Xmas :D

I feel it in my fingers,
I feel it in my toes,
Christmas is all around me,
and so the feeling grows

It's written in the wind,
It's everywhere I go,
So if you really love Christmas,
C'mon and let it snow

Yes, Christmas is just in a few days, but unfortunately I do not feel the Christmas atmosphere yet. Of course, Christmas season is very well visible in huge shopping malls, where everything is so glittery, almost saying 'look over here!', 'buy this!', 'spend all your money here!'...
Perhaps I don't feel the atmosphere because of these two more days at college when everybody else is at home preparing everything for Christmas, cleaning the house, decorating Christmas trees...

But it wasn'y always so. My childhood memories of Christams are very cheerful nd pleasant :) I always laugh at myself when I think how much I pretended to look as if I didn't care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree :P Our dad always took us to our cousin, Adam, to give him Christmas presents, then we went for grandma and returned with her and the presents were already there! Unfortunately, Santa had already left :P Delicious Christmas dinner, opening presents, talking, laughing, watching 'Kevin' - these are my childhood memories of Christmas :)

I do hope this year's Christmas will be full of happiness, that everyone will spent it surrounded by people you love and care about... MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR :)

It's my big brother and me in 1993 (I think I don't have a few front teeth on this photo:P)

M - U - S - I - C

Yes, that's right (yes, yes Kalina, I know what you are thinking about :P).

Music is a very personal thing and I know that we should neither try to persuade nor force people to listen to our favorite music. I know how painful it is when people give you CDs you have absolutely no inclination to listen to :) That's why I will at least try not to FORCE you to be interested in my music :) But still... :P

I've had different times in my life , but actually various kinds of rock music have always been 'closest to my heart'. Any sort of classification is useless here, because people may call the same group's music 'alternative', 'funk rock', 'funk metal' or 'rapped metal'.

So, I'd like to present to you:

BEN KENNEY

For me - an absolute genous. Many people just don't understand what I'm talking about (but Halszka does, cheers), but yes, Ben is just great. I know I talk about him too much. I know my boyfriend is totally bored with Ben, but still :P

Ben used to play the bass guitar in The Roots, an American hip-hop band, now he is a member of Incubus. He also plays in his own group called The Division Group (or Supergrub) together with Ashley Mendel and Neil Evans. Ben has released 3 solo records so far ('26', 'Maduro' and 'Distance and Comfort') which he created all by himself from the very beginning to the end.

Here's 'Eulogy', enjoy :)


GARBAGE

Shirley Manson - she's a star. Girl's power :) My friend from high school said she would buy Garbage's records after seeing covers of their CDs. I don't know why, but I would as well. If you have time and energy you can watch their videos (they are pretty strange and full of androgynous ideas, but still great). One of my favorite Garbage's songs is 'I think I'm paranoid'... it may explain a few things :P Enjoy.

INCUBUS

Yes, Incubus. I started to be interested in them in 2002 I think, when I heard 'Are you in?', but then in 2003 I saw 'Megalomaniac' video and that was the real beginning :) This is 'IT' for me. No more words, just music.

'Anna Molly', kudos.

...and 'Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)' acoustic, a long time ago when Brandon Boyd wore sweaters :)

Cherry's land

Just as everybody, I find it difficult to write about things, places or people I've known for my entire life. I mean, how can I describe a place you probably have never been to or you are not interested in? But let's say you are :)

So... my hometown (or 'my village') is Szamotuły. It's an old small town about 34km from Poznań with more or less 20 thousand people.

What I like most about my town are parks (we've got at least 4) where you can relax, lie on the grass (then it's warm) and take a deep breath of fresh air (the air is cleaner and fresher than in Poznań, that is for sure).

There's also one funny place which people call 'Piaszczychy'. It's an area near an open air swimming pool and tennis courts. To be honest, I didn't know that this area is caled like that although I was born in Szamotuły and have lived here for my whole life :P My friends laughed at me about an hour and couldn't believe I didn't know 'Piaszczychy' :)

There are much more interesting places such as 'Bajka', 'Trójka', 'Cegielnia' and so on. Come and check them out...

Cherryland in "White Fluffy Clouds"

'Someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything, so do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two' Brandon Boyd 'White Fluffy Clouds'

Enjoy the blog.
Cheers & kudos,
Asia