Kina Grannis

Whoa. High five goes out to you Kina Grannis. It is still Monday in Ohio and I get to watch a Kina video. :sigh: Thank you.

oooo tutorial video, sooooooo exciting! k i’m gonna go vote now…decisions decisions -.-

Thx for the shout out!!! =)

Amazing once again…Do you listen to Jack Johnson by any chance?

very niiiice cover

=)

work from 10pm-6am this week…not cool.

muahahahaa is a perfect title b/c i finnally caught a blog on monday
….god i feel so hard core lol

wanted to go buy this song but itunes is incredibly mean to me and the rest of the world bc u need to buy the whole narnia cd =( oh well your version is better anyway ;)

o you should do some covers of Jack johnson like good people or better togethe and some JimmyEatWorld like hear you me or carry you =D

why am i logged in as ” . ”

its evann here

but wahh.. i relogged like 8 times. oh well =(

Yay another Regina cover. Awesome, as usual.

I like this cover, it is very soothing. Yay on the timing ;-)

that was beautiful. i like the ending =]

:waves goodbye:

Woot. Have to wait for the vid to finish slowly streaming so I can download it and convert to Quicktime and watch it all the way through.

Is it really only a year? How many decades does it feel like?

It took a while before you went into the studio, did you and the team do a lot of prep before you started recording and if so, do you think it actually made things go faster once you actually got going?

Kina,
This song has some of the most calming, beautiful, and personally touching lyrics I’ve heard in a long while. Its a great cover. I’ve heard the original recording and in my opinion, your voice with your guitar deliver the message of this song with more emotion and influence than the original. Great work… though you didn’t need to hear that from me.

I feel so special that I got a birthday shout out, thanks so much kina it makes turning 17 even more sweet, now one more year until i lose all my money to indian casinos. Great cover again, I wish all artists could cover songs and turn them into their own. But then again that is what makes Kina so incredible.
I had to watch each of the videos listed to see which ones were my favorites, I almost forgot about please remember because when I listened to it I had a sudden urge to pick up my guitar and figure it out, but that is one song I voted for as well as people, and the goldfish song. Secretly I think I might vote for all of them once so no songs feel left out.

You have motivated me to learn to play guitar. something my father who is an avid guitarist has been trying to get me to do for 15 years. i have finally fount the push i need to start learning!!!

You have motivated me to learn to play guitar. something my father who is an avid guitarist has been trying to get me to do for 15 years. i have finally fount the push i need to start learning!!!
Keep up the awesomenesss!!

awesome cover! i loved it!

mondays are awesome, yeah?

East coast is buzzin’ with early post excitation! =D
lovely song . . . perfect for a Monday . . .
great stealth wave bye!

@kina
knew I was right re: emi . . .
she’s good people ;;-)

@BIRRR

Same here, as soon as I get the extra funds.

@evann -
didja forget to log out on another computer?

*looks down* *twists big toe in rug* I do that all the time lol
work vs home haha =D

i am so surprised that you never heard this song! it is extremely hard to believe! if you saw narnia then i am certain that you would have, and from that i conclude that you never did! no offense keens but what kinda person doesnt watch the hit movies? what are you doing with your life? shucks! no excuses, none.

@kina

it’s not my birthday…i’m suing!

haha, j/k…did someone request it? wrong month…man, nice friends i have, don’t even know my birthday!

Lovely. I have to say Im a little spiteful to see you sitting outside in your tank top while I am here on the eastcoast with two heaters on, looking at the snow outside my window- not fair ;P. Ohh well, at least I get to listen to you sing.

sweet moses! nice cover! :) i am melting now *blush* really love your voice.. thank you so much for keeping my tuesday as one of the most exciting day.. (yep, it’s hard living on the other side of the world..sigh)
but..YAY for The Goldfish song if you do a tutorial for this one..sweetness!

keep it up kina!

dont you love the chronic…
les of narnia?

i dont remember this song sounding so great when i heard it at the end of prince caspian. partly because it was a lame sappy ending and it wasnt kina singing.

you sounded great outside. a little wind noise, but no weird computer noises!
i’m going to have to get this on cd now.

it’s so early. what am i going to do for the rest of the evening…? i guess i’ll just listen to this a few more times….

i swear your voice is real addicting! i could listen to you talk all day and never get tired (:
goldfish song, ftw! so that way when you come up to san fran, or even better SAN JOSE we can play it together and be happy!

