Lost in Denmark

Woot! Jazzwood is back.

2009-04-02T05:37:00.000-07:00

I've been working on my website again: Jazzwood
You might remember it, its my old neckwood blog.
I came to the conclusion that blogger is kinda sucky if you want to edit it.

I will update this blog until Neckwood looks more spiffy.
(Actually it does already, because this blog has an awful theme)

Anyways check checking Jazzwood too!

Jess out.

Slacking

2009-03-26T04:41:00.000-07:00

Well I have been slacking with the updates again. (as usual)
I've come to the conclusion that I have too much plans lately
and too little time to do them all. As a result I haven't been
really motivated to do any of them.

Although I have been keeping up with my bass and singing practice.
Maybe I just have to slack less on the other things.

I have a lot of plans for this summer, so I'll make a list
here to remind me which things I still have to do.

Da list (of dooom):
- Learn to make a website
- Make the website
- Practice drawing
- Practice writing
- Music practice
- Make photo's
- Decorate my appartment
- Do other cool stuff.

oh and this weekend It is Breda Filmfestival so I'll probably go visit that.

Jesse out.

Feel good hit of the summer?

2009-03-11T05:20:00.000-07:00

Here I am on the 19th floor of the Eramus MC faculty building, which is about 100 meter high, and its very nice here. I don't know about you kids on the ground level, but the sun is shining here and I'm looking out over the Maas and Rotterdam.

I had band coaching & singing classes yesterday, which went very well (well singing did). And now I'm looking for a new song to learn. After asking around for some new songs Anna send me 'You can't steal my love' from Mando Diao, a swedish band. It is another of those songs you instantly fall in love with. (Irony anyone?)

Given the current sunny situation, will it be the feel good hit of the summer? Who knows but its gonna get high rankings on my list anyways.

Hey reader, now I'm interested in your feel good hit if you have any.

I am a Youtube Star!

2009-03-04T23:40:00.000-08:00

Ladies and gentlemen. Like I promised, I am now a Youtube Star!

A friend of Oskar ,who is the drummer in my band, taped some video footage of our rehearsals and edited it into a video clip. He uploaded it to Youtube so everyone can check it out. We are all very happy we finally got some of our music online.
Another good thing is that Omnivore made the first popschool newspaper. I'll upload the article later..

Update

2009-02-16T03:01:00.000-08:00

Hello ladies & Gents, I'm back with another blog post, Its been a while :O
I've have been busy with some very stressful weeks of school so I wasn't motivated to keep this updated. Another excuse that I have is that you shouldn't post blogs if you don't have something interesting to write.

Which is the lamest excuse ever, because interesting things did happen! So whats new?

- I came back from Denmark safely (and sober)
- I had my birthday + party on the 10th Januari
- Got a digital piano for my birthday. And its super fun.
- I applied for the teater & musik school in Denmark and I got accepted.
Just need to transfer the initial deposit money.
- I started my trainee ship at the Erasmus Medical Center from which I'm typing this.

With no stress on my hands or head I might keep updating this. Next post will be soon, as I found out how to shoot a video with my webcam. So now I have to upload a video of me playing bass to youtube and get 5 stars. I'll probably do that sometime next week...

Crazy Christmas

2008-12-27T07:28:00.000-08:00

Christmas is over again this year :< Spend the last few days in Naksov which was super duper.
Martin's parents are really nice people shame we could talk because they didn't speak english and my danish isn't that awesome.

Nevertheless Christmas was good. The 24th we decorated thee tree with lights and shiny baubles. We ended up watching more sex & the city after that. The 25 we got up and got ready for the Christmas happening that evening. We had a Christmas dinner with martin's family.

After that we unwrapped gifts and played raffelgifts (or something). I got a Emo scarf, a book, shampoo, a cd from kings of leon and some candles.

The day after we had a lunch. The lunch was totally danish. We had some starters, some Snapps, more startes, more snapps, beer, main course & snapps, more snapps, desert, & snapps.
In case your wondering Snapps is a danish shot drink. :O

Naksov

2008-12-23T11:22:00.001-08:00

Yesterday I visit Matthew & Stina & Isabella, the cute little baby girl. We had dinner at their place. Talked a bit and watched some weird danish TV show. after getting home I browsed some on my laptop and watched Sex and the city with Line.

