So, EU-China relations is really a very complicated and big issue. We know that in the recent years, EU-China relations are developing very fast, but there are also some kind of disputes or problems. So what will it happen and what will it evolve in the future? That is a very complicated issue. So here I just talked something about my personal opinion from the perspective of a common Chinese professor. So my topic is about the prospect of the future of the China-EU relations after the China-EU summit and the 2020 strategic agenda for cooperation. And we know that EU and China are important. So if we want to look at the strategic pattern of China-EU relations, perhaps we should first explore the exact positions of China and the EU in the world currently. Now, of course, the first is that China and the EU are the two of the largest economies of the world. For example, this is statistical data, which shows that now recently in the year 2012, according to the data calculated by IMF, China and the EU are two of the largest economies of the world. The EU as a whole, of course, accounts for the largest proportion of the GDP total of the world, and the United States is the second largest one, and then China is the third largest one. So here, from this statistical data, we can see that China and the EU are both very important and are both relatively big in terms of the economic scales. And because they're big and they're important, it's inevitably that they will get in touch with each other, and it's inevitably that they shall negotiate, get in touch with each other, or cooperate with each other in many fields of the world and regional affairs. And also, we can see that very interestingly that the relative positions of EU, China, the United States, and other major players in the past three decades might relatively change a little bit. So that might bring some new variables or new impacts towards the pattern of the world order. Now here, this is also the data that I collected from the IMF, and I turned it into this graph, this figure. Now here it shows that in the past three decades, the major countries, GDPs, as percentages of the world total. If we look at this, we can see that... Now this line, the top line is the EU as a whole. It's GDP as a percentage of the world total. In the past three decades, here we can see that the EU's relative position of the world is gradually declining a little bit, perhaps. And this second line, this dark green one, is US GDP as a percentage of the world total. This is also perhaps a little bit declined. Now here we see that in the 1980, the EU's GDP is one-thirds of the world total, around one-thirds. And then on the last year, it is around one-fifths of the world total. And here the United States, in the 1980s, the United States is one-fourth, and now around one-fifths. And this purple line is China's GDP as a percentage of the world total. If you look at the data, we will find out that in the 1980s, China's GDP was less than five percent of the world total. But after three decades, very quick development, the China's GDP now accounts for around 15 percent of the world total. So the relative positions are changing, which also brings some, I think, inevitably brings some kind of change to the world order and also to the relations of the different economies and also different players of international relations. So the new changes and the important positions will inevitably push the EU and China together. The second important point is that China and the EU are all the major forces shaping the global politics. I think this is known to everyone. And the third point is just we caught the relative changes of the relative relations of China and the EU in the world economy. So these are the three points that I think can explain the current positions of the EU and China in the world. So this means that there is a very strong basis for China and the EU to inevitably get engaged with each other. This is the first point. Now, as for the relations between two players, I think that they are forces, they are always forces to push the players together and they are always forces to pull the forces apart. I remember that when I was in middle school, the physics teacher told us that when the two atoms are too far away from each other, they might be attracted and they might approach each other. And when the two atoms are too close to each other and then the attracting forces might be overwhelmed by the repulsive forces and then the two atoms might get a little bit far away from each other. This is a physical rule. But I think that in the international relations, sometimes there are always the similar phenomenon that is sometimes when the two players are far away from each other, but they have some internal inherent demand to get closer to approach, to get more cooperation or to get more coordination, they will gradually approach each other. But at the same time, there might be some forces to pull them apart or get away from each other. So this is also a kind of international relations phenomenon, perhaps. So I think that if we want to look at the future of the EU-China relations, perhaps we shall look at some of the forces that can push China and the EU together. And from my understanding, I make this summarization over these four forces that could push China and the EU together. The first one is the demand for both sides to promote the mutual trade. If we look at the trade, this very interesting phenomenon that is, now there is a triangular pattern in the world trade. This is, I think, a consensus of some kind of the economic studies. That is, we know that the EU and the US is on the one part of the triangular. And then for the developed East Asian countries, such as Japan, such as the four Asian tigers, they are on the other side. And then China and the Asian countries are on the other side. So it forms a triangular. The technology and the capital flows from the United States and the EU relatively to Japan and the four Asian tigers. And also the technology and the capital flows from Japan and the four Asian tigers to China, mainly in China and the Southeast Asian countries. And at the same time, cheap consumer goods flows from China and us into the EU and the United States. Relatively more sophisticated, expensive goods flows from the United States to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, South Korea and Taiwan also produce their relatively cheaper but also sophisticated goods. And then these goods or these products flows from them to mainland China and Asian countries. And so as for the trade side, the China is, the China's trade position is relatively not very favorable perhaps. If we look at the so-called famous smiling curve of the distribution of the value of a product, that we can see that China because its huge labor force in the past and also because of its general economic demographic conditions, it's on the lowest part of the value chains. So it can usually export relatively cheap consumer goods. Its trade structures are relatively, is relatively on the lower end. But the situation is always changing. And so the China's trade with major economies also is changing in the past several decades. Now here this is also a calculation that I take the data from the China's National Statistical Bureau. And here it shows the trade, the total volume of China's trade with major economies as a percentage of China's total foreign trade, which means just how much proportion China's trade with a specific economy takes to the total. And it shows the relative changes of China's trade relations with major economies here. Now here we can see again, now we will see that China EU trade is maintaining a kind of steady pace. It is still on a