back home
October 30th, 2008
not sure what I was missing. remodeling too..
tonight, frasier season 6 marathon (laptop wouldn’t read disc..)
tomorrow, debuting the improved me!
back home
October 30th, 2008
not sure what I was missing. remodeling too..
tonight, frasier season 6 marathon (laptop wouldn’t read disc..)
tomorrow, debuting the improved me!
“.. If you play him [Chopin] too Romantically, the work becomes a pop song - Classicism saves you from that. Liszt is an example of someone whose Romanticism was not tempered enough by Classicism, and with Schumann the balance tilts the other way. Chopin represents the perfect balance… “
never heard of hidden restaurants
October 28th, 2008
Sushi Azabu is a hidden restaurant, in the manner of Freemans and La Esquina. These hideaways are always catnip for ever-competitive New Yorkers, who relish inside tips and inside tracks that friends and colleagues don’t have. It’s unmarked, of course.
To find it you enter an unremarkable-looking multi-ethnic restaurant named the Greenwich Grill, tell the host just inside that you’re sushi-bound, and then wait for a server communicating with unseen co-conspirators via a headset to escort you to a staircase off the Greenwich Grill’s dining room.
Down the steps you go to a dark subterranean lair with a blond wood sushi bar, three enormous circular booths, a pebbled floor that makes you feel unsteady as you walk across it and a ceiling of tightly clustered, rounded pipes of bamboo.
Life:
October 28th, 2008
[ ] restless
[x] inspired
checklists are good! I think you should add do-by dates to your to-dos.
enter memory deletion
October 25th, 2008
Memories selectively, safely erased in mice
the world forgetting, by the world forgot..
So I uploaded a couple David Tao songs to youtube
This first one is Shanghaied (今天不回家). I remember it came out around the same time as and was overshadowed by Jay Chou’s Class 3B. It’s a good song though.
Sugar Nokay!
October 18th, 2008
Honey okay!
I’m going to start drinking ginger “tea.”
It’s kind of gross.
Work Ethic
October 13th, 2008
[ ] Diligence
[ ] Resilience
perhaps the thousand and first (ordinal of 1001?) time I listen to Rachmaninov’s recording, his pedaling technique will reveal itself to me. the stunning clarity of his playing.. I’ve been trying to figure out how he’s pedaling the Barcarolle in G Minor (Op. 10, No. 3). It sounds to me like he’s mostly not using the damper pedal at all except at some parts to add color and for a quasi glissando effect.