a follow up to yesterday's post. it looks like the lomo event in taipei was an exhibition at taipei film house. and last night an expert was awarding the pictures in the show or something.

as for the concert it was a lot of fun. there were some technical glitches so james had some problems during his set, but still cool. this was the first time i'd seen a laptop performance unless you count seeing steve fisk over ten years ago, and that wasn't a laptop but a regular computer.

lucky dragons was more like performance art than just music. his performance reminded me a bit of jeff greinke. perhaps a bit more erratic than jeff though. in between the two laptop performances was a local taiwanese band - nylas. they won a competition at fnac to put out their ep(which as a result is only available at fnac). they are pretty much in the downbeat vein, and a bit influenced by portishead. they're a nice change from the abundance of bland pop music here, but i tend to want to like them more than i do.

after the show lucky dragons were selling copies of their new album faults(really cheap too at 150 nt!). two taiwanese kids came over to buy some copies. i don't know why this made me happy, but since most of the taiwanese people i have met have rather conservative tastes, it can only be a good thing. i bought one too, and it's excellent.

the one drawback to the show was that there was a sound or a frequency that started to cause a pain in my right ear. it happened both during lucky dragons and during the stationary. the pain didn't feel like it was in my ear, but just outside it. really odd. maybe i'm just getting too old for these kinds of things.