I admit that I was pretty out there last night when I was writin the blog, having played the whole night and had some drinks. Plus I was really sleepy.
So here's some "Extra Features".
I met Okkyung after the set and she recognized me right away. She asked me about my visa thing, gave me some good advice, really appreciate it. I told her that their playing ws amazing, and she said, "Thank you. Well, maybe you'd had enough of this shit." Haha! I said, "Well it's different every time, so I don't think I will ever have enough of it!"
Then I saw John Zorn standing behind the glass door, so I asked Okkyung if it's OK to talk to Zorn because I needed to pass my CD to him. Okkyung told me it should be OK, so she told the doorman to let me in, they didn't hesitate.
I went up to Zorn and introduced myself and told him that I'm an admirer of his music, and I wrote a piece for violin and viola, it's inspired by him and recently performed....he just cut in and say, "You want me to listen to it? Sure!" He took the CD from me.
SO COOL!
ZORN!!! Bitch it's ZORN!!!!!!!
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Saturday, December 30, 2006
The Zorn Thing
I reached the Stone at 7.55pm, the line was really long, I didn't expect that, and I was thinking to myself, "Yeah better prepare for the worst, motherfucker, this tiny place will be packed in no time."
And it did.
I thought this is the end of me, I came all the way from Queens just to see John Zorn in action and this will be my second time going home disappointed.
No wait!
The guy came out and started to tell us, "A couple more minutes."
Zorn started shredding on center stage with these other guys, we could hear him faintly from outside. Wasn't loud but at least something for our thirst.
After the fire department cat went away for a while, they started to let us in. I was one of the lucky chinks who could get in and listen to my heroes!!
Once I got in, Mark Feldman, Sylvie Courvoisier (Mrs Feldman), and Okkyung Lee, started to do some crazy improv.
You see, if you don't listen to them carefully, you would complain that they're making noise. But those ain't merely noise if you observe and listen closely, they actually were interacting with each other ---- unison, juxtaposing, doubling, harmonizing, etc.
After that Zorn came out with a bass clarinetist and soprano player, playing this awesome wind trio. Dude, lemme tell u, that shit was like pre-composed, they were locking up so well you can't hear no flaw in them!! Too bad I am not able to know all of their names...
Also in the show was Mark playing with trombonist Jim Staley, Sylvie shredding with electric guitarist John King and clarinetist, also a grand finale with all them motherfuckers.
They made noise, but they interact, they clash into each other like thunder and lightning, they flow into each other like streams.
Noise with sense ---- it's the "Zorn thing".
And it did.
I thought this is the end of me, I came all the way from Queens just to see John Zorn in action and this will be my second time going home disappointed.
No wait!
The guy came out and started to tell us, "A couple more minutes."
Zorn started shredding on center stage with these other guys, we could hear him faintly from outside. Wasn't loud but at least something for our thirst.
After the fire department cat went away for a while, they started to let us in. I was one of the lucky chinks who could get in and listen to my heroes!!
Once I got in, Mark Feldman, Sylvie Courvoisier (Mrs Feldman), and Okkyung Lee, started to do some crazy improv.
You see, if you don't listen to them carefully, you would complain that they're making noise. But those ain't merely noise if you observe and listen closely, they actually were interacting with each other ---- unison, juxtaposing, doubling, harmonizing, etc.
After that Zorn came out with a bass clarinetist and soprano player, playing this awesome wind trio. Dude, lemme tell u, that shit was like pre-composed, they were locking up so well you can't hear no flaw in them!! Too bad I am not able to know all of their names...
Also in the show was Mark playing with trombonist Jim Staley, Sylvie shredding with electric guitarist John King and clarinetist, also a grand finale with all them motherfuckers.
They made noise, but they interact, they clash into each other like thunder and lightning, they flow into each other like streams.
Noise with sense ---- it's the "Zorn thing".
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Second Rehearsal with PTS
Yessss.............
This band is happenin'...
Good vibe, good sound, good ensemble...
It's gonna rock...
We'll see what happens when we record our demo tomorrow!!
This band is happenin'...
Good vibe, good sound, good ensemble...
It's gonna rock...
We'll see what happens when we record our demo tomorrow!!
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
My life after Christmas
So my Christmas sucked, I know.
