Magic

have you ever thought about what it would be like to carry magic around with you everywhere you went?
well, if you ever meet or see Imogen Heap in concert, you will immediately know that this women carries a head of incredible magic and ingenuity on top of her sholders.And sitting in the crowd, listening to her joke and ramble and SING and create music while you're watching you get a little glimpse of it, her magic spreads to you and you absorb it--magical bubbles filling your entire body, bursting here and there and showering an array of mindblowing magic! And that my friend, is the only way i can explain it.*

seriously. she's doing this thing where in each city she gives a concert in, she's creating a song, just for that city RIGHT there, RIGHT then, along with the crowd. so she asks the crowd what key they want and we all shout out what we want. Las Angeles's happened to be E. Flat or sharp? we chose flat. then you figure out if you want her to play in minor, major, natural whatever, we decided minor. Then, you even decide the speed, and we chosde 4/4. And just like that, she starts making a song, already knowing what sound each of those will make. So she walks over to one side of the stage, and creates sounds with a plethora of instruments that i've never even heard of, and intwining those sounds with her own vocals, recording those sounds and overlapping them with MORE vocals and more. Then she walks over to her piano and sings and plays at the same time. And Voilla! L.A. has their very own imogen heap concert, which you can all download on her website for 1 dollar. All of the proceeds from this song will be sent to the Tree People organization, which is a local charity.

In the beginning of the show, Imogen Heap introduced these two people, a man and a women, BRITISH (with british accents and everything), who she said had worked with her and inspired her a bunch while she was composing her latest albums. Primarily, they were both violinists, but besides this, they were MUCH more. They called themselves Geese, and they did kind of very similar things to what Imogen does accept only instrumental. So they would play their li'l violins for a while, then record that noise, overlap it with another violin melody, record that, then sing into the little 'f' shapes in the violins, in which there must have been microphones because this beautiful harmony would be emitted. Every once in a while, the woman of the group would walk over to her little set of chimes and computer and compound sounds from them, too.

After the performance, Jessie, Marissa, Matt, and I were fortunate enough to actually meet these brilliant people, and they were soooo......so chill i swear! We all got onto the topic of saying that we absolutely loved all of their Bri'ish accents and they replied that, actually, we were the ones with thte accents and that British people are always trying to copy the American accents they see in Hollywood all the time (you know by saying like, that's totally this and totally that). Which promptly got us onto the subject of what were common slang words in England. Apparently, Posh Spice is really not posh (shhh it's a secret) and if you ever hear her say "that's totally MAJOR"...she just made that up--that's not a commonly heard phrase in England. But apparently "bullocks" is. Get this, her deffinition for how to use the word "bullocks" is when you are trying to say something is rubbish. I mean, just like that, without even realizing what she was saying, she descibed somethign as rubbish! BUT, here's the catch--if you say something is "the rubbish," of "dog's rubbish," you're actually saying that that thing is totally awesome. ("dog's rubbish" being the higher exclamation above just "the rubbish") Somewhat like exclaiming "shit!" when you're upset, or "this is the shit!" when you think it's really cool. Also, saying that something is "well-good" is similar to saying that the subject in question is the "dog's rubbish."

this is us with them! you can't tell but she had really cool shoes.

from the left: Marissa, Matt, Geese-man, Geese-woman, Jessie, and Me:)

And, as Forrest Gump would put it, "that's all i've got to say about that, folks"

does anyone else know any fun slang words in any other language? If so please speak now and share it or forever hold your peace.

I love you all!

~Lili

does anyone know another word for magic?