@kina

Thank you for the shoutout Kina<it3 V.v. surprised and happy to have had it = I’m stunned but loving it though8D

Much relieved to have heard that you are all safe! Was it the usual winds and the oils in the bushes making the fires spread too rapidly to control?

I also hadn’t heard this song before either!

Have you heard David’s Heart song yet, it’s really good but unfortunately he didn’t sing it clean, which is the way I like to hear his singing, perhaps you could persuade him or even lend an extra delicacy to it by covering it yourself or converting it a tad to do a dreamy duet together sometime, should be really lovely for us:)

Seriously looking forward to seeing some studio footage!

Oh and no Kina, it is You Tube that ‘Too Soon’ keeps being unavailable for viewing = semi phew hey, way better than it being off of iTunes! I expect I’ve not put it clearly enough, I need to sleep more than I do, shame Heima didn’t work out, it would be really handy for inducing sleep! Do you normally put it on to help you drift off to the land of nod?

Sheesh, I almost couldn’t think to input this:))

love the cover!

btw, how do you have time to train (marathons)? and it would be awesome if you came up to norcal!

Kina!
1. awesome cover…and the fact that it saved me from my dreadful homework made it at least 9129308 times better…(at least)..so thank you
2. come to d.c.? yea? great! :)
3. last question (that i’ll try not answering myself)..what did you study at USC?

haha ok..take care and kick some butt @ the studio! word.

peace-love
emily!

I lovelovelove this song. So glad to hear you cover it. Plus, it is a great distraction from studying for my exam tomorrow morning!

Have a great week!

YESS!!! Goldfish Song is winning!!! woohooo!!

O and is the song you played during the marathon video gonna be on the new album?

btw You keep singing songs WAY better than the originals and stealing them…thief! =)

omg… i cant wait for the album.. ur awesome

but u hear tht all the time i kno… ugh…i cant wait

hmmm ….

hey… do u think u could sing the beatles … i want to hold your hand ( check out the artificial one.. Across The Universe version…its really pretty)

i love love love ur music and style..

kina. girl, you’re amazing. and this is one of my favorite songs ever. i flipped when i saw you did a cover, and you totally did it justice! keep it up!

ps. i agree with the comment above me! the version of “i want to hold your hand” frmo across the universe is really great!

Kina, your voice has never been lovelier than in this cover… great job!

kina as always u dumbfound me with ur blessing from God of a voice… no matter if a cover or an original, its always beautiful just like yourself(not meant to be creepy or stalkerish in any way haha) had i been in Cali when u did ur marathon couple of weeks ago id have met ya at the starbucks but i live in kentucky soooo wouldve been long travel(again not creepy or stalkerish in anyway haha) neways from one aspiring musical and vocal artist((hoping to be in ur position one day soon) to another like urself im very proud and glad for yah, ur awesome in everyway and always bring a smile to my face on monday nights when i come home from an always horrible day of 12 hour shifts at work…. i dont really care if u give me a shoutout or not the next vid u put, but if u do thats cool, otherwise have a good week and God Bless bud, later

great cover kina!! another awesome video to end my monday. “the goldfish song” is on top, and right behind “together” … ooh.. i’d love to see both tutorials.. this’ll really make me pick up the guitar and play it. :)

<3

Kina,
Bless you!! Honestly, you’ve made my night when I saw my name appear at the top of the list of birthdays. It actually made me let out a weirdly controlled, exhilarated shriek wouldn’t expect to come from a man. Hope my roommate didn’t here it…

It’s a wonder how small gestures like wishing someone a happy birthday on a video can make one so infinitely cheerful and smiley, especially when attached to such a beautiful song. Once again thank you and God bless!

