YIPPIIIIEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So my mom continued to be pissed off with me all the way through our dentist appointment this morning.....typical. But the day improved when we went out to Clarendons open day...which turned out to be an open NIGHT......so we went shopping. I had already told her that I was gonna go shopping after anyway, so she came too, and we went to look for some duvet covers coz my folks are re-decorating their bedroom. *Fun*. Then we went to Foxes music store to buy this Evenescence book....coz I wanted the music for "My Immortal".....i figured I might as well get the whole book....especially since my mom was paying! Oh yeah...I got another pick too....I now have 20! Yay!!! (I really should start actually using them....)
Then we went to dixons to ask if they did tv out leads for laptops. They didn't. They told us to go to jamie lewis...we'd just been their looking for bedding, but we went back again...and they didn't do them either. So I still don't have one. I'm gonna give mr Samsung a call and get him to send me one. And a stereo out lead while he's at it :P
So I said "Goodbye" to my mom and proceeded towards Ice Nine and Void.....I bought a sex pistols pin and a new chunky metal wrist band thingy. Then I went on a hunt for Simple Plans dvd...which after looking in EVERY music store in town.....I learned was not even available on dvd in europe....only north america....gggrrrrr.....
.....So I've ordered it on video from MVC.....for £5.95!!! Cheep huh? Hehe :)
Anyways...I looked round for some big crystals and couldn't find any I liked.....and just generally shopped but didn't buy anything else untill I bought some lunch...which I ate whilst walking round.....good old take out bakeries :P
I came home to an empty house (my mom was now at work) and began learning my new song. "My Immortal" is SUCH a lovely song......and the piano music is beautiful. So I can now pretty much play that...it has some wierd rhythms in it...like dotted quavers tied to quavers tied to semi-quavers.......but mostly it's ok...I'm getting there. I love it so much.....
So the highlight of the day :- my Clarendon open day experience! Well....we went out as soon as my mom got home...which was like 4.30. We had a student guide show us where the music tutors were all congregated....and then we waited untill there was someone to talk to us. Turns out they were not so much 'congregated' as just....'one guy sitting there at this tiny table already talking to this one family, who clearly needed a lot of guidance as they were there for like half an hour'. Anywayz.....I was entertaining myself by watching all the other future clarendon music students...as well as the dance, drama, fashion, acting etc students who were in the same bit as us. Music was the most popular course and there was a huge queue....of which we were at the front. There was a girl standing next to me wearing a white school-type shirt under a REALLY small wastecoat like I wear for work...only REALLY small.......which was covered in rocker pins....(and the odd safety pin). She wore HUGE baggy jeans which she had torn off just below the knee, and typical skater trainers.....you know..the wierd looking, boot like ones with the laces? Her hair was twisted and spiked in a most peculiar fashion....and died bright red...with black roots. She had also used eye-liner round her eyes in the shapes of stars. She looked wicked...really stood out.....I'm not sure how to describe her....she wasn't rock...more punk.....but old punk. Kinda like she'd come from a punk-circus.
Anywayz...during the course of standing around like a lemon reading the same page of the brouchure I'd picked up over and over again for lack of anything better to do, about 4 other very interesting looking people walked in and out of the room....all looking very 'rockerish'.......much to my delight. It's about time I met some people with the same style/interests as me. I like rockers.....i need to fucking meet some. Goths are cool too....but they tend to like metal rather than rock...(though some call it rock.....even though it's not really.....coz it's metal)
(Question of the day......."Why are most gentres of music named after some kind of substance???")
Anyway....Yeah, so hopefully I'll meet some peope who like the same music as me next year.....But that's not even the most exciting part!! When I went to sit with this dude...(who was really nice)...I showed him my application form...which he was delighted to see I had brought with me. So he read it through.....I told him I was doing A lEVEL music right now, and he said to me that he didn't think I should do either of the courses I had applied for (I wrote down both coz I didn't know which one to pick).....he said they would both be too easy coz I'd already done A Level and they were kinda on the same level. So he said I should do an HND!! That's almost a degree! He said it would be the same as going to uni. So I still had the choice of doing music performance or music technology, coz I wanna get noticed more than anything...and learn how to do studio work as well as perform. So he outlined the two courses for me.....the music tech would be VERY electronic...technology type stuff. Kate had already warned me about this. He said it would be pretty much in the studio the whole time...writing my own stuff....but not that creative...more scientific. Then he brought up the performing course....I said "Will I get the chance to gig?"....and he laughed and said "Oh yeah!" :):):):)....I said that's what I ultimately want to do more than anything....play in a band and gig and tour! He was totally stoked!!!!!!!!! He asked if I was in a band and I told him about our new year gig....told him we played a song that I wrote! He was like "Yeah??" And he said that the whole performance course was performing, performing, gigging, gigging, and also some recording!! WOW!!!!!! So I'm sooooo gonna do that next year!!! My dream might actually come true!!!!! Oh my god.....it was soooo cool to hear someone be so enthusiastic about what I wanted to do......someone who actually seems interested in helping me and not just saying "cool". Being there today made my future seem so much closer somehow......not some distant dream that will never happen coz "I don't know anyone who can help me make it happen". I'm actually gonna gig! I'm gonna tour! I'm gonna have contacts!!!!!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So anyway...he's gonna set me up an interview with the 'big daddy'.....he said I'll have "no problem" getting into this course....and he said it with a little smile :)
So that's my day for ya. I'm gonna bid you all goodnight and go surfing the net.
