Sara Hammerzmith

“Being a fan doesn’t mean you were there from the beginning, it means you are willing to be there until the end.”

– Green Day’s Drunken Bunny

So true. I’m not giving up on my bands. Not today.

 
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Getter Jaani’s summerhit from 2010. I’ve really fallen for her, I love her music, I love her persona.. Ahh. Everything about her!

Ok. I’ve been silent for a while. It’s been school. And diseases. And riding. AND NEW STUFF FROM ODIUM :”D
I got my package yesterday right, and I don’t think you know what I ordered, but it was a PVC top with open cleavage, two eyeshadows and a pair of false lashes. When I tried the PVC top I realized one thing. How fucking comfortable PVC really is. I usually think that any “alternative” kind of material is really uncomfortable, and usually so are the case with fake leather (or maybe it is the plastic sticks in it…) but this top was… so comfortable. I didn’t want to take it off! But I had to.. Gotta save it you know!

God I just love it! I have tried the make up aswell, and I fucking love the colors. They were better than I thought they’d be.

The picture doesn’t really do the blue justice, but at least it gives you the idea! And no – this “make up” was just to try out what they looked like, so yes, they are messy and shit. Wasn’t supposed to look pretty at all.

Then we have the long lashes, but I haven’t tried them since I’m afraid I might break them… So I rather wait until I actually PLAN to wear them, just in case :”D

So yes… I also tried to tidy up my room today. I think I got a bit.. before I started arranging my ESC stuff instead. I guess thats a way of cleaning too – I emptied my wallet for german traintickets and I also got away some papers I didn’t need and a few frames. We are all happy!

Now I shall just keep enjoying Getter Jaani. My dearest friend Argo went to her concert today and he recorded a sequence for me. He is golden!

Pretty lady.
NP: Grammofon – Getter Jaani
// Sara

WHAT IS DRAMATURGY?

Dramaturgy, the term comes from the german dramatist Gotthold Ephraim Lezzing. The term was invented between the years of 1767-1770 when he wrote a series of criticizing papers about Hamburg Dramaturgy where he analyzed, criticized and theorized the german theatre.

Yeah… It could also be, when it comes to media, how a medium (TV, Magazine, Radio) build up their stories to create a dramatic scene to keep the readers interested. They usually talk about four different staging.

The first one is the dramatic one, where the medium generally makes the news a sensation and playing alot on what just happened and to make the reader feel like they are a part of it.

The second staging is the lyrical staging, where you play more on the emotional and ceremonial touch of it, but instead of even having an ounce of report in what happened, it just tells you the emotional part.

The third one is epic staging, where you frame something and makes it bigger in an already big event, like, the sensational news about Azerbaijan winning, you as well bring forward about the situation down there.

The fourth and last one is didactic staging, which is completly different to the three previous ones, since this one is the one that focuses more on the information itself, and stays scientific, logical and clean without any personal perspective.

With this we can… No okay.

Yeah. This is what I learnt today while working with my group at school, we are close to be done really! I’d like to go more into dramaturgy, since I somewhat find it interesting, but I don’t wanna spoil what we have accomplished in our group so far until we have officially presented it which we will do on thursday.

This is also the reason I’ve been so off. No, not dramaturgy or narratology per se, but studying over all. Soon done with the first year, and that feels pretty awesome.  Now I shall go and get ready for the movienight I’ll have with Martina and some more friends. But then again, Whattowear?!?!?!?

NP: Bloody Mary – Lady Gaga
// Sara
Sources:
Dramaturgy on Wikipedia
“Seendets språk – exempel från konst,reklam,nyhetsförmedling och semiotisk teori” written by Hasse Hansson, Sten-Gösta Karlsson and Gert Z Nordström, p. 130 forward, edition 1:4 2006

Germanys entry for Eurovision Song Contest, I like it in some strange kind of way. I like the mystery kind of thing going on there…

I’m feeling that last minute stress you always feel at the end of the semester. We have one grouptask that needs to be finished on what, thursday, and we can’t get in touch with our teacher = GREAT. We can’t really continue without a comment from her either. Oh well, I guess we will fix it somehow… And then there is this last exam. I figured I could fix the questions on work tomorrow. So I can study. And fix the damn thing.

