 Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to this quick little update video. And what I want to do is give you guys a heads up that there's going to be content coming on being created for three playlists that have sort of been neglecting over the years. And these videos, this content is going to come at you sort of intermittently. It's going to be random, sometimes it's going to be on sets, sometimes it's going to be, you know, a theme that we're going to follow, right? And what I'm going to do is basically start creating content for the three playlists that are my vision, sort of my business model that I started when I kicked off my Patreon page because the idea is to be able to slowly have enough funds coming in from this work to be able to sustain my life, to be able to pay my bills, maintain my budget, maintain my economics, right? And to have the freedom to be able to create all the content that I'm creating, right? So Patreon was one step towards that goal, right? So once I kicked off the Patreon page, I created a playlist called My Vision, My Business Model. So I'm going to start creating content for that playlist, specifically sharing with you guys what I have in mind, why I'm doing this, the content coming up and, you know, everything else, right? And some of the stuff is going to come at you hard and fast, some of it is going to come at you nice and chill and relax and with a more ASMR slant, right? So heads up on that. And what I'm going to do with that as well is I'm going to start creating content for two other playlists that are directly related to what I'm doing with the math content and everything else that I'm creating. One of the playlists is education, obviously. So I'm going to start sharing with you guys some of my beliefs regarding our current education system and where we should be going, where we are headed. I'm going to talk about some of the flaws in education system and I'm going to talk about some of the solutions to our current, really, it's a disaster, right? Crisis. So some of these things will be anecdotes. Some of them will just be stories. Some of them will be stories that students have shared with me. Some of them will be some of the things that have brought me to this place and time. May they be inspirations, may they be circumstances, may they be my philosophy, my politics, my economics, what I think about our society, right? So for that playlist education, there's going to be a whole bunch of random stuff being uploaded and I've already laid out a whole bunch of stuff with that and some of that stuff is going to link up with my vision, sort of the playlist I'm going to dedicate for doing more of the funding to be able to get myself to a level where I can budget myself, right? And still have the freedom to create this content. The third playlist that I'm going to start creating more content with and is the third one that I've neglected to a certain degree over the years, which I've had a lot of requests for people, from people, to create more content like this. And that third playlist is giving you my advice. Some of my experiences, some of the things I've learned, hard lessons learned, soft lessons learned, easy lessons learned, right? And right now there are only two videos on there, okay? And like the education stuff, some of the stuff is going to come at you in short form. They may be very quick little videos, maybe a couple of minutes long and some of them will be long. Sort of connecting up a whole bunch of stuff that I've learned over the years, okay? And as you can guess, advice, education, my vision, my business model, all those three fit under one umbrella because it's more a sort of a personal take of what I've learned up to this point in my life, what I think some of the problems with our society are with our personal lifestyles or some of the solutions to our personal lifestyles, some of the problems that we encounter, some of the obstacles in our current society or some of the obstacles all of us will face, right? So, you know, long-winded update regarding these three playlists, I'm going to start creating content, some of it will be connected, some of it will be in sets, some of it will be solo, some of the content will be linked in all these three videos, some of them will only go on two, some of them will just be specifically in one of these playlists, right? But they will all sort of be connected but I'm going to try to sort of organize in a way where they're not interfering with each other, they're complementing each other. I don't want discrepancies with the message that I'm sharing, right? So, heads up, there's going to be content coming on for the following three playlists. My vision, education, and advice. And what I want to do is create another playlist that I will continue to create content for slowly over time but I won't be linking anything that I'm making these three playlists in that other playlist. And that playlist is how to study because I really want that playlist to specifically focus on people who are trying to learn content, whatever it is, maybe in school or a personal level, stuff like this. So, some of the content in how to study is going to be related to these three playlists but I'm not going to overlap the content there with the content here. That's regarding the updates for the playlist more on, I guess, business front because this is sort of geared towards sharing more information, sharing my personal perspective and trying to build more of a, or more support because the support I have right now on Patreon is fantastic and I think everyone is supporting me through Patreon but create more traffic through Patreon because I do need a certain amount of funds to be able to maintain my life and to