You have to see it to believe it…..

Yup… this apparently is the secret. Does it silence things too?

I overdid it for a while, then it went quiet but here’s the latest for April… I have a few more up my sleeve so look out for em!. Check it out, and if you like it, rate it with the stars! I have some ratings so far but more would be really cool!!

When it rains it pours, this time I put a very long iMix up that was approved by iTunes, I’ve been in a little crabby mood lately so I decided to put together a little mix to listen to for a little pouting and uplifting. Check it out, and if you like it, rate it with the stars! I have some ratings so far but more would be really cool!!

This is the second AIM interview I did with Kelly, 2 weeks before I got to meet her!!!!BrendanInMusic: hey hey
KellysDecember07: hello
BrendanInMusic: thanks for chatting today. where are you IMing from?
KellysDecember07: from my home in texas
BrendanInMusic: very nice, must be nice to be home!
BrendanInMusic: you’ve been pretty busy lately
KellysDecember07: it is very nice to be home, i love it here
KellysDecember07: i love your icon picture
KellysDecember07: haha, it’s funny
BrendanInMusic: hehe thanks.. I’m told it looks JUST LIKE ME
KellysDecember07: right on, then you’re adorable, haha
BrendanInMusic: and single… we can chat about that one after
KellysDecember07: hahaha
KellysDecember07: nice
BrendanInMusic: so you’ve been doing lots of TV, press, etc lately… is there anything that you still get excited about or nervous doing?
KellysDecember07: um …i get excited about a lot of things but never nervous
KellysDecember07: like i love doing Ellen, Leno, Jimmy Kimmel
KellysDecember07: fun shows
BrendanInMusic: what do you consider like the ultimate “it” for guesting KellysDecember07: i think Ellen because i love her show so much, she is hilarious and always super cool to me and to everyone that works with me
BrendanInMusic: awesome
KellysDecember07: she probably has the most fun on her show
BrendanInMusic: i can imagine…get to show off all your dancing skills
KellysDecember07: hahaha, yes
BrendanInMusic: Did you find much relaxation and fun time in between the tour and making the album?
KellysDecember07: yeah, i always make sure i’m having a bit of fun or else it’s not worth it
KellysDecember07: i mean, i want to see the places i’m actually getting to travel to
KellysDecember07: we’re gonna be playing a lot of guitar hero this tour, haha
BrendanInMusic: do you have a favorite so far?
KellysDecember07: a favorite place to visit?? i love boston
BrendanInMusic: that’s an interesting fav place, but a good one
KellysDecember07: i love the people and the city is beautiful. i don’t know, every time i go there i have a great timeBrendanInMusic: so when did you start the process for ‘My December’?
KellysDecember07: a little over 2 years ago
KellysDecember07: i wrote the album everywhere …scottland, uk, texas, L.A ..everywhere
BrendanInMusic: Did you feel very stressed going into the project after the massive success you’ve had in the last few years?
KellysDecember07: no, i had so much to say that i was feeling very creative, haha
KellysDecember07: we ended up with way too many songs
BrendanInMusic: i suppose that’s better than not enough
BrendanInMusic: what will happen with all of the extra songs??
KellysDecember07: started with around 60, then 26, now 14 for the album
KellysDecember07: we’ll use them for b-sides and international stuff and other albums i guess
BrendanInMusic: Did you go into the studio with any type of plan or mission for the album?
BrendanInMusic: sound wise or other
KellysDecember07: not really a plan, no
KellysDecember07: just recorded all of our favorites and wanted to make sure we were focusing on the music rather than being SO concerned with trying to make everything mainstream
BrendanInMusic: if you had to name the “sound” of the album, what would you call it?
KellysDecember07: there’s a little bit of everything sound wise …singer/songwriter stuff, rock/pop stuff, some soulful songs
BrendanInMusic: You’ve also been involved in a few country performances lately, not too long ago with Reba and a little while back with the Rascal Flatts… is a country album something you’d want to do or just something fun to dabble in?
KellysDecember07: oh lord, haha, i have no idea
BrendanInMusic: just good music?
KellysDecember07: i’m actually already working on my next project right now, and it’s kind of country meets blues meets rock
KellysDecember07: it’s awesome, i’m having a lot of fun on it
KellysDecember07: i love country music
