Vacation Day 1: Recap

I got some pretty amazing and neat photos. Well descent I guess. I don't know if they are amazing. I'm still toying with them. But here are some of them to sample right now.

I'm pretty much winging my trip, and just going with whatever happens. I didn't plan anything out except where I am most likely going to stay and some points of interest. But I'm just pretty much going along and see what happens.


I am driving up the 101 and 1. I stopped by the ocean early on for some photos like this one here. Think this was Seacliff.


Continuing up north on my way to stop by Norjorus Falls.


The fall was a tad bit disappointing, but then I think I have a very cool idea of what I wanna do with this picture.


I pretty much just drove through Solvang. I didn't even bother leaving the Car. I've been there so many times I just didn't care enough to get out. I am so lazy!


Here's a little preview of my next art exhibit online. This was done at Pismo beach. I did some color changes to it to get the redness out of it. The original is more orange. I also turned up the black more to bring out more of that shape. I thought it was a neat effect.

That's all I have so far. I'm at Morro Bay right now, staying at a motel 6. Heading up to SF now. Hope I get some good stuff...

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My Vacation This Year...

I am going to take a nice trip out of town this year. Right now it's set for SF, but it could change, who knows. But so far, it's for SF and I'll go up along the coast and then take pictures. Fun stuff!

I will definitely be sharing those photos here too!!!

I'll be blogging about it as I go along, but who knows about internet connection, I'll see!

Well I hope you are all having a wonderful end of the year...I am!!!
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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

May your holidays be the happiest to date!
May you all enjoy the beauty of existence!
May you all be merry and fulfilled!

Take care everyone!!!!!!

I wish you a Merry Christmas,
I wish you a Merry Christmas,
I wish you a Merry Christmas,
And a Happy New Year...
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Streamlining III

The third installment in my Streamlining series of posts.

It's about knowing who you are and what you do and what you are actually offering and where you stand atm. I think the biggest thing to know is to know thyself and where you stand and what you are doing.

No, you don't have to stick to it forever. But whatever it is you are doing at the moment, be as honest as you can with yourself with it. Know what you do best and know what needs work the most. Everything of course can use more work always. But what's your strong points and what's your weak points. Use them in a synergistic manner.

I don't think the idea of doing one thing and sticking with that...

...is the only way to go. I think it is absolutely possible to do multiple things very well if you put your mind to them all. But I also do believe to be master at them. It is necessarily to perfect that one thing, or at least really fully master that as your focus. And then let everything else dance around that. It is also ok to eventually move from one to another as your focus. Because there is a level of doing that requires that certain amount of dedication and concentration.

For me it was at first to really grow with my piano. I grew to a high enough of a level to reach something that was good. But I wasn't good enough to really compete well in the real world. But that's not the purpose of that. I didn't know where in the world would have my piano degree really lead me. I wanted to perform, and be a pianist, but it really was something I struggled severely comparatively speaking with everyone else who were studying piano around. They all were much better then me technically and played significantly better then me. But I just did what I did and got as good as I could and really did really focused at one point in my life to fully at least have dedicated to it that once and have experienced how that actually feels. What it actually feels like to have really spent that amount of focus and dedication and what that yields. Because once you have that first one, it's just a matter of feeling there again in the future.

I did that by giving 3 months, nonstop, no breaks, every day, five hours of piano playing to get that level of commitment. It was very painful to work like that for me because I never really felt good with playing all that standard repertoire. I've always just wanted to play improvs. But I never studied Jazz and that was the only known improv that was acceptable. But I didn't really want to play that either. So after my degree and having dedicated to it, I just thought it's not really for me anymore. I felt that's just wrong, I didn't want to play that much piano.

But now I realize I just didn't want to play five hours of classic repertoire a day. I have no problems playing hours of improvs a day. It's what I always wanted to do and play. So now that I figured it out years later because I got inside Second Life. Which I never thought would be something that would lead anywhere. I got into Second Life for an audition for acting in a documentary. I had no idea that would have led me to discovering my improv music world and that there are people who do want to hear them.