be able to have the freedom to create this content and to put together packages that we plan on putting together and so far so good. I've spent a lot of time creating a lot of content and it's just I think it's about time that I dedicated some of that time towards the fundraising aspect of this project, right, of this lifelong project for me anyway. And again, if you like the content that you see, if you like what I'm creating, one of the best ways to support me is through Patreon, through liking, through sharing for sure, direct support, 100% direct donations and whatever else, right, but I do sort of do need to kick this up to a level to be able to kick it into the next phase. And on the lighter side, aside from the business, I thought I'd share with you some of the music that I've been sampling during the spring and summer of this year. And one reason I'm doing this is because I haven't talked about music for a while so I thought this was a good opportunity to give you guys sort of a little music update. And what I do is basically we come towards the end of summer and once the end of summer hits in my area, the rainy season starts and there's less live events that I get to participate in, right, than I get to go to. And in the spring and summer in the west coast of Canada and many places I'm assuming, it's sort of festival season. So I've gone to a couple of festivals and I've checked out a few of the DJs, a few of the some of the music that has come through live bands as well that has come through my area, right. And I think that's the same with everyone around the world. I think what happens is a lot of musicians during the spring and summer, because they're when they're attending festivals, they get to play a lot of different venues and you know, since they're at a festival, they end up playing certain venues in certain towns that they're nearby, right. So I'm lucky. I've, you know, I had the opportunity to go to two festivals this year and I've had the opportunity to check out some shows, live events. So I thought I'd let you know, I broke the stand into three categories. One of them is DJs that have watched live that I thought were put on amazing shows. One of them is bands, live bands, and another one is, I'm just going to let you know what I've been listening to on my little one P3 player that I've had for a number of years. There's only four gigs, so I rotate the music a fair bit. There's a couple of stuff that stays on there on a permanent basis that has from the beginning and it will continue to be on there, but I'm going to let you know what I've been listening to, okay. As far as live shows, live music that I've gone to, first let's talk about the DJs and one thing I'm going to mention regarding the music I've seen live in the last few months is that I haven't encountered this before, but no matter who's DJs or live bands, right, whatever genre it was, there's a huge metal overtone to the music I've seen live, which I found absolutely fantastic because if you know, you know, if you're following my work, you know that I love my metal, right. Metal is one of my first loves when it comes to music, metal and electronic music, right. So keep this in mind, everything that I've seen, there's a huge metal tone in the shows that I've seen. More than 50% of the shows that I saw, there was a huge metal underlaying and there's a lot of metal being shared, okay. As far as live DJs that I've seen that I would recommend seeing because they put on amazing live performances, I've seen some others as well and I've cut back the list to these selections, okay. One of them, and these are DJs first, right. So first DJ would be Deadbeat, okay. And he's a Canadian artist that's made his home in Berlin and just a little quote from, you know, one of the places that I found a description of him for is Deadbeat is Scott Monti, the Canadian musician, sound designer and musical technology educator based in Berlin, okay. And I was lucky enough to see two of his performances. One of them, one thing that happens in the summer in my area, the city together with, you know, municipalities and stuff like this, they put on live shows in the parks and stuff like this because there's more sunshine. So I had to, you know, I was fortunate enough to see two of his sets. One of them was during a day when he was playing live in a park, which was a live Nick's Ampion set and he did an amazing job. And the other one was a set that he did later on the evening at a club and that was an amazing set as well. It was more more deep house and beautiful, beautiful sound that he put together, okay. So Deadbeat would be one. Another one is DJ Generic and he's a local DJ in my area in the west coast of Canada and his set was absolutely fantastic. I saw him on a festival at a silent disco and silent disco was basically the festival was in a city in a small town where they had noise violation bylaws, right. So they can't play loud music after a certain time. So after certain time, what they did, they had three different DJs going, right. And they, you could get headphones and you put on your headphones and you could flip the channels and the headphones lit up with different colors depending on which DJs you were listening to, right. And one of the DJs that I listened to was DJ Generic and his music was absolutely brilliant. It was a very unique, very different than a lot of the other, well all the other DJs I was listening to and his transition from one certain beast to another beast was basically sort of a repetition of a soft voice, female voice going a little bit of this, a little bit of that, then a little bit of this, then a little bit of that, then a little bit of this, then a little bit of that, right. And I think he did