Inspired simultaneously and erratically by the blog thoughts of both Stanley Lee and Ned Rorem.

Oct 31, 2002

Yes, I unfortunately lived with this man for 3 years:

CA r LOCO 6 9: i don't believe you
CA r LOCO 6 9: no way
naryantek: WAY
CA r LOCO 6 9: liar
naryantek: WAYYY!
Awesome review - check it out:

"Hanson has certainly created a great film. Because of its authenticity and portrayal of rap culture, I don't hesitate to say that it is his best film. It is a film of true grit by a director who lets his actors and film take center stage and not himself. The film is filled with an extraordinary performance by Eminem who goes beyond playing himself and gives a truly great performance that sees him show a vulnerable and truly gritty side, not the show he puts on at awards shows and at press conferences. There is much more to his role than an autobiographical portrayal and he delivers extraordinarily. His performance is at the core of what will surely end up being one of the best films of 2002."

http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/habboub/8mile.asp
CONGRATULATIONS TO MY HOMEBOY WAYNE, WHO WILL BE PLAYING WITH THE ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AT CARNEGIE HALL IN DECEMBER.

Oct 30, 2002

I think I'm slowly being turned off by the new advent of unidiomatically-written and tasteless 21st century music - perhaps I'm a conservative when it comes to the issue of writing with a computer. Too many times, composers put their entire dogma and faith into a retardedly designed and ridiculously engineered compositional computer program. If you are a composer, DON'T DO THIS ANYMORE. IT PISSES EVERYBODY OFF. YOU'RE DUMB. IF YOU CHOOSE TO KEEP DOING THIS, AT LEAST HAVE THE DECENCY TO CONTEMPLATE SUICIDE WITH A BLUNT OBJECT AT SOME POINT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. Musicians can't play the garbage you write - and even if they could, they certainly wouldn't want to.

Consider the trend. Contemporary music, albeit the natural unidiomacy of post-serialist writing is forgiveable, has proved that greatness - greatness, meaning, names that stick - is contained in shit that is actually POSSIBLE to play. THIS IS IMPORTANT.

Composers that 'fit the hand' in the 20th and 21st century (these guys have my respect - and it's catchy shit too): Ned Rorem (obviously - my blog is based on this guys diary), John Adams (thank you for instilling the meaninglessness and fun back into American music), William Bolcolm (he's just cool), George Crumb (off the heezy fo sheezy), Lou Harrison (proof that homosexuality exists at the age of 85), George Rochberg (difficult, but fun to play), Olivier Messiaen (forever a legend), and Samuel Barber (ok, so maybe he's oldschool).

Got anymore, IM me.

Oct 29, 2002

Funny forward from Akiko. Those damn japs.

It was the first day of school and a new student named Suzuki, the son
of a Japanese businessman, entered the fourth grade. The teacher said, "Let's
begin by reviewing some American history. Who said 'Give me Liberty, or
give me Death?' " She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Suzuki, who said,
"Patrick Henry, 1775." The teacher said. "Very good!"

"Who said 'Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall
not perish from the earth'?" Again, no response except from Suzuki: "Abraham
Lincoln, 1863." The teacher snapped at the class, "Class, you should be
ashamed. Suzuki, who is new to our country, knows more about its history
than you do."

She heard a loud whisper: "Screw the Japs." "Who said that?" she demanded.
Suzuki put his hand up. "Lee Iacocca, 1982."

At that point, a student in the back said, "I'm gonna puke." The teacher
glares and asks "All right! Now, who said that?" Again, Suzuki responds,
"George
Bush to the Japanese Prime Minister, 1991."

Now furious, another student yells, "Oh yeah? Suck this!" Suzuki jumps out
of his chair waving his hand and shouts to the teacher, "Bill Clinton, to
Monica Lewinsky, 1997!"

Now amidst almost a mob hysteria, someone said, "You little twit. If you say
anything else, I'll kill you." Suzuki frantically yells at the top of his
voice, "Gary Condit to Chandra Levy 2001."

The teacher fainted. And as the class gathered around the teacher on the
floor, someone said, "Oh shit, we're in BIG trouble!" and Suzuki said,
"Arthur Andersen, 2002."
Tomorrow: Brahms Clarinet Sonata in Eb - is the first movement learnable in a day? Fuckin' better be.
Too tired. Can't write shit tonight.

Oct 28, 2002

Conversations with Wayne about the greatest-pianist-of-my-generation, Orion Weiss:

car LOCO 6 9: well the name orion is perfect
car LOCO 6 9: at least he can point to the sky and say, look that's me
car LOCO 6 9: that's a crazy pickup line
Waaaayne: hahahaha
Waaaayne: damn it
Waaaayne: i want a constellation
Waaaayne: someone please name a bunch of stars after me
car LOCO 6 9: you can point to a huge huge mass of stars and say
car LOCO 6 9: look, that's wayne's big dipper
car LOCO 6 9: and wink, and say, yea you know you want it
Waaaayne: HAHAHA
Waaaayne: or how about
Waaaayne: i know how you can help my big dipper not dip
car LOCO 6 9: hahahhahaa
car LOCO 6 9: orion can say stuff like, wait til you see what's below the belt, baby
Waaaayne: hahahahhaa
THIS POST HAS BEEN DELETED AT THE REQUEST OF MY HOMEBOY, DAVE JUAN. i hope you all read it before i deleted it cuz it was funny!
I've been thinking a lot recently about interpretation-justified deviations from the score, and when unmarked taste can overpower the trashiness of the permanency of its adversary. I find myself criticizing (especially pianists) musicians for their lack of integrity to the printed page, when secretely...fuck, i kinda like it. Perhaps Lang Lang just wooed me and won me over with his mainland fob-attraction and his moth-ball scented tuxedo - it really was quite a spectacle.

