• 正在看台灣電影:<不能沒有你>. http://is.gd/7R3fm #taiwan #
• it seems that “I can’t live without you” <不能沒有你> won an award in the indian film festival http://is.gd/7R5jY #fb #taiwan #
• <不能沒有你>: 名不虛傳的催淚電影 #fb #taiwan #
• “Equations are the devil’s sentences.” - Stephen Colbert #fb #
• UK: opposition to digital economy bill grows. (point is to penalize illegal file sharing among other things) http://is.gd/7RLh3 #fb #
• the environment: yet another reason why the quebecois want sovereignty http://bit.ly/9kLaFV #fb #
• @joonian yeah i got one too. fevers suck. just went to pharmacy for some ibuprofen #
• RT @wuerkaixi: 我的失去不算什么，六四牺牲的生命再也唤不回来。因此，我虽不后悔，但如果历史可以倒转，我是否还会出来，恐怕就是极大考验了。 @michael1006 20年后，当您想到失去了这么多，� #
• i just learned about South Korean quintet boy band MBLAQ, (엠블랙) which stands for Music Boys Live in Absolute Quality. awesome name. #fb #
• RT @Dwchinese: 广东一色情网站运营者被判刑13年: http://bit.ly/9aABXk #
• prolly not gonna get up early for the superbowl. chance to symbolically rejoin america, but i think its too late for that now #fb #
• had an old-fashioned at Constellation. nice drink. #

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• RT @wuerkaixi @postdadaist: 昨夜，一位我素来仰慕的女学者对我说，有时候真觉得在现在这个时候，不坐监狱是一种羞耻。震撼之余，沉思良久，觉得这是一位爱自由者对自由的最好诠释。#china #fb #
• i am going to buy some ibuprofen on taobao. gettin hammered while havin a fever aint a good idea #fb #
• taobao pages sometimes arent rendering right in firefox but use IE tab and its perfect #fail #fb #
• starting the ROAD. hope its as good as the book was #fb #
• @KellenParker is this your dog http://bit.ly/cGmphn #
• ok we viggo’s nutsack is back on the big screen (The Road) #fb #
• #googleCN music search has snoop dogg thus translated :史努比 道格 shi nu bi daoge. its ok except snoop aint the same as SNOOPY #fb #china #
• well its better than 艾米纳姆 aiminamu or Eminem as he’s more commonly known #china #googleCN #
• 艾斯库伯=aisikubo=Ice Cube. i thought they would just go with 冰块 or something
  #china #googleCN #fb #
• from best spiritual writing 2010 “al gore and a sperm whale: both are large but only one of them is streamlined” #fb #
• 上海投资4000亿办最贵世博会 力求不赚不赔 shanghai to spend 40 billion RMB for the world expo? WTF why then couldnt they design a better mascot? #fb #
• 拆迁户声称强拆时点汽油 被控传播恐怖信息罪 chinese ppl channeling their inner terrorist http://news.163.com/10/0206/02/5UQ9AIFB000120GR.htm #china #fb #
• Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead no longer need them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living & her eyes they blind. #fb #
• facebook gonna launch full on email client #fb http://is.gd/7PFj2 #

