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Monday, August 31, 2015

Da Reel Teeng

Q: How long does a harp stay tuned.
A: About 20 minutes, or until someone opens a door.


Now I know why we don't have harps in our live music. Any way I am learning a little more each day Last year, I gave away ,my VHS, CD and DVD players and gave away all my media. A big hassle to copy anything. Now I have everything on Digital and that means Computer. Everything is a file, like any other file and can be moved, copied and transferred to other computers like any other file.

 "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley


 I copy music in Mp3 format and video in Mp4 format and it is very simple. Of course, the music by itself is not much because I do not wear ear buds all day long. My music is very select. And now I want my music in video format which is much more gratifying. It is "Live Muisci" on my computer. I not only hear Christina Aguilera singing but I can see her, the stage and all the musicians too. That is the berries. I have them on my small laptop and can see them on the way home from my long journeys into town. Terrific.

"It can be fun listening to lies, when you know the truth"

Now, I have to make contact with a place that has live music and blog'em. Some of you may know and you can let me know. Dream To Dance Studio is developing very nicely.


2 events in one week from Divino Ritmo!

Via Marie.

Aloha,

It's two in one week! Divino Ritmo brings you TWO Dances in ONE week!

COMING UP:
September1st, CUPOLA Dance, 6:30-9:30p. 1250 Kapiolani, 2nd floor, Inspiration Furniture, Honolulu Design Center.
FREE event, Open to the Public, DJ Lucas & Live Music by Jessie Gonzalez. Food/drink available for purchase. Discounted pupus ordered by 7p.

TOPPING OFF THE WEEKEND:
Saturday, September 5th, Rolando Sanchez Live Band, 6:30 -10:30p.  Hot Latin tunes & more... together with our DJ Lucas will give you a complete dance experience of Latin, nightclub & social ballroom.

Tickets: $25 pre-sale;  $30 at door, includes buffet, soft drinks, BYOB.


For more Info, check in with:
Lucas Jaime (917) 568-3173; divinoritmo@aol.com
Yanna Samkova (732) 499-0407;  Yannajs@gmail.com
Website:
www. alohadancesportcenter.com
(808) 200-5540

Saturday, August 29, 2015

The Night Club on Oahu

By Robert Cheong, Liliha:

Nightclubs all over the world are an entertainment venue which usually operate late into the night. And they are generally distinguished from bars, pubs or taverns by the inclusion of a "dance floor." So we have a clear definition except that the more you look at, the more confusing it can get.

“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.”

The music in nightclubs is either live bands or, more commonly, a mix of songs played by a DJ through a powerful PA system. Most clubs or club nights cater to certain music genres and the age groups are only two, simply the younger folk and the more experienced.

"Maui Waltz" by Loyal Garner

At the moment the largest group of nightclubs on Oahu are into the Salsa-Bachata venue and which cater mostly to the younger folk. It has certainly brought together people from all walks of life and backgrounds. Coming in strong are the social dance club members with an American Style Syllabus agenda and which are being welcomed.

"Devorame Otra Vez" por Marcelo Perez

It has also been a genre for young people to explore sexuality and push the envelope somewhat on the dance floor. Disco clubs have acted as an escape from depressing environments and have always acted as the fantasy that marginalized peoples could escape from to forget oppression and lower social class status.



By the late 1970s on Oahu, there were many thriving night club scenes which were centered around discos, nightclubs, and private loft parties where DJs would play hits for the dancers. The DJs played a smooth mix of long single records to keep people "dancing all night long." Some of the most prestigious clubs had elaborate lighting systems that throbbed to the beat of the music.


Much of it is something most of us social dancers have been thinking about for 30 years. This has been specially brought out because the Night Club Dancers have develop a group consciousness of their own. In the past, all of the social dance clubs have been influenced first by the American style agenda which overflowed into the Night Club. Now the Night Clubs see it as is "their way," which is a very long way from "one way."

A Done Deal

We are getting there. This blog will now be officially The Dance Blogs and will contain just about the same information every Saturday. Da Blog MW will contain update information of the blogs for midweek. The Dance Blogs will gradually assume the duties of both and Da Blogs MW will be deleted.

"What our reader/dancers believe may prevail over the truth."

The list continues in the order of average hits per day. The blog section will include other Web and Blog sites beyond our own and we shall kokua in whatevah we can. Since we are a work in progress, we do not yet know what we are doing. Suggestions will be gratefully accepted - Comments?