Today I woke up and went to martin's hometown Naksov.
The car ride took an awefull long time though :< about 2.5 hours.

We had dinner here and more risegrod. Now getting fed on christmas candies and coffee.

The eagle has landed

2008-12-22T04:12:00.000-08:00

rawr I'm at martins place after getting up at 5.30. There are sandwiches and coffee here though.

Denmark is nice.

Skitties Quest Log

2008-12-17T12:40:00.000-08:00

I have revamped my old and first ever blog :)
(Which means I've changed the background)

Anyways it's mostly warcraft related stuff on there so if you are a wow'er go check it out.
I'm gonna add a link in the nav bar sometimes for now check out.

http://skittyquestlog.blogspot.com/

Omnivore rocks

2008-12-14T12:51:00.001-08:00

Yeeaaah we nailed it. last Friday we had our first mini gig as a band. Its was part of the popschool presentation, and we did awesome. It was a bit scary to stand on stage the first time,
but once you start playing most of it quickly disappears. We only played 2 songs because we didn't have the time write more :( . Which disappointed the crowd because they wanted more :D

People were very impressed we manage to do this good after only 3 months of playing together and already writing 2 songs and a good performance. After the show people came to us congratulation, totally awesome.

See all the picture >> here <<

Camera

2008-12-14T05:47:00.000-08:00

I have been thinking about making more photographs for a while now. So I finally decided to buy my own. Final choice came down to the Nikon d60, as some of my friends use Nikon camera's and are very satisfied with them.

I've been going around with it for a few day now and its total awesome, my pictures will follow because the thing doesn't want to upload zhe picture to my lappy :<

I wanna ROCK !!

2008-12-11T12:43:00.000-08:00

Skittles reviews: C-mon & Kypski – The Rock Compilation

“This album is very good. As its title suggest it compiles the biggest rock songs of C-mon & Kypski and a remix of some of their songs with a rock feel. Awesome album 8 out of 10”

I first heard about the album a few weeks ago while on one of my Youtubing sprees. I stumbled on something like a making of trailer of C-mon & kypskies new album. I immediately love it, and it was going to release 1 dec. Sadly I couldn’t find any store that sold it at 1 dec and it was sold out after that, but I finally got it last Wednesday.

My first impression of the album in the fancy Velvet Store music seats was 'eyebrow raising'. I was expecting a bit more new songs. Maybe that compilation part actually meant something...
But after the initial doubts about the album I think it is very good. Although many of the songs appeared on previous C-mon & Kypski albums they are remixed. The songs that were on previous albums are amoung the best of the old albums already. (Sadly no Shitty Bum rockmix :< )

Conclusion:
It comes down to the simple fact that The Rock Compilation is more like a best of C-mon & Kypski rock songs and then remixed. But brings something new. Even those who own all previous C-mon & Kypski albums. It is a good album, and for the price of only 8 euro it’s a great value for money.

Bonus tracks include: reworked rock version of. The evil needle, and 2 bonus live tracks.
Top 3 Strongest songs: Running with the Evil Needle, Wildfire, Rock di Mexicano.

Find C-mon and Kypski on : Youtube, last FM

You sir are a winner!

2008-12-10T11:54:00.000-08:00

Last monday we celebrated 'Sinterklaas' which is like the dutch version of the american chistmas. Which mean I get presents and that's ace. (We dutch also celebrate Christmas = presents x2)

Anyways here is a picture of what I got from Sinterklaas.

Also I got an email from Thundgot (Blizzard) on Thursday who congratulated me on winning the photo contest during the WotLK opening event in Rotterdam. After some hassle with wrong codes I am now the proud owner of Gurky, the pink murloc.

New blog

2008-12-10T11:49:00.000-08:00

Same blog, new location. I wanted to design my own web page during 2009 and I decided that it was better to make a blogger blog, so I can update it more easily.

I don't know if I'm going to archive the old blog posts on neckwood. Probably not anyways the new web page is going to link to here in the future.

Jess out