Alexander Stuart

I've been meaning to post this wonderful Bob Dylan / Johnny Cash duet of Girl From The North Country ever since I saw and loved David O Russell's Silver Linings Playbook. The most memorable sequence in the film involves this beautiful song, and I love this TV performance from 1969 (I believe). Dylan wrote the song following his trip to England in December 1962 , and there is some debate about whom the song is about. The duet with Johnny Cash (which is the version used in Silver Linings Playbook) was recorded in a February 1969 recording session when Dylan was in Nashville to record Nashville Skyline . (Source: Wikipedia )

If you count yourself among one (or several) of the following, then this Saturday night's DISCOSMIC ADVENTURE at DADA in Shanghai is for you: Space Heads, Stargazers, Alien Abductees, Cosmonauts, Disconauts, Moustachioed Moog Fans, Naturists, Homos and Heteros, Disco Dancers, Italo Stallions, French Synth-Freaks, Fake Moon Landing Conspiracy Theorists and Women From Mars. Or maybe you just like to DANCE!!!!! Come listen to American Booze DJs and GET DOWN to sounds like this: If that doesn't get your silver moonsuit popping, nothing will! The Space Party blasts off at 10:00pm (22:00 hours) this Saturday, April 27, at DADA, 115 Xingfu Lu Changning, near Fahuazhen Lu - nearest Metro stop: Jiaotong University. 幸福路115号, 近法华镇路 One small step for personkind, one giant leap for dance!

Zhao Wei's directorial debut, So Young , opens in Shanghai this week. It will be interesting to see what this actress-turned-director has created for her debut movie as director:

A postcard of our flying visit to Los Angeles. Next up: Shanghai, to rest, feed the pets and get some work done. Photo Collage of LA Copyright  © 2013  Alexander Chow-Stuart. Shanghai Pudong International Airport. Hudson's corn snake eats a thawed frozen baby mouse.

Paradise especially loves zebras - and wants one of her own! The natural wonders of the Los Angeles Zoo in Griffith Park - doubly wonderful to Paradise (four), who has dreamed of zebras, giraffes, elephants and flamingoes, but never actually seen them before. All photographs Copyright  ©  2013 Alexander Chow-Stuart. One of Hudson and Paradise's favorite animals - a giraffe. An elephant, relaxing after being in its enclosure all day. There are wonderful pathways lined with bamboo at the zoo. Flamingoes.