THE DWELLING AGE

Knowledge is Power

2006-02-01T09:03:00.000-08:00

RESONANCE for UCLA Dance Marathon

spam poetry #2

2005-11-07T19:03:00.000-08:00

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halloween

2005-11-01T13:13:00.000-08:00

Spam Poetry #1

2005-10-28T13:34:00.000-07:00

Sometimes spam mail's assemblage of words turns out to be something like a work of poetry, here are some pieces i dug up in my spam box:

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force love fire not.

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trees wrong might you enemy.
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twenty-one talking wonder off spot,

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Pogi

2005-10-13T20:38:00.000-07:00

projectHERE

2005-10-05T13:49:00.000-07:00

go to RESONANCE to buy a projectHERE totebag.

music for dwelling - curation #2

2005-09-10T23:05:00.000-07:00

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

Not really a curation, but picked up the album at Barnes & Noble after downloading it from Bittorrent (see people actually still buy cd's after dling) a few months ago. Been listening to it a lot ever since. Love the instrumentation, reminds me of my hs and ms band years, heh. Go Oboes! The song writing and delivery i think are just right, and they poses both a kind of innocence, as well as a depth and 'knowing-ness' that seem to come from a very keen and deep understanding of his subject matter. The whole album is pretty good and should be listened to in its entirety to get the full effect, tho i really like like # 16 'They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!! Ahhhh!' (gotta love the titles, too). Will be interesting to follow this artist and see if he completes his goal of an album for every state, and how he plans to keep writing such great music for places he's yet to even visit.

forgot my password

2005-09-10T19:45:00.000-07:00

Forgot my password, so haven't posted for awhile, and cause i didnt feel the need to post, but i guess now i do. And now i remember my password. Anyhow, gonna post a new curation soon, well its not really a curation, but you'll see. Good music. Lots of things have happened since my last post. Went to San Jose for a bit, ended up there for 2 weeks, then went straight to Las Vegas for a week for the MAGIC show, a huge fashion convention/trade show for RESONANCE. Was crazy. If just the experience of Las Vegas wasn't strange enough, to be at the convention with almost every apparel brand there, and 1000's more you've never heard of is pretty overwhelming. In terms of streetwear, LRG was pretty much the IT brand. As one showgoer i overheard said while looking at awe at the crowds around the LRG booth (he said it so profoundly and his hands and arms gesticulating, it was almost amusing), "This is the biggest brand in the whole room." RESONANCE is better, heh. Well, at least i have to believe that it has the potential to be, or else i should just quit right now.

Anyhow, yeh LV is a strange experience, so over the top and maddening, but at the same time so appealing. I recall thinking that its like Disneyland, but all f*ed up and seedy, a starry-eyed kid grown up into a vacuous millionaire rock star. We stayed at the Imperial Palace, slightly dingy and very tacky. After MAGIC we'd walk around looking for places to have dinner. The Bellagio is pretty cool, the watershow was impressive. The Wynn was pretty sweet, too. A friend from college was helping her mom at MAGIC had a comped room there cause her dad is a high roller of some sort. We had some champagne and talked about old professors. The room had an awesome view of the LV nightline. Surreal moment: all nine of us were all sitting in the hotel suite in our various spots overlooking Las Vegas sipping champagne and silently listening to 'God is Real' by India.Arie while mindlessly watching MTV's Sweet 16 on mute on the tele. Caesar's Palace has a really dumb show in the Forum Shops about Atlantis complete with jerkily-moving animatronics and awful sound effects, just walked past it on the way to the Cheesecake Factory; sad thing was people were all crowded around to see it, sorta felt embarrassed just being there, heh. But i guess to each their own, maybe it was somebody's trip highlight, i hope not tho. Paris was nice, ate at the buffet which was mediocre esp considering the price - had cool eating area at least, a faux outdoor old-Paris-at-twilight thing going on, we concluded that we paid more for the fake outdoors 'ambiance' than the quality of food. The Bellagio by far had the best buffet, and they've got an interesting dessert place in the hotel with hot chocolate cascading down glass plates... That 9.99 steak and lobster by the Flamingo was sorta gross. The Barbary Coast's after midnight breakfast was good, good price too. Heh, I become a Vegas buffet connoisseur, even read the Zagat review for the Paris restaurant while in line (lines as long as Disneyland, wheres fast pass?? or at least snapshots of you geefully stuffing yourself with sushi presented on screens on your way towards the exit...). Heh, and thats Las Vegas in a nutshell. Its difficult not to get suckered by all the ploys - all the sparkle and smoke in the air. At least when we went back to the Imperial Palace, there was a sense of reality in its deadness and desparation.

