{"id":1993,"date":"2022-12-31T18:58:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T22:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2023-01-06T12:41:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:41:58","slug":"happy-new-year-favorites-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/happy-new-year-favorites-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year &#8211; Favorites of 2022!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>A list of random favorites from 2022!<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3IcDalB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1995 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Confronting-Silence-Cover-2-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Confronting-Silence-Cover-2-200x300.jpeg 200w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Confronting-Silence-Cover-2-683x1024.jpeg 683w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Confronting-Silence-Cover-2-768x1152.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Confronting-Silence-Cover-2.jpeg 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Favorite Book:<\/strong> <em>Confronting Silence<\/em> by Toru Takemitsu (I read this almost every year)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Espresso<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleepymonkcoffee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sleeping Monk<\/a>, Cannon Beach, Oregon &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/kahacoffee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaha Coffee<\/a>, Amesbury, Mass<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Coffee Drink: <\/strong>Cortado<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Cheese Shop<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.formaggiokitchen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Formaggio Kitchen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Concert Halls<\/strong>: Tie: Little Bridges at Pomona College and Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium, Carlsbad<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Croissants:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mafrancegourmet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ma France<\/a>, Lexington, MA \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/loftycoffee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lofty Coffee Company<\/a>, Encinitas, CA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Tacos<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/order.online\/store\/aria-korean-street-food-san-francisco-161173\/?hideModal=true&amp;pickup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aria Korean Street Food<\/a>, Larkin St, San Francisco, CA<a href=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_5264-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1532\" src=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_5264-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_5264-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_5264-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_5264-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_5264-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_5264-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Day:<\/strong> Tie: Birthday and Performing<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Ornaments: <\/strong>Bach&#8217;s Little Prelude in C Minor, BWV 934, B sections <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/6DD8JMFngMXmpYc6bXgTbR?si=569d94016ec044f2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPOTIFY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Duos with Guitar<\/strong>: 3 Vintage Portraits by Antonio Celso Ribeiro for viola and guitar <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GXV-pQwRG1M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YOUTUBE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Guitar Strings: <\/strong>Hannabach, Trebles: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3CezWdt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Exclusive<\/a> \u2022 Bass: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Q5IDwh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">900 Silver 200<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Headphones:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3jImDf1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grado<\/a>, Brooklyn, NY<a href=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_4877-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1996\" src=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_4877-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_4877-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_4877-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_4877-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_4877-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_4877-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Home Espresso Maker:<\/strong> La Pavoni, pictured 1984 Professional<\/p>\n<p><strong>Least Bad Airlines:<\/strong> Alaska, JetBlue, United: each <em>allows<\/em> guitars on board.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Fugue on Guitar:<\/strong> &#8220;Fiddle&#8221; Fugue in A Minor, BWV 539-1000 <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/3iw4Lx1YvfcwXkUH7mUeq4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPOTIFY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Day:<\/strong> Practice<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Cut: <\/strong>Fermin Jamon Iberico Bellota<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite way to relax:<\/strong> Cathar Yoga<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite hand\/fingers stretch:<\/strong> 90s<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Coast:<\/strong> East to live, West to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MoleSkin-for-music-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1998\" src=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MoleSkin-for-music-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MoleSkin-for-music-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MoleSkin-for-music-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MoleSkin-for-music-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MoleSkin-for-music-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MoleSkin-for-music-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Music Journal: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3vv9Gba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moleskine Art Music Notebook<\/a> (out of print?)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Lesson:<\/strong> Each action and sound reverberates around the world, so let our actions be great and our sounds beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Music Discoveries <\/strong>(very limited)<strong>: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.annmosssoprano.com\/lifeline-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ann Moss<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/30GIWixQU1coGPJs3jXVK8?si=upw3Wi3MSFeZmRcozF25Zg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amanda Gookin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/2J5yrnUUJXQGcMR7POqxL4?si=swgJvwR2RX2ejkILMXnjWQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miguel del Aguila<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/3kt03SR1eivwacIHEwaAy3?si=BwO4z3EZR8aLtfOYm2rSpw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andree-Ann Deschenes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Number:<\/strong> 3.3 million. Streams since November 2021<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite John Cage Discovery:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cageedition.bandcamp.com\/album\/complete-cage-edition-54-the-works-for-piano-11-cheap-imitation-mode327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheap Imitation arranged by Morton Feldman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite video for viola and guitar by a Brazilian composer: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GXV-pQwRG1M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Three Vintage Portraits of Exquisite Ladies Expressing Their Frame of Mind<\/em> by Antonio Celso Ribeiro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A list of random favorites from 2022! Favorite Book: Confronting Silence by Toru Takemitsu (I read this almost every year) Favorite Espresso: Sleeping Monk, Cannon Beach, Oregon &amp; Kaha Coffee, Amesbury, Mass Favorite Coffee Drink: Cortado Favorite Cheese Shop: Formaggio Kitchen Favorite Concert Halls: Tie: Little Bridges at Pomona College and Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,363,1],"tags":[445,444,446,154,447],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-coffee","category-general","tag-445","tag-favorites","tag-grado","tag-hannabach","tag-tacos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}