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Name: kristen
Gender: Female
Interests: keyboards, writing, reading, ballet, knitting, parks, mountain biking, sewing, clothing design, photography, anything in the water, everything about latin culture (especially salsa dancing!)
Expertise: not sure...
Occupation: band-mate
Industry: music
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
2/24/2007
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| As a teenager, even a few years before, music taught me to yearn, put words to the deepest hurts and fears of my heart, to the tremblings I hardly understood. And then feeling it pulse in my headphones late at night when I should have been in bed, it cried me to sleep. What else can speak to you when you are shut in from the world on a stale night, waiting to feel what you have always dreamed of but never been close enough to touch? I listened to love for so long pouring out of those speakers, no wonder I am such a messy person, so disasterous in life and love.
But we see into others' hearts and ours are comforted. They share, we enter into their pain and somehow ours is not so real. I wish I knew exactly how that works, that I could just turn it on. What a mystery of our souls, when they speak to each other without talking.
My memory is a funny thing. I keep remembering pieces of my life, stories that I faintly saw in my mind one way spring up in flashes completely different. I see how insensitive, selfish, vain I was. I see how I stepped over what I could've stopped for along the way. Is it human nature to want to go back? To make everything right? To love everyone the way you've always longed to be loved by a human. It's not possible, they've tried it before. | | |
| ahhhhhh, i just realized i have started all of my 'blogs' out with what must be my favorite word ever... weird, i wonder if there is some psychological meaning to that | | |
| well, it's Thurs. after Easter weekend, and I'm just now starting to feel like life is getting back to normal! we had a great weekend up in ohio visiting with family and eating some great food... but chuck came home with strep throat so we've spent the last few days recuperating and cleaning up the house/trying to get organized. sometimes life just gets in the way of all the things i know we should be doing (like writing)! we actually started a couple of new songs this week, though. it's exciting to see how when we get in the mindset of writing a lot, it comes a lot more easily. i do miss playing shows though... we've really only played a handful since the beginning of this year.
our flowering trees are done flowering now and i can't believe that all the natural signs of spring have kind of come and gone already in nashville! in a few short weeks it will probably be soaring up in to the 90's... and 100% humidity, of course! things change so quickly in this life... some of our best friends, josh and annie, who have kind of been in the same life stage as us for awhile are pregnant! i'm so excited for them, but as we humans often are, a little scared of the changes that are bound to come. i guess the alternative to changing is just standing still and stagnating, and no one wants that. i know we are learning and experiencing, growing and finding out... and i hope we can share some of that in the songs we write. it helps a little in the changing process to know there are other humans out there, going through similar emotions. | | |
| well, it's monday night and chuck and i just got back from sxsw music festival in austin, tx (along with the rest of the band). it was a pretty amazing trip, with lots of weird and crazy things we experienced, as always. we got there on Tues. night and played 2 shows on Thurs., one in the afternoon and the other at 11pm. the rest of the time we just went around and saw other shows and met people with our manager, had meetings, and went to parties. these parties were interesting... most you had to be on some kind of guest list or something, or have a pass to get into (we just got in with our manager). they all had free food and alcohol, and random other stuff. at one we ended up getting about $500 of free levi's jeans for each person in the band! and at another, there was an extremely drunk girl whose entire breast popped out of her shirt while she was dancing... what else can i say... i felt like it must have been a little bit like what mardi gras is like. so that's my experience in austin... can't say it was the best city i've ever visited but it sure surprised me.
after 6 days with 4 guys as my constant companions (we all stayed in one hotel room with 2 queen beds and an air mattress), i was definitely ready to be home with just chuck, and my kitchen! before we go out on tour i've got to figure out a better way to cheaply eat GOOD food on the road, not crap. i'm not sure how that's going to happen...
i'm looking forward to taking the next couple of months to do nothing but listen to music, read, be inspired, and write songs. well, that's the plan, at least. we have been trying to do just that for the last couple of months, too, but life has a way of crowding in if you know what i mean. well, this time we are determined, and i think once it sets in it will be amazing.
for now i just need to sleep... | | |
| well, i'm making this blog so i can post comments on my dad's blog, who moved to thessaloniki, greece last week. i've never really blogged before so i can't promise much.
most of these will probably be late night ramblings because that's when i do most of my writing/thinking/emailing. case in point, it is 1:55am right now. but tomorrow is saturday and i am self-employed so i'm not worried anyway.... :) | | |
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