| Birthday yum-times <3 |
[30 Jun 2009|01:08pm] |
  
My friend Gabe came to dinner with me and James last night. He got me a bag of bread for my birthday and my cat tried to eat a loaf while I wasn't looking. NO KITTY THAT'S MY FRENCH BREAD!!
Btw, if you ever go to Frjtz, they have the best Belgian fries ever. I recommend the pesto mayo, chipotle mayo, the tamarind-cashew ketchup, and the Thai chili ketchup as dipping sauces. Frjtz is so postmodern, they have mosaics of comic book superheroes on the wall (Spiderman, Batman, Superman, Green Lantern) and they have a French language book on tape playing in the bathroom. One of my fave restaurants EVAR. Ceci n'est pas une Frjtz.
What's weird about my birthday is that I share it with James's mom. Yeah. We have the same birthday. Know who else was born on June 30th? SAILOR MOON. Coincidence? ....Yeah, kinda.
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| Out with the old, in with the new. |
[29 Jun 2009|11:30pm] |
My old solo Myspace will be deleted once the hipster forces that be get around to it. I had a now-defunct e-mail address attached to it so while I was blissfully unaware of the friend requests from other bands and the invitations to join mobster families, the one time that e-mail could have come in handy was now. Ah well. SO LONG, OLD MYSPACE. And good riddance.
My solo website (keikotakamura.com) will go down after it expires in the next week or so.
The last handful of CDs sold today will be shipped tomorrow, and that's the end of that.
I feel SO RELIEVED that this old crap is behind me. Believe me, things are just going to get better from here on out.
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| The Hangover: not so funny when it happens to you. |
[28 Jun 2009|12:54pm] |
Just got back from a giant birthday party for my friend Chris, who hit the big three-oh. Suuuuper tired, but had a lot of fun. We played a drinking game watching the movies Hackers every time someone mentioned a now outdated piece of technology or said "ELITE".
Now I'm trying to chillax and I'm sitting around in my underwear trying to keep cool. I hate hot weather.
Happy Pride Week for all you crazy (sunburned) kids celebrating on the Castro today!
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| SL/RL Band |
[25 Jun 2009|11:38pm] |
 
Jason says he rocks the 'stache and goatee every summer, so he looks a little different face-wise right now, but overall, I think I like how they turned out.
and WTF MY SHOW IS TOMORROW ALREADY?!?! I burned a bunch of demo CDs to hand out to people there. I am confident we're going to reach our 20-person mark. It beats singing to the bartenders and staff!
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| Summer Equals Shows |
[24 Jun 2009|03:47pm] |
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Dana's hubby is in a band called Realization and we're going to be doing a few shows with them in July and August. Tonight, after practice, we're going to hang out with them and take band pictures and stuff. So if you're on Twitter, check out my feed tonight for sure-to-be-embarrassing pictures! :D (Twitter: @KeikoTakamura.)
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| Get well soon, Dana |
[23 Jun 2009|10:40am] |
My drummer and her husband got into a car accident Sunday night. They're both okay, but they've got a bit of whiplash, the car is totaled, and they're both a little shaken. Dana says her husband got the brunt of it, and his back and neck are in pain.
She'll be okay to play at our show on Friday, but we just have to arrange for transportation because her beautiful car is completely torn up.
I guess, please keep Dana and Charlie in your thoughts. <3
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| Rehearsal Space stooooof. |
[13 Jun 2009|12:32pm] |
JR (my bassist) and I drove to Palo Alto yesterday to check out the rehearsal space. It was pretty much perfect. New, freshly-painted 12'x13' room, free wi-fi, on-site repair shop, and a vending machine that sells candy AND guitar strings. The guy who owns the place and does the repair shop has a couple broken Guitar Hero guitars he was fixing up to make into real guitars.
They also slashed the price from $550 a month to $375 a month, with a $99 deposit and 1/2 off first month's rent. SCORE.
All these fantasies started swirling around in my head. The possibilities! We could have Second Life concerts pretty much whenever we wanted with this room! We could throw after-parties! We could build a fort out of amps!
...But then reality kicked in. We need a PA system if I'm going to sing while they're playing. That's gonna cost us at the very least another $500. Even split 4 ways, it's all kinda spendy. Especially with 3 out of 4 of us being either unemployed or under-employed.
Jason (the guitarist) is fantastic - you know what he did? I texted him that we saw the rehearsal room and it was good and relatively cheap, and he texted back something like "ok i can write a check for you tonight you can pay me back later it's ok". Hahah! Man, if we go that route, suddenly we'll be indentured servants to Jason.
Anyway, yeah. My CD is still for sale at http://keikotakamura.etsy.com until June 30th. Any Lindens you can spare would also be great. :3
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| Band stooooof. |
[11 Jun 2009|10:27pm] |
So, band stuff has been going REALLY well. We've been practicing at my drummer's husband's rehearsal space the last couple times and it is SO NICE to finally sing through a PA that doesn't make me sound like I'm giving a sermon. (We used to practice in a church, lol. D: )
We've written two new songs together. One is a very laid-back Pixies-esque song, and the other is a high-energy punk song.
We're starting to look at gigging. We might try for venues outside of the city since SF venues get shit foot traffic. VooDoo Lounge and Blank Club in downtown San Jose are probably good options.
Also, we're going to change our band name. It's no big deal, I can make Myspace/Facebook/Twitter accounts for the new one with relatively little fuss. We're not set on anything just yet. I, personally, would love to be The Ruths, but the SL reference would be lost on the rest of my bandmates. It's gotta be something that means something to all of us. I also kinda wanted to be The Boy/Girl Party but the lady at boygirlparty.com basically said I can't. So we will be brainstorming some more.
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| Y'all should introduce yourselves. |
[09 Jun 2009|10:41pm] |
This has come to my attention ages ago but I'm only now thinking I should do something about it. A lot of you, I never really got acquainted with. And so for that reason, I keep mixing up ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) airukitsu and omnilugia and dragontrap. And I keep mistaking fenriss for cereselle. And although I never mix up giselc with purplemist6, I somehow think they should be really good friends.
So introduce yourselves! A/S/L and occupation and whatever else you think I should know about you. Do you know me from SL or True Life or both? Do you mind that I *totally* read your LJ and silently confuse you with other people?
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| CDs and Sigourney and Stoooof. |
[09 Jun 2009|08:05pm] |
So, the big arbitrary cut-off date for my CD and website is June 30th. (Well, it's my birthday, so... not terribly arbitrary.)
In other news, I wrote a song about the actors in Galaxy Quest. I will run it by the band later.
( lyrics )
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| bff bfd bbl |
[05 Jun 2009|05:22pm] |
Going to San Jose for the weekend to see old friends and hang with family and to go to BFD!! Auuugh I can't wait. Yeah Yeah Yeahs AND Metric BOTH in one place in one day!! Eeeeeee!!!
Oh yeah and The Offspring and 311 are gonna be there too along with a bunch of other bands.
So if you don't hear from me by the time my Sunday SL live show rolls around, I probably had a tragic fatal accident in the mosh pit.
<3
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| Just thought you all should know... |
[04 Jun 2009|12:40am] |
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JR (the bassist) won me a Super Mario Bros. mushroom keychain from a crane game machine. Also, during practice earlier, Jason played slide guitar with a bong. It sounded great.
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| Meet the band! |
[28 May 2009|03:55pm] |
From left to right, JR Ronas (bass), Dana Ceriano (drums), me, Jason Towton (guitar).
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