Sara Hammerzmith

The blues after a fulfilling festivalsummer and some concerts are really starting to hit in pretty deep, especially since it’s a good few weeks left until we get on the road again, but this time around it will be a bit more scattered and not as far away.

But you know, you need some time to take a break. And I’m not talking about resting or things like that, it’s financially you need to bounce back. So I guess it’s a good thing.

To cure these very, very depressing feelings I’ll put on a Toto vinyl and catch up on my favorite Phineas&Ferb fanfic. After not being updated for over a year, I’m now many many chapters behind.

But that, will happen tomorrow. I now need to go to bed, because I start work in three hours and I prefer to sleep a bit before I go to work (shocker!)

// Sara

A song by all female band Drain currently going through my speakers as I try to update my iPod.

Ever since the little incident I had where about 300 scrobblings wouldn’t happen because they expired, I try to keep my iPods fairly updated, especially now when I listen to music for about two hours straight every morning thanks to work.

With that said… It’s my birthday today! One whole year older, 24 now, and nothing has absolutely changed, just as usual. It was a quiet day, spent by sitting outside in the garden playing The Sims and eating more candy than I should, doing some gift to myself shopping with the vouchers I got from Nelly and CDON…. and playing more The Sims. Anna has gotten so far, but I’ll tell you all about it in another entry.

Later in the day we had a small celebration, me and my parents and I got a few gifts from them. From my father I got a certain amount of money, which is sort of his standard. From my mother, it was a different story.

First of all, I got a pair of handmade crochet gloves featuring a skull on them. Secondly, a cactus, which I actually got earlier in the day now that I think about it. A portable harddrive where I, at last, can store all my photos and The Sims games for back up. Two bowls made out of old vinyls – one bigger, one smaller and a Stone Sour album, “House of Gold and Bones pt 1” to be more exact!

Really nice things I must say, much appreciated!

The rest of the evening was spent playing more The Sims. I gave The Sims 3 a shot, and finally took Elsa scuba diving, but I lost patience very quickly. I really need to go in with the mindset of playing it, or else I’ll just be too disturbed by how slow it is and how bad the graphics are compared to The Sims 4.

// Sara

Guess what I, finally, made up my mind about today?

THIS!

I had been interested in the show ever since I saw her tourplan, but since I was unsure at the time if I’d be in Germany or not, I wasn’t sure. Obviously, I’m not there, so it became more and more certain. And then, like, very last minute, I asked Emelie if she wanted to join and said and done – here we are with our tickets to see Annika Herlitz, the Swedish voice of Elsa for those of you who are unaware.

I’m not sure at all as in what to expect of the show. It’s promoted as a “fantastic family show” put on by Annika, and I know she performs some of the “Frozen” songs live, so I guess we will see what it actually is.

What I am certain about, is that I’ll be hearing good songs sung with an amazing voice.

// Sara

Today has been quite okay, didn’t do a whole lot during the day but I did meet up with Emelie for the evening.

We went downtown to find a cosy coffee shop for a coffee (or well, soft drink for me) and just spent a few hours catching up talking about everything and nothing. Emelie is leaving for the UK in just a week or so, so it was a little heartfelt that it might be the last time you see her in quite some time.

It was a nice way to spend the evening, regardless. It’s the little things that makes the most, you know?

// Sara

You know, when working with delivering newspapers, I get the perfect opportunity to listen through albums properly without being able to change. Or, I can change, but not as much as if I just walked around and listened to music. I usually try to go over albums I don’t listen to as often, in an attempt to give them a fair shot, but sometimes I just relive old goodies.

Like today, when I went over Sabaton. I went over “The Art of War”, “Attero Dominatus” and “Carolus Rex” (there’s only so many albums you manage to go through on two hours) and something that struck me that I haven’t really given much thought before…. is how similar some of their songs really is.

Like when I tried to sleep later that morning and I had “40:1” echoing in my head, which eventually merged together with “1648” off “Carolus”. And the more you think about it, the more you realize that some of their songs are indeed the same.

Wig Wam would have this thing where every album was an evolvement – “A Rock n Roll Girl Like You” was an evolvment of “Mine All Mine” and was evolved to “Rocket Through My Heart” and so on, but they were never so similar it felt like they took the music and slapped new lyrics on top of that. Maybe they’re out of ideas. Huh.

Thomas had already technically enlightnend me on this fact, but I hadn’t realized ’til now. Huh. Would you know.

// Sara

So, in lack of better things to write about, I might as well show the tiny little haul I got while at Skogsröjet.

First of all, for the first time ever, I’ve gotten myself a festival tshirt from Skogsröjet. Better late than never, huh? I don’t really have a reason as to why I haven’t gotten any before but… Finally!

I think it’s tricky nowadays to find good Skogsröjet shirts, as they are all going… like this. This was the one I liked the best, but for being such a cosy festival, their artwork has really gotten dark…

The next thing was four albums. Or perhaps more like, three albums and one EP.

First of all, it’s Beyond Visions EP, and their album “Your Face is Familiar”. Bloodbound “Stormborn”, which is signed, and also Tyranex’ “Unable to Tame”. I’m really looking forward to dig into the three unknown CD’s, but we’ll see when it actually happens.

Yeah what to add. Not a very big haul, but it’s always something!

// Sara