bbluesman=Mark Forman http://bbluesman.com Sat, 10 May 2008 23:24:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en © bbluesman@gmail.com () bbluesman@gmail.com() 1440 bbluesman@gmail.com No no http://bbluesman.com/wp2/wp-content/plugins/podpress/powered_by_podpress.jpg bbluesman=Mark Forman http://bbluesman.com 144 144 Rice Waves http://bbluesman.com/2008/05/11/rice-waves/ http://bbluesman.com/2008/05/11/rice-waves/#comments Sat, 10 May 2008 23:24:45 +0000 admin http://bbluesman.com/?p=544 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Rice Waves", url: "http://bbluesman.com/2008/05/11/rice-waves/" });]]>

Love visiting the country here. Thisis oneof many reasons.

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Ha! Thanks Dave Winer for taking this screenshot at this point. I felt this was my funniest Tweet ever. Now I can say that I’m Twitter famous-oh boy!

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Very knocked out by what Trent and NIN are doing and digging the fine music as well. So I thought hey why not share the love and keep good energy and will flowing around the digital atmosphere. Theme music by Moshang and yes it is awesome and chilling. Mentioned my new site and project Big In Asia. Show some love to Trent and friends by downloading from him and getting friends to do the same.

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I must confess, I’m not an old NIN fan boy, but I am more and more impressed by Trent Reznor. His musical ability is solid, but I’m even more impressed by his cultivating and responding to his followers and grasp of the Net culture whereas so many from the music business are completely clueless on that score. The new work is not the best I’ve heard by them, but I’d rate it 7.5* out of 10*. Like I said today to a NIN-loving friend I’d rather have a 7-8 NIN effort than a 9 or 10 of many other people. Trent’s explanation for the free release is that he wants to thank the Net for helping him make 1.6 million smackers on the last go. Good for him. Nice to know that with ingenuity, hard work and sensitivity to one’s market(in this case:listener’s) people can actually make real money on the internet and also have the exchange happen quickly and directly between marketer and market.

Download your NIN album:The Slip here

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Chilli CookOff bands during the day and MJ Klein at BBQ during the evening. All in all a good day of fun, food, music and conversation.

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Some Australian jewelry company: Re:vision is making pieces out of recycled camera parts! Kudos for recycling and for using such cool objects to make jewelry from. I can think of many photographer friends that would want something from their collection.

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Out for a spin with Kevin, my 14 year old son on recent Tomb Sweeping Day break. We drove into the huge Science Park that emerged out of the cane fields on a hill in Daya. Kevin operated the Xacti from the back of our 90cc scooter. Fun stuff!

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My buddy Jeremy Vaught aka the Seesmic Blogger Dude informed me via chat this morning that Seesmic’s new plugin for WordPress was available. This is what is showing above. So let’s give it a little road test shall we?

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First I mentioned John Williams Gordon to a new music friend that stated a preference for blues and jazz musical forms/ He responded that he hadn’t heard was very, impressed by brief listening and would return for more later. He then mentioned a West African virtuoso from Benin-Lionel Loueke. Knowing that this guy had some serious musical taste I got right over there. I’m listening as I type this, in fact. Man, Lionel sounds a lot like a guitar oriented Weather Report-beautiful playing and inventive singing with the exuberance often found in African musicians.

Don’t want to short change John Williams Gordon or his Mutant Jazz  by any means. He offers a more minimalist, cool kind of vibe. It reminds me of Bill Evans in some ways and also Monk, more by abstraction than by actual sound. If innovative guitar music is your thing then run don’t walk. Better yet, just click…

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Last Sat. was a great day to get out and enjoy some of the early summer weather here in central Taiwan. There was an event at SOHO mall with 9 bands and a chili cook-off to raise money for local Kidz charity. Later I went to a barbecue at the home of Steve and Rhonda and their lovely kids. There were also some “new media” friends in attendance there including the Dark Lord of New Hampshire (aka MJ Klein) and Michael Turton (who I also ran into earlier in the day at the SOHO event), and a new friend Ashish who took some ribbing over his name rhyming with something. I’ll do a video soon with some music from SOHO and MJ rocking out on his new rig.

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