Archive for April, 2008

Can you lock?

29Apr08

There is a teacher in his mid 40’s sitting across from me. He’s wearing khaki’s, a turqoiuse windbreaker, and a breathright strip. He has headphones in his ear and his volume turned up to 11, so he can rock out to 80’s hair metal.
At first I thought, rightly, that it was awesome. Now I wish [...]

I wore my sunglasses last night

29Apr08

EL wire syncronized to Ableton Live - Early Alpha from Jacob Mauer on Vimeo.

Spring ferwerd

29Apr08

I hung out with Rick, Marissa, Nancy, and Amanda last night after our very special “gaijin” episode of practice. I’m getting better, but wowie is our June performance gonna sneak up on me. Luckily I recorded some video of our leaders playing the parts we need to memorize. Once I get that dumped and encoded [...]

If you see this

27Apr08

You’re on the new host. Congratulations!
See you soon.

I Couldn’t Take It Anymore

27Apr08

When I moved into this apartment it was August ‘07 and I was still coming to grips with the…everything about Japan. So I forgave myself for not really noticing the general shabbiness of my apartment until much later. For the past few months I’ve slowly stopped putting in whatever effort I once had towards regular [...]