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paddy

paddysandino

About Me



Finishing up my ethno MA at UBC in vancouver, then i'm off to Bali for a year, training to become a gamelan ninja.

I like to play music.

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Mr. T

Music:


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yes.

I'm a player of instruments. My sole purpose in life right now is playing balinese gamelan , but if my memory serves me I also play a lot of other crap, like bass, guitar, drum kit, marimba, riq, doumbek, janggu, gyil, mandolin, piano, and whatever else I get my hands on. I currently have the pleasure of playing in an awesome gamelan ( Gita Asmara ), a korean samulnori quartet and a Ghanian Ewe percussion group .

In the iPod (if i had one that wasn't broken):Fela Kuti, Çudamani, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Tortoise, Kim Duk Soo Samulnori, Django Reinhardt, Antibalas, Steely Dan, Sepultura, A Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde, Algorithm, Anonymous 4, P-Funk, DJ Shadow, Steve Reich, The Osborne Brothers, The Allman Brothers Band, Costes 8, Oum Kalthoum, Leo Kottke, Neil Young, Rage Against the Machine, Bob Marley.

Movies:

Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway (David Lynch). BRAZIL, Fear and Loathing, Life of Brian (Terry Gilliam). Bottlerocket, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, (Wes Anderson). Waking Life, Battle Royale, Koyaanisqatsi, Touching the Void, Tommy, The Big Lebowski, Tales from the Catholic Church of Elvis, Raising Arizona, Judgement (mr. T's post-apocalyptic christian action thriller, i'm serious).

Television:

I no longer have a TV. I don't know who I am anymore.

Books:

Tenzer (2000), On the Road, Dharma Bums, The Stand, Lord of the Flies, Siddartha, and hella non fiction political/social stuff. robert Putnam, chalmers johnson, that crew. Really into Joseph Campbell and Alan Watts too. And you can't beat a good translation of the dao de jing.

Heroes:

Dewa Putu Berata, Mr. T, Jesus, Fela Kuti, my dad, that guy from the mentos commercial who gets into the building even thought the security guard tried to stop him but he got in because he ate a mentos and got smart and the security guy didn't care because he saw the guy and the guy showed him the mentos so he laughed, Barry Oakley, TV's Quincy, He-Man, Shira, Salvador Dali, President Martin Van Buren.

My Blog

Video: Spring 08 Projects

check it out---1. Kotekan - Guitar asmara-2. Ngedes Lemah - Balinese Bluegrass-3. Agahu - UBC Ghana Ensemble-4. Samdo Nongak (excerpt) - UBC Samulnori Group-5. Puspa Mekar - UBC Student Gamelan-6. Sam...
Posted by paddy on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:13:00 PST

Christmix VI now available!

bask in the holiday awesomeness of the new christmix. http://www.kalakutagofanach.com/christmix.html...
Posted by paddy on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:19:00 PST

Awwwwwwww shiznaz, its the remix, yo!

i remixed my gamelan piece. it makes me smile.   TABUH KREASI PEPANGGULAN "CHECK THIS OUT" ReMix V.1.0 -DIG IT- (  ...
Posted by paddy on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:36:00 PST

Bali wrap-up

the last week in bali was hectic. though i was stressing out about the upcoming cudamani recording session on the final days, i decided to go with sudi and his wife putu to putu's home village on nusa...
Posted by paddy on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:14:00 PST

the final days in bali

well, i got ten days to go. i've been here three months and that's really really fucking crazy. basically the entire trip was dominated with the composition project with cenik wayah, but i'm totally c...
Posted by paddy on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:45:00 PST

really big shew

last night was our big performance at the bali arts festival. we'd been working up to it for two months and it went really well. the kids played great and it was well received by the audience. a bunch...
Posted by paddy on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:28:00 PST

keluar ubud

this is going to be very long. you might just want to skip this one.   saturday   saturday was the grand opening ceremony of the Bali Arts Center in the capital city Denpasar, and beside...
Posted by paddy on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:56:00 PST

bipolar drinking and a long awaited time away from ubud

the last few nights i've had a very bizarre pairing of social situations. for the first half of the night, i hang out with my canadian collegues who like to frequent upscale expatriot bars, identified...
Posted by paddy on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:32:00 PST

Help Me Name My Record Label

Sandinista records is taken. i can't for the life of me think of anything better.leave a comment with your suggestions, with as great a quantity and quality as you can manage.
Posted by paddy on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:02:00 PST

bali week...5? 6? 7? how long have i been here?

after my first week of freedom from the composition project, i was feeling very, very lazy. like i've totally wasted a week. i still don't know what i'm doing for my thesis, i've only had three gender...
Posted by paddy on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:57:00 PST