Sasquatch! Music Festival?!

Sasquatch! Music Festival (SMF)

So, I've been hearing a lot of really good things about the SMF. Like how there are SO many bands that come play, and how they are the kind of bands that I like, the not popular ones, but the AMAZING ones. I really want to go to this. Tickets are like 80 bucks though, and I am lacking 80 bucks, because all my money at the time is going to my Disneyland fund.. Also, I would want an extra 100 dollars to buy CD's and Band stuff while I was there. Plus Gas money. I want to go to this. I went totally pro-planner when that Kate Nash concert came up, whats so different about this? Well, the tickets for that concert was only 20 dollars, not 80... And its not in George, Washington. Which is a lot of gas money. I don't see this happening this year.. Maybe next year. That would be fun. That would give me a full year to save, and by then I would have had my license for over a year, so I could drive other people. I could road-trip down with a bunch of friends! Oh yeah. Okay, so all that out loud thinking really helped. See, look where its gotten me! I'm gonna go to Sasquatch next year. Yeahhh! 

Step 5 - Check.

So, I've got this rulebook in my mind. More like a guide I suppose.. Not rules. Yes. Lets start over.

So, I've got this guidebook in my mind. It tells me the steps to become a rockstar. Slowly, I am beginning to accomplish them. Here are the steps that I know of so far: 

Step 1. Learn guitar (Also continue learning) - Check

Step 2. Get singing lessons - Check

Step 3. Get over fear of singing in front of people - Check

Step 4. Dye hair - Check! (Teal streaks as well as blonde and brown streaks!)

Step 5. Get ears pierced - Check!! (Got them done today!)

Step 6. Get nosed pierced - Not yet accomplished (NYA) ((Not really for rock-stardom, but more just for fun.))

Step 7. Start writing music - NYA

Step 8. Play music downtown as street musician - NYA (Too cold out.)

Step 9. Post original music on Facebook, MySpace, YouTube - NYA

Step 10. Ask around at coffee shops and little quiet restaurants if I can play live. (I know people who do this!)

Step 11. Keep at all of the above until I begin getting noticed. Then, go for the throat, and grab that rock-stardom and bring it down. Gotta keep trying, eventually, if I work hard enough, its got to happen. 

Kate Nash -- Thank you for all your inspiration. 

Such and such.

I was in the school talent show last night -- My friend Brian McGinnis and I did the song Lucky by Jason Mraz on guitar. It was great, we practiced a lot. Our voices sounded fantastic, and other than the fact that the Tech Crew screwed up the amp before we went on, it wasn't bad. Happy March also!

I'm going to be a rockstar, no doubt about it. Last night I got this feel when I was onstage that was just this amazing adrenaline rush, yet nervous, and anxious, but altogether it was great, and I want that again. I've tried twice now to form bands, first one never even got together once, second one.. Well, we're still together, but we don't know what we're doing. So I decided that I am just going to write my own songs, and then see if I can play in coffee shops downtown and stuff, and play those for now. Also, my two musical idols, Kate Nash and Lily Allen both got famous by posting the songs they wrote on myspace. Producers heard them, and wanted to get them recorded. And so on. Now their famous. I'm thinking I'll just post some stuff around Facebook, I'm not much of a MySpace person, but I've got an ancient account, so I'll post some stuff on there too when I eventually write something. Its a start. I'm taking a Guitar class write now, which is also a song-writing class, so theres another step in the direction of being a Rockstar. Also, I'm taking voice lessons also, so that I can get a wider range and a stronger voice. I've got to be able to belt it out good and strong if I'm going to be famous, right? One day. I can't wait.

I just thought of something, what if 10 years from now I look back on this post (if I'm famous) and I think, wow, I totally achieved my dream! I would be so proud. I want everyone to get their dream! That would be great. I'm constantly lost in my daydreams of performing on a big stage, all this amazing music. I've also sort of learned how to play Piano lately, and I recently learned Ukulele also! I plan on learning Trumpet soon, hopefully Banjo, Saxophone, and Violin also. I love instruments. Oh and Bass. I want to learn Bass. I would say Drums too, but those are just SO big and difficult to transport.

Last weekend I saw the Justin Bieber movie with my friend Danii. Before you go and laugh at me, let me tell you, he worked extremely hard to get where he is today. Do you laugh at me because I'm trying to achieve my dream? It was inspiring actually. It gave me ideas of other ways to get my music out there for people to discover. His voice isn't fake either. He can sing very, very well even without the help of a studio like a lot of modern day pop singers. He is actually talented. Just because his voice hasn't fully matured and he has that dumb feathery haircut, and nearly every girl between the ages of 3-17 swoons at the sight of him, doesn't mean he's a totally freak. He's not bad. Give the whole "Lets make fun of Justin Bieber and we can be cool" thing a rest, okay? You don't have to like him, but you also don't have to make fun of him to be 'cool.' Its rude.