I’m gonna see The Poodles live next week. It’s been a while since I saw them, and for being one of my big bands that is pretty rare (‘cept from bands like Wig Wam that doesn’t care for a tour that is…) so that’s gonna be nice. And nine days after The Poodles it’s time for Cinderella… And so on. It’s running pretty smooth, but I have a few more things I need to squeeze in this summer, I don’t know how to find time for everything! It’s insane!

And… I wanna warn on behalf that I will in a near future make a big deal out of the neighbourvoting thing again. It disturbs me so much.

Oh, great, “Rockefeller Street”. DANCING TIME. See you tomorrow!

NP: Rockefeller Street – Getter Jaani
// Sara

Italy’s song for Eurovision Song Contest. It’s not really a song I’d expect for Eurovision Song Contest, more something I’d hear in a The Sims restaurant. And the fact I’m playing Facebook Monopoly on the same time as it is playing makes me think the song is with the game…

I haven’ been writing for a few days and I honestly have no idea WHY. But I haven’t. And in all honesty, I haven’t done much. I’ve been in pain, because my neck hates me and decided to be unbearable. I also had some madness time with Maria, Thomas, Sara and Cecilie… Fucking amazing.

Listening to Zdob si Zdub again (I’m in desperat need to change the ESC CD) I can’t believe it’s two week since ESC. Two weeks since what so far is one of the best weeks in my life. Two weeks since Zdubs. SO LUCKY. Song fits in how I feel. Oh yeah.

The summer is getting filled too. Jedward Fanmeeting on July 26th, Ridingcamp 28th July – August 2nd, a few concerts… Oh yeah! Me Like!

I guess I am…. SO LUCKY!
// Sara
Np: So Lucky – Zdob si Zdub

FINALLY. After long anticipation, “Born This Way” with Lady Gaga is finally here. I know the album leaked earlier, but I didn’t care to listen to it until I had the record (just like I did with Babez for Breakfast)

Right now “Government Hooker” is played and so far the album has been ok really! Gonna import into my iPod and take a walk in the forest later and then submit a review about it.

CATCHA LATER!
// Sara

Uhm yeah… WTF?

The new Reckless Love single. Fucking amazing. Can’t wait to see them this summer!

Okay. Today’s been chill. I was walking outside. Eating some candy. You know, regular stuff. I also signed up for a Jedward fanmeeting this summer. That will be kickass, I believe.

Talking about Jedward, leads me to my dilemmas. I told you earlier today, that I had a dilemma about a ESC shelf. What did I do about it? I moved all my signed rockstar frames, cleand it up and put my ESC stuff there. The lack of pins however made it really hard to finish it, but it’s at least a work in progress!

My next dilemma was the discounts on Tradera. Usually I’m not arsed at all to put up my auctions on Tradera because I find it annoying, and I really don’t know how to write selling texts. But I managed!

If you press the picture you actually come to the site listing all these stuff, if you find it interesting.

My third dilemma was the toughest. They had a sale on my favourite online shop Odium, and there was a really nice underbust I wanted, and, for some odd reason, it actually exsisted in my size! But because of my lazy ass, I never got to order it and now it was gone : ( for the better maybe, because I got to order a long wanted top and some long wanted make up pieces instead! So maybe it was just for the best, eh?

Now I’m just relaxing. I’m skipping between Reckless Love and Eurovision CD and eating Philadelphia cheese mixed with candy. Life. Is. Good.

NP: Hot – Reckless Love
// Sara

Yeah exactly. I eat nothing but candy and junk food, and sometimes massive portions of regular food. I figured I’d soon pass the 70 KGs mark, and right now I’m just eager to do so. I barely excerise more than riding once a week and small walks in the forest. I was well eager when I got on the scale yesterday. Only to see that I have LOST weight.
Wait what? How is that even possible?