The point is you never know where. But you do need to know where you are right now and show your strengths all the while developing what you are weak at. And then keep doing it over and over. But finding that thing that you absolutely love to do and can constantly do it over and over until it's amazing is the key. Then it's just adding a couple more things. Usually no one thing should take more then 3-5 hours a day. There's 24 hours a day. Minus 8 hours of sleep, 16 hours left. Minus 3 hours of meal, that' 13 hours left. minus the 5 hours on that main thing, that's 8 hours left. Use that to add another two more things and you'll have it all working. If you want to add more, start killing two birds with one stone...which is my next article.

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Podcast - My musical diary

I feel like I have found my thing, that one thing in my life that will be there from now till I can't do it anymore.

I think my podcast on itunes is that thing. I honestly think this will be the thing that I will be doing no matter how old I get and what I am doing.

To me that podcast is like my musical diary. It's a diary that I write of my thoughts and of what's going on. It may not always be in a concert format eventually when I don't play much on Second Life anymore. I know eventually I will have to cut down on that significantly. But even then I think this is my life long podcast.

I think I will forever continue to just play more new improvs to add to the podcast as a permanent record of my existence. And I want that to be something I leave behind as a way for people to know me and my journey in a musical way.

To me, my improvs are a glimpse into the momentary realities of who I am and what I am doing. This freestyle piano improv is that. And now that recording technology is so cheap and affordable it is what it is to me. It is my musical diary. I write it in every day just like in a blog with words. But with my musical saying.

They do reflect the day and what I am doing. Even how I am reacting to a situation that has just happened. And overtime it will become even more and more clear and apparent what that podcast will be like. It is really my way of leaving all that I have said musically behind. Some are good, some are not so good. But they are all equally important to say and be heard just as well in the end.


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Streamlining II

So continuing on my thoughts on streamlining and how to make things work well together.

Last time I talked about using same sites and making it all work together and then working all the time like it's a job.

Well the next thing is to pursue every idea and just let it roll. Systems are not read from a book. It is organically developed. So the only way to organically develop ways to make it all work together is to try it. And then go as far as you can with what you have and then stop when you are stuck. Move on to something else. It will somehow find its way back to you in some way, shape or form. It all does. The idea is to just keep working. Let your subconscious do the linkings.

Be open to...

...ideas and possibilities. The more open and the willing you are to try things out, the more your brain will start linking things together. It's all about crossing things from one genre to another and then mixing and merging. Cause often times you can find answers to your existing problems in one area from another area. So when you are stuck and you get these other ideas that seems unrelated, it's not. It's your brain's way of telling you the answer is there, so go there. Or that will eventually lead you to something.

It's all about trusting your brain to lead you to where you need to be going. It's all a matter of faith and having that faith that whatever it is you are doing will keep going and take you somewhere down the road. Cause even right now I'm still not there and don't know where exactly I will be but I know I will be somewhere and I'll just let my brain, my life and my God take me there.

So a big part of streamlining is to let your brain figure things out organically. It's not something that really can be forced it to be done if you are trying to do so so much stuff. It's one thing to streamline a small amount of things that are related. But when you try to do so many diverse things, it has to all work together and there are no real examples to follow when it comes to that. It's something that has to absolutely developed. If there are real simple examples to go, then everyone else would be doing it. But with work overload, it is all about doing and doing and doing some more.

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Streamlining I

Here's the first of a few posts I'll be writing about streamlining and how my systems work. It's all very organized in my own way.

First it's that it's very messy system that's 100% in my head that works. It'll probably be very difficult to learn it all and figure out what's what and keep up with it. I know it's a crazy amount of of work that I do.

I used to have a lot of problems with maintaining websites etc. But it's all about knowing how it works and then how to just work it without too much thinking.

One of the most important thing...

...to remember when it comes to streamlining online is to use the same system everywhere or as much as possible. I blog a lot, and have a couple blogs. But they are all bloggers, at least the ones that I do use for real. I have a wordpress to consolidate everyblog together to have a central place. It has an import function. So I can easily occasionally go there.

