Cynthia Lin under the Microscope
Welcome to the first East Meets Words Open Mic of the new year! Hope everyone had a great New Years and go through with your resolutions. This month’s open mic list was short but was interesting nonetheless. Eric opened the show and the year with a freestyle about a form of meditation. Vinh the Kid returned from New York and performed “Second Hand Roses.” The members of L.I.F.E. each performed their own piece, Joey B performed “Wake Up, Wake Up,” Febo mentioned the name of his piece “This is a poem” raising awareness to current issues and Masada Jones blew us away once again with “My X-Men Piece” bringing us back to the days when villians were cartoons on television. Then L.I.F.E performed together with “Roots,” impressing the audience of East Meets Words Open Mic.
The feature Cynthia Lin, a singer/songwriter from New York via New Jersey by way of Chicago, performed 9 songs with the help with her guitar. Her first song was “Blue and Borderline,” a beautiful song from her first album. Her next song was about falling in love in New York City named “Skipping in New York City.” Going from the East coast to the West coast, her next song was fittingly called “California.” Cynthia kept up with the singer/songwriters tradition of performing a song named “Home.” Ms. Lin then performed two songs with interesting names: “Water Torture” and “Doppelgänger.” Cynthia followed it with “Microscope” and her first single/video “I’m Shy.” But Ms. Lin blew everyone away with her rendition of “Time After Time” which I think most people who heard her version would say is better than the original. Well this conclude this month’s Open Mic, see all of you next month.
[Editor's Note: We have music from both of Cynthia's albums playing on our stream. Tune in to listen. Also, check out this video clip of Cynthia performing in the bookstore.]
Cynthia Lin at EMW in January 2008 from BPR on Vimeo.
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Thanks for the review, Long. Love the video clip. I wish I caught the show!
Yo we always say the covers at the open mic are better than the original. Next time I’m at the open mic I’m gonna do a cover that is absolutely way worse than the original and let’s see if you can think of some way to write about it without dissing me.