X Factor

Yesterday's impulse buy.

whose blog is this anyway ???

The Other World Cup, France 2007

... stopping by the Venice Whaler at the end of July for the real football rivalry.

Roadtrip Summer 2006, continuing

End, Stage 1: "Girls going Wild"

At the Edge of the Land of Happy Cows (and Great Cheese)

route: i-10 east, us- 95 north [along colorado river]

stop 2: Lake Havasu City



Lake Havasu greets the roadtrippers as they leave beautiful SoCal and enter Arizona.

Last Night

The headlights on my truck are going through some circuit problems so last night it would periodically go off and I'd have to work hard and getting it to come back on. I showed Kate the nicest parts of the area we're in; Newhall and Valverde. The drive out to Valverde was fun; I partly anticipated that the lights would go out as I'm driving along the rolling hills - for those of you who aren't familiar with the area, large part of this part of Santa Clarita is as yet completely uninhabited by humans. So all of a sudden everything would be pitch black as I'm driving. haha.

I came up with an idea with Kate that it would be possible to have sex whilst driving the sex as the car is speeding along completely in the dark; fueld with tequila, speed , chased with Budweiser (she new favourite American beer. haha). But since that would be kind of dangers, you park the car somewhere in the dark, do your "thing", and as that is happening along, the person underneath has their foot jammed on the accelerator (with the transmission in neutral), still fueld with tequila, speed, and beer. That is possibly one of the best ideas I've ever had in my life.

yes i know she has a boyfriend
i'm good friends with her brother eric
and he tells me this kind of useful stuff

After an afternoon's fun at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Eric, his sister (Katelyn), Christine, Joe and I end up drinking at their house. Kate and I had spent sometime at Rendez Vous earlier also. Good times.

kate and johnny

eric and i

moi, joe, eric

Soul Patrol

I'm not ashamed to admit that I watched American Idol last night.
This guy can sing. Plus, he plays the harmonica.

7-1, Dodgers sweeps Rockies

Great game tonight, with a more than solid outing by Aaron Sele (Opposed by another Aaron, of the "Cook" variety). The Dodgers are now even able to pull off some great promotions - yup, when they score 10 runs or more, 10 free hot wings from Hooters.

I wish I had photos from the game , but oh well. Tonight, towards the end of the game I notice a guy with a small TV ... and some girl all excited that there's a TV around. Then I realize they were watching the final episode of Ameircna Idol. Fuck that shit....

LA Dodgers clash with "Hartford" Indians of Cleveland

Paul Shuey, Cleveland Indians & the LA Dodgers.

Posted from Baseball Toaster: Dodger Thoughts

Today's Iron Photoshop ingredient: New Zealand

Check out FARK.com for some Photoshop fun. Every day I read the headlines there, but I especially enjoy the Photoshop competitions. Here's a link to the New Zealand themed competition.

this is awesome....

from the commodore 64 games vault - Andrew Craigie: Android (1987) Apparently back in the mid-80's there was a huge fascination with androids - i was 8 years old back in Taiwan, so i had no idea... But i finally discovered Bladerunner, so everything is fine now. And now i have this digital+analogue sound in my life. woo...

you need it too.

commodore 64 SID player
SID music collection

California League

Inland Empire 66ers

High Desert Mavericks

Lancaster Jethawks

Ranch Cucamonga Quakes

Lake Elsinore Storm

A bit of pre-roadtrip warm-up

i took out an ad on this site for any of their readers seeking an experimental violinist/composer.

non-music rant...

what the fuck does this shit have to do with music?

if you're gonna play music then leave behind the "sexy shit" - if you're gonna be sexy then leave the violin out of it.

but i guess some people want both (have the cake and eat it too ??)

Roadtrip Summer 2006

...proposed route and diversions, under constant revision...

stage 1: "i wish they're all california rolls"

route: i- 10 eastbound

stop 1: Salton sea

neighbouring locality: Coachella/Indio, chocolate mountain gunnery range, Yuma , Salton city, Bombay Beach

Radio Wandelweisser

This is a plug for Radio Wandelweisser, on the Wandelweisser website, where I have a composition now in circulation. (Goldsmith Variations; taking its inspiration from the music of Jerry Goldsmith and more specifically the soundtrack to the movie Chinatown) I'm certainly honoured to be listed among some great musicians and composers !

music/baseball

Michael Pisaro

HIT OR MISS? 1998

(click here for the text)

What are YOU doing (eating) this summer ?

If you do all the following, one each day, you will die on the 8th day ...
or just get really fat like me.

• calarts cafeteria (patty melt)

• philippe french-dip sandwiches + the house horse radish mustard

• dodger stadium (super dodger dogs...)

• in n' out burger (3x 3x ..... animal style)

• pie n' burger (what's in season?)

• roscoe's chicken and waffles + grits

• the valverde taco truck (with everything)

• villa maria (location: newhall, san fernando/lyons)

Echo's Man-Crush

It's the hair.

oh by the way...

Go CLIPPERS !!!

my first german review

A review of a concert of music of myself and friends Mark So and James Orsher from Petra Hedler, writing for the NRW gazette (North Rhein - Weshpalia)






Translation:

"It was very interesting for me to experience how Pisaro's students carry on with these ideas [i.e., those discussed in the previous paragraph]. They do it in a highly individual way. Johnny Chang gives the tones more space and volume and creates tender sound currents that carry one along. Mark So strongly embraces the phenomenon of the just barely audible, taking up a broad palette of sound producing devices (including glasses, stones). James Orsher lets small, filigreed tone islands appear and disappear again and again from a sea of silence."




Here's one of the pieces on that concert; Goldsmith Variations - in a version performed at calarts for 2 double basses, flute, ukele, harmonium & piano. This kind of instrumentation pretty much speaks to the variety of sounds that my friends bring to any rehearsals of highly focused yet openly creative concept pieces. (Not to forget wine glasses + H2O, pebbles on saucers
placed on snare drums, harmonicas, e-bowed e-guitar etc.etc.etc)

Bumped into someone who used to go to Calarts last night. Bruce you might remember Daphne ? I was telling her that I've been up to - and I thought of my situation as "Over-Educated". Anyone else got a thought on that?