The other thing about doing so many things is that it has to be a full time job. I always remember a story of Richard Strauss making his composition a work thing where he does it no matter what from 9 to 5 or something like that. I'm not sure what his working hour is. To me it's like working on multiple jobs at the same time. I have the job of an actor, where I study shows and do my homework and teach and study and go to auditions all the time to keep up the doing of it.

Then with my music, to keep scheduling concerts that will force me to keep playing. I get lazy if I don't put myself in a position where I have someone to at least answer to.

And the graphics comes with the music stuff so it keeps me moving that way and so I have to keep learning and keep getting better to keep up.

Basically to keep up or get out. So I have to keep up.

Alright, I'll talk more about streamlining at a later post...

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Forgetful

So many thoughts, so little time.

I tend to come up with thoughts when I'm not at my computer ready to type. But as soon as I drop down here and try to type something, I totally forget everything that I wanted to say.

I guess I'm getting old, but I guess not too. It's not like this is the first time it's ever happened. It's usually the case.

It's all about streamlining...

...to me, ah, now I remember I wanted to talk about streamlining. I will write a series of thoughts on this then.

But in short, I have always had to develop easy ways to maintain and update. If it's not simple and streamlined and all here in the now and then, I can't keep up with it. I have to have it all here, and easy to just go. And then have things criss cross.

It took a while to get it going, but I am starting to really develop my own system and it gets progressively easier to do so much with so little time. It's just to keep going and not let the energy die off.

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Art Improv - Kwomusic.com

So I'm planning on launching a new site soon to promote myself to galleries and other places to play improvs, especially my art improv.

I registered for the new site KwoMusic.com. My friend Tim suggested that I market myself to real places with my improvs and gave me ideas about how to properly brand it. I always knew I need to split my site from acting and have my music. So now I finally have. I am still working on that site to finish.

The idea is...

...to promote my improv which are highly unique, so it'll give a really unique experience to experiencing the gallery. There are a lot of gallery parties which are generally consist of DJ's playing music while people chatted. But this I think is something really special and have done very well online at online galleries. So I'm seeing if there's any way to market this to real life galleries.

After all it's a totally unique each performance to be tailored to each work. So no two experiences will be the same. It's also much more affordable then hiring me as an original composer and then have thing performed and all that. Just me, a piano and here we go.

So I'm working on the branding of the site. Got a lot of work to do. But it's good I believe.
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Sensitivitiy in Musical Taste

I remember reading Rick Warren's book when he talked about how music is so subjective in taste that of all things a church ever fights over, music is the biggest and the most unrelenting of them all.

Sure there are other issues in life that are controversial. But music really is the one.

I discovered that with the site Metaverse Music where I'm reviewing all these musicians who obviously would be ridiculed in real life in general. And any person I went to school with (well most) would have immediately turn off the music and moved on without a second thought.

Yet I get these people coming after me saying I'm totally off base or wrong or whatever it is because they love that person and their music.

It is very fascinating to experience this...

...It is an experience for me to hear all these comments. And in this way I am learning about marketing and art. I am finally understanding why good art often overlooked by bad art. Second Life provided a microcosm of the reality of marketing of all things subjective.

Anything said repetitively becomes reality.

In an age where information moves super fast, it is even more important about key word advertising. Good artists tends to be humble and try to not over market who they are and what they do. But those who don't know any better then to just market as they are the best. Then once you say it so many times and get enough people to you, you will get a fan base because they will fall in love for you because of you and it has nothing to do with the work.

It's different in Second Life because there is an audience interaction element in it. Those who do that and really get to the audience gets them coming back too more then those who's just there to play.

We don't have that much of a problem on a myspace or thesixtyone type site because the human element is removed. Only the music speak. You listen and you move from one to another without feeling any obligation to even stay a little longer and give them a chance the way Second Life sets things up to be.

Marketing of art and music is really different. There is so much truth to shameless self promotion. It really helps when you have an agent and a manger to do that. Even if it's just a friend to say it on your behalf, it makes a world of a difference in how everything comes out. When I vouche for someone else in a posting it's so many more times more effective then when I post my own announcement. It's fascinating how all of that works.

I am still learning and still growing. But I'm having a lot fun along the way.