that three times and then you wouldn't, you, with listening to the other DJs at this festival, you would expect some kind of house or trance or some break beats or drum and bass or something to kick in. But his music that it was kicking in was trippy electronic that was very reminiscent to me. As soon as I heard it, it was like, wow, like there's a Japanese artist, if you know old school electronic music, there's a Japanese artist called Tomita. Tomita was, you know, the first electronic music that I got exposed to in the 70s, right. And it was very reminiscent to what Tomita was doing, not in the, not in the same style, but in the uniqueness of it, right. And it was brilliant. I don't know, I don't think he does this, this type of music every time, but I loved it. It was fantastic, okay. And one thing I'll mention, I should mention this at the beginning of the video, that I'll provide links to all these DJs and the three playlists that I talked about in the description of this video, okay. Another DJ that I saw was Slink, okay. And he was fantastic and he was just pure fun. And he's a local DJ as well. And his stuff had a huge metal overtone to it. There was a, there was a lot of metal music that was mixing in his sets and I loved it. And from the crowd, the crowd was just absolutely loving it, okay. Very cool sound. Another person that I saw was Closie and she's a French DJ. Let me just read this one little thing that I wrote out. Oh, I didn't write the quote, but he's a French music producer and her presence on stage was absolutely fantastic. It was a lot of fun. And she builds up the music slowly and it just became epic and epic. It was, it was a great sound and a great dance. It got you, it got you, it got you dancing, right. It got you jiggling, it got you moving, right. It was fantastic, great performance. And she's actually coming into town in my area next month as well. So I'm going to check her out at a club as well. And another person that I saw that I had seen in the early 2000s, early 2000s I believe. And I was, I really wanted to check him out because I hadn't really been following his work for, I guess for the last 15 years or so. I hadn't seen him, seen him, right. For the last 15, 12 years, I really hadn't been following his work, but I saw him, I was lucky enough to see him in early 2000s at a club in Vancouver. And that was Z-Trip. And man, the guy is still kicking it. He's brilliant, right. The guy, the scratches he was doing, the breaks he was doing, the selection of music he was, he was using for his set was absolutely fantastic. I was very happy to see that he was still extremely relevant and extremely brilliant and loving what he was doing, right. I read up his wiki page. I hadn't looked them up for a long time. I read up his wiki page and the amount of people that he's produced music for and with is absolutely fantastic. So that's some, you know, five DJs that I saw that, five of, five DJs that I saw this spring and summer that would highly recommend seeing. They were definitely cream of the crop for me anyway. Everybody might not agree. I'm pretty sure other people would pick some of the other, but other DJs that I saw this year this season, but those are the five that stood out for me. As far as live bands go, I got four recommendations here for you. One of them, absolutely brilliant, absolutely brilliant. They're a Vancouver-based band and I've been meaning to see them multiple times, but for some reason I've never had the opportunity to go see them. And this band I would go see again and again and again. Okay. And it's five alarm funk and wow, wow, wow. Funky beats with a serious metal overtone. This performance anyway, serious metal overtone that just got you rolling, right. There's people body surfing, slamming. It was absolutely fantastic and it's just pure funk, right. It's very percussion centric, right. The main person is a drummer in the middle and he's got bongos or congos going to the side and percussion going aside. A lot of trumpets, a lot of trumpets, all the bands. Yeah, actually three of the four bands had a lot of trumpets, a lot of horns in them and five alarm funk was absolutely brilliant. And let me read you this two little sentences, I guess, that I copied and pasted. I just want to read you this, right. This is their description of their music. Hot, sweaty dance floors with feet stomping and everybody moving, grooves for days, monster horns, crushing percussions and shredding psych rock guitars. Like really, they should add a little thing in their scene with a metal overtone, right. And the next sentence is, these are among the elements that make up the five alarm funk experience. The Vancouver bass band is eight men strong and over a decade deep into a career that has seen it release five acclaimed albums and burn up stages across the country on six national tours, right. Fantastic, fantastic. If you get a chance, go see them. The other band or producer I guess is Bonobo. I just saw him a couple of days ago. I loved, I listened to their music a long time ago or his music a long time ago. I always thought Bonobo was a group, but I looked it up and it looks like it's, let me read the sentence. Simon Greenborn, 30th March 1976, known by his stage name Bonobo is a British musician, right. Producer and DJ based in Los Angeles. So it's British based in Los Angeles, but I always thought Bonobo was a group, right. But he was on stage with a band and a singer. It was fantastic. It's like phenomenal musicians, you know, varying degrees of style that you get exposed to with his music. And he had a nice chill, you know, this show was extremely chill, very ambient, right, very introspective. I would definitely go see Bonobo again. Fantastic