I guess I'll just stare at the wold's biggest shark's fin while listening to my iPod instead

Macaroni and Cheeses for Baby Jesus!

Why does baby jesus hate me so much? Look at all these bands in Vancouver! Cat Power! National? Bonnie Prince Billy? Sufjan Stevens? Of Montreal? This happened the last time I was in Hong Kong and is simply a case of geography. We get the bands either starting or ending the legs of their tours in Vancouver so our shows are spring and fall heavy.

Cat Power is the one that I'm really miffed at. She's infamous for stage shows which border on mental breakdown. She's cancelled a number of shows already for "health reasons" and there's no reason why I wouldn't expect if for this tour of the show either. I liked the way she has an early and late show. Maybe she'll just show up for the late show. Maybe she'll have a nervous breakdown after the first show and not be around for the late show. You just don't know! The best part is that despite her emotional instability, her songs have a beautuiful stripped down clarity to them.

I must admit though that I did have the chance to see DJ Shadow here but I was just unwilling to shell out the $140 cdn to see him. Truth of the matter is though, if you want to see a show, that's just what you have to pay. I should have gone.

While I'm ranting here, I've noticed that conversations I have here in Hong Kong often have some sort of connection to my weight. The most common one is: "Hey, you finish this food. You're a big guy!" I like the way it infers that I'm in an eating contest. The second most common one centers around some story with a fat guy in it: "...and he was even fatter than you!" Great, thanks. That explains why the last time I saw a doctor here he said my ideal weight was 140 lbs. When I said that was like 20 lbs lighter than what I thought my ideal weight was, he told me those charts are for white people. I immediatly grew suspicous and looked over his "degrees." I had to calm myself down by asking "What would Jesus do?"