Summer; filled with incubus, paint, and my own music

            In the middle of July I had a musical reawakening. Now that I recall I can't exactly remember why I even started listening to them. The first song was love hurts, but it was a cover version by Marie Digby that I had heard in 2007, and around that time I had also stumbled upon their website for their latest album Light Grenades. When I listened to Love Hurts I liked it, but apparently not enough to listen to all their material. So this time around I, all of a sudden, listened to their second album, S.C.I.E.N.C.E. Then on to Fungus Amongus (It was trippy; all those songs were influenced by pot{and probably most songs started from it), I guiltily liked it. I could not contain myself, I stayed up all night, until the sun came out at 5am, listening to the Make Yourself, Morning View,  A Crow Left of the Murder...,  Light Grenades, and  Monuments and Melodies (greatest hits and rarities) albums.

This summer has been the best because of Incubus, I cannot get enough of their sound, which has roots in funk, metal, rock, it's just something else, there is no genre to put them into, and I like that. When I first listened to anna molly a couple years ago, i didn't attach myself to it, but now I have to listen to it every day( as well as rogues, paper shoes, the warmth etc.). Their exotic, exhilarating songs seep into my bones, and brain. I've never really listened to music before I go to bed but now every night when I try to fall asleep I listen to incubus to make me dream of something other than sheep.
           I have also, inexplicably, rearranged the furniture (and I just assembled an end table that was crappily-made {is that a word?no, ok}) and decorated my room with paintings, drawings, and posters. I've gone back to my sketchbook with a blank mind and pencil (I should try a pen next time {"My pen is a pistola"}).

I've repainted/glorified my paint-able toms shoes (if you buy a pair, they donate another pair to a child in need) from a fading (due to water exposure) blue sky and cherry tree to a black, navy, and dark blue colored shoe, with a sun-yellow colored accent which including some small anchors.

I have also started a frustrating, fun, exciting, nail-biting project of making an album (wha wha what?!), recorded on my mac; very amateur, I know. BUT, since the fifth grade I have been writing lyrics/ poems, I have expressed myself though song, like err singing in my choir in middle school, and playing the flute (queue inappropriate jokes, I've heard them all), violin in elementary school, and piano inconsistently for the past ten years. I've forgotten the violin, but I'm pretty okay at the piano and flute, I can read music thankfully. And this summer, I've begun to learn to play the guitar, (ALL BY MYSELF, YEEE).
         So hopefully by the end of the summer, you can listen to this breathy, girlish voice of mine, set to melodious music with some "drummer-bassy". I'm cringing just thinking about the criticism I'm going to get but as I'm grinding my teeth, I'll try to forget it (that's going to be haaaarrd).
         Alright, it's August, the moment it hits me that I need to be rushing to finish reading my books and getting my thoughts sorted out. Now here I go....