Hey-

Loved the song you sang tonight, you sang it beautifully, this was the first time I heard it, you did great.

and i can’t think of anything else to say, I had something else i wanted to say, maybe i need to get some sleep…to bad i have not be able to sleep at night lately. oh well.

Loved It!

YAY!!! for Drums for the Cd!

Huggs.

Jen :)

really pretty cover. :)

yay we are goin to get some tutorials!! another great video KINA!

Finally registered!

I’ll post again for posterity and because it’s true.
really pretty cover. :)

@emi

bye! (stay just a little – 6:02)

@oovret

how many questions have you asked kina so far?

hi kina, new user =] wow so i saw a bulliten with your video on it, and wow i was suddenly hooked i’ve been just chillin and listenin to your music, big fan! =] keep making music … you made me pick up my guitar again =]

hey, just curious.. do you have a lucky guy in your life? .. or girl? o.O lol. just sayinggg..

hmm, flake by jack Johnson would be a cool cover

awesome song.. just curious.. have you or do you know anyone who may have made piano notes for any of your songs?

I’d love to give that a shot. :-)

I think you just made my month Kina. When I went to watch Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and this song came up at the end, I got major goosebumps from it and immediatly recognized Regina’s voice. The minute I came home I looked up the song and I must have played it at least 15 times on repeat.

So when I checked this morning to see what news was on your blog, I got goosebumps even before I started the video. It lived up to any expectation I had. You made a touching cover out of it and I love it. Also, I don’t know when you got the request to do this song, but I’m gonna throw one out there as well. Maybe one day you’ll find the time to do it :). I’d like you take on a Sara Bareilles song. There are multiple options, so i’ll just list them: City, Between the Lines, Gravity or even her own cover of Sullivan Street (Counting Crows song).

But first of all, good luck with working on the album of course!

Greetz
Nicky

@thuff7

haha no i didn’t even think of that but i use so many different computors at school…and two @ home… i hope i didnt sign in at school yeep

I already posted on youtube yesterday because i couldnt wait haha buuutt awesome cover kina (: I hope your album is going swell.

@evann

ditto. i can’t seem to go too long w/o checking in at the bla(h)g. Or having kinatunes in the background (see below). So for a while i was logging in on a couple different pcs around work. i kept getting the signed in as . when i got home. but i’m lucky cuz i have vpn for telecommute days and can log off my office pc from home. that’s how i figured it out.

below: kinatunes in the background is incredible cuz it sets a great ambiance in my office. but it doesn’t work that well cuz i just can’t listen w/o wanting to see the vid.

phew. that’s too much to write b4 coffeeeeee. g’day evann!

@Mini K – Happy not ur Birthday!

@kina : haha why HELLO! nyahaha I love that song! Regina Spektor’s awesome. Aargh you sing so beautifully! I’d done a cover of that song.. which I had privated.. and later on deleted bwahaha..

OH and I keep forgetting to say it.. Awhile back you FAVORITED my cover of “My Time With You” and I wanted to say…. THANK YOU!!

did I just get 2 birthday shoutouts!!! or is there another Pearls? either way whohoo! Thanks Kina.

loves the cover. and I can’t wait for The Goldfish Song tutorial.

I am VERY sad that Never Never is not an option. :(

Really good song

@produxofinspiration
@kat

yayy! beatles songs!! great idea. how ’bout “Blackbird” ???
Sarah McLachlan covered it for the movie “I Am Sam”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3VrggQW7tk

Betcha Kina could outshine that version. I know she can!! =D

oh. and . . .
I think sara mc plays xylophone with a screwdriver 1:10
ding ding ding ding dingggggg
;-D

definitely dig the cover :) and you looked lovely in the video (wow, really, imagine me saying that lol)
i wanted to ask—are you having any shows coming up…possibly over the christmas holiday??? cuz that’d be the sickest christmas present ever ;)

