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Ok, so podcasting is really catching on. My friend David started one, Music of the Third Millennium. If you are a composer type, you should submit a piece to it! And everyone should listen. You may wonder how to do that. With itunes: Get the latest copy of itunes from Apple or via software update. Under The “Advanced” Menu, select “Subscribe to podcast.” A window will open, demanding a URL. Put in: http://euplastic.com/podcast/?feed=rss2. Violà! You’re subscribed.

You can find other podcasts through the podcast directory. Click on the “Podcasts” icon on the menu on the left. At bottom of itunes, you will see some text “podcast directory.” click on that. Once you are in the podcast directory, you can search for things like “experimental music,” but this is very new, so you won’t find much.
Later: how to start your own podcast AND Qu’est-ce que c’est podcasts? en français
Tag: Celesteh

The GOP killed funding for the program that funds Buster the Bunny. some of you may remember this bunny as the one who veeeery brifly said hi to lesbians in vermont and caused an apoleptic sgitstorm in the department of education. well, the gop gets the last laugh cuz now there’s no more money for buster. which serves him right as the mandate of the show was to teach children tolerance by having buster travel around the country and meet all different kinds of people like muslims and mormon and whatever. tolerance is bad. also, buster’s parents werre divorced. this show was an assult an on the white, christan, hetersexual christian family in america. finally, people will learn to stop being minorities and kids will rightfully discriminate left and right. GOD (and by god, i mean “jesus”) bless america!

sorry about the typos. i’m so high right noe.
Tag: Celesteh

tonight!!! At the hemlock at 9:30. Show up early.

The SF weekly gave me a totally good write up.. wow! “Hutchins loops delicate, plink-y, simple sounds with gruff grunts; shove her stuff into your iPod, and her music makes for a great soundtrack to your life . . ..” Yay, I’m accessible!
Tag: Celesteh

They’re having their convention or something this week. The question keeps coming up: if they’re in favor of the war, why are they in college at all? Why don’t they go enlist? Silly wabbit, getting killed in wars is for stupid people, not smart college students such as themselves. Also, it’s vitally important that they fight liberalism on college campuses giving much needed symbolic support to actual troops, which is so much more valuable that actually risking yourself in anyway.

And on the other hand, I avoided asking this question of the young republican I know. One reason is that he argues like Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh and I don’t especially enjoy provoking him as he becomes entirely unpleasant. The other reason is that I don’t support the war and going to Iraq to fight is extremely dangerous and this seems like a variation of “why don’t you go play in the freeway.” Also, seriously, do we want our country to be represented by people this obnoxious?
And, again, on the other hand, sending poor people to fight their dubious wars is deeply immoral and if they think the war is such a great idea they should go fight in it. At the very least, they should join the ROTC. But this is their moral problem and not mine. My moral problem is stopping the war. Encouraging young republicans to sign up is like so much playground taunting at best and at worst, a distraction from actual anti-war work.
If they won’t go, though, maybe they would start to ask themselves why it’s ok to make other people go
Tags: Young Republicans, War, Celesteh

celeste is a college student and tokyo nammy has four CDs out through sony
i should delete this post
I am now only one day behind in french homework. huzzah.
I will be playing tuba monday june 27th @ ODC Theater [ 3153 17th St @ Shotwell , SF ]
8:00 – Concert. I’ll be playing on a penderecki piece. The real tubist dropped out at the last moment and the guy who put together the concert saw my name on the brink announcement and emailed me(!). unpaid gig. j’aime la musique
I am available to play tuba improvisations at your club, your party, wedding, funeral, bar mitzvah, combination of the above and more. Can tuba playing pay my bills for the summer? So far, I haven’t covered the cost of my latest tuba tuneup. Je joue du tuba. No time for nothing but improv.
Tag: Celesteh

to ask about my show coming up on wednesday. Yikes. I’m glad all the music is already written. “My influences include Maggi Payne, Paul de Marinis, and Anthony Braxton.” “One of my pieces uses the voice of a local poet, Jean Siruis.” him: “How do you spell the last name?”

