change the world.

it's been a while since i last updated, mostly because shit's been crazy. yesterday was founders day at the agency, and it meant setting 120 wieden'ers loose on the streets of shanghai for a hectic day of nuttiness. highlights included watching an esteemed colleague get his dick area waxed, copious amounts of alcohol, ktv, dance lessons, chinese wedding portraits, peep shows, fortune telling, the uigur jimi hendrix, about a zillion prizes, alot of smoke, about 30 cab rides, and running around like crazy.

i think it went well. i just ordered 1,400rmb worth of mcdonalds to the office. do you know how awesome it is to tell someone "i want to order 50 big macs"?

rainy dayyyyz.

finally friday! this has officially been the longest week in the history of weeks. plus it's raining. this is a photo of my cat, meow tse-fun. she is a classy bitch, drinking that toilet water like a champ.

today adrian and i are booking our flights to beijing so we can go to the strawberry music festival during may long weekend. we are stoked. we are more than stoked! deerhoof and xiu xiu are headlining, which is pretty awesome for china.

also very excited to see carsick cars on friday night & hot pot on saturday. haven't seen my friends at D-22 in ages either. we're gonna land in beijing, roll into the park, spend the entire weekend in a ridiculous state, and then fly back for work on monday morning. holla.

she eats!

sunday night, lots of reason to get tooogether. jan lo + dj wordy got into town over the weekend, and it was anita's last night in shanghai. she celebrated by spending four hours cooking the most amazing meal ever. afterwards there was icecream. now it's monday and i have a stomachache and ohh, so many meetings!

weekend images.

some images from weekend - an afternoon at 696 weihai, yone x reach exhibition at HWA's gallery way out in gubei, bboy battle at racks, late night dim sum, etc. still feeling a bit ill, oh and it's raining, raining raining. fucking facebook won't let me upload images and i'm feverish and flu'y and feeling absolute shit. the kicker is i've been sleeping way too much on my super soft mattress, now i've got a backache. how much more complaining can i do? came into the office on a sunday for a meeting that was eventually cancelled, still at the office waiting for the rain to subside so i can bike home. damn!

o canada.

download this mix here!

rip dexter.

my sister's bunny friend dexter was euthanized the other day, he was 6.5 years old and really sweet. poor little guy. he's the fuzzy lop-eared rabbit in the photo, the little dwarf rabbit in the back is her other one, mashi. hope he's having fun in bun bun heaven. x

wednesday madness.

i'm going to assume that we are singing madonna in the first photo. very stupidly decided to go out for one cheeky after-work drink last night (after work meaning that i didn't get out of the office until 11). shit escalated and all of a sudden it was 5am and i was crawling into bed after a long night of shuffleboard, bike rides, karaoke and too much food. we even managed to slip into richy, which i think we can agree is the worst club in shanghai.

ps. before walking into the karaoke room, we ran into a classy man and lady fucking in the hallways of party world fuxing park. no, seriously. who does that?!! check adrian's flickr page, i'm sure there will be photos up soon. also, the photos from this entry are from adrian's camera, i can't find my battery charger, so sad.

pink mountaintops - outside love.

a friend of mine sent me the new PINK MOUNTAINTOPS album the other day, and i've been listening like crazy. besides the fact that i really love their music, i have a soft spot for these guys, one of them used to be my roommate (actually, it's been so long now i don't even know what the current line up is, it seems always ever changing) and when the band first came out, i remember writing an 800 word article about them that we turned into a front cover feature. barely a few months after that article issue came out, they were getting mad hype and touring around the world. that's what i miss about vancouver! people you know start bands, and they actually do well. maybe it's something in the water.

