tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73745682011-04-21T12:00:34.860-07:00... because really... who's gonna know?Brndnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07864576074787939670noreply@blogger.comBlogger981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374568.post-1133183923242693712005-11-28T04:59:00.000-08:002005-11-28T05:18:43.286-08:00

Hi y'all. So I haven't been blogging at all lately not only because blogging itself is pretty stupid, but also because my life has been a nut house since I've stepped onto this continent. This may haunt me in the future, as I have a habit of being perhaps too honest while blogging, but I don't understand how the Amsterdammers can live with themselves. Everything is just so horribly disorganized,

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Apologies for the hiatus - things have been kind of crazy in more ways than there are possible positions in a threesome. More on that later. So to all my good friends who allowed me to vent my psychosis - a big thank you. THANK YOU! So it turns out I'm not schizophrenic. I just needed some words of wisdom from the 'rents. Speaking of words of wisdom, I'm technically not a 'virgin' anymore. Is

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... but I want to take a break from piano and move to China where I will teach English for a year.This is serious.Not a joke.This is Brendan speaking seriously. Ok?

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I want to be an artist - like, a real one... Visual, Film, Sculpture. I'm starting to feel suffocated by being a musician. Going to get art supplies right now.

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Who cares, really? I do. This entry is inspired by Quentin Tarrantino and the lifestyle vixens of the late 20th century.I'm sitting at the corner computer of the lounge at school. It is 10:30 am. I am still drunk. I have hardly slept and I hardly remember what happened after midnight. All I know is I am at school wearing leather pants, a new pair of Diesel sneakers, a leather D-Squared brace that

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muahahaha!umm... ok... anyway. I have a new nephew!! Julie's first child. Birthday is October 7. My third nephew/niece. Totally awesome. If you want to see pictures send me an e-mail.I'm sad I won't see little Tyler for a long time, but I think I'll send him a baby Kiehl's set. Start this kid off right!In other news, have you listened to M.I.A. yet?

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I realize that living in a foreign country, though still a Western and wealthy country, I must be open to differences in lifestyle and food, etc. - no matter how obvious or subtle... but one thing that has bugged me from day one of living here are the toilets. What about the toilets, you are wondering? Well I'm not in Australia, so the water flushes the same way as it does in the good ol' USA.My

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Yes, the drunken Sunday turned into a very productive evening. During my first martini at 4:00 pm, I had nothing, and by my 8th martini at 9:30 pm, I had some rich Dutch men wrapped around my finger - and because of that, I only paid for 2 drinks the whole night.CH-CHING!I'll spill details later, but I think this will be a fun side project to learning all the Chopin Etudes, Zorn's Carny, a Bach

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I'm wasting time now looking through www.thesecretpost.com because it's fucking hilarious, but I just ran across a post that was so disturbing to me, it has affirmed a truth I have been a fervent supporter of for many years now --- people should not get married. And here is why:Six months after getting married, my wife and I hit a communication wall. We decided to show each other at our dirtiest

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Drinking by yourself is awesome. I mean, helloooo... everyone's doing it. And that seduction I was talking about before? Well, I canceled it. I do notuh rike him enough to rove him rong time!What are my plans today? The Gay Sunday Happy Hour - 6 pm at April on the Reguliedmsonisdvajnsdcsk...straat. Get trashed nice 'n early and chit chat with horny tourists. Booyah!Is today going to be a beer day

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It is now 10 pm and I've been drinking since 4:30 pm. So here's what I think: you can just kiss my motherfuckin' ass Black Mamba... pft, I shoulda' been motherfuckin' Black Mamba.Ok, so have you guys checked out M.I.A. yet?? If you haven't just go fucking by her debut album Arular!!! Godfucking DAMNIT you people... but if you have, check this out:http://xlrecordings.com/features/mia/onlinepiracy/

Brndnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07864576074787939670noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374568.post-1128427137806789812005-10-04T03:41:00.000-07:002005-10-04T05:00:45.126-07:00

Friendster.com, founded by entrepreneur Jonathan Abrams, has had quite a following since it's go-live date in 2002. Garnering over 20 million members in the few years it has existed, it is now one of many online social networking sites that many experts say have a collective of well over 50 million individual users, many of whom have multiple "accounts" within the same site and across multiple.

