I am back! Probably saying this a lot on here but I needed a break from everything. Back in the old year I was feeling not too good myself, I had not only health issues, also a lot on my mind and my thoughts didn't let me be happy for a long time. How ever I am better now, haven't felt this good about myself for a long time. Maybe this only because spring is slowly arriving and the sun is pushing everything in a better light.
So with this new year and a new me, I decided I want to something else on here. Well not something completely new, I just decided that I wanted to write more about something that I always feel writing about; Music.
That is just something that I am comfortable sharing my experiences with, even though there have been times that bad things happened at concerts, like falling unconscious at a Arctic Monkeys show or songs that remind me of sad times. But isn't this also a good thing? Doesn't it also remind you that you are better off now than that you were before?
For me music is nearly everything, I've met my best friend at a music festival and some of my best memories are connected to a song or an event that had to do with music, like a concert or lying in the gras under the starlights.
Well, I won't say this blog is going to be just about music, there will be always things that I want to talk about and that cannot be left unsaid. It is just something that takes a big part up of my life, so I want share with others.
I think that's it, for now. I think I will be back soon, next month is a lot going on!
Oh and for getting into the friday mood, a song from a support act from last week's concert I went to;
It has been a long time since I have written something about music and I have been listening to a bunch of new music this past month, after I have been to the local music festival here in Zurich where I discovered some new Artists and people I met there introduced and recommended some new things I really should listen to.
So basically this is just another playlist that I put together for this month and September so here we go:
I decided I would do once in a while a playlist. Not necessarily to a certain theme, just the songs I am currently listening to and fit my mood at the moment.
Summer is finally arriving here in Switzerland and with it all the great music festivals are back. Last year, I have been to two of the big ones here and I am planning to go to Zurich Openair again.
This year it is the only one to which I really want to go, the others do not have such good line-ups like they did last year. And I realised, not only the line-up is pretty great, this festival has its perks for me:
As I hate camping in any way and as I live near Zurich, I can easily take a train home as they provide trains during the nights of the festival. So I can get enough sleep, without worrying that some drunken ass is stumbling into my tent and tearing it down.
Also I do not have to bring all this camping stuff, like a tent and I can shower every day. I know they provide sometimes showers, but from my experience they are really expensive on some festivals and if they are for free they aren't really clean. Not showering is probably the worst part about camping on the festival area.
I do not have to bring a lot of money with me and I can recharge my phone everyday, as you might know iPhones have such bad batteries.
Again as it is in the area of Zurich, I know a lot of my friends are going to be there, so I can easily buy a ticket by myself, without looking out for someone tagging along with me.
So excited about all those amazing acts, that are performing at ZOA.
I haven't got a ticket yet, because I do not know what is still coming on Sunday. Well right now nothing really excites me about it and I might as well buy only a ticket for three days instead of four.
Still, Zurich Openair is a rather new festival in Switzerland, so I guess it's not going to be sold out anytime soon and I can wait with buying a ticket until all the acts are announced.
If someone is interested as well, tickets are available here
Last Sunday I have been to a music festival in Zurich, where it was a great mix from young local artists and some bigger names but it was still for free. I did not know any of the artists, except my friend who was there singing, so I found two really cool bands.
Oscar and the Wolf
I wasn't there the whole concert because it was for my taste a little bit too melancholic and I felt not really prepared for this. I am not saying I didn't like them, because if I didn't they would not be in this category. I just think you have to know them before you go and see them, it is not the type of music you just can walk in and jump around to it.
Turboweekend
Later in the evening we went to our last concert before everyone had to catch their train home and it happen to be Turboweekend. I wished they would have played a little bit earlier because I didn't get to see the whole concert, because not like Oscar and the Wolf, it was more energetic and you could shake off your ass to their music.
Those are not only my music-finds of the week, I also got really into the music of HAIM. I bet those girls are getting really big because they where number one on the BBC Sound of 2013 list and they get a lot of attention by the press anyways. But still, their music fits perfectly to to my spring mood.
It has been a week since my last post and it has been a really lazy week for me. There’s only 23 days of school left and attending class is pretty much more or less voluntary, so I have been sleeping in the whole week and went to school in the afternoons because I do not have those cool programmes like Photoshop and Indesign on my computer. Before I could ever install those I have to buy me a new computer, I am pretty sure they won't work properly on my old Macbook. But I cannot really afford buying a new one, so let's not talk about it.
Anyways I really would like to write about the weather and how much I love spring, but that would be not true. We had here some periods where it was warm you had the feeling spring is coming but then BAAM it was snowing again. You have to be kidding me, I cannot stand this white fluffy thing anymore. As much I love winter and going skiing, three months are enough and at the end of March you expect a little more sun and a little bit less clothing.
