A few days ago I went to a music festival “Sunset on Sizihwan Bay and fall in love with Kaoshiung” (愛戀高雄). It was the last day of a long running festival going from the 6th of July till the 31st of August, featuring free parking, free water-banana and kayak rides and open performances of some [...]

1 Sep, 2008 in Tainan, Taiwanese Pop Culture

“Made in Tainan” took place last Saturday at the Anping harbor area in western Tainan. Tainan Bulletin had the following :

14:00~14:50 Sun Of Morning
15:00~15:50 Bugs Of Phonon
16:00~16:50 The Sawbucks
17:00~17:50 Divebomb
18:00~18:50 Mr.Dirty
19:00~19:50 130 Dollars
20:00~20:50 Full House
21:00~21:50 Uli And The Rulers

Tickets:14:00~16:00 ONLY NT100   After 14:00 NT200, includes 1 [...]

4 Jul, 2008 in Taiwanese Pop Culture

This is the 6th post on the topic of Taiwanese music and musicians. Previous posts include :

Mandarin Chinese music - More great singers I listen to in Taiwan - Wong Faye, 陳綺貞
Pop Chinese music in Taiwan continued : Joi Chua (蔡淳佳) and Jay Chou (周杰倫)
Taiwanese music - Recommended Mandarin Chinese artists from [...]

28 Jun, 2008 in Taiwanese Pop Culture

This is the 5th post on the topic of Taiwanese music and musicians. Previous posts include :

Mandarin Chinese music - More great singers I listen to in Taiwan - Wong Faye, 陳綺貞
Pop Chinese music in Taiwan continued : Joi Chua (蔡淳佳) and Jay Chou (周杰倫)
Taiwanese music - Recommended Mandarin Chinese artists from [...]

20 Aug, 2007 in Taiwanese Pop Culture

One of my absolute all-time favorite movies is "Lost in Translation". There’s this one scene in which Bob can’t fall asleep and so he opens the TV and looks for something to watch, only to find a bunch the most bizarre TV shows.
After a few sleepless nights and pointless zip-zapping, I give you… Lost in [...]