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PK Cast: Freestyle Piano Improv

Finally it's here and I am so excited that it is!!!!

You can search me up on itunes - Paul Kwo Freestyle Piano Improv.

CLICK HERE TO OPEN ITUNES PAGE

I am still trying to figure it all out and fine tuning anything that's still wrong. But other then that, I'm just happy it's up there! So subscribe everyone.

These are all my online streaming concerts! Do check them out.


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Just a Thought: DMV Driving Privilege versus Rights

I've never bought into the fact that driving in the US is a privilege and not a right.

I don't understand how in a country where bearing arms is a right but driving is a privilege. Have anyone ever gave that a thought. It makes no sense. I understand why we need a driving test in the interest of public safety, but we do the same thing for gun ownership. People have to be screened to make sure they qualify to own a gun. It's just public responsibility. But for everyone who do qualify, it's a right for them to drive. Because if they quality the government should have no right to take it away. Whereas a privilege the government does. That is not the US I live in, so seeing that sign whenever I go to the DMV is just unamerican to me.

This is just a thought, that's all. I haven't even been to the DMV for so so long...

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Don't Sleep

I don't really want to sleep half the time anymore. I want to keep working. I feel like there's something I haven't done yet and I wanna do it and keep doing it. I feel like I can always do more.

The biggest thing I have problems with half the time is that I don't feel like there's anything I can actually be doing to enhance my acting career. There are a lot of things that's just not avail and the other stuff is just too darn expensive. So now I need to make a lot more money so that I can have even more flexibility to do all the other necessary stuff for my acting.

I think I also go in terms of phases. Depending on what I'm totally into trying to get done. It's like when I was totally in this watch everything online phase, or this watch all the netflix I can. Now I'm in this let's push my online presence to its max. It's a bit crazy but it's what I do.

My hope is that the online presence will start to solidify and I won't have to push as hard soon. Or at least I can ease back from it a little and then go again. I do see that my previous efforts are starting to pay off. So now I hope this month of total push will help it. I think with the SAG strike looming, and things probably going slower, I can definitely see myself really pushing this well into late January and maybe even Feb as hard as I am now. But I know I will have to ease back from it as soon as all the acting stuff picks up again.

But right now I just don't want to sleep cause I feel like I'm totally ready to be there now, where I have always wanted and dreamt. I feel I am actually truly ready to do all that and take on it all and I have gotten enough under my belt to be ok with all that craziness. I am so ready and I want it NOW!


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Running Errands and a Family History

I just had way too many errands to run today, well, not really that many many, but a good chunk of stuff on my to do list.

I just got to going to 3 different banks making various deposits. Mainly because my parents are out of town again, back to Hong Kong. But this time they took my grandparents with them and my other uncle also went back. My Dad's side of the family is sort of having a reunion kind of thing. Well one of my cousin, the oldest over in Hong Kong is getting married so they are all back now for that.

My Dad has 5 sisters and 3 brothers, so a total of 9 siblings and they have not been together since he was a teenager before the Vietnam War in Cambodia. That's like near 40 years ago. Crazy! That's mainly because the family is all over the globe. Literally!!! I have 2 aunts and their children in Hong Kong. One of their kid, my cousin is in Australia. Another 2 aunts are in Taiwan. One of my uncle is there too, but flies over to China a lot. Then I have an aunt up in Calgary in Canada. Though they only moved there 10 years ago. They were the ones who were left back in Vietnam for all that time. Then I have an uncle who lives in Paris, France. And in fact I also used to have another uncle who lives over in France too. But he moved here to LA with us and my grandparents and of course my parents.

So that in a nutshell is what my family looks like internationally. Crazy eh? Spans 4 continents! Pretty wild. Who would've ever guessed? My grandfather basically spent all the money he had during the Vietnam war era getting all his kids out of Vietnam. He did a pretty good job with that too.

Alright, back to doing work...well I gotta eat now too. And I'm just happy I got paid by Language Lab finally!!! WOOT!!!!
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My New Podcast - PKCast

These days I just seem to be working endlessly to really promote myself from the grassroots level up.

