Adventures in Japan (I like Japanese TV)

Several years ago I played double bass for the Pacific Music Festival, a summer music festival based in Sapporo, Japan. This festival was started in the late 1980s by legendary conductor Leonard Bernstein. In addition to the Pacific Music Festival (PMF), Bernstein...

How to Speak 19th Century

Watching a lot of HBO’s Deadwood this summer has made me want to grow a moustache and ride a horse, or at the very least to learn how to speak like a 19th century man of adventure. I’m working on the latter by studying this great 19th century vocabulary...

Britney Spears Fugue

This is a clever video created by Danielpi that I just discovered on YouTube. He takes Britney Spears’ “Oops…I did it again” and turns it into a fugue. He made it for a class project, and it is very cleverly done. I especially like the middle...

Generate your own punk rock

The Punk-o-Matic is truly awesome. This is a Flash-based punk rock track generator. Click on the squares to increase the number of drum, rhythm guitar, or lead guitar repetitions. Once you start playing with it you will be hooked. You can save your tunes or load old...