But Chen Han arrived the next day with his gf Annie and two other people --- one of them being my Facebook friend that I recently added, I-Chia. I-Chia is a very nice girl, very cool too. She's a violist. We had some food together, sang karaoke and had some fun talking about violin-playing ----- I think he and Mune are the only two motherfuckers that like to talk about violin-playing with me. I mean, I don't talk about violin playing so much myself, so it's good to hear what others have to say and think, and see how they do it.
This morning we went to Martin's place, Chen Han wanted to rehair his bow and Mune's too. Martin adopted a very cute little dog last Friday, it has a funny name, "Basta". HAHA! But it's a really really nice dog, very quiet and tamed. But once Chen Han started playing the violin, he barked! When I-Chia and I were playing, he was quiet. Very funny phenomenon, but dunno why.
I brought them to 5th Avenue to take pictures, they took a lot of pictures, and was quite psyched about the decorated streets. We came back exhausted.
It was fun, I hope they will come again!
By the way, I didn't contact Jing Wen at all today. I dunno what's going on with her and her friends, hope everything goes well with them and wish they are having fun. I'm glad that they managed to move to another place. Too bad I couldn't hang with them, but oh well, I have my friends here, they're cool too. Those people hardly know me, including Jing Wen herself, so nevermind, they don't have to hang with me if they don't want to. Just trying to help them as much as I could because we came from the same country.
But Chen Han arrived the next day with his gf Annie and two other people --- one of them being my Facebook friend that I recently added, I-Chia. I-Chia is a very nice girl, very cool too. She's a violist. We had some food together, sang karaoke and had some fun talking about violin-playing ----- I think he and Mune are the only two motherfuckers that like to talk about violin-playing with me. I mean, I don't talk about violin playing so much myself, so it's good to hear what others have to say and think, and see how they do it.
This morning we went to Martin's place, Chen Han wanted to rehair his bow and Mune's too. Martin adopted a very cute little dog last Friday, it has a funny name, "Basta". HAHA! But it's a really really nice dog, very quiet and tamed. But once Chen Han started playing the violin, he barked! When I-Chia and I were playing, he was quiet. Very funny phenomenon, but dunno why.
I brought them to 5th Avenue to take pictures, they took a lot of pictures, and was quite psyched about the decorated streets. We came back exhausted.
It was fun, I hope they will come again!
By the way, I didn't contact Jing Wen at all today. I dunno what's going on with her and her friends, hope everything goes well with them and wish they are having fun. I'm glad that they managed to move to another place. Too bad I couldn't hang with them, but oh well, I have my friends here, they're cool too. Those people hardly know me, including Jing Wen herself, so nevermind, they don't have to hang with me if they don't want to. Just trying to help them as much as I could because we came from the same country.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Quote of the Day
"He influenced me, and I influenced him, and that's the way great music is always made. Everybody showing everybody else something and then moving on from there."
----- Miles Davis
----- Miles Davis
Monday, December 25, 2006
Dark Christmas
In less than one hour, the depressing day will be over.
Christmas.
It's not white.
It's dark for me.
I didn't do anything all day, except having lunch with Paul Way and Hoi before they leave.
I got back home and started my PS2 shredding, and half asleep while watching National Geographic Channel.
I tried to call a bunch of people, including Nick and Ken, but nobody answered.
I didn't even eat dinner properly.
And now I'm sitting here waiting for 12am to come.
That's my Dec 25th, 2006.
Pretty simple right?
p/s: James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, passed away on the Christmas morning. Please give a minute of silence to commemorate him and his music.
Christmas.
It's not white.
It's dark for me.
I didn't do anything all day, except having lunch with Paul Way and Hoi before they leave.
I got back home and started my PS2 shredding, and half asleep while watching National Geographic Channel.
I tried to call a bunch of people, including Nick and Ken, but nobody answered.
I didn't even eat dinner properly.
And now I'm sitting here waiting for 12am to come.
That's my Dec 25th, 2006.
Pretty simple right?
p/s: James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, passed away on the Christmas morning. Please give a minute of silence to commemorate him and his music.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Jing Wen in town
Yeah so my Friendster friend Jing Wen is in town at last!
She looks as pretty as her photos on Friendster, Eddie is a lucky bastard, haha!
