OpiumDen21: hey what's my new name? bombtastic osaka ( Read more... )

ok doing the whole updating thing again. trying to eat myself a balanced and nutritious breakfast before my 8 hour shift of parading my bleached mohawk [and bleached-in japanese character on back of head] in front of my management at kinkos. to quote my room-mate, 'only if it's an affront to god ( Read more... )

the show on friday went very very well as far as the quality of the performance. however, of the 300-something people I relentlessly and thoroughly promoted it to, I'd say maybe 15 of those people showed up. So along with ananda's sisters and some friends of hers and zach's, we barely got enough people there. kind of frustrating, considering we ( Read more... )

crazy days of late. Weekend was nuts. Life's been dizzyingly extroverted lately. Went out to the House of Blues with Ananda and met up with Nichole and Alicia and a very tall, statuesque german woman who just goes by B. Saw this band Popikok. Met the singer the previous evening through my neighbors almost by accident after I'd already been ( Read more... )

Further investigation of the Shibuya-kei genre has lead me to a few offshoots that I've found to be more appealing than the poster-children of Shibuya-kei. Buffalo Daughter is pretty interesting. Although not remotely Japanese in any way, Solex is also good. Danish woman named Elisabeth Esselink doing the whole electronica pastiche thing but ( Read more... )

so I have crazy days now. crazy for me anyway. wake up at 8:15-30, do all the various morning things like breakfast shower shave etc go to work from 11am-7pm, go rehearse with Satisfaction Wheel until like 10pm, then go drink at some party with ananda and derrick and come home at 2:15am. Well, that was last night anyway. Real cool kids at the ( Read more... )

Writing even more new music all the time ( Read more... )

strange, surreal weekend. Adam was in blackhawk (truly a cultural oasis in the vast desert of the san francisco bay area) so I had the run of the house for a while ( Read more... )

a: someone's just called me a ponse ( Read more... )

Because Adam's responses to my posts are pretty much the only worthwhile thing about livejounrnal these days, I'm very much considering just taking my page down. If anybody can think of a persuasive argument to the contrary, let me know ( Read more... )