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Many of you may know that, late last month, the Japanese musician Nujabes (born Jun Seba) passed away. For those that don’t know who Nujabes was, he was a well-known Japanese hip-hop producer that made some of the most-loved indie hip-hop music in the entire world; his work could be heard on his album and single releases or in the anime, Samurai Champloo. A discography can be found here: Discogs link

His music had a great amount of emotion and soul and, judging by the comments left on Twitter, Shing02’s (one of the artists he had worked closely with) site, and elsewhere, it has touched many, many people across the world. Listening to some of his music today, I’m finding it hard not to cry myself. Rest in peace, Jun, and know that there are many people across the world mourning your passing and rediscovering your wonderful music.

I am officially booked for a gig. It will be my first paid, non-convention show.

Don’t get me wrong, I love playing conventions, but they are all volunteer, and it feels nice to get to play somewhere with a liquor license (i.e. people don’t have to LEAVE THE ROOM to drink, like they do at most conventions! Benefit: a more captive audience).

Details soon! It should be in about 1 month in Ann Arbor, and will preceed a concert for a very hot and regionally (nationally? I think I can say that at this point) recognized band.

I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was
To lay them out is my real test, to design them is my cause
I will travel across the web, searching far and wide
Each web design, to understand, centered or left-hand-side
WEB DESIGN!  (gotta lay em’ out)
IE messes with me… I was up until half-past-three!
CSS! Caffiene is my best friend, on a night that never ends…
PHOTOSHOP! That background’s so blue… in Explorer the text bleeds through,
Tweet @ me, I’ll DM you,
WEB DESIGN
Gotta lay ‘em out (gotta lay ‘em out), web design!

w/ contributions by @visinin