Spontaneity.

4:43pm: listening to "Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming" on Blip
ridicule is nothing to be scared of.

4:27pm: listening to "Midlake - Young Bride" on Blip
autumn's a-comin'....

3:53pm: listening to "The Vines - Sun Child" on Blip
high school whaaaaaat?

3:35pm: listening to "Nick Heyward Kite" on Blip
so dreamy.

3:21pm: listening to "Patti LaBelle - Lady Marmalade" on Blip
make the savage beast inside roar until he cries....

3:13pm: listening to "Alice Cooper - Ballad of Dwight Fry" on Blip
the explosion sound in this song just cracks me the fuck up.

1:44pm: listening to "Dungen at Conan o'Brien" on Blip
mmmm

7:43am: listening to "I Want You Back - The Jackson 5" on Blip
na na na na!

11:46am:

the photo blog has begun! two posts are up, and i'm currently uploading a third from this weekend's shenannigans. more to come! please, enjoy. (hell yes!)

love britt.

4:46pm:  okay, so i've started a new blog. i'm going to try and keep it mainly as a photo blog, but we'll see what happens. i don't have my own computer anymore, so i won't be updating TOO often...but i think that's one of my goals for having this new blog. i want to make sure i take photos of whatever as many days as possible and figure out some way to post them for y'all to see. for the fun of it! been a while since i've taken and posted any photos of my ever-so-thrilling life.

for now, here it is:


sights, sounds, syrup.

12:34pm: listening to "Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin" on Blip
this one's for bubby.

3:09pm:  a few entries ago i was blabbing on about the stresses of performance and money-making and how it's all strenuous but worth it, blah dee blah. now, it's yet another summertime of jobless, moneyless moping about with no mode of transportation, swollen tonsils, no cash, no credit, not even secure loans to look forward to for my final school year. struggling with sallie mae to make sure i complete my college eduction, calling and nagging places i've given my resume to in hopes that they just give me the job so that i'll shut up, bands quitting and regrouping and members quitting and rehearsals cancelled and it's CHILLY in july?! what is this madness? it's too soon to look forward to fall, stop playing with my emotions. i AM going to germany in late august. i wonder what that will bring? if i can't go back to school i sure do hope germany makes me stay there for a while. a record deal or internship or something, anything. my future was secure and now i have no clue what's going on. my roommates have it in the shithole, too: one has a broken foot, the other has no job, which was the only secure thing keeping her in this uber expensive cityland. it's MADNESS. this waiting and anticipation and unsureness of how my near-future looks is MADNESS! i want a job! i'd love to be a barista again. oh, man, i don't think i would mind taking a break from school (although i'm SO CLOSE to being done) just to work as a barista all day and night at some cute coffee shop. but even that simple way of life is way too idealistic. the fates of life have told me so. i just sound like a lunatic now, i'm going to stop. bye.

6:39pm: listening to "Rattled by the Rush video - Pavement" on Blip
drooooownin for your thirst

8:13am: listening to "Black Thumbnail - Kings of Leon" on Blip
YES. i feel a kings of leon kick comin' on..

10:06am: listening to "Cath... - Death Cab For Cutie" on Blip
just stuck in my head today.

12:34pm: listening to "Cocoon - The Decemberists" on Blip
and iiiii waited there for you...why couldn't youuu?

10:39am: listening to the final mixes of World's Fair's latest work. it all sounds very good...something's missing though. something heavy and solid, loud...oh, well. i forgot some of the harmonies i did...not bad. 

either way, both the World's Fair myspace page http://myspace.com/worldsfair

and my own music page myspace.com/brittanyleemoffitt

should be chock-full of some new tunes very, very soon. give it a week. :)

SPEAKING OF

ONE MORE WEEK OF SCHOOL. i have summer school, and a whole extra year after that, but that's alright. i can't believe this year is almost done. i am so thankful for the end to come. this week has served me a total of six shows, and next week is just as intense: finals, rehearsals, my birthday, manifest, commencement. all week/weekend long. i can't believe i'm not puking out my brains from some sort of sickness yet. i guess i can believe it...i have been forcing myself to get the sleep i need. i'm learning how to say "no" and "too bad" to stuff n' things. good for me.