very important position while this line is China US trade. Can you see that? The China US trade is relatively declining. There are many reasons I think that economists may have made a lot of researches of this. Why is the relative importance of China US trade in the recent years declined? Perhaps because of the more and more protectionist trends in the US, policy making in the US society. Or perhaps because of the shrinking of the market of demand for China's consumer goods after the 2008 crisis. Just in recent years it declined. But anyway China EU trade is maintaining still a steady pace which means that China EU trade is still very important for ours and for the Europe. And this is China-Japan trade. It's proportion to the total. The China-Japan trade is this purple line. So the China-Japan trade is also declining. There's much, much more complicated analysis. For example, we know that in the last year and the year before last the Diaoyu Island dispute between China and Japan, this actually contributed a lot to the sudden or disruptive changes of the China-Japan economic relations. After the dispute, after the breakout of the dispute, after the collision of the fishing boats, the Chinese tourist to the Japan actually was reduced by a great margin. And also now it was said, and it is said now that the Japanese car manufacturers now are finding it more and more difficult to sell more cars in China's market. It's relatively a very delicate relations. And so here from this figure we can just find out that actually the China-EU trade is still maintaining a very important position, which means EU is important to us. And I think China is also important for EU. So the trade is still a very fundamental force that could push or bring China and EU together. The second is the demand for both sides, of both sides for broader access to the mutual investment. And if you look at the 2020 strategic agenda for more cooperation between EU and China, you may find that the mutual investment is a very important or key issue that are concerned by the policymakers and researchers and academics of both sides. And so let's look at the investment. But still there is much, much space for the development of the investment because the EU's investment in China still relatively takes a minor proportion to the total foreign direct investment that flows into China. This is also a statistic that I calculated from the data collected from the China's National Statistics Bureau. And here you will find that actually the investment from Hong Kong, this green one, is a major proportion of the total foreign direct investment that flows into the mainland in China. And the EU and the US investment in China relatively takes a smaller proportion. It's not very, very important. So it means that we have much more broad space to attract more EU investment if conditions permit, if there's relatively more comfortable environment. And this is a country distribution of EU direct investment into China from the past decade. Now here, these are the different... Here I just collected data about the different countries FDI into China. Mainly we will find that Germany is relatively always important. Now here this is the orange-red section of each column. Can you see that? We know that Germany has a very huge... has a very large investment in the industry of China. The automotive industry, the chemical industry, and many, many industries or manufacturing of Germany put investment in China. So Germany always takes a very important position. And as for other countries, I think Netherlands also increases its investment in China. Netherlands, the whole land in China, in Chinese we call it Helan. They had a substantial investment in the manufacturing sector in some of the electronics or something like that. This is the breakdown of the major FDI sources into China in some total. I think it reflects a similar pattern. This is also a similar pattern of Shanghai. In Shanghai the situation perhaps a little bit different is that in Shanghai the investment from the European from the United States takes a larger proportion because Shanghai is relatively or more internationalized city with relatively perhaps more complete or better infrastructure for investment. In other provinces of China, particularly in the southeastern provinces such as Guangdong or Zhejiang perhaps just the investment from Japan and South Korea and Taiwan and Hong Kong will take a larger proportion to the total. Now let's look at China's investment to other countries. And for China again we can see that because Chinese are more similar to the Asia, East Asia. So China's investment mainly into sorry into East Asia and China's investment in the Europe relatively still takes much smaller proportion to the total. And this is another statistic reflecting the similar pattern. So I will not make too much explanation perhaps. Here ODI sorry ODI it's a term that usually Chinese like to use. ODI here means ODI means overseas direct investment which means investment flowing from China to other countries understand. And China's investment in Europe and in the United States sometimes encounters some unexpected difficulties. There are some vigilance, there are some kind of the obstructions to the Chinese investment because here we can see that the majority of China's investment actually in the overseas in the foreign countries are made by the state-owned corporations and because state-owned corporations has the government background so usually I think that in the United States and in the Europe people may not be so friendly towards the state-owned corporations investment and so that might be a reason. But anyway those foreign-funded corporations those foreign investment in China actually has got a very good reputation and they hope to expand some kind of the investment if condition permits and Chinese people really attach great importance to the foreign investment into China's industries and Chinese people and policy makers also hope that the foreign direct investment in China could be expanded substantially in the future and this is a list of the top ten foreign-funded corporations in China or the ten largest foreign-funded corporations in China and we can see that you will find that here the European-based corporations account for a majority of the top ten foreign-funded corporations in China here. Now we can find Germany there are three German corporations in this list and one Finland corporation one Sweden one France so here in these top ten corporations we can see that actually the substantial economic connection between China and Europe actually is strong and so it's reasonable that in China people really hope that in the future this strong relation could be expanded and promoted further and further and this is the top ten foreign-funded corporations in Shanghai and here Germany's corporation still takes a relatively dominating position these are all the calculations made by I think by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and another very important aspect that will bring China closer to Europe is China's demands for EU's expertise on the sustainable development the European Union is a mature economy it has relatively complete and perfect legal environment its policy making towards its market towards its trade towards its investment relatively are experienced and sophisticated and so the European Union has much experience and expertise and know-how about how to maintain the economy moving relatively on a smooth course or a smooth pace that is what China needs because China's economy is developing sometimes not so steady at a not so steady pace China's economy actually is developing always full of ups and downs or twists and turns people always