My Little China Girl
May 12, 2007
My better half once told me a story of how a guy trying to make a move in highschool on her asked the H.S. Radio D.J. to play Bowie’s verion of IGGY POP’s China Girl (for the record, both bowie and Pop were dating Asian women at the time.. and I think Iggy married his and she got him off the smack in a way that Bowie and eno never could, but then Bowie married a man, or rather IMAN, but I digress). She was shocked and offended by this,but let’s face it… that is a fuck of a great song, but it is way to intimate for a first mixed race date, and way way way way to intimate for a never dated, detached sound… she was mortified and not even Chinese, but I still think the China refers to porcelain dolls not CHINA, but I’m not certain this would help his case. I hesitate to post this.. The Sarah Silverman joke:
I’m no racist: I love Asians… or something like that.
There seems to be a trend on flicker and vimeo, etc. of Young Asian Women photographing themselves as models… but model artists. I wonder if this is at all realted to Cindy Sherman, or Laurie Anderson, or maybe the flux fluke of Yoko Ono (bar none the most famous Asian Woman in the world… to be followed by Tokyo Rose? or what? Gong Li? All great looking). whatever the explanation, I support the…(cough cough) trend…How much? Sooooooo Much….that said, I miss the better half, like I’d miss my legs should you decide to blow them off with an IED…. and why would you want to do a shitty thing like that.
Thomas Aquinas once told me (in a book) that the revolution of Jesus Christ can be summed up in one sentance: “Love thy neighbor as thyself”.
Now most of my neighbors are Jews or mixed religious marriages (is it possible that we are the only couple not married…no…. it is probable)… but can I tell you something: I really have fallen in love with the people in my COOP… doesn’t happen often, but wow…. these are people you acutally enjoy cooperating with…they bring you music and coffee and wine and song and drums and guitars and …. well I’m not much on testiments, but I’d like to testify… that bit of Jesus works for me.. and plus he takes out the trash… god bless Jesus.
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May 12th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Hmm, My great grandfather is Chinese.. so I’m part it. Haha. But I’m Filipina (ok, a lil Chinese and Spanish too)
Anyway, does this mean that your better half is Asian (not Chinese, she says)… I could see why she was offended, haha!!
Oh, I notice that most Asians, when you tell, let’s say a Korean, that he is Japanese or Chinese, they get offended. Just something I noticed. =) I said most, not everyone.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:47 am
KO RE ANN as the day is long, though she thinks she’s american
whatever the fuck that means
wait, arn’t the americans actually mongolian chinese who walked all the way from Korea, past Russia and over the bridge at Alaska…
DUUUUUUDe she is more American than me… I’m swiss american
which is to say that all tribes are my tribe, because I know the corners of a sqaure on eht map
French, Italian (ROMAN), German (”Barbarian”), and some Russians and Jews who had a gift for turning shit into Gold… I mean to say Alchemy in which value is created from base material… shit to gold… milk to cheese, seeds to chocolate, stones to gold and diamonds, etc….
But I digress
May 13th, 2007 at 10:48 am
that is to say my kids she I ever be blessed to have one or two puppies would really probably inherit the earth, but then so shall the meek.