I took her and all her friends to Sentosa to have dinner, they were a cool bunch (OF COURSE! MALAYSIANS MAH!! except Taku the Japanese, but he's cool too).
It's good to see so many Malaysians all at once in America, I never had that experience till now!
So the next few days, I will be bringing Jing Wen to hunt for some dance classes around town, I hope she gets some, and I hope she doesn't get scared and not going in.
After all, it's just a class, what's there to be afraid of?
She looks as pretty as her photos on Friendster, Eddie is a lucky bastard, haha!
I took her and all her friends to Sentosa to have dinner, they were a cool bunch (OF COURSE! MALAYSIANS MAH!! except Taku the Japanese, but he's cool too).
It's good to see so many Malaysians all at once in America, I never had that experience till now!
So the next few days, I will be bringing Jing Wen to hunt for some dance classes around town, I hope she gets some, and I hope she doesn't get scared and not going in.
After all, it's just a class, what's there to be afraid of?
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Corcoran Holt's Graduation Recital
I managed to get out of Smaldone's recording session earlier than planned, so I went next door to listen to my bro Corcoran Holt's final recital.
Corcoran's a bassist who has been a killer since I first saw him play.
Today he brought together a band of killers like himself to burn up the remaining of his graduate school days. Unfortunately I couldn't remember any of these cats' names, they sure were a whole group of motherfuckers.
I went in at one thirty pm, which is around 1/3 of the recital, Corcoran was doing a duet with the drummer. Man, were they tight! I was totally blown away by the drummer, whose command on the instrument was just totally phenomenal!
This guy burns in whatever situation, whether when he was playin' loud or soft. His pattern was varied and inconsistant but you never felt anything was off his hands. He puts fire under everybody's ass and kept burning them until they all ran like motherfuckers. I have total respect for his playing.
Now a killin' drummer can't make it without a good pianist and bassist, like I said, Corcoran's motherfucker on the bass, and the pianist too, was great in complementing the soloists. The whole rhythm section locked up so tight together that they almost shared the same brains.
The saxophonist was a great player, oh man, his playin' was just beautiful and in the same time fiery!!! RJ the trombonist is more of a cooler and lyrical type of player, and he's a motherfucker too.
The most memorable number they played was "Ele Efe" by Christian McBride, I almost teared when I heard it. The sound was so supreme it would lift you up to another level of the heaven!
I felt I learned something in this concert. I learned that "love" is an important thing in a band.
Don't look at me like I'm nuts, because when you have love between one another, you want to support your bandmates while you play together, when they're down, you lift them up and encourage them by burning it underneath. That's how it should be, I believe.
Love is the key.
Corcoran's a bassist who has been a killer since I first saw him play.
Today he brought together a band of killers like himself to burn up the remaining of his graduate school days. Unfortunately I couldn't remember any of these cats' names, they sure were a whole group of motherfuckers.
I went in at one thirty pm, which is around 1/3 of the recital, Corcoran was doing a duet with the drummer. Man, were they tight! I was totally blown away by the drummer, whose command on the instrument was just totally phenomenal!
This guy burns in whatever situation, whether when he was playin' loud or soft. His pattern was varied and inconsistant but you never felt anything was off his hands. He puts fire under everybody's ass and kept burning them until they all ran like motherfuckers. I have total respect for his playing.
Now a killin' drummer can't make it without a good pianist and bassist, like I said, Corcoran's motherfucker on the bass, and the pianist too, was great in complementing the soloists. The whole rhythm section locked up so tight together that they almost shared the same brains.
The saxophonist was a great player, oh man, his playin' was just beautiful and in the same time fiery!!! RJ the trombonist is more of a cooler and lyrical type of player, and he's a motherfucker too.
The most memorable number they played was "Ele Efe" by Christian McBride, I almost teared when I heard it. The sound was so supreme it would lift you up to another level of the heaven!
I felt I learned something in this concert. I learned that "love" is an important thing in a band.
Don't look at me like I'm nuts, because when you have love between one another, you want to support your bandmates while you play together, when they're down, you lift them up and encourage them by burning it underneath. That's how it should be, I believe.
Love is the key.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Project Taming Sari
We had a first rehearsal today, I felt good about it and am pretty excited about what we can become in the future.
