Recent Posts Tagged With 'music'

• A couple of shows

  Posted on Monday August 24th, 2009 at 22:06 in travel, music, walking around

  Our first show last weekend was at Amuse in Taichung again. Much like last time, it was crowded, smokey, noisy and fun for the most part. When I wasn’t on stage I had to cower in a little corner trying to avoid the waiters rushing back and fort...

• Better this time

  Posted on Tuesday August 4th, 2009 at 03:36 in travel, music

  I picked up my trumpet from the shop on Friday, the tuning slide unlocked and greased, got my usual sandwich, tea and salad in a bag from my favorite coffee shop on Zhongxiao West Road, took some shots of the bright traffic underneath the pedestrian ...

• A rather frantic weekend

  Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 05:05 in music, weather, walking around, muddy basin ramblers

  I had to catch a bullet train down to Chiayi on Saturday afternoon for a gig with the Muddy Basin Ramblers that night. I was the first person on the platform at Taipei Main Station, even though the train was leaving in 15 minutes, leading me to wonde...

• 20 years

  Posted on Friday June 12th, 2009 at 04:50 in music, Nostalgia

  Besides the usual dates that stand out each year, like birthdays and holidays, a few have personal significance for me and hardly anyone else, and on such days I usually just think a bit more about what they mean and let it go without mentioning it t...

• A boat trip and Ennio Morricone

  Posted on Monday June 1st, 2009 at 23:53 in music, Film, walking around

  I didn’t want to go home immediately when I arrived back in Taipei from Tainan; it was too nice a day, so Chenbl and I walked up Dihua Street, which was much less crowded than I recall it being before Chinese New Year, and over to the Dadaochen...

• Summer or something like it

  Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 21:49 in music, Photography, literature

  Summer has pretty much arrived; it’s time to stuff all the winter things into big, transparent plastic bags and vacuum them into thin, portable slabs to be stored under the bed. The windows are open all the time, and the world outside has gradu...

• Playing with Yerboli

  Posted on Friday March 13th, 2009 at 03:30 in music

  Conor sent me a note a couple of days ago that a bunch of musicians were getting together at the Taipei Artist’s Village on Thursday night for an impromptu show with Yerboli Ahmethan and his band, a group from China in Taiwan for the Bitan Musi...

• And now…

  Posted on Tuesday December 30th, 2008 at 09:16 in music, weather, musing, muddy basin ramblers

  I found David, Jez and Dana in the workshop on the 3rd floor of the Taipei Artists Village on Sunday afternoon, surrounded by some empty stools and a grand piano. Thumper showed up later, but Conor and Slim were out of the country, and Sandman couldn...

• Down to Kaohsiung

  Posted on Tuesday December 16th, 2008 at 21:50 in travel, music, Photography, scooters, high speed rail

  I took the noon high speed rail down to Kaohsiung on Monday to attend a wedding, arriving at the new, airport-esque Zuoying Station at 1:30 p.m. I was eager to experience the new MRT that has taken so long and been the subject of so much controversy ...

• Dream #39

  Posted on Thursday November 20th, 2008 at 01:35 in travel, music, muddy basin ramblers

  A book was just published here called “1-100 Dreams” including small articles about 100 people, one for each age from 1 year old to 100 years old. I was selected for 39. I’d been under the impression that they had simply chosen 100 ...