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 Post subject: Eisley heard in ChinaPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:54 am 
I spent my summer in real, non-westernized, rice paddy china teaching english for a culture exchange type program. One day, I was walking downtown and saw a music studio (a very rare thing) with western pianos, guitars hung on the wall, and drums could be heard in the back. I had dearly missed playing so much. A little bird told the music instructor I played so he gave me a small squatty stool and an acoustic guitar and told me to sing. So, I stuck with what I knew best and played and sang "My Lovely" to a crowd of people who had gathered to stare at the foreigner. It gave me quite a sense of pride to be spreading the Eisley love in China... even though the people couldn't understand a word I sang! _________________ http://www.myspace.com/thetornpaige www.modernvictorian.etsy.com www.myspace.com/modern_victorian |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:00 am
Wow, win. Good job! |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:47 am
I hope you gave those people a moment of happiness from daily endeavour and toil. My lovely is an adorable song - I find it dreamingly romantic  _________________ http://www.eisley-italia.tk ! "Δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω" 
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:53 am
wow, thats awesome! (i wish i could sing my lovely, i can't hit sherri notes, just stacy. hah. ) _________________ www.allisongill.net www.myspace.com/silverbugs www.last.fm/users/allisoncostello www.imahuman.tumblr.com www.isitreallysostrange.wordpress.com [i spend too much time on the internet, apparently.] 
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:56 am
I really love that story.  _________________ I hope we're on the same level Visit my "Talk Show" |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:06 am
Very cool! _________________ My photography:www.jamiemphoto.com You can't spell awesome without emo...backwards! -Julie definingawesome (11:44:11 PM): Eisley shivers our timbers |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:29 pm
oops, i mentioned democracy. now this website will be banned in china by their great firewall if it hasn't been already. EDIT: i tested a website called greatfirewallofchina.org - its a web site that lets you test if a website is blocked in china. the laughing city forum is in fact, blocked. |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:32 pm
very cool. where in china? i was there last summer, in western/central china, and it was amazing. a friend of mine did a teaching english thing, but in beijing, so quite westernized haha. _________________ Facebook & Twitter & Blog(ish)-type thing |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:39 pm
Now where it's really unheard of is Egypt... I THINK I played some Eisley in my cousin's car when we were driving down next to the beach. I can't remember, I was just flipping thru my ipod (that played thru his car). But I love the idea of that.. music in places you don't expect It's weird to me to think if ANYONE in the whole country even knows who they are, or other bands i listen to |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:31 pm
i've always wanted to go to egypt. |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:47 pm
starnothing wrote: Now where it's really unheard of is Egypt...
I THINK I played some Eisley in my cousin's car when we were driving down next to the beach. I can't remember, I was just flipping thru my ipod (that played thru his car). But I love the idea of that.. music in places you don't expect It's weird to me to think if ANYONE in the whole country even knows who they are, or other bands i listen to I know of at least one person in Egypt who does, in fact, love Eisley. She mailed me a CD and it had an Eisley song, (Telescope Eyes of course!) and that is how I was introduced to them. |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:25 pm
very good! _________________ "Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn't a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality." -Hearts In Atlantis |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:02 am
ZenArtist wrote: oops, i mentioned democracy.
now this website will be banned in china by their great firewall if it hasn't been already. EDIT: i tested a website called greatfirewallofchina.org - its a web site that lets you test if a website is blocked in china. the laughing city forum is in fact, blocked. this made me laugh. and only because it is so true. also, for security concerns i can't really say where. However, in my city I became a regular at a local bubble tea shop (because they were the only place you could get a real latte) and I am planning on sending them a mixed cd w/ Eisley on it. They already play Coldplay, Imogen Heap, Dashboard, Norah Jones, and others b/c of foreign friend's influence It was really cool walking in there the first time and Coldplay - Fix You was playing. That was when I decided the little bubble tea place would be my home away from home! lol _________________ http://www.myspace.com/thetornpaige www.modernvictorian.etsy.com www.myspace.com/modern_victorian |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:16 am
this was the music instructor after i handed the guitar back to him... i was sitting out on the sidewalk. wish someone had a taken a photo of me playing! oh well. this is what i have.  _________________ http://www.myspace.com/thetornpaige www.modernvictorian.etsy.com www.myspace.com/modern_victorian |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:22 am
Yeah and it doesn't truly matter where this place was - as long as you gave them some freedom and happiness, with no prejudices and no western superiority complex 
Next time you go let me know! _________________ http://www.eisley-italia.tk ! "Δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω"
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