March 12, 2006 - Ducks
Overheard in Asheville, NC... "It's hard to be serious when you are talking about ducks.".
January 23, 2006 - Music Lover Human
I recently discovered that there is an entry about my website in a Japanese blog.
I used some web language tools to do a quickie translation. Free Japanese to English translation tools are apparently not a robust product as of yet, but I think they kind of gave me an idea of what was going on.
Here's what I found...
The heading of the site states...
"With hobby, the free music which has rolled on the net countlessly, it is in the midst of collecting with lawful method. Not to be the audition of brief, hearing tune whole, please search the favorite artist.".
A bit about the author...
"Author: ?? thickly with PC of capacity 400GB, it is the music lover human who uses half or more in connection with the music. The copy of CD growing tired, seeking the download possible sight, after doing the ? security check in the midst of net exploring, it introduces."
I couldn't translate the name.
... and about my site...
"According to the explanation of this sight the world music ensemble which very majors the music for dance it probably will put out, is. It cannot associate dance very from the music which it can download, but with only music of the ethnic fragrance, something is the thinking which is healed."
I should probably get someone who speaks Japanese to translate it for me, but I think I might like it better the way it is.
Domo Arigato, Music Lover Human
January 1, 2006 - New Years Resolution
Doug and I are standing outside of Hookah Joe's after the New Years Day gig. Two guys pull up next to us in a car. They are both wearing ski masks. They ask us if we know where there are any secluded banks. Since it was after midnight, I didn't take them seriously.
November 13, 2005 - Speaking Chinese
Walking out to get the Sunday paper, I see my neighbor out raking her yard. She's lived there for a year or so but due to our schedules, I've only met her husband and have not had a chance to talk to her.
She teaches Chinese at a local college and as I see her I think to myself that I should say hello, which is one of the few things I can say in Chinese. Literally, as I am thinking this I am pulling the newspaper out of the mailbox and as I open it and take a look... the front page, above the fold headline is "Speaking Chinese" and there is a picture of her and an article about her teaching and trade with China etc.
Needless to say, I went over to say hello.
November 4, 2005 - Dueling Dumbeks
Overheard in downtown Asheville, NC... "I don't care... I'll play my banjo at the drum circle if I want to!".