say that China maintains a high-speed growth but if you look at China's GDP growth in the past three decades the China's growth is always full of ups and downs it's not a steady one now here you will see that this is a now this blue line is the GDP growth rate in China in the past three decades around now here you will see many ups and downs because China's economy's pace is closely connected to its political situations and also the world environment and here the recent the most recent peak is on the 2007 2007 this one 2007 the US market the US real estate market got its peak of prosperity and the US demands towards China's cheap consumer goods perhaps rose to the highest level and there was prosperity in the whole world economy so China's export really plays a played a very important role to promote China's GDP growth rate and then we can see that up to 2007-2018 so on the China's economy's GDP growth rate is gradually forced down and then up a little bit and then forward down a little bit there's always ups and downs because you know that there are so-called the due engine of China's economic growth so what are the due engine? yes very good so export is usually the export is usually prepared by the private sector of China's economy the Chinese private corporations played the major role to push the export so from the 2007 when the export market was shrinking gradually the Chinese government depended more and more on the heavy investment of the infrastructure project to push up the economic growth to push up the GDP level and that will bring some time to bring some problems because we all know that there is a strong rule in the economy which caused the diminishing margin of return of the investment so China's demand for the EU's expertise is connected to China's characteristic of its current economic structure because China's economic structure needs more upgrading so China needs the EU more not only needs the EU's export market and investment but also needs more cooperation about technological transfer about EU's expertise and something like that so let's look at China's economic structure firstly is that China's economy is for the past several decades propelled or pushed by the dominance of the labor-intensive manufacturing sector now here this is China's industrial structure in the past three decades this red one is the manufacturing sector manufacturing sector still in these years it still accounts for around 40% or a little bit less than 40% of the total GDP this means that manufacturing dominates China's economy but usually it's a service sector that might get a higher profit rate that might bring more returns so this economic structure needs to be upgraded this is Shanghai's economic structure so here you will see that if we take Shanghai as an example now Shanghai's economic structure is also still dominated by the manufacturer it's not like Hong Kong Hong Kong is largely financial-based or financial-oriented but Shanghai is still relatively largely manufacturer-oriented this is a general pattern this is a distribution of Shanghai's pattern I will not talk too much and because of China's economy is largely exported and investment-based so the investment now becomes a leading force to push up China's economic growth and here, sorry this is the investment rate of major countries in the past three decades now here the data is collected from IMF now here again you can see that actually the China's investment rate is much, much higher than many other countries now here you will see that this yellow line is China's investment rate it is higher so investment means huge savings and this economic structure is relatively rigid and not very flexible and so when the economic growth rate becomes a major concern for the policy makers the whole structure needs an overhaul and how to do this overhaul we need the expertise or knowledge from the Europe and we need more cooperation and coordination with the EU this is some of the data I just omitted I think what's second is that China demands for the EU's expertise on the urbanization process in the coastal areas of China it is highly urbanized for some parts but in the inland China it is still far away from a relatively mature urbanization because China is a large country with a large territory so here you will find in the 2020 strategic cooperation agenda for China and the EU the cooperation or coordination between China and the EU for the urbanization takes major attention from many of the Chinese leaders and so here now China has escalated or relatively unbalanced economic structure the distribution of the income of GDP level of GDP per capita level is highly unbalanced this pattern cannot be changed so easily this means that in China the urbanization also could be pushed in an escalated way and how to push this it needs a kind of internal coherence we know that in the EU's policy agenda the EU's internal coherence is a very important part or perhaps from our perspective in the EU's policy about coherence, about regional coherence about some kind of regional or internal coordination this is the part that attracts China's attention greatly because we also have highly unbalanced structure now this data is old it's about around more than 10 years ago China's income distribution level the brighter the color means the higher the level of income of that province is understand? so here you will see the coastal areas much more wealthy than the inland areas it's a highly unbalanced one and this is the income structure distribution of the GDP per capita for different provinces in 2008 it's a similar structure and this is 2010 still the general pattern has not been changed a prediction over the distribution of the GDP per capita level for 2015 still a similar pattern so this means China's distribution, China has a high level imbalance of the geographical distribution of the economic resources and income levels so China's urbanization process will also be a kind of unbalanced one and we need help from the European Union about the expertise about the coherence this is also a statistical data showing the imbalance of income of different regions so we have talked to two major forces that are pushing China closer to EU China has such an inherent demand for more cooperation from EU and also I think that China and EU share some of the major interests on some of the global and regional fears I heard from some of the people in the Brussels who says that now there is a power shift in the world that China and the United States seem to be playing a more and more influential role in the East Asia or North East Asia's regional security affairs and the EU shall also have its own saying in the regional affairs about the North East Asia so this means that EU and China share some common interest first is common interest about regional economic integration we hear if we compare the regional economic integration sorry no, no, no if we compare the regional economic integration of the European of East Asia we may find that the Europe is highly developed now this is a more detailed comparison of the regional integration level of East Asia and Europe now here we will find that the East Asia is still on the level of establishing broader free trade areas FTAs of favorable trading areas but the European Union not only has created its own eurozone but also is also considering some kind of fiscal union or banking union so in terms of regional integration I think EU can offer a lot of the experiences and knowledge to the East Asia and the East Asia countries including China when we are thinking about how to push the East Asia economic integration we might need help from EU and we might perhaps have more opportunity to cooperate more closely with