Taiwanese black metal band Chthonic is awesome, but you probably won't be able to use their songs for learning Chinese :D

"the global community wants good ties with China above anything else, and China can exploit that."

Well isn't that what other big countries do? And no, having democracy back home does not f.in justify anything.

Shit I haven't seen these, they have to be really entertaining :) I only saw the chick discussing her new vibrator on the forum, that was epic :D

You should call that place "UpDnB" or "UpTrance" :) Seriously, there was no place from sep 2008-july 2009 in Kunming which plays good rock music all the time, except from a few concerts. I dunno what's the situation now though...

haha I still have some Yunnan coffee for preparing for my exams, and it's strong as hell, and tastes moderately good :D