I am really trying to throw everything out there and just slam it out with everything I got to really move up. I just need to increase visibility. So yes I am going to put out all my online streaming concerts as a podcast. Why not anyways. I may as well. I do them in Second Life, but it's just music and it's fun to listen to, and will reach more people. May as well put them into better use and create a bigger audience.

Basically the objective of what I'm doing is to...

...streamline things to be as simple as possible to continue to maintain. The blogs are all setup, so I'm just posting contents as I go. Of course the PK blog and Enniv Zarf blog will be a little more loose in how much I post. It's just to relax and jot down my thoughts here.

But my main focus is with Metaverse Music which is making a lot of commotion in Second Life. In one week, I got people coming to me to work for me and to buy ads!!!! It's fantastic. I got a second reviewer and also a writer on staff, and a marketing director!!! Seriously good stuff!!

Then I want to take what I am already doing and make the most of it. Now cutting up all the streams into individual tracks and then selling them is just way too much work. The occasional track I can do, but to have to keep doing that over and over for every concert, I just don't have that much time. Literally even if I wanted to, I just don't have the time to. I play way too many concerts for me to be able to process them.

But with the entire stream I can. I just open it back up. Cut out a chunk of the beginning, which I probably won't even have to do as much from now on as I'll be more solid in my opening with every concert. So I just do that, and then I bounce the whole freaken thing. It's already recorded it is what it is. I'm not going to process it and make it something else. I just can't. It's too much. But I can just do it as it is. So all I do now is to take that mp3 file and then throw it in my podcast maker program which I am on free trail now, but will buy for sure in a few days. which reminds me I have to pay my AFTRA dues. Now I have a podcast that pretty much has a new episode every other day or so. It's crazy how much work I have. I have over 400 minutes of music in my harddrive just sitting there. It's pointless to try to sell them all. May as well do a podcast and keep getting it out there!

So I'm thinking of more ways to maximize my efforts for what I am already doing and making it as simple as possible to brand and go.
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Double Concert Recap - Dec. 6 & Dec. 7

Wow, having had 2 concerts the last two days that were rather diverse really was keeping my mind active. I feel like I've been doing so much and so crazy these days.

In fact today I didn't have any time to go and listen to any music to review anything except really early last night. So I'm gonna make up for some lost time tomorrow and really get to reviewing a ton of stuff.

Remember if you wanna get these concerts at all to hear, you can buy them in world. I'm selling them now!

The concert last night was an Avant-Garde Concert and that was really something I missed doing for a very very long time. I really wanted to do this kind of stuff for a long time.

So I started with a prepared piano piece...

...where I put in some paper clips and ping pong balls and a ping pong paddle and some paper in there to create some sounds. It was a lot of fun to play and I am very glad that there are people in SL who are actually interested enough with what I'm doing so that's so fantastic!

I am selling all my entire concert streams now at my gallery and anyone can buy any concert I am giving at my gallery. So that's definitely something I will be working on now. It's going to be a little interesting but I'll see how that works.

The concert also had an atonal piece, and a piece that was a serial piece - A, Eb, D, F, G, C, Ab, E, F#, C#, Bb, B, and I also had an extended technique piece inside the piano. I even have a very unique concerto for keyboard and mouse with piano....computer keyboard that is...very different. I ended the concert with a tribute to Stravinsky so it was really a lot of fun for me to play. And of course if you wanna buy this stream, you can do that at PK Works gallery in Second Life! I'll have to figure out how to sell these concerts in RL too. I think I'm going to sell these hour long concert streams at L$2k. I think they are well worth that price.

Now my second concert on Dec. 7 was really really fun. I sang my original song Moments there in SL. I was a little scared to do it at first, but hey I gotta take the plunge. Then I also sang a Faye Wong song (well Wong Guo Lung song) called I'm willing in Mandarin. That was a lot of fun and I'm glad even the English speakers enjoyed it too. I had some Chinese friends who were there.

Then I improvised to all of Tommylee's photography there so it was just fantastic to do!

I closed the concert with another Chinese pop, Black Black Sky. It was so much fun I am really looking forward to next Saturday singing the Chinese pop concert!

