Fusion: STOP, collaborate and Listen

Ok, So this will be long, and impossible to believe, but I have
pictures to back it up. It is true and it is amazing. First off I will
give an analogies of what happened. Monday night was the equivalent of
going to a Chicago Bulls game in 1993 and after the game havingMJ come
up to you, ask to play you in HORSE and you winning by dunking from the
3-point line, Impossible you say that’s what I would have thought
before last night.
It all started on Friday when we went out
to watch the Rugby at a pub. At half time they moved a band in and we
decided to move out. We knew there was a place that would be playing
the game as they advertised to play every minute of the World Cup so we
went on to Tiger Tiger. After 15 minutes of them not playing the game
they finally turned it on. I went to the bathroom where the next minute
would permanently change my life. As I exited the bathroom I saw a
small sign and on it, it said, “Ice Ice Baby is playing Tiger Tiger on
Monday Night” I instantly went outside and went straight to the bar to
buy tickets. “What do you mean your not selling tickets?” “Not that
big” “Just a normal Student night?. Those were the things that the
bartender told me. I was unconvinced so I spoke to the bouncer,
manager, and some other people. Apparently it was the truth. On the way
out we met 5 girls promoting student night at the club. I figured they
would be as excited as me and my 6 friends were. They actually were
promoting the following weeks show. DJ Jazzy Jeff. Are you serious,
this place could be Aberdeen’s goldmine! Anyway for the rest of Friday
we told everyone that we saw that Vanilla Ice was playing on Monday
night, and were met with indifference or the common “I thought he was
dead”. He is not, in fact, he is very much alive.
So after taking the weekend off I sent out this email on Monday morning
to the 2,000 Schlumberger people that work in Aberdeen.
Hi All,
I know this is very hard to imagine but the Ice man himself (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_ice) is playing our hometown
tonight at Tiger Tiger. The publicity is rather low, but I was told by
members of the Tiger Tiger staff that he is guaranteed to play "Ice Ice
Baby". It is not possible to make reservations or buy tickets ahead of
time but cover at the door will be 4.50 the slightly higher than the
Monday night rate but far from a ripoff.. Doors open at 8 PM, and he
will play at some point after midnight. Some of us fromWireline are
planning to go showing up at around 9:30 PM after dinner. This is a
once in a lifetime experience where you will see a major
recordingartiest
in a small venue. We can only hope that in addition to Ice Ice Baby
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-is6S_b_g&mode=related&search=)
he will play classics such as the Ninja song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFLGRidfFo4 . I hope everyone seriously
considers coming as this will be a life changing event for some if not
all of us.
Just thought the SLB world should know about this unique opportunity
I instantly got 2 responses they were
'Hi all' should have been replaced with 'STOP, collaborate and Listen'
and
That's
AWESOME. Unfortunately, home with super sore throat so will not be able
to attend. Try to get some video on your mobile or camera!! If you
seeXXXXX, remind her as she knows all the words to ICE ICE BABY!!
The second one was from my personal manager; XXXXXX is a person who is
about 3 levels above me. I told her, and she came and was almost as
excited as me.
Brenton and I were extremely pumped about the event, we plastered the
base with posters and spent the day reading wikedpedia, and watching
Ice Ice baby and The Ninja song on Youtube. The Ninja song on Youtube
has the most hilarious moment ever where they are interviewing Ice
after the video shoot and he explains that “The director told him to
put some Ice on it…. So he did” It was a productive daySLB shares
dropped about $1.32.
We decided that while the club told us to show up before 11 to get in
we were not willing to take a chance so we planned dinner for 8 pm then
were going to head to the club around 10 pm. We hit the door and the
bouncer that I talked to on Friday remembered me. By the way I was
wearing black pants, a white shirt withcuff links , and a silver vest.
I was dressed just like Vanilla Ice in the Ice Ice video. So we get in
and claim the couch right by the stairs to go downstairs to the club.
Its like a restaurant upstairs on street level and a basement club
below. Not opening the downstairs til after 11. No problem, we need a
little pick me up anyway. We start pounding VodkaRedbulls by the
pitcher. What an awesome drunk!
So when they finally do open the stairs down we rush down with everyone
else. We head to the stage……. Everyone else heads to the bar. And when
I say we, I mean the 20 people fromSLB that came. I did that, and I
told everyone I was quitting to become a concert promoter. However the
20 people I brought were nothing compared to student night. I forgot
how amazing student night is. It was basically like Kingston at the bar
down by the water, just a skin fest, it was great.
Anyway so continue the Redbull
and Vodkas for a long long time, listen to some great old school jams,
bust out a few dance moves for the people there which include my
immediate manager, theaffor mentioned high up manager, and 30 something
sales engineer, and 4 people from the interpretation team..
Ice goes on stage at 12:30 Am and kills it. Before he comes out I start
a “Go Ninja Go Ninja Go” chant. It caught on with everyone (maybe 100
people around the stage) He does a few songs and then in a slight lull
in the performance I start another “Go Ninja” chant. Ice says “Wow, I
can’t believe you guys remember that” then busts out with the Metal
Rock version of the Ninja song. 1 of the 2 songs I wanted to hear was
played, and he is defiantly singing the other one so I am happy. A few
songs later here comes, “Yo VIP, Let’s kick it” Place goes insane. Well
at least the first 3 rows, possibly the only 3 rows cause when I looked
behind me there were 2 rows of people pushing, then open space on the
dance floor. I knew half the people on the floor cause I brought them.