Antidote

By B. Reith. Its a great song, so pretty in my opinion! 

Biggest Fear

After sixteen years of wondering and questioning what my biggest fear is, whether it be spiders, fire, death, barfing, whatever; I finally figured out what it is.

Sound.

Which is also my favorite thing in the world. So it kind of contradicts itself. Seriously though, think about it. Sounds can be horrifying. If you hear a hiss, you think SNAKE and panic, and maybe pee a little. If in the dead of night you hear a creak, and the bathroom door open, and a family member probably just has to relieve themselves, but in your head you think, oh no, what if they are sick?! and start panicking about that too. Well... I doubt you panic about that, but I sure do. Which makes it a terrifying sound. Or just creaks and squawks of the house at night, and you wonder, burglar, or creep? Or murderer. Or could that gurgley sound be maybe a zombie? You just don't know, do you.

Of course, sounds can also be the most wonderful things in the whole world! Like when you hear the oven beep, and you know, the cookies are ready! Or that jolly Ho Ho Ho of Santa! Or birds chirping. Or MUSIC for crying out loud!

Sometimes I just wish I could be deaf, so that I wouldn't have to think about all those horrible things that are sounds, but then I realize that would mean giving up music, and seeing as music is more important to me than food, or people even, I just don't think that would work out very well.

BUT, you can see where I say its my biggest fear. I hate bad noises. Nails on a chalk board, screeching wheels, screaming, barfing, zombies (Heh), murderers and burglars, etc. They are bad noises. That, is why sound is my biggest fear. But also biggest love.

Christmas! Already?

Is it just me, or did it seem like to all you guys that Christmas came extremely fast this year? I'm pretty happy its here and all, but it just seems like it came too fast. It doesn't feel like Christmas this year. I guess it didn't last year either.. Living in Bend and not spending Christmas at our own house ever just makes everything feel different. Not waking up in our own house and sprinting down the stairs to our awaiting tree and stockings is something I just miss a lot. But, of course, it was fun this year too! I gave my parents some really pretty original artwork by Sarah Mikolowsky, and I made my grandparents a shadow box. This year I got a Blue Ukulele, some iTunes gift cards (and not to mention some AWESOME new music!), a gift card to Brian's House of Music in Bend, which means I can go and buy the Teal Electric Acoustic Guitar that I want to badly! Its a folk guitar, so its smaller and fits a smaller person better. The guitar I have now is a tad bit large for me, and harder to play. The folk guitar sounds just like any normal acoustic, but its thinner, and better in general for me! Plus it is polished maple wood, teal coloring, a bit smaller, new strings, glossy, and I can't wait to get it! I shall buy it Monday I think! And I cannot WAIT! Honestly, I just want to get home to Bend now. I'm in the valley now, and its great, but there is a new guitar waiting for me!! Heehee! Plus I got this REALLY cool abominable snowman hat! Its so fluffy!

Bending, Finding, Playing.

1. Knee is OFFICIALLY bendable! Right now on 30 degrees but every Thursday I get to add on another 30 until I have full range of motion -- How SWEET is that? I would say very. But it is SO SORE and stiff from being locked for so long!

2. Journal is FOUND! Apparently I left it at my friend Rae's house... Only I didn't figure that out until 4 weeks later.. Thank goodness it wasn't lost for good though! I missed oh so very much!

3. Playing guitar a lot lately! Bought an electric! Gold Fender with a customized pick guard, and I love it SO MUCH! And I made a sweet strap out of shoelaces for my acoustic :) Its wonderful! Any reccomendations for songs? I could use some!

So, latest news in life -- I reccomend you listen to Sara Bareilles. I just discovered her, and she is the most amazing singer in the world! Top three songs have got to be King of Anything, Gonna Get Over You, and Hold My Heart. Those are from her latest album, Kaleidoscope Heart. Look them up, and you shall fall in love.

My French teacher is a SPAZZ. But absolutely wonderful! We have learned how to say "to suck at" and "the thingy" and all sorts of interesting things. She promises if we make it to French 5, then we will be learning bad words! I can't wait! ;) Or maybe I'll just cheat and look them up. :)

English class the other day. My teacher coughs so hard she pukes. Interesting.. sort of made the class pretty awkward. She didn't spew in class, but ran out with her leaving words being, "I'm going to throw up.... Read chapter 6." Classic English teacher. Mrs. Smith.. Spewy Smith? Eh, thats sort of harsh.. Poor lady. It wasn't even my real english teacher either -- it was a sub! On her first day subbing!

Worst part is the English class reading. The independent classic reading is HORRIBLE. Huck Finn. I do NOT reccomend it. There is no climax whatsoever, and all of Huck's problems get fixed, with absolutely no trouble. Its pointless, boring, and the southern spelling of the words is absolutly impossible to understand! Do not read this if you can help it. Bores you to tears.

I'll try and write more, but due to a LOAD of homework that comes with school, I don't know how often that will be. :| MEH.