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Can anyone help out? I really like the sound track.

Thanks..::100rubies

But, I will belabor...

I love it when good things come together, like Daft Punk and Kanye West. Add me in the mix and we've got Neapolitan ice cream.

Thu 17 Jan – Lonely China Day(寂寞夏日) @ Star live's crowd looked like a sedated lounge audience. I've never seen nor heard Lonely China Day before, but for a first listen and see I report, not bad.

It's kind of strange watching a live trio play with a laptop. The drummer was constantly a part of the moment, but the two guitarists at times looked as though they were mimicking a guitar role. The lead singer, Deng Pei, may have been peeved about sound quality. In spite of his troubles, his voice and gesticulations paired with the music as a whole brought out a Sigur Rós meets Radiohead sound.

I love lyrics and while Indie music promises me unique stories of love and angst, Lonely China Day's music held its own; I'm still studying Mandarin (less than a year). Curious to know if they sounded just as good live, my brother bought a CD and I'd have to say both on CD and seen live are on par with each other.

Deng Pei left the stage in an awkward manner during the end of his last song. He danced around a little like Joy Division's Ian Curtis, then stepped off front stage, clapping as if applauding the audience and walked off to the left and never returned. As soon as his guitarist and drummer had completed the song, they too left the stage and no one returned for a bow, a thank you, or an encore. My guess is the audience disappointed them and their vanishing was their silent F'you.

They're playing again tomorrow at Yu Gong Yi Shan and this venue might be more promising with regards to ambiance.

Event link on MySpace: http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show_ID=24334156&friendid=55933667

Band Myspace link for more events: www.myspace.com/lonelychinaday

Sure the adjusting is a little tough, especially when I'm reminded of how many things I'm missing in San Francisco from the mountains, ocean, parents, and clean air to the food and music!

But, February 1st at Tango (Beijing), Infected Mushroom comes to my senses. I prefer the world smaller even though it is expanding in the universe. Ah! Is that San Francisco hippie new age speak I utter?

Dancing in my seat to Shakawkaw

Now can someone just specify which Tango in Beijing I can find this night? Oh the complexities of China. :P

I ran into an old track that I remember loving dearly.

Hijo De La Luna - Mecano

It just goes to show how possible it is to love what we don't understand.

Another thing to point out about love... we can love a song and five years can pass finding ourselves still loving the same song or genre. Why is that we look back on old hairstyles, old clothes, old flames, and cannot feel the same way. Well, I suppose I can't generalize that much. There are a lot of things from the past that I'll always love, without understanding but plenty of reason.

I like lingering in the past when I'm sensing anything except a choking sensation that leads to tears. I do love the other senses that take me back and keep me remembering only the sunshine, winding roads, the ocean, smells of coffee while a street car clinks and clacks by the front store window, and the southeast corner of Dolores Park that overlooks San Francisco's skyline, the Bay Bridge, and the Berkeley hills.

Do you have a song that takes you home to the Bay Area? Another place you call home? Perhaps a song that reminds you of a place you'd like to call home someday?

Here are some songs that take me home:
Sun Is Shining - Bob Marley
La Vie En Rose - Grace Jones
Dos Gardenias - Buena Vista Social Club
Wild World - Cat Stevens
Lion's Mane - Iron & Wine
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Green Eyes- Coldplay
On a cold day off of Jackson Street or walking into City Lights Bookstore
If I Should Lose You - Charlie Parker
Swallowed in the Sea - Coldplay
Ease Your Feet in the Sea - Belle & Sebastian
They Can't Take That Away From Me - Billie Holiday
You're Going To Make Me Lonesome When You Go - Bob Dylan
Digital Love - Daft Punk
Kese Kese - Cheb I Sabbah

More to be added as they come to me

Watching a little bit of the I'm Your Man Tribute Concert DVD to Leonard Cohen, I caught a line from the man and had to keep it to memory. I'll share it here with you.

Every time you grab at love, you will lose a snowflake of your memory. - Leonard Cohen

[video artist=Leonard Cohen]I'm Your Man[/video]

If you haven't seen Cashback and the hyper-sensitive, hyper-real, hyper-intense depiction of a breakup to salvation of one's heart through the find of another... see it.

The scene in which the main character walks through the grocery store aisles slowly lifting clothes off ladies shopping, revealing lovely female anatomy has "What Else Is There?" paired with the scene.