The Top Three:

No. 1:Back on top is Town Dancer who had been losing ground daily. Now bouncing back and forth with Blogging Hawaii. It is wide open as to Comments and Two Centers. It will make itself. Patience.

No. 2: Blogging Hawaii has been mostly in Honolulu and with the addition of Makua Alii and Dream To Dance it has gone up in hits steadily. Of course a couple good Guest Authors could make the difference for either one of them.

No. 3: Platinum Horseshoe generally covers West Oahu. The nearest thing we have to any regular clients is Wahiawa Ballroom Dance Club and Dance Hawaii is beginning. There will be more, when they are ready. We are willing to help anyone that we can.

"Tiny Bubbles" by Don Ho

The Ones still in the running:

No. 4: The Dance Blogs has taken over from Moanalua Corridor and will drop in the next week. I don't really know why it is doing so good,

No. 5: Latin Rhythms still trying to define itself and the Latin scene in music and dance. It is way up because I blogged Salsa No Ka Oi and then we received a comment to boot. New Comments and then a Two Center. Wow!

No. 6: Dancing Nights started out as just another blog and rapidly morphed into a blog for the Night Clubbing crowd. I will have to find a place to visit and blog'em. Then with some comments and a regular Two Center, it will surprise everyone.

No. 7: The Rail Tragedy is mostly in protest - of The Worst Thing that could ever happen to the West Coast of Oahu. And since I don't promote it at all, it serves as a good barometer. A goal for the other blogs to surpass,

No. 8: Da Blogs MW will be just temporary while I work on the details for deleting it

No. 9: Live Music, taking the place of Sea Country and holding on very nicely.  Everyone goes to Kapolei or the Central Valley for dancing and some even go to town too. Only rumors of ballroom dancing is all. We can see what happens with this new one. Patience.

"Morning Dew" by Melveen Leed

Any dance organization that has a counter and would like to be included in our stats is welcome. We can compare to do more of what the top ones do and less of what the bottom ones do. Simple, we will please the reader/dancers. The stats are a long way from being perfect but they are a handy guide.


Valuable Dance News from Other Dance Web and Blog Sites

Dance Fever Oahu covers just about everything at the Palladium and many other venues around the island. The most read dance Web site in Hawaii. Don't miss it.

The Dance Connection and That's Dancing by Frank and Lani Sierra. Mostly covers their own private clients and we should respect. They get much dance news unavailable to us and all you have to do is tune in.

El Trieste, by Jose Jose

There are others and they are welcomed to this fold, however we will respect and not bother if that is their wish. We do state now and then, that we are here to help, not hinder.

A Done Deal

We are getting there. This blog will now be officially The Dance Blogs and will contain just about the same information every Saturday. Da Blog MW will contain update information of the blogs for midweek. The Dance Blogs will gradually assume the duties of both and Da Blogs MW will be deleted.

"What our reader/dancers believe may prevail over the truth."

The list continues in the order of average hits per day. The blog section will include other Web and Blog sites beyond our own and we shall kokua in whatevah we can. Since we are a work in progress, we do not yet know what we are doing. Suggestions will be gratefully accepted - Comments?


The Top Three:

No. 1:Back on top is Town Dancer who had been losing ground daily. Now bouncing back and forth with Blogging Hawaii. It is wide open as to Comments and Two Centers. It will make itself. Patience.

No. 2: Blogging Hawaii has been mostly in Honolulu and with the addition of Makua Alii and Dream To Dance it has gone up in hits steadily. Of course a couple good Guest Authors could make the difference for either one of them.

No. 3: Platinum Horseshoe generally covers West Oahu. The nearest thing we have to any regular clients is Wahiawa Ballroom Dance Club and Dance Hawaii is beginning. There will be more, when they are ready. We are willing to help anyone that we can.

"Tiny Bubbles" by Don Ho

The Ones still in the running:

No. 4: The Dance Blogs has taken over from Moanalua Corridor and will drop in the next week. I don't really know why it is doing so good,

No. 5: Latin Rhythms still trying to define itself and the Latin scene in music and dance. It is way up because I blogged Salsa No Ka Oi and then we received a comment to boot. New Comments and then a Two Center. Wow!