Which songs would you like a tutorial video for ?
AH AH AH that’s a torture and for real !! we would love to learn how to play “the goldsih song”, “people”, “down & gone”, “Memory”… !!!
choose up to 3 !! Grrrrr
ok ok, we know that u are very busy and u find time to respond to us and to keep posting ur video clip, that’s something !
thx Miss lemon

i loveeee this song :)
and i’m so sad it’s been so long since i’ve been on here.
and that my visiting hours to this site are always so sporadic.

my monday was terrible. it consisted of writing a paper until 3:30am sunday night/monday morning, falling asleep at my laptop, waking up at 7:30 to finish the paper, finishing it half an hour before class and forgetting that i still had to do the bibliography, and then freaking out because it wouldn’t let me print it 10 minutes before class!! ahhh!…. good thing it finally worked.

but… i guess it got better because i got an amazing email from a friend, AND i got to see this amazing cover of a song i absolutely love (although i only got to watch it this morning.)

ps. i miss you all.
pps. i love you just as much as ever kina, i’m so sorry i’ve been slacking off on the blog front.
ppps. i wear your tshirt around campus all the time (the heart hands one) and everyone loves it!
pppps. yayyyyy on interscope and recording!!!! i can’t wait for the cd!! ahhhhh.
ppppps. i’m actually done now :)

I love this song and I love your version :D

Awesome Job Kina.. My brother loves you… haha. He makes sure to check your page every week. He drove to UCSB just to see you, which is a long drive. Why I bring it up, Every time I call his cell phone I hear you saying “Hey guys, this is Gabe’s phone, leave a message!”

My mom asks every time “Who is this girl on his answering machine?” HaHa

Its spiritual when you can close your eyes to a song and can feel a beautiful warmth stirring inside yourself…

Keep on touching souls Kina :)

pS. I see a couple people wrote about Jack Johnson.. Please do a Jack johnson cover…. He’s my favorite artist in the world. And your my brothers Favorite artist. And if you do that… you would bring a set of brothers closer together for 2 causes… Being awesome and listening to you while being that awesome :P

@ww1ace

You seem to have not graced us with one of your fly by mail drops, might this be the reason:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRCbkBfdBrQ

:O

@thuff7

do u think if i asked misa she’d be able to force log my account so i could resign in here at home?

kinatunes = podcast or just kina music in general?

KINA YOU JUST MADE MY DAY!!!!!

Today has been a sad tuesday and hearing you sing one of my favourite songs by Regina so amazingly well makes me so happy!
– Aside: I never get to see the posts on mondays because I’m usually asleep while hunched over a textbook

Like other people mentioned, a Jack Johnson would be great.
If you did a cover of Learning to Breathe or This is Your Life by Swtichfoot would make my birthday week the most amazing thing I’ve seen in my seventeen years =)
But then I’m sure I’ll like whatever you pick so I’m not worried :D

You’re amazing. you make me smile =)

WEEEEEEE!!! =D i am happy todayidk why?- randomness haha

i think “Dig” by Incubus would be a cool cover. alot of Kina’s lyrics remind me of Incubus songs. not like style-wise, but like hidden meaning-wise…if that makes sense

come to think of it, “I Miss You” by Incubus would be another cool cover… hmmm

HEHEHE Kina AND David are side by side in top rated music on youtube today

Someone throw Evann a rope!!
He’s stuck in an anonymous dimension!
hehehe.
didja try kg.com>>Forum>>Contacts>>e-mail Webmaster?

Goodluck, we miss you. . .

@CLSurch

… but, it is Kina that is in 6th position of Top Favorited videos

W O R L D W I D E

8 D

!

which is my good news,
but,
my bad news is that my titchie dog has started the tick tock eyes/body again today and has had to go back on sterioids, a month worth this time, and gained another Vet countdown to doom if it doesn’t do the trick! :(

@Kina
You know what the blog hopping lately reminds me of? The holidays, appropriately enough. Old friends, new friends, lots of good cheer. Seems like an apt comparison.