(from the jagjaguwar site)
"The ten songs on "Outside Love" are about or influenced by weddings in Montreal, winter, Pink Floyd's The Final Cut, Christmas albums, that one Exile song and that one Echo and the Bunnymen song, the Bermuda Triangle, being depressed in the sunshine, people who haven't made out yet but will in the future, The Everly Brothers, clowns in the ceilings, and bedrooms where skinheads used to live.

generally i'm a fan of buying records and supporting musicians, but living in china isn't very conducive to that. so if you live in china and you're very interested in the album, email me and i will totally make your day. ok? ok.

also - here's a free download from the jagjaguwar site:
download: vampire - pink mountaintops.

some songs.

been feeling pretty hectic lately and so new and old favourite songs are in order. here are five that i really like today for your downloading pleasure. fans of xtc should especially check out the dukes of stratosphear link. also, i've been pretty into the new super furry animals record, 'dark days/light years', which they released on their rough trade site last month. the physical release was yesterday, and it's been getting great reviews. go download it or buy it if you have the chance.

01 brainiac's daughter: (XTC as) the dukes of stratosphear
02 precision auto: les savy fav
03 proud mary: ike & tina turner (ccr cover)
04 river: akron/family
05 inaugural trams: super furry animals (ft. nick mccarthy)

bonus - someone recently sent me a new casiotone for the painfully alone song that i've been listening to alot lately. i knew the voice sounded familiar, it turns out that it's a collaboration between him & nick krgovich, a guy i used to know in vancouver. he's the lead singer of p:ano and generally some kind of mad, musical genius.

06 old panda days: casiotone for the painfully alone (ft. nick krgovich).

(ps! i got the les savy fav song off of this site. you should check it out because there's actually a shitload of music on there. do it.)

monthly mixtape drop.

so it's april now - april fools, april showers, the beginning of spring and the christian season of birth & renewal. the weather is starting to warm up here in shanghai, i've been riding my bike in shorts and a t-shirt, sun shining like crazy and tiny flowers budding up and turning everything into that perfect shade of spring minty green. in the night time, the sun sets just a little later than usual, and dark clouds gather and sprinkle bits of rain on tin roofs that make for a pretty soundtrack to fall asleep to.

april is always the start of something new -- this mixtape isn't actually all that depressing at all, it's just hopeful and sweet and a little bit sad but mostly optimistic, happy, looking forward to the future.

ps. maybe a weekly mixtape drop was too ambitious for my busy ass, so a monthly one will have to do. as always, let me know if you want a copy and we'll make the exchange.

skull crew till we die.

nike was kind enough to give us some asian federation cup tickets last week, and we headed over to hongkou stadium to see the SHANGHAI SHENHUA play the SUWON SAMSUNG BLUEWINGS.

some observations:
hongkou stadium is huge, but also dirty. shanghai crowds think it's ok to boo the rival team incessantly during the entire match. the koreans played dirty but if i had an entire stadium of people booing me i would play dirty too. the riot squad, medics and firefighters were present during the game. people fall down ALOT in football. as in all the time. maybe they were playing with bowling balls. it will be very hard to catch a cab after a busy game.

the bluewings are korean, and they lost!! however, they have the most awesome logo ever + are also called the skull crew. this makes up for the fact that they are shit soccer players.

flying forward.

generally i'm not a big fan of westerners coming in and buying up chinese brands for exploitation, but in this case i think FEIYUE have gotten a pretty awesome deal. the products look great and i like that they're keeping with the heritage of the design, along with some cool looking artist collabs. yay, feiyue. i love when foreigners get it right.

monday eats.

we were going to go for a delicious korean barbq but instead i went over to adrian's and made kimchi jigae. unfortunately, (and this is REALLY weird for all of us) no one thought to take a photo of the end result.

good eats.

love park.

kids skating at love park!

the sequel.

spring is here. some random shots from lunchtime today. "eating out 2, sloppy second" = best name for a film i have ever seen in my life. i love that it is the sequel to 'eating out 1'. i am totally watching this tonight, just me myself & i. i hope they stay true to the original.

because i love you?

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drawings from here. amazing!