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Oct 05, 2004 17:12

Three shows in two days! We played Sunday afternoon at the much-vaunted Beijing Midi Music Festival at the Beijing Sculpture Garden after the whole thing was nearly cancelled due to complaints by neighbors. I grant it was quite loud: I could hear Reflector playing from 400 meters away in a cab on Chang'an Avenue. They worked out a compromise ( Read more... )

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bokane October 5 2004, 07:12:35 UTC
Well, for what it's worth, I like Yang Meng's singing. And if you guys do a full-scale concert before I get back, I'm going to be royally pissed.

"Frozen Fairyland" sounds good for 冷库仙境. You could probably make an argument for "Freezerland" or "Refrigerated Neverland," but neither's as good.

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msittig January 3 2005, 18:20:44 UTC
A few weeks ago I was checking out the Haruki Murakami books at CD/books/movie shop "2046" here in Shanghai, and smiled when I ran across the following one of his books:

Japanese title: 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド (sekai no owari to haadoboirudo wandaarando)
English title: "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World"
Chinese title: 冷酷仙境与世界尽头

I wonder where the 冷酷仙境 came from because it's not exactly the most faithful translation, it seems.

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Fairyland anonymous October 5 2004, 10:08:39 UTC
If they don't want to be too literal, how about "Frozen Fantasia"?

or how about the original frozen fairyland, simply "Narnia"?

Joe O

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mylifebeforeart October 5 2004, 12:41:07 UTC
I still haven't heard all your guys' music. Bring a recording of it out in November!

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anonymous October 11 2004, 01:29:02 UTC
The shows sound like fun. I have always enjoyed the performances with my bands, even though they were hectic and tiring (but I think that's part of the fun). During one of the first shows with my very first band, we had all our amps plugged into a power strip, which was sitting in front of the drummer's bass drum. The drummer had a spare set of sticks sitting on his bass drum. And during a song, the sticks rattled enough to fall off the drum, and just happened to hit the on/off switch on the power strip. So all the guitars and bass goes silent.
Hopefully, I'll get to see your band perform some time in the future :)

- Yifan

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rougebynori October 12 2004, 13:56:45 UTC
I vote for Narnia! (and since the big budget screen version of the book is in the works, it will soon have a Harry Potter-like cachet), or Frozen Fairyland. Some silly non-literal alternatives I came up with...

Retro: Winter Wonderland
Humerous: Icy Sprites
Alliterative: Frost Fairies
Sci Fi/Fairytale: Snow Queens

By the way, I know I always say this, but it's always true: I loved your That's Beijing column this month. You seriously need to publish a book of Beijing stories in the tradition of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City. Now!! With your Sanlitun diaries and this month's column, you already have a good bit finished...

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