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No other object I have ever encountered in my life has changed my view of the world as much as The Art of Seduction. No, not even the copious amounts of alchohol, weed, coke, acid... shrooms... wait, am I forgetting anything? Oh yeah, Vicodin, Morphine, Nyquil, Tyrenol PM... good shit, really. Now that I'm a vicious man-eater (flash-back of graduation?...) life is much more fun. It's probably not

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... because woah, they were pretty pathetic and I was you know... space cakes!What's happening today? My first performance! Some piece about driving through the midwest... I can never get away from that godforsaken place, huh? Well it's a neat piece, I don't recall what it is called or who the composer is since we've only had one rehearsal, which probably makes my mention of the piece completely

Brndnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07864576074787939670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374568.post-1127935037412292722005-09-28T12:09:00.000-07:002005-09-28T12:20:19.176-07:00

So to those who know about this already - yeah I'm being totally unabashed at sharing this here sensitive and local gossip. It is - the Cat-Bird Saga!... depends who's on top.Here is a recent conversation recently recorded during a tapped teleophone connection: Michael:Yuh. Cool. Whatever. Maybe one day I wake up and I'm Chinese forever. Ha! Ok, I go. Michael:Biiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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Space cakes are totally where it's at.And now presenting, another genius blog entry (aslo known as waste of internet space as it is a waste of people's time) by yours truely:So my new favorite two books: 1) The Art of Seduction and 2) Che Guevara (Anderson, I believe). Now, I guess I bet most of you are wondering, what is the possibility that Bwenbwen is having a little fwashback of some instance

Brndnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07864576074787939670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374568.post-1127810383134394682005-09-27T01:32:00.000-07:002005-09-27T01:39:43.146-07:00

A tip for those of you who wish to not be a dumbass in Amsterdam: Don't leave the keys to the lock of your bike in the lock overnight.Luckily, I have two locks, so my bike is safe and sound. Oh, and I'm slightly hungover.That being said, I met one of my teacher's sons yesterday. He's a fucking hottie! HOTTIE... hrm, does this mean that I'm slowly regaining my ability to find people attractive? If

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Well that basically sums up my weekend, which included typical bar hopping with my-only-gay-friend Rico, a concert of Earl Wild (which was great) at the Concertgebow, and crashing my next door neighbors' party last night. Since I've been in Amsterdam I've been passively scoping out people who have connections to the underground scene - little did I know that the first instance would be that of my

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I've now realized there are so many things at which I am so absolutely peeved that I'm going to start a series of entries that illustrate those very things. Not only will this make me feel better about myself as a human being, but hopefully among the many millions of fans who visit this site every day (note the number 2,500 at the bottom of this page... that's the number of total visitors in the

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I'm crappy! First of all, this is not a cry for sympathy...I just had a lesson and I played a dinky little Beethoven Sonata I learned in one week and of course it sucked... and my teacher told me he was worried that I wouldn't be able to pass the first master's exam at the end of the year!... and then proceeded to tell me that I'm not quite as good as how my recordings sounded. Mind you, he said

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It's "Lieden" not... "layden." I had the pleasure of hanging with Rebecca this weekend! Pictures to come. Yes, we got mad blitzed on some nice White Widow I got from the Bull Dog. Her boyfriend is cool and has an amazing apartment and the movie "The Duel" is creepy as shit. Also, Leiden is beautiful.Sorry about my last post... I was totally high... which is why it was so funny.Do I have any more

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http://www.bathroomlife.comJust go... now

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... anything you want!So I broke out the leather pants today... that's right ladies and gents, the pants are no longer for snooty new music performances and is now available for everyday wear.Tonight is the big all-campus PARTY! Starts at 21:00 and goes until 4:00 - yes, this is a school sponsored event. I am anticipating something larger than the orientation dinner and the meeting for the

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I got a new SIM card for my cell phone, which will be pre-paid. Yay... except I don't know the number, yet. I would first need a friend to call so I can check their caller ID - but the only friend I have now is this organist from Eastman, Rico Suave... yes, he's gay, and really funny.So in terms of my piano playing - I'm practicing a lot. It's a much different feeling being here in Dutchland and

Brndnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07864576074787939670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374568.post-1126523850866784922005-09-12T04:05:00.000-07:002005-09-13T05:44:11.846-07:00

I had a great morning that included breakfast and jogging... a rare thing these days. So in turn, I feel great.Ok, yeah I know... not a great opener, but I just thought I'd quickly share my utter enthusiasm for my new favorite musician: M.I.A. - Firstly, thanks to Chris and Beth for this, you know who you are. Every time I listen to the M.I.A. cd I that just bought for 18.99 euros (please don't

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That's right ya'll, I'm re-opening my blog here on blogspot for many reasons. First and foremost, I am in Amsterdam now... and secondly I hated my stupid blog on friendster.com... but I'd like to share my mind-altering (or mind-altered... hehe) experiences and not-so-keen insights during my two year stay here.Since most of the people who read my blog are friends from near and far (mostly far),

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So someone from Morehead City, North Carolina (I guess it's a real city...) posted an amusing comment on a blog entry from a year ago that reads as follows:you are a fucking loser. go ahead and kill yourself because no one loves you.... anyone who says they do is lying. people are liars and you should not belive them... use a gun. get it and shoot into your temple. thus ending your life and doing

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Well, ladies and gentlemen. I am abandoning my blog because it's really boring talking about myself, making up stories for my own amusement, and feeling compelled to write things needlessly.But I've found another place to do it! If you want to know where it is - you can e-mail me and I'll send you the address to my NEW, BIGGER, BETTER BLOG!So long folks!

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I'm going to stop apologizing for not updating my blog everytime I write an entry - I'm averaging one to two posts a week, so that's just the way it's gonna be. Thanks for the comment Mikey! I just hope my mom never reads this - hahaha. My cousins have every right to know my debaucherous ongoings.SOOO... auditions sucked 2/3's of the time, and where it didn't suck, and in fact, was excellent, was

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and I'm off to a BAD start... Peabody asked for the 3rd movement!!! AAGH... and I had a little memory slip... and when it happened, someone went "MMMMMMMmmmmm"Ruckiry, I calmly stopped and kept playing as if nothing happened. It's been a crazy last few days, but I'm hanging out with Marcus, his GF Monika and his bro Alex right now - we just saw "Constantine." *sarcastic jerking-off motion*Yeah...

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Check it: http://maddox.xmission.com/junk_the_junk.htmlLet's screw the credit card companies.

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Julie is 7 weeks pregnant!!! Holy fucking shit! I'm going to be an uncle X3. I already know what his/her present is going to be... hehehe. CONGRATULATIONS JULIE AND KY! I'll call you soon... I don't know why I just said that, they don't read my blog. Oh god, I hope nobody in my family ever reads my blog.

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So I was really ill for almost a week and a half and unable to practice... how ideal for having my first audition in a week. I had fever and some flu symptoms, food poisoning from rancid sangria and then a week of relentless heartburn - one after the other. Now that I'm not miserable and having lessons practically every other day, I'm practicing a lot... and it is draining. Maybe if I didn't

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OK... lemme explain the oh-so-sweet adrenaline rush: 1) CME is leaving TONIGHT for New York instead of tomorrow morning... WOAH... so I packed and made food for two days in 2 FREAKING HOURS... that's right you mofo's... Brenbren CAN be independent. Mom would be proud. 2) I GOT MY PHREAKING YALE AUDITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .... !!!!!! !!!!!!! (excited) 3) Performing Davies in a

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So an update on the practicing: Bach P+F in Eb Minor - I just started working on this again this morning. It's amazing how many fingerings I wrote in the score from 3 years ago. 90% of them work... I'm also starting to appreciate (more) the lesson I had on this piece with Kaplinsky so many years ago. I forgot how hard it was - Francis was right... Beethoven - I did some good work on the second

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SOOOooooo... I got auditions at Juilliard and Peabody! I still haven't heard from Yale - but a week ago I was freaking out because I didn't think I would even be able to audition anywhere I applied. Millions of thanks to Yong Hi Moon who pulled major strings and pulled me off the waitlist and scheduled an audition and millioins of thanks to the Juilliard faculty for not listening to more than a

