Quick Update!

WE GOT THE LOCATION!!! YEA!!! This is the moment we have been waiting for! SO excited!!! We have the process of our business paperwork in order, we will be official by the beginning of June! Went to Hong Kong last week for a Visa run and saw the Banksy Robs Hong KOng exhibit, which was fun! Our friends the Beales have many Banksy's and I got a kick out of looking at what number the ones were at the museum and making notice that Andy's numbers were a lot closer to one than these! :) I also saw a friend, ROger Deleon, who I haven't seen since elementary school! I hope him and his girlfriend will be out to visit us here sometime. The gig at JZ went so well, couldn't have gone any better! Frank, who is in the best shape of his life, blew the house down! We had an amazing turn out of friends come, about 30 (On a Saturday night to a jazz club... I love it!) We had a great private booth over looking the stage... and our Chinese partner came with 3 of her friends. She loved it and was right up there dancing and clapping along! Everyone had a great time and really came through for us too, speaking Chinese with our special guests, making sure they put in the right words or us... I felt so proud and blessed! Frank really knocked them out! The crowd was in the palm of his hand, and you could tell the band was thrilled to be playing with such a pro! He did New York New York, and it was practically riotous with people singing along, dancing on couches, the feeling in the room was "Wow!" and it is so nie to show our friends a taste of what our nightclub and shows are about! Then we went to Shelter, which is arguably the hippest club right now, in an old bomb shelter with tunnel-like rooms. We knew the DJ's, two Icelandic girls, and we had a whole crew of people go. Funny, I saw the first punk-looking girls I've seen here in Shanghai... it's funny because while their hair was 3 colors and they had shitty haircuts and ripped clothes, they were completely self-conscious about it, but B+ for trying! Note on HK, sorry this is a bit scattered, I hadn't planned to write this much now, but...note on HK... It is one giant shopping mall. The is no authenticity, no sunlight, and the people all look worn and beat. It is definitely not China, and for anyone who was there before the take over, I think you will be shocked at the dramatic change. Norm and I both agree it feels soul-less, which I understand it didn't used to be. And it doesn't feel Chinese either, and quite frankly I couldn't wait to get back to real CHina! We've had a stomach bug today... I think Norm poisoned us with bad home-made juice this morning but he highly objects to that accusation. Hopefully it will be all better tomorrow! I've been watching the Fritz Lang 1922 silent movie called Dr. Mabuse! It is 4 hours long and I last about 20 minutes a night before I fall into a complete trance and drift off to sleep... I look forward to it every night now, and I think I have discovered a new passion for silent films! It is unbelievable the movies you can get here... more classics and rarities than you could find in NY! Ok, I'm to bed and Mabuse! I'll write more details about the club thing soon... wrote a whole progress report about everything accomplished thus far, maybe I'll throw that up on here... we'll see! Big hugs and love, Amelia