Alright, I need to get back to making all the signs and stuff for these streams to sell in SL!
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Thought of the day

>How much wiser do we really grow?

I was thinking about the younger people whom I come into contact with and when something happens to them in their lives or when they take certain things out of proportion, they will eventually one day and look back and think what was I thinking.

We have all been there before, what were we all worked up so much over for anyways? But we keep on doing that, keep on and on.

So what were we thinking?

Well I'm thinking what will I look back in five years, in ten years to my life now and say what was I thinking. What in my life now will I find humorous that I was so caught up in it all? What am I doing right now that seems so significant but in five years or ten will be meaningless.

It's like a high school student chasing after grades to get into a good college. Chase after good grades in college to get a good job. Well I got good grades in High School and in College, but none of that even matters right now. And so many people who did get great jobs at great companies are now today out of a job.

So were all those things really as important as we once thought they were? Is anything really all that important. We can live with and without anything we want. We are who we are and we can be as we please. It is as Job stated, everything that is under the sun is meaningless unless if we put meaning to it.

A piece of rock inherently has no meaning. But a piece of rock being stared by a human being has. We are the meaning. We are the thought. Without humanity, existence is meaningless.

That's my thought of the day...

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Way too many thoughts in my mind...

I know I have way too many thoughts on my mind, and I am so glad I actually have started blogging so much, and forcing myself to keep writing. But I do find that writing all these blogs takes me away from having to think about all the things that I don't really want to be thinking about, those things that's really bothering me, or annoying me or hurting me or whatever.

I guess everyone have their own way of escapism. Mine I have discovered is definitely being a workaholic.

Problem is it's very hard to be a workaholic as an actor since really there isn't all that much to be doing all the time. So I get carried away most of the time doing other things.

But I am definitely working on my own branding and my own image, what I should be doing and what I shouldn't be doing. I do also think that God is definitely guiding me along the way giving me the right things at the right moment.

The other day, a very very supportive friend of mine said to me, that I have so much talent but wonders why am I not famous. I wonder too, I guess. I wonder maybe I really don't have that much talent. Maybe my talents are useless. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong. But then I can't figure out what that is. What could it possibly be? I mean there really is no way in answering it.

So I'm kinda choosing the thought that God doesn't want me to be famous just yet. There are still lessons I need to learn, some things I have to nail down before being famous and letting fame kick in. I do believe that though really that one shouldn't be famous too quickly. I think the later you let that happen, the more grounded you are. And I want to be grounded. I want to last. I want longevity, which is hard. Every artist wants immortality, but how many actually ever achieve that?

All I can do then is just keep working. I am not in any relationship, I don't have any real job. I just act and do all this online stuff. But yet I have enough to get by. That really is life. You can have all that you need if you want. But it's also great to have all the other stuff so you don't struggle as much. But in the end it's all faith, it's all life. Just trust it, go with it and somehow it'll work out.

I don't need anything or anyone. I can get by just being here and by myself and all alone with nothing. But it's also great to have someone and somethings around you. Go with it...Whatever...don't care...just whatever...

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Ubi Caritas - On Choral Conducting

I was talking to a choral conductor friend about music and choir and he mentioned to me about a paper he's been working on recently. His paper is about the performance of Ubi Caritas by fifteen different groups, ranging from the most amazing to the most offensive. The two extremes Youtube videos are after the jump.

We started talking about this because I was talking to him about one of the performers I recently reviewed was totally out of tune but yet has a really big following. Sometimes people just don't care about good singing and good stuff. They just like some one or some things for the sake of liking that someone or some things. The performer I reviewed was liked mostly because of her French accent. Her singing was rather offensive and bad.

With the choral performance, one is by the King's College Choir while the other is by some community choir in California.

This first one is the performance by King's College Choir and it's just divine. Choral music can really be supreme and heavenly when it's done right and this is just amazing!



This on the other hand is just not right. Now I understand small churches who can't get good singers to have problems. I have worked with so many choirs that just have people who just are tone deaf and really without having hours of private lessons won't improve at all. But something says to me this is a problem with the conductor, not the choir.