EU as for the East Asia economic integration this is a structure of the East Asia bilateral integration mechanism already in effect it is still incomplete and it only covers a part of the East Asia so it needs more perfection this is the this is the blueprint for the East Asia economic integration in the future these are the proposals made by policy makers of China or Japan or Korea there are much talks about these particularly the East Asia FTA 3 the Chinese I think the Chinese academics and Chinese policy makers really have a great expectation on the East Asia FTA 3 the East Asia free trade area the East Asia free trade area includes China mainland China and also South Korea and Japan and if possible Taiwan but there are still talks and no substantial achievement has ever been made already perhaps on this kind of mechanism particularly after the deterioration of the China-Japan relations and now there are talks of the TIPP sorry there are talks about the TPP in the East Asia they are more complicated it is more complicated so there are much researches of the East Asia economic integration that we might think that the Europe might give a hand to us and then the security affairs or strategic relations of the East Asia, South East Asia first is the Korean Peninsula I think everyone knows this some of my friends are actually working on the Korean Star days and the situation on the Korean Peninsula it is not so good actually the Cold War has never ended in East Asia it has never ended in East Asia so there is still Cold War confrontations so in Europe many scholars, I found many literature in Europe and many scholars in Europe say since the end of the Cold War blah blah blah but actually I think from the Chinese perspective or from the East Asia perspective the Cold War has not ended there are still much security concerns about this and there is Diao Yu Island dispute that got escalated in the past several years there are many reasons for this sorry sorry sorry yes you know where is Diao Yu Island great and also South China Sea disputes this is another great potential danger and still there is no substantial settlement for this and I heard someone from the EEAS which says that EU is interested to participate in the negotiations or the settlement for the security issues of this region I don't know exactly how is that but anyway a great concern now enters the major strategic thinking of Chinese academics and policymakers about the South China Sea there are many of these many data materials I will not talk too much about this well this is is the time okay? okay now we have talked about the forces that could push China and EU together to push China and EU closer and particularly I talk about the Chinese perspective in which fields we need EU and we hope to get more coordination from EU and now let's look at some of the current forces that might pull China and EU apart I think these several forces that might pull China and EU apart first they are still about the economics about trade imbalance as for the bilateral trade imbalance EU and the United States are always the two trade partners that might get the largest trade deficit from its trade with China here it is and this issue will remain I think a dividing issue perhaps between China and EU but relatively I think it's not so difficult to get some settlement after some negotiations there will always be some arrangement I think that this may not be very difficult but this is still an issue the trade deficit deficit of EU with China this is another statistics similar pattern this is sorry this is China's total volumes of exporting import with major trade partners in the recent years we will see that and of course here China means mainland China and here we will see that always EU and the United States and Hong Kong are the three economies that got the largest deficit from its trade with China while at the same time Taiwan, South Korea and Japan are always the biggest winner from their trade with China they make a lot of money each year from their trade with China and the statistics statistics are always monotonous and so in recent years the EU's dissatisfaction with this trade imbalance has been increasing so from China we made some statistics over European commissions anti-dumping countervailing investigations against China in the past several years and we will find that actually the EU's anti-dumping countervailing investigation cases against China actually account for over one-third of its total cases in the past several years that means the situation is really relatively serious perhaps the trade disputes are a great concern for many Chinese academics and policy makers and also for the Chinese industries because the EU and the United States are two of the largest markets for China's private sectors and also for some of China's state-owned corporations so whenever there are disputes there will always be an internal negotiation and coordination mechanism for Chinese industries and Chinese policy makers to get united together to work out some proposals so I think this is a great concern and in the future this is an issue that will attract Chinese concerns so nowadays the Chinese corporations are beginning to think about lobbying in EU when I came to the Irish Embassy in Brussels to apply for a visa it was amazing for me to find that a very famous Chinese corporation is located in the same building as the Irish Embassy in Brussels can you find that Huawei is a very famous Chinese corporation telecommunication it is about telecommunication technologies this corporation was very ambitious in the past several years to expand its investment in the United States and in the European Union but unexpectedly it got much frustrations because the US Congress conducting some investigations against Huawei and said to Huawei that you cannot merge this corporation without that and then in Europe Huawei also encountered serious setbacks or frustrations so now Huawei established a representative office in Brussels to do some work and I heard very interesting that someone says that it is now learning the skills to do some lobbying lobbying is a totally new phenomenon for Chinese because of the difference of the political systems perhaps I think the Chinese corporations are learning to do this this is a very new phenomenon it is totally new but it is very interesting so I have talked about the major forces that might try to pull China and the EU apart there are disputes about the trade imbalance there are EU's distrust about China's about the China's investment and also about the China's also about the social effect that China will bring to the Europe after its investment for example in the European Union there are independent trade unions and there are very high level of standards for labor for environmental protection but these are new phenomenon that Chinese corporations might sometimes do not know anything at all so when China make investment to the European Union these social issues might become kind of the source of dispute and the third one is issues related to the human rights and democracy this is about the different perceptions of Chinese officials and policy makers and the EU about the more deep deep-looted differences of the political sides of the EU-China relations I think many researchers have made some researches of this so these are the current forces of the obstructions for further development of the EU-China relations so let's get the conclusion we know that we know that when the couple gets married they will never really imagine what will be the future of their marriage perhaps just after period of time these couples after period of time this couple might just gradually alienated from each other when they find some differences they will so you know that the love has never been a lasting thing when the love goes seen there will be some disputes I think the same situation is for the EU-China relations there will be obviously coexistence of the disputes and the pushing forces so that's okay so anyway I think that in the future there are some forces pushing China and the EU together and there are some forces pushing China and the EU far apart but I think that the pushing forces will be larger than the pulling forces there will be coexistence of disputes quarrels and the coordination okay thank you


