Andy McKee - Drifting

Okay, here's the one I told you in my last entry about. I had some trouble finding it on youtube, but... like always, I just had to open my eyes really WIIIIIIDE to see it. *gosh* sometimes I really wonder why I keep not seeing stuff even though it's there. Anyway. That's Andy McKee's Song called Drifting which is actually already 2 years old. THAT's the song which gave him such a huge sucess as you can see at the ratings this song got and the comments and the total Views. It's really awesome. Please, check it out.

See ya Around!

Andy McKee - Africa (original by Toto)

Well, if that isn't a masterpiece I don't know what is. Andy McKee, born in Topega, Kansas, is an US-American fingerstyle guitarist currently signed to the US-American record label Candyrat Records. His style of playing and his compositions have earned him a considerable fanbase; in late 2006, a live performance of his flagship song "Drifting" became a Featured Video on YouTube and MySpace, achieving over 10,000,000 views on the former to date and remaining one of its highest rated music clips. [partly copied from wikipedia]
McKnee startet playing guitar when he was only 13 years old, when his father bought him an acoustic guitar. Since 2001 he released 5 albums, the first still independetly, the others under the lable of CANdYRAT Records, which along with about 100 to 200 sold out shows annualy are highly recommended and a piece of art. He has also performed with other famous performers such as Don Ross, Antoine Dufour, Michael Manring and others.

Check out his music at youtube.com under the username of rpoland. You can also find other artists which are currently under the Candyrat Records.
Please buy his music to support him! (I'm currently still looking for CD's to buy too *gg*

oh... by the way - another highly recommended song is Drifting! Such a great piece!

New Video Release for Kizuna

I never once before wrote much about my german subtitling group Kizuna. So let me introduce you to them.
Kizuna is a group of people which really love asian music video, called PV (Promotional Video). Basically those are videos you could watch on broadcasting TV shows like MTV or so, they are just from someplace called "Asia". :) Anyway, this group mostly consists of me, the girl who does the effects for the videos, someone who times the lyric lines to the audio of the video and someone who does the encoding to acutally put the subtitles into the video to shine in full glory... *sparkle*
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Naw, that was melodramatic, but you get what I mean. Anyway. I want to keep track on my thoughts and everything I think about the videos I'm working on and YES, I know it's not nice to do fansubs and yes, I'm aware that it's actually not really legal, but I really like people who can't understand the language in which the song is, to understand what is sung in the lyric so basically we take the Kanji/Hangul/whatever, romanize them so we unholy mortals can read them properly and translate them into a language which we can understand - german and english for us then. Since nearly all my video are also released in english under the groups Mognet or BoAjjang,I also startet to release the videos in my german group to do them same for fans in Germany/Austria or whereever someone lives who actually want's german translations. I never intended or intend to get in the way of the big companies who hold the legal rights to this stuff, so sorry if you don't like it. I like the music and I like to do creative things to the letters and well... combine that and you get video fansubs, and it's not like those videos are going to ever be released or licenced in any of the European countries - and if they are, well I just stop the distribution on my part.

*sigh* Anyway, here's the new video for this Sunday.I decided to do a song by popular alternative/pop-rock band Nakanomori BAND (中ノ森BAND), which is a four-member girl band from Japan. The song is from their 7th single which was actually a double-single release called "イソブラボー/雪; Isobravo / Yuki". Nakanomori BAND debuted in 2005 formerly as a five-member band but soon after the first two singles Tomoe (guitar) decided that she would leave the band so she could focus on entering university. Which leaves us the four other members of the Band: Ayako (guitar/vocals), Shinamon (keyboard), Yucco (bass), Cheeta (drums).
Unfortunately their first singles didn't sell that well (only #22 for them in the Oricon Charts) but suprisingly, despite the low sales for the band's singles, their first album "OH MY DARLIN' ~Girls having Fun~" reached a position of #9 on Oricon charts.
This january (2008) they released their 8th single "風になりたい; kaze ni nartai" which will be followed with the third album in march. Hopefully the sales grow by then...

That's it from me and the new update. Coming up is another youtube video I really like to share. See ya!