music, fantastic music, right. The other band is a smaller band and these guys are based in New York that I saw here again at a festival. And these guys are heavy brass, heavy drums, just pure pounding boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, right. Sort of a marching band, dance marching band style. And this band is too many zoos, okay. Very much a five-alarm funk band style of music, but on a smaller scale and beautiful, right. I checked out some of their music online and I really like the videos that I saw and the music that I saw online. I hope they keep on growing and they get a stronger following, right. And the third band that I saw, he's a DJ with a live band performance, right. So it's a DJ live band performance and again, a lot of horns. And the band is called Astro Color, okay. They're sort of recording live electronic sort of conducting, sort of style. And let me read you the description that, you know, they have themselves. Astro Color perform and record live electronic music, recalling the Chemical Brothers Air and Saint Germain. The band plays on the edges of Funky House, Balearic, Breakbeat and Ambient. The band formed in 2015 and are based in Victoria, BC. So it's where I am right now, my home territory, right. And I'll definitely go see them again. And their music, the videos online, I really liked. Their live shows started a little rough. I think they were mixing live. So they were, they hadn't, you know, the first 15 minutes or so wasn't growing as good as the online stuff. But then they were able to mix it properly where the last half an hour, 40 minutes of the shows, only hour shows that I saw for some of these guys. And the last three quarters of the show was absolutely brilliant, brilliant sound, heavy and just layered, right. It was beautiful mix, beautiful mix of music, right. So those are five bands that I saw that I really loved. Okay. And for those of you who've, you know, you know, one thing I haven't been able to check out this season yet is hip hop. And I've been getting my hip hop kick through my MP3 player. Okay. And let me tell you what I've been looping lately for the last two months, right. One of them is Nujabas. Nujabas never leaves my MP3 player. Okay. Sometimes I don't listen to it for a while, but whenever the urge kicks in, I listen to it. And the other two people I've been listening to is one of them that I've been, hasn't left the MP3 player for a couple years now is Rocco Marciano. Okay. I had his whole discography in here and he's produced a ton of work, a lot of music. Some of it I really love, some of it I didn't like too much. So what I decided to do is while I had his whole discography here with Nujabas, a few months ago, I think about a seven months ago or so, I reduced, I took that down to one album. Okay. And that album I've been looping, I'm not tired of it yet, and I plan on putting on some of the other albums as well, see which ones I like the most. But the one I've been looping on Rocco Marciano for the last, I guess, three months really, three to four months is Mark Burke from 2010. And it says debut album is absolutely brilliant, fantastic artist, fantastic artist. Really, the guy blows away most hip-hop artists that have listened to for the last few years. Okay. And the other hip-hop that I've been looping on here is Lord Finesse and a star funky technician from 1990 with DJ Mike Smooth. Okay. Fantastic. One of the greatest hip-hop albums ever, right? On the same level as, you know, the first album was Big Pun and many others, right? Many others. This album is fantastic, right? Lord Finesse funky technician, I've been only looping this for about a month and a half, two months now. And I've got the other, the other albums he's put on and I've listened to them once and I decided to loop this one first before I'll start looping some of the other ones. Okay. And that's my music that I've been sampling for the last few months. I thought I'd share that with you guys in this update video as well. Okay. It shouldn't be all business, it should be a lot of music as well, right? There should be a lot of other things as well, a lot of readings, books, and all that jazz. And I guess one other update I'll give you guys since it was related, since we're here right now, is related to one of the other videos I put out recently regarding readings. I'm about a quarter of a way or a third of a way into silver throwing the Rift Ward, Rift Ward saga with Feist. And wow, like seriously, I cannot believe this guy kicked it up to another level, right? Like fantastic. Okay. And that's my little, I guess, as for me, it goes short, little update video. And again, if you support this work, if you like what I'm doing, if you like the content that's being created, and if you do have the means, one of the best ways to support me is through Patreon. And slowly over time, I'll definitely kick this into full-time mode. And just another heads up, some of the videos coming out for next month or so, it's going to be a little bit sparse, because the school year is kicked in, so I have to pay a fair bit of attention at the beginning with my students for this year, for the school year kicking in. But once I get into the groove and get my schedule going, I'm going to get back into the rhythm of producing more content on a more regular basis. And I'm going to use this time to lay out a few whole bunch of videos that we will be talking about, some of them obviously related to the content that I'm going to create for the three additional videos, my vision, education and advice, and definitely some stuff regarding mathematics. And then once we get into the groove, we'll get back to the comic book readings. That's it for now. I'll see you guys in the next video.