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• inspired to see if kindle has any books by american poet tony hoagland http://is.gd/7J4F7 #poetry #fb #
• some1 said of americans: “their delight in music–a sure symptom of manly elegance and native elegance of the soul” #fb #
• sorry that should have been “manly tenderness and a native elegance of soul” #
• or this: “the picturesque looseness of their carriage, their deathless attachment to freedom”.oh well one can always dream #
• cleaving and circling here swells the soul of the poet: yet it is president of itself always. #
• RT @StephenAtHome: http://bit.ly/8teRsi Bid on the portrait now! It’s a perfect addition to any home lacking in photos of me. #
• @hecaitou 再怎么说我还是蛮赞成短裙蕾丝的任何活动 #
• RT @roseluqiu: RT @soundfury: 。。。国民党是“以钱换权”，亦即以释放公共资源交换政治支持；民进党则是“以权/钱换钱”，以公共资源换取资本家的金钱 #fb #
• RT @shanghaiist: Chinese teens feel happier on the internet: The plague of disaffected over-connected http://tinyurl.com/yhgbfxd #fb #
• RT @teacherdude: A BBC slideshow and interview with photographer Don McCullin http://tiny.cc/N04g2 - one of the people I most admire #fb #
• RT @palestine: Ban Says Too Soon to Know Whether Gaza War Probes Are Credible - BusinessWeek http://bit.ly/9vT1kl #fb #
• I must sing again b/c Zarathustra knows beyond any uncertainty that only the convalescent can sing the songs that will bring him “comfort” #
• edison chan’s back w/ Levi’s; his taxi tv commercial very douchey mixture of chinese and english #fb #
• Levi’s again proves that in our age we have substituted fashion for authenticity and style. but what do you expect from capitalism? #fb #
• Levi’s line is “original” “原创“ or as edison says “有一个original ideal在后面” b/c u need illiterate ABCs and CBCs to expound on originality! #fb #
• public officials have to resign when caught fuckin whores, bankers and capitalists caught fuckin the people get raises and bailouts #fb #
• RT @nytimes_wire: Hedge funds will defend their coveted secrecy against bankruptcy j… http://bit.ly/bWeGvJ #fb #
• RT @danwei:Howard French reviews The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa, a book by Deborah B… http://bit.ly/9xDUR5 #
• RT @Edpilkington: #teaparty movement is not at all racist. but last night’s convention speech by Tom Tancredo sounded perilously close #fb #

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• @KellenParker is she a chinese immigrant/1st generation japanese? #
• this book “retreat of the elephants” on envntl history of china is pretty interesting. check it out #fb 　 #
• nothing’s better than using a cat for a pillow during a midday siesta #fb 　 #
• cats just said “stupid man dropped in broccoli in boiling water so hard it splashed and burned his toe LMAO” #fb #
• watching LOST on hulu….thank god for the VPN’s american IP address #fb #
• apple store in beijing hosts indie filmmakers #china http://is.gd/7FZOD #fb #
• situation of vietnamese women/wives in china and their children http://is.gd/7G4fN #fb #china #vietnam #
• why is there a random japanese guy on the island in #LOST this show makes no sense #fb #
• henry giroux on youth, pedagogy, and everything fucked up about american society #fb http://is.gd/7G8o0 #
• colbert’s satire on social networking on Feb 2 show is awesome http://is.gd/7GnYe #colbert #fb #
• all right i am dying to see what eliot spitzer has to say http://is.gd/7GnYe #colbert #
• spitzer is taking it to obama, summers, geithner….big time http://is.gd/7GnYe #fb #colbert #
• @bokane what is FFS #
• @bokane so Jacob=the monster=shape shifter. that’ why he was jack’s dad, the blonde guy and then john locke. think so? #
• now watching jon stewart showing obama at the GOP conference kicking their ass http://is.gd/7Gsc6 #
• stephen colbert takes on harold ford jr. he’s sometimes hard on his interviewees #fb http://is.gd/7GzX8 #
• it seems harold ford courted controversy w/respect to his race. read here http://is.gd/7GBqC #fb #
• RT @taweili @yeungchan Facebook closes a Hong Kong pro-democracy discussion group without a reason. #fb #
• thinking about watching “the age of innocence” on youku tonight http://is.gd/7GFTA #
• taiwan embarks on decriminalizing sex work. spousal approval, sex worker unions all on the table http://is.gd/7GIvG #taiwan #fb #
• i find it good though, i mean taiwan could be the netherlands of asia. #taiwan http://is.gd/7GIvG #
• suppose taiwan is at a point where it can consider such ideas–which says a lot for how far its come in the last 60 years #taiwan #fb #
• letter to ny times re: thomas friedman is signed jon jost, seoul–yes that’s THE jon jost http://is.gd/7H0bo #fb #
• i just checked on his wikipedia and sure enuff jon jost lives in seoul, i doubt its a coincidence http://is.gd/7H0kS #fb #
• new terence malick film gonna have christian bale, javier bardem, olga K and rachel mcadams http://is.gd/7H4Ml #fb #
• @chorbax how could that be? he’s met miles and hurley back in the 1970s. this guy is new, and seems like a cult leader #
• @green67 我的路由器是跟adsl链接的设置应该是那个？我基本都是无线上网，没有一台是直接链接的 #
• i love it when people say they “don’t get twitter. y would you tell every1 what r doing all the time?” these ppl dont use it of course #fb #
• how could anyone honor anthony peckham for Invictus script. is being formulaic some kind of talent now #fb #
• @green67 我已经用了好几天了。。。但我以为你说那个设置也许比我现在的更好 #
• watching starbury footage in the guangdong shanxi game http://is.gd/7H9Q4 #fb #

