Roman Edirisinghe

How fitting that the grapes are flowering sweetly again, and their succulent aroma assaults my nostrils as I prepare to depart from this house for good…

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A multi-cultural music performance, with a rare lineup featuring Roman Edirisinghe, David Wake, Holly Haebig, Ras Amerlock, Jeremy Kuzniar, Cecilio Negron, jr., Aaron Gardner (formerly Van Oudenallen) and others.

Free to public.

Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm.

Location: Arlington Heights Park (nestled just under the Southeast end of the 35th Street viaduct)
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I happen to be one of the lucky few to get one of the last remaining monome 40h open-source MIDI controllers. I just placed my order, and should have it within a week. I will upload more info and pictures when it comes in.

(I’m really excited)

visit monome.org for more details about this hand-built MIDI controller.

Update: I recently received my monome 40h, and I will post pictures and a video soon.

On Sunday, May 6th at 7 pm, NYC-Based Sitar player Dawoud will be celebrating his birthday at Club Timbuktu
520 East Center Street
Milwaukee WI 53212
Tel : (414) 265 7000
clubtimbuktu.us

$5.00 cover (not bad!)

Dawoud is a New York City based sitarist, guitarist, composer, improviser, performer, and poet. He’ll be joined by Roman Edirisinghe (skins, strings, and other things), Steven White (bass), Steve Peplin (guitar) and other musicians TBA.

Dawoud’s Web site | Dawoud’s MySpace

Tuesday, May 2nd, at 8:00 pm
New York City based Sitar player Dawoud and Friends
Highbury Pub
2322 South Kinnickinnic Ave
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53207

Dawoud is a New York City based sitarist, guitarist, composer, improviser, performer, and poet. He’ll be joined by Roman Edirisinghe (various instruments), Steven White (bass), and other musicians TBA.

Dawoud’s Web site | Dawoud’s MySpace

Whilst perusing the web for Joost invites, I stumbled across Øyvind Solstad’s BrilliantDays, a blog about digital media, among other things. Although my initial goal was obtaining a Joost invite, I checked out his site and was pleasantly surprised to find some cool things, which I’ve outlined below:

Photoshop tutorials

• How to make a rainbow in Photoshop
• How to create realistic bubbles on your pictures
• How to create Amazing circles (see the Amazing Circles Flickr group, created by Øyvind; and another post about Amazing Circles; Long Exposure, the image displayed above, is one of his creations)

Miscellaneous

• An author is offering a volunteer a part in a book in exchange for getting killed (in the book, I think)
• A brilliant way to deal with telemarketers
• BPM for your iTunes songs

Lastly, Øyvind has a complaint about Pro Tools 6.9, which leads me to ask:

Øyvind, have you checked out Pro Tools 7.3? While I haven’t done any video work with Pro Tools (my experience is limited to audio), I’m curious to find out if they’ve solved the problem.

Urban Empress and The Urbanites
UrbanItes Live Reggae music with special guest Lloyd Dias aka JAHBE from the hills of Jamaica. 9:00 pm – midnight
– free Jamaican food and 12:00-2:00 am – Milwaukee’s hottest Reggae DJ’s

Karen’s Night Club
7330 N 76 th St., milwaukee, Washington DC 53212
Cost : $12.00

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I just sold this item on eBay, and I will never see it again. Although beaten & bruised, it served me faithfully on many a gig, and I owe it much gratitude. In a way, it is part of shedding the One Drum skin, since I used this effects/preamp unit quite extensively for bass and guitar when I was in that band. Farewell, Digitech Studio Tube GSP 2101!

This is ridiculous. We got snow today, and I thought spring was coming. Some argue that this erratic weather is a direct result of global warming.

Photo by Scott Feldstein

I was walking through the mall, and I happened to hear the following as I walked past two women:

I’m a big, fat-ass cow.

I had to seriously stifle laughter. I was way too bizarre and unexpected to hear such a candid statement.