Videos

if you dont listen to classical music, start!

If you have not heard this stunning peice of music i recomend that you go buy a CD right now:

is anyone really better off when people spend their lives trying to find new ways to prove other people wrong?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn1snjEtk54

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-fFyymsbnA&mode=related&search=

this is one of the praying mantis’ i keep.

heres a video from about two days ago of me playing keys with a band at my streets block party.

Find more videos like this on M

heres some of the capoeira from brasil day:

here is some of the pagode (paw-gO-djee) from yesterday, the capoeria is coming up tomorrow i think.

today i hung out at brasil day. this cultural festival was held at the la brea tar pits from 12-6, sorry i hadnt informed you earlier, i have been kinda consumed with school, i have two tests on monday and a bunch of preformance peices coming up, yikes! anyways… brazil day was awesome! there was pagode, a style of street samba that developed in rio de janeiro, there was forró, a style of dance and music that derrived from baião, and capoeira, the famous brazilian martial art. i also picked up one of these:

  a tamborim.

they are really fun to play. expect videos today or tomorrow of some of the cool preformances at brasil day.

Bem-te-vi

here are two videos of tupac songs i really admire:

Bem-te-vi

if u go to my M page : http://myimn.com/profile/bemtevi i will be posting more dramatic chipmunk variations as well as the original show it was from.

Half moon

i miss atabaques

so on saturday i went to this thingy called amtgard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtgard) basically a bunch of people dress up as fantasy characters, u know, wizards, knights, bards, assasins etc. and hit each other with foam swords it was fun heres a vid from it:

so i guess yesterday i sorta got my liscence. im not all that excited lol… i havent even driven since then. on a lighter note do u like turtles?:

today was my beautiful girlfriends, natalie clark, birthday, or rather yesterday was. i love her so much, thank you so much god for putting her in my life. here is one of the vids i took of her party:

sadly this is not a philosophical discourse of any sort. but i hope you enjoy it none the less:

What Is Love?

so now with my juries finished (i think i did well :D) i have only one last performance, tonight 7:30-9 at K300 on PCC. I, along with my piano partner Wei, will be performing the ballet from petite suite by debussy on piano. it should be great. i will be video taping it so expect a video soon. well better get to practicing.
Half Moon

to anyone who is interested in this, i have just posted a forum on my “M” page. go add your two cents.
Instructions:
1) follow this URL: http://myimn.com/forum/topic/show?id=609359%3ATopic%3A5223
2) If you dont have an “M” account, get one
4) Watch Video
5) Comment

all oppinions welcome.
i have also included a copy of the 99 names of allah

Michael

so anyone who has dipped their ears into my itunes and asked me what i like will know that i love this artist Richard bona. (see:http://www.bonatology.com his official website for more info). this video is an example of the magic he makes.

Half Moon

This from a classical guitar concert i went to a while back.

Michael

so my latest interest has become break dancing, or the more correct term breaking or b-boying. heres a basic step learn it so when i come we can break!

ya so its random. but i enjoyed it :D:

http://waazdouuug.free.fr/megaman-rhapsody.swf

and the real original one (in embeded video form):

so here is it, the main event for today me (and my sister on her site) getting pwned in the roda:

as a secondary treat here are three freaking awesome acrobatic acts done by some of my instructors for the batizado:

Axé

Bem-te-vi

one of the moves im working on