i sang for the columbia board of trustees yesterday afternoon..pretty intense. fancy, good food. money, too! stoked about the money. it's nice to perform and get money and free food. reminds me why i'm going through absolute hell on a daily basis.

joe cerqua (the dude who directed the gig) says i should take some dance and acting classes next year or this summer. he says "musical theatre gets you money. i know it's not your plan of the future but you should definitely look into it...you'll get paid." i told him i've had previous musical theatre training/experience, just from highschool. and i've taken dance classes at columbia before....i was told by jazz vocalist/legend patti austin the same thing. she says i should stay on the jazz route and take acting classes. meanwhile, i'm vomiting out so many originals right now it's like....gold. it's piles of gold. well, i mean, listeners might think they're absolutely horrific songs, but i'm just excited my creative juices have been flowing this dramatically, even through this extremely stressful year. has me optimistic.

SPEAKING OF

we're performing Optimistic by Radiohead at commencement this year. COMMENCEMENT. who in the fuck does this? we do, that's fucking who. that's right. we have taste. and we're performing an original of mine, too, lyrically anyway. juan from world's fair wrote the music, i wrote the lyrics and back-up harmonies for the choir. we're performing annie lennox's Little Bird, too. it's fun! it's going to be fun. i keep forgetting about my birthday...i really don't give a shit about it, but i'm supposed to...i'm sure i'll come home straight from commencement next saturday and pass out. happy birthday to me, right? it's just another day to live as incredibly as possible and get things i want done.

anyway, ramble ramble blah blah puke poop crap censor censor. commencement rehearsal in seven minutes. see ya.

6:52am: listening to "Det Tar Tid - Dungen" on Blip
it's a dungen kind of day today...well, actually, every day is a dungen day. who am i kidding?

4:31pm:

i was really irritated earlier, reluctant; shitty mood because of some of the musicians i have to work with on a daily basis. just the disrespect...it's ridiculous, sometimes, you know? hard to breathe with so much ego in one room..and hey, i'm not counting myself out...but, still. got me down, a bit.

i'm feeling better. phoenix made me feel better. so did coldplay. phoenix has this new album coming out in May: "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix". i love that title! they're playing at Park West June 13th. the 409's might have a gig in good ol' Hoosierville that night, but we'll see. maybe i can balance out the two and eat the cake i bake....with cream cheese frosting. that would be DELICIOUS.

man, some good music's comin' out this summer.  i love the summer because all of this good music usually comes with it. hooray!

i went into posting this thinking i had a whole lot more to type about. i was wrong. sorry. 

2:29pm:
so, two weeks ago i left a suitcase in the trunk of a taxi cab. i was rushing from uptown chicago to the southside - reggie's rock club - to be on time for a mic check for a 409's show. inside that trunk was a pile of clothes (my show outfit included), hygeine/shower products, the Mission Hill season DVD i was given for christmas, and my 1,200.00 macbook pro i had just purchased 3 weeks prior.

my macbook pro.

for two weeks, i've hounded cab companies, sent out faxes, paid to have a wanted-ad put online and in the newspapers, gone to offices, etc. in hopes of getting all of this back.

i am an idiot and an ass, a huge idiot, a fantastic ass. must be some sort of punishment. i know i shouldn't have rushed, my mind is wandering to a million places, seeing a million people, and thinking a million things a trillion times a day. this year has been horrible. the worst i've ever had in my life. and this incident is the frosting on this puke-cake. this shit-cake of a year.

i went to one of the cab offices today because they'd said they had two different suitcases available for me to check. BOTH of them were on wheels, like mine. BOTH of them were a shade of green, like mine. NONE of  them were mine.

