Viet rocks, in Drillbit Taylor

The Bolsavik was watching Drillbit Taylor on DVD last night and lo and behold he saw a familiar face.

There’s a scene where Drillbit (Owen Wilson) and his homeless friend (Danny McBride) were walking along the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, and they stopped to watch a teenager rocking away (top pic) with a cloth backdrop that’s painted in a sort of psychedelic/hippie kind of way.

Then there’s another scene where Drillbit was out on a picnic date with Leslie Mann‘s character and from nowhere the same guy jumped out and started jamming away on his electric guitar.

That rocker, gentle readers, is Adam Ho, a Viet Texas native.

The first time the Bolsavik saw Adam Ho must have been four or five years ago. Adam was then just a kid of 14. He had been playing on the Promenade, and someone saw him there and asked him to play at the Vietnamese radio VNCR‘s annual banquet.

That was Adam’s first performance in the Viet community. A year or so later, Adam appeared on Thuy Nga‘s Paris By Night, a variety-show distributed on DVD that’s very popular with Vietnamese everywhere.

The Bolsavik once reviewed Adam Ho’s CD “Sad Photography” (pictured left) in an unsigned, no-byline piece on Nguoi Viet. Someone then borrowed the Bolsavik’s copy and now he has none….

As a footnote: The song Adam Ho was playing on the Promenade (that earned him “a couple of bucks” from Drillbit) is Jimmi Hendrix‘s “All Along the Watchtower.” The song that he played when Drillbit was on the date, is “Hero” by Enrique Iglesias (the rock star, not his father Julio the balladeer).

Adam may be covering other songs in this movie, but his CD is all original, with songs written by him.