Second dilemma is that I want an ESC shelf. But there are no empty shelves. Or there is one, beneath the Lordi shelf. I find that a bit low for an ESC shelf. An option would be to empty my concertmemoribilia shelf and put those things (like the metal bible, Lordi colabottle, bottle from alice cooper etc etc) at the bottom shelf to give ESC that shelf.

The next dilemma is that I think that shelf is too small for an ESC shelf. So I have to find another space in my already full room to empty and fill up again. And today it’s also last day to
1) Order from Odium to get the discount
2) To put up auctions on Tradera with no charge.

Quite a few dilemmas. Good thing that Windows Media Player knows what song I want to listen to and puts on “Rockefeller Street” without me asking it. Now I’m gonna finnish my chocolate cookie and then fix a billion tradera ads. And empty that big shelf that only has a few signed pictures of Wig Wam and The Poodles and put my ESC stuff there.

All problems solved.
1273 down the rockefeller street
Life is marching on, do you feel that?
// Sara

Mkay. Because of the reasons I have no better things to blog about, and also because I’m listening to “Rockefeller Street” and eating some old ESC candy, I decided to talk about this for a while.

The Neighbour, or friendvoting (Kompisröstning) in Eurovision Song Contest. Every year, people whine about it, or, ratherly, they whine about the eastern countries voting for each other. You know, like the eastern, the western and the scandinavians… and so on. But to make it a bit more clear, or maybe more complicated, I’ll divide them even more. (The countries within these () are countries that usually participate but did not this year)
The eastern are sorted as, in:
Block “1”: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, Georgia
Block “2”: Croatia, Serbia, Albania, Slovenia, FYR Macedonia, Bosnia&Herzegovina (Montenegro)
Block “3”: Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, (Czech Republic) Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia
HOWEVER, Est, Lit, Lat also works under
Western, Block “1” (The vikings): Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland
Block “2”: United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, San Marino Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, Belgium, The Netherlands, Portugal, (Andorra), (Monaco), (Louxembourg).

Then we have Israel and Malta that doesn’t have any significant “friend”. These are the groups that we would consider “always” vote for each other. But did you EVER consider, that it may have to do with other stuff than neighbouring?

Over the 8 years I’ve been into Eurovision and taking an active role, I’ve been favourising Moldova 4(!!) times (2005, 2007, 2010, 2011), Malta(‘04), Slovenia(‘03), Lithuania(’08) and Finland(’06) once.
As you can see, mainly my favourites HAVE been in the eastern countries, wih a few exceptions. But yet, I have one that is within the Viking belt. 2006, Lordi entered with ‘Hard Rock Hallelujah’ and it was within a few more (like, Moldova) amongst my faves and I voted like crazy for Finland. Becasue, you know, they were my favourite,and in my opinion, the best song for the year (Myeah, I liked Molodova, Swiss, Germany, Ukraine too…)

And, can’t it be the same for Eastern countries? That the song they vote for – is the song they like the best?
No – I’m not naiv, I DO know that friend voting is happening, mainly in the yugoslavian countries (block 2), but can’t it just be the music they like the best? I don’t intend to sound like a racist – but I rarely like the eastern kind of music, which I believe is very cultural for them, but I do fall alot for the more western countries. I know this doesn’t make any sense at all, considering Moldova is a high rated country for me, but when I look at the other faves apart from my No. 1, it’s mainly western countries. And no,that is not because they are my neighbour. But because they have the best songs, the kind of music I’m used to and like.

And that goes for eastern too. The cultural music I don’t get and don’t like, that is _THE_ thing at their place. It is the shit. So OF COURSE, they vote for that. They vote for what they think is the best song. And then, that it just happens to be so that the song is from their neighbouring country, musn’t have anything to do with it at all.

This year, 2011, We had ONE Eastern block one country, ONE Western country and ONE Viking country in the top. It can barely be more mixed, don’t you agree? In 2005, Malta ended up on second place short after Greece, and they don’t have a single neighbour country.

What does all this prove?
That if your song is good enough, you don’t need any neighbours.
Over and out.