No. 6: Dancing Nights started out as just another blog and rapidly morphed into a blog for the Night Clubbing crowd. I will have to find a place to visit and blog'em. Then with some comments and a regular Two Center, it will surprise everyone.

No. 7: The Rail Tragedy is mostly in protest - of The Worst Thing that could ever happen to the West Coast of Oahu. And since I don't promote it at all, it serves as a good barometer. A goal for the other blogs to surpass,

No. 8: Da Blogs MW will be just temporary while I work on the details for deleting it

No. 9: Live Music, taking the place of Sea Country and holding on very nicely.  Everyone goes to Kapolei or the Central Valley for dancing and some even go to town too. Only rumors of ballroom dancing is all. We can see what happens with this new one. Patience.

"Morning Dew" by Melveen Leed

Any dance organization that has a counter and would like to be included in our stats is welcome. We can compare to do more of what the top ones do and less of what the bottom ones do. Simple, we will please the reader/dancers. The stats are a long way from being perfect but they are a handy guide.


Valuable Dance News from Other Dance Web and Blog Sites

Dance Fever Oahu covers just about everything at the Palladium and many other venues around the island. The most read dance Web site in Hawaii. Don't miss it.

The Dance Connection and That's Dancing by Frank and Lani Sierra. Mostly covers their own private clients and we should respect. They get much dance news unavailable to us and all you have to do is tune in.

El Trieste, by Jose Jose

There are others and they are welcomed to this fold, however we will respect and not bother if that is their wish. We do state now and then, that we are here to help, not hinder.

Friday, August 28, 2015

Four Tips

Four Tips for Any Live Band
Written by Norris Wooten
The original article written by Chris Huff

"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced
at least once. And we should call every truth false which was
not accompanied by at least one laugh."

Here are four ways any band can work towards moving up to the next level

1. Listen closely to professional recordings of the song and take detailed notes.
What instruments are used? When are they used? How are they used? What changes in the vocals from one verse to the next? By examining a song, you’ll have the start of a plan for arranging your version of the song.


2. Review your choice of instruments. Yes, you may have a kick drum but what if a song only incorporated the cymbols? Two guitars playing rhythm might sound nice at first, but you can add color and depth when one of those guitars plays in a different octave and / or different chord voicings. Maybe it’s time to add a bass player. Does the drummer have a djembe they could play?


3. Don’t play all instruments all the time. Any band can easily fall into this trap. Usually, the song starts with a good opening arrangement but by the time it’s the second verse, everyone’s playing. Instruments can drop out for a passage. Guitarists can play at half-speed for a passage. And for something totally off the wall – if you have strong vocalist, don’t play an instruments at all for a passage!


4. Talk with the sound guy. For instance, you’ve got a new song arrangement that you think is great — play it and ask the sound guy what he or she thinks. Working on a sound team requires knowledge of both science and the art of music. You might find out that you need to add space in your mix because of too many instruments crowded around the same frequencies. You might find out that your killer bass riff idea is being covered up by the drum arrangement. The sound guy isn’t passing judgment on your arrangement; they are helping you with your arrangement.

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Update on a Bumpy Road

The hits are holding up and I do not know why. Of course, the transition is just starting so it should be a couple weeks before it settles down. The devastation by the Present Rail Party is really unforgivable, but no one can do anything. It's the bread, Fred. It's the dough, Flo. And those Fat Cats in Honolulu are making millions and millions of dollars. Minimum wage on the Rail? Don't Laugh.

"Truth will ultimately prevail when many take pains
to bring it to light."


Platinum Horseshoe blog is perking up pretty good as many people are beginning to see the big big advantage of a Second City. Perhaps a third? The Present Rail Party vetos every business park in the West. Yes, we all know, "we coulda been home in 20 minutes." And thousands of cars would be missing from the streets of Honolulu.

"With A Song In My Heart" by Frankie Laine

Platinum Horseshoe is absorbing Waianae dance news very easily and it can do the same for the old Moanalua Corridor down to the Stadium. Blogging Hawaii will take over from the Stadium to town and doing a great job already with the Dream To Dance Studio.


We will have to look into Woodson Dance Academy and Nix Performing Arts both in the Aiea - Pearlridge area. Then there is one in Pearl City that I have not found. Of course, if they already have powerful public relations going, no use for us. We help where we can. They can see what we are doing for Dream To Dance Studio. And the Comments is this blog are crucial.

