Today is my singleversary... My one year of being single and to celebrate, I've been playing a love song. :P Sortof. Alanis Morissette's "Head Over Feet". Alanis' debut album, Jagged Little Pill, was the first CD album I ever bought (at Costco!) in the 6th grade so she is an old time favorite of mine. This song is just superfun to sing and play.
Since I haven't played in five years, I'm not all that great yet, but I'm getting better each day! This video is probably junk because I mess up a couple times and I'm a perfectionist... And I'm not the best singer (though, certainly not the worst)... I wanted to share it anyway. Because music should be shared!
Next year, when I live in the Philippines, I plan to surround myself with music and I'm certain it won't be hard to find myself around guitars and play some tunes with the neighbors. I'd like to hopefully buy my own guitar in the Philippines. Cebu's own hand-made specialty guitars are some of the world's finest handcrafted guitars made from local tropical materials, and even the tropical fruit nangka (jackfruit)!
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Jagged little pill was an awesome album!
Jackfruit guitar, awesome, just don't get a durian one!
lol durian. how stinky! :P
That was awesome Floreta :)
Girl, you amaze me with your guts! I LOVE guitar music. This was a treat to hear you play! (Also, you HAVE to read mine this week, pretty please, because I know you'd relate to my post...suspense builds.)
dee - thank you :)
gel - ok i'll check it out right now!! and do you mean guts for putting the video up or guts for moving abroad, or both? lol
rock out with your guitar out
or better yet:
rock out with your cock out!
\m/
..lol
i so love ur guts.
may i have some :D
Click The JUNK I need to Rid oFF!
Moving to Cebu?! Whoa! My moms family lives there :)
I wish I knew how to play an instrument. My sis plays piano and my bro plays guitar, bass and drums. I am not so musically gifted I guess.
I want to learn to play guitar! I actually got one to learn on for Christmas last year and have yet to pick it up, ack!
Woohoooo!!!
Look out Ana! ;)
AD - haha you can be gutsy i'm sure :)
EQ - haha doesn't that mean your family lives there too ;P yup! i'm from cebu originally. i also play violin and a bit of djembe drum
lovelila - i pretty much self taught myself.. then i took classical guitar lessons when i was in college
bard - HAHA. you kid. :P yeahhh right.
my video is much junkier than yours
(although I had to laugh when I read this. I sat down at the piano with a beautiful Irish song that I don't do justice to and then read yours!)
Beautiful job!
Great job! I've always wanted to play the guitar :)
Wow! What can I say? Chapeau!
That was really awsome. I love this album and I bought it as a casette in 1995, I listened to it over and over.. Loved all the songs. You bring back some fond memories of my teen years :) In 1996 I started to buy CDs and then came mp3s and nothing was same anymore. People started to make compilations and didn't bother to cherish albums. This song reminds me of that time. Thanks.
And happy anniversary :)
Sounds like a great way to celebrate your singleversary.
Brilliant. Take a bow, please! :D I hadn't heard the song before, but it was a treat to hear your version. :)
oh my sainted aunt!what next!I luv the guitar but it remains the biggest regret in my life as I dnt knw how 2 play it.Nice to hear u sing.n uplay the guitar quite well!It would have been better u to hear u talk again b4 or after the song.But nice pot!
PS:was there sum1 or something to your left?
Nice junk, but I wouldn't call it junk!!!! And not too shabby on the singing. I have a guitar but have no idea how to play it... I just love strumming :)
Rockin'!
Sexy! You have the whole edgy musician thing going ON.:)
look at you, rockstar!!
Hey, you're really good, girl! Think I'll order another beer and watch it again :-D
Ah... such a seminal album :)
She's from the North West too isn't she...?
It's amazing how similar the chord sequence is to Marley's No Woman No Cry...
You're good, Flo!
lora- haha, what a coincidence that we both posted music vlogs :D
for the love of pictures - you can learn!
MKL - i know! i would listen to a CD so thoroughly and now i just add to my itunes shuffle and don't even bother with much special attention to albums! it's kind of sad. i think i bought jagged little pill in 1996!
MJ - thanks, it was :)
sumit - oh it's a good song!
deeptesh - oh my sainted aunt!? you crack me up! and yea, not sure what was up with my random head turn.. no one was in the room. must be ADD :P
Great song choice, and I think you did really well! Especially for not picking a guitar up in years.
And for some reason, I couldn't stop myself from watching the whole video of you playing. Ha. It's so great to put voices and mannerisms with the blog, ya know? Thought I'd share that tidbit.
bravo!
Floreta shorty,
you keep on keepin' on, luv,
'n we'll keep on luvin ya . . .
you've put an excellent
sunny start
on our rainy day.
hugz from NY
:-)
..
.ero
wahhhhhhhhh
hahahaha love it ;)
I'll take note that Philippine has the finest guitar! will ask my friend to buy one for me in case she went back to her home town for visit :)
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