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I went to Sally’s birthday party at the Hangout bar in Tainan and they had a special treat. Girls dancing on the stage in lingerie. It is amazing what you can see sometimes in Taiwan if you just get out.

Here is a list of the Spring Scream 2008 bands that have been accepted to play this year. Some of these bands may eventually drop out and not play, but his is a good idea of who will actually be there.

Update:
The guys at Spring Scream caught wind of the error. I [...]

I stumbled upon a new site created by Taiwan bloggers David and Mark. I personally think it is great. I always enjoy checking gout the older pictures and thinking about the way things might have been. Good job guys.
vintage Taiwan photos

A new music pub has opened up in Tainan City. It is called The Checkered Record. It is literally an underground club, located on the Si Men Road and Minzu Road circle (the circle with the prostitutes on it). It is a very small place, and has a bit of charm to [...]

update:
The presidential election between Frank Hsieh and Ma Ying Jiu is just about over Ma is currently leading by about 2 million votes (7.6 million to 5.4 million). Ma is way ahead in and appears to be a lock to become the next president of Taiwan. Let’s hope that his promises ring true.

I had the pleasure of taking two vacationers out for the day today. They wanted to see the country, so we hopped in the car and cruised to a place in Tainan County called the 曾文水庫 Tseng (Zun) Wen Reservoir.
Joe and Jason

are from Texas and Maryland, and it is their first [...]

Election time is here once again in Taiwan and we are in the throws of the carnival like atmosphere that is Taiwanese politics. Political rallies can be heard far and wide (literally, as I am currently being blasted in my 10th floor apartment with information about upcoming rallies from trucks that cruise slowly down [...]

Spring Scream Rat
I have been getting a bit pissed off at the Spring Scream management this year because all of the emails I sent them never got any response. This site is one of the best archives of information and photos for Spring Scream and has been doing at our own cost for some [...]

This is a shirt that one of my students often wears to class. In Taiwan, the style for a long time now is to have English words on your T-shirts. Sometimes they have no errors and are grammatically sound. Many times though they will contain spelling errors, garbled words and/or terrible grammar.
Here [...]

Here is a photo I couldn’t resist taking while I was at the Taiwan Lantern Festival. The festival was a totally wholesome event with scores of children and families out to enjoy the sunshine, lanterns, and events set up for their enjoyment. I was walking around and saw this guy and was at [...]

It was a busy Saturday, but it was worth it in the end. I made it down to The Rolling Stone in Tainan to see local band Divebomb

Ilan band The Deadly Vibes

and from parts unknown the Lust Sluts Burlesque art/performance show
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Steven Vigar was on hand with some friends to help take photographs [...]

The forum I set up to promote music and photography in Taiwan is picking up a bit. One reason I set the forum up was because I was spending so much time getting info from bands every week it just became too much of a burden, so I decided instead of letting the emphasis [...]

Taking photos is so easy these days with the dropping costs of digital cameras and memory cards it is possible for so many people to take thousands of photos and pick out their jewels for display. I am personally enjoying this side of photography myself, but the further I delve into it, the harder [...]

Ping Lang, or Bin Lang, or Betelnut is a topic that just never really gets old at The Real Taiwan. This video shows a bikini clad betelnut girl that is showing people on a bus what to do to eat the nuts.
Weather is 12 degree celc. , the girl wear Bikini to sell ping [...]

Here is another video that can be considered brutal and graphic. It is from a street camera and shows a car driving down the street and taking out a woman that is walking with her back to the car. Please don’t watch if you are upset by such things.
One thing that really bothers [...]