Konichiwa, Chance the Warhol here, down here at Youth Merch, where I make all my clothing, Marty McFlock, and now we're going to show you today how things kind of down there where you go. I am Chance the Warhol, and I make world music, music for everybody. The bass is hip-hop, the love is rock and roll, and the soul is just international music. Chance the dictator of a country, Warhol.  I'm actually a fashion designer first before a musician, I think, because I just love to create, you know, clothing. And the name of my clothing line is Marty McFly. Definitely a take on pop culture, one of the best films in pop culture, I think. And you're wearing Marty McFly right now? I am. Very good. Dapper, peeping pocket shirt. We were actually in the Youth Merch facility in partnership with Got Your Back movement. They're just an amazing company, a non-profit that helps kids in Africa obtain school uniforms. And I chose to work with them solely with my company. Just because, you know, it's deeper than just fashion, it's deeper than just a t-shirt. You also want to have a great meaning and kind of give that. And that's something that my parents instilled in me, is to help others, not just itself. Oh wow, it's all across the board, really. I would have to say no doubt to Jay-Z, to Pharrell Williams is probably one of the biggest influences that got me into music. My mom would always play records for me when I was younger. So I would get a little bit of a mixture of everything from rock to soul to Motown and stuff like that. But when I finally got to find music on my own, I feel like N.E.R.D., Nirvana and Jay-Z. Well, my first album came out in February 2010 last year. And it's called Japanese Lunchbox. It got critical acclaim with National Scene. It won Best Art Rap Album of the Year, which I thought was really cool and unexpected. That's kind of, you know, where I started up. Before that, I did a thing called Nobots, which is No Other Band Offices Sound, with a friend of mine, Ducco McFly. And it was classified as Cyber Rap, which was kind of cool, because it was like me rapping on electronic beats. And now I'm working on my new one, Silver Factory, coming out soon, August. Amazing, very musical. So be ready for that. I think it's going to be a concoction of just great music. And I also draw my inspirations from movies more so than music. So you can expect it to be an epic film. Things change. I mean, and Hip-Hop has always been an underbelly of Nashville, as well as like any other city from Detroit. You know, rap scene to like New York, it just, I think it all comes around. Every city has its time. I've been rapping seriously ever since I was 14, and the scene has definitely changed. I believe that Young Buck was probably the first big artist to ever break through for Nashville. And that kind of like probably, it was trend setting. Because at the time, like I said, nobody in Hip-Hop had any sort of like national buzz or anything. So I think a lot of rappers got a lot of hope when Young Buck came out. As an underground Hip-Hop artist, we used Categorize as like the backpack conscious rap, which really was weird because it was just different. But I felt like my music was way more diverse than that. And so I actually took a break from it, and I saw the indie rock scene movement just kind of cultivating and coming together. And it was just like this big, great movement. Soda like how Hip-Hop was in the 80s when it was like, and it's like natural state. And it was great because the indie rock scene kind of attached with the Hip-Hop scene and like kind of just broke through and took over the country music scene. So now you got like the diversity. You got Kesha. You've got Kings Leon. You know, you've got Hashire. You've got me. You know, it's just great because like I can perform with a band, a backing band. And like we can go and perform with a rock band, or we could be on the bill with Atalip Kuali or Kurs Love. And it's just a great, it's a great feeling to have because I feel like, you know, if you make great music, it doesn't matter. Music isn't a race. It isn't a gender or anything like so. If people feel it, you know, you'll get the open diversity of it and people will gravitate towards it. You can't really categorize it. And that's good. Because you know, why categorize good music? It's just, it is what it is. People will like it or they won't like it. So I think Hip-Hop is doing great in short for Nashville. It just shows your diversity because not only, you're not just one thing. And then also having a business and running my own business, you definitely become business minded.  But you become more aware, you know, you're not just this creative mind. You're also somebody who's thinking about the business side of things and making sure everything in your stable is running smoothly. So I've definitely learned a lot. It's definitely opened up a lot more doors for me.  And that's where I probably got a lot of my influence from Jay-Z because he's probably one of the most talented rappers. But he's also one of the best businessmen. You definitely kind of take from that and you want to be successful so you have to be on your business. You know, a lot of, and it even goes, stems with the music because a lot of rappers don't have their publishing, which is ridiculous to me because I know a lot of them, they're like, you know, these YouTube sensations but they don't even know half about getting their royalties and stuff like that. And like that's the stuff that's going to get you paid and keep you going. Tunkor and Physical CDs pretty much right now. Also, actually I'll take them back. Also, Bandcamp is another outlet and it's all linked through my website, ChanceAwarHall.com and you know, it's really great. So, but iTunes is probably the beef of where my sales come from. I don't have a merch table actually. I wear my stuff to my shows and I send people to the store or send them to the website. I've always been the type of person where like every experience I've had with an artist, like I remember it more than just, you know, somebody just give me something just unprepared. So yeah, merch will be coming soon for the shows. When I did my album release party, everything that you saw on my album cover was available at my album release party. The balloons were set up at the tables, the lunchboxes were set up. So it was like, you walk in and you're like, wow, okay, we're in golf in Japanese lunchbox. This should probably be an amazing show. You know, it's not just something like you just going to a regular concert. It's like an actual event. I plan to do the same type of stuff with this new album because you just want to create different art with whatever you do. The iconic symbol is I was really bored at a job that I really hated and was doodling. And you know, when you're kind of down, you always think about the iconic smiley face. So I wanted to take a twist on it and not do anything expected because when you hear Martin McFly, you expect somebody to have like a DeLorean symbol and all that stuff. And I wanted to do something totally completely different and just do something simple and what's better than a smiley face and then replacing the eyes with two M's. And I was doodling because I was going to make those funny. It actually started off as a lollipop.  And then I was like, okay, a lollipop might be too kitty. And then I just kept the smiley face and fell in love with it. And everybody was like, dude, this is cool. And I'm like, really? I'm like, it's kind of simple. They're like, no, it's perfect. So whenever you see that smiley face, you know, think of Chance the Wall and Martin McFly. He's kind of like Gizmo from the Grimmons. He's like just this cute thing that's always there, always watching. Something that you always want to keep with you in your pocket, you know? So don't feed him after midnight.


Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 1973 giallo film The Killer is one of 13 and it is what I have watched to finish off The forgotten giallo volume one from vinegar syndrome, which this has been pretty fun I didn't really like trauma all that much It was me. I don't think I'd really watch it again. Maybe in the right mood. The police are blundering the dark That was kind of a so good. It's bad I will definitely watch that again and I think I would probably watch the killer is one of 13 again because It was interesting enough my one problem with it though is the fact that it's Very talky, you know, there's a lot of dialogue in it and it's subtitled which It goes fast because the characters actually speak relatively fast. I'm not a super fast reader So when I was taking notes, I really had to make sure I didn't miss anything because a lot of stuff happens through the dialogue I had to make sure that I paused every single time. I wanted to take a note and yeah, it gets to be Gets to be a bit of a pain to be honest, but Um, relatively solid story relatively solid story. I liked it. Let's talk about this Directed by Javier Aguirre who also did the only other horror film I could definitely find Um was count Dracula's great love So I put that one down written by Aguirre and alberto s in sua Who also wrote the script for count Dracula's great love, which I thought was interesting Paul nasi Or nasi nasi nasi. I don't know how it's actually said Uh plays urnus the driver in this film who I thought was gonna end up being the killer at one point But well, I mean there were a bunch of people I thought would be the killer at some point Because they do they do a pretty good job with the red herrings in this I think He was famous for night of the werewolf night of the howling beast Howl of the devil just to name a few of the films very well known for being a werewolf He is a big name. So when I saw him on the list of cast members, I was like, oh, that's kind of cool So I was actually kind of surprised that his role was as minimal as it actually was and that's why I was really thinking He's not playing a huge role Which usually points to the person who's probably the killer because they want to have them in the story But not show them too much that you actually start to get suspicious So he was in it like just enough and actually could have had some motive Because he was in a relationship with Was there Elena the maid who was having an affair with Harry And so I thought that you know, there's some motivation So maybe that's why he ended up killing some people and then we would find more motivation out blah blah blah But that didn't end up happening obviously and if you're watching this you've probably already seen the film So you know what I'm talking about So anyway, uh, it has a very uplifting score to start The the movie and what looks like a well to do area that they're going through so It stands in contrast to what's actually going on to why everyone's being assembled With this get together that lisa has set up To basically accuse people and just point fingers all over the place and make people nervous in essence and um Well, I'll talk a little bit more about motive at the very end of this with her because I have some theories It wasn't a hundred percent clear to me and I would love other people's theories on what happened with this in the comments So I'll get to that though Harry gets painted as a playboy immediately in this film as lisa says she needs to be careful of him basically He then says that he's interested in trying to charm Uh women away from their husbands in essence, you know, they when everyone's out there talking when they first get there around the pool Harry makes comment about you know looking for some ladies in essence and they're like, oh well a bunch of the women are married here So what's available to use very limited and he makes some sort of comment about like liking the thrill of Going after a married woman Which I don't know if I would do that if I were him Um It just makes people hyper aware So if you are going to try and have sex with their wife, then they're looking for that So not smart on his part if he's going to be doing that Then you see that he turns on the charm with alaina very early almost immediately honestly and starts to try to have sex with her Basically as soon as he gets settled in his guest room So this guy, you know, he's painted as a playboy, but he just exudes it He just goes he hits the ground running as soon as he shows up to this place um It's crazy It's crazy, but I like his character actually like I felt like he injected a lot of fun into the film Because it's kind of like who's running around and sneaking around on who and yeah, who's sleeping around basically When you see everyone talking in the backyard you get a feeling of a murder mystery like clue getting set up Even though this is obviously before clue They also give a lot of the needed backstory in those conversations So this goes back to what I was saying There's a lot of talking involved and it's important. So you really do need to pay attention to what's being said um So much so that you know, like that dinner scene in essence Is a long scene of a lot of talking going on and there's a lot of information it gets thrown out So that's kind of like that sets you up to know that like this is how the film's gonna be You're really gonna have to pay attention to the dialogue because it's going to tell you pretty much everything You need to know they're going to tell you more than they show you and I feel like that's definitely what happened All the early uh introductions of characters actually kind of had my head spinning Because there's so many characters and they were being introduced so fast I was kind of like, oh my god, you're going so quick. Like how am I going to keep these people straight But they did kind of slow it down after that and I do think that I was helped a little bit by the initial dinner scene because there were people, you know Saying each other's names and going back and forth in conversation. So that kind of gave me time to like pull it in But at first I was very overwhelmed. I'm like, well, what did I expect from a film called the killer is one of 13? I had to I should have assumed there would be at least 13 characters So yeah makes sense 13 people assembled on the 13th. They point this out when they're at the dinner table I was like, uh-oh if that isn't foreshadowing.  