The line-up:
Michelle Marie Nestor, guitar
Fung Chern Hwei, violin
Brandon Silaco, percussions
This is a project that Michelle and I put together, trying to find a new kind of sound. Sort of ECM, spacey, clean, light, but not lacking of power. Original idea was to include my bro Jeremy Harman on the cello, but that guy has been missing in action for a long time, since we can't wait anymore, we started to rehearse.
The group sounded good. The sound started to gel up and started to show some promising potential within an hour of playing!
We played my tune "Riders on the Lost Track" today, doing the head over and over again. I taught them about the Malay joget rhythm. They were a little stiff in the beginning, but after a while, it started to blend, and we came out with our way of playing that rhythm!
I can't wait for next week! I can almost be sure that good things will happen to this group!
*thanks Brandon, for your full determination and seriousness!
The line-up:
Michelle Marie Nestor, guitar
Fung Chern Hwei, violin
Brandon Silaco, percussions
This is a project that Michelle and I put together, trying to find a new kind of sound. Sort of ECM, spacey, clean, light, but not lacking of power. Original idea was to include my bro Jeremy Harman on the cello, but that guy has been missing in action for a long time, since we can't wait anymore, we started to rehearse.
The group sounded good. The sound started to gel up and started to show some promising potential within an hour of playing!
We played my tune "Riders on the Lost Track" today, doing the head over and over again. I taught them about the Malay joget rhythm. They were a little stiff in the beginning, but after a while, it started to blend, and we came out with our way of playing that rhythm!
I can't wait for next week! I can almost be sure that good things will happen to this group!
*thanks Brandon, for your full determination and seriousness!
Monday, December 18, 2006
Harry Winston on Red Carpet
I woke up at 9am on Sunday, got out from the house at 9.30am, jumped on a Q65A and took E train to Forest Hills, transferred to D train on 7 Av, it was an express, I got to West Harlem in no time.
That place was pretty crazy ---- it's quiet, that's why it's crazy.
Homies hanging around the roadside, doin' nothing, sitting on a chair brought out from their houses, smokin', looking at the passersby.
I didn't pay no much attention to these people, as I sort of knew that a black neighborhood are like that, and that I should feel lucky that I was in West Harlem, not East.
Whatever it was, I got out at 145th St station, and went to Crown Fried Chicken as I saw it, and bought two pieces of them. I always have a feeling telling me that black people's fried chicken are the BEST!!
Then I went up for blocks and a couple blocks West to knock on Mikael's door.
I had my "brunch" at his kitchen and started to work.
At first, we thought we would wanna use my pickup plugged into Mikael's terminal and at the same time picking up the room ambience with his song mic.
But after a few tries, Mikael decided to use only his mic. Which is actually something that I also prefer, becuase when you clip a pickup onto the violin bridge, the sound of the instrument will be affected and became like muted.
I chose to play and record Mikael's written part for a few times, he's got some beautiful lines there, simple but cool. Then after a short coffee break, he started to ask me to improvise.
He took many takes, I improvised in classical style, jazz, even some rock elements in there, then Chinese glissando style and Malay style traditional fiddling. Each take has each of these different things inside, so that Mikael could do some sound collage out of it.
Seriously, I couldn't care less how he edits my music, as long as it sounds natural, I really wouldn't mind throwing the textbook gospels away. It's all about taste, I think. If Mikael did it with high taste (which I'm sure he would), I don't think I would have a problem with it at all.
Sometimes I think I'm just not fussy enough like other musicians, anything might sound good to me. I hate to make decisions like that, determine which one to use in the recording. There might be a big chance of me saying "yes, that could do it" to 10 choices it has.
Anyway, I can't wait for Mikael to get done with the editing, because I wanna see how it turns out to be like.
p/s: Battlefield, I am waiting...
That place was pretty crazy ---- it's quiet, that's why it's crazy.
Homies hanging around the roadside, doin' nothing, sitting on a chair brought out from their houses, smokin', looking at the passersby.
I didn't pay no much attention to these people, as I sort of knew that a black neighborhood are like that, and that I should feel lucky that I was in West Harlem, not East.
Whatever it was, I got out at 145th St station, and went to Crown Fried Chicken as I saw it, and bought two pieces of them. I always have a feeling telling me that black people's fried chicken are the BEST!!
