Flat battery

For those following the live blog yesterday-sorry for stopping before the end of the show! My phone died side stage and mid post. I'll do a full post about the weekend soon! Sent from my iPh...

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Bruin continued!

Jawani girls are about to go up. Their new suits are beautiful and the ladies look pumped for their performance. Amy is doing the intro/sher and her voice is absolutely amazing. Amazing energy, clean choreo and the crowd seemed to love them. Aeg is up next. Waiting on side stage looking for them and just realized they are entering from the audience! They are wearing grills the glow. Yes, I just said that. Formation changes are cray good. Dudes just grabbed the daangs with the saaps. Makes no sense now but the video will. They just did a laser thing a la beyonce at the billboard awards. Holy moly they just finished the dance by going into the audience and dancing in the aisles. They totally won this crowd over and are serious, serious condensers. Sent from my iPh...

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Bruin!

Khalsa junction/apd collabo is up next. The energy in this place is insane! The guys are behind a prop with the kj logo and getting totally pumped up. Mix started with a VoiceOver introducing the teams as the hometown heros. The guys are setting up the infamous truck. Saap intro and the crowd went nuts. Every single Dancer is going full out and it's so Obvious they are loving every single second of this They just a two man tower in full Choreography. Wowza. They pulled in yaar anmulle and given the history of these teams, I might have a tear in my eye. Three level tower at the end to seal the deal. They just won everyones hearts if not first place. Standing o from the cro...

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Bruin, again!

Smd is up now killin em. Energy is crazy good and the crowd seems to be responding well. Like I said yesterday, the mix is fun. It sounds a little quiet back here but that might be because I'm off to the side. They just did the dougie, in case you were wondering. And now they are doing dhamaal to beyonces "run the world." their formations look a little crammed on stage but they are adjusting well. Crowd is giving them a great respon...

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Bruin live post!

Hi all! I'm posting from side stage at bruin so Please pardon the sloppy formatting! So far: bruin committee performed and hyped up the audience! Bk went first and killed it. Violin player for the win. They were fun to watch-great energy and the crowd loved them. Second up was the hpd/vdw collabo. Riculously good. I'm side stage so I can't see formations and details but from here, the performance was sick! I love watching these guys dance. Barbie is up now and brought out a dude dancer. They are the second team of the night to use the "choli ke pichhe" beat. Stay tuned for mo...

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Turn Up The Lights In Here Baby

[Post title refers to: Kanye West "All Of The Lights"] What's good! First post from Bruin! Sorry for the delay--the weekend has been nuts and it is only Saturday afternoon! A couple updates: The mixer was great. The teams met in the lobby around 9pm to be bussed over to the venue in Century City. Everyone was suited and booted and looking foine. Despite some difficulties with the venue, the Bruin Committee pulled through and delivered a good time. The DJs were great (a wonderful mix of hip hop and bhangra) and teams actually stayed and hung out! The food was good and, as promised, those plastic plates really made a difference. I tried interviewing a couple people while there and am including the interviews below! Thanks to everyone for putting up with me asking the same questions over...

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Now Let Me Welcome Everybody To The Wild Wild West

[Post title refers to: "California Love"] It is officially BRUIN TIME, BABY! (And a vacation day for me yippee!) Hence the California Love reference. I feel like that song plays at least 36 times over the course of Bruin weekend and every single person does the C-Walk and throws up the West Side sign (even if they are from Arizona...I mean some other non-California state). Exciting news: I will be blogging the events of the weekend! And as long as things work out as they are supposed to, this will include fun video footage from the various weekend events--mixer, team practices, pre-party, performances, etc. I mean, don't expect the most amazing quality video for all of these events (my trusty flip should be able to do the job) but DO expect some wonderful and funny footage. To the...

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As My Reflection In Light, I'ma Lead You

[Post title refers to: Common, "The Light" ] Whoa, whoa, whoa--another long period between blogs?! Oops! Big things going on in my world. Ya'll don't even know. For example, I got a car wash the other day. It was pretty crazy (no, really it had been like a year or something absurd so it was long overdue and definitely an aberration in my usual weekend activity). This weekend my friend Jon and I decided we needed a random sports team to be really excited about between basketball and football season (I don't like baseball and the impending end of the NBA season is just too much for me to handle). So, we have adopted the Club Deportivo Chivas...

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Let The Record Reflect The Records We Set

[Post title refers to: Lupe Fiasco, "Never Forget You"] Oh no! Another big gap between my last post and this. Between family stuff, work and playoff basketball, my brain has been fully consumed. Speaking of playoff basketball, how ca-razy would it be if we saw a Grizzlies-Hawks finals!? I mean, it is not going to happen, but the way these teams are playing right now I just can’t get enough! My early season call was a hopeful one for a Thunder-Bulls matchup. I am still holding on for that. But I am sure you didn’t come to my blog to read about my perspective on basketball. So, back to bhangra. Actually before I get back to bhangra I have to share an idea! I’d like to analogize bhangra team personalities to basketball team personalities. I don’t actually mean I’d like to as much as I mean...

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