Back from China

Hello FOPP! I was in China last week- in Shenzhen to be exact. I flew from Raleigh to Atlanta to San Francisco to Hong Kong and then took a car across the border into Shenzhen. Quite a trip. Quite an adventure. I am still jet lagged and therefore writing this at 6:40 am, but I am gradually getting back on EST. It was an interesting experience. I went to a state dinner where this band was playing these upright sticks with three strings attached to some sort of amplifier at the bottom- they absolutely rocked out- and played, of all things- a theme song from a John Wayne movie. I am always interested in TV in foreign countries and China did not disappoint. Every night they had a series of movies from the US from the 1970s. One in particular- a show called "Kung Fu" but not with David Carradine, it was about this guy with a big afro who was on the olympic king fu team doing righteous deeds, fighting the mob- I had never seen it before. It was funny, they had NO budget, and even a cop car responding to a call was a small model- it was funny. LOts of bad guys flying through glass doors, glass windows, train windows- all very, very funny. There were no commercials, which made it even better. I only saw one commercial on TV the whole time I was there- it was for a mop. Very unusual. Anyway, Rock and roll is huge there, with people actually sporting the Elvis look (ah the king), and Mily Cyrus on TV non-stop singing "Party in the USA" how totally bizzare!!!!