Wanted to bring this to everyone’s attention. Please unsubscribe if you are currently subscribed to Alyssa Bernal. My friends and I all have. Sad to watch really…sorry to the chinese community especially.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywj0d0dUzUc

NOT funny at all! And judging by her comments, she has no remorse whatsoever!

We love you Kina. Keep being the positive role model that you always are!

@thuff7

i can log into the forum fine.. so weird

ya ima just email misa and ask her because i hate the world of anonymousness.. i don’t know anyones name!! lol

Kina, I think you’re great. I really do. But please, please, please don’t waste a tutorial video on The Goldfish Song. I realize that it’s everyone’s new favorite, but you can see your hands the entire time. And from the looks of it, you use one chord shape, and about four total chords. I didn’t stick around for the bridge (if there is one), but I’m sure it’s not difficult. Anyone who doesn’t pick up the song from watching your hands wouldn’t benefit from a tutorial video. I don’t mean to sound like a jerk, but the song looks too damn easy for a tutorial video. With that being said, you’re awesome. Keep on keeping on!

Oh Man you got a good point

not only did kina crash the superbowl, i think her fans are about to crash youtube’s servers pretty soon.

AND we all know who is responsible for the last 976 views on Together, right thuff7?

busted. =P

snapped elixers -lol = poss cover pour Kina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aluwpslpygQ

=)

this a random science thing but anyone like physics or chemistry??? sorry felt nerdy haha!

@alexpham – at risk of exposing extreme nerdiness . . .
I do environmental chem – this Gr8t blue heron to my right here was wading next to me while I was sampling water from the Potomac River near D.C.
We want to keep the water clean so he can keep fishing here. :-)

So to keep this on topic here – this was a beautiful, graceful bird with incredible poise and serenity. Anybody we all know with the same characteristics??? hehehe!!! <3 you kina!

@thuff7 nice love our environment and animals thx for the tidbit we are all nerds!!!!=) nerds of kina lol!!!

i am such a dork online if you guys meet me i am serious heehee.. =D

@ thuff7

YES and here’s the old dig video without her in view:)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aURThUaRjCc

@ thuff7 where did you go to college? for the degree.

@Alexpham

George Mason University is in Fairfax, Virginia (near DC). MS in chem.
But ima freshman kina fan but with no plans to ever graduate . . . :-D

HATE me like -

david choi HATEd skipping down a public street singing la la la la la la la

guy ritchie HATEs baseball

your fans would HATE william hung if he ever sang stars falling down

i HATE the girl at the club who gave me her crazy bf’s number

i HATE call display

jan HATEd marcia

the iraq HATEs u.s. americans because they don’t have maps

we HATE the person who farts the silent fart in the elevator

your sisters HATEs microsoft

HATE me Kina Grannis!!!! so i can HATE you!!!!! HATE me HATE me HATE me!!!!

I want to HATE the call but I CAN’T!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

@ Thuff

the beatles cover, “Blackbird” is a great song… a couple buddies of mine in high school sang that song w/ the arrangement done by the King’s Singers… look them up they r a good choral accapela group sustaining only guys… neways it turned out quite well… but i find that as long as it is done properly… ne one can make this song sound good bcuz the song is just elegantly beautiful… neways good request for kina… ive got one as well tho…

@ KINA… i have three requests(obviously u only have to do one, well really u dont have to do either… they r just suggestions that i think fit ur voice very well)…. if u could sing either “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” by John Mayer, “Nothing Fancy” by Dave Barnes, or “Until You” by Dave Barnes….. all of these r great songs…. i have a feeling i will be sending u more requests bcuz i find so many songs that i love that id love to hear u sing as well…neways ur great

@KINA

omg so i just found a new song within a matter of moments as i was looking up one of my favorite artists in Matt Wertz…. another request i could see u singing…. the name of the song is “I Will Not Take My Love Away”…. the lyrics r beautiful and the song is great too…. neways all four songs i requested r great, beautiful lyric songs…. if u could cover one that would be great and awesome, heck if u could cover them all thatd be even more awesome… and if u didnt, thats cool too man, i love listening to nething u post anyways, wuts not to love about ur videos, voice, and ur gorgeous smile and eyes… thanx for being such a blessing.. later

@MasonicPro07

Hey! We have another Wertz/Barnes/Maybe Andy Davis or Jon McLaughlin fan? in the house!

