random thoughts/observations

- pig flu? anyone have it?

- was drinking beers with a Chinese business guy yesterday and he explained to me the three kinds of people in this world: men, women, and female phDs (women with experience). apparently Chinese men really don’t like women who’ve traveled abroad/have powerful positions, etc.

- yesterday afternoon, zoned out on the subway, listening to the new A-Trak album (pretty hot), when I heard a loud thud. chinese girl my age collapsed right next to me (maybe seizure, couldn’t tell though), landed right on her nose, gushing blood everywhere right as the train pulled into people’s square station. people actually handled it pretty well, no trampling, etc. perhaps due to a giant foreigner blocking the incoming herd of people with his skateboard shouting “bu neng jin qu.”

- hamilton house = a really, really solid place to throw a party.

- it’s far too nice outside to sit in the office, and as the battery on my laptop lasts about three minutes unplugged, I’ll leave a few songs as I exit.

First up, a Boy 8-Bit remix of one of my favorite Burial tracks. If you don’t know Burial, get on that.

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Burial - Archangel (Boy 8-Bit Remix)

and…..yes, there’s rock and roll bands in China. Hedgehog = one of the best. I’m not sure about the name of this track because iTunes converted the Chinese characters into hieroglyphics or something when I imported it…sorry.

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Hedgehog - Unknown (from the new album, Blue Day Dreaming)

Mistook another loaf of regrettable Chinese bread for challah last night. There’s a bakery epidemic in this town, but none can get it right. The Chinese don’t understand the difference between cake and bread, can’t make either correctly, and end up at some inappropriate mid-point. Clearly none of them give a fuck about bread, and just see bakery proprietorship as an easy tap into the emerging middle class’s wallets.

They need single cookies. Peanut butter cookies. Choco cookies. Any Chinese bakery entrepreneurs got this blog on their RSS?

Sweet Supreme Court decision in the states..the police can’t search vehicles nearly as easily now during traffic stops/arrests. Would have helped out a lot of the kids I went to high school with.

Here’s a few tracks I’ve had on repeat over the last month. Much more coming soon.

One of my favorite new bands, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart. Kinda sound like The Smiths with obvious shoegaze influences. Almost a flawless album.

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Come Saturday

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Old school Masta Ace track, with the bangin’ beat from Original Concept’s “Knowledge Me.” This track almost makes me wish I still had a car to tear around the suburbs like a retard in.

Masta Ace - Born To Roll

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Finally, a little cynicism from Talking Heads…

Talking Heads - Don’t Worry About the Government

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