Tweet Log: June 2010

Right amount of dopamine in the brain contributes to creativity. If it's too low, you miss ideas. If too high, you're mad. (Michael Shermer) 12:05 PM Jun 30th via web

"What we're seeing is a complete corruption of the idea of patency and copyright, meant to be a way to incentify innovation." (C. Leadbeater) 10:11 AM Jun 30th via web

It's interesting how the time I get writer's block coincides with the time I need to clean my bathroom. 10:38 PM Jun 29th via web

It's convenient that life is always inconvenient enough to keep you from running out of things you have to do. 2:36 PM Jun 29th via web

"Silicon Valley isn't a place. It's a state of mind." (an unnamed Russian man, telling President Medvedev) 12:27 PM Jun 29th via web

ビールでみそ汁を作ったら、苦い粕汁のようなものが出来ます。具によっては旨いかも知れない。 12:22 PM Jun 29th via web

Japan is debating whether or not to raise its sales tax to 10%. It's currently 5%, much lower than UK's 17.5% or California's 8-11%. 5:48 PM Jun 28th via web

@fuguejunkie Messiaen, right on! I love his Preludes and Turangalila.

I dropped my ladle into a dirty sink and I meant to say "Fuck" and "Oh my God", where upon I ended up saying "Fuck my God". Sorry God! 2:54 PM Jun 28th via web

"They live in their heads. They look upon their body as a form of their transport for their heads." (K. Robinson, on university professors) 1:35 PM Jun 28th via web

"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original." (Sir Ken Robinson) http://bit.ly/4JnO 11:24 AM Jun 28th via web

"Inspiration is cross-pollinating." (Marian Bantjes on TEDtalks) http://bit.ly/cabmxS 6:49 AM Jun 28th via web

Picking up inspiration is like picking up vegetables to make salad. Inspiration doesn't come in the style of ready-to-eat dishes.

How appropriate! "Alberto Balsam" by Aphex Twin, Arranged by Ben Wallace for the CCM Steel Band RT @gurigurico: http://bit.ly/9ytmZ2 9:43 PM Jun 25th via web

My life is full of mistakes, but when I look back I at least wanna be able to say they're my favorite kind of mistakes. 2:59 PM Jun 24th via web

It's more efficient to get done unimportant things than to waste time wondering what important things should be done. 12:59 PM Jun 24th via web

I'm a prisoner of music. But it's in this prison I find my largest freedom. 5:48 AM Jun 24th via web

What artists should be able to do in this century is to deliver people their works with no involvement of the biased view of company execs. 11:30 PM Jun 23rd via web

Learning foreign languages makes you know your mother tongue better. (Goethe, paraphrased) 8:04 PM Jun 23rd via web

You know whether you wrote good music or not when you listen back from the bathroom. 5:30 PM Jun 23rd via web

If you have money, try to convert it into inspiration. If you've got inspiration, try to convert it into money. 4:16 PM Jun 23rd via web

"Don't forget where you come from" is both a literal and a metaphorical phrase. 10:04 AM Jun 23rd via web

I don't really care about music genres. It's more like I describe my tunes as "electronic" as opposed to "oil". 10:54 PM Jun 22nd via web

I often write music not because I want to sound a certain way but because I "don't" want to sound certain ways. @pnoman http://ow.ly/21b2O 12:14 AM Jun 22nd via web

Try eating a whole kiwifruit in one bite for a change. 9:10 PM Jun 21st via web

China blocks my website because I wrote about the Tiananmen protests of 1989. I love Chinese people, nonetheless. 12:56 PM Jun 21st via web

Your expression is a two-way street. You express your thoughts, and your expression will form your thoughts. 10:11 AM Jun 21st via web

In my schedule book, "being tired" qualifies as actually doing something. It's the beginning of a long creative cycle. 7:30 PM Jun 20th via web

Stock traders say it's hard to know when to abandon the winning streak to anticipate downturn. That's a truth regarding life in general. 1:13 PM Jun 20th via web

Speak like you never spoke before. Walk like you never walked before. Breathe like you never breathed before. 10:37 AM Jun 20th via web

Stay young in order to stay creative, but grow older to obtain deeper insight. Either embrace the paradox or achieve a one-sided virtue. 10:51 PM Jun 19th via web

