Daily Archives: May 12, 2010

Ktown Cowboys – Episode 2

Ktown Cowboys - Episode 2

On this week’s episode of Ktown Cowboys, we learn lesson #1 – adaptations. In this tutorial, John Kim (Lanny Joon) gets taught a few basic rules (aka drinking protocol) from his new friends.

Rule #1 how to address one another
Rule #2 Soju ettiquette
Rule #3 eating new foods.

Check out this quick crash course on some Ktown basics. BTW – you may recognize some of the people from Gochu, the Korean drama spoof.

Previous episodes:
Ktown Cowboys – Episode 1

Ktown Cowboys – Episode 2 (contains some profanity)

The Song Ends by Kristine Sa

The Song Ends by Kristine Sa

Kristine Sa released another song off her Lonely Asylum : The Demo Collection. This time she drops The Song Ends, another track about painful heartbreak. All the songs in Lonely Asylum are pretty sad. Other tracks off the album include Lonely Asylum , Nobody, and No More Roses. To support Kristine Sa, you can get her albums on Kristine Sa - Lonely Asylum : The Demo Collection or amazon.

The Song Ends by Kristine Sa

Lyrics to The Song Ends by Kristine Sa
Written by Kristine Sa & Tony T. Nguyen

And I’ll sway as you breathe me
I’ll keep my eyes closed
And although I nearly
Left my wounds exposed
I hold fast to the now
And ignore the when
Because you’re mine until the song ends
You are mine until the song ends

So we hold on real tight
And we dance ever close
And we dance ever sad
We dance ever slow
You had told me you needed me
So I don’t understand
But it just may not matter
Till the song ends

What happens to the hope
If I let go of you, my love?
And if we meet one another again
After the song ends
Tell me, what then?

I can’t seem to think
No I can’t seem to breathe
Is it supposed to be
This hard? This hard?
And your one tear destroys any left over chance
Of ever staying strong until the song ends

What happens to the hope
If I let go of you, my love?
And if we meet one another again
After the song ends
Everything breaks in two
There’s a fork in the road
And we have to choose
I have to choose…
To let go of you.
So what happens when we meet again
After the song ends?
What then? What then?
What happens after the song ends

My baby, hold me close
Don’t you dare tell me when
You are still mine until the song ends.

Help fund the Alice Tong West Coast Tour

Help fund the Alice Tong West Coast Tour

Singer/songwriter Alice Tong is embarking on a one week West Coast tour with her band and needs your help. The tour will be for her new album “Please Be Brave Before the Lions They Come,” which drops May 29, 2010. So how much does going on tour with a band for 1 week really cost? Here’s how Alice breaks down the cost:

There are 7 band members including me:
Alice Tong- vocals, keyboard, guitar, harmonica, ukelele
Miles Senzaki- drums and percussion
Patrick Taylor- acoustic and electric bass
Nate LaPointe- electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, pedal steel (what a deal!)
Claire Courchene- cello and trombone
Albert Chiang- vocals and acoustic guitar
Mei-Ling Murray- backup vocals and tour manager

Basics: As human beings, we need food and shelter for a week to survive 😉 which ends up being around $3,270.00.

Travel: As traveling musicians for a 1 week tour, we need gas and a large vehicle to get us to venues, which equals $1,317.49.

Musician Salaries: My bandmates deserve to be compensated for their time and the days that they will need to take off of work in their hometowns. If you read any of their bios online, you will see that they are extremely talented and hard-working folks who have spent their lives studying and playing music so that they could be professionals in this industry. I already feel bad about not having enough to pay them what I really think they deserve, but hope to one day be able to. For now, I hope to make some money to pay them from our shows, be able to cover their food and shelter costs, and pay them at least $175 each for that week. For all 6 of them, that would be $1050.

That puts us at $5,637.49 TOTAL.
Taking into account possible rate changes (hotel rates for different cities, gas rates changing) and disasters (van breaks down! we get lost driving! someone needs medical treatment(?)! our musical equipment breaks down! etc…unfortunately the list could go on), we can round our total to:
= $6,000 GRAND TOTAL!

Phew… Touring isn’t as easy as it sounds. To help Alice Tong on her tour, you can kick in some bucks here. (that page also has an even more detailed cost analysis of the tour.) She’ll also throw in some gifts for your support based on the amount you contribute.

Help fund the Alice Tong West Coast Tour