Plastic Girl In Closet
My Pal Foot Foot
Supercutedamfuck
Ellen Alien
Joseph Nothing
Mr. Children
A Bell Boy
Creepy Pop
Cruyff In The Bedroom
Lilies And Remains
Ogre You Asshole
Oui Oui Band
The Insect Kids
Kids In Glass Houses
I Am Robot And Proud
Bloodthirsty Butchers
Harp On Mouth Sex
My Dead Girlfriend
Love Straw
Fuck You Heroes
Your Song Is Good
Abnormals
Mouse on the Keys
A vending-machine dress, the brainchild of clothing designer Aya Tsukioka, could offer a woman walking alone a way to elude pursuers.
Hilarious 
Good site about Akira Kurosawa, Japan’s greatest director. Lots of pictures of his paintings.
On this blog there’s a long list of bizarre bar names, like Bollock Paradium, Pub Smell or Bar Jerk. Hilarious
I once discovered a restaurant in Seoul, South Korea with the unusual sign “Folk Customs a Dining Room”. Obviously the owner tried to look up the Korean equivalent of “Traditional Restaurant” in a dictionary.
Another restaurant in that area was called “Moonbird only dreams of the moon” – how poetic.
It’s a so-called Canto-Western restaurant , early Hong Kong fusion cooking. Borshtsh and steak or Eisbein (German pork knuckle) with Chinese broccoli. Not bad at all, but the reason for visiting this place is the beautiful sad atmosphere (pictures below) – it hasn’t changed a bit since it opened in 1963, it’s the Hong Kong that doesn’t exist anymore outside of these doors.
That’s why the great director Wong Kar-Wai shot here some scenes of “In the mood for love” and “2046″. I was having dinner in one of those booths where Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Maggie Cheung were sitting. The friendly staff is fluent in English and will certainly point at a large film still of “In the mood for love” and ask you if you know this movie. My answer (“Yes, it’t the reason why I’m here”) was obviously appreciated.
It’s the Goldfinch Restaurant / Caf???? de Goldfinch, at 13 Lan Fong Road, Causeway Bay. MTR station Causeway Bay, exit Times Square.
Can you tell the difference between Chinese, Japanese and Korean people? Test yourself here. There are also tests about food, traditional architecture and more.
My score is 8/17, quite bad, although on traditional architecture I did a 13/18 and on food a 14/18, somehow I think being able to distinguish these cultures is more important.
Here is a clip on YouTube with a song (the melody is from the Sound of Music), consisting of the names of most of the subway stations of Hong Kong, followed by some sound samples typical for the MTR (Mass Transit Railway). “Please mind the gap”. “Next stop Admiralty”, etc. Great pictures from the MTR stations too.
On the 31st of March I’ll be going to Hong Kong for the 6th time, for two weeks. The bad news is we have to fly with KLM, the Dutch national carrier, but the good news is the Hong Kong International Film Festival is on when I’m there.
Last time I was in China (september 2006) I was so lucky to see the divine Zhang Ziyi walking over the red carpet during the world premiere of “the Banquet” in Xientiandi, Shanghai. Ten days later in Hong Kong I saw Jackie Chan doing some weird promotional things on Time Square, in Causeway Bay.
I don’t know what will happen this time, but HK will be big fun anyway.
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