That's one of my biggest issues I think that the kill should have been littered throughout the film a lot better It really what it is is all the actual kills on screen and come in the last third of the film Which I feel like they should have just been paced a lot better because it seems like it's very slow It's very dialogue driven and then all of a sudden it like picks up a lot at the end And then it's pretty much over so I don't know I just feel like you could have had Less pace pacing problems because I do feel like it has pacing problems If you would put some more of the actual like killing action in there and people reacting to that honestly Just saying my feelings on it Lisa just seemed mad at everyone when she's explaining the reason for the gathering at the dinner table And I like how she systematically explains why everyone is a suspect I mean they could have easily just left it at you're all suspects and and I know that someone here did this but she then goes on to say And she doesn't say names a lot of the times But she's like there's a situation where this person could be a suspect because of this and this person's suspect because of this Sometimes she calls out people specifically and sometimes people call themselves out because she throws out that scenario and they're like I think you're talking about me basically so It's a lot and I was very surprised that they went that far with it Because a lot of times with these films they do have a tendency to just be like You're all suspects and we'll figure things out later instead. She's just like laying everything out So it shows you that this is what she's been doing with her time in the two years since her husband died Is she's just been doing this Investigating is what it seems like at the dinner table is that like that's been her sole focus. That's all she's been looking into for two years I like how Jorge won't stop talking about his cannery Eventually he does but at least up until the point that they finished dinner basically He brings up his cannery so many times at which we find out later. It's a tuna cannery So yeah, I would assume pretty popular people have canned tuna But the fact that he just keeps talking and talking and talking about I was just like, oh my god It's so annoying But it adds cork like a lot of these jala films When lisa's explaining arlands paintings and his forgery dealings you get the idea she spent the entire two years Her husband's been dead investigating everyone on her own And then you wonder if the movie will ever leave this dinner table Or is she going to go into this this amount of detail for each and every person? I legitimately started to fear That the entirety of the rest of the film was going to be at that dinner table I really really did because of how long that scene went And how much detail she was going into especially with arland and his forgeries I was just like, oh my gosh if if the the whole movie is just them talking at this dinner table I'm not gonna like it So Finally they got away from the dinner table and I was like, oh my god. Thank you so much You would think cecilia would want to stay away from a tryst with harry Since everyone was made aware that he slept with women there Not only was everyone made aware that he is slept with women there by lisa, but he also Had said at the at the pool like I had said before that basically he was on the hunt and that he didn't mind going after married women so like All the information's out there everyone knows that harry's looking to bone married women And everyone knows that he's boned some of the married women there So you would think that if you don't want to get caught You wouldn't do something while you're there wait Down the road wait for another time. So it just seems kind of Unintelligent Whenever someone says they know who the killer is and then won't say it right then They're gonna die. Yes, and that's what happens because cecilia says at one point that she knows who it is But she doesn't want to go into it because it's too complicated and then um bertha Francis's mother goes into it and says that she thinks she knows who it is and she's gonna tell someone later Both of them end up dying. That's one of the rules of giola that happens all the time in giola films So just know this if you're watching a giola film and someone says I have the information But I need to meet you somewhere to tell you or I'll tell you later. It's too much to explain right now They're getting it. They're definitely getting it and that's what happened I like how lisa has henry go through everyone's things and he reports that francis has a bunch of real filthy pornography First of all, I was just like, oh, she's just having her butler go through and rifle through everyone's stuff Wonderful, that's really messed up But then it got to the part where it was funny then where he's just like i'm francis Just has all this porn like really filthy stuff Which I think is what he's reading later on when bertha tells him to go to bed when they're in the room together Um, yeah, he just like travels around with a giant suitcase of porn All right, good for him As soon as I saw a the black loved hand start to open a door Which is in the last third of the film as I already said. I was like, oh, thank goodness. Here we go We're about to start getting some actual deaths in this Let's get to it. Let's start to figure out who this might be So that's when the excitement really does start to happen Elena wants to leave with harry, but he seems to be done with her after they have sex basically Yes, they have their little tryst real quick, which I believe was in the pool house And um, she's like, I want to come with you.  We'll we'll see He's like, I love you. You're you're a beautiful thing, but you know, we'll see I'm like, uh, yeah, he he can't like that dude cannot commit like that's just his his way That is his way Cecilia and harry got killed very close to one another Um, that's one of those things where like I'm glad the deaths happened and I Specifically did not see harry's coming because I thought he was such a strong Interesting character that they would keep him alive Or he would end up being the killer Um, but no they they killed him right after Cecilia. Um, my problem there is that I do feel like there should have been some more Space in the film between their kills like I was saying, you know, all the kills kind of happen clumped together so It would have been much better if they were spread out a little bit more So especially those two kills like it literally was just like Cecilia gets it harry gets it within like a minute of Cecilia getting it and I'm just like I I hadn't even like fully processed Cecilia's death. So it wasn't as satisfying. So Yeah Should have spaced that out more did laura insinuate that she's been prostituting herself to rich guys To make money for her in Guillermo when they have that big blow-up and He's like you've been sleeping with these guys blah blah and she's like, where do you think the money's been coming from? I was like, wait a minute. Is she saying she's basically been like a high end prostitute Is that what's been going on with her and that's how they're making a part of their fortune? I don't I think so. That's what it seemed like Henry's supposition that lisa's husband was killed by a feminine crime and Cecilia and harry by a masculine crime Is actually not that uncommon for the thinking at that time Um, I thought that was going to be a way to really, um, throw people off back then to be like Oh, obviously, they're very brutish killings Of harry and Cecilia. So therefore it can't be a woman But you know, maybe it's two separate killers because Of what happened? um with Lisa's husband, that's right Sorry, I trailed off there. I like the touch of the drops of blood as bertha's being strangled with the wire I did like that where they're showing the kind of close-up of the wire being pulled around her neck You see like the drops of blood kind of coming out while it's happening Nice touch good practical effects on that for the time. I like that Oh, how cute arland and martha have fallen in love because of what they have in common And what they have in common is the others looked down upon them Arland for the fact