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... is SOOoooOO GOOD! Kind of... Well for one - I get to walk around naked in my apartment since Alice isn't around. I just started rehearsals on "8 Songs for a Mad King" again today. CME will be in NYC this weekend at Merkin Hall - the evening of the 23rd! In other news: I got waitlisted for an audition at Peabody because they got my application after the deadline and there were too many

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I'd like to express my contempt for all of my unfaithful readers... hehe - just kidding. First off, I've never held contempt for anyone and secondly - I have no faithful readers, except a 17 year old Juilliard prep snot and one of my best friends' mothers... Well it's been an interesting year with lots of piano playing, very little practicing, and lots of other... things... heh... So I'd like to

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I've been on a Borges kick lately - if you don't know who he is or was or will be, his full name: Jorge Luis Borges, from Argentina, lived in the early to mid-latter part of the 20th century. He is one of the greatest writers of all time, and also my favorite. "Borges and I" is actually the title of one of his short writings in which he discusses concisely the distinction between the fate of his

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is really disgusting. Sorry people for not updating my blog recently. I haven't been in the mood... and I'm not in the mood right now but I'm waiting for my ride to the Cleveland Instipuke of Mucus for another performance of Vox Balaenae with the same group I played with this summer! It's in the June/July section of my blog if you want to read about all the drama involved... Yeah, I spent $20

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to do work has finally come! Not a moment too soon. I got accepted to the Julian Martin Masterclass at Kent State where I'll be playing Brahms Paganini Variations, Op. 35 Book I. I am also about to play in a masterclass with Jacob Greenberg in a couple hours - the Berio Sequenza IV... which I haven't played for a couple months, so I skipped dinner to practice - which... makes me wonder why I'm

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I also found out yesterday that my dad has a tumor... in his BUTT! HA... ok, but seriously, it's kind of scary. He had an operation to get it removed, and I think it is benign. This happened to my sister several years ago - a 10 pound benign tumor was wrapped around her left ovary which had to be removed with the tumor... so she is now try to have children to artificial insemination. My other

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ArgerBach: there is someone from Dulles, Virginia who frequents my site, a lot... Funkmonk51: umm that's really scary ArgerBach: I don't know who it could be... Funkmonk51: what if he's like a fat old horny 60 year old man who mastrubates to your pictures and is going to come to obelrin and rape you and leave you in a tupperware box at the bottom of a lake? Funkmonk51: BE CAREFUL BRENDAN! In an

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... well I flew back to Oberlin yesterday and a billion tasks hit me in the face like when you're blowing a guy and he's one of those guys who jizzes too much and who is also really bad at queing when it is about to happen, and then it happens and you're like "eeeeewwww.... there's cum all over my face!"... yeah, that's exactly how it felt to come back... only with a lot less semen, but just as

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"Who I'd like to meet: ass virgins" - my Friendster profile ... even though Friendser is out and TheFaceBook is in. So I'mm flying to Baltimore this weekend to have lessons with Yong Hi Moon and chill out with her and Adam Bloniarz!.. and Marcus Johnson!.. at Peabody! Not like Peabody is going to be less depressing than Oberlin, but at least it will be a nice change of scenery. But before I'm

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I love Kiehl's sooo much. It is the only thing that has ever worked for me... So I had a really great seque from Kiehl's to this BBC article worked out in my head, but it's not coming to me - so pardon the awkward shift of topics. Roman cosmetic secrets are revealed! Archaeologists have found a sealed pot of ointment at an archaeological dig in Southwark, South London... they have concluded

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Megan and I are the co-founders and House Directors of the new Alpha Omega Piano Chi fraternity/sorority! If you have TheFaceBook, you should check it out! Here's the ???? constitution: This is a house for all y'all hot (disclaimer: you must be hot) pianists out there who wish they went to a state university. We, the house directors, know we do. We stand united in our love for brilliant piano

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My keen-sighted good friend Jeff Card sent out an e-mail regarding the election, insightful as always. This last part especially... something to chew on: The most chilling piece of data out of yesterday's election was for me the issues that mattered most to voters. The top issue? Not the economy. Not terrorism. Not Iraq. The top issue for voters was "morals and values" -- and those stating this

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Royal Academy of Music, that is... in London! and not in a sad, ignorant country who elects a president who has done nothing good for the country and has screwed up even the things he did wrong. Oh well, just four more years of having a dumb president. In the end, it is all the same anyway - I used to think that foreigners disliked Americans because of their government, and that they should