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• english gentleman travelers in early 20th c china call each other cantankerous #
• english ppl also call problems w/ lightning “heavenly electricity and its vagaries”. glad we revolutionised that shit #
• just bought elvin’s book on environmental history of china, and got it superfast on kindle for the PC. i love this shit #fb #
• @catshanghai kindle books DLing fine without the VPN i think…there’s a linux version of kindle? or you just wine/porting it? #
• @AlexBowman 1 english guy said to the other that to have tea without sugar was being cantankerous. ironically i hope #
• the 1st time i read the word cantankerous was in reference to Jim Davis’ Garfield which i liked as a kid. musta helped my SAT scores #fb #
• hope that kindle for PC will encourage me to stop watching lesbian midget porn and direct my intellectual energies somewhere productive #fb #
• lenovo ideapad U1 hybrid notebook: could be tha bomb http://is.gd/7B6UL #fb #
• who is this Johnny Wu in 24? is he a proud azn amerikkkan? #fb #
• @shanghailaine are you sick of those smokin legs? wanna get some porker legs w/ the help of BK? #
• sucks that the Barnes&Nobles e-book selection blows cuz they have a mac client unlike Amazon for now #fb #
• renee walker is best character on 24. what a woman #fb #
• RT @Edpilkington: According to Vanity Fair, the future of Hollywood is entirely white. Really? http://bit.ly/bE8mal #fb #
• RT @gadyepstein @taniabranigan: “never seen a downward spiral like this”-J. Kamm re treatment of dissidents) http://bit.ly/bQXONj #fb #china #

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• got Johnnie To’s “Vengeance” on DVD–france meets hong kong. guns, violence, brotherhood. love it #fb #
• @rpeckham yeah its all right. never be embarrassed about buying something with Anthony Wong. the guy’s an institution #fb #
• finished “vengeance”, second revenge movie of the day gonna be “edge of darkness” starring another geriatric man w/ chip on his shoulder #fb #
• i forgot that it was groundhog day. so what did phil have to say #fb #
• china daily calls itself “shanghai corporative media” which sounds like alchemy or something #fb #
• China Daily also says its the only english media that is mainstream in the “West” #fb #
• my cam version of “edge of darkness” sucked ass i couldnt finish it. r there good copies in Shanghai ? #fb #
• in case you’re interested in chrome 5 here’s some info http://is.gd/7yMZN #fb #
• if this cat remains on my wrists im gonna get carpal tunnel real fast #
• like how sarah palin calls a person a “patriot from north andover”. are there non-patriots http://is.gd/7ySh1 #fb #
• i wish rahm had just called palin a retard, if he did in public i’d give him a fuckin medal http://is.gd/7ySh1 #fb #
• i find it annoying when programs wont download cuz i’m in china. like kindle for the pc #fb #
• a myth is something that never really happened but is always happening #fb #

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• @davesgonechina the IE tab on both chrome and firefox are good ways to get the functionality w/out the damn browser #china #gfw #
• chinese govt doc focuses on needs and rights of younger generation of migrant workers http://is.gd/7rW1i #china #fb #
• saw a person at Wagas donghu yesterday that was sporting a sprightly new copy of salinger’s catcher in the rye. was a bit WTF #fb #salinger #
• RT @fzhenghu: 定于2010年2月2日下午14：00在日本成田空港第一空港南翼大楼采访区召开冯正虎关于结束露宿成田空港的记者会。要求出席的记者请与NAA广报室的担当本吉先生联系，电话：0476-34-5053 #
• @terencelau guanxi in the pharmacy = all the viagra the couple needs #
• RT @shanghaiist: Extra! Extra! Poisoned Sprite, Yangtze dams and Feng Zhenghu is finally coming home: http://tinyurl.com/y8r9pnk #fb #
• this post is saying that “stanza” is the best epub reader for osx/iphone/touch. anyone (dis)agree? #fb #
• there is a crack in everything–that’s how the light gets in. that line is still good, even after all these years #fb #

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IMG_7932, originally uploaded by monkeyking.

this is a punk/hard core band that i’ve been following, or at least watching, since 2006. they put on energetic shows and have a fairly loyal following in shanghai. no antics, just pure bristling punk energy.
i enjoy them every single time i watch them perform.