@Kina

I would like to amend my last comment. Maybe in your next tutorial, or some other time, you could reveal the chords for “Back to Us?” It’s a great song, a bit reminiscent of “I’m Yours,” but I’m having trouble hearing the chords over the speaking. I swore I’d never comment more than once on anything….oh well.

haha @ Oh Man

You got that right man… i love all those guy and have been talkin to matt about tryin to get them all on tour together once their CD’s r all released(i have an inside connection to Matt through University of Illinois fans… neways i am also aware than MAtt and Dave kinda did some stuff together just a little under a year ago, but he loves those guys soo)… but yea they r all great musicians and vocalists… i am also a huge huge huge John Mayer fan haha… i have no joke all his songs… even his covers and juss little random skit songs he does at concerts… love all these guys… sooo good… u can check my youtube account out to if u wanna see some of my favorite videos…. sooner or later when i get a video camera imma put some of my own songs up… neways heres the link dude:

http://www.youtube.com/user/trailerparkjoe07

Awesome song!! i loved you singing it! i just love your voice….

hi….

i love this song!! never heard of it either!! i goin to have 2 look up d original too!!! u sing it so awesomely!! (if datz a word!!) thanks 4 d shoutout by d way!!!

in my honest humble opinion this was the first cover that actually was not better than the original. when you covered on the radio you left me breathless but this time around you left me with too much oxygen! in addition to that, i am disappointed that you say you are a fan of ginas and yet you did not know one of her most popular songs. she was very surprised as was i.

When I heard this song I cried and smiled at the same time. Kina really raises the bar. I love renditions because anytime KINA puts her own creative spin it makes the song so much more colorful and amazing. There truly is something about Kina’s creative style that blesses music.

I would love for Kina to play a song from another singer Boyce Avenue. They are found on Youtube and they are also amazing. Boyce Avenue is covering some of the exact same songs as Kina. They are both on the same record labels too so I wonder…is there a coincedence??? who knows?

@brian

they(boyce avenue that is) are a realy good band… good acoustic stuff

@Kina

Wrong war, dearie… had I flown into THAT foray, my Sopwith Camel and I would have certainly been chewed-up and spit-out like so much Spam.

(ok, for historical accuracy that would have been St. George’s Boiled Beef, but we all know how I likes me Spam)

;-)

…
>@wwar2ace
>perhaps a “back to us” video is a good idea…

@brian r.

wow, you cried? i cried at titanic…when she threw the diamond overboard at the end.

@wwar1ace I think this more suited for your flying pleasure… minus the Spam unfortunately

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia2lqlEFjrE

@Glenn

Hey!!! There I WAS!!! Did you see me?… I didn’t know they were filming that day.

i’m eating a kit kat. i don’t have tim tams.

@confused newbie

I cried during the ‘flight of the valkyries!’ hehe j/k
(see Glenn above)

@wwar1ace

that there was shur sum purty flyin’

@brian r

no joke – couldn’t agree more. kina’s version of “the call” is breathtakingly sweet. she chooses her covers so well and touches them with her special kina magic. if that doesn’t move you then you are made of stone.

@ thuff7 thats awesome im planning to go to UCLA or UCI or irvine. =)

@confused newbie want to break me that kit kat bar because i want to eat sum yum!=D

@Alexpham

Good for you!! Did you get ur applications in yet? You mentioned some science-type stuff. have a major in mind or going undeclared? Good luck with the whole process. Keep us in the loop, we’re pulling 4U!

