Well now, NVR blogged about the chaos which followed the end of China's Spring Festival holiday--imagine hundreds of millions of Chinese people trying to get from point A (familial home) to point B (where they work) in various parts of country all within the same day.
Makes Thanksgiving in the US seem boring in comparison. Anyhow, the story is that the traffic was really bad, and a wedding motorcade came to a halt after the groom's car ran over some poor sob. Originally thought to be a jaywalker by the press, it later turns out that it was a member of the wedding party! Needless to say, the groom lost it and the wedding became the most memorable day of his life...for the wrong reason.
Tragedy aside, this post is also interesting for another reason. Kaiser Kuo, DUDE IT'S THE KAISER KUO, posted a comment on it! For you poor uncultured beasts that don't know who Kaiser is, he's a founding member of the band Tang Dyansty, one of China's greatest Chinese rock groups. Kaiser has a very interesting background, and is now Red Herring's China Bureau Chief. He wrote an widely-cited piece about half a year ago on the ever-hot topic: China's net censorship. It's sad that Tang Dynasty is no more, as their original album is one of my favorites of all time (Chinese or otherwise). The 1999 followup has several decent songs as well, but is hard to find now (I misplaced my copy and I'm kicking myself for not backing it up). See here for a good musical introduction to Tang Dynasty. I'm delighted that towards the end of it, they play a excerpt from "Your Vision" which contains one of the most beautiful metal instrumentals ever.
Incidentally, and I must say ironically, another great metal band, Guns n' Roses is releasing their first album in 13 years entitled "Chinese Democracy." Think it'll never happen? Think again...but not too hard.
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