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You thought it would be shrooms, or even more likely, adderal... maybe I got a faux presciption for vicodin or some other narcotic. Well, guys, my new addiction is TheFaceBook. It's cool since it is only college people. I'm pathetic and sad. I've been sitting here for the last god-knows-how long doing jack shit, inviting more and more friends on TheFaceBook to make myself feel better about my

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I miss pho. Pho SO goo'! Let's get ready to look SO good! aight aight I found this great blog about Vietnamese food with some amazing pictures... some kind of look disgusting, but in general it makes me nostalgic. I wish there was a way for me to put up pictures! If only I had fucking internet in my apartment... well one of these days.

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It sucked ass... it was a lot of fun to hang out with cool Oberlin people, but people from other schools suck - in general. The most memorable: "The Tube" which was about the experience of being on the subway in London featured a most offensive "fake chinese" music section - perhaps even more offensive than David Crumb's "Hearing Bells" which, sadly, I had to premiere. The other was "9/11" - WTF?

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I was called a "prime candidate for late-term abortion" today... it was such an honor to hear something like that from Emilex. Blah blah blah. There are lots of things that are total abortions. For instance, the following list: 1) ____________ 2) ____________ 3) ____________ Speaking of abortion, some scientists have cured a woman's blindness by taking stem cells from an aborted fetus.

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Readers of my blog... all 2 of you: I think there should be more commenting on my blog. See that little green word at the bottom of each entry? It says 0 COMMENTS? Click it, write fun stuff... random stuff, responsive stuff... just stuff... stuff 'n shit are kew. I'll give you a topic: "The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire... discuss" Who knows where that is from? A

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I've been eating all day... just snack after snack after snack. I can't getanything done like this. Well I've been eating nothing but healthy snacks, but this is really quite time consuming. I've also made ammendments to my social habits. For one, any and all romantic activity I engage in will not immediately become public knowledge. Secondly, I need to chill out - about everything... BESIDES

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Jesus Christ is my savior... NOT. Where and how did this concept of needing to be saved ever come up in our social consciousness? It is a really fucked up idea - and fundamentalist perspectives were clearly exploited for what they are in the movie "Saved!" which I saw last night starring Mandy Moore, who plays the epitome of what I loathe so much about religious fanatics. She does it so well...

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Who could it be, who could it be?... could it be... SATAN?-an-an-an... - Church Lady The British Navy approved its first ever Satanist this week. Religious freedom is so great. The Satanist speaks: "I then read more and more and came to realise I'd always been a Satanist, just simply never knew." Sounds like a coming out experience. I, myself, feel that this is both great for humanity and

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By 2020, over $1 trillion worth of products will be nano-engineered in some way... wow. The BBC article showcases a new class of material called graphene that is causing a stir in the nanotechnology world. Check out the picture... yeah... that's the future.

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... is my the name of my alter-ego. Japanese names are examples of total awesomeness all the time. Unfortunately, Japan was hit with a quake recently that killed two men and injured more than 100 others... the end of the BBC article explains how about 75 Japanese have been killed by recent wave of typhoons. As I'm always propounding (BLAH): If they had more land, and a better piece of land, the

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Last night was Pho and bar night with Phil Stoecker and Megan. It was a lot of fun - the pho was sooo good, asual - yeah #1 Pho! We hit up the "Lava Lounge" which was supposed to be Hugh Floyd's idea of the "hippest bar in Cleveland." Knowing Cleveland, that was probably true since it wasn't all that hip... and Megan's cosmo-martini-thing was $10!!! Then we hit up Bounce - the gay bar/club that

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Ever wake up one morning only to find condoms and dried up jizz everywhere? Well if you are one of the few (un)fortunate peoples who suffer from 'sex sleep' then you probably have... or you're just a ho. You can read about it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3744226.stm This could make for a good excuse if you're caught cheating...