BrendanInMusic: wow, thats pretty ambitious! already another new project before this one is out, haha
KellysDecember07: it’s fun and sweet and the melodies are usually killer
KellysDecember07: haha, yes i’m always working on the next thing. some might say it’s a sickness, but i just love writing
BrendanInMusic: all the work seems to be paying off
BrendanInMusic: the last time we talked to you was the day of Grammy nominations (and btw congrats!!)
BrendanInMusic: what did winning them mean to you?
KellysDecember07: thanks! winning them made me feel like all my hard work was paying off, which is a pretty awesome feeling
KellysDecember07: it’s always nice to be recognized for what you do obviously
KellysDecember07: the 10 year-old me was kicking myself that night, it was very cool
BrendanInMusic: in an old interview from Idol, you said that one of your ultimate goals would be to perform at an awards show like the grammys
KellysDecember07: yes i did, and also when i wrote ‘because of you’ i knew one day i would sing it on the grammy’s …i don’t know how i knew but i just did, and when it actually happened i flipped out
BrendanInMusic: now that you’ve done that and won a few… what’s your next life goal?
KellysDecember07: my goal is to be happy…a simple goal but a hard one sometimes with this crazy world, haha
KellysDecember07: i want to be happy with my music, and my relationships and life
KellysDecember07: life’s too short to settle for less
BrendanInMusic: definitely…so your look and sound has evolved quite a bit since you started out
BrendanInMusic: is where you are now the place you’ve been working towards or was it just more of a natural evolution?
KellysDecember07: i’d say natural revolution …i love both of my previous albums but you can tell that with each album I’m in a different place …and i should be because i’m obviously growing and changing…coming out with the same album and sound would be boring for me and my fans
BrendanInMusic: So what are your fans in store for this time around with ‘My December’?
KellysDecember07: well the album as a whole is about surviving things you thought you never would, and actually taking the time to catch your breath and enjoy life
KellysDecember07: it’s a little more rock, a lot more raw and blunt, and it’s all me
BrendanInMusic: right now people are calling you the Alanis Morissette of 2007…
KellysDecember07: hahahahaha, i’m not that good,
KellysDecember07: but thank you to whoever’s saying that
KellysDecember07: the first single definitely has that alanis touch but as for the rest of the album, it doesn’t
BrendanInMusic: You’ve got a pretty ambitious tour ahead of you. are you ready to get back on the road?
KellysDecember07: I LOVE TOURING, I CAN’T WAIT
KellysDecember07: this tour is going to be the biggest and best tour i’ve done
KellysDecember07: we’re bringing a string section, a horn section
KellysDecember07: a dj that plays NIN style scratches
BrendanInMusic: you have lots of fans really excited for it! sounds like they wont be disappointed…
KellysDecember07: it’s just way more production and i can’t wait for people to see it
BrendanInMusic: Do you have any favorite songs you like to perform live? (a couple years later… ‘addicted’ is still one of my favorite songs of all time)
KellysDecember07: oh i love that you like that song, it’s one of my favorite songs i’ve ever written!!
BrendanInMusic: very awesome, hope to hear it when you come around
KellysDecember07: i love performing ‘walk away’ and i think off this new record i’m gonna love performing ‘never again’ and ‘hole’ and ‘how i feel’
BrendanInMusic: awesome.. can’t wait to hear them!
BrendanInMusic: we know you’re busy, but thanks again for taking the time to chat
KellysDecember07: thank you!!
KellysDecember07: have a good one man
BrendanInMusic: you too

Plenty of people consider American Idol to be a guilty pleasure. I am not one of those people. I am a proud American Idol lover. Last year I was bored during a show of songs I didn’t care about though, so I decided to “live blog” during the show. Well, to my surprise people were amused by this…even my HUMOR! Got me… I decided to keep it up and continue to live blog on American Idol and it actually started to draw in quite a bit of people from around the net, and even world! Hundreds of people were reading it. How the hell did that happen? While it wound down towards the end, I decided that since this is Simon Cowell’s last year on American Idol, it was probably the last year it will actually be relevant, so another year of live blogging it is.

