| Karim Nagi 2009: The show. |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|03:53 pm] |
I wish I’d brought my workshop notes but I didn’t. This means I’ll have to start the Karim Nagi 2009 adventure before the workshops, at the performance, and you’ll all just have to be patient.
Luckily, this approach would be chronologically correct. Although I will warn you that it’s going to be hard not to go a Gonzo with all of this.
Still, I cannot exaggerate my deep love for Karim Nagi as a teacher.
Let’s go back.
http://parasitegirl.livejournal.com/652461.html
http://parasitegirl.livejournal.com/652573.html
Last year, when he first came to Japan, I took copious notes and was impressed with Karim. If you re-read the entries I am sure you’ll note my gushing and general state of smuttiness. It is very hard not to develop crushes on good instructors in BD. There is an innate intimacy involved in sound and movement / music and dance. This intimacy transcends words... but when you find a person, male or female, who can use words to help you get a greater understanding of dance and music it can be intoxicating and a little overwhelming.
You’ll be happy to know I didn’t stammer my way through the weekend this time. Year two reminded me that while there is every reason to be smitten with the knowledge Karim has and is able to convey, and the fact that he’s a very nice man, I know he’s human. You can’t respect and hear a teacher if you’re objectifying them.
Someone on Buzz made the comment that they’d like to rummage around in Kari’s head and see what’s there…as he taught I found myself thinking “Hell, ‘I’d be happy to rummage around and simply see how it is organized.” My job is about how to teach teachers how to teach communication skills to students so that they can learn languages…so I think a lot about teaching…I recognize multilayered teaching approaches when they are aimed at me. I geek the fuck out!
I was also impressed with how consistently and consciously Karim balances his natural personally with the need to maintain a friendly but professional identity.
( The Show ) |
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| brain drain. |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|01:49 pm] |
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Ok. brain hurty, need to step away from lessons for a bit. |
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| album release brouhaha |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|08:38 pm] |
sweet christmas i am exhausted. immediately following a trip to LA for family stuff (which was great) and a series of unbearably frustrating catastrophes at ye olde bunker of das (where i was very happy to see the large array of friends from distant lands, none of whom had anything to do with said catastrophes), i came home to an epically long band rehearsal from which i just returned.
yowza.
but the good news is: my band is awesome, we sound great, and i can't wait for you all to hear this stupid album, to play this stupid show on 12/11 at the gilman, and finish this stupid special edition thing which ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) stitchmind and i have been plowing away at for what seems like forever.
more details on that soon, but first, please substitute the word "stupid" for "awesome" each time it occurs in the prior paragraph, and i would entreat you to come to the december 11 show. we weren't 100% sure how it was gonna work out pretty much until today, but it looks like we've got it together and we are actually going to play the entire album all the way through from start to finish. our friends slave unit and syndika:zero will be joining us, along with a band called marrow that i'm not familiar with. there will be at least one sweet special guest appearance, copies of the disc, and general tomfoolery.
you can't drink at gilman, but you CAN drink at either t-rex, an awesome upscale BBQ place down the street (i also recommend eating there, and at the other fine berkeley restaurants by the same owners, lalimes and sea salt), or at the pyramid brewery across the street (i recommend drinking beer there, but less so with the eating), or in the alleyway behind the liquor store because you're classy like that.
anyhow, most of the time i tell my friends that they should only show up to my performances if they actually feel like going and not to stress if they can't make it, but on rare occasion i have an "important" show that i really do care whether you show up. THIS IS SUCH A SHOW. so please show up.
also, we're doing pre-orders on the special edition as soon as we peg down exactly what's going to be in it and how much it should cost. more info soon. |
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| Japanese google-foo fail |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|09:44 am] |
Japanese readers, can you help me.
I am looking for an image/map/illustration that shows the prefectures of Japan with their respective flags....idealy all of Japan but even just a map of the kanto area prefectures with their respective flags would do. |
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| Leftovers! |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|07:22 pm] |
Goose Sammie
Hawaiian roll toasted with lingonberry sauce + dijon topped with slices of roasted goose and soft scrambled eggs.
Breakfast of champions part II :) |
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| wut |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|07:21 pm] |
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[Nov. 27th, 2009|08:36 pm] |
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Very excited to be going to see The Books tonight. Glad I got tickets months ago as they are sold out. It is at a church! |
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[Nov. 27th, 2009|04:02 pm] |
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black friday airs tonight at 10pm on channel 92.3, and on line at channel923.com (yes the mac bug has been worked out so you can all listen on-line) |
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[Nov. 27th, 2009|12:08 pm] |
If anyone has a Dickens appropriate clothes for a tall skinny male that I could borrow tomorrow, please let me know. I'm taking D & his girl tomorrow, and I hate to let him go in his jeans and t-shrit.
Thanks! |
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| bacon turkey |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|03:54 am] |
why yes, it is in fact a great idea to put bacon on the top of your turkey before baking it.
soooo tasty. |
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| Batmans. |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|02:25 am] |
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