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So last night's Fall Break bash was fun except for the "unexplainable" disappearance of my co-host Megan... ehem... and Mike Roest being such an annoyance all night that I was forced to toss my drink in his face. That's the last time someone comes to my house, drinks my liquor, pushes my buttons all night, and then speaks to me in "fake chinese" in a derrogatory manner. Kind of reminds me why I

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Yo yo yo! It's fuckin' fall break here in Oberlin and it... SUCKS. So Megan and I decided to throw a partay at my place - 47 Morgan Apt. 3 - tomorrow (Tuesday). I've made a handful of joints and plan on buying some liquor. It's going to be a blast! On a side note, my friend Sean Howell from Seattle is on the top of my list of greatest guys for singlehandedly curing me of my temporary

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I can cry if I want to... ... cry if I want... to I will if I don't get trashed. The plan is - Feve at midnight, the Feve all day tomorrow. Turning 21 is going to be awesome.

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So I saw the new movie at the Apollo yesterday with Todd Boyce - "The Forgotten" starring Juilliane Moore (sp?). Well it certainly was much better than the previews - if any of you remember, the previews were whack, way lame, etc. etc... but the movie itself had an extra element that wasn't even hinted at in the previews - me thinks that's what they had in mind. The actual thing itself didn't

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So today started out a little rough. I was agitated for so many reasons that I won't get into, but I'm better now... especially having run into Oliver and having fries and Orangina with Megan at the Feve. Orangina is the best. So yeah... Orangina. Tickets to London are only $475! It is, once again, a beautiful and perfect day in Oberlin, so I am going to "do some reading" outside now. I hope my

Brndnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07864576074787939670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374568.post-1097256344178672222004-10-08T10:21:00.000-07:002004-10-08T10:25:44.180-07:00

So I just taught a lesson for one of my students, Ryan. I feel like a really good teacher - or at least, I feel like I know a lot about music and teaching... the problem is that I feel I should be listening to my own advice. One of the things I told Ryan was that he needs to be able to hear the piece before he can ever play it well - as in, he should be able to hear everything that goes on and

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Piano, asking a crush out, being a good human being... the list goes on and on. Actually, I lie - I'm kicking ass at Brahms Paganini variations, once again, I asked my crush out to coffee (no replies yet), and I'm the greatest person ever... EVER. The one thing I am horrible at, though, is updating my blog, which hasn't been done since the 13th of September. Coincidentally the 13th of October

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Yo yo motha' fucka's! I'm chillen at M-Glove's crib. She eatin' hu' yogu't, and I be typin' at the peeps on the AIM... mmmmmmmhmmmm! Motha'fuckin'fuck you motha'fucka'! Thaz right! We be ripplin' simultaneouslee on da Ravel Concerto, yo... so says da Red MOnSta... It be tite, yo. We ain't trippin' on no acid, motha'fucka'! You just can't handle it, biotch... mmmmmmmhmmmmm! Don't be playa' hatin'

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and not just posers - read WIRE magazine: adventures in modern music. It's my new favorite magazine, featuring all the great music that falls under the radar of commercial and mainstream CRAP. That's right - I can make value judgements. I might even go so far as to say you are a terrible person if you don't at least check out WIRE's impeccable taste in music and the hip layout of the magazine

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So classes started yesterday. I am taking an almost full load - 13 credits of which are performance related. Private lessons, Contemporary Music Ensemble, my trio, and a transcendental experience brought to you by Stockhausen. For those of you who don't know, he's the dude who said 9/11 was a "beautiful work of art" - or something like that. Wow... the person behind me is the whitest person I've

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Concentrate! People suck, basically... While I fully understand everyone tries to do their best to do what they believe is right, some of them are just dumb. Especially fundamentalists and Bush-backers. Here are some recent stupid things that suck. My vocabulary is limited by the oppressive heat - please forgive me. http://www.randi.org/jr/082704gluton.html#6 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/

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Get it? A summary of my summer = summery! Yeah I'm dumb, but my summer wasn't! Here's a list of key events: - met a lot of cool Deutch and English people at the Bowdoin Festival - found out belatedly that I won a Performer's Associate Fellowship - forgot what an amazing pedagogue Yong Hi Moon is - nearly drowned in the ocean off the coast of Maine - had Maine lobster - became NYC savvy -

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is the first thing you should say when you wake up on the first of a month - hopefully I'll remember to do that tomorrow morning since it is supposed make it a good month. I hate superstitions. I will be helping freshman register for classes today... yaaaay... I am anticipating a good and busy year, my apartment rocks - living with Alice Teyssier, who is the chouettest at everything, playing in

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Yay... NYC. I don't think I need to say anything about this city except for the fact that it rocks. It's too hot and humid right now, though. I kind of wish I were here for the winter. I've almost mastered the subway system, and I just read about Mike Gallope's performance at the Lit Lounge tonight, but I think it's a 21 and over joint... speaking of joint - - - - I leave for the Shandelee

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Strange day, strange day...