I'm sure that the church here thinks very highly of their director, but if they had a good conductor there I think they could have a much better choir who could actually deliver a pretty descent performance of it. Of course it's not like that King's choir one though. That is just superb.

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My own Cyber Monday Special of sorts...

I am having very special offer at my Second Life gallery, so check it out.

I'm now offering all my concerts to be purchased right after the concert. I'm even creating a season pass where you can get to access all the concerts of the season in MP3 format after the concert so you won't miss anything.

And for a very limited time, it's for L$7,500 for the entire winter season!

I guess if there is a demand I can make that available outside of Second Life too. But I don't know yet. Right now most of my promo efforts are focused there. It's getting a lot of hits so I am definitely going to put my energy there.

But this blog is doing pretty cool too. I get a descent amount of traffic. Of course not as much as my Metaverse Music website which is now listed as the first website when you search metaverse Music in google. Fantastic for me! The site got over 100 unique visitors the first day I officially launched it in SL. Reaching 50 today. I had 30 or so each of the first two days before I even launched it officially. Which I am happy about. Now my head is just exploding from reviewing so many people. But I am enjoying it.

Well anyways stop by PK works in Second life and pick up your season pass or buy the concert. If you want it outside of Second Life, let me know and I'll figure it out.
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Cyber Monday

This is my first year even hearing the term Cyber Monday. That is totally new to me.

So the idea was that originally was when most people had dial-up connections at home and so they would all go online on the Monday at work where they have broadband and do their online shopping.

But of course most people now have broadband at home now and so cyber Monday have changed its meaning a little bit. Supposedly now it's more about people doing research and then comparing prices online on this Monday before they continue on their shopping from Black Friday into the rest of the season. So retailers are using this day online to put up all sorts of great deals to attract people to their site.

I'm thinking now next year what can I do on Cyber Monday to jump on this band wagon of promotion with all my websites and stuff? Well thinking...still thinking...

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Audition Recap - Dec. 1, 2008

I went to an audition today for a webisode series thing. But it's more of a hosting thing then it is an acting thing and I am thinking about how that would play into what I do. Is that something that would be beneficial to me and my career as a whole?

I have been booking some pretty good TV shows and still going on a lot of auditions. That's the best part of it all is that even though it's supposed to be slow, I've been going out multiple times every week the last couple of weeks and I hope it'll still be the next couple weeks until the holiday!

Well I am still thinking about it, but I'll figure it out when and if I need to. Right now I'll just let it be and move on to my next thing, which really isn't much atm. I'm taking a little time to just rest now. Just happy that I'm going out and auditioning no matter what it is.
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What am I doing!!!!!

What am I doing...!!! Oh man, I have done a lot of work this weekend for sure. I'm just glad that I finally officially pushed out the Metaverse Music website tonight by posting the announcement on a bunch of groups in Second Life. And boy I am getting some traffic. I think it's really starting to get people on their toes when there is a critic who is going around to all the concerts reviewing everyone, and will actually call out the bad ones!!!

Next I'll be reviewing the venues too!!! I am so going to end up being the most hated guy in Second Life soon!!!!! At least they can't ban me from going to their concert cause they never know who I am since I go to a lot of concerts with an alt!

Anyways, aside from that I was at church this morning and taught a class of piano in the afternoon. Same old stuff. I really hope this magazine takes off and I can make a little bit of money from it. I sure need it.

I am planning to also sing some Chinese songs in Second Life for fun. I'm working on a set of songs now along with my Christmas stuff for the Christmas bash. It's really going to be something else I guess. Man oh man!

Well things are going good. I'm glad that the review site is getting attention. I am definitely going to keep up the reviews all week and then throughout the whole holiday season. It'll tone down a little bit after a while and I'll hire some more people to review stuff too. I'll eventually also review sets as a whole and entire venues as a whole too. Boy now that's will get me in trouble with venues now will it? OMG! I better save that for later!

Aside from that, I have an audition tomorrow, but it's for a webisode. Who cares though, it's an audition and I always love going to them anyways! I better get some beauty rest!

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