Making fun of different cultures. Behind their backs. Finding out the jokes on me. Giving new meaning to the term gluttony. Lamenting my misfortune while celebrating everyone else's. Thanking Jah for the opportunities. Then taking it all for granted. Being in the right place at the wrong time. Indulging in savories, not sweets. Being in the wrong place at the right time. Celebrating the most important holiday, Halloween, when nobody knows what the fuck Im talking about. Going overboard. Without a lifejacket. Layering sarcasm with cynicism. Proving that no sin is deadly if you do it smart. Paying too much for too little. Discovering the cure for hypochondria. Fooling everyone including myself. Enjoying those extremely rare and fleeting realizations, free from all emotion, that Im not in Kansas anymore. And then loathing the rest of the time. Finding the meaning of life in a pound and a half of applewood-smoked bacon. For breakfast AND dessert.And doing my patriotic duty to fight the 'War' by spreading the good word of Jesus (not my neighbor in Queens but the carpenter guy from long ago), reporting shady-looking brown people (hey who's that sketchy guy in the mirror?), trumpeting the virtues and necessity of universal Democracy based on the American ideal (hey, it works for everyone, just look at Haiti), and espousing Peace- through superior firepower. And waving my flag.
A Shaolin master. With alot of patience. And understanding.
Una furtiva lagrima (Donizetti) and Tarpit (J Mascis). The polarity is refreshing.
Return of the Dragon, Flying Guillotine, The Big Boss, Fist Of Fury, Way Of The Dragon, Enter The Dragon, Game Of Death, Shaolin Mantis, Game Of Death II, Drunken Master, and the modern classic: Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack!
The Beeb, CNN (the British version as there is no direct US programming.) And censored Asia Family HBO ('Darn!' turns into 'Shucks!'). Thats local cable for you.
Lonely Planet China
Yang Liwei. (The censors could be watching!)