Here's the everlasting and awesome Emmylou Harris singing 'Luxury Liner'. This comes courtesy of a band called White Denim who curated a video music set on the Gorilla vs Bear website last week. If you don't know any of these guys, you should. White Denim are an Austin-based rock band, hard but groovy with psychedelic... Continue Reading →
Attention All Campers!
Autumn is SCHOOL CAMP season in Hong Kong. The weather’s fine and dry, slightly cooler. It's the perfect time for our upper primary and secondary school students to kayak, rappel, gorge walk, team build, stay up late, eat white bread and mystery meats, and of course wear the same t-shirt for four days straight! But... Continue Reading →
Monday Morning Music: Never Can Say Goodbye
But when you're an expat, you do say goodbye. A lot. Sometimes your friends leave in bunches, and it feels as dispiriting as flood gates you just can't close. Sometimes you reach a nice equilibrium where everyone you enjoy hanging with renews their contracts and leases and decides to stay. But this is Hong Kong,... Continue Reading →
My Madonna is Better Than Your Madonna
I got a little worked up about things and then I had to stop. I had to watch ‘Vogue’ on YouTube and then I had to ask myself: why am I getting so worked up about this? What a colossal waste of my time and energy. By this I mean Miley Cyrus and all her... Continue Reading →
Monday Morning Music: Das Fluff
There's music for the country, music for the city, music for driving the open road and music for riding the subway, music for day and music for night. If you're in the mood for some cool urban, night time tunes, look no further than Das Fluff. They're a British group and they're not easy to... Continue Reading →
New Page – Maneki Neko’s R Us!
I may take some heat for this, but I don't care. My ongoing urban photography project is now a full-blown obsession. Left hand up, right hand up. Gold, white, black, pink. Moving or stationary. If you want to know what the hell I'm talking about, please have a look at the newest page on this... Continue Reading →
Lost in Translation, but beautifully so…
Sometimes my blog gets hit by comments that inhabit this netherworld between actual advertising and crazy spam. A Japanese purse retailer called bagmutton.com commented on my Das Fluff piece by merely writing 'Prada Hermes' (the Prada was in Japanese, had to Google Translate that). Must be code for 'Das Fluff rock Tokyo on a regular... Continue Reading →
Embrace the Dance
Let's begin with a little lyrical inspiration, courtesy of a short-lived but lovely television show called ‘Bunheads’. Watch this with your child, it’s beautiful. Then keep reading, then watch this again, because you'll want to. I think I’m back. Well, the kids are in school, I’m writing, editing, organizing carpools, meal planning, all the stuff... Continue Reading →
Monday Morning Music: Miranda Lambert
Highway 12 heading west out of San Marcos, driving in and out of rain. High school football stadiums and farm to market roads. Sheep chewing on grass by the fence posts and country on the radio. Lightning forking through the horizon sky. Almost all of me is back in Hong Kong. The rest, a small... Continue Reading →
Edward Snowden Gabs With therockmom: Why I’m In Hong Kong
For my Hong Kong peeps, both near and far, we interrupt our regularly-scheduled blog on music and parenting for a rockmom exclusive! Not since Jean Claude Van Damme washed up on our shores to resurrect his career has there been so much excitement about a new resident. Yes, I’m talking about Edward Snowden – a... Continue Reading →
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