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Food Tube

AKA weejay, or sometimes James

About Me

I'm a multi-talentless non-musician from nowhere in particular (for the sake of argument England) who made some "songs" one weekend in 2004 (above), probably the end of my "musical" career. All free to download as nobody in their right mind would want to pay for (or download) them.In the real world I usually teach English to foreign types and sometimes write and take photos. If I can find a way of making enough money from writing I'll stop teaching. Stranger things have happened.
As I write this (again, unpaid) I'm in the UK and about to go back to China for a while. After that I'm not sure yet - South-East Asia, Australasia and South America will probably be in the next couple of years. If I could just get paid to travel that would be ideal.
In the meantime here are the.. erm... "projects" I'll be working on -
1. The blog - either above or a better version at http://weejay.livejournal.com
2. If you just want to look at the photos then better go to my photobucket account.
3. Unusual food blog (this is what the name "Food Tube" is for) - http://foodtube.livejournal.com
4. Podcast - coming early next year. Why am I doing a podcast? You'll see. Also I'm sure you'll be relieved to hear I'm not producing any actual music for it myself.
Update: Go listen to my podcast - http://lastnightadjkilledmydog.libsyn.com/

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/9/2005
Band Website: foodtube.livejournal.com
Band Members: Little Timmy, Quince Crampton, Keith Burtons and Frank The Bat.
Influences: James Blunt, Jimmy Nail, Joe Dolce Music Theatre, St Winifred's School Choir, Lolly, Clive Dunn, Las Ketchup, Fast Food Rockers, Black Lace, Northern Uproar, Celine Dion, Westlife, Vanilla, The Wombles, Milli Vanilli, Nickleback, Crazy Frog, Goombay Dance Band, Mr Blobby, Gay Dad, Boney M, The Barron Knights, Ozmotron, Keane, Oasis, The Beatles, Elvis, Mozart, BBC Sound Effects Volume 7, Food Tube
Sounds Like: A guy with a laptop and Acid Pro Audio but lacking in patience or musical talent.
Record Label: FCO Recordings Inc
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Phnom Penh

For every disappointment like Saigon there's at least a few pleasant surprises, like Phnom Penh for example. What makes it so different from the former is hard to say, though. If Saigon is a red light...
Posted by Food Tube on Fri, 30 May 2008 02:07:00 PST

Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)

Sooner or later there was bound to be a city I just didn't take to, and that city turned out to be Saigon - a slightly unfortunate note to leave Vietnam on. I suppose things started badly on the train...
Posted by Food Tube on Sun, 25 May 2008 09:02:00 PST

Central Vietnam

The longest train journey you can take is from the south of Portugal, across Europe and Russia, down through China and all the way to Ho Chi Minh city in the south of Vietnam. I'm not about to attempt...
Posted by Food Tube on Sat, 17 May 2008 05:39:00 PST

Hanoi

It was a full day's journey to get from Sapa to Hanoi - the first hour on the back of a motorbike and another 12 sitting on a bench on a very slow train. The carriage was near empty for most of the jo...
Posted by Food Tube on Tue, 13 May 2008 09:38:00 PST

Sapa

Getting from Jinhong (in China) to Sapa (in Vietnam) was a small nightmare. Jinhong is near the Burmese and Laotian borders and people often use it as a first stop in China, or a last stop out of Chin...
Posted by Food Tube on Fri, 09 May 2008 08:06:00 PST

Xishuangbanna

As I left Lijinag Mama Naxi packed me off with a selection of fruit and a bag of lavender and sent me with one of her drivers to the bus station, where I got on the sleeper bus to Jinhong. Sleeper bus...
Posted by Food Tube on Sun, 04 May 2008 08:17:00 PST

Lijiang

On the advice of Dylan from the hotel in Dali I saved myself a couple of quid by getting the bus to Lijiang from the side of the road instead of booking it through an agency in town. That's how I came...
Posted by Food Tube on Thu, 01 May 2008 07:47:00 PST

Butterfly Deathcamp Themepark

I was sitting in Mr Li's cafe in Dali, wondering what I was going to do with my day, when I noticed a list of local festivals. As it so happened, one of them was on that very day - the "Butterfly Fest...
Posted by Food Tube on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:10:00 PST

Dali

Arriving in Dali I couldn't help thinking "What a dump." The dusty dirtiness, the urinal-grey-tiled buildings, the aggressive taxi drivers... All seemed calculated to induce a feeling of weary disgust...
Posted by Food Tube on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:11:00 PST

Yangshuo and Kunming

The journey to Yangshuo was all too familiar - the same uncomfortable hard-sleeper where they locked all the toilets at midnight, the same unwelcome 7am arrival in Guilin and the all-too-familiar bus ...
Posted by Food Tube on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:12:00 PST