P.O.S. - Drumroll [mp3]
I remember sitting on a bed in our room watching MTV Asia and thinking, “Please, please, please, please.” We had just spent two days trekking the rain forest of Cuc Phoung National Park in Vietnam, chasing million flutter masses of butterflies and climbing around and inside ancient trees and caves. Now back at the hotel in Ninh Binh, we had little energy for exploration. In a few days, it will have been two months since we had begun backpacking in Asia and the discovery of American culture on the hotel room television was too much to resist. We both missed home and hadn’t had a taste of its consumeristic voyeurism in some time. Before our eyes flashed greens in hues, money nubile shining and true. Once it seemed likely that we would spend some time bumming about the town, an interestingly shaped divide down the middle of the road and people everywhere somewhat prosperous and at least less excitable than Hanoi. Nearly every corner contained Internet Cafes and diners dishing out the very best of Vietnamese cuisine and it smelled authentic too, not like moto traffic and certainly not like pizza as in Saigon. But no, instead we spend our lastly hours in this charming town staring down a hope. I kept thinking, “Please, please, please, please.” And then*:
(*best to view this story in the proper context, methinks)
As if there is a God and maybe I was praying and indeed that was the Minneapolis skyline through a window in our room the TV projecting before us the heralded beginnings of a pissed off mantra. Just after leaving MPLS, P.O.S. released his new album to the delights of her and I alike and staring solemnly at the music videos playing before our eyes the idea became floating through our heads, the order of thoughts: (1) maybe our vocal ventriloquist, a veritable hip hop etc. would appear, (2) maybe MTV Asia will serve a slice of home, (3) maybe we should not be wasting our time in Vietnam watching MTV Asia, (4) holy shit it’s P.O.S. on TV from a screen in a room at a hotel in Ninh Binh province in fucking Vietnam.
P.O.S. is a rhythm and blues band from Minneapolis. The featured song is from the album Never Better. Purchase the music at Amazon | Insound | eMusic.
