So, yes Make Music Monday was neglected this week, but truth be told it will be neglected for a bit, two months to be precise. What happened may you ask, well I've decided to take a summer break from Jemibook to focus on my health and other things that conquer my daily life [i.e. I'm going to start looking for a new job soon]. But I've also decided that I'm starting work on a semi-secret project that is musically based but will have a lot of work in it on my part that can't really be shared with the world at this time. I did perform last night @ Square One and as thoroughly nervous/anxious as I became it turned out pretty amazing. A far cry of a difference from my first show, I liked that there were people there that weren't particularly paying attention to me directly but they were there, and the people who did pay attention to me discovered the wonder that is the 'rainbow mustache' which I created specifically for the show. The three songs I played we're 'Little Asian Girl' a cover of 'Build me Up Buttercup' and 'Menses'. People danced to Little Asian Girl, a group of people sang along with the cover, and I got some laughs out of Menses, overall I was amazed at the reaction. I did mess up a few times I forgot some of the lyrics to the cover but I played it off really easily and no one said they noticed so I was pretty proud of myself for that. The Other acts 'Preston' and 'Jessica Pounds' were great I really enjoyed their songs and it was a treat to get to play with talented people like themselves. I had good reactions from people who watched it, but a lot of people missed my performance by 10 minutes or so and we played pretty late [10:45ish] and some people missed it because they didn't announce that we were playing, but I don't blame anyone it was just a hectic night. As much as it was successful I still REALLY want to find someone else to play ukulele with me or for me, I've decided during this hiatus I will be making some flyer's and posting them around town here in Jacksonville to look for someone to join me in my musical adventures, hopefully with some luck because I've found ukulele players are quite a rare breed. A million pictures we're taken that I've yet to get my hands on since it's only 10am the day after but I will be sure to post some, so you can see all the crazy faces I make while performing. Thanks for everyone who came out to Square One's first Art&Music bash, it really was quite amazing and the art was so much better than anything that I've seen collectively @ Artwalk, also a LOT of the artists sold their pieces too which I've never heard of such a thing happening @ Artwalk or anything like that. It was a super successful night I hope everyone involved made out like bandits, I sold one of my cd's and gave one to a fan so I'm happy to just have sold one, $5 in my hot little hands for something I completely hand-made means a lot to me. As for this blog I will still be posting some inspirational things and some music affiliated things but MMM won't be in use for the next two months. I will be posting more so over on my Raw a Day blog if you are at all interested in learning about how I'm doing transitioning over to Raw Foods or are interested in it yourself, I'm constantly excited about my symptoms,reactions,and finding new and tasty Raw foods to ingest, I never thought a green smoothie could taste so good! You can check it out @ www.wordpress.rawaday.com
The day has finally come, Jemibook's first show @ a venue is soon-soon-soon. In less than two weeks to be precise. I will be performing along with Jessica Pounds, and Preston, who are both pretty great, and it's going to be all acoustic sets, as well as many local artists lovely items all up around the place. It's on a Wednesday night, so you guys have no excuse to not pop in and at least see my first venue performance and if you have work or what-not you can duck out early, I will forgive you slightly.
I've finally decided on my set-list for it, and if time permits I am going to be making a compact disk with 5 or less songs on it exclusively for the show to sell along with my Make Music Monday Ver. 1 disks that I have left over. If you still haven't purchased one of these hand-made lovelies there is a selection left over @ www.myspace.com/jemibook .
As for today's song, I figured that I hadn't done a cover song in awhile, and I am quite fond of cover songs, so I went through my long list of songs and chose this one after a debate between 3 others. I hope you enjoy!
This week will be more practicing songs, and finishing up my special surprise and possibly the cd's, I've been reading a lot lately thanks to my new diet, so it's a bit time consuming in way that my music is not getting #1 priority right now, but I'm sure that it will benefit all parts of my life so I'm willing to put more effort into it now, so I apologize in advance if I slack a bit.
Also I was really happy this past week I went out to Square One's 'Are Friend's Electric' for the first time in eons, and I managed to get the Dj's to play this :
Supposedly that is one of the top worst songs you can request to a DJ, but everyone was dancing on the floor, it was amazing, and I was delighted.
It's been quite a trans formative weekend for me. I've decided to 180 my diet and go Raw. I won't be boring you with the details of it on this blog, so I decided to start a blog for it over on wordpress [ Raw A Day ]
I've mostly been doing that all weekend, but during the past week I had a sudden burst of inspiration and came up with the fourth Part for the 'Little Asian Girl' series, I've been stuck on Number 3 so it's been stiflingly me but the fourth song came to me and I just went with it.
This recording is quite bleh to me, and I had full intentions on re-recording it today when I got home from work, but I guess my voice had other ideas, I even tried some vocal exercising and it's just not working out for my voice today, but I wanted to present you with something so I hope you can get the gist of it but know that it's not at it's full-potential, Oh! and it was also recorded with my new mic, so I'm pretty proud of that fact.
As for the Little Asian Girl series, most everyone knows Part One, but I actually wrote Part Two first, but I don't really like it in comparison to Part One so it's not on any cd's or online currently, and I plan on having 5 parts so just two more to go and I can have the whole project together. The thing with the Little Asian Girl is that I want it to be all natural and not forced so I've just let the songs come to me when they do so I can't really put a time line on it.
