Hi everybody, its Bip from Bear Territory.

Well I'll start off this letter acknowledging Nolan's letter.  I am
fully backin Nolan's "alliance" idea.  Henceforth, various names have
been added to the Bip list.  I'd like to welcome Kelly's Higuchi and
Takasawa, Onaona, and Jenny Shaw.  Now let's get down to business.

Ladies and gentlemen.  This will be, without a doubt, the greatest
issue of the Bip Report EVER!!!! (out of 3 thus far)  We have news
that will surely tickle your fancy, and delight everyone here except
for Carly, Kristin, and Zoe, who will not know what the heck im
talking about.

I will now take the time to acknowledge a letter written by Pat Pan.
In this letter, Pat writes "So is Mun still the one?"  Interesting of
you to ask such a question Pat.  It only leads me to the BIGGEST news
to hit Berkeley since the 60's.

Ladies and gentlemen, MUN IS THE ONE!!!  MUN HAS SCORED HIMSELF A NEW
GIRLFRIEND!!!!

Now this may come as a shock to many of you.  You may all recall Mun
delivering his inspiring speeches, but NEVER in your wildest dreams
could we have ever expected this so quickly.  Yes, Mun has seemingly
done the impossible.  Reactions from campus:

Greg Shimokawa:  "Wait guys, do you know what this means?  Out of 11
of us here, Mun has beaten us all."

Gayna Nakajo: "What?!  Mun has a girlfriend?  I guess we should be
happy for him.  I mean if girls up here like his style, then good for
him."

Carey Lew:  "Oh my gosh.  I dooon't believe this...Wait, Mun has a
girlfriend?  Oh my gosh.  HOW DID HE DO IT?"

Now of course, we aren't dissing Mun.  We are just amazed.
Apparently, the predictions of BIG MUN are true.  Big Mun, still not a
playa.

In the hottub.  Getting bubbly.  Rubbing your spot love.  Have you say
MUNISH me.  But if you dont stop.  Once the MUN get wicked with it.
Dont stop.  Dont stop get it get it.

Well moving right along.  Today, I went to a Beastie Boys concert, of
which I have talked about before, but it happened today.  Let me tell
you about this concert.  As Nolan would say, it was RRRRRRRRRICTER.

Well maybe not that ricter.  it was ok.  We got there (we being gayna,
3 berkeley students, and gayna's brother + 20 friends), at 8:20.  We
were greeted by an opening group of three mixers.  They were extremely
good.  They were scratchin up them records like NOBODY's business.
Ritchy ritchy reeee ritchy reeeee scritchy ritch. and so forth.

Then there was this really JUNK band that came out.  They played wierd
music.  they screamed.  They sucked.  They were booed off the stage,
and the crowd went crazy when they left.

Then the Beastie Boys came out.  We were in a jam packed Oakland New
Arena (home of the Golden State Warriors).  And man alive was that
place LOUD!!!  They started off with a rendition of "Sure Shot."  But
from the start, i could tell things were abit wrong...

Now, you'd think at a high class production such as this, in a NBA
quality arena, with fancy expensive sound systems and whatnot, that
they would have everything all good.  Well let me tell you about the
sound quality.  You know our talent shows?  Where we cant hear the
singers, and it just sounds like noise?  That was the concert in a
nutshell (no this is the concert in a nutshell.  "help im in a
nutshell!  what sort of a nut is this?")  It was like Intergalactic
What???

The Beastie Boys really got the crowd fired up in the start though.
It was a lot of fun for that first part.  And then, they decided to
stop doing good stuff.  They played guitars and had some sort of heavy
metal music.  Everybody in the place sat down.  We waited and then
BOOM they get up and say "What time is it?"  It was time to get ill.
They played a couple good songs, and then lo and behold, they went
back to their guitars.  Now maybe they were tired from the MTV awards,
but they played like only 2 songs, and then they did this guitar junk.
 It was off and on goodness.  Then they sorta teased the crowd by
playing about 5 seconds of "Brass Monkey" and then we never heard from
the song again.

It ended awesomely though.  An awesome playing of "intergalactic"
follwed by "sabatoge."  we were hella pumped.  But then they left.  I
was thinkin, theyre coming back right?  And then the lights came on.
And then people started leaving.  And i was like wait, they played
real songs for like 45 minutes...  Whats going on?  But no, that was it.

Also, halfway through the concert, the arena transformed itself into
what i can only describe as a giant bong.  There was layer of smoke on
the ceiling, and it was about 75% cigarette, 25% pot.  I was getting
high just breathing.

Well all in all, the concert was ok.  There were definite highlights,
but it could've been a LOT better.  Mixmaster Mike was awesome.  Thats
some goooood mixing.  It sorta wasnt a show though.  The Beastie Boys
sorta walked around in circles for an hour and a half, and they didnt
do any neat dances or anything.  Oh well, it was nonetheless fun.

So i guess thats it for me.  I had a full weekend, and i hope all of
you folks had similar fun.  I think the next few E-mails of mine will
be shorter, and more normal.  You know, everyday stories about life in
the city.  Hippies, gutter-punks, crazy men, zealots, etc.  So until
tomorrow, Adios Muchachos, No soup for you!

BIP

PS - Evan - Jay, D, and me are on starcraft.  Get on as well.

Ryan Marn - thanks for the Josh address.  Whats up with your team???

Melissa Bow - MC BOW???  how can you not think that's funny???  You
should've been up there at the concert, rappin and mixin, wit a name
like that!

Anthony - Ho, tell me the news about "Rush Hour"  We are planning to
see it on Friday!!  Inside scoops!!!

Em - come down with my sister!  Sept. 18

Im out. late. BIP

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