February 2012
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Stray observations for 02.28.2012
It was 2/28 today. There’s a weird dissonance from how open Taiwanese culture and politics is today, regardless of how ridiculous it sometimes can be, and the fact that it was basically a dictatorship where people could just disappear until the year I was born.
Aunt took me to Wulai, Taiwan for a day trip. Small rural town by the lake, lots of gorgeous green scenery and the rain added a...
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Aphasia - Good Morning! Taipei
Apparently Taiwan/Taipei loves them some post-rock and shoegaze.
Also? All these fucking records I bought came out in like 2010 AFTER my last visit so most of the bands appear to be broken up/inactive. Goddamnit.
On that note… I skipped through the Aphasia - the Crocodile Society of Aphasia record a few times since I got it last week. My first few scattered listens reminded me of San...
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Stray observations for 02.27.2012
First class today.
2/28 tomorrow.
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Stray observations for 02.26.2012
There was an earthquake today.
I met with some first cousins once removed. It was my dad’s cousin, her 3 sisters and a brother. They all ragged on me for being vegan and single for about 3 hours. I didn’t know Taiwanese people could be so sarcastic, it was awesome.
Used wolfram alpha to find out everyone’s genealogical relation to me. Thank you internet-based computing...
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Stray observations for 02.25.2012
Internet got upgraded today so expect more photos and videos.
I got invited to a show today.
There’s a band named Flesh Juicer here.
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Stray observations for 02.24.2012
Orientation was today for the Chinese Language Division classes at National Taiwan University. Didn’t sleep to well so I was out of it the whole time.
No one shakes hands here. I know this, yet instinct kicks in and I end up sticking out my stupid fucking hand every time I meet someone new only to have my brain fire off the awkward alarms. And while my brain and body fight over what to do...
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Boyz & Girl - Watchout! Akily Is Dead
Trying to upload mp3s to tumblr instantly reminded me of the all reasons I hate tumblr with the fury of a thousand sonsofbitches. I’m going to just upload mp3s to my youtube account from now on so if you’re reading this from the dashboard you’ll need to go to my URL at http://www.ilovescifi.net to view.
Anyways, when I went on my White Wabbit/Simon adventure the other day I had...
Stray observations for 02.22.2012
It rained.
… and will probably do so for about, I don’t know, let’s just say… forever. Give or take a few days.
It’s 1 AM and I forgot what else I was going to write about Wednesday.
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White Wabbit - Taipei, Taiwan
So David B. went to Taiwan about 3 years ago for a conference on the way to a fancy PhD in ocean physics and searched online for record stores. He found White Wabbit where he met Simon who was working there at the time. Simon took David around town and shopping for older used records. David ends up making a mixtape of his finds.
When David found out I was in Taiwan he immediately got me in...
Stray observations for 02.21.2012
I found out why all the receipts have a lottery number on them: Wikipedia page on the Uniform Invoice Lottery and another article
I joined the NTU gym today after going to the National Palace Museum. It’s only 30 bucks for 6 months. This also answers the question of “Can I not be a stupid bro for longer than a week?” NEVER STOP BRO’IN BRAH. SICQQQ.
It is pretty damn easy...
Stray observations for 02.20.2012
Maybe I’m getting old or less cynical but all the kids are adorable little monsters here. I want to smoosh all their faces.
The above sentiment will almost assuredly change into me screaming “You think because you can speak proper Chinese, that you’re better than me?!” before drop kicking a 4 year old in the face out of frustration in about 2 weeks time.
My Chinese is so...
Tumblr’s messaging service doesn’t allow links, so I’m making this post is for someone on here who I’ve been in contact with and this will also serve as a checklist for myself:
I went to Waiting Room yesterday which is near NTNU, you can find the address here: http://on.fb.me/x3jkvE .
They gave me a list of venues: underworld-taipei.blogspot.com thewall.com.tw and...
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No Order - Track 2
One of the clerks at Waiting Room gave me No Order’s demo yesterday while I was at the store after I asked in my terrible bullshit Chinese about shows. Even though they clearly understood what I meant, I may or may not have tried to pantomime the word “concert”. Yeah… I don’t even know. I think I… made a triangle with my hands or did jazz fingers. You...
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Waiting Room - Taipei, Taiwan
So sometime around October/November I started noticing that my Plot video was getting views from the address http://www.waitingroomtw.com/
Clicking through blew my goddamn mind. You have to understand that every time I’ve gone to Taiwan since I was young I’ve tried to find anything related to punk/hardcore/metal online a few weeks before I had to fly there and I always ended up with...
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Yo so life took a turn for the weird and now I’m in Taiwan and will most likely be here for a year. I vaguely remember a Taiwanese record store/blog/label linking to one of my videos a while back.
Was this you? Get in contact with me, ESPECIALLY if you have info on the punk/hardcore scene here or know of any good vegan places.
I know next to nothing about Taiwan and could always use...
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