I took the chinatown bus down to DC again.  Content spending the entire trip with my headphones on and writing.  When we made a stop at a rest area I got out to smoke a cigarette and use the bathroom.  As I walked out of the rest area and back towards the bus, headphones still on and blaring, I noticed two young hippie girls from the bus outside smoking.  I thought they were talking to themselves but they were looking right me.  As I walked past them the song on my ipod stopped and I heard one of them yelling “take your headphones off, your a sexy china man.  I LOVE YOU”.  My first reaction was to run over and yell I’M NOT FUCKING CHINESE BITCH.  Then I thought that prolly wouldn’t be a nice thing to yell before getting on the “chinatown” bus.  I could totally understand how women would bitch about getting cat calls on the street.  It’s fucking rude for one, but then it just kind of makes you feel sort of self conscience to know that someone is looking at you like that, not only looking but pointing it out to everyone else around them.  Just calling attention to you.  It sucks.  Then when I got to my seat after just ignoring them I thought that it was kind of flattering, even though they called me chinaman.

SOUND Team are based in Austin, Texas, initially formed in 2002.  These tracks are from “Movie Monster” which came out earlier this year on Capital Records.  Not really super new, but its a great record. 

http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/06%20Back%20In%20Town.mp3

http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/11%20Handful%20Of%20Billions.mp3

http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/07%20Your%20Eyes%20Are%20Liars.mp3http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/10%20You’ve%20Never%20Lived%20A%20Day.mp3

-mark

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