I get an idea out on the streets. I email the idea to my home PC so I'm ready to capture another coming through the soles of my feet. 2:46 PM Jun 19th via web

Great composers not only are the sources from which music theory comes but possess the power to override it in the most appropriate way. 6:30 PM Jun 18th via web

Music expresses for you what you normally wouldn't choose to express. 1:41 PM Jun 18th via web

Bach, Mozart, Debussy.. They're all good. But do not neglect on Beethoven. You'll regret it later. 10:03 AM Jun 18th via web

A jailed yakuza practices hand-writing in the cell. When he gets out, he earns dignity and respect partly due to the improved penmanship. 11:44 PM Jun 16th via web

Do you want to live a life as a copy of generic-somebody, or as yourself endorsing natural development of identity? 11:56 AM Jun 16th via web

Comedians are discreetly stupid. Musicians are sincerely nuts. 11:00 PM Jun 15th via web

Musicians are fundamentally feminine. We're worshipers of the divine feminine, more or less. 4:29 PM Jun 15th via web

Clean bathroom yields creativity. Go and rub! Wipe the tub! 12:07 AM Jun 15th via web

A halfhearted truth isn't as powerful as a wholehearted lie. Ironic but true. Oops, am I being halfhearted now? 7:25 PM Jun 14th via web

Whenever you feel criticizing anyone, remember they didn't have all the privileges you had. (The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, paraphrased) 9:03 AM Jun 14th via web

http://bit.ly/d8E1Wa This is the 2nd album by chietronix, my good friend who happens to be releasing it at the same as I do my 1st. 11:17 PM Jun 13th via web

The album "Beautiful Envy" is ready on iTunes (http://bit.ly/bvXByk) and Amazon (http://amzn.to/bdqkkg). 12:01 PM Jun 13th via web

I'd probably suck if I were a football player for my national team. I'm too liberal to fight for just one country. 10:24 PM Jun 12th via web

http://img.ly/1uNJ Writing a new tune. Sometimes I write by hand, the old fashioned way. 9:18 PM Jun 12th via img.ly

今天昨天我作曲整天。我也同时吃和作曲。感觉很好。 8:53 PM Jun 10th via web

Ladies and gents, today I broke my record of hours spent writing music in a day. It's 10.5 hours. 11:48 PM Jun 9th via web

Cubase 5's preset Soprano Sax sound isn't so good, but Alto Sax is. Likewise, the Flute sound isn't so good but Piccolo is. 9:50 PM Jun 9th via web

RT ネガティブな考えは、心の平穏を乱すだけでなく健康にも害となる。@DalaiLama: Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace.. 1:03 AM Jun 9th via web

Music is a recreation, a consolation, a friend and a job. It's a window through which I see the world and hopefully the world sees me. 11:36 PM Jun 8th via web

鶏むね肉をヨーグルトに漬け込んでから焼くとおいしいと発見。タンドリーチキンがただ辛いだけじゃないのはヨーグルトに秘訣があったのね。 12:30 AM Jun 8th via web

Music is one of the riddles I'll always be happy to be puzzled by. 11:38 PM Jun 6th via web

Seems like a time to practice a lot of foreign languages. @DorisGao1228: There are over 5 million travelers in Shanghai every day recently 11:20 PM Jun 6th via web

Human decisions are based on memories of past experiences, real or virtual. This is why we develop things like movies or the Internet. 12:31 AM Jun 6th via web

Music is one of many manifestations of mathematics. 9:37 PM Jun 5th via web

chietronix（a.k.a. 大高ジャッキー）の、近日発売される新しいアルバムが非常に良い。こんな才能を友人やコラボレーターと呼べるとはなんと幸運なことか。 8:37 PM Jun 4th via web

I just mistyped "fize" when I was meaning to type "file size". But isn't that a useful word, actually? 10:37 AM Jun 4th via web

Being in a reflective mode is very good as long as you don't get off at the wrong station. 11:13 PM Jun 3rd via web

Doing something wrong is due to lack of carefulness. Not doing something right is due to lack of decisiveness. 7:16 PM Jun 3rd via web

Sometimes, "Don't worry" doesn't relieve me. I'd rather hear "Prioritize your worries". 6:31 AM Jun 2nd via web

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