Hello again!!
I just ordered four (!!!(!(!!!))) books (including two (!!!) manga (!!!) *slaps herself*). The manga are just from the series Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon/Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon/Sailor Moon/whatever, and the books are "Find Your Happy" (by Shannon Kaiser) and "Living Out Loud" (by Keri Smith). I think both can really help me right now, because I felt / feel somewhat stuck in a rut (creatively, for example).
If anybody has an idea how to overcome this & you say it before Thursday, I salute you. (Why am I saluting everybody? ANYWAYS!!)
Last night I drew/"painted" (with felt-tips) a picture featuring zombies doing zumba. Zumba zombies are well-known for shaking back and forth a lot as well as for having a great feeling for rhythm, or at least a better feeling for rhythm than usual zombies, which means basically that their feeling for rhythm sucks. Ahem.
Here*s the picture :
And you have guessed right ("I haven*t guessed ANYTHING!!"), I listened to Lady Gaga*s "Do What U Want" ... A lot. I somehow love my zomba crowd. :D
I couldn*t scan the picture decently, so this is a photograph of it, d*uh. But I hope you will like it nevertheless and forgive me for my absence. I wuv you all!!
SOMEHOW I refused to get online yesterday, which now randomly reminds me of the movie "Blades Of Glory". "I WON A LOT OF RADIO CONTESTS BECAUSE I REFUSED TO GET OFF THE LINE!!!" (or something like this) XD~.
And that said, the title of the song I started working on yesterday reminds me of a lot of different things that appeared in my life. I just couldn*t come up with anything else. "Eat Me" is the title. It was more of a trial-and-having-the-option-for-error thing, but it actually sounds like a nice idea. I tried to be more minimalistic this time. Usually, when writing songs, I tend to go overboard with everything; I want every instrument to play something else, and so on ... There is an experimental "touch" "Eat Me" delivers, too, because I used two probably unrelated scales in the song, which is to say, "No harmonised major scale this time!!"
EVERYBODY goes POUT. I actually love the idea, though. Especially the ending is precious. And I sense my songs are getting longer again ... Which is good, too.
Anyways, I spoke way to much : Have some VV music. And refuse to get off the line~!!
Hello ...
Today isn*t one of the days I post something really creative, it is just some kind of "apology", even though it goes much deeper than this. I am currently wondering whether there really is a link between something like creativity in a general way AND being extremely depressive from time to time, and no, I do not mean "depressed" but really "depressive".
It somehow reminds me of the 99U talk Brené Brown has given which was posted on Youtube, even though it is really a question that is on my mind a lot. The talk is about creativity and vulnerability, and maybe this vulnerability is linked to being depressive in the first place. However, I don*t want to really put everything of this in the same box.
Somehow, I have been struggling with depression and it really kept me away from doing something I*d enjoy doing. I don*t know whether you know this, but when I personally am in a dark place mentally, I think I don*t deserve being happy, or I think that I don*t want to make a mess doing things I actually love doing, like, if I wrote a song in this state of mind, it would feel like being violent towards music, and this is a thing I don*t want to end up doing because music is important to me.
I really don*t mean to talk about stripping down to your soul and telling me what you are struggling with, unless you*d like to tell me, but ... It has been on my mind. Probably because I*d feel better then, because this would mean I have something I could always be proud of (But then again, how should I know this is me when I am never *doing* it?). Probably because it really is something that could help others because they*d understand themselves better.
Hello!! :)
I hope you had a good start into 2014 (At this point, really, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!). As so many other people, I want to stick to my resolutions for 2014, but to be honest, I haven*t written them down ANYWHERE. This has to change ^o^.
* (Unrelated to this blog) I want to lose weight.
* (Unrelated to this blog) I want to start working at a new job.
* (Unrelated to this blog) I want to start volunteering.
* I want to paint a quintych (Like a triptych, but made of five pieces), for my room.
* I want to take more photographs (and share them with you).
* (Unrelated to this blog) I want to share more photos I find (from family members, etc.).
* I want to write more songs (both for shrRî.ngAra karanA bleu & Valley Visionary).
* I want to colaborate with other musicians.
* I want to craft (more).
* I want to knit more.
* I want to learn to sew.
* I want to improve my rooms :) (DIY/home improvement).
* I want to learn to crochet.
* (Unrelated to this blog) I want to have more fun.
* (Unrelated to this blog) I want to get to know new people in my area.
Okay, that was all for now :). Did you make resolutions for the new year (also related to this blog ;D)? Did you share them anywhere?
Actually, people say if you share them with others, you*ll be under more pressure to make them come true ... Let*s see how this will work! And yes, that*s quite a lot ...
Hello and a belated MERRY CHRIZZLEMAS to all of you!! :)
I had a wonderful X-mas time with my family and also received a gift from my dear friend Lilia*. So that was already something nice happening :). My sister*, Meian*, gave me a midi keyboard, which I did not happen to play on yet ... But it was really kind of her. *happy* :)
Okay, but I didn*t come along to only talk about X-mas. Recently, I have been up to writing music more, and so I happened to stumble into the world of MUSIC PRODUCTION once again. So, I wrote two songs I*d like to introduce you to :
Valley Visionary - "Is This Life A Real Song?"
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Valley Visionary - "Wenn Man Zu Viel Zeit Hat"
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I must admit the second one is rather a joke in itself ... I apologise to everybody for this *nods*. Anyways, since I told some people about this song, I couldn*t resist to upload it :P. As for the first one, that is a rather simple song ... And I accidentally made a lot of mistakes while recording it (Letting the music run in the background while I was recording the vocals so they are really quiet ... And recording it in MONO. Oô), but I hope you will like it nevertheless ...
Have a nice rest of the day!!
I think, with me at least, the thing that makes me most uncomfortable is that I spend so much time online that I hardly ever get around to working on creative projects. With this day, I have announced an indefinite hiatus on some places, meaning I will do my best to work on such projects as mentioned above more ^_^.
I am looking forward to that. It will be a more healthy lifestyle, after all. Doesn*t mean I won*t use the computer at all, but I want to spend less time doing nonsense there. Who needs to check his e*mails as often as I do, for example? (Believe me, it IS often.)
The things I am thinking of doing & making are, for example, songs, pictures, more written stuff (I have started working on a Fanfic, for example. BACK TO THE FUTURE FOR THE WIN!!), photos, sewing, knitting, etc. If you have any ideas or wishes, do not hesitate to ask for them :). Maybe this will lead to more inspiration!
Ah yes, and, I hope we*ll hear from each other before X-mas ... Have a nice time until the next update!! :)
Heyho. ^^
The past few days I have been working on various things, but mainly music. Today I thought it would be awesome to draw a little with my felt-tips, and since I did want to draw a certain person (Those who know me a bit better will know who :D ... Közi!!), I ended up searching for a good original picture & found one from the time when "Le Ciel" was recorded (or at least a photoshoot was done with the band Malice Mizer). I love drawing Közi, really :)!!
The picture itself is a *bit* minimalistic, but I still like it somehow! I actually wanted to call the picture "What does the artist want to tell us with this?", but I didn*t. Instead, I wrote some pseudo-French phrases in the upper right corner :
"Nous sommes dans le ciel.
Nous sommes dans l*air.
Il n*y a pas de peur."
(Then I wanted to find a word rhyming with this but granny* came in twice to ask for some wool to knit, so I couldn*t continue / think of anything ...)
I hope you like it nevertheless; here it is :
Looking forward to hearing from you guys soon!! ^___^