Then I went up for blocks and a couple blocks West to knock on Mikael's door.
I had my "brunch" at his kitchen and started to work.
At first, we thought we would wanna use my pickup plugged into Mikael's terminal and at the same time picking up the room ambience with his song mic.
But after a few tries, Mikael decided to use only his mic. Which is actually something that I also prefer, becuase when you clip a pickup onto the violin bridge, the sound of the instrument will be affected and became like muted.
I chose to play and record Mikael's written part for a few times, he's got some beautiful lines there, simple but cool. Then after a short coffee break, he started to ask me to improvise.
He took many takes, I improvised in classical style, jazz, even some rock elements in there, then Chinese glissando style and Malay style traditional fiddling. Each take has each of these different things inside, so that Mikael could do some sound collage out of it.
Seriously, I couldn't care less how he edits my music, as long as it sounds natural, I really wouldn't mind throwing the textbook gospels away. It's all about taste, I think. If Mikael did it with high taste (which I'm sure he would), I don't think I would have a problem with it at all.
Sometimes I think I'm just not fussy enough like other musicians, anything might sound good to me. I hate to make decisions like that, determine which one to use in the recording. There might be a big chance of me saying "yes, that could do it" to 10 choices it has.
Anyway, I can't wait for Mikael to get done with the editing, because I wanna see how it turns out to be like.
p/s: Battlefield, I am waiting...
Saturday, December 16, 2006
One-week off time needed!!!!!
Just when can I stop playing my violin for a whole fucking week????
I need my thumb to recover!!! It's painful!!!
Life is hard, if you don't work, you don't earn. But what about my thumb??? I need to cure it!!!
It bugs me a lot especially when I tune my violin, holy shit, I don't even wanna think about it...
I'm recording for Harry Winston's website tomorrow, it's Mika's composition, and I will be playing the violin section part and some of my own improvisations over the beautiful 4-bar changes. We'll see how it goes, hope I can hear it one day on the 5th Ave.
I need my thumb to recover!!! It's painful!!!
Life is hard, if you don't work, you don't earn. But what about my thumb??? I need to cure it!!!
It bugs me a lot especially when I tune my violin, holy shit, I don't even wanna think about it...
I'm recording for Harry Winston's website tomorrow, it's Mika's composition, and I will be playing the violin section part and some of my own improvisations over the beautiful 4-bar changes. We'll see how it goes, hope I can hear it one day on the 5th Ave.
Friday, December 15, 2006
Woke up at 5am...
Isn't this crazy?
I got drunk last night and crashed a little too early, now I'm up at 5am... Duh...
I wanna go back to sleep now.
I hope the woman won't come to check my blog anymore.
YOU'RE NOT WELCOME!!!
I got drunk last night and crashed a little too early, now I'm up at 5am... Duh...
I wanna go back to sleep now.
I hope the woman won't come to check my blog anymore.
YOU'RE NOT WELCOME!!!
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Bossa Jam!!
I finished my Phil Orch of Americas rehearsal early today, so I went to see Apocalypto on Times Square 42nd St, then I watched half of the newest James Bond. After i came out, I went over to BB King's and check out what's going on in there. I was wondering if my friend Kerry Linder would sing in there tonight, then, to amazement, there was this beautiful poster that said "Now Appearing", and "Kerry Linder", and most important of all, "Free"!!
So I went straight in, she was already singing, I ordered a cappuccino and started enjoying the sick shit that lady flutist/saxophonist was playing. Man, her shit was so bad!! I LOVE her feel and her beautiful lines. Then, came the most beautiful sight. Four japanese chicks came right in and sat on the table opposite mine! One of them looked almost like Zhang Ziyi, only better!!
Damn, a night of great bossa nova and a beautiful lady to behold, what else do you want? Right? Then, Kerry wanted me to play with her, since I had my violin with me.
So I went up and played a couple songs that I never played before. That shit was fun and scary! But people liked it, Kerry was really happy. And I saw the Japanese chick clapping after my first solo...ooh~~
I also met Hitomi whom I played with in Akim's gig, surprisingly, her boyfriend, Ian McDonald, is Kerry's guitarist! Wow! What a small world!!!