Update on a Bumpy Road

The hits are holding up and I do not know why. Of course, the transition is just starting so it should be a couple weeks before it settles down. The devastation by the Present Rail Party is really unforgivable, but no one can do anything. It's the bread, Fred. It's the dough, Flo. And those Fat Cats in Honolulu are making millions and millions of dollars. Minimum wage on the Rail? Don't Laugh.

"Truth will ultimately prevail when many take pains
to bring it to light."


Platinum Horseshoe blog is perking up pretty good as many people are beginning to see the big big advantage of a Second City. Perhaps a third? The Present Rail Party vetos every business park in the West. Yes, we all know, "we coulda been home in 20 minutes." And thousands of cars would be missing from the streets of Honolulu.

"With A Song In My Heart" by Frankie Laine

Platinum Horseshoe is absorbing Waianae dance news very easily and it can do the same for the old Moanalua Corridor down to the Stadium. Blogging Hawaii will take over from the Stadium to town and doing a great job already with the Dream To Dance Studio.


We will have to look into Woodson Dance Academy and Nix Performing Arts both in the Aiea - Pearlridge area. Then there is one in Pearl City that I have not found. Of course, if they already have powerful public relations going, no use for us. We help where we can. They can see what we are doing for Dream To Dance Studio. And the Comments is this blog are crucial.

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

So What Snew?

This blog moving ever so slowly. We have two Guest Authors and no comments and few Two Centers. So everyone should know what will make these blogs into real Social Media. Not in Hawaii yet. People tend to go Facebook with 50 million subscribers. You gonna make a dent there? I really don't mind missing those few readers in Finland, South Africa or Lower Slobavia. I am interest in our friends, neighbors, relatives and fellow dancers.

 “A few people with enough courage can make a majority.”


Attorney: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
Witness: All my autopsies are performed on dead people. Would you like to rephrase that?


"Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel


The Probabilist blog has a nice article with the most misspelled words in blogs and probably in newsletters too. Those words are tricky because most of the times people are not actually misspelling but rather misusing them, and spell checkers can not detect those mistakes. Below you will find the 10 words, make sure to pay attention when you use them again:


1. Your - You’re
2. Then - Than
3. Its - It’s
4. To - Too - Two
5. Were - Where - We’re                           
6. There - Their - They’re                          
7. A - An - And
8. Off - Of
9. Here - Hear
10. Lose - Loose


Pub's Side Note: Now that I have these blogs I see it everywhere.


"Stranger In Paradise" by Tony Bennett

Monday, August 24, 2015

Live?

Live Music on Oahu

A dream come true for many on this Island both, for the protagonists and the attendees. I have been looking around and it is definite, all over this island. Band dances are still used on occasion at some ballrooms even though It is considered strange. Along with that, the kids have live punk rock bands, so they are able to hear the hardcore sound associated with moshing.

"Truth is always like oil on water - no matter how much water
you add to depress it - it come always comes out on top."

Formal dances such as proms use live bands as a means of serving the dancers. Also, some people choose live bands because in some places there are virtually no space constraints for the band's instruments. Dance parties with high-end formality have also preferred live bands as means of serving the dancer/fans. In the pop culture for the young, jazz music is being played as it was the ubiquitous genre for live band based dance floors of long ago.

"Tangerine" by
Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell

It is getting to be a good bet for nightlife, Many around the island have endeavored into nighttime entertainment. Some are part restaurant and part night club. And many just start out with a great happy hour cocktails along with the full bar and classic Hawaiian cocktails. Live music is also offered on a regular basis along with karaoke.

Little know secret: The reason the piano was invented. So the musician could have a place to set his beer.


Friday, August 21, 2015

Anybody there?

Anyway we already got some of the best dancers in the Pacific right here on this Island.  Many still training and getting better everyday. So, you think you can dance? Do you need to dust off your dancing shoes or mend the soles? Either way, you need more Dance in your life.

 “Most dancers occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” 


A blog can evolve into Social Media if it is guided because not very many people know what a blog is. I have been in it for almost 20 years and what do I know? There are many different kinds of blogs and many are run by great people who write what they want to and have many readers interested in what they have to say. That is one extreme and for many it works very well. Some have hits in the tens of thousands per day.


However we don't have any great ones here to do that. Our best bet is to develop Social Media from all of us. Comments and the Two Centers, most needed at the moment. Just to get the information in these blogs.;What information? Our own local doings that's what. We are getting a few and we need more. People are realizing what SOS means.