A great link from Geoff with lyrics to all the Eminem albums. Beware the pop-ups:
http://www.styler.fsnet.co.uk/lyrix/mm

Also been thinking (along with Pete) about the hypocrisy of ingrained-psyche racial and homo terms. Pete has a good explanation:
car LOCO 6 9: but has the whole fag thing ingrained into his psyche and person that it's impossible to get rid of
car LOCO 6 9: even for us, that shit is pretty much impossible. and all my FRIENDS are gay!
peterlsb: yeah, what do they think of that word?
peterlsb: if think if i were gay
peterlsb: i'd be pissed
car LOCO 6 9: not good
car LOCO 6 9: hahahha
car LOCO 6 9: i don't say it
car LOCO 6 9: THEY say it
car LOCO 6 9: but i don't
car LOCO 6 9: it's like nigger
car LOCO 6 9: not good
car LOCO 6 9: they can, but we can't
peterlsb: ah i see, man i want my own word
car LOCO 6 9: you can use cracker
car LOCO 6 9: hahhaha
peterlsb: hard to go around saying 'what's up kyke'
peterlsb: not sure if it'll catch on among us thuggin' jews

Oct 27, 2002

Very tired, short blog today. Ryo, my gay pianist friend, crashed at my dorm tonight cuz he was too tired to walk back. I feel as if I purposely offered my place for a place to crash to test my limits of open-mindedness....I think I even succeeded. Meanwhile, Henry's IMing me "Hey Faggot" and my blog is filled with playful euphemistic homophobia gestures for cheap humor - perhaps cuz it's been ingrained into my psyche for too long?

On another note, we had a long discussion today about him coming out of the closet to his parents - sounds harsh....He asked me what my mom would say if I told her I was gay. I think she'd be characteristically apathetic to an almost subconsciously Roremesque level. Ryo took the www.thespark.com gay test in front of me - though some html error of some kind prohobited us from uncovering the ultimate truth, if a hilariously designed website can earn the placement of such an honor. What are the new reactions?

Carlos: My best friend here is gay.

My Mother: Good. Make sure he uses a condom with his partners.
Stan: EWWWWWWWWW.
Henry: Faggot.
Pete: Sounds fun at Yale, dude.
Jeff: You're fucking disgusting.
Jade: I'm jealous.
Jerry: That's cool, dude..........yo, for real?
Dave: Wanna smoke a stoge?

Oct 26, 2002

Words of Wisdom from Eminem:

"Success is my only motherfuckin' option. FAILURE'S NOT."
Conversations I have with Stanley:
naryantek: sup faygorian
car LOCO 6 9: sup gaynessesian
naryantek: sup homo-fagsapien
car LOCO 6 9: sup queerballian
naryantek: sup gaymo
car LOCO 6 9: sup fairydancitorius
car LOCO 6 9: sup fudgepackagorian
naryantek: sup sugar plum fairy
car LOCO 6 9: sup dykemasteris
naryantek: sup big black african
car LOCO 6 9: sup chinese pimple juice sucker
naryantek: sup filipino banana man
car LOCO 6 9: sup mushroom eating ass picker
naryantek: sup yo-yo riding wuomek
naryantek: ait i gotta roll, catcha later
A funny forward I got from Akiko:

Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a
> pulse?
> A: No.
> Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
> A: No.
> Q: Did you check for breathing?
> A: No.
> Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began
> the
> autopsy?
> A: No.
> Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
> A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
> Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
> A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law
> somewhere.
Conversations I have with Wayne:

Waaaayne: i have all day free tomorrow because my german class is cancelled
Waaaayne: do you know what that means?
car LOCO 6 9: oh god
car LOCO 6 9: sigh
Waaaayne: i'll have 2 more gigs of music in 24 hours
car LOCO 6 9: dude, get a CHICK, man
car LOCO 6 9: that's what it means
car LOCO 6 9: you'll have all day to GAME on CHICKS
Waaaayne: dude
Waaaayne: a chick would slow down my journey towards world mp3 domination
Waaaayne: nothing can get in my way now
My attempt to Eminemize classical music:

You can't phase me
I roll hits like Paul Schenly playin' Kabalevsky
Contemporary, like Tchaikevsky
What y'all wanna do?
Wanna be Horowitz? Bored to bits? In a practice room,
Doing more o' dis?
I don't do scotch music, I don't do Bach music
I do Rach music, I talk music when i walk music
I met a pianist named Liszt who had a wrist and a sore fist,
Pushed the line, became a romantaCIST
Thought he was fine, like a classicist
Met a retarded guy named Brahms with four moms
Thought he was the bomb
But his music sounded like a fire alarm
Hit the beat in the same boat,
But couldn't play a quarter note,
Always wrote in hemiolas,
But never as good as Piazzola,
Always sayin see-i-toldja!
OK, so my next few entries will be filled with old away messages and profiles cuz I'm trying to archive them. Sorry if you've read these a billion times.