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Missing in action... yeah, that's me. It's been over two weeks since I've updated the blog - my apologies to the three of you who actually read this. The Bowdoin International Music Festival is coming to a close, and I think I've had a pretty good time here - both socially and professionally. Most recent ego-boosting news: Fred Sherry, famed contemporary cellist and Juilliard teacher

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... is perhaps one of the greatest teachers on the face of this planet. I had a lesson on the Berio Sequenza today and she was all over that shit... mind you - she has only heard the piece a couple times. She is also incredible for the Brahms Paganini Variations, of course... much of it is easy for me to play. I like her better than Arie Vardi, I think - though he is pretty amazing. Going to

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Ah, life is great when you work your ass off AND get recognition for it... even better is when you don't do much, but everyone thinks you did - both of which, I've experienced, and, of course, their opposites. Well I have given three performances in the last three nights, and each one went fairly well, especially last night's "Vox Balaenae" - the best my group has ever performed it, and my last

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At lunch just now, Chetan pulled a "your mom" and my come back was a lame, "No you didn't, because she's in Seattle..." not to mention the thinking time before hand and terrible delivery. What I should have said was "No you didn't, because my mom has good taste." (Chetan, just giving you shit) So in a tribute to my mom who is the cutest woman on earth here is a recent e-mails I recieved from her

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So where should I start? I've been practicing 5 to 8 hours a day, tonight is the premiere of this David Crumb piece that I am playing and the experience hasn't been all that wonderful. Oh well. I DID get to have a live coaching/masterclass on Vox Balaenae with the great George Crumb himself yesterday. He is a really nice old man with the best hair ever. I can't wait until this week is over. The

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So next week is Crumb week here at Bowdoin. I don't know how I got sucked into all of this, but I will be playing "Vox Balanae" for Piano, Flute and Cello for the composer himself - George Crumb... and day after that, I will be premiering a work by David Crumb, his son, for which I just got the music. It is call "Hearing Bells" for Flute, Oboe, Cello, Percussion, Soprano and Piano... Lewis Kaplan

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So uh... yeeah, we aren't exactly fine. Remember those RA's that told us to leave? Well, the FAT one reported us - so now we have two strikes and are "high on the radar." All this in the first week of the festival... I also got the chance to bitch about my chamber coach for being anti-productive and vicious in the coaching. Quite a Friday, yesterday was. On a positive note, I played for Martin

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The underaged drinking rules at Bowdoin are pretty strict - apparently 5 years in prison if caught. I'm sure there wouldn't be any less a punishment for marijuana possession. So last night was the fourth or fifth night in a row that the Oberlin posse here have broken such rules. (The crew consists of Megan, Rebecca, Jake, Chetan, Andrea - though she rarely partakes, and occasionally others) I've

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is an amazing coach. She's extremely intense and some might call her "scary." We hadn't even rehearsed the Crumb yet - oh yeah, I'm playing "Vox Balanae." yaaaay, semi-new music. She could play the Mesozic section perfectly in one sitting. I think I would need to spend some hours just to get it at a decent level. As boring as bowdoin is, it will give me lots of time to practice - which is

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Well, I've been here for a couple of days, but have had limited internet access. Oh well, more time to practice. It is really beautiful here - looks like Oberlin in an uncanny way. I got a mosquito bite between two knuckels on my left hand and it looks funny. Some exciting things about being here: 1) The people are generally cool - even the pretentious 14-17 year old Juilliard kids. 2) My

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Well tomorrow evening, I'm off on my big summer adventure. I will be in Maine for 6 weeks at the Bowdoin International Music Festival then in NY for about 4 weeks where I'll be performing for the Shandelee International Music Festival... then back to Oberlin for my last year. I've become very excited these last few days - not because I'm looking forward to the hours of practice and stressful

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I thought my dad died today. It turns out he was fine and that my mom was just having a "moment" when she called me at work sobbing. Thanks for freaking me out, mom. On a positive note, I finally got a good shot of the Déja Vu from my car. ALWAYS FREE ADMISSION!.. The Vu never disappoints. 

Brndnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07864576074787939670noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374568.post-1088028248809525142004-06-23T14:47:00.000-07:002004-06-23T16:51:11.720-07:00

"And so ends a ruthlessly underground chapter of life that not even I was aware of. An observational game paired with a creature, who could not have been more distant from the game, collided in a cosmic marriage of the aleatory and the stochastic (so says the falsely alleged dealer), but the eye and cradle of experiments sees nature in a binding situation - a binary response to an infinitely

Brndnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07864576074787939670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374568.post-1088016233196084252004-06-23T11:15:00.001-07:002004-06-23T12:39:17.533-07:00

Well I'm sure we've heard a lot about the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. I never knew we were violating any Geneva Convention rules, though. Bush, of course, says that it doesn't matter because the detainees themselves broke the Geneva Rules. What does that sound like? Like a whiner? Straight from the BBC: Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's November 2002 memo approved several methods

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Oh no you don't! Bitch tryin' to cut me off! Oh I show you, ho - I cut you... I CUT you! Crazy Seattle drivers. Actually, we were both going really slow and she wasn't annoying. I just thought it would be funny to take a pic of someone merging in front of me and post something on my blog about how I was dramatically cut off in traffic... In other words: I need to get a life.  

Brndnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07864576074787939670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374568.post-1087939115217219812004-06-22T13:02:00.000-07:002004-06-22T14:52:53.566-07:00

So, as cool as Adderall is, I will never again pop one after dinner time. I hardly slept at all last night, which has made this boring work day excruciatingly unbearable. Lesson learned - now all I need is a prescription...

Brndnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07864576074787939670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374568.post-1087873597343512682004-06-21T20:00:00.000-07:002004-06-22T14:50:35.826-07:00

Ok guys, this is my second time taking Adderall - a drug for those with ADD and ADHD. This time I actually feel something, and I thought it would be interesting to write about it. I feel like I could write all the papers I didn't write for Trends in Contemporary Music last term... and go to all the classes I missed completely wired and engaged. Maybe I could even understand Derrida right now?

Brndnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07864576074787939670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374568.post-1087852795540216102004-06-21T13:22:00.000-07:002004-06-22T21:17:23.583-07:00

I watched a ton of movies last weekend with my parents and my friend Dan... hrm? What was that? Did I practice?... no, I did not, but who gives a fuck. Well, I'm proud to say, none of these movies were coming to a theater near you, with a couple exceptions, so you should check them out if you are adventurous enough. The Independent Film Channel (503 for those who have digital cable) is gold!

Brndnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07864576074787939670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374568.post-1087837728167676432004-06-21T09:45:00.000-07:002004-06-21T13:22:20.290-07:00

Well you shouldn't! But the people who do are really funny. A website referred to on the James Randi (JREF) Foundation homepage is an example of such stupidity. Check it out: www.crystalinks.com/photo.html These people actually think these photographs are spirits: "Authentic spirit photos have spiraling white images. This is referred to as ectoplasm. The spirals represent the movement or flow

Brndnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07864576074787939670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374568.post-1087760057368191452004-06-20T12:34:00.000-07:002004-06-21T16:35:01.566-07:00

So my parents spent $200 for a scam artist to come inspect our home for bad vibes. It took 30 minutes, and the only change he made was moving this mirror (which was previously placed impeccably above the server) above our front door... that, and now my parents sleep with their feet towards the wall now. Apparently, when you can see the back door through the front door (you can make out the back

Brndnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07864576074787939670noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374568.post-1087757524007258202004-06-20T11:52:00.000-07:002004-06-20T15:21:03.186-07:00

This is where I practice at home... I don't spend enough time here, though. 

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So I have abandoned my old blog - I am not fickle, I just thrive on change. Some ambitious pursuits featured on my last blog that I may re-attempt: Recording every moment possible for a day Recording every thought I have for an entire day (could that be the same thing?) Can I be that bored? YES, and so can you... it's an interesting experiment. Comparing it to your memory. I believe there were

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