I got the supplies to make one of the items for the show I'm playing in a couple of weeks, the flyer is being made up now so I'll post it when it's finished to let everyone know officially when it will be and where and time and what-not. But the thing I'm making is pretty spectacular, I have two ideas but I don't know if I'll be able to get them all done in time, I hope so though!
Insanity week and weekend over here in Jemibook Land. So glad that's over, and this week is the start of my new exercise regiment, and starting real work on my performance in a few weeks. The house is finally clean and mostly put together so I'll be able to take real pictures soon. My Lover and I decided that our house doesn't really have any style right now, it's mostly thrifty-style, lots of strange ideas placed together. It will probably take a long time for us to develop a style we like together.
This is a song, that I've liked and then hated, and then liked again. Now I'm kind of okay with it because the chorus is nice, but my uke skills are bleh where I mess up. This song is pretty obvious, so I'm sure I don't need to explain it, but luckily I haven't been put in this situation since then.
The video footage that we were able to produce last week was pretty fun, we weren't able to fully get everything done so we will plan to do so before my little Asian girl leaves for London.
Here is a sneak peek of what my little Asian girl looked like all dressed up in her outfit for the video-shoot! And the main picture is a shot from the video shoot. We shot at a playground and all of these little kids [for some reason weren't in school] were following us wherever we filmed, so we got a final shot with a group of them, with this amazing Rainbow that was at the front of the park...yes it was soooo Jemibook, just perfect for the video-shoot!
Also I've been obsessed with Patrick Watson as of late. I think everyone should check him and his music out!
This week's song is an old songs that came randomly as I came home late from work and school last year. One of my first multi-track songs with my own 'language' in one of the tracks.
I was really feeling this song today while I was driving to Palm coast, after work to come and babysit my brother for the week.
This week instead of working on a new song I'll be working on the first official music video for Jemibook for 'Little Asian Girl Part 1'. It will be made with the official 'Little Asian Girl' and should be pretty fabulous with all of the ideas that we have spouting in our brain of different scenes and ideas.
In additional news the Show that I'm scheduled to do was pushed back to May still @ Square One, and I will give more information when they have the flyer and all of that nonsense completed.
I've been saving these tidbits of love in my favorites for quite awhile. Decided I would share some of them with the world.
Jaqueline Knits makes these beauties on Etsy. I found these randomly searching on there one day and was delighted, because I carry apples with me all the time in my purse just in case I'm a big hungry when I'm out, so i don't randomly spend money on food, and these are just a genius idea for keeping them from bruising, she also makes Pear shaped ones and tea holders, all things that I would purchase and love.
Kiwi Cucumber Cold Process HANDMADE soap. There is something strange about me, that whenever I see handmade soap something deep within me glees with delight. I'm unsure if it's the fact that I know exactly what's going into it, the fact that the scents always last FOREVER and end up making the entire house smelling incredible for an hour or so after using it, or just the fact that I can personally know the person who handmade these highly indulgent beauty products. They just make me so happy and my love for them is boundless. Brandli on Etsy makes this Kiwi one but she also has other flavors/scents
A super cute poptart ipod cozy. My ipod gets ABUSED, and it is used nearly every single day at my work, I thought it would be better suited in this lovely case, which is funny to me because I used to make things exactly like this back when I had a crafty bizzness. I found this on etsy but went back and checked it today and realized the girl had closed down her shop, but that DIY had asked her for a tutorial to put on their website of this item and she said yes! So now everyone can make one for free! Link here!
These amazing lace-up socks handmade by ilusoria on etsy. When I saw these my attention was grabbed, I like the longer version also, but they were too much money for me at the time. But it seems that she is going on a summer vacation and trying to sell all her stock for cheaper than normal, I may have to get on the band-wagon now before it's too late.
These Nightmare Snatcher Journals by Spiderbite on Etsy are perfect for my little kid imagination. Whenever I see it, it makes me think of that old movie with Maculhey Culkin [i just butchered his name i know] where he wears some harry potter like glasses and i think the doctor from back to the future is in it. Either way this big furry book intrigues me, and I would love to take it around town to doodle in it and draw people looking like monsters.
One of these amazing nameplates by Helpless Romantic sporting my 'Jemibook' pride. I found these while reading nubbytwiglet's flickr a few months ago and realized how much I needed one in my life, but like most things $$$ is an issue, one day!
These absolutely decadent gloves from Glovedup. I have no idea what I would wear them with other than some super shear white number with a tutu or something, and my hair up like an ice cream cone but I just love to wear gloves especially long ones they make me feel so glamourous
It's been a long time since I posted an outfit shot. But that little house was just making me cramped with all of our stuff in there, and we finally have it a little bit organized around these parts so I was inspired to put together an outfit and take some shots of it, for tonight's 'Are Friend's Electric'.
Jacket: My lovers Tuxedo Shirt: My Lovers Yellow Polka Dotted Skirt: Gifted by my Anastasia Green Soccer Socks : Gifted by my Anastasia White Shoes : Gifted by my Anastasia Cummerbund: My Lover's.
I like that this entire outfit is from other people's waredrobe's. My Lover and I often swap clothes, he can fit into my pants but I can't into his though, we share accessories and such, it's pretty sweet.
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