I was really happy tonight!
The only thing that let me down was me losing the chance to the japanese chick... she was gone when Hitomi was talking to me about her musical goal... :'(
I wish I could see her again in BB King's some time in the future...
So I went straight in, she was already singing, I ordered a cappuccino and started enjoying the sick shit that lady flutist/saxophonist was playing. Man, her shit was so bad!! I LOVE her feel and her beautiful lines. Then, came the most beautiful sight. Four japanese chicks came right in and sat on the table opposite mine! One of them looked almost like Zhang Ziyi, only better!!
Damn, a night of great bossa nova and a beautiful lady to behold, what else do you want? Right? Then, Kerry wanted me to play with her, since I had my violin with me.
So I went up and played a couple songs that I never played before. That shit was fun and scary! But people liked it, Kerry was really happy. And I saw the Japanese chick clapping after my first solo...ooh~~
I also met Hitomi whom I played with in Akim's gig, surprisingly, her boyfriend, Ian McDonald, is Kerry's guitarist! Wow! What a small world!!!
I was really happy tonight!
The only thing that let me down was me losing the chance to the japanese chick... she was gone when Hitomi was talking to me about her musical goal... :'(
I wish I could see her again in BB King's some time in the future...
Saturday, December 09, 2006
A Constant Lone Walk To Nothingness
Always longing, looking, wandering, and wondering
In the dark
I'm a lone-walker
Who never finds peace
Who never succeed in grabbing anything
Still
I'm constantly carrying on my momentum
Step by step
Bit by bit
Into...
Nothingness...
In the dark
I'm a lone-walker
Who never finds peace
Who never succeed in grabbing anything
Still
I'm constantly carrying on my momentum
Step by step
Bit by bit
Into...
Nothingness...
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Dope dealer...
So I was waiting for my friend Ma Jie in Washington Square Park.
This black guy stood in a distance, looking at me in a fishy way for a long time, and then he finally said in almost a whisper, "Hey..hey.. how u doin'? You want some weed?"
That shit cracked me up! Haha!
Do I look like a pot head?
This black guy stood in a distance, looking at me in a fishy way for a long time, and then he finally said in almost a whisper, "Hey..hey.. how u doin'? You want some weed?"
That shit cracked me up! Haha!
Do I look like a pot head?
So it's over...
Didn't wanna say shit about it, nothing much to say anyway. What I can say is I didn't play it so well.
But what happened after was more to tell.
Lots of people came to the lounge and greet us, of course my sis was there, my buddies like Ed, Rachel, A-chan... they were all there. Of course, not to mention the fuckin' white boy.
Oh! Prof. Pershing and Leo Kraft was there too! As usual, Prof P gave me that BIG HUG and BIG KISS ON MY FACE! She's always so nice to us both, like a grandma to her grandchildren. Then Prof Kraft gave me that big handshake and told me that he "really like" my piece! Ain't that a bitch? Leo Kraft saying that he really likes my piece?!! That shit made my day man!
Anyway, we took so many photos that I lost count. Fuckin' white boy came up to me and gave me a fuckin' name card, tellin' me to call that name on the card to see if I can get some gigs and shit. I mean, fuck that, I don't need him to be nice and shit, he already had me suffer more than I need to, and now he wants to pretend he is an angel or some shit? Fuck him! I didn't even wanna look at him and took the card.
But anyway, later, sis, Tian and Jordan (both are composers in the program), Nicholas, Eugene, all went to have dinner in Grand Sichuan down on 50th St. and 9th. Later, Heun Jeung came to join us. Was a good dinner.
Later me, sis, Nick, Eugene and Heun Jeung all went to Rockerfeller Center to look at the iceskating ring and the big Christmas tree. For some reason, Heun Jeung bought my sister a box of chocolates in the NBC candy store, that's very nice of her.
Then Eugene started to tell us how tired he was, so we decided to go home...
That was quite a night.
The other memorable thing on that night was when my sis brought a bouquet up to the stage to me. She hugged me for the first time in my life (excluding when I was a baby). She looked at me in the eye, I suddenly fet the love we have for each other, though we never say it out, it's there, always there. Especially at this moment of hard time for her, I show a lot of support to her. Then she hugged me once again. There goes the second time...