So I write about three other things, just as last week that I liked instead of the snow.
1. APTE NAVY SEQUIN BLAZER by maje
I got this blazer last week as gift from my parents because I got accepted at a special school for communication and a journalism. Well I have to say going to this school wasn't my first joyce, I would have rather gone to one of the art schools here (I was too young to apply at one of those, which was pretty sad) but I am glad I have been given this opportunity to complete an education in something I have been interested as well.
Back to the blazer, I didn't wish for it because I wasn't really expecting anything for getting accepted. However my stepmother had a similar one before in black and she must have remembered that I loved hers so much that she and my dad got the same one in navy blue for me.
You can wear it to a lot of things, casual or fancy, it makes every outfit unique. I love it so much, I guess this jacket is going to be one of my favourite pieces of clothing in my wardrobe this year.
Okay I just found out that this blazer is part of the collection Alex Chung did for Maje. "Majed by Alexa Chung"
2. Burberry shows
Even though I haven't been to any of their shows and it is really unlikely that I ever get to go to one, lately I was watching their past shows and they have all been perfection. The location, the music and the models, everything fits the fashion so well. Since I was 10 I have been of a fan of the classic Burberry fashion, when my dad took me to one of their stores because he was looking for a gift. These days I find my self often looking in one of their shop windows, always telling myself that one day I can afford a nice coat from there.
Christopher Bailey is a really great designer for Burberry and I like how he reinvented the classical trench coat in the new collection with patterns, metal waist belts and different materials.
In their last show (Prorsum Autumn/Winter 2013) Tom Odell was singing live there and you know how much I love Tom Odell. Pure Perfection.
I could say so much more about their amazing fashion and how much I love them, but I am way to lazy to think about I can write that so I let it speak for itself. Enjooooy.
Okay I am way too lazy and too hungry to write about another thing, so i just leave you with a song from 'Peace'.
Happy Easter by the way, I am going to stay inside for these four days and snuggle in my bed because guess what: it is snowing again. Ugh I hate this, spring where are you?
... and sorry when it is bothering you that I may make some terrible mistakes but I use this blog also as practice for my english writing skills. Hope you do not mind too much and it is not too bad.
Thank god it is friday! After this week I do not want to write much because my brain is pretty much useless at the moment so I leave you with a song for the weekend. I discovered it last night when I stayed at a friends house with my some of my closest friends. We danced with that song while we were cooking, it was such a good night. With those friends I could imagine living together and spending most nights like this.
A lot is going on in my life, but I do not want to bore anyone with my normal day life. As exciting it could be for me, sometimes it is way to much to write about so I am sharing just three little things I am loving or interested in at the moment. Maybe I am going to do that weekly, I'll see.
1. Kunsthaus Zurich
Probably my favourite room at the museum, Monet and Rodin combined.
The first one would be the local art museum we have visited yesterday with our school. Probably this will be always one of my favourite places to go, I love the art there so much. It has so many different artist from different decades and styles, and as for me always a different experience when I am going there. For example this time, our professor gave us a little tour of the modern art part and I saw some of the paintings that I though they did not make any sense to me in a whole other light. I cannot say I like them now but I understand them now.
After that tour, we had a little bit time to look around on our own. We also had to think what is the difference between the modern art and those from the other centuries. What has changed over the years?
2. Journal
In the last couple of week, I have started to write in a journal all of the thoughts of me that could be important, because before that I tend to forget those thoughts and ideas again and I would be seriously pissed at myself for forgetting them. It helps me so much out in my daily life, always when I see something that inspires me or I have something to remember I write it down in my little book.
For a stranger it might look like a mess but I makes sense to me.
Note in my journal of the recent visit to the museum
Okay If I am honest I have three different little books. One for art history and other school stuff (the middle one), a sketch book, obviously for sketching (the under one) and the top one, which is for notes, stories and inspiration. I use this one the most.
3. Tom Odell
Okay, Tom Odell is absolutely amazing! I cannot stop listening to his music, even though sometimes it is not more than his voice and his piano it show so much emotions. I was hocked since the day I stumbled across 'Another Love' on YouTube and now it has become in a short time to one of my most played songs on iTunes.
So I think I am going to share this amazing song with the internet. Enjoy!
Ugh, okay this took me so much longer as I expected, I had so much trouble with the pictures and the video. But anyways I am really proud of me that I made such a long, second blog entry! And I really hope I am going to make some more in the future and I am not giving up too soon on this.
Cheers!
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