Were we just in China????? Man, traveling is fucked up.

20 hours on a plane and then you're on the complete other side of the globe.

We got picked up at the airport and stepped out into the steamy, polluted haze of Beijing.

We saw the Forbidden City and climbed a "No Tourists Allowed" part of the Great Wall and we played a show at one of the only bars in Beijing that houses rock bands. 

We were shocked to find out people smoked in bars. It was like living in Back To The Future -- The Chinese Version. We played with Final Flash and fell in love with their music and sound.

We next flew to Shanghai were everyone gets Shanghigh on Shanghash. Played for 350 Chinese people and felt like the language barrier was finally crossed. People danced and clapped and sang the melodies with us. The whole, "Music is a Unversal Language" was really felt by us, it was great.

It was incredible to watch So-Called sing his Jewish hybrid hip hop songs and have the Chinese people dancing around. picking up the words and rhythms.

We then flew to Shenzen, where literally thousands and fucking THOUSANDS of markets are clustered together, divided by ATM machines, it's like Vegas for shoppers, and while I was there, a song started to form in my head. The words are pretty complex but I'll share it with you anyway. It goes like this:

BUY BUY BUY

BUY BUY BUY

BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY

BUY BUY BUY

BUY BUY BUY

BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY.

Our show in Shenzin was rockin. The night before we played, Hollerado played and, man they are AWESOME. Mark my words: Hollerado are going to be HUGE. We made tons of new friends there (humans and cockroaches) and the next morning we were driven to Hong Kong.

When we  arrived, all we wanted to do was decompress so the five of us ferried to Lamma Island, a fisherman's island where no cars exist. Once there, everything I bought in Shenzen was useless and eaten up by lizards and jungle ants. 

The only thing I wore was army pants, a turban, and a loose shirt. The turban picked up most of the spiders and caterpillars dangling from bamboo tops in the jungle, and... I never want to eat sea food again. 

Love,

CowBella