I was pretty “on point” last year with my predictions of who would be voted off… yes… I am that good, through out the ENTIRE competition I was a Kris Allen obsessed fan. I didn’t think he’d overtake Adam Lambert for the win but was SHOCKED and PLEASANTLY surprised. Kelly Clarkson, Kris Allen, and Daughtry will remain my top Idols, and we shall see about this year…

Paula Abdul’s departure didn’t kill me as much as it did some, yes I will miss some of her drug induced splurges, however she “cleaned up” (as much as she could) last year so it wasn’t even that great, and I do get sick of her really idiotic clapping. I also have always liked Ellen so I think she will bring an interesting dynamic, I think she will be critical than most think, but constructive criticism, unlike Simon who calls it like he see’s it, but never goes the next step by saying what would FIX any issues, and the few times he has, he tells them it didn’t work…

Kara I think is just bipolar in her criticisms, she seems to try to final all the faults in great performances and all the positives in the bad ones making it seem like the good ones weren’t great and the bad ones were good. Stop trying to play a mix of Paula and Simon. It doesn’t work. Randy. You are in my dog house. I don’t want to hear anything about being pitchy or anything related to your dogs or who you’ve worked with in the past. We get it. You were a producer to big stars. Congrats. I am also not QUITE ready for Ryan Seacrest’s bad jokes or Ford commercials that I think are completely stupid (sorry Mom), but it’s TIME so I have no choice!

Live blogging will only begin with the Top 12, there’s just nothing to say about crappy auditions, though could have some good comments on some of the guest judges during the auditions like Posh and whoever else did it too. I will keep updating my post as I go through out the show, usually after the judging of a performance, with the newer comments on the bottom (just to keep it in an easier chronological order) only on performance nights! I will also add the “Dial Idol” results the MORNING AFTER which predicts the person being kicked off and their margin of error. They are usually on spot, but last year there were way too many “too close to call” moments.

Let’s see how this season goes! Will next year be X-Factor live blogging instead??

Well I have been trying to think of the best way to wrap up my favorite songs of 2009 and I know many of them probably didn’t even originate in 2009, so I used Last.fm to check out what I exactly listened to and here it is. The artists in the top 10 won’t surprise anyone but the #1 artist MIGHT…..

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Thank you Chelsea, why is this so hard for this idiot to grip? Watch the video after the jump.

Could I be any happier? Last night on SouthPark what sounded like Mr. Eric Cartman (thought I didn’t see him in the act) did a nice little homage to Lady Gaga’s ‘Poker Face.’ Now it’s finally online in full. It’s a true piece of art… ENJOY!

So my first project in my Visual Aesthetic’s masters class was to find a Kandinsky painting online and duplicate it. Here was what I ended up with, it’s no Kandinsky but it could have been worse.

I am still flying high getting an A for my first Masters class! WOO! One week left until my Visual Aesthetics class starts so decided to play around with my class webspace landing page, felt anything was better than the “Click here to enter blog” text. Tell me what ya think!

http://thegrimaldi.quicm.net/

It occurred to me today that I have had a cell phone for 10 years, I got my first cell phone in 1999 for Christmas and it was one of the first Sprint PCS cell phones. I recently purchased the HTC Hero, the newest phone on the market, using the new Android system. To do this, I dropped the iPhone (I know…) and ended up back at Sprint after what I realized was QUITE a long laundry list of phones!

Anyone who knows me knows that my attention span isn’t quite the longest. I get bored with the way things look all the time. My house has gone through about 5 rebirths in a year an a half so I am not surprised that this is my 4th personal blog theme, and I just updated my school blog them, but I am going really cheesy and working with the seasons… expect a Christmas one up the day after Thanksgiving! Check out the school blog…

Yup, you read right! I have begun grad school. I am enrolled in the Masters of Science in Interactive Communications at Quinnipiac University. Here’s where YOU come in. I have to keep a blog separate of this. VISIT IT…COMMENT…Make me look good!!! Thanks xo

The link: http://thegrimaldi.quicm.net/blog