CARNIVAL!!!!

WOW WOW WOW!!! CARNIVAL BABY!!!

That show was awesome!!! So awesome I'm thinking of going to see it again tonight if I can get a ticket :P

The floor was shaking, everybody was dancing, and for the first time in 2008... I WAS WARM!!!

So here are some highlights from the show...

It opened with Wyclef on the piano, wearing his carnival mask.. then went on to a lil bit of Bush bashing "you don't care about the people in Irak, you only care about the oil" (if nothing else, the monkey in chief did inspire a lot of artist.. one good point for his stay at the White House :P).

The show was a family affair.. his ho-so-sexy cousin was on the drums and his ho-such-a-powerful-voice! sister was the chorist... That girl has soul, pun intended.

Before Sweetest Girl, he told this anecdote... true story (or so he says)... I hope it's true, cause it's just too cool :P

"Some 20 years ago, I was working at a Burger King. One day I was day dreaming and the boss came and started yelling at me "Wyclef, you're good for nothing, you can only flip burgers and that's what you're gonna do for the rest of your life, so stop fuckin around and flip those damn burgers". That night, I sat down and started writing... not long after Fugees was born and 3 years later sold millions of albums. A year after that I went back to the Burger King, in the drive-through, and asked to see the boss. When he said "what do you want to buy?" I said "Hey, this is Wyclef, I wanna buy your Burger King"."

At some point he climbed on the shoulders of a guy in the crowd and just kept on singing for a while...

Later he disappeared from the stage, only to pop on the balcony, in the middle of everybody. He stepped on the tiny ledge overlooking the dancefloor, and stood there (his bodyguard holding him by his pants so he would fall to his death 8 meters bellow :P) for a good 5 minutes, shouting singing dancing... he spotted an older man in the crowed so he went to say hello (the guy was 75!) then went back to the stage.. not using the stairs, but climbing the lights' and speakers' racks to the right... ho yeah, the man's in shape! :D

After climbing down from the balcony, he made his biker-looking bodyguard dance a wild tap dance... not sure why exactly maybe just so we could say that we saw a bearded, leather clad, 6'6" chap dance like a sissy :D

He stopped "Hips don't lie" halfway through to hold a Shakira contest... 10 girls from the crowd climbed on stage to try their luck (or hips :P). We judged by clapping or boo-ing them.. harsh but efficient.... he kept the 3 best dancers and started the song over.

Yele for the encore got the lighters up in the air, red and blue flags waving, and water in many eyes...

All in all, a freakin good show!!!

My favorite quote of the evening :
"outside it's cold and snowy, but inside it's so mothafuckin sunny!!!
so true :)