Love you all.........and thanx Jen for loving me back yesterday :)
TTFN
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Then we went to dixons to ask if they did tv out leads for laptops. They didn't. They told us to go to jamie lewis...we'd just been their looking for bedding, but we went back again...and they didn't do them either. So I still don't have one. I'm gonna give mr Samsung a call and get him to send me one. And a stereo out lead while he's at it :P
So I said "Goodbye" to my mom and proceeded towards Ice Nine and Void.....I bought a sex pistols pin and a new chunky metal wrist band thingy. Then I went on a hunt for Simple Plans dvd...which after looking in EVERY music store in town.....I learned was not even available on dvd in europe....only north america....gggrrrrr.....
.....So I've ordered it on video from MVC.....for £5.95!!! Cheep huh? Hehe :)
Anyways...I looked round for some big crystals and couldn't find any I liked.....and just generally shopped but didn't buy anything else untill I bought some lunch...which I ate whilst walking round.....good old take out bakeries :P
I came home to an empty house (my mom was now at work) and began learning my new song. "My Immortal" is SUCH a lovely song......and the piano music is beautiful. So I can now pretty much play that...it has some wierd rhythms in it...like dotted quavers tied to quavers tied to semi-quavers.......but mostly it's ok...I'm getting there. I love it so much.....
So the highlight of the day :- my Clarendon open day experience! Well....we went out as soon as my mom got home...which was like 4.30. We had a student guide show us where the music tutors were all congregated....and then we waited untill there was someone to talk to us. Turns out they were not so much 'congregated' as just....'one guy sitting there at this tiny table already talking to this one family, who clearly needed a lot of guidance as they were there for like half an hour'. Anywayz.....I was entertaining myself by watching all the other future clarendon music students...as well as the dance, drama, fashion, acting etc students who were in the same bit as us. Music was the most popular course and there was a huge queue....of which we were at the front. There was a girl standing next to me wearing a white school-type shirt under a REALLY small wastecoat like I wear for work...only REALLY small.......which was covered in rocker pins....(and the odd safety pin). She wore HUGE baggy jeans which she had torn off just below the knee, and typical skater trainers.....you know..the wierd looking, boot like ones with the laces? Her hair was twisted and spiked in a most peculiar fashion....and died bright red...with black roots. She had also used eye-liner round her eyes in the shapes of stars. She looked wicked...really stood out.....I'm not sure how to describe her....she wasn't rock...more punk.....but old punk. Kinda like she'd come from a punk-circus.
Anywayz...during the course of standing around like a lemon reading the same page of the brouchure I'd picked up over and over again for lack of anything better to do, about 4 other very interesting looking people walked in and out of the room....all looking very 'rockerish'.......much to my delight. It's about time I met some people with the same style/interests as me. I like rockers.....i need to fucking meet some. Goths are cool too....but they tend to like metal rather than rock...(though some call it rock.....even though it's not really.....coz it's metal)
(Question of the day......."Why are most gentres of music named after some kind of substance???")
Anyway....Yeah, so hopefully I'll meet some peope who like the same music as me next year.....But that's not even the most exciting part!! When I went to sit with this dude...(who was really nice)...I showed him my application form...which he was delighted to see I had brought with me. So he read it through.....I told him I was doing A lEVEL music right now, and he said to me that he didn't think I should do either of the courses I had applied for (I wrote down both coz I didn't know which one to pick).....he said they would both be too easy coz I'd already done A Level and they were kinda on the same level. So he said I should do an HND!! That's almost a degree! He said it would be the same as going to uni. So I still had the choice of doing music performance or music technology, coz I wanna get noticed more than anything...and learn how to do studio work as well as perform. So he outlined the two courses for me.....the music tech would be VERY electronic...technology type stuff. Kate had already warned me about this. He said it would be pretty much in the studio the whole time...writing my own stuff....but not that creative...more scientific. Then he brought up the performing course....I said "Will I get the chance to gig?"....and he laughed and said "Oh yeah!" :):):):)....I said that's what I ultimately want to do more than anything....play in a band and gig and tour! He was totally stoked!!!!!!!!! He asked if I was in a band and I told him about our new year gig....told him we played a song that I wrote! He was like "Yeah??" And he said that the whole performance course was performing, performing, gigging, gigging, and also some recording!! WOW!!!!!! So I'm sooooo gonna do that next year!!! My dream might actually come true!!!!! Oh my god.....it was soooo cool to hear someone be so enthusiastic about what I wanted to do......someone who actually seems interested in helping me and not just saying "cool". Being there today made my future seem so much closer somehow......not some distant dream that will never happen coz "I don't know anyone who can help me make it happen". I'm actually gonna gig! I'm gonna tour! I'm gonna have contacts!!!!!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So anyway...he's gonna set me up an interview with the 'big daddy'.....he said I'll have "no problem" getting into this course....and he said it with a little smile :)
So that's my day for ya. I'm gonna bid you all goodnight and go surfing the net.
Love you all.........and thanx Jen for loving me back yesterday :)
TTFN
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