Reworking Cd Cover

Just so you know I haven’t forgotten. I’m still trying to finish the last two songs. While I was thinking about it I decided that I didn’t really like the look of the cover. I have decided to re-do it. You’ll all be getting to see it soon. The picture is still the same. I redid the font and created a shadow effect with the text. Can’t wait to finish it and upload it.

American Idol 12/36 Group 2

HORRIBLE! That’s just about the only thing I could say about it. Although there were a couple of people who did okay: Alish Irahita (Sp) and Adam Lambert, I never thought they did any good before. Other than that everyone did horrible. I have always liked Jasmine Murray but she didn’t do as good as she could have done.  Oh well. I’m kind of curious to see how it comes out. 

Next week is what I’m eager about. There are 5 people I’m eager to hear sing. We’ll see if they can impress me.

Greg Howlett

I was looking at a friend’s facebook page and he was a fan of someone called: Greg Howlett. I checked it out. It linked to his website. I looked and listened and immediatly fell in love with his style of music. It’s something I would play if I could play it. He also gave free lessons for church musicians. Really helpful. He also had a couple of his arrangements for free download. I have fallen in love with his playing and wish that someday I’ll be able to do that too. Maybe.

American Idol Prediction

Although the first week has already played out every single person I wanted to get through did. I have decided to predict who will in order of from 12 – 1.

12) Nick Mitchel

11) Nathaniel Marshall

10) Von Smith

9) Matt Breitzke

8) Mishavonna Henson

7) Michael Sarver (Already in the top 12)

6) Lil Rounds

5) Alex Wagner-Trugman

4) Scott MacIntyre

3) Alexis Grace (Already in the top 12)

2) Jasmine Murray

1) Danny Gokey (Already in the top 12)

The top 7 people are honestly people I like. I don’t pick based on personality, to me personality is only about 10%. I pick based on pure talent and vocal ability. The top 2 are my ultimate favorites. Scott MacIntyre is one of my favorites but I don’t know if he has what it takes to win. If Danny and Jasmine don’t make it into the top 2 I will be very disappointedc in America’s ability to vote. Both Danny and Jasmine have the talent and personality to make it. Well this ends my tyrade. I guess in 3 weeks we’ll find out how correct/incorrect I was. Hopefully I’ll be at least 75% correct.

Fruit Basket

So today I decided to photograph a “basket of fruit.” Because I couldn’t find a real basket I used a cake platter. I think it turned out good. I grabbed random fruit and placed it as artistic as I could. And yes, tomatoes are a fruit. It’s a grape tomato.

Dentist Visit

I had another dentist visit today for an xray of my mouth. A full xray of my mouth. This is so they can see if my wisdom teeth have to be pulled out. AHHH!!! I’m really freaked out about my wisdom teeth coming out. The only reason I’m blogging about this is because I have a question: Can I keep the xray after they’r done? My thoughts are: after they use it, can they even use it again. Think about it…with my wisdom teeth gone will the xray be accurate? No. If I get to keep it I would get a frame for it and hang it up in my room. That’s one of the coolest things to me, have an xray of yourself.

American Idol Results Night!

Do I agree with who made it through? The answer is: YES!!! Great people. They all performed flawlessly yesterday. The group song was nice. I’m very disappointed in some of the girls. It looked like some of them were vieing for the camera’s attention. To me that’s quite shameful. Other than that good. Carly Smithson and Michael Johns sang: The Letter. A nice song…great harmonies. 

The people who made it:

Alexis Grace

Michael Sarver

Danny Gokey

The people who didn’t make it:

Casey Carlson

Stephen Fowler

Rick Braddy

Jackie Tohn

Anoop Desai

Ann Marie Boskovitch

Brent Kieth

Stevie Wright

Tatiyana Del Toro

American Idol 12/36 Group 1

I must say that I’m quite amazed. Many of the performances were amateurish, karaoke almost.
My FAVORITE performance was Danny Gokey’s performance of Hero. Great performance. If they did studio recordings this early in the competition I’d be all over this one.
I was very disappointed with Michael Sarver’s performance. To me he was one of the favorites but because of song choice I think he ruined it.
Alexis Grace was great. I must admit that I’m amazed that the female back-up singer had an amazingly deep voice.
I also loved Ann Marie Boskovitch and disagreed with the judges who told her that her performance was old, if I remember correctly.
I ended up voting once that night, using one text on Danny Gokey. I tried calling but the phone lines were busy. Imagine that. I didn’t really want to wait around for them to free up so I just decided to call it a night and hope that America agreed with me. We’ll see tonight. Tomorrow a post will be up about my agreements and disagreements with who went through.

Twilight

This book has been a controversy for many Christians. Sometimes I think everything popular is. Although I must admit that my parents didn’t want me to read the Harry Potter books, I did read some. The first few were actually ok. They were about a kid who was struggling to survive basically. Eventually now, my parents don’t really care. So now I have basically decided to read Twilight for myself. I have heard that there isn’t anything inappropriate that would normally be in a vampire novel. I’m really curious to find out more about it. I’ve always had a problem with Christians taking a stance against something that hasn’t been tried. Before you get onto me I’m not telling Christians to go try alchol and stuff like that. That’s common sense, but books to me a controversial. You can’t really trust someone to write a review and it to be accurate. Although it’ll be accurate to the writer if you read the book, you might interpret it differently than the reviewer or even the author. (It’s one of the reasons I never like the Literature part of my English classes. My mind thinks more abstractly than most and I usually get something way out there that’s “not correct”) 

Hopefully from this blog post you can make up your own mind about stuff.

Thanks to Tom

Thanks so much to Tom. He reads my blog and he gave me a Wacom tablet. I’ve wanted one for some time and finally got one. I’ve started using it. It’s kind of hard to get used to but I’ll learn. Can’t wait to be a pro at using it.