Inpiration I get from Justin:

After years of tears, sweat and blood, mathematics, in its own quirky way, has lent and bestowed upon me the light...the answer....in the form of an equation

yale = gayness^2.

You may now marvel at this achievement. Thank you
If Disney were not animated, who would play the parts?

The Beast ------ Russell Crowe
Belle -----------Kate Beckinsdale
Eric ------------Ben Affleck
Aladdin ---(still no choices for this one)
Sebastian ------Bobby McFerrin
Ursula ---------Bette Midler
King Triton -----Sean Connery
Jafaar ----------Snoop Dogg
Merlin ----------Ian McKellan
Flounder -------kid from 6th Sense
Scary guy that runs the Insane Asylum in Beauty and the Beast --Jack Nicholson
Genie ----Robin Williams (no change)
Arthur (from The Sword and the Stone) ----Tobey Maguire

Got any more? IM me.
Me and Pete have officially come to a mutual, conclusive, and otherwise all-encompassing agreement about the obscurity of the emotional female attachment: girls, with cool boyfriends like us, must all go on prozac. For a more detailed explanation, please IM either me at Carloco69 or Pete at Peterlsb for a lengthy analysis.

Had a long conversation with my mother on the way back from LA about the intrinsic motive that drives musicians toward glory-spilled Carnegie Hall, and whether - at the end of it all - you are playing for the glory or the music. Perhaps a crazier question would be to ask: if hideous vanity and exploitation produced inspiration in it's course, is it really all that bad? I bet Beethoven wanted the limelight as much as anyone else, but certainly nobody thinks to blame such an infallible God.

Met a girl from Curtis last week who told me that Curtis kids could play the piano but none 'know anything about real life.' Later in our conversation, somehow the name Tupac Shakur came up and she asked, "who's that?". ................blatant hypocrisy and ignorance - in my mind - extend further down a vomit-filled thought train than condescension. you dumb bitch.

In the past 4 days, I've eaten in New Haven, New York, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and Berkeley. Homosexually infested, disgustingly overpopulated, unabashedly bourgeois, continously homeless-stricken, ritzily artistic, frat-boy and alcohol-filled, and ganglandishly immitative. Can you successfully match the geography with the adjective? If you can't, perhaps Chris Rock is right and America is all starting to look the same. Hint: Homosexually infested is not referring to San Francisco. I bet that threw you off.
This is what I call "virtuosic rap":

You think of my name now,
Whenever you say hi.
Became a commodity,
cuz i'm W-H-I,
T-E,
cuz MTV
was so friendly.

Walk around flippin' the bird,
Livin' the UR-
ban life,
like a white kid from the burbs.

Best believe somebody's payin' the pied piper,
All the pain inside, amplified by the
fact that i can't get by with my 9 to
5 and I can't provide the right type of,
life for my family cuz man these goddamn food
stamps don't buy diapers.
And it's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phipher.

Courtesy of Eminem. (I'm Back, Bitch Please II, Lose Yourself)
I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my life. However, in light of the incriminating nature of this conversation, I feel compelled to issue the following warning:

IF YOUR NAME IS ALICE LAI, PLEASE DO NOT READ THE FOLLOWING CONVERSATION, AS IT IS COMPLETELY FABRICATED AND WAS NOT SENT TO ME BY YOUR BOYFRIEND.

So yeah, anyway, this is something Stan sent me.

naryantek: dude did i tell u the other week alice was snoring so loud and i recorded that shit
car LOCO 6 9: HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
naryantek: yeah i got it on tape
naryantek: i held it right up to her nose
naryantek: and i played it back to her, i tried to blackmail her into giving me some play
car LOCO 6 9: HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA HAHHAHAHHAHAA
naryantek: it didnt really work tho, she just got mad
Everyone seems to be blogging lately, so I guess I decided to hop on the bandwagon - in reality, I was inspired by Stanley's blog cuz it's badass. If you haven't already, check it out: http://leemur.blogspot.com/.

I don't have much to say, cuz I'm currently waiting for my daily dose of msg-infested, crackfilled Chinese delivery from Main Garden - I think my addiction to shit carried over from the Mandarin House at Berkeley. Either that or I'm becoming deathly influenced via olfactory-persuasion by the rugged mainland scent that perpetually rids the breathable oxygen from my dorm.

After a whirlwind trip to California that left me fiending for both Hite and GBCness, I'm now regretfully back at Yale - greeted by the intangible aura of artist-filled homosexuality. What would I do without gay people.....?


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