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[elysesewell]

Mandarin pop enthusiasts, I have a favor to ask of you: does anyone recognize the first song in this video (it starts at about :20)? Can you hook up the title and artist, or an mp3? Sorry to make you click through, but this is coming from the Chinese Youtube and I can't find the embed code. [Video via ChinaSMACK] EDIT: I got it! Thank you, ic70492.

Comments

[haruhiko]

Yeah, sushi purists bug me too--I admit I prefer the authentic stuff because I love the raw fish (and I have relatives who trained as sushi chefs/own Japanese restaurants), but I will always wolf down a huge-ass, sauce-infested, over-the-top maki any time, anywhere.

However, that cheez-'n-Long-John-Silver-popcorn-shrimp thing looks foul.

EDIT: About a decade ago I worked with a hot Pakistani dude who explained the "-wala" suffix to me and ever since then I've been wishing it would be used more often. So thank you for that. XD

MANDARIN POP???

[waynefromlorain]

Are these guys number one in China Elyse? They sound like the Chinese version of Dexies Midnight Runners.

Re: MANDARIN POP???

[waynefromlorain]

I can just imagine the monumental difficulty of tracking down a song or a group in China. I listen to the local College radio station and hear music from an obscure artist I can't identify. The song stays in my head and I must have it or suffer music withdrawls. I also play charades and have question and answer sessions with the local music store hipsters until we can do Columbo proud and ferret out the song and artist. By the way it's DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS from the eighties that I meant to say.

[reydesef]

Where was the horrible sushi in Boise? I need to know where to avoid.

[elysesewell]

Oh man, impossible to remember. I rolled into Boise really late at night on a road trip and it was the only place open, on the second floor of a big mall that must've been in a really obvious right-off-the-freeway zone. Any idea where I could be talking about? You should probably avoid this sushi; it tasted like they shake shacked it out of Granny's nooks and crannies.

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[crooksandlucy]

-half-asleep in groggy hammers, trying to imagine you charading juke history made me laugh so hard that i almost choked to death on my own hangover

-i thought that cheese was illegal in china? or that it just disappeared or something when brought into the country.

-i think, in that sense, the past tense is blowed

Re: 3

[elysesewell]

-I am a subtle genius at charades. Gimme one vegetable bao, what's the song that was playing no not this one but the one before, please come check my room because I think that the same malign spirit who made me get rid of my bike is getting in through the heating duct: these are among my masterpieces.

-Milk powder + Vaseline = shanzhai cheese (pictured above)

-You're probably right but it can't be helped now. Writ in stone, and all that.

Re: 3

[crooksandlucy]

i asked a guy in the deli downstairs and he said that it's "blew"

his example:
(points at sandwich in hand)"i got a sandwich earlier and there was an eye in it. it blew."

Sneaky

[messenger_rna]

That's sneaky, when I was in high school I worked at Kmart, they would pay us in cash, but you had to go to the back office to get your pay, then walk the whole store with cash in your hand to get out, it was very easy to shop along the way!