{"id":59,"date":"2005-10-06T23:52:25","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T04:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/update\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T23:07:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:07:15","slug":"update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/59","title":{"rendered":"Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to see John Mayer Trio at Koolhaus last night, and had an awesome time.  He didn&#8217;t play anything from his albums except for 2 songs&#8230;the rest were bluesy stuff and covers.  It&#8217;s risky move, departing from his pop roots and potentially alienating his fans, but I think it&#8217;s a good move.  He did perform an amazing rendition of Daughters though.  The crowd went bonkers and sang half the song for him&#8230;my expectations were exceeded.  It was actually my first ever non-asian concert, and I will be going to more for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I went to see a play called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factorytheatre.ca\/bb.htm\">Banana Boys<\/a> with Serina and Will&#8230;it was a lot more serious than I thought it would be, but I enjoyed it a lot.  It&#8217;s definitely worth the admission price (Serina knew one of the actors, so it was free for us!).  Afterwards we went to eat at Taro Grill with Dale, the actor, and the costume\/set designer Cammy.  It was really interesting finding out how they got into the acting\/theatre business, as it&#8217;s such a departure from the technical world me and my friends live in.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, Cancun in 2 days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to see John Mayer Trio at Koolhaus last night, and had an awesome time. He didn&#8217;t play anything from his albums except for 2 songs&#8230;the rest were bluesy stuff and covers. It&#8217;s risky move, departing from his pop roots and potentially alienating his fans, but I think it&#8217;s a good move. He did perform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3ksha-update","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":73,"url":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/73","url_meta":{"origin":59,"position":0},"title":"Busy weekend","date":"June 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I went to the NBA 3 on 3 tournament in London this past weekend. 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