A tough nut
less than 200 years old and would probably take at least a 1/4 of that to long to crack it
so I’ll keep simple
and help you avoid getting sucked into the spin I’m in.
Wan Chai // Great barbeque and dope old buildings
Admiralty // Whatever
Tsim Tsai Tsu // Tourists and the primarily Arab hustlers that prey on them. If you want to buy hash and a Rolex, I know just where to take you.
Central // a billionaire dog and pony show. Lamborghinis and douchebags courting models with helicopter rides and Fendi. big yawn.
Crib’s in Mong Kok.
That’s where I spend most of my time.
where people float inside cubes stacked like dilapidating jenga blocks, a kind of inside physics joke.
The walls are liquifying. The air is 3 feet thick.
Some streets smell like a drug even I’d be scared to try.
Why don’t I see any bugs?
At night, the neon light turns the bay fog into cotton candy clouds.
Decay and crumble…
steel and glass.
The wind is electric. Open your mouth and get the tip of a Duracell.
Why hasn’t the whole thing burned down yet?
Motherfucker’s on fire.
The young they gather in mass in public places practically 24/7. Mingle amongst their own.
Kowloon // Midnight from Sleep Never on Vimeo.
They are engaged.
This is action.
There is a sense of contentment
pride
autonomy and class I get from Chinese Hong Kongers
family, honor, respect,
good conversation is held sacred.
the men
I see…
ancient ones, froggering out into traffic. they don’t have time to wait for a break to get to the other side.
sitting and watching, but not waiting.
whatever it is I’m looking for, they already seem to have found it.
16 year olds in 3,000 suits that probably cost 200 here, who speak better English than me and drive shit I’ll never afford. I see skaters, punks, Goths and rockers, preps and lots of shirtless old dudes who look just as cool as the kids.
I see women, old and frail. some in masks. some limping and smiling. Some smoking while they cook up a typhoon in a wok.
Pictures of wisdom in wheelchairs and slippers.
many of the young ones
hold hands
some dress like sailors when they go to school
others dress like young American women - lot’s of tits and legs, and not for you sir.
I can’t count the white dudes on one hand that I see in the course of a day here.
And by us, these chinese hong kongers want to be left alone, because it seems just when they get comfortable, motherfuckers come and stir up shit.
the brits
the japs
the brits again.
and then the Chinese.
gotta hold onto what the few things that never change, the things that truly matter, and we don’t fit into that category.
the only people who seem to be remotely interested in the gawkey white dude in the palladium boots and perv stash are teenage girls who’ve seen nothing and 90 year old men who’ve seen it all.
but for the most part I am a ghost here and it only makes me feel more at home.
videos for this trip are scarce so far, but the pictures plentiful as I stumbled upon an episode of this asshole bobby chin
taking a restaurant tour around india while annoying the shit out of the locals – he thought he was hilarious – them not so much - and decided to put the video on hold in an attempt to blend better.
this is about how well I did.
laundry day
is every day here.
i visited a flesh peddler
but opted for a banana instead
watched a show where people play video games and afterward. a live human does a post-game interview with the avatar of the winning gamer about their performance during the game.
saw a Chinese trampolene competition and two men use another man as a human jump rope, but this guy was more interesting to watch
midnight snack
and midnight lunch ladies responsible for making it
just like hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy says: “A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.” (It was either this or a baby blue one with Chinese cartoon teddy bear on it. )
I did not go here.
Serious.
meat
fruit
waves
offering
pig out on reclamation street
the action as it happens
Hong Kong // Pig Out on Reclamation Street from Sleep Never on Vimeo.
my morning plum connect.
same contractor as the flintstones
lunch
scout’s honor
my savior. the reason you can read this. in the spirit of globalization, he provided the necessary tools to daisy chain electrical adapters to run a current around the world and right back to my mac in hong kong.
double dragon
stoked to be getting a fabulous deal on knockoff ed hardy.
kind of like an all-you-can-eat sea world
shapeshifting
captain phil’s replacement?
he’s already got a local fanbase.
some guys just got it.
his
hers
logistics
lunch break
I did not write this in the guest book of my hotel.
for dr. hughes
vader’s crib
Now why didn’t I think of that?!
what I’ll be riding after this trip.
dinner two
these guys are wild. must’ve seen them eat 5 pork bowls and a drink a six pack each in my short time there.
this is the small. people watched and laughed while I attempted to conquer it (out of respect) with a big stupid shiteating grin on my face.
a futile and valiant attempt
this chair deserves to have a song written about it by r. Kelly.
picasso
chicks with dick
babies and gas
sitting room only
kickstand
candy men
round house
black guys in skin
dicks in robes
here they are getting into a fracas with the singer of Sum 41
Untitled from Sleep Never on Vimeo.
went to the hong kong history museum. it was like me and this dude.
no really… it was just us and security.
inside there was a lifesize model of a “boat person’s” junk
with some pasty old lady inside.
some crazy looking gods
an freaky opra scene
some creepy puppets
a towers of buns
and a scale model of the good/bad move that got them colonized for realz
hong kong history lesson hint: the hubbub started over something you smoked it in this.
the original dicks…
me and the muslim chillin’ in Kowloon park post-history
wong kar wai – tsi tsam tsu
Kowloon, nevada
everything looks familiar
nothing looks familiar
banksy found
this dude is everywhere
last supper – by bourdain’s suggestion (notice the mask on the chef)
Lemonade. Mad respect.
The reincarnation of Buddy Holly (and his magic 1/2 purple dog)
symphony of lights: as stunning as it is terrifying. a crazy laser show put on by corporate titans of the world to distract you while they wrap the chains around your shopping zombie hands.
and all of this exists because a long time ago some power mad man boys started a scuffle over some dope.
crazy, no?
onward ho…
kostrzak
Listening to: Caribou “Swim,” MIA “Kala,” Radiohead “Hail to the Thief,” tribal drums, loud chinese, The Beatles “Revolver,” soft chinese, The Horrors “Primary Colours,” my order being shouted out, Julian Casablancas “Phrazes for the Young,” bad Chinese pop, Animal Collective “Merriweather Post Pavilion,” the neighbors building and walling a city inside their apartment at 5:45 in the morning, Love is All “Two Thousand and Ten Injuries,” horns, lots of horns, definitely not silence, and LCD Soundsystem “This is Happening”
