Vanessa Carlton Rocks My World...
So tomorrow's payday, and not that I'm getting a whole lot, but I figured I owed myself some good music. I took a chance and got the new Vanessa Carlton CD "Harmonium" because the first CD was kind of boring except for the couple radio singles. But this one had a killer single called "White Houses" so I picked it up. Wow...this record is the one you dream of making. It's like Chopin reincarnated into a pretty 23-year-old songstress. The orchestra is beautiful and the piano parts are lush. The lyrics speak so much of life. Musically, this shows a lot of education. My favorite lyric is from "Who's to Say" that says, "You say we're too young to know, maybe you're too old to remember." Genius...so it has definitely inspired me to go write a million songs. She also improvises over classical music...who does that...honestly...
On another exciting note, tomorrow, I get to perform for the first time in 3 years. The songwriting lab band I'm in is performing and I get to perform 3 songs...I was fortunate enough to be able to enlist the talents of NovaChild to back me up as a band, so it should be a great show also featuring peers Sarah Coleman and Rebecca Hays. I'm excited because I never get to be on stage and perform...I get kind of depressed sometimes because it feels like no one ever asks me to play...as if I'm some horrible player...I don't know, maybe I am...but it feels like crap...I love playing piano and came to this school as a piano major and have gone nearly 3 years without being able to take that to the stage. People in my own lab band don't want me to play, I was booted from Urban Derivatives as a keyboard player and everyone else wants to ask their bass player friend to play piano. ARG! Actually, it hurts more than makes me angry. It's like someone telling you over and over that you're really bad at the thing you love. The only person, and I mean only person ever to believe I could play anywhere on campus or this world for that matter is Dr. Johnson, he's the one that suggests to everyone that I play for them and then they just never call me back...regardless, to the rest of the world, screw you...Dr. Johnson is going to help me practice and get me back on my piano track and I'll playing my own f***ing music since I'm not good enough for anyone else. Anyway, if you're in the Greenville area Friday, Nov. 12, stop into LaDue and see how bad I really suck, oh well, it'll be fun...I'm so excited no one can even understand...
Time for bed, g'night...
-Rod
Today's featured music:
Vanessa Carlton - White Houses from "Harmonium"
Vanessa Carlton - Who's to Say from "Harmonium"
On another exciting note, tomorrow, I get to perform for the first time in 3 years. The songwriting lab band I'm in is performing and I get to perform 3 songs...I was fortunate enough to be able to enlist the talents of NovaChild to back me up as a band, so it should be a great show also featuring peers Sarah Coleman and Rebecca Hays. I'm excited because I never get to be on stage and perform...I get kind of depressed sometimes because it feels like no one ever asks me to play...as if I'm some horrible player...I don't know, maybe I am...but it feels like crap...I love playing piano and came to this school as a piano major and have gone nearly 3 years without being able to take that to the stage. People in my own lab band don't want me to play, I was booted from Urban Derivatives as a keyboard player and everyone else wants to ask their bass player friend to play piano. ARG! Actually, it hurts more than makes me angry. It's like someone telling you over and over that you're really bad at the thing you love. The only person, and I mean only person ever to believe I could play anywhere on campus or this world for that matter is Dr. Johnson, he's the one that suggests to everyone that I play for them and then they just never call me back...regardless, to the rest of the world, screw you...Dr. Johnson is going to help me practice and get me back on my piano track and I'll playing my own f***ing music since I'm not good enough for anyone else. Anyway, if you're in the Greenville area Friday, Nov. 12, stop into LaDue and see how bad I really suck, oh well, it'll be fun...I'm so excited no one can even understand...
Time for bed, g'night...
-Rod
Today's featured music:
Vanessa Carlton - White Houses from "Harmonium"
Vanessa Carlton - Who's to Say from "Harmonium"
posted by Rod Kim @ 4:57 AM
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