Showing posts with label Autobots Deploy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Autobots Deploy. Show all posts

Monday, November 1, 2010

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Autobots, Deploy! play their final show ... and Halloween!

Josh of Ellen fame held a raucous Halloween party on Saturday, an event on the Beijing Ultimate calendar eclipsed in significance only by Kevin and Jeff of Autobots, Deploy! fame's final show. We took about 20 videos (ok, more like 18), the first 10 of which start here:


I'll post the rest in a retrospective a little later.

Friday, October 29, 2010

WEEK IN REVIEW: A busy weekend ahead

First, happy belated birthday to Joe, who turned 26 on Tuesday. We celebrated at Souk trivia night, where it was 60 rmb-all-you-can-drink but not nearly as messy as the first time.

Tonight's Big Brother's post-Hong Kong team dinner, to be held at the normal Boozy Chinese Dinner place at 7:30. Afterwards we'll head to Jiangjinjiu Bar near Gulou (Drum and Bell Towers) to hear Autobots, Deploy! play for perhaps their last time. (Rumor has it that Jeff Orcutt is leaving us forever. Details to come as they become available.)

Tomorrow, a bunch of us will be going to Jehan's improv show while wearing our Halloween costumes. Others of us will be going to a party at Josh's place, guaranteed to be awesome because he's in the process of obtaining an ice luge.

A very, very busy weekend culminates with practice on Sunday at BCIS. Yes, we've officially moved indoors for the winter ... or have we?

In other news, China's central heating system -- namely how it's NOT ON -- can go fuck itself.

Oh, and Alicia's back from Shenzhen for the weekend. Welcome back, Alicia!

PICTURES OF THE WEEK:





From Jim and Tao's final ever trivia at Souk Lounge (bar is moving places, and we may be moving our quiz... stay tuned).

In lieu of GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK, we have...

EMAIL OF THE WEEK:

Chirona, 10/23:

Dear Friends and Family,

In memory of my friend Paige who passed away this summer, we have established an endowment fund through Brown. The fund has two main goals: one, to provide money for travel, tournament fees, etc... for those students who cannot afford them to still be able to play Ultimate, and two, to honor Paige's commitment to community service by donating money from the fund each year to a community service organization of the Ultimate team's choosing.

Attached is a more detailed description of the fund, and further information and donation instructions can be found on the fund's website: www.PVHfund.org.

Additionally, I am currently working on getting Paige V. Hicks memorial discs created, which we will be mailing out as a thank you for donations as well as selling to raise further funds.

I encourage all of you to donate even just a few dollars because every little bit counts.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me.

Thank you in advance for your support in helping all of us to honor Paige's life.

With Love,
Chirona

Friday, September 24, 2010

WEEK IN REVIEW: Singapore Open game pics, and music tonight

The 12th annual Singapore Open tournament is officially in the books. Read the write-up and check out the pictures and videos from the China Ultimate website here.

Beijing Big Brother, as you may have heard, participated in the tournament. We lost all our games Saturday, won the party, then beat two teams on Sunday to take a tie for fifth place. Not bad at all, considering our undermanned (and womaned) roster.
Saturday
vs. Mixed Nuts, L 11-6
vs. Shiock, L 13-1
vs. Hong Kong Junk, L 11-9
vs. Freakshow, L 12-4

Sunday
vs. Young Knights, W 12-10
vs. Mo'chi, L 12-6
vs. Disc Knights, W 9-7
Pictures from the Saturday party will be posted on Wednesday. You'll want to stick around to see 'em. For now, your PICTURES OF THE WEEK are from the tournament itself:









From this Facebook album

GOOGLE GROUPS POST OF THE WEEK:

Actually an email from Steph Kwan on Sunday, 9/19:

Hi all,

My birthday's on the 25th and I'd like to celebrate with ya'll the day before with hotpot and a Redbucks show. Details below.

Friday, September 24th

6:30PM: dinner at Heng Ji Taiwanese Hotpot (
亨记台湾火锅)
8:00PM: Redbucks @ Jianghu Bar

Followed by a reply from Jeff Orcutt:

Kinda sucks that my band has a show on the same night then...

Translation: music tonight!

Monday, December 7, 2009

WEEKEND ROUNDUP, part 1: It is now legal for this girl...


...to drink in the United States. Happy birthday, Liz! You have made Jim very happy.

After the Korean BBQ dinner in the Wu we went a few blocks down the street to D-22, where Jeff and Kevin's band, Autobots, Deploy!, played in front of a lively crowd. Videos to come later, but first:




And then we ended up in Propaganda until 5 a.m. What happens in Propaganda, especially past midnight, stays in Propaganda, such as Jeff hooking up with two college girls who may or may not have been 17*. *This may or may not be a flat-out lie.

But -- hey, look! -- Jim had fun.

Monday, October 12, 2009

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Autobots, deploy!

Backdated 10/21

Beijing Ultimate's Kevin and Jeff are in a band called Autobots, Deploy!, which played at What Bar on Saturday, in between Chinese punk band performances. Videos of Autobots, Deploy! are below.




(Here's them playing "Iambic 9 Poetry" at Tun.)