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Suspicion surrounds forced cancellation of Shen Yun’s Hong Kong shows

Posted in Human Rights on 29 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Suspicion surrounds forced cancellation of Shen Yun’s Hong Kong shows.

Sorry Hong Kong

Posted in Human Rights on 24 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Shen Yun Performing Arts have been spreading traditional Chinese culture the last few years all over the world. It’s a high class show with classical Chinese dance and music, and it’s really amazingly wonderful to watch. I know because I have seen it. For the first time Shen Yun had Hong Kong in their tour [...]

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Easier to listen online and buy digital downloads

Posted in Music, tagged Bandcamp, digital downloads on 23 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I just got a new service on my website from Bandcamp. Now it’s very easy to buy digital downloads of my songs. You can also listen to all the songs and it’s not just short samples as before. Now it’s the complete songs. Just click the play symbol by the first track and then all [...]

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Low budget solution

Posted in Music on 18 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Last year I sold my effect pedal, a Vox Tonelab. It was too big and I didn’t use so many of the effects. For now I will connect my old mixer to my Macbook and play via Garageband. It will be good enough for the practice. Below is my guitar. Actually this post was to [...]

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Learning

Posted in Personal on 17 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I have always been fascinated by learning new things. Maybe because I like to always have a change in my life, even in small things. So I read books. Not novels and stuff like that. But books that inspires you to be more creative in different areas. Of course I read a lot about music [...]

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German foreign minister raised human rights issues

Posted in Human Rights, tagged China, Human Rights on 16 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I read in a pressrelease from DPA (Deutsche Press-Agentur) that the German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle openly critizised Chinese regime for the way it is dealing with Tibet and the lack of press freedom and freedom of speech in China. IT was during talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Friday. This is really [...]

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