yay for potential friends
Justin:
Mai...
It was good to see you yesterday! I wish you could have checked out the Taiko festival...oh Mai, it was amazing as always. I love how the drummers interlock and trade off rhythms in with the most fluid and precise motions...it's like a really beautiful dance built upon the powerful energy of the drum. This is the third time I've seen the annual festival at Zellerbach hall, but this time it was especially inspiring to me...It made me realize how much I really want to join the SF Dojo make Taiko a part of my life!
It's too bad that you won't be sharing your insights w/ the Radiohead class anymore, but I understand how life can get hectic and there are plenty of other things to focus on. I really enjoyed talking with you yesterday, and I hope that we can still stay in touch. I was thinking...now that you have access to a nice road bike, would you like to go on a ride with me sometime? I used to love biking around the city all the time with my friend Kyle, but ever since he started smoking a lot of cigarettes he hasn't been in very good shape and isn't as motivated...so now that I don't have a riding partner, I haven't been biking as much as I would like to. I know there are some great places to ride in the Berkeley/Oakland area, but my all-time favorite is waking up long before the sun rises and biking over the bridge deep into the Marin Headlands or down into the Sausalito area. If sounds good to you, just let me know when you are free! Best wishes, and hopefully I'll run into you soon...
-Justin
P.S. Thank you for the cookies
Carlos:
Hey Mai,
Did you know that Santa Fe is covered in snow during the winter? I didn't. Oh what i could have done with that knowledge. Ben didn't even bring a coat.
Beside the lack of proper clothing the trip was a definite success. We drove non-stop both ways, which is an eighteen hour drive. We felt like total bad asses as we crushed crappy states like Arizona in a matter of hours.
I liked your cd, especially the mum (green grass of tunnel) and stereolab (miss modular) songs. Mainly because i had already grown to love a lot of the other ones. I thought the stereolab song was Zero 7. Do you like Zero 7? I just have one of their albums. Anyway, thanks for the cd. I like how similar our taste in music turned out to be (a lot of people like radiohead).
I hope you were able to feast during thanksgiving. My friends and I went to a very nice restaurant in Santa Fe thanks to my dad's funding. I'm usually not that excited by food, but my mouth still waters in remembrance of that meal.
Anyway, I'm back. We should hang out. And to explain myself a little: I'm not used to actively trying cultivate new friendships. I'm just not that dependent on other people. Maybe you understand that. But I like you and you certainly seem worth the effort. I'm trying to extend myself.
Carlos
Matt:
Thank you.
I am always thankfull. I love every day as if it were my last; i get such
joy from watching the Squirrels scamper about, and assidiously nibble
acorns, even amidst the presence of passers by, probably thinking im
crazy for looking so astounded at those little animals.
Having experienced first hand the depths of sorrow, ager, suffering, and
death, i cant help but be thankful for every sunny day, or even every
rainy one (maybe i have become ambivalent towards rainy days-better than
opposed to their occasion).
And so maybe its not with undue suprise that I give you the highest
compliment that i have to offer, and of which only a few have recieved
(verbally).
I appreciate your existence.
I've said this to you, or rather some akward variant the other night,
but here i have restated precisley what it is i feel..for your viewing
pleasure and/or contemplation. or maybe not.
SO it turns out that i...well, i cant seem to stop thinking of you.
good/bad/...well see. perhaps i am just crazy.
Anyways. thank you for the pictures. They were delightful. esp. the last.
and the first. And as far as the idea that " is a bit difficult to
explain", maybe i sortaf know what your getting at. And i would like to
talk with you more.
So why is this letter so long? so when i feel good or inspired, i tend to
write alot.
Perhaps you should try answering your phone on sunday. You never know who
will call!
Happy thanksgiving.
Happy (eventual) birthday.
And happy anything else.
Actually, just happy.
matt.
Mai...
It was good to see you yesterday! I wish you could have checked out the Taiko festival...oh Mai, it was amazing as always. I love how the drummers interlock and trade off rhythms in with the most fluid and precise motions...it's like a really beautiful dance built upon the powerful energy of the drum. This is the third time I've seen the annual festival at Zellerbach hall, but this time it was especially inspiring to me...It made me realize how much I really want to join the SF Dojo make Taiko a part of my life!
It's too bad that you won't be sharing your insights w/ the Radiohead class anymore, but I understand how life can get hectic and there are plenty of other things to focus on. I really enjoyed talking with you yesterday, and I hope that we can still stay in touch. I was thinking...now that you have access to a nice road bike, would you like to go on a ride with me sometime? I used to love biking around the city all the time with my friend Kyle, but ever since he started smoking a lot of cigarettes he hasn't been in very good shape and isn't as motivated...so now that I don't have a riding partner, I haven't been biking as much as I would like to. I know there are some great places to ride in the Berkeley/Oakland area, but my all-time favorite is waking up long before the sun rises and biking over the bridge deep into the Marin Headlands or down into the Sausalito area. If sounds good to you, just let me know when you are free! Best wishes, and hopefully I'll run into you soon...
-Justin
P.S. Thank you for the cookies
Carlos:
Hey Mai,
Did you know that Santa Fe is covered in snow during the winter? I didn't. Oh what i could have done with that knowledge. Ben didn't even bring a coat.
Beside the lack of proper clothing the trip was a definite success. We drove non-stop both ways, which is an eighteen hour drive. We felt like total bad asses as we crushed crappy states like Arizona in a matter of hours.
I liked your cd, especially the mum (green grass of tunnel) and stereolab (miss modular) songs. Mainly because i had already grown to love a lot of the other ones. I thought the stereolab song was Zero 7. Do you like Zero 7? I just have one of their albums. Anyway, thanks for the cd. I like how similar our taste in music turned out to be (a lot of people like radiohead).
I hope you were able to feast during thanksgiving. My friends and I went to a very nice restaurant in Santa Fe thanks to my dad's funding. I'm usually not that excited by food, but my mouth still waters in remembrance of that meal.
Anyway, I'm back. We should hang out. And to explain myself a little: I'm not used to actively trying cultivate new friendships. I'm just not that dependent on other people. Maybe you understand that. But I like you and you certainly seem worth the effort. I'm trying to extend myself.
Carlos
Matt:
Thank you.
I am always thankfull. I love every day as if it were my last; i get such
joy from watching the Squirrels scamper about, and assidiously nibble
acorns, even amidst the presence of passers by, probably thinking im
crazy for looking so astounded at those little animals.
Having experienced first hand the depths of sorrow, ager, suffering, and
death, i cant help but be thankful for every sunny day, or even every
rainy one (maybe i have become ambivalent towards rainy days-better than
opposed to their occasion).
And so maybe its not with undue suprise that I give you the highest
compliment that i have to offer, and of which only a few have recieved
(verbally).
I appreciate your existence.
I've said this to you, or rather some akward variant the other night,
but here i have restated precisley what it is i feel..for your viewing
pleasure and/or contemplation. or maybe not.
SO it turns out that i...well, i cant seem to stop thinking of you.
good/bad/...well see. perhaps i am just crazy.
Anyways. thank you for the pictures. They were delightful. esp. the last.
and the first. And as far as the idea that " is a bit difficult to
explain", maybe i sortaf know what your getting at. And i would like to
talk with you more.
So why is this letter so long? so when i feel good or inspired, i tend to
write alot.
Perhaps you should try answering your phone on sunday. You never know who
will call!
Happy thanksgiving.
Happy (eventual) birthday.
And happy anything else.
Actually, just happy.
matt.