oh my. we are almost done!

We have been working really hard on the new recording, hours and hours and hours of time. But it's all going to be worth it. It is sounding beautiful and I'm super happy with the progress we have made!!!
let me introduce you to some of the crew:
John (with his eyes closed:) ) and Nathan:


my cute lil drummer playing the melodica! He barely knew what he was doing, lol


me and my gold record, ha ha ha!!!


chris laying down some synth and loving it! (clearly) ha.



Dan Craig making a guest appearance and singing beautifully on a track or two:



I'll have to put up a pick or two later cause there are soooo many!!! to my bass player and all the rest of the players who have come by this week thank you thank you thank you!!! We had a trumpet player come in as well as a fantastic violin player! woo, we are just having tooooo much fun... obviously:




oh and to my lovely friend jessica, happpppppppppy birthday, again!!!!!!! love you!

music that is amazing.

go to this link and listen to "break" right now.... www.myspace.com/sonlux

this is so amazing I can't handle it.

Ok Well enjoy that and I'll be back soon to post pics of the recording and what not....

I can't sleep.

It's strange, this morning I had coffee with my dear mum and I had nothing to say at all. By the time 7pm rolled around I was full of exciting and funny stories to tell. I don't understand myself. I'm still awake and have a few more things to say...

1. tonight I got a burst of energy talking about the album artwork we are putting together. It is soooo so so exciting to me to be creative. Without it I die... very slowly and become extremely unmotivated and bored.

2. I would like to confess something to all of you that I am very ashamed of....
I started using the word "Dog". "yo dog" "what's up dog". I would like this problem to end now! I am starting to blame it on that stupid guy from American Idol- I watched one episode of the show and all of a sudden I'm using this phrase. I have to say, everytime this man critiques a singer he starts his rant with a, "yo dog, so here's what's up Dog, you were amazing Dog, but... blah blah you're terrible" AHHHHHH. This is something I cannot stand!!!! Whoever made this up should be fined heavily. I hate the 90's! didn't this come from the 90's???

3. my most random thought of the day is..... I desire to go fishing in a canoe right now.

ok hopefully i can sleep now goodbye.

yesterday.

I bought this crazy dress at the thrift store...


then went to erin's party at the hiatt, love that restaurant!




We also did the photo shoot with the piano yesterday. It is perfectly blue and light enough to carry around (if you haven't been reading my blog since august, when I dismantled it, it was ruff taking it apart). anyway it looked amazing and I'll be using those pics for my website and cd design. I'll have to show you the pictures I took with my parents because I got them playing the piano, they are cute.

Well as far as crazy stories go, I have been staying away from a lot of crazy people so I haven't been risking my life or other's lives. But I will say that i got a bike and I am a riding fool.

see you on the streets.

FYI...

On Valentine's day we had a concert and raised money for Love146. I partnered with my friend Sarah who owns Sarah Boutique on Mississippi and S. Gaylord st. We raised a good amount of money and I want to thank all of you who gave or who shopped at the store that day! 10% of all the sales went to Love146.

If you want to know more about this organization you can go to love146.org. Love146 is all about pulling people out of sex trafficking. I pulled this off of their site for you, these are the stats:



I pulled out all the songs I wrote in the last few years and I had a pile of pages and pages and pages of lyrics. They are all written on crumpled up papers or napkins... here's the pile... gee.



well i'm back to work on finishing up the details on songs that we are recording... woo!

catch you later!

this blew me away!!!! wow.

you know i read "eat pray love" and I didn't think it was the best book out there- the beginning was excellent, the end, well, slightly boring. But this talk by Elizabeth Gilbert on TED.com is ridiculously amazing and inspiring! oh my.