ad hoc, chiayi rock

some old changhua friends came into town last night to see chiayi rockers ad hoc at the grooveyard. what a great show! tight solid fun rock n roll. they brought a throng of chiayi fans up on a bus to see the show. go see'em if you get a chance.

here's a link to their site. from there you can navigate to a couple youtube vids or their myspace site...

chickens really do live after their heads are cut off, the 5 second rule is bunk, water drains in the sink according to the size and shape of the basin and a poppy seed bagel may indeed make you test positive for opiates...

live science and the 20 common 'myths' in science...

'Quantum Boggs'

Quantum Boggs: Episode II

The adventure continues as Hall of Famer Wade Boggs goes back in time to help Dan Marino acquire the necessary skills to win Super Bowl 19. POW!

In case you missed the first one, I'm pleased to present Episode I here in its entirety...

edit: I'm linking to the video on youtube... I don't know what's up with youtube lately but i've been waiting ages for some of these videos to load. And often they get cut off in the middle. So here it is, Episode I, all of it, if you can get it.

'Night Owls'

the Vlogpond is happy to present this short film from Albatross Productions, called Night Owls. Sean Scanlan interviews a Taipei noodle lady about the noisy foreigners living upstairs... funny!

The Crappapellis, a short about a musical family by Erin King

back to the link list... i've added a few good ones...

Michael Turton's The View From Taiwan is all Taiwan all the time with lots of handy links. I've been visiting his blog for along time, as has anyone who's even surfed 'taiwan blogs'. He's well known to anyone into the Taiwan blogosphere. A genuine cyber celeb. I'm probably the last Taiwan blog to even mention him. That aside, his blog is the Taiwany-est and well worth a visit. The Blogfather!

The Chocolate President and the Hungry Donkeys is well written, smart and funny. This is the domain of Erin King , formerly of Taichung, currently of Taipei. Erin played music with Taichung live act Milk for years. He's associated with Albatross Productions , a Taipei based film group.

Check out The Crazy 8 - Erin stars as a Taipei pool hustler.

ch-ch-changes

i've redone my link list, finally. changed the font too. now it looks like old school typing. not that this is going to make any of these posts more fun to read but it looks better to me anyway. when i got up this morning the background was pink, or salmon or some kind of pastel color. it looked fine but i've changed it back not 'cause it was gay but just because it was either unintentional or unauthorized. i'm leaning towards the unintentional change. that's what happens when you play with your layout drunk i guess. a friend once advised on blogging, "...don't blog drunk. or high. well maybe high's ok, but never drunk..." i'll try to heed his advice from now on...

anyway back to the links...to be continued cause ivo wants to read a book...

I came across this blog the other day.

Rebel Frequencies' - 'Ten Musical Reasons To Be Cheerful in 2007'

baseball batting robot video

looks kinda like a jedi blocking death rays, no follow through, but hey it's got endurance...

Ramen Man

What would millions of Asian students be snacking on without Momofuku Ando?

inventor of the instant noodle dies at 96.

I'd heard of this man before but didn't realize that he was born in Taiwan and lived here until he was 23 before moving to Japan...

"The Singhsons" intro - the Simpsons are reincarnated as Indians!

speaking of superman IVO loves to pretend he's flying, especially on slides...

shot in Taipei on the 24th, not the the 23rd like the title says

if you haven't seen this yet, check it out... 'how superman should have ended'

IVO in Taipei 12-23-06

Sandy talks to Ivo about his last day as a one year old.

Happy New Year everybody! Let's hope '07 is full of things good and giggly for all!

Yesterday marked my 10th year in Asia... I landed in South Korea on Dec 31st 1996...

In retrospect, it wasn't the best timing for arrival in a foreign country as everyone was away on holiday and I had to sleep on the floor... but young and impatient I was as opposed to old and cranky I am...

Blue skies today and we're taking the boy to the park!