My friends follow me everywhere, even here in Friedrichshain(Click any image to enlarge) After a morning/early afternoon of studying and a late lunch at Cafe V (awesome!) we headed off to Friedrichshain to visit musician Jürg …
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Berlin Day 3 and 4
In the afternoon of my second day here, we went to Alexanderplatz and surrounding areas (see previous post)…here is some of the stuff I didn’t get to… Art exhibit at former post office.(Click on any image …
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Berlin, Day 1 and 2…
(Click on any image to enlarge) I’m here, and stoked! My friend Phil Skaller (composer, pianist, and fellow PhD student in Integrative Studies at UCSD) and I have sublet an apartment in Berlin for August. It …
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Muddy Waters, Zoey’s and Metro Galleries with Steuart Liebig
Steuart Liebig and I recently had a wonderful mini-tour: Santa Barbara, Ventura and Bakersfield… In Santa Barbara, we played at the Santa Barbara New Music series (run by the contagiously effervescent Colter Frazier) at Muddy Waters …
Session with Jeff Denson and Brian McLaughlin
Saturday, March 21, I had a wonderful session with Jeff Denson (doctoral student here at UCSD) and Brian McLaughlin (awesome drummer from LA) at UCSD’s lovely Studio A. Our engineer was our friend and fellow doctoral …
Vinny Golia at ISIM 2008
Photos I took of Vinny’s solo set at ISIM 2008 in Denver, CO. A powerful performance. Seeing John Rapson at the conference made me realize: I’ve known Vinny for 25 years now…! (Click on any photo …
A little worm-like amphibian with your tea?
The above photo from here. Some of you may know that I’m a fanatic for tea and I keep abreast of tea news with my website http://www.newcreative.com/tea/. Having enjoyed different teas from the Makaibari tea estate …
Oliva Serie V Torpedo
(Interesting…here I am working on my PhD…I thought I’d be blogging more about music, but instead, it’s all about cigars…) For my smoke this week, I had the very highly rated and regarded Oliva Serie V …
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Papa Malick Faye, Walter Thompson….more
Grad school is turning out to be everything and more that I hoped for. Seminars this week were the best yet, building on an already excellent track record. In addition, Papa Malick Faye was visiting lecturer …