sigur ros

beautiful!






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happy sunday.
go enjoy the weather.

saturday!

i started a poster collection... amazing.

i am also trying to breathe!

ok well everyone sorry for no new posts until now- I was working and working and working and finally today I have the day off.but here is what my all time high is- I am officially famous, I went to my my space page and found that I had 8,000 plays today. yeah! woo! OH YEAH!

jk. the player must be broken. but hey you never know, maybe someone completely famous added me to their top friends. ha.
well I'm working on new music today and I promised you a before and after of the piano so here it is-

the before:

I'm half way done gutting it and we'll see how it goes.

well I want you all to know that I'm going to sigur ros this weekend and hopefully seeing some of the fall leaves somehow somewhere. I'll bring back pics of the show for you next week.

the most random thing happened to me yesterday...
I was at a petroleum convention (don't ask why). It didn't take long to realize that almost everyone was a republican conservative who flew in from texas, which was completely expected. I was minding my own business and keeping all my opinions about anything to myself, but at one point I was cornered by a man who started going off about Obama and how much he hated him. Once I left that conversation, luckily uninjured, I ended up in another conversation. This guy (granted there were no women at the convention) wanted to move to colorado but then proceeded to say that maybe he wouldn't because too many "weird" people live here. He was referring to gay people- ahhhhhhh. At this point I was keeping my mouth shut, all I wanted was to get the heck out of there. But before you know it (without any mention of anything) I was told that if I didn't believe in the War I was crazy and stupid.
ok! GOT TO LOVE IT! please don't let me know your opinions 2 inches from my face! i'm also trying to breathe.
lol.

art

i'm always working on my art. here's something I did today. it goes along with a song I wrote called Letter.



does anyone know of amazing tutorials for photoshop or illustrator?


well on another note- I'm extremely excited to be a part of Whiz kids! i'll be tutoring kids once a week, should be fun.

well go have a good weekend!

just stories.

i was asked to open for adele:

check out her music cause the show will be sometime in february! pretty sweet if I do say so myself.


so yesterday I picked up a piano for my music video! ok well the truth is- i didn't move it my four friends did- andrew, josiah, seb and john- THANK YOU guys!!!!! so I'm gutting it this weekend and painting it a crazy color.... i'll have to post some before and after pics for you all. and if any of you out there really want to help me gut it, yes I'm open for helpers.

Also- I wanted to let you all know about the tee shirts, what has happened with the entire process is- I made all these shirts and sold them all! so I'm having to make more in order to post them online. So SORRY!!! it'll be coming soon. And I will have boys tee's too. Please let me know if there are any special requests.

ok talk to you all soon!!!

Adventures in being a Celebrity. ha.

today i went to monolith. I ran into two strangers who recognized me as "andrea ball". I decided this was a sign that i was officially famous. because of that I decided I could work whatever deals I wanted,

hence this action:
ALL ACCESS BABY!!!



yeah I know a lot of people in this town. So tonight I scored this all access pass and was able to eat for free, drink for free and see devotchka in the front row with a nice free cup o joe. On top of that, while we were leaving the leather seated area below the main stage we noticed that everyone was coming back stage with their special backstage passes (of which I did not have) so I joined the crowd and snuck by all kinds of people to see the band up close and personal. Oh yeah the green room.
sooooo much fun!!!

my favorite band of the day was Cameron McGill.

this book is !!!! wow.

so today i picked up a copy of "the Artist's way". It's a book that teaches you to unleash your creativity. I really think this may completely change my life. I'm not exaggerating! So It's a 12 week process, I'll let you know if my creativity is suddenly massively unleashed and you all will be running out to buy this book. Ha ha. well I feel inspired already, wow! I can't wait to see if I start writing crazy new music.
buy it here
anyone reading any good books out there?

oooooooooh. hi.

so I've been working on my photoshop skills. I did a fun edit and wanted to share (of course it's a little crazy!). personally i like the pink one a lot!!!! :
before:


after:


i have really funny aspirations right now, my newest thing is I want to be a bike racer!
this is me with all my sponsorships and spandex, ha.


well kids. i'm writing new music and i'll be previewing it for all of you on the 18th of october. so keep it in mind!
bye.

come to this show.

funny things we all forgot about.

ok well today an older man basically asked for my hand in Marriage. I refused, but he kept offering houses and cars and free living. It was quite the proposal. ha! I mean when he said i could live for free on the beach in a separate bedroom, i was speechless. ha! ok.? ! if you want to be my boyfriend don't offer me homes and cars the first day you meet me ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well i was thinking about something today that triggered a few funny things from when i was 8 and i had to share!
lord of the dance. when i was a kid this was the biggest hit of the 90's... and every time me and my brother saw a commercial for it we would laugh sooooo hard, and this brings me back to those moments of making fun of michael flately.
do you think this is what ultimately inspired the making of braveheart?


Y2k. This video is for real! it's no spoof my friends. LOL! just wait till you see the end.


ultimately i think this is what made justin famous. I know- maybe you haven't forgotten but at least you haven't seen it in a long time!!!

the world wide web has information about you.

I found these pics when i googled myself today. They are by Brian Carney and of one of the first shows I played this year... he's a good photographer yes? you all need to google yourselves so that you know what's out there! ha. you'd be surprised i bet.



sometimes i sing angry songs hence this look:



on another note, i want you to know that i have an obsession with popsicles. I like them a lot. One day I specifically grabbed a friend and we drove to five points so that we could have a mexican popsicle. I'm telling you what if you are going to have a popsicle you've got to have a mexican one.
so today I found out that I'm not the only person with this obsession, yes people in north carolina have opened their own shops called locopops. um, that's amazing! ha.



well kid's it's been a long couple of weeks, I've been working way too much! but is anyone going to monolith???? um yes this is going to be amazing. I also want to tell you that somewhere here in denver there is a free wheel!n station. I must find it- does anyone know where they put it? (if you have no idea what I'm talking about google it! cause it is a free bike rental stop).

it's Monday!!

What a crazy fantastic week!!!!! my brother is here from out of town with his lovely girlfriend, I played 3 shows, worked all week for CNN, got on Comedy central and ABC national news, I crashed parties, met cyndie lauper, saw nelly perform and went to the Coldwar kids, nada surf, clap your hands and say yeah, and silversuns concert, made men's shirts and on top of all of that, I don't drink cafine anymore. o my.

so the dazzle show went amazing! Thanks to all who came I had such a blast!!!

here's a couple preliminary photos from Andrew Strobridge...



this is carl (my drummer) after Obama's speech, look how inspired he is!!! (or maybe more freaked out now, i can't tell)


my brother, for all who are wondering if he's like me- cause we are completely opposite. But he's great and candice, um we love you!


well hopefully i'll have the photo's from meeting cydie soon, cause i'm still singing time after time!

Last but not least due to craziness i'm giving myself a week to finish these shirts so next monday morning at 9am sharp the store will open!!!!!!!!!!!!!