Come out and celebrate the release of SEASIDE CARAVAN, the much-anticipated second full-length album from THE RISING HEDONS (mixed and mastered by Bruce A. Miller (White Stripes, Miles Davis etc) and with mixes from Grammy Award Winner Charles Dye) The album will be available at the show and at http://www.therisinghedons.com/ on July 10th.
FRIDAY, JULY 10TH, [...]

A couple of weeks after the condom ad we had the apartment building complex shoot.
“Jesus. Why am I a waiter again?” complained Eric while we were on the way.
“It is your fault, you choose to be the waiter in the bar ad,” answered Pierre. “Now you are type-cast. You Americans should understand that principle: all [...]

I was once recruited to do a condom ad.

When i asked the agent why she wanted a foreigner, she explained it thus: abortion rates were among the highest in the world, and the condom manufacturer believed there was a market if he could get his message out. Unfortunately, when he had done an advert before [...]

Starting this Saturday 27th !! [Free entrance]
Music by Black reign Crew from 5pm to 12am or more ! .. depend if people want to leave or not aha ..
Schedule
June 27 /// July 11, 25 /// August 8, 22 /// September 5, 19 /// October 3, 17, 31
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May 16, 2009 @ Bliss Livehouse
Presented by MalFunction
Track Selectahs: Mixter-T, Elemence, Coffeepot, V-Dub
Lyrical Stylahs: BabbleOn, Shaman, Stoppa MC, Cortez

This might have been the first time a drum and bass event was ever held at Bliss… and the livehouse was rockin! It’s not really that big of a place because performances usually only happen on the [...]

Here is some info from a friend of mine that is going to have a fundraiser for his hip replacement surgery. Make sure to go to the Red Wolf tavern and drink your asses off and help raise some money for him. Consider it charity work.
Fundraiser party at The Red Wolf [...]

Check out video for the reggae party at Wa li lei. Looked like it was a great time for everyone.
From our friends at Island Jam

The Real Taiwan website was started to offer a window on Taiwan to anyone that was interested. The original goal of the site was to be a community site with many authors and contributors. I am looking for people that would like to join me in sharing Taiwan with the world with weekly or monthly [...]

Taipei, June 12th 2009
My-Cool-SMS, cutting-edge web based SMS messaging gateway and enterprise
service provider, has announced a partnership with WaaKao, an interactive
information portal dedicated to the promotion of art and culture,
political commentary, music and parties in Taiwan.
The partnership between My-Cool-SMS and WaaKao is based on a free SMS
notification service that informs subscribers of upcoming events, such [...]

Here is the first of many videos we will be sharing with everyone here from our friend Monkeetime. They provide an interesting look at various components of Taiwan and living in the ROC. This first video is nice for anyone looking to research Taiwan, possibly for living or for teaching English [...]

Tainan is very crowded, very urban, and almost totally paved over. There are trees and parks, but few people work with the soil other than in flower pots.
A few years ago Tainan Theological College gave several people from the neighborhood the freedom to [...]

GET TO THE BEACH FOR REGGAE BEACHFEST
ISLANDJAM 是首次在北部舉行的大型雷鬼海灘音樂日,
結合了所有在台灣最專業的雷鬼音樂DJ,歌手和樂團同台演出，將會是一場精彩的表演，這次的活動將位於淺水灣哇哩咧義式餐廳，是個有室內外的地方，鄰近海灘，也是一個讓你完全放鬆的環境, 同時也將提供多樣美食美酒和。Islandjam Reggae Beachfest at Walilei is the first reggae beach festival in the north of taiwan featuring the best of Taiwan’s reggae bands and djs. Walilei’s beachfront provides great rain or shine venue for food fun and non-stop reggae!
Bands and Artists will include:
3pm-6pm Selectah Zion(France) [...]

here is a video by the Travel and Living channel about biking the East side of Taiwan. Biking is becoming more and more popular in Taiwan so if you should come here, bring a bike or buy one here so you can get some exercise and see the beautiful lesser traveled side of Taiwan [...]

Here is a pointless video. Some Taiwanese thought it would be funny to park a scooter in teh road and then crash into it. Perhaps a few Taiwan beers gave the rider courage to make the moronic maneuver.