yikes, i say.
Tag: Celesteh

gig recounted plus the weekly crazy mitch story. Have I mentioned that french class is eating my life. Quiz tomorrow. also: way behind on homework. Irregular verbs. New nouns. Going nuts. Got into an argument today with a young republican about GMO food. Did you know that Monsanto just wants to save the world from the evils of hunger, pesticides and herbicides. Waiting to do long-term tests on the safety of things is stupid. We must save the world NOW. I’m sure that if we release a gene into wheat that causes long-term illness or germ cell mutation or something, we can get it back out of the seed population. Also, cloned seeds are great, because we totally know about every single possible blight that could effect wheat and so genetic diversity is totally superfluous. And if you can’t prove something is dangerous, that totally shows that it’s safe and that should be our standard for safeguarding our food supply, because if it gets messed up, we totally have secret reserves.

I can’t wait until I’m fluent enough to get into stupid political arguments in French. Also, i do NOT have time to do any pieces about food or food safety. Attaching electrodes to plants is not something I’m going to do. I will not do any sort of weird mapping of DNA to notes nor will do any sort of weird mapping of the molecular structure of pesticides or herbicides because I do not have time.
Do you think a P5 glove could be modified to fit on the left hand instead of the right without sacrificing functionality?
Tag: Celesteh

I’m at the garden of memory tonight playing laptop (with ellen) and tuba with damon and others). For all but 45 minutes of the day.

Yes, that’s me you see listed at the Hemlock next wednesday. (Yes, I studied with Anthony Braxton. We recorded a duo album together last month.) The show starts at 9:30. The last show in the series did NOT sell out, but as the series itself is gathering momentum and the next show has three acts, it might. So show up early. I don’t know how early. 9:00? You can drink before the show starts. They also sell popcorn. The room theoretically seats 100 people. I know nothing beyond that. I’ve only been to the hemlock twice. I can give you no useful advice. I’ll be playing three text sound pieces on my laptop.
I must go pack up cables. French is eating my life. I don’t have time to blog very much.
Tag: Celesteh

I hate doing french listening labs with a completely unreasonable level of hate. Is it because the narrators are so fucking snotty? It’s not enough that they talk with their mouths full of gravel but their sing song-y delivery of the correct answers seem more taunting than anything. Ils parlent «Tu es stupide!» Go fuck yourselves, you motherfucking narrators. Je deteste vous! DETESTE!!!!! mourez! mourez! mourez!

grrrrrrrrrr
Tag: Celesteh

Mitch did some research and found a page on the berkeley website which discusses the possibility of tsunamis. “Similar to the liquefaction hazard areas, the most susceptible areas of Berkeley is an area
south of University Avenue and west of San Pablo Avenue (see Figure IV-B-2). The
most likely damage is due to tsunamis would be loss of property through flooding, with
very little potential for loss of life.” Uh, ok, so that’s where I live. Mitch computes, “there’s about a 25% chance u will need to go at least 5 blocks up from your house, if a 20′ tsunami is recorded at the gate. u will have about 4 minutes if it’s still going 200 MPH… since the gate is roughly 15 mi from your house.”

I wasn’t the only local to try to save their cats. And 4 minutes is not much time to run 5 blocks. However, it really seems like the cat could just go upstairs. The buildings that survived in Indonesia where the ones with solid foundations, built to survive earthquakes, like my house is built. Since Berkeley says, “The risk of a tsunami hitting
the San Francisco Bay is estimated at 25 percent for a 20-foot wave at the Golden Gate
occurring once every 200 years.” I’m not going to worry about this too much. I think I owe Mitch an apology. Alas.
Speaking of tsunamis, folks hit by the real one last December probably still need donations. Unicef is a very deserving organization.
Tags: Tsunami, Celesteh