Sara Hammerzmith

That’s almost what I feel like now. I have finally finished all the exams I had left to finish for school, and I only have some minor music business related tasks left, and the music business isn’t exactly what’s tricky for me as you know.

Aside that, my concert weeks are starting to come together as well. I’ve finally been able to book the majority of the trip for SlipKnot tour, and it feels good as hell. After calculations and thinking and more calculations it appears I can do one more stop on my SlipKnot tour which makes me beyond excited. Figured I’d celebrate all these amazing happenings with re-decorating my Lordi wall (tomorrow) and perhaps getting a few cheap CD’s or two. I just need to get my CD-priority list in line. I have this whole list of CD’s I plan to get, but I always end up buying CD’s that aren’t on the list at all. Why. WHY.

Now, I need to get to bed. Tomorrow is a hectic day; doctor’s appointment in the morning, lecture in school and after that some sweet voice overs in the studio again. Loving this right now.

// Sara

Okay, so, as you guys know, I have this love-hate relationship towards Spotify. I think the idea is fine, even though I’ve always doubted how lucrative it really is towards musicians. I’m always going to think of it as a better option than illegal downloading (which I can’t stand, like, pay for the music goddamnit) but I have never been 100% sure about it.

However, I’m not going to lie. I do have Spotify installed on my computers, and I use it from time to time. I wrote about it this summer, that I was listening through all of Amaranthe’s CD’s on it while awaiting the CD’s myself, because I didn’t really want to go to the show and not knowing their songs.

The only reasons I am today using Spotify is for researching a band I’m supposed to write about, if the album is only available there and looking for new bands. I go on a certain band and look through the related artists. This is how I found bands as Dionysus and One Man Army and the Undead Quartet, for examples.

Today I got an email from Spotify wanting to sum up my year in music according to Spotify, and I thought it could be fun. I’ve decided to wait to post the results until New Year’s are coming, but what they did to, is that they created this playlist with new suggestions for me for 2015 of bands I might like. This should be interesting.

Looking through the list, I wasn’t too surprised. They had listed bands as Freedom Call, Helloween, Sonata Arctica, Within Temptaion, Kamelot, Dragonforce, Nightwish, Volbeat, In Flames, Fintroll, Edguy, Raubtier, Van Canto and Slash. These are all bands that I’ve listened a bit to before, some more (Van Canto) some less (In Flames) so I’ll sure as hell go through this list.

The biggest surprise for me was the listing of Sabaton, Lordi and HammerFall. Like, ok. Come on. LORDI? I’m pretty sure I’ve listened A LOT to Lordi on Spotify this year…

However, I’m most curios about the bands on the list I wasn’t familiar with. A lot of you reading this entry will want to shoot me down after I say this, but the bands listed was: Völkerball, Pentakill, Oomph!, CygnosiC, Sarah Blackwood, Jamie Christopherson and Linked Horizon.

I’m looking forward to start looking through these bands. So with that said. I’m still a bit skeptic toward Spotify, but I DO love these functions of it.

Thanks Spotify!

// Sara

Been a slow day today. Some schoolwork has been done, but mostly, I’ve used the day to run some errands downtown and later on christmas decorating my room.

Normally, I don’t do a lot of christmas decorations and I’ve actually kept it a bit to a minimum this year as well. Once I move out and away from home, I guess things will change. When we were out downtown earlier today I found these awesome baubles, three in the shape of skulls and two round pink ones with studs on them. I put them up in my window, where I already have the green glitter and pink light. Turned out pretty nicely.

The second thing I did was to redecorate the arrangements on the TV. Previously it was just random glasses for candles (what is that even called in english?) shaped as pumpkins and normal ones, but I took all of that away and put up a wintermug with a teddy reindeer in it, a scented candle (vanilla) with some christmas theme on, and my little Christmas cactus, which got some glitter on him, a ball and a star on top. To top off this, I also took down Olaf, Anna, Sven, Kristoff and SF-Elsa to pop it even more. Ahh, this sure is Frozen’s season!

