Car Sick Cars, they were pretty good and actually did interesting VU covers, unlike the other bands. Nice guitar thrashing and anyone think this guy looks like young Asian Neil Young you'd be right, I think. He did some fun stuff with a violin bow on the guitar.


The somewhats, I forgot, who, but I like them best of all Because theyz the Chinese version The Strokes, and Strokes are fine by me because it makes for bouncy dance floors, which R fun (well, on this night, just to watch).

Bad sheet of paper.

bad paper on fire.

HOTB penfitti in the girls bathroom.

Gia.Hm from kinda famous Beijing all girl punk band from (first Chinese rock outfit to make it to international press in 1998) "Hang on the Box." She does experimental stuff, which consisted of banging sticks on a little piano thing with distortions plugged into it. Plus she howls and screams into the mic alot, and not on key. If there was a key. Its noise, and that's what it is billed as "Beijing Noise" so kudos for them for that, I guess.

Singing "All tomorrows parties" as Nico.

Club 13, next door

Oustide at the Cigarrette Shop

 

Work.

Outside.

INSIDE

 

GOING

 

LEAVING

 

We Had a Party.

It was Teacher's Day in China and as such Aihua partied it up in a fancy banquet room. Here we kick it off with a roomwide Gambei (toast). Featured is my yum wine, and by boo baijiu (foreground in the thimble goblet) But a thimble is enough. It is vile. It is the road most travelled when it comes to Chinese power hierarchies... or something. There were three tables and mine (stacked with most of the foreign teachers) decided to choose a baijiu "target" and repeatedly gambei (toast) him into paralysis. Morality! Fun part is that you cannot NOT drink when someone gambei's you. If we were in a room with more Chinese men, I think the odds would have been not in our favor. (Fast forward: I got away relatively unsullied with only 4 shots of baijiu, forced to chug (via being gambei'd) a full glass of Tsingdao Beer, and 3 glasses of Great Wall Wine. It was funn! And there was dancing and revelry. It was fun. Fun.

James and Adam mocking my spycam techniques.

Headmistress Chen Xi.

Headmaster David (saying something about zombies, huh, again??)

Adam gets Sam, our school bus driver. But Sam declines because of needing to drive the bus.
Good defense.

Marco and Lily as is their habit.

Tony gets Summer.

Group Gambei.

 

Nigerian Dood gets Alan again. I got Alan in the first round. Alan was Target Alpha.

James gets Linda.

Adieu gets Audrey.

Group gambei.

 

Joyce gets Matty G.


Nigerian Dood gets Marco.

Covertly selecting the next "target".