Last minute music competition - why not? :)) God, I need to get my recording studio to work again though. Until then- my camera. Haha. Better than nothing, right? ;) I entered one of my latest songs, A Note.
The Regina Spektor concert was beyond amazing! Also the supporting act, Jenny Owen Youngs rocked that night. Really funny girl! 3,5 hours of pure musical pleasure. Pictures and videos will be posted soon. Until then:
Machine - this song was so powerful and cool live, way better than the recorded version, but unfortunately I didn't record it so here's a youtube one:
1 year with my Tay ♥ Probably my longest (and happiest) relationship I've had so far. Feels like it was just yesterday I bought it... Apparently these get better and better over the years, so I can't wait to hear what it's gonna sound like when I'm 85.. And Tay got new strings and it sounds awsome! So now I know how to change strings myself. HA! so proud!
And bam, 15 minutes later a new song was born. Didn't turn out the way I planned it, completely different actually! Man, I've got inspiration for about 8 other songs now, do I have time to finish them before I gotta go to work in 3 hours?
Alright, after some complaining from some people about how haaard it is to find the video from UKM on youtube, I'll post it here. So, there you go, happy? Thihi (Ps... looove the tattoo guy ;-P)
Finally a weekend off! This weekend is solely dedicated to songwriting. I can't remember when that happened the last time. A whole day for just that. But it's wierd, it's harder witing when it's scheduled. It's so much easier when my room is a complete mess and I have a ton of things on my to-do-list, and when I'm awfully tired from work. Tha'ts when I just spit out a song in 15 minutes. Why is that? It's like my creativity prefers coming from a stressful mess. It's always when I really don't have time to write down some songs, the words just comes popping up in my head. I can't control it. And the more I want it to stop, the more it continues. I can't even count all the nights when I really needed the sleep to be able to get up in the mornig, and all these words and melodies pop into my head. Haha... But I like it though. It's an amazing feeling when you've just finnished writing a song. Right now, I'm almost done with one, just one phrase that needs some work and one melody for the stick. Then I'm done, finito. Then I just have about 40 other songs I gotta finnish (not kidding). But the ones I wrote when I was like 14-15, I don't really put that much effort into. But today I found a song written when I was 16, and I really fell in love with it again after playing it on my guitar. It's pretty cool how you still can relate to something you wrote 4 years ago. Or maybe it's sad, I don't know. You choose.
Tonight it's Eurovision Song Contest 2009. I probably won't really sit down and watch it, but I'll keep the TV on in the background. Maybe on mute. Don't really like the songs this year. And I don't really believe that much in Malena. I mean, sure, she's a great artist, but the song...? I don't know. Everyone likes the song from Norway. Am I the only who doesn't even remember how it goes after listening to it maybe 5 times?
I'm so amazed by how music can be linked to a certain time of your life. Like, when you hear that song, it immediately takes you back to a certain moment in your past. It's both good and bad, I guess. Right now there's not that much music in my iTunes library that I can listen to. Tragic, actually. But it just gets to that point where you gotta stop torturing yourself with those songs. So I bought some new music to my ipod, free from memories, to start over.
I'm having my well deserved day off today. Been working way too many days in a row now. I've almost forgotten how to have a day off. What to do? Don't really remember what it was like. I've been organizing my room a little, putting up some new curtains, fxing collapsed drawer and thrown away some old clothes. Out with the old, and in with the new.
Ida's been here for a couple of days too :) Fun, fun fun! It was so nice having her as a support at the UKM. The whole competition day was quite chaotic actually. First, I was told I couldn't compete since I don't live in Gothenburg but I could still perform, so that was fine. But then we couldn't find a piano or synth... which is kinda vital for my song.. hehe. So that kept my mind busy for some hours. One minute we had a piano, the next minute we didn't. But then right before I was gonna play, the synth band performing after me came with their synth. It only had one piano-ish sound. So the first time I acually heard it was on stage. But it turned out pretty good anyway. And all the nervousness was just washed away once I started singing. I loved it. Afterwards I wanted to do it agan and again and again.
Alright, I'm starting to get nervous... I wish I had started practicing the song much earlier. Haven't sung it once without misstakes yet. I guess that's what happens when you choose a new song and don't practise. I kinda hope I won't perform. No, shame on me! I'm gonna make it! Gonna try to sing it with no misstakes this time. And then off to work until 10.30 pm. Gosh, I would've needed that time to practise... wish me luck..
...to mention that Ida is coming :) wiiii :) That's gonna be a great support in UKM. And it was way too long since the last time I saw my Idie (sorry Ida, but I like calling you that). I could really use some more of this kind of fun:
Oh, I forgot to mention, this is a serious video...haha
Only 3 days left until the UKM festival!! It's a culture festvial where you can compete in everything from dance to music, to art, to poems. And since it's the one in Gothenburg they first let contestants from Gothenburg compete, so since I'm from Molndal 'm a stand-in, sort of... :) If I get the chance to perform I'm gonna sing and play one of my latest songs, On the Run. I'm nervous like hell, but it'll be fine. I just home my finger heals in time for it... *fingers crossed*