Anyway, he again does a Metal remix of Ice Ice Baby and kills it. What
an awesome night. All of my goals for the show were completed. I was so
happy. After some more comedy during the show including Vanilla coming
out with a song directed at the girls he dragged on stage “Show me the
titties” In which he just said “Show me the titties” over and over
again. It was over. Amazing, so mush fun so drunk, and so much energy
from theRedbull . It started to get very dark in the club section
downstairs after the show so we headed upstairs to talk about how
awesome the show was. I find a hot girl and start talking to her. She
does not want to hook up with me so I leave her. Brenton goes outside
for a smoke and then calls cause he can’t come back in cause it almost
last call. I go talk to the bouncer and it is my buddy who loves the
outfit and the excitement I have. Brenton is allowed back in.
Apparently I have say there.
So one last drink and we head to the
place where everyone knows your name; the International Casino. Take
out 100 pounds and with the 50 in my pocket start playing blackjack.
Brenton takes 50 and looses at Roulette, comes over and acts as my
adviser. I needed no advise as I was doing well. Craig, the pit boss
comes over and says, “hey guys he’s here”. We were confused and asked
who is here. He said, “Vanilla Ice is here” I’m impressed shocked and
happy all at once and run to the door to see if I can sign him in as my
guest. He already has a membership card that he just got, but I give
him a man 1 arm handshake hug and say great show. We then start playing
Roulette. And Vanilla Ice sits down next to me. ……………………………….
That’s
a pause for effect because of what I just said. Yes, Vanilla Ice just
sat next to me. The Vanilla ICE!!!!!!!!! We start playing, I’m betting
huge to try to impress him. We start talking, I start winning. Brenton
is advising me to make some 25 pound 5 number bets, and we hit. 175
pound pay day. We hit again. Things are looking up. We play for about
3
hours while just shooting the shit with Ice. We tell him that we are
just some Texas boys like him, at which point he shows us the state of
Texas outline Tattoo on his leg. I show him my tattoo. We talk about
his tour, we talk about his family. Talk about our lives here. Talk
about what he does, his investments. He is actually a really cool guy,
but whowouldn ’t say that when they meet someone as influential has
him. He actually hung out with the 2 of us more then his 2 friends that
he brought.
The highlight of the game was when a girl tried to get
in-between me and Ice and he tells her to move somewhere else. Then
turns to me and says “I’m sorry dude, did I justcockblock you?” Vanilla
Ice just asked if he cockblocked me. Awesome
! At this point I should mention that I love all celebrities and if
your famous its for a reason and I respect that. I would like to be
that, but it will never happen, but I will celebrate the people who did
make it.
Anyway, there was this girl in a red dress that followed
him to the casino hoping to hook up with him. He is married with 2 kids
and does not hook up with groupies, but shedidn’t know that because she
hadn
’t been talking to him all night like some people. I see her sitting at
the blackjack table and decide to go talk to her as I am walking that
way anyway. We have been drinking a lot of beers at the casino and are
still on the red bull high crazy drunk level. It was one of the
drunkest nights I had while not getting insane, it was perfect and I
think theRedbul had a lot to do with that. Also the fact that student
means more than just hot skimpy dressed girls it also means cheep
drinks, and I make too much money no tot take advantage of that. Plus,
for some reason,al the 20 people that came wanted to buy me drinks.
What can I say, I’m a popular guy.
Back to the girl, I ask her if I can kiss her cause I’m really good.
She says yes. I give her a small kiss, and then throw my tongue down
her throat. She was pretty hot from what I remember and I think her
name was Jessica, but I can’t remember if she told me before or after.
Anyway, what was I doing, I had a seat next to Vanilla Ice with a pile
of chips that Brenton was loosing so I had to go back and salvage what
was going on.
Back at the roulette table there is more chilling
with Vanilla, who refused our offer to buy him a drink about 100 times.
At 4:30 am he looked at his watch and realized he had to wake up in 4
hours to head to his next show so he went to cash out. He cashed out
for 120 pounds. I cashed out for 350. I won! While cashing out I asked
if I could take a picture with me and him. He agreed and just then
Brenton returned from the bathroom with his camera phone to take the
picture of me and Vanilla Ice. I apparently had my real camera in my
pocket, but I had forgotten 
Brenton was very upset that I cashed out as he wasn’t
finished loosing my money so we lost about 100 pounds and took a cab
home, tipping the door bouncer 20 pounds on the way out, cause Ididn’t
get thrown out.
What an amazing night. Like I said, playing HORSE with MJ is the only
comparison I can come up with. It was truly amazing, that’s the only
word I can think of to use.
I
woke up at 9 am like I was shot out of a Cannon, I might have slept for
about 3 hours and I was wide awake and still steaming drunk. I’m
already late for work, which my manager should have expected as he saw
me the night before. I shower then get in the car and head to work. I
stop for gas and almost puke. Get to work and walk right into the back
room where I am now writing this. I will not accomplish much today
either, hope the stock pricedoesen’t notice.
O and yea, I got this email from the high up manager today.
Rick and Brenton,
Thank
you for arranging a surreal but very entertaining night out. Had a
great time. Thank you for inviting me. I am looking forward to Rick's
dancing onYouTube
While the dancing won’t be on youtube. I’m
going to try and post some of the video of the performance. Its pretty
dark, but you can hear the music and I actually like it a lot, but
then
again he did sell 20 million albums, so he must have talent.
Anyway,
that was my Monday night, what a start to the week. Next weeks edition
DJ Jazzy Jeff brings Summertime to Aberdeen in winter???? Who knows,
I’m just going to keep walking around with a smile n my face for
another couple of days.
By the way, coming off a Redbull and Vodka drunk sucks. It happened at
lunch in about 20 minutes from being drunk to being ill and exhausted.
I think I’m over it now and might be able to drive home. But I do have
a little work to do first.