Four Hands Guitar

This is some awesome piece of craft - two people playing together on the same guitar. Jerry's Breakdown composed by Jerry Reed, played by Antoine Dufour and Tommy Gauthier.
I was looking for some more Andy McKee Videos (which I'm going to post one for you tomorrow) and stumbled upon this really nice piece. You should watch it if you really like guitar music. Have fun!

Oh boy! That were two really hard weeks since last I wrote here. I've had a pretty bad flu and couldn't come online for quite some time or do anything else for that matter and it S.U.C.K.E.D. You know, if you're like me you really like to hang around and do stuff and work on something or just plain read a fucking book but NO! I couldn't open my eyes for long time periods and so I was stuck with sleeping and lying around till my eyes got better. It's really bad if you can't even read while being sick. I was kinda light-sensitive then... well anyway, we stop ranting here and get on with it.

After recoverin enough to get back to the comp I've finished a lot of work.
Mostly I tried to finish all those "old" videos for the winter season and I had quite a lot of request-karaoke to do.
Since I don't want to get into detail I'll just make a list:
.//hack GU ED
Bamboo Blade OP & ED
Bleach ED13
Bleach ED14
Bleach OP7
Ichigo 100% OP
Initial D Stage 3 Movie OP, ED and Outro
Naruto Shippuuden OP2 new version
Ranma 1/2 Stage 5 OP & ED
Rosario + Vampire OP & ED
Tsubasa Chronicle Tokyo Revelations OVA OP & ED

Oh well :) can't help it but I still got like 5 other request works.
Hopefully I'll be done with them soon too.
I also - FINALLY - was able to fix up this one *beep* effect on which I was working now for like half a year. Everytime I really wanted to do it I couldn't really figure it out and that gave me more than once quite the headache. But finally I fixed it and it looks awesome. I used it in the Rosario Ending which works quite well since there are a lot of diffrent shapes flying around in the video.

Other than that I worked on those winter-y videos I talked about but I'll get into detail another time.
Since I'm okay again I've been reading quite a lot of books. One of the autors was Susan Sizemore and I tell you - she's one amazing writer. Her stories are quite intoxicating and I really like them. Finished off three books in 3 days which was a feast - but after that I was just plain tired. *lol* To make a long story short - Sizemore writes (i.a.) about vampires and werefolks.While her weres are pretty "normal" compared to other were stories I read her vampires are quite fascinating...
She writes about a three class system in which the vampire race is devided. Basically it's the Clans, the Familys and the Tribes. I really like her thinking here since she worked with actual forms of group dynamics. Funny is that she claims that the each class has specific attributes - while the Clans are the good boys, the Familys just try to blend in but aren't biased with saving the whole world and the Tribes sum up as the bad boys in town. Also interesting is the matriarchal system in which the women lead the houses and keep it all together. I like the thinking here since normally with all the other vamp storys you only get guys as the heads of a class/system/clan/whatever. I'm going to read the sixth book of this series now and after that I have to wait.

I also found out that this year will be an amazing year for me. 6 autors I really like to read are going to release new books which I can't wait to get my hands on. Among them is Laurell K. Hamilton who is going to release a new Anita Blake book "Blood Noir" in which Anita is going out of town with Jason. THIS will be interesting. I also found out that Kim Harrison is releasing her sixth book about Rachel Morgan - the earth witch. Hopefully the book will be good. I also just found out that in the recently published anthology "Holidays are hell" (my copie arrived yesterday!) she participated with a short story about Rachel in her youth where she's trying hard to get her brother to sign her I.S. (Inlander Security) application.

I can't stop reading - but most of all buying - books. Since december I bought like 15 new books - which is a lot, even for me. I hope to be able to refrain to buy anything in february but I don't think so. I'm a bad girl - but only when it comes to books *haha*

Well 'nuff said.
I'm going to go reading for a bit now since tomorrow I'll again have a 6 hour lesson - which is a really good lesson, but I'm still tired from lack of sleep so I'll just succumb now.
Bye, till next time!

Hello NEW YEAR!

Has it been 2 week again since I last wrote something? Ow, I'm so bad.
Sorry about that. I've been quite busy working on some new Karaoke and also on a presentation for college.

I also got down with flu this week and I feel like eaten and spit out again. *sigh*
So far from me.

If anyone wants to see my latest karaoke creations check out my youtube account or wait till I feel better to boast about them.
Take care and see you hopefully soon.