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timo chen

About Me

Timo Chen went to an overly expensive conservatory of music in the midwest where he studied Composition and Electronic Music along with East Asian Studies. Upon graduation, he paid off his student loans by touring Asia with easy listening artists that once had careers in the States and Europe of which he's too embarrassed to admit by name (but buy him a few drinks and the laughs will flow).
He now pays too much for rent in a tiny apartment in Los Angeles playing live gigs and scoring independent films that have gone to festivals such as Sundance, L.A. Film Festival, and AVN. You can verify a lot of this crap here:
http://imdb.com/name/nm1479273/
If you'd like to be Timo's friend, click "ADD."If you have a cool music project and would like to work with someone with as absurd a sense of humor as the one seen in this bio, drop him a line. He promises not to refer to himself in the third person when you meet.

For giggles, check out this video of Timo playing with Coco Lee and look at the left side of your screen at the clueless-looking guitar/keyboard player bobbing his head way in the back:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/8/2007
Band Website: http://t-monicmusic.com
Influences: king crimson, stravinsky, jon brion, bt, bartok, the beatles, brahms, radiohead, brian eno, anything with cowbell...
Sounds Like: "I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."--K Vonnegut
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

the secret of messing with people (revealed)

messing with people at a bookstore.oh the things i do to entertain myself...more evidence that i desperately need to get laid....while typing an e-mail today at an internet cafe, i had a strange idea ...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:26:00 GMT

williamsburg...silver lake...eh...same difference

hilarious....
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:23:00 GMT

Malapropism Dealbreaker

she was pretty attractive....there was good conversation. then we ordered another round of drinks. i moved from stellas to wine...she said to me, "wow...i know nothing about wine. i'm not a wine conci...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:05:00 GMT

garbage and rilo kiley: two of my favorite bands copy each other

OK....somebody call a lawyer. As much as I love Jenny Lewis and Rilo Kiley as well as Shirley Manson/Butch Vig and garbage, there needs to be a creative legal war here.First check out this garbage vid...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:48:00 GMT

2007 Graduation Speech of Stanford U by Dana Gioia

This was so good, i had to post it without permission. This is the graduation speech given by Dana Gioia at the 2007 Stanford University Commencement Ceremony. I claim no profit or ownership of this. ...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:42:00 GMT

An Essay by Lee Iacocca

I don't take credit for this. I don't think Mr. Iacocca would mind. This is too important NOT to be posted and spread. In return, kindly buy his forthcoming book.Following is an excerpt from Lee Iacoc...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:36:00 GMT

the death of aural arts and sciences

Kids these days with their digital music (if you can call it "music") are really killing music and audio.A few weeks ago, it was reported that Josh Bell was playing violin at a Washington Metro statio...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:57:00 GMT