"Contigo A La Distancia" by Christina Aguilera

Restarting, relocating, training, and technical development are great excuses to dance more, No matter at what level you are now, you can always get better. So go! Go on and Dance!

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Over there?

It is amazing but really quite believable that this blog is holding up so good without any comments or more Two Centers. There will be more progress I am sure.. This is all coming about with the links to our other blogs. I am beginning to make connection to visit some place and "blog'em." So I live and learn.

"Three things will not be recovered in life. The moment after it has been missed - The word after it has been said - The time after it has been wasted."


The blogosphere set up is pretty well complete and adapted for this Island. Eight blogs, it will be by the end of next month. I by myself am at the point of diminishing returns. Enough SOS, the blogs need outside opinions, the Comments and the Two Centers. The Top Three remain, Town Dancer, Blogging Hawaii and Platinum Horseshoe.



Then I have to find a way of getting photos of a nice dancing couple to make it "transparent." That is the background is transparent and can be usede in any poster showing only the dancing figures. They are hard to find in the Internet. I would rather have our local people in my transparencies and I have just learned how to make any photo into a transparency. Of course, we must realize that many of the potentials will think they were too good for it. I look for it to be picking up very nicely in the West. As I like to say, the West may be leading the way.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Nice

Some "advisors" think that I shouldn't have done this. But I was  watching the hits coming down and no dancing in Waianae in the near future, I had tried about all I could/ For a while there, the scam spam robot hits and the search engines kept it up but for a couple months now, the hits have been going down. Then Waianae had all been part of the Platinum Horseshoe blog anyway..

 "Most important is to have the courage to follow your heart and
intuition. They somehow already know what is right and wrong.
Everything else is secondary.”


Meanwhile there has been no dance blogs dedicated to the lovers of live music. And there are hundreds of those people on this Island.  I received an email containing the following. "Jazz Minds is under new ownership and has a new look. Loving it, more seating and better Fung Shui. Been there several times in the last 6 weeks." Whatever, must respect and the words came from nowhere but it is very interesting for the reader/dancers.


The rich places, of course, do not need our Public Relations but those that are just getting going could use a little blog Social Media. Gotta try sum theeng. I have a few connections in the Salsa scene and hope to find a nice place to visit soon and, "blog'em."

Mid 19

Our blogosphere has stabilized the hits during the adjustment and the blogs are holding steady. There is always some confusion and we must be patient. No comments yet so our readers are not yet part of Social Media. No formal membership is required and you can comment whenever and whatever you damn well please. The  importance is in an honest opinion.
 
"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting."


The Top Three are holding at well over 33 average hits per day which is good enough for any blog at present. (1000 hits per month.) So I have to work on the bottom blogs and get them into the 20s. Patience and wait for the Comments. The reader/dancers of this community are not accustomed to talking back except through the Creative Researchers And Producers.


 Get those comments in here!

As we dance all over, Night Clubs, Community Centers, District Parks, School Cafeterias, and Malls, our dance is becoming more standardized into real Social Dancing. (No Gas Station?) In partner dancing it is crucial that the lead can be follow with reasonable assurance, so that the follower will shine brightly.


So, it remains, the need for all the blogs for Comments. From there it will be relatively easy to become a Two Center, contributing your 2 cents of information for the benefit of our fellow dancers. The blogs are still too much SOS and I must do something to reduce that.

So he took her after the dance for a bite to eat. When they were seated he asked, "Do you know the difference between caviar and hamburger?" She said. "No, I'm afraid not." He said, "Good, - Walter, Two hamburgers here."

Monday, August 17, 2015

Latin Pop

All of it based on the music and dance cultures that were here in the Americas, four or five centuries ago before the arrival of the first illegal aliens.

“The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it,
is the root of all evil in the world”

Most of the Latin music and dance elements interact in different ways and very often a combination of only two or three of these elements is enough to place a given production into the Latin music genre. A Japanese band singing Salsa in Japanese language would be missing most of the elements needed except for the most important one: The music style, which would be enough to place their music into the Latin music genre.

"La Media Luz" por Julio Iglesias

Latin music encompasses hundreds of styles and rhythms including mainstream genres such as Salsa, Tango, Merengue and Brazilian music, as well as traditional rhythms like Andean music, Puerto Rican Bomba, Cuban Son and Musica Llanera.

