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Name: Debbie
Birthday: 2/17/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: Music, movies, art, dancing, chillin', spacing out, following cats...
Expertise: uh...massaging? i'll let you be the judge. FOOOOOOSBALLLLL
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Member Since:
8/25/2002
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| It's the end of 2008. What a year. Here we go:
Best Live Shows:
8. Chick Corea & Bobby McFerrin (Carnegie Hall)
7. NKOTB (MSG...i know, i know. i hated them when i was little. they were actually really good.)
6. Mission of Burma (Stuyvesant Cove Park)
5. Mogwai (Terminal 5)
4. Jose Gonzalez (Brooklyn Masonic Temple)
3. Deerhoof (Mercury Lounge?)
2. TV on the Radio (Brooklyn Masonic Temple)
1. Radiohead x2 (London and All Points West)
Best New Album:
TV on the Radio--Dear Science
Favorite Newly Discovered Artists:
4. Duffy
3. +/-
2. Deerhoof
1. Kings of Leon
Favorite Newly Discovered Shows:
3. True Blood
2. The Shield
1. The Wire
New Guilty Pleasures:
Degrassi
Highlights of 2008:
Joining The Barrens, falling in love with Colin, seeing Radiohead for the first AND second time in one year, watching Sophie turn one, The Dark Knight, chillin' on Brian's speedboat at Lake Owasco, putting Obama in the White House.
Most Stressful Moment:
Moving, making rent every month
Proudest Accomplishments:
Living on my own and starting over, making an EP with The Barrens, writing songs for the first time, starting Yoga
Saddest Moment:
On the train to go to Heathrow, waving goodbye to my sister and Sophie. Tears came immediately after the train took off.
Best New Friends:
Colin & The Barrens
Goals for 2009:
Get my driver's license, finish songs I started, explore and experiment new sounds for The Barrens, cook more, pay off credit card debt!
Looking Forward To:
Making two trips to Taiwan, playing more Barrens gigs, hopefully get noticed and get good reviews, LOST.
2008 in Summary:
As I predicted, 2008 was a year of change: new apartment, new circle of friends, new lifestyle. I am very fortunate and thankful to have such supportive friends and family. It has been a very busy year and it has gone by too fast. It's hard to find time to relax in between work and Barrens. Compared to last year I toned down a lot with the partying and city-exploring. But I have no complaints. I needed time and space to myself, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to work on music. I have been putting off music for 2 years, and I regret that. If I hadn't met and joined the Barrens, I wouldn't have had the motivation and focus to make music. I hope you had a great 2008, and continue to kickass in 2009!
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| It was better than counting down on New Year's Eve. It was more epic than watching your favorite sports team win the championship. For once, it was something the whole world can smile about.
It didn't really hit me until the Obama family walked onstage that they will become the first black first family in U.S history.
History. We witnessed it. We made it. We changed it. We will tell our children and their children that we, our generation, watched the two towers fall. We saw the country and the world go down with violence and financial troubles. We saw hope for the future. We put the future in the hands of this man. We don't know what he will do or how he will achieve his goals, but we believe in him because his message to the world is simple: we are different, but we can unite as one. And we started by uniting on November 4, 2008.
As for Proposition 8 in California, I will remain positive on this. We have learned that anything can happen in this great nation, so let's give it time. At least we still have Mass, Connecticut, NJ, and hopefully many more to come.
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| They yell at us, they beat us up, they get blamed when we screw up, and
sometimes they're like our 2nd dads/moms. But as we grow up, they clear
the path for everything.
Take my older sis Jackie: now it's
tough being the older kid in an Asian family. I'm not talking about
setting examples for the younger one, I'm talking about the choices she
made that defied my dad's wishes. Our parents are pretty liberal for
Asian parents. They teach us Chinese values and we respect that. But as
far as our lifestyles go, we're both rebelious by nature.
