Hong’s Cave

o. “STAR vol.1″ by GhettoBombs & Schizo
This single CD contains 8 tracks from GhettoBombs and 7 tracks from Schizo, which they are calling a split album.
GhettoBombs are PJ Maeng (guitar, vocal), “Suck” (bass, vocal), Gong (drums, vocal), and Mino (guitar, vocal). They are, I guess, a typical underground punk/ska rock band. Not bad, [...]

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I just read an interesting article, “The New Gender Gap” by Michelle Conlin in BusinessWeek (May 26, 2003, pp.74-82). The article has a “provocative” subtitle, “From kindergarten to grad school, boys are becoming the second sex.”
Somehow I am not that surprised about the female excelling in school. Even for less “macho”/”aggressive” society such [...]

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o. “the first snow” by Yim KyungA
I guess this is a rare album for Korea. It’s a jazz vocal album all written by Ms. Yim. She is accompanied by Marco Panascia on bass, Scott Frdrick [sic] on drums, Song Young Joo on piano, and Gianni Chiarello on guitar.
It’s encouraging that a jazz album [...]

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