Atomic Prom.

Spent Friday night promoting swankstyles. Just changing into costume attracted a crowd of 223 interested nightmarket patrons. They wanted to see some dancing or something entertaining...D'oh! See the video here and meet mister beautiful.

Amerika needs more K

there's something disturbing about K in amerika...it's all too reminiscent of the KKK, KAOS and the KGB. skinhead violence is at an all time high. nobody's gonna get smart anytime soon, and the brutal totalitarianism of the KGB is dwarved by gitmo. amerika could make amends for its unfettered hegemony and change its spelling, though. Amerika, the USSA.

D-Day

Declan's birthday, as expected, pulled the whole town together. despite working all day, everyone seemed quite able to keep the vibe at 11. highlights include my first taste of raw fish (12 years in asia, i'm a slow learner) a niggardly vodka bill, dry-heaving-rap-lyric-texting, and a 2 hour bicycle ride to the pool down the street.

Hua Lian

opening band...rocked!

swank and fate conspired to bring us to Taiwan's east coast for a 5-day bender. it's hard enough to get a dozen people to show up at the local club, but 21 of us made it to the Fall Out party, a testament to the resolve of taichung's party elite to keep it turned up to 11. highlights of the trip included a deep malaprops t-shirt (good one Nicola) that comforted me in the sinusoidal crescendos of excessive drug use and sleep dep. props to John and Jason for their extraordinary vision and input on the merits of a pet monkey with GSL capabilities. Thanks to Matty-D, who somehow drove the whole way and back without spilling a single drop of piss.

The Big Bang: A Backwards Love Story

There are two schools of thought in physics: either the universe will keep expanding, until all the stars exhaust their fuel and all life just flickers out; or things will eventually reverse, ending in a big crunch. The big crunch has a certain symmetry, a certain cyclic effect that smacks of zen and eternity. Nicola and I prefer to believe that billions of years from now, after all life is gone, we'll be having sex. When the universe reverses, we'll all get to do everything again, just backwards. So we've rehearsed a few conversations, a few fights, and some of the amak artus backwards, so when the rest of y'all's going what the fuck, we'll be living life just like it's supposed to, frontways.

Glow in the Dark Tennis

even though there are 16 tennis courts with lighting in taichung, none of them can be used after dark. despite the 4 nuclear reactors on this tiny island, no recreational sports facility is willing to "waste electricity." solution: glow-in-the-dark painted tennis balls. or even better, a translucent tennis ball with lights inside. ok, i'll settle for a tennis ball with a mic. inside to use as soundbytes in an electro poppy click house song.

High-esteemed Chinese Corporate Logo Offers Magnanimous Quality Assurance For Honorable Respected Customer Unit

nicola reads Yumaowu's new corporate logo. wordy. which is the most salient difference in chinese / western marketing strategies. to the chinese, all of this information is validity. to foreigner, it's just stupidity.