@wwar1ace – From Blackadder goes fourth – “The twenty minuters…”

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2xTm7Z_6Dcs

Good luck old bean!

KINA! as always a very lovely cover this week…I just had an idea… the next time you’re in SF you should totally do a show with Jeremy “Passion” Manongdo and Gabe Bondoc. That show would be so awesome…it’d be like the very best from SF and LA joining forces to do one amazing show.

victory! you hear Don Wakamatsu first asian-american manager in MLB!

i like the reginas better too. good effort though

@ thuff7 yeah i did maybe go to a community college and take the honors program and i applied to certain CSU’s and as for the community college’s program is partnered with UCLA so im taking that route since i messed up on my sophmore and jr years so if i graduate the program i will be fully accepted to UCLA or USC though i messed up i learned to never do it again and shall study very hard to major in Biology or physical therapy or chemistry then in hopes of med school to become a pediatrician, pharmacist, or chemist =D gotta stay nerdy! haha!!! watched the science channel earlier very interesting concepts on the ocean i have a friend working in submarines and he sent me pics of unidentified seacreature if you are interested i can send you some if i give him a heads up so are you interested? Oh so i will be in the pre-med field once i start and have to go through calculus 3 and i am not very patient with math except calculations of experiments wwhich is basic math and THX for the SUPPORT and tell me more on what you do since i am interested in science thx to SPIDERMAN haha! seriously read comics when i was four and enjoyed his wit and scientific traps for his enemies! =)

wow I just got the 3g iPhone and it is amazing. I almost dont want to use it because its going to get scratched.

@blew

you know when you try NOT to scratch it that you will end up scratching it.

o i enjoy exotic animals and bugs thuff7 can you name me some you saw that were cool or if i can ask for any pictures that would be nice? o if anyone wants to know whats in stores for blckfriday they have kickbutt stuff for sale yay can’t wait!!!!

@alexpham

sorry, i don’t break my kit kats. it’s bad luck.

@ blew buy that scratch proof casing for them it’ll set you back around twenty bucks and to anyone got a job offer? looking for a job with no luck well in the Los Angeles area of course. =(

@ kina want a turkey in the mail? i wish i got turkey in the mail =) mmmm… turkey(then drools out of the moist meat inside that was in the oven for hours on end)haha! happy week early turkey day-ish!!!

@ confused newbie awww is it because its deliciousness is overwhelming and plus it will turn into good luck if you have a friend in need of a kitkat craving. haha!!!=)

@alexpham

actually im just scared you might stick that kit kat up that turkey’s a@@ and send it to kina

@ confused newbie why in the world would i do that? well thats a funny response i’ll give you that hahaha!!!

@alexpham

hey, do you like souplantation?

@confused yea its so good love that place mmmm… you sir or madam are making me crve for many things right now haha! but what about macoroni grill? mmmmm…

@confused newbie yea its so good love that place mmmm… you sir or madam are making me crave for many things right now haha! but what about macoroni grill? mmmmm…

basically i’ll eat anything in the U.S. and back in Vietnam haha!

darn i posted to of the same comments =(

@alexpham

ok man, too much info dude…stop with the mmmm, people might think we’re……you know…..

@confused newbie haha! sorry man haha! im just wasting sometime before i sleep well gd nite everyone!

“The president-elect’s stubborn insistence on using complete sentences has already attracted a rebuke from one of his harshest critics, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska.

“Talking with complete sentences there and also too talking in a way that ordinary Americans like Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder can’t really do there, I think needing to do that isn’t tapping into what Americans are needing also,” she said.”

LOL

@ Kina

As you’ve the flat cap on psyche stuff and into bugs, etc, care to expand or explain?

communitychannel’s video:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mive6ZfY_jM

“sabafa8Pd8’s comment:- Have you seen the likes of the video that shows how liver flukes ceize control of a snail in order to infest a cow? Well, maybe there are mind controling germs that make you wash your hands to clean the good germs away so that the bad germs can meet up with their elders on the handles to learn how to survive for when a ready meal isn’t to hand, before recomencing their attack on your now easier to impregnate, ever drier, and more cracked skinQ8{ But don’t worry, the cycle can only be continued through YOU till you can no longer wash!MAWAHAhAHAha.