But what happened after was more to tell.
Lots of people came to the lounge and greet us, of course my sis was there, my buddies like Ed, Rachel, A-chan... they were all there. Of course, not to mention the fuckin' white boy.
Oh! Prof. Pershing and Leo Kraft was there too! As usual, Prof P gave me that BIG HUG and BIG KISS ON MY FACE! She's always so nice to us both, like a grandma to her grandchildren. Then Prof Kraft gave me that big handshake and told me that he "really like" my piece! Ain't that a bitch? Leo Kraft saying that he really likes my piece?!! That shit made my day man!
Anyway, we took so many photos that I lost count. Fuckin' white boy came up to me and gave me a fuckin' name card, tellin' me to call that name on the card to see if I can get some gigs and shit. I mean, fuck that, I don't need him to be nice and shit, he already had me suffer more than I need to, and now he wants to pretend he is an angel or some shit? Fuck him! I didn't even wanna look at him and took the card.
But anyway, later, sis, Tian and Jordan (both are composers in the program), Nicholas, Eugene, all went to have dinner in Grand Sichuan down on 50th St. and 9th. Later, Heun Jeung came to join us. Was a good dinner.
Later me, sis, Nick, Eugene and Heun Jeung all went to Rockerfeller Center to look at the iceskating ring and the big Christmas tree. For some reason, Heun Jeung bought my sister a box of chocolates in the NBC candy store, that's very nice of her.
Then Eugene started to tell us how tired he was, so we decided to go home...
That was quite a night.
The other memorable thing on that night was when my sis brought a bouquet up to the stage to me. She hugged me for the first time in my life (excluding when I was a baby). She looked at me in the eye, I suddenly fet the love we have for each other, though we never say it out, it's there, always there. Especially at this moment of hard time for her, I show a lot of support to her. Then she hugged me once again. There goes the second time...
Saturday, December 02, 2006
The Moon outside.....and me inside.....
I looked at my window and saw the big moon outside.
It isn't full, but it's bright and beautiful.
It's been a rainy and windy day, at one point I was soaked with water.
But now I'm sitting here in my room, listening to John Zorn's sometimes-chaotic Masada.
What a calm and mysterious view outside; in oppose to the music I'm listening to!
But what exactly am I thinking, I have no idea... People asked me if I'm excited about the concert tomorrow, I told them a straight answer: I'm calm like dead water.
Am I crazy??
It isn't full, but it's bright and beautiful.
It's been a rainy and windy day, at one point I was soaked with water.
But now I'm sitting here in my room, listening to John Zorn's sometimes-chaotic Masada.
What a calm and mysterious view outside; in oppose to the music I'm listening to!
But what exactly am I thinking, I have no idea... People asked me if I'm excited about the concert tomorrow, I told them a straight answer: I'm calm like dead water.
Am I crazy??
Friday, December 01, 2006
It's tomorrow...
So the "big" day is tomorrow. At least that's what a lot of people told me.
I dunno what's so big about it. It's just a hall. Not many people can play there, that's true, but I'm not referring to your musical ability, I'm just talking about one's financial ability.
This bloody place wants money for the slightest things, and they charge you very HIGH!
Just imagine, an audio recording for 400 bucks? A video recording would cost you 1760! What the hell?
Seriously, I'm not really as excited as HP.
I mean, it's just a recital. I go up the stage, I do my shit, I walk off. That's it.
If you realize this is just a physical movement that you do all the time, the venue is not important anymore. What counts is the music. The MUSIC is the thing that really matters.
Great hall? Fuck it. I would even play in an alley if I feel good about it.
I dunno what's so big about it. It's just a hall. Not many people can play there, that's true, but I'm not referring to your musical ability, I'm just talking about one's financial ability.
This bloody place wants money for the slightest things, and they charge you very HIGH!
Just imagine, an audio recording for 400 bucks? A video recording would cost you 1760! What the hell?
Seriously, I'm not really as excited as HP.
I mean, it's just a recital. I go up the stage, I do my shit, I walk off. That's it.
If you realize this is just a physical movement that you do all the time, the venue is not important anymore. What counts is the music. The MUSIC is the thing that really matters.
Great hall? Fuck it. I would even play in an alley if I feel good about it.
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