that he commits art forgery and martha for the fact that she's a waitress those things are not the same but In this film, they they feel like they're the same person because they're being looked down upon for these reasons. So Interesting, I guess I I just thought the whole injection of this kind of love story that takes shape was weird in this But you know, that's giallo. That's what giallo does. It gets weird. It always gets weird pretty much I like the tension building of seeing the skewer that was coming from the killer's hand With the black glove hand towards laura before she gets stabbed in the shower because It keeps going back to like her kind of like in fear in the shower Like recoiled against the wall and this and then the skewer like slowly coming at her The music added to that as well But just the fact that it keeps going between and the anticipation that she's about to get it And then the stabbing portion would actually look solid enough that it was a good payoff. Um, that was a good kill probably the best kill in my opinion Uh, kind of a brutal scene when garamob ashes earn his head with a wrench I know they don't actually show it. They show the aftermath of it, which looks good But just the insinuation that he's like beating his head with that wrench was like, oh man Then you get that pretty prolonged car crash scene of garamob going off the hill Which we find out later henry the butler had Um broke had um cut the brakes so that if garamob tried to get away.  It was it was pretty good Cool touch with the shadow of a person moving across the door after henry closes it That's at the very end when you think kind of everyone had left And they go through the door lisa and henry together and they're talking and he closes the door behind him And then like a shadow moves across it of a person So I was like, oh the killer's still there the the killer's still at large So there's kind of a question with that because then the stuff that happens next between henry and lisa and then arlyn and Martha makes me like wait, hold on a second. So I rewound it after I got done and I was like What is really going on here? So I I have some theories I'm not a hundred percent on it So I'm really going to want people who've seen this to weigh in in the comments and kind of give me your opinion on what you think's going on So the button I feel like the button was supposed to prove that henry was the killer At least per what lisa was saying when she was talking to him because she found on that jackety was wearing that There was a missing button um Because of bertha and it was good. I guess good thinking on bertha's part to like actually pull something from The well actually it might not have been actually that may have been planted Because there's a question as to where did the jacket come from because we do see the scenes of the black love killer actually putting the jacket into someone's dresser basically and then There was also the conversation that I think Who was it? Was it whore? Hey had? About where his no, I think it was Guillermo about where his jacket had gone And laura tells him that it had that she didn't know where it was basically So there was an insinuation that like the killer actually had taken one of Guillermo's jackets And then the button was taken off of that by bertha as she was being killed And then henry's wearing it at the end which would make you think that henry was the killer But we do see that little segment of the killer Taking that jacket on a hanger and putting it somewhere So Then you start questioning was it actually henry's though because it may not have been he may have just been wearing it And that kind of led me to is lisa the one who did this Did she set all this up because you don't know really if it's a man or a woman because you just see the gloved hand really I Assume the button in henry's hand at the end means lisa was the killer of carlos all along Since Guillermo's jacket was taken and then moved elsewhere henry says he did everything for lisa And then tries to kill her because he realizes she's framing him So the big thing with that is that they played it pretty well in a sense to confuse you where You do believe that henry is the killer of everyone basically When lisa puts on what i think is a performance Where she notices, you know the missing button and then she's like, oh my god, you're the killer Because his reaction he starts saying like oh, I did it all for you. Let me explain All that stuff and then he tries to kill her So initially you think okay. Well, he is the killer because the way he's reacting because especially because he tries to kill her then but After you see the ending with the button, I I rewound and i'm like, well, you could see it as um him Realizing that she set him up And that's why he actually tries to kill her then because he makes a comment about he did everything for her He's like, oh, I did everything for you, but that does work both ways So i'm still kind of confused as to which way it was supposed to have gone Comments, please let's let's let's talk that one over because I I really need to work this one out And like I said, I watched the ending twice. I'm still not a hundred percent Overall the camera work is goodness Uh, there are a bunch of cool rotating shots and movement with and around characters That actually kind of reminds me a lot of the styles of mario bava, which isn't a big You know surprise because bava was a big deal back then he was very influential from a stylistic standpoint, so the fact that you know odd year took that same style to a degree Doesn't surprise me at all, but it looks good. I like it Like if you notice the camera moves a lot and moves very smoothly and moves around characters and with characters And uh, it looks pretty good for the most part The adr is off a good amount, which is interesting because I think I don't know if they Record if they filmed in a different language and then overlaid another language Because it sounds like I think it's is it italian, but it was filmed in spanish I'm not a hundred percent sure on that. I couldn't find that information, but I'm sure someone can Uh, I probably didn't try hard enough to be honest. I think the kills should have been paced out better Yeah, since they're clustered at the end that bears repeating and there's something very interesting to point out about this notice There was no nudity in this film Which is very uncommon in my opinion for giallo at least the giallo films I've seen and I've seen over 40 giallo films at this point every single one of them I believe every single one of them up until this one has nudity So it was very interesting. There were a few moments where you almost got nudity Like the part where I think it was laura was about to take her bra off and then they cut away Interesting, so uh, yeah, not like it's a big deal, but I just found it Interesting because all the other films seem to have it It's very geared that way. So overall, I thought this was decent enough I I enjoyed the storyline of it. Obviously, I'm still kind of confused of it Confused with it. I already told you the good good and the bad on it So out of five stars with half stars in play. I'm gonna go ahead and give it Three stars. I don't give it three stars. It feels good there So like I said, I am now done with volume one of the forgotten giallo from vinegar syndrome I do have volume two. I don't have volume three, but I have volume two So I'm interested to start digging into that and I will be digging into it pretty soon So you can look for all of those to be added to my channel So like I said, put some comments down here. Let's talk about this or just giallo in general. 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