was so good… We had arranged a set list in which we were going to play Kill the Popstar tenth, a good ways into the show for some secret energy… Just as we were going to begin, the owner of the bar came up to us and asked if we could play it… Expressing points of 
energy… We just finished a Kill the Popstar Video that we gave to a lot of people there. I think they liked it a lot. Other particular favorites were Like Snow and Miles to Go. Overall they enjoyed it. As all of our songs are in English, except for one part in Prophession, the feeling of the ride is most important. We are actually hoping to get more Chinese into the newer songs and get some Chinese translations of the songs out so that people can relate more to the realities we are expressing.
May 5th
We played at some bar that I don’t even know the name of, but when we got there the deal was that they would give us a bunch of free whiskey, we’d get drunk, get crazy, make a bunch of people happy and then hang out with the Mafia boss afterward. Well, I don’t drink and besides, I was sick still. Chen Duxi can’t drink more than a shot before he is incapable of doing anything, and Heather… well, she drank a bit, but we didn’t get wasted. We did give it to most of our friends and whoever happened to be near us.
The show itself went really well. There were a few tables of people from the U.S., Australia, and England that came up to us afterward and said, "It’s awesome to hear some people really rock!" That was reassuring. But when we were doing an acoustic set, some drunk 50yr old Australian guy surrounded by a bunch of 19yr old Chinese girls kept telling me to "F**K off!" He persisted in nodding his head around and giving me his Holy Finger, when I stopped the show and asked him to why exactly he wanted to have sex with me? He got pretty pissed and the mafia bar owner seemed to have made sure that guy left…. haha. I don’t normally get that mad, but I guess I was in a bad mood from having to give away all the whiskey I don’t drink to begin with… or maybe I just wanted to see if he would do something… or just be a "winebibber," whatever that really means. It was quite relaxing in the end though… It was a shame that I felt so sick, because the other guys we were sitting with were really nice. But really couldn’t bear sitting on a bar stool like that for so long. I needed to lay down.
Our trip to Chongqing was quite successful… we had a really good time. We played well, and communicated well. It was nice to share that time together, talk about humanity and get to know some new people that are interested in the same things. We are hoping to get out there sometime again soon, but university examinations will be coming up in the next few weeks, so everyone will be studying… and not going out… Hopefully they are enlivening their minds to cast this next generation from teh perils of the past…
Cheers to Chongqing! and 谢谢你们！Hope to see you soon…
Joshua