it's raining today and it's cold, and i'm broke because of the electronic investment that is no longer mine. and there's absolutely nothing i can do about it. 1200 down the drain. and you know what? fuck it. fuck it all, i'm flipping the bird to the industrial revolution. i'm sticking my nose up at the rush-hour crowds, the ear-buds shoved into the earwax of everyone in the student lounge, the loans i have to pay even when i'm dead and gone, and i'm finding a mirror to catch myself in so that i may flip off, nose-up, and spit on myself for not having a grip on myself by now. shame on me.

anyway, the last recital i'm performing in is this thursday. ali arzeni's. it's going to be great. i'm currently writing harmonies for the commencement choir of columbia to accompany a song juan galindo, guitarist of world's fair, composed. i wrote the lyrics and i'm singing lead. it's pretty cool - we're playing/singing "Optimistic" by radiohead for the commencement show as well.

i'm thinking about/planning my senior recital, which will be next spring (gonna try to have a string quartet instead of horns!!). i think the theme of it is going to revolve around "home": the meaning of, and my perception of it throughout my life so far. i've signed up for summer classes and fall classes for next year, and i'll be hunting for an apartment to live in by myself very soon. no more roommates...no more. financial aid approved, auditioning for a singing/waitressing job, recruiting a band, writing new material.

http://myspace.com/the409s for upcoming spring/summer gigs.

http://myspace.com/worldsfair for fresh/mastered tunes in the near-future.

http://myspace.com/brittanyleemoffitt for...stuff and things, i don't know yet.

i hope that works as an update.

10:49am: no rehearsals this weekend = sleep

10:55pm: give me a beer, a loose sweater, green, green grass outside and limitless sleep.

12:30pm: hey party people
http://myspace.com/brittanyleemoffitt





just reminding you to get acquainted, that's all.








p.s. when you've got the time, listen PLEASE to "Andra Sidan Sjn" by Dungen. outstanding song. in fact, listen to everything ever made ever by Dungen, please. thank you.

love,
britt

1:30pm: springtime
MONDAY
9:00-9:50 SMET III
6:30-9:20 EXPLORING THE GODDESS

TUESDAY
9:00-10:20 TECHNOLOGY FOR MUSICIANS II
10:30 - 11:50 R&B ENSEMBLE
1:00-2:50 JAZZ COMBO D
6:30-9:20 ART AND BUSINESS OF RECORDING

WEDNESDAY
9:00-9:50 SMET III
2:00-2:50 VOICE LESSONS
3:30-6:20 RECORDING AND PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE

THURSDAY
9:00-10:20 TECHNOLOGY FOR MUSICIANS II
10:30-11:50 R&B ENSEMBLE
12:00-1:00 ALI ARZENI SENIOR RECITAL REHEARSAL

FRIDAY
9:00-9:50 SMET III
10:00-10:50 GROUP LESSON/WORKSHOPS
1:00-2:50 POP/JAZZ KEYBOARD
3:00-4:00 JAZZ FORUM
5:00-??? LESTER JAY'S SENIOR RECITAL REHEARSAL

SATURDAY
11:00-3:00 BRANDON FOSTER SENIOR RECITAL REHEARSAL

SUNDAY
12:00-5:00 409's REHEARSAL




http://myspace.com/the409s for band gigs. we've got a LOT coming up.


SENIOR RECITAL PERFORMANCES:
Jessica Hunt - FRIDAY, MARCH 13th
Brandon Foster w/ The 409's - THURSDAY, APRIL 9th
Ali Arzeni - THURSDAY, APRIL 16th
Lester Jay - THURSDAY, APRIL 2nd
George Wunsam - TBA

RECORDING AND PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCES:
MONDAY, MARCH 16th @ TBA, REGGIE'S ROCK CLUB W/ 409's
MONDAY, APRIL 27th @ NOON, CCC CONCERT HALL

R&B ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCES:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11th @ NOON, CCC CONCERT HALL
TUESDAY, MAY 5th @ NOON, CCC CONCERT HALL


more to come. stay tuned.

3:55pm:


http://myspace.com/the409s