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Entering Indigo Town
There’s just something special about the two of them- John and Brendon- that I personally think transceusicnds much of the music being...

Hans Ebert
Sep 5, 20222 min read


Are they playing your song?
Sometimes, or maybe quite often, Music flows into your life when least expecting it. It’s not an intrusion, but something undefinable....

Hans Ebert
Sep 2, 20223 min read


Prelude to 1616
Though not living next door to Alice, but next door to the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, this hotel probably knows me better than anyone else...

Hans Ebert
Aug 31, 20224 min read


31 August 2022 (I hear you talking but I don’t hear a thing)
It’s the city wolfed down by serial greed But it didn’t always work like this This was where many got lost in fleeting fame In those...

Hans Ebert
Aug 31, 20222 min read


The Augustus Gloops in our midstream has
“Turn off your mind and float downstream”. John Lennon sang that line on “Tomorrow Never Knows”, one of the most experimental and outré...

Hans Ebert
Aug 21, 20222 min read


Homegrown and over the Moon Tang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantopop It was at this time that the term Cantopop was first coined. The Billboard correspondent Hans...

Hans Ebert
Aug 20, 20224 min read


Personally speaking...
Maybe we thought that The World’s Longest Cocktail Party and Chinese banquet would last forever. Maybe we were careless and pretentious...

Hans Ebert
Aug 17, 20225 min read


Hong Kong and its Insane Clown Posse
https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hk-sevens/article/3187141/hong-kong-sevens-return-first-time-2019-officials-give-go Just when you think...

Hans Ebert
Aug 15, 20222 min read


Dedicated to Joanne Harper
Though having just turned 13, Joanne didn’t stand on ceremony, nor did she walk on eggshells. She never held back, and, in the end, asked...

Hans Ebert
Aug 15, 20223 min read


Going Solo
On August 1, 2022, and after over three hours of walking and walking and walking around and around and around the airport along with...

Hans Ebert
Aug 15, 20224 min read


Almost Everybody Is Hurting, John Lee.
If it wasn’t the muddling read that it is, there was hope for the creative community in Hong Kong when the headline in today’s South...

Hans Ebert
Aug 12, 20224 min read


Days Of Future Passed
It’s about making the best out of a situation. Notice that I didn’t use the word “bad”. The situation where Hong Kong finds itself today,...

Hans Ebert
Aug 12, 20223 min read


Don’t Ever Take The Customer For A Fool...
What’s often glaringly obvious during these kinda and maybe post-pandemic and Living With Covid times is just how oblivious many...

Hans Ebert
Aug 11, 20222 min read


Olivia Newton-John and the Hong Kong connection...
Many don’t really understand just how important karaoke was when it came to marketing and making artists popular in Hong Kong,...

Hans Ebert
Aug 10, 20222 min read


The Caterpillar That Turned Into A Butterfly And Grew Wings
It was a ping pong match to do with, on one side, reaching early puberty, and the realities of life at the other end. This was when...

Hans Ebert
Aug 9, 20225 min read


Being obedient little soldiers in Hong Kong quarantine hotel hell
No, there is no Welcome To Hong Kong letter from Chief Executive John Lee awaiting me, but there IS a Big Book Of Rules at the room in...

Hans Ebert
Aug 6, 20225 min read


The Far Side to Hong Kong
It had all become too much to accept as normal- the negativity and the non-stop fear that had gripped the city largely because of a...

Hans Ebert
Aug 3, 202210 min read


From Hong Kong’s Ministry Of Silly Walks
After years of muffled information in Cantonese, Mandarin and a strange version of English droning out of the equally muffled sound...

Hans Ebert
Aug 3, 20222 min read


7.31.2022 (Look at the world with the heart of a child and life will become more beautiful)
He was always searching for something, which even he couldn’t tell what it was. Whatever it might have been, it wasn’t wherever he was....

Hans Ebert
Jul 31, 20223 min read
July 2022 (Bling blang blong and vapidity, Welcome to the New Stupidity)
There you go again, social butterfly showing off your 24 carat life style Guess if you’ve got it then flaunt it, right? Sure, if that’s...

Hans Ebert
Jul 29, 20221 min read
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