Jackie
got a lot of hell from my dad for dating a foreigner (who she ended up
marrying and they love him), so my dad always hoped that I would find a
nice taiwanese dude. I think by now he has given up hope. I hate to
disappoint him, but it's just who I am. Jackie also has been living in
London for the past seven years, happily married and with a child. Here
I am in nyc and like her, I only get to see my parents once a year,
twice if we're really lucky. They miss us terribly. My dad works like a
maniac, so it's not like he can visit whenever he wants to. Here's
what our phone conversation was like the other day:
Dad: How's living alone?
Me: It's great!
Dad: Aren't prices really high right now?
Me: They're ok...
Dad:
(being sweet) Why don't you just come back and live with us? You can
find a job here, start a band if you wanted to, and we can live
anywhere you want to!
Me: ....(nervous laugh)....
So I told
my sister about this conversation and she completely understood me. She
knows that I have a life here in nyc, and that I have a lot of good
stuff going on. To make me feel better, she tells me that her husband
is considering re-locating to Singapore. If they do, they'll be closer
to Taiwan and Sophie will see her grandparents much more often.
Once again sis, thanks for taking the pressure off of me.
I
want to make my parents happy too, but for now, she has got it all to
please them. She settled down when she was my age. Me, i'm just not
ready. There's work to be done.
On a side note, I was talking
to my friend John, who moved back to Taiwan recently to spend more time
with his mom. Everything he feared about moving back is happening: he's
living too comfortably, has become lazy in the hot weather, and the job
scene isn't working too well for him. Yup, I think I'll stay here a
little longer/forever.
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| I just watched the HBO Tsunami movie (really really good and
depressing). I've also been watching a lot of Battlestar Galactica. Now
before you laugh and think i'm a sci-fi dork, there is a lot of
political crap involved on that show that ties in with what we deal
with today.
Citizens of Burma,
We are trying. We are really trying very hard. I'm sorry this has not
been a good year for you. Your death toll is rising by the minute. This just makes me so sad:
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| Is it too late for New Year Resolutions?
I wouldn't call them Resolutions, but after some "soul searching and growing up", I came up with some words for me to live by. Here goes:
ON LIFE:
-Everything happens for a reason.
-What happened in the past is in the past. You learn from them and move on. This goes for you and everyone you know.
-In other words, quit repeating the same mistakes.
-Don't start drama. You'll make an ass out of yourself.
-There's a solution for everything, so no need to panic.
-Smile, even when shit hits the fan and falls on your face.
-Don't take shit from anybody. And make sure they know it right then and there.
-Don't hold it in. Just say what's on your mind, you passive aggressive moron.
-Nobody's perfect, so just accept the flaws.
-You're old enough to know what is real and what is not.
-Friends are there for you. Don't be afraid to go to them.
-Your family is there for you. Don't be afraid to go to them.
-Your mother knows more about you than you think she does.
-Play an active role in Sophie's life.
ON WELL BEING:
-Eat well.
-Exercise.
-Word hard, party hard, but go easy on the substances.
-Don't spend $$ on what you don't need. Duh.
-Don't starve yourself though.
-Quit offering to pay for everybody all the time. What, you think you're made out of $$? You are this: ^_^ and not this: $_$
-Find other ways to make money. How about those music lessons you always talked about?
-Quit staying up so late, even if you are writing that masterpiece no one will ever appreciate. whoa that rhymed.
ON MUSIC:
-Keep an open mind about music. More open than ever.
-Write songs, even if they suck, WRITE THEM.
-Sing. Sing. Sing. Sing. Sing.
-Put on a solo performance, for christ's sake. This year would be nice.
-Rock hard on those keys. The more you play, the more you know what to play and what not to play.
-Accept criticism.
-Teach music. 1. you'll make some extra $$. 2. maybe you'll learn a thing or two from teaching.
-God gave you "talent". USE IT.
-BARRENS 4 LYFE!!!!!
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