Sara Hammerzmith

Peoples! Tomorrow I’ll be leaving this city and head onwards to the capital of Sweden for artRAVE and Lady Gaga! This will be the fourth time I see her live, and I’m beyond excited actually, which surprises me a little bit, considering I didn’t care too much for “Artpop”. The album contains a few good songs – I can’t tell you enough how much I love the song “Gypsy”. I’ve been listening on it endlessly ever since the album came out, but as far as that goes, it’s really that one and maybe one or two more (and this includes ‘Applause’) that I geniunely enjoy on the album.

My favorite album that Lady Gaga ever released is “The Fame Monster”. It’s a short as fuck album – 8 songs only, but then we are also talking about 8 drop dead perfect tracks. I figured I’ll write more about that I like about the album for tomorrows blog, as I won’t even be at home to actually blog tomorrow, haha! But yes. Despite having so-so feelings about the album, I still hope the show will be a killer.

Shot by me during “Glitter and Grease”, Fame Monster Ball 2010.

// Sara

As time is running away from me, and I can’t figure out anything better to write about, I’ll give you the photobomb I promised you like a month ago, of D-A-D’s bassplayer and all his different basses. I just loved it. He practically changed bass about as often as Lady Gaga changes clothes. Enjoy!

I love this one. I love pretty much anything neon.

Ok, so can we just appreciate that he literally has the body of the bass as the head, and the head as the body?

Crappy picture is crappy, but it’s some sort of engine!

The D-A-D logo. Nice.

And yes. The bass is a rocketship. And he has a helmet. The shoots pyros. Enough said.

Can we all just appreciate Stigge? Can we?

Thanks.

// Sara

Alright people! In celebration of being finished with my first exam as an audio engineer, I have FINALLY booked all the last pieces for my Helsinki trip later this year! I’m starting to look forward like crazy to Lordi. Can’t believe I’m actually seeing them this year. So excited.

Talking about Lordi and all, a few days ago they released the content of the limited fan box that’ll be released! Here’s the items:

So, what do we see here? First of all, a poster of the band. That’s rad. The album. Certificate of authencity.

And an apron and Hella’s recepie for cupcakes.

A FUCKING APRON GUYS. AN APRON.

I love this. I have ordered the fanbox, or at least I hope I did (didn’t order it from EMP) but you know. Damn. I want that apron. I guess it all has to do with the track “Hella’s Kitchen”. And what makes me happy about this box is that is’ basically 4 times cheaper than the old breakfast-box they had. That pleases me so much.

God, I’m starting to get so excited. Any Lordifans here have an opinion on the fanbox?

// Sara

Hey you all.

I just figured I’d stick in here and give one of these boring posts where I apologize for being so uninspiring lately. We got a bit of a surprise exam that I’ve been studying my ass off for lately, and I’m currently sitting in Logic with the second part of the exam in order to hopefully finish it off tonight so I can focus on the book and notes tomorrow.

Hopefully I’ll have something more fun in store for you guys for tomorrow or possibly Friday, but I promise you, soon enough all should be back to normal! In the mean time I guess we could all just celebrate that it’s Lady Gaga in less than a week, and that we got sooo many new albums coming our way!

Anyway. Gotta continue this now. See you later!

//Sara

Man! I’m telling you, right now I’m so wrapped up in school work (exam this Friday!) that I don’t even know what I do anymore. Or what to blog about. I have a few plans on possible topics for October, but yeah, that’s for then!

But to give you something to dig your teeth into: I finally booked the hotel for Finland! This means we are one step closer to being done booking. All I have left is flights, bustickets… yeah the usual, haha! I’m so excited for the show. Sure, it’s been only a little over a year since I last saw Lordi, but this era just feels so promising.

I have only heard “Nailed by the Hammer of Frankenstein” so far and like two seconds of the intro of “Hells Sent Clowns” or what the song is called, to not spoil it too much for me. I plan to dig into the record on Sunday, when all the exams and all working week is over for this time. Like a celebration, if you like.

But before I do that, I must come around to write about Amaranthe. And I can just tell you one thing; Massive Addictive is fucking perfect. There you have it. Make sure to pre-order it, because you WON’T be disappointed.

But yes. Bed. School. Tomorrow. Exams.

NP: Eye to Eye – Slaughter

// Sara

Today, my friends, I did something that I’ve been wanting to do for such a long time. To set up my vinyl record player. I’ve had it standing under my bed (on a desk) for almost a year, but I haven’t had any speakers to accompany it with until now, and today, we installed the speakers and FINALLY shook some life in this old thing.

The record I decided to debut the whole thing with was Vixen’s selftitled albums. As some of you may know, this is one of my favorite albums ever, and even thought I was debating a bit wheter or not I should have gone with “To Beast or Not To Beast” by Lordi, this felt like a good start.

Yes, I do actually put importance into things like this.

Anyway. The first take was dreadful. First of all, we had difficulties getting the machine to work. And once we did, I was TERRIFIED when I heard what was coming out of the speakers. Whatever it was, it wasn’t Janet Gardner, and the song was not “Edge of a Broken Heart”.

Gladly, it turned out someone had been screwing with the pitch meter, and after a few tweaks, it sounded like Janet and it was the right song! So happy.

And oh my god, the quality of the sound and the whole thing just blows my mind. This is the fourth system I have in my room now for music playing, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be using it A LOT. Damn I love it. This will be used A LOT from now on.

// Sara