What a fucking bummer

I did as I said I would. Went to the O2 hoping to catch the biggest concert yet of the new century. Man, that place is not bum-friendly at all. The stage etc is all the way indoors, not just beyond physical reach (which I was not planning anyway) but even beyond aural reach. All I could hear once every few seconds was the dull faint sound of bass. There are huge screens there that were playing everything but the concert. Fucking shyt. And since the doors to the venue had opened 3 hours before I got there, there was no mad crowds milling around either, since all the other ticket-less losers like me must have left long ago. But there were still about 50 people hanging around, perhaps too disappointed to even leave. Sure enough, after about 7 minutes there, to make sure that there was ABSOLUTELY no way to hear anything, I left with a heavy heart. Only to reach home and to read on the news that it was a completely smashing concert, completely unlike their previous feeble re-union shows. Made me feel SOOOO much better, wow.

But while I was there, something else I noticed. Of the 50 odd losers hanging around there, not a single black person. (Actually, has anyone ever seen a person who is truly black? I mean, if you know what the colour black looks like...) So I was saying, not a single Negro there. Not necessarily an accurate marker for the population inside the venue, but perhaps a decent sample anyway. Why is it that every Negro I know likes hip-hop and rap, or at least those? Why is it that you will see only a couple of black faces among thousands at a Metallica concert? How defined are we by the colour of our skin, or more precisely, how much do we define ourselves unknowingly based on the colour of our skin?

And on another tangent, why do youngsters from the Indian subcontinent try to behave like black people? I have noticed this both here in London, where it is much worse, and back in the streets of New Delhi. It leaves me a tad bit disgusted, not because I have a low opinion of black culture but because I have at least some regard for my own (I am referring to that of the subcontinent, not my personal one) and I see no good reason why kids in such large numbers should give it up in favour of some trash they see on television. I don't even know if its television that is to blame. I honestly don't understand this phenomenon. And it seems that Asians pick up the worst of black culture usually, you know, the bling jewellery and the terrible slang, the unnecessary swagger and the (non)sense of fashionable clothing.

I don't know if there are any such Asians reading this post, and I am hoping that at least one black person is. Your views, as always, are welcome.