Hmm, but i dunno. It may seem really easy to place judgement on a place like Las Vegas as some warped insane place, after all it is nick-named 'Sin City', but after thinking about it, whats happening there it isnt all that different from whats happening in every other city, its more of a reflection of our own culture (abeit magnified maybe), whether thats a good or bad thing...But one thing is for sure, I wouldn't mind going back.

Haha, in my random recollections of things to type about 1 week after the trip, i didnt even write about any of the important things to happen like the possibility of a job in San Jose, RESONANCE going into debt and buying a $4,000 laser printer, or getting to meet our new screen-printers in San Fransisco, and any of the details i remember from those important happenings. Maybe some other day. All in all, the 3 weeks away from home, although pretty stressful and work intensive, were also in a way pretty fun.

music for dwelling - curation #1

2005-05-12T12:25:00.000-07:00

bjork - aurora
tycho - pbs/kae
lamb - angelica
the kings of convenience - the weight of my words (four tet remix)
lemon jelly - '95 aka make things right
frou frou - it's good to be in love
the postal service - such great heights
the flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots pt. 1
coldplay - speed of sound
pinback - fortress
ocean colour scene - the day we caught the train
rilo kiley - more adventurous
david kitt - dance with you
masters of the hemisphere - give me something clearly
belle and sebastian - if you're feeling sinister
pinback - loro
kings of convenience - misread
yeah yeah yeahs - maps
c.o.c.o. - #1
ursula 1000 - jackie go!
ursula 1000 - samba 1000
thievery corporation - coming from the top
de-phazz - the mambo craze
astrud gilberto - girl from ipanema
de-phazz - death by chocolate

heh, this is gonna last about a day...

2005-05-05T23:13:00.000-07:00

well ive finally decided to post on blogger...mm i dunno why, but yeh. i dunno what i'm even gonna write about quite yet, but i guess it'll just happen. i've actually had a blogger account for sometime now, but never published one. so yeh, i'm not gonna commit myself to maintaining it, or thinking about it too much or too seriously. this will proly last a day, then i'll forget about it, or reconsider having a blog and never use it again, but thats ok. the Dwelling Age is just gonna be a place where i can post, when i want to, with what i want to, nothing more or less than just that. like the title states, this will be a place to simply write, and when i mean write i mean it in the basest way, whatever comes to mind, kinda stream of consious, though honestly i dunno if that term is too existentialist, or too specific for what i am doing. It will be a simple place for my random thoughts to live, recorded, displayed for the internet, typos adn all (i have found you can read more into emails and such by examining the typos and inconsistencies, almost like a second layer of information to be read, sorta like graphology, but thats another post i guess) . I highly doubt any literary gems will come out of this place, nor will it be any place of special interest, or hold any entertainment value, in fact if anyone reads this I think i will be a bit embarrassed, and probably not by any of the specific content, but just the whole boring mess i think it might become and because i think it will verify the mid-low level at which my brain functions. but if it does become a useless, boring database, then at least it has a fitting title. i really enjoy the title i was able to come up with, i like the connotations i get from it, even how "The Dwelling Age" sounds and looks, heh. so to anyone who reads this, or maybe just me reading it in retrospect sometime in the future, i'd like to welcome you to my little corner of the internet. Welcome to a place where time is illusory slower, and things are a little bit stranger, light is a little bit brighter, but the shadows are a little bit longer. Its the world as i see it, my life as i live it. The Dwelling Age

Bests,
Buyayo