Food. Disappointing.cabarets.

I've spend the whole day working on my Chinese. I've been so busy dodging hit-men and jumping between buildings lately that despite living in Shanghai I've not made ANY progress on my speaking or listening skills. After eight hours of straight studying, I realized something really interesting and potentially life-saving: if you don't eat, you feel like shit. In fact, some Internet research suggests that lack of food might actually kill you in the long run. So I've decided I'm going to set up a regular schedule for eating. Something along the lines of three big meals per day, and one or two snacks in between.

So this Shanghai nightlife thingy is interesting, but also a bit frustrating. Now that I've seen how good it can be, I can't settle with the average glamour bar. Yesterday I decided on checking out two new places that sounded interesting. One was Glamour Bar (it's what it says on the tin) which was trying to pull in punters with a cabaret dude from New York. the other was Jade 36 (on the 36th floor of course), which had a Thai model-cum-DJ who made her name playing to 1.6 million football fans at the Germany world cup closing ceremony.
But turned out to be less than mind-blowing. Maybe i should stop relying on classifieds and try to get some cool friends "in the know" so to speak.

The problem with Jade 36 was just that there were no people. The DJ was both gorgeous and played some funky cool music. But the cabaret at the Glamour Bar was really disappointing. It essentially consisted of a hat. the rest of the show was made up of a pretty average performer singing his own takes on various famous songs. Bizzarely, the man took a song by Fisherspooner about a woman's relationship to her own colon and turned it into a love song about Hollywood. First time I've heard someone do a change-the-lyrics-cover that turns a dirty crazy song into a mild-vanilla song.
And the man was wearing a funny hat. That's what goes as a cabaret in New York apparantly.

PIC UPDATE: Li being all glamorous with her Champagne against a glamorous backdrop of glamorous Shanghai- on a balcony off Glamour Bar.



PIC UPDATE: This man believes his hat is a cabaret. Where are the drag-queens, midget acrobats and burlesque dancing?


Anyways, normally this would have been a reasonably good friday night, despite the lack of breathlessness. But I couldn't shake this feeling off that somewhere in Shanghai there were all this glam people dying to meet me, but I just didn't have their phone number.