"Abrazame" por Alejandro Fernandez

Latin Pop is one of the most popular Latin music genres today. However, before the arrival of artists like Shakira and Ricky Martin, Latin Pop first reached a global audience through the work of bandleader Sergio Mendes in the mid-1960s; In later decades, was defined by the romantic ballads that legendary artists such as Julio Iglesias or Roberto Carlos produced back in the 1970s. Latin Pop became the most popular form of Latin music in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s, even achieving massive crossover success among non-Latino listeners during the late 1990s.

:Contigo A La Distancia por Christina Aguilar

Cuban songwriter, Cesar Portillo de la Cruz, whose Contigo en la Distancia (In the Distance, With You) became a huge success in the entire Latin Section of the Americas. He was the king of the Latin romantic song style called "filin" (derived from "feeling" and the ballad.

While not restricted to America by any means, Latin pop was profoundly affected by production techniques and other styles of music—both Latin and otherwise—that originated primarily in the United States. Tejano music, centered in Texas and the U.S./Mexico border region, had begun to introduce synthesizers, slicker production, and a more urban sensibility to formerly rootsy styles like norteño and conjunto.

"Frenesi" por Linda Ronstadt

Moreover, New York with Puerto Ricans and Miami with Cubans were home to athriving Latin club scenes, This music and dance, which during the 1980s,  led to the rise of Latin freestyle, a club-oriented dance music that was rooted in Latin rhythms but relied on synthesizers and drum machines for most of its arrangements. Both of these sounds influenced the rise of Latin pop, which retained Latin rhythms in its uptempo numbers but relied more on mainstream pop for its melodic sense.

Latin pop's first major crossover star was Gloria Estefan, who scored a succession of non-club-oriented dance-pop hits during the mid- to late 1980s, but who eventually became known more as an adult contemporary diva with an affinity for sweeping ballads.

This blend of Latinized dance-pop and adult contemporary balladeering dominated Latin pop through the 1990s; most of its artists sang in Spanish for Latino audiences, although Latin pop's similarity to the mainstream helped several performers score crossover hits when they chose to record in English. Jon Secada landed several pop hits during the mid-1990s, and Tejano pop star Selena's album Dreaming of You actually debuted posthumously at number one on the album charts upon its 1995 release.

 "Contigo A La Distancia por Luis Miguel

In 1946 a housepainter and amateur songwriter named César Portillo de la Luz, who passed away recently. with the romantic song Contigo en la Distancia. Heartfelt and passionate, the lyrics ("There can't be a beautiful melody, unless you're in it/ and I don't want to hear it, unless you're listening too") poured out rapidly like all the young man's compositions. Still being performed all over the world as a classic.

"Detalles" por Roberto Carlos

Within a few years the song would be recognized as the first great hit of a new genre of Latin romantic song and the composer became one of the style's greatest stars. The son of a cigar-roller, Portillo taught himself the guitar in his teens while devouring North American jazz on the radio and coveting the Ella Fitzgerald and Glenn Miller records brought over by the crews on American ships stopping at Havana docks.

Let us face it.

It may be tough, but I have to face it. The next blog to leave will be Moanalua Corridor. The Rail Disaster has wreaked everything around this area. At one time one of the most promising in the entire Hawaiian Islands.

"What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge
whether  my experience of an incident is more valid than
yours? Can anyone be trusted to be the judge of that?"


The new slum area is already developing just South of Farrington. And the city counsel already is looking to build low cost housing in the area. Those tenants will have nothing  to say about it. Kapolei may be able to save itself if it can continue to go in the direction of Second City. That means, we can live, work and play in our own kuleana.


Meanwhile I will continue to help the blogs at the bottom. Now all the blogs at double digit average per day hits. Getting them into the twenties will not be easy. There are not enough computer literate people in our Oahu dancing world. In all the blogs, the people that can make comments and the Two Center will make the difference. And the Two Centers can pick any blog they want, whenever and wherever they feel more comfortable. Attempts will be made to keep the readers informed on all the blogs.


Just introduced the new Live Music blog and it is holding steady with the others.  Some people tell me that few people know what a blog is which is an interesting revelation considering that I am not that sure either. Meanwhile there must be many aficionados of the Latin Music and Dance willing to share a little dance experience and a photo or two for the Latin Rhythms blog and help make it into real social media.