// Sara

Woke up to some pretty rad good news today. No less than ten new acts has been announced for Sweden Rock next year!

Amongst the new bands we find Slash, Dokken, Hardcore Superstar, Bloodbath, Pat Travers, Eluveitie, Refuge, Dare, Dan Hylander and Egonaut.

Like, seriously. Sweden Rock just continues to deliver GOOD FUCKING BANDS making this possibly one of the most epic years since 2008! I’m especially excited for Dokken. I never actually thought I’d get to see them live EVER, so to hear them being confirmed for Sweden Rock just excites me SO much. And do I even need to tell you how I feel about Hardcore Superstar being there? Guess not! Slash will be fun to see too.

God, this line up is just getting better and better. Festivalsummer 2015, BRING IT ON!

// Sara

Today has been yet another long and “busy” day at Ingesund. We have finally started our first production though – it’ll be a spoof of a SlipKnot video we found on Youtube. It’s only about a minute long, but it feels like a good start.

Of course, the day hasn’t been troublefree. It’s doesn’t even seem to matter – if Michelle and I are gonna do something, it WILL fuck up wheter I want that or not. At first, I was just about to make the train when I realized I had forgotten the passcard to the studio at home, and thus ending up late again. Once we got there, my computer, neither one them, wanted to get on the wireless internet in the studio, but gladly, after an HOUR or so of swearing, it finally did. And then, the soundcard would at first not synchronize with the computer, but once we got THAT to work the soundcard wouldn’t synchronize with Logic Pro X and we were just sitting there like AHSDLAJSDLAJS. We are sure as hell not meant to be doing this, OR, faith is possibly trying our patience to see how persistant we are.

After a little while, it FINALLY started, and we could finally get to work. We started off brainstorming a bit on what we were going to say, who was gonna play which member and so on. We got together some pretty sweet stuff and afterwards decided to wing it.

The voicing went smooth. It was A LOT easier this time around, as we had taken ourselves the time to get familiar with the clip, but also the fact there weren’t any particularly long dialouges or tricky lines. I think it went all cool. We managed to finish off Mick, Joey, Chris and Clown before starting to edit them in for a first draft.

It was a little tricky at first, and when I finally set down to cut in the voices on the right places I noticed we had managed to delete the BEST PART of Mick’s monolouge. HOW IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE. Gladly, it was fairly easy to recreate. After finishing and wrapping up the first day of recordings, we celebrated with some microwave pizza and a recorded Phineas&Ferb Star Wars, seeing it for the first time ever, in Ingesunds cafeteria.

Ahh, the glamourous life of “voice actors” huh? Haha, not really, but cozy as hell! Can’t wait to get down with this little project, but gladly we are continuing next week!

// Sara

Today’s been an interesting day. We started the whole day off with having Lordi announce their tour – which is beyond awesome. FINALLY we are getting the Tour Force One dates. Of course, as suspected, no dates for Fenno-Scandinavia, but we finally made a decision on where to go see the Monstars again. If they were to announce dates in Sweden later on, we sure would go anyway, but, yes. It feels good that next year is finally coming together.

Aside that, I decided to take the day off from school and everything because of the hectic weekend – some weekends I work first at the nightclub, and then in the morning I work in the stable. I only get two hours sleep in between, so I’m basically WIPED OUT after a weekend like this. But one day off usually does the trick!

But, anyway, I went out and got most of my christmas shopping done. And that makes me SO GLAD. I only have one more person to shop for, and it takes away SO MUCH stress it ain’t even funny. It feels good to have it done, and I spent half my evening packing the stuff. For some reason I’ve gotten more into the actual packing and wrapping rather than the gifts. Funny.

Tomorrow is a big day though, voice overs are on the schedule again! See yah later!

// Sara