• Justice Department Clears Torture Memo Authors John Yoo, Jay Bybee of Misconduct #fb http://is.gd/7nYVE #
• human rights and haiti: or how US opposition to Aristide became more important than clean water http://is.gd/7nZve #fb #haiti #
• @jashapiro hard to say. i love my netbook running OSX–for me iPAd would just be guilty pleasure, not a replacement for anything else. #
• Senate Quietly Passes Iran Sanctions Bill #iran #fb [there was only 5 minutes of debate. must have been intense] http://is.gd/7o1fX #
• RT @zuola RT @instango #GFW 太监国大墙内手持黑莓不爱党，twitter facebook gmail gtalk gdocs gapps flickr picasaq 我都爱。党爱CCAV我不爱。人民网易人人新浪微博皆五毛。退QQ群卸搜狗重推荐王码五笔 #
• a very hazy shanghai winter morning. reminds me of this, etched in the sidewalk on southside of berkeley: purple haze, jesus saves. #fb #
• labs considered most popular breed of dog in the US for 19 years running? beagles only at #5? WTF http://is.gd/7o961 #fb #
• RT @nytimes_wire: The civil war in eastern Congo has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Hai… http://bit.ly/9O48oz #fb #
• RT @AbdAlrhman_: RT @IDoThat2: RT if you put your iPod on shuffle but hit next until you find a song you want. #idothat2 #
• @philososaurus did you have a timer or did someone else take that pic? its nice #
• man what’s with sharing commune’s Jolin soundtrack…her music blows. even more than she does #
• seeing my childhood/highschool/uni/gradskoolx2 friends on facebook is the thing that makes me miss the US the most #fb #
• @emilyminorphoto thanks for reminding me. this is the last season of LOST right #
• Haiti patients ‘will die’ because of US airlift halt http://is.gd/7oIJe #fb #
• RT @arathorn35: #90stweet if I hear the Macarena one more time #fb #
• RT @Official_jjizzy: Chicago Bulls 1995–96 Best regular season record in NBA history: 72–10. Michael Jordan led the league … #90stweet #
• @cmar55 you can spend your awake in the middle of the night time adding to the #90stweet tag i’m sho u remember enuff/use it everyday #
• #90stweet Jeremy’s spoken, in class today. (harmless little fuck) #
• some fireworks/crackers? going off in the distance, foreshadowing of things to come. where are those earplugs again ? #fb #
• A broken society, yes. But broken by Thatcher//interesting piece in Guardian–what do the brits think? http://is.gd/7pOBM #fb #
• jurassic park has the best special effects ever. Like nothing could ever top this. #90stweet #
• Run, OJ, run…don’t let the police getcha #90stweet #fb #
• first episode of season 8 of 24: a leader that espouses two station solution? only in fiction http://www.twitlet.com/ #
• that iranian prez in 24 s08 is that Indian guy who was the host in slumdog millionaire right #fb #
• is SH cracking down on foreigners in teaching gigs w/out proper visas. i’m a bit worried i do some P/T… http://bit.ly/9OVTa1 #
• Just uploaded 1 new photo to my Flickr page: http://bit.ly/cuw3jm a picture of guitarist from punk/hardcore band Loudspeaker in Shanghai #
• RT @Dwchinese: 总部位于布鲁塞尔的国际记者联合会(Internat’l Federation of Journalists) 1月31日 在香港公布了2009年中国新闻检查事件的详细报告 http://bit.ly/bjglUL #china #fb #

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• RT @_dwin: Geremie R. Barmé is excellent on Google’s ideological cold-war on the CCP. http://bit.ly/cKVzKj #
• @Chinkerfly im insulted you would even dare thing mexican food outside cali could be in the same league (”u cant be us or see us!”) #
• RT @taweili: Etch A Scratch vs iPad http://bit.ly/bXeojs iPad got its ass wiped! Live live the Etch A Scratch! #fb #
• fuck me i am watching this Ipad introduction on youtube and despite myself jonesing for it http://is.gd/7ls5J #fb #
• a good summary of advantages that netbooks have over the ipad http://is.gd/7lzVO #fb #
• there’ #
• national geographic does photos on street food, included are shanghai’s shengjian 生煎 http://is.gd/7lMqr #china #shanghai #fb #

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