Happy Holidays

It's 2019.04.01 on the lunar calendar today.

Hello! I always intend to draft the email a day before but have been ending up writing it last minute and this month is even later as I'm sending it out just before midnight.

There were a lot of holidays to celebrate today from Children's Day, Cinco de Mayo, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and who knows what else? The holidays gigs and activities have kept me very busy the past few days. I'd like to catch up on sleep soon.

For the first time in several years, it feels like spring in my life (the last one I recall, I was thinking "How dare the sun shine.") and I'm excited for whatever is to come. I feel ready to settle in Los Angeles, especially as I can't imagine moving far having accrued a lot of stuff here. It's just music gear like an amp, monitors and a toy piano but that's still more than I've had, living with the next move always on my mind.

What's it like to put down roots?

Toy Piano Recital

You're invited. No RSVP necessary as I'll be posting songs online for viewing at your convenience. I've performed two songs for Children's Day:

Waltz for Debby

by Bill Evans and a

Korean children's song

I grew up with. I figure it's a chance to give old dresses one more wear for each performance before I donate them (keeping the polka dots one though).

Conceptual Entrepreneur

Speaking of holidays, it's my long-time friend Martine's birthday so I want to introduce you to her work, if you're not already hip to her videos and performances examining representations of blackness. She has always been and is still the coolest person I know and is now a bona fide rock star in the art world! Here's a New Yorker article on her.

College

My track "Song of Platitude" is being used as bumper music on NPR's All Things Considered. You can hear seconds of Ross Moss Garren's keyboard outro on segments about the college admissions scandal and measles on campus.On a brighter note about college, my baby sister (pictured in the middle) graduates this month and will be a newly minted data scientist!

Correction to the last newsletter: When I said "you'll learn plenty" from my friend's No-No Boy album, by "you" I meant "me" 😛 It was presumptuous of me to say that.