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Carsick Cars: who fucking smoke my Zhongnanhai?

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , , , on October 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Carsick Cars is a fairly new Beijing rock band which I discovered via MusicBrainz only yesterday. After listening to the repetetive lyrics and riffy guitar of 中南海 (Zhōngnánhǎi) I think I’m hooked! The title refers to the name of a popular brand of cigarettes, but Zhongnanhai is also the name of the area to the [...]

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张信哲《做你的男人》 Jeff Chang - Be Your Man

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , , , , on May 31, 2007 | 18 Comments »

This Friday I’m going to do something rather stupid: I’m going to sing on a stage for the first time in more than four years, in Chinese. It’s actually just outtakes for a talent contest at school, so it’s hardly important. Anyway, the song is Be Your Man (做你的男人) by Jeff Chang (张信哲) and to [...]

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童话

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , , , on October 13, 2006 | 3 Comments »

I really like this song by 王光良 (Wáng Guāngliáng). The first time I heard it was in Sweden. The second time was outside a market here in Beijing. I recognized it and asked someone what it was called. I thought he said 红花 (hóng huā) but when I came home I couldn’t find a song [...]

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一封家书

Posted in Nonsense, tagged , , , on September 15, 2006 | 2 Comments »

In class today we listened to a song called 一封家书 (A Letter Home) by 李春波 (Li Chunbo). It’s from 1993 and is quite well known (in China). Because I’m bored and because I think the song says something about Chinese culture, I’ll try translating the lyrics. Our teacher already did part of the job, of [...]

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