I knew as I read this that the guy would be torn apart in the comments, and I think that is right.

Then I got to the part about 100/200 kuai....

This guy's a douche.

I thought I had a few little problems that needed attention in my life, but after reading this...I am not the one with any problems! This is really some GOOD bullshit!

"My Chinese fans seem to understand my music intuitively".

Seems that you are counting on a pretty high level of intuition yourself to think that your Chinese fans are going to even "intuitively"understand YOU!

"I adore Asian women." "They seem to be unattainable, and so I can only live my adoration for them in a virtual way."

Wow, deep, wonder what a virtual orgasm is like? And what makes Asian women more attainable or unattainable than women from any other place in the world? Come on!

This is the biggest load of crap. Oh, I am sure you have "found yourself" but it seems there are a few screws still on the ground. "...the release from the parents." I bet your folks could sure do with the break.

"...here starts this decomposed, beautiful city's grey, eternally resting desperation." AND "...Like an infant, lying in the black of the uterus in his helpless decomposition." AND "...by uniting with this woman – representing the opposite of my mother – I had performed some kind of "mother exorcism."

I just had to include these examples of what this guy said in his interview for all the readers. Now I ask you: Are you going to pay 100 or 200 Yuan to see this guy Saturday night?

Get real.

"I Am Nothing But Emotion, No Human Being, No Son, Never Again Son."

"What I am doing here. Aren't I anything else but a helpless, small, deserted and sad child?"

"I'm like a scared roe deer, an abandoned child, a mite in the universe,"

He sounds like a real hoot. Hope the music can lift the cheesy lyrics.

"Here I have this strange, sacred feeling to be in an oasis, in a bubble, on the moon. In a space that one cannot reach by moving towards it, but only by exclusiveness. Here I am unattainable. Safe. Protected. Independent. Maybe for the first time in my life. I had to leave my home and to travel to the other side of the world to finally find myself."

Yeah, like, awsome man. Find yourself. Far out.

The parties, the jams, the pool, the random Tuesday's till sunrise, Sam, Xin Xin, the faces, the fights,the first place where locals and foreigners mixed in any real way, the little den of darkness with so much light! Speak Easy!

I've been in Beijing for 2 years now but was in Kunming during the Speakeasy glory days when it was *the* place to go for partying and assorted troublemaking. I can hardly imagine KM without the Speak. Cheers to Lao Lu, Sam, David, Xin Xin and everyone else who made it what it was!

Pity. It has been quite an institution.
Unfortunately i am missing this last weekend. And i was already looking forward to their 2010 Halloween party...!!

A woman walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a double entendre. So, the bartender gives her one.

I enjoyed reading about the Dwarf Empire. I will make sure that when I come to Kunming I will go visit the park and take many pictures.I am also a dwarf person and i am from kerala{a state in India}.

GO buy a fish. This dog business is disgusting as are the majority of their owners.

I just bought a new town house SPECIFICALLY because they do not allow animals of any kind. I would guess it is the only place with a policy like this. Can't wait until it is built!

Great!

And more dogowners who dont know how do train a dog or really think Kunming is a good environment for Huskeys.....
And even more dogs who have to live on tiny balconies just because their owners have no clue to train them to pee outside under a bush.
And lots and lots of so calles "breeders" who have no idea of what they are doing. They are no breeders, those are dog production places.
And more dogs living on the street in a couple of month, going to be catched by the guys in the nice van and killed afterwards.

A bear walks into a bar and says to the bartender, "I'll have a gin and................................................................ tonic." The bartender says, "Sure buddy, but why the big pause?" The bear looks up at the bartender and says matter of factly, "I was born with them."

Sounds wonferful.

I suppose I should have phrased my comment differently- what I meant was that while the Kunming shift change policy is annoying and probably somewhat less than ideal, it isn't completely illogical. When I was in Shanghai last month I asked a driver about the change and she told me they go one day on, one day off; so there's no real crunch time in the middle of a day.

Bucko,

Kunming's taxis are not even close to being the dirtiest in China, much less the world. Smaller cities across the country use vehicles that look like they've survived mortar attacks. Even in Chongqing, the cabs are so badly outfitted that ordinary speed bumps provide an uncomfortable experience for the passenger.

I hope you will have some footage of China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) and the role they played with the Flying Tigers. CNAC was a partnership of the Chinese government and Pan Am and pioneered the Hump routes over the Himalayas, even before WWII. They were the main source of supply for the AVG and continued to fly the Hump throughout the war and afterward.

A group of CNAC Association members will be in Kunming in September (2010), including Moon Chin one of the surviving pilots of that era.