Two months ago, after one of his friends' shows, Kevin sticks around and chats with the band. He has a particularly pleasant conversation with the pianist, a petite, friendly gal with tulip tattoos on each arm and a red feather in her hair. She giggles and smiles whenever she looks at him, though she seems to do that for everybody--Kevin can't ( Read more... )

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Once upon a time there was a little boy named Ray ( Read more... )

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Anna Leuchtenberger, Shawn Roggenkamp, Jon Good, and Noah Booth performing at The Tank for Josh Luxembourg and Nick Aszling's Puppet Playlist. These guys are frickin' amazing and I'm not just saying that because they're my friends. Video speaks for itself ( Read more... )

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I KNOW RIGHT

This video was shot in 2004, when she was a sophomore at NYU, a mere four years before being discovered. "Norah Jones, look out?" Lol. Random emcee dude, you have no idea.

( and so begins a far-too-soon musical retrospective! )

Brief flash-forward to New York before I continue writing about Cupertino.

Last month, when by amazing dumb luck I met Tob, the guy who did NitroTracker and the DS MIDI Interface, he told me about a little chiptune concert series in the city that he was planning to stop by the next day before he returned to Germany. "It's called Pulsewave," he ( Read more... )

For the past two months I have done virtually nothing but make, play, and talk about video games. While that has been great for moving forward with my life, it is putting me at serious risk of burning out--and the biggest, most intense parts are yet to come. So today I took a break and went to see Oberlin friend Tom Curtin play a set at a bar just ( Read more... )

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Some background. I am aware that these guys aren't actually Afrikaner zef (the cultural equivalent in America is what we call "white trash") and that the entire act is South African hipster performance art. Who cares. It's a brilliant piece of performance art, with far more to say than "haute couture is awesome" (Lady Gaga) or "people are too ( Read more... )

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Most of the people on my flist who still read this journal won't get this, but anyone who's been to Japan, Taiwan, or South Korea will. Within seconds, at most ( Read more... )