70m0kun’s reply:- Actually you are probably close. The “mind controlling germs” are called memes – lol. Daniel Dennet uses this example to explain how religions and other ides hijack our brains.”

Which means that Natalie has learned/copied this behaviour from somewhere/someone!

@alexpham FYI your web page link is broken. too many http’s . if you edit it in ur profile I will visit ur myspace and we can chat about some sci stuff w/o going all geeky on the kina fans! =D

@alexpham

My 2 sons are .5 Vietnamese.

#2 is named Alex. age 4. He is normally a maniac Def Leppard fan but comes to a grinding halt to listen to kina, esp “the call”

#1 son Nathan is 6 and <3’s all over “disturbia” – wants to make his on YouTube vid like kina’s

We have a huge Vietnamese community here in NoVa. and about a thousand pho restaurants. great grocery stores. mmmmmmm (in the food sense, so confused newbie, keep it rated G here – heheheh j/k) =P

haha no problemo. and I think I can speak for everyone when I say that it is our pleasure to cheer you on b^_^d… oh and well done on regina, I was so happy when I saw that you actually covered that song!

@ Kina

8D

Thank you for sorting out the ‘Too Soon’ mistakadamaka!

MUA

@thuff7

just didn’t want people to think that we were the ‘g’ word….souplantation ‘groupies’…but i think alexpham went overboard and exposed it with his mmmmmmmmm

so do you like roll dips?

@confused newbie

(can we call ya newbs for short??) yes, we call them spring rolls. we put out all the stuff on the table and we all roll our own. best way to eat. shrimp, rice noodles, lots & lots of fresh greens – mints, basils, watercress and some other spicy and bitter ones that have vietnamese names I can’t pronounce.

my biggie favorite–alexpham will back me up here–are Banh Xeo – vietnamese pancakes they are crepes filled with yummy things like shrimp, sprouts and greens and lots of fish sauce (Nuoc Cham)

forget the tim tam slam. let’s do the roll dip slam in fish sauce.

oh yeah, noobs, newbs, nuubs, whatever…

five favorite all time slams:

oatmeal raisin cookies in milk

garlic foccacia bread sticks in chili (souplantation)

vietnamese roll dips in fish sauce

garlic naan in chicken masala

hulk hogan vs andre the giant

@thuff7

Bo luc lac, FTW!!! (thanks, Mama G)

What startled you at 5.26 in the Running Away video Kina – pool guy again?

Do you feel ok enough in the security of your blahg to mention what the pensive 6.45 moment related to?

Do you run another PO box for people who don’t wish to have gifting declared?

@wwar1ace

Score!! Bo luc lac FTW is right. Had a place up the street, but it moved out and it’s now Peruvian rotisserie chicken. but their shaky beef was my fav.

I get it EVERYTIME I go to Pho’88… my wife teases me that I never want to try anything else, but it’s more because I don’t want to miss out while I’m there!

Unless I’m in the mood for soup, then it’s time for pho tai.

OFF
Misa, can you bring back the numbering of the comments? I’m lost (again)… :)
ON

@wwar1ace

that is hilarious!!

my wife and I simply ask ourselves “in the box” or “out of the box” when we plan to go out, meaning the usual or do we go for something more adventurous. my in-the-box is shaky beef, her’s is the seafood noodle soup. but she always orders the soup special speaking vietnamese and won’t spill the beans on what “special” is. Out-of-the-box is rare for the same reason you give!!

SUCCESS!!!! MISA GRANNIS= uberest haz0rz i know lol (computer lingo i hope?)

and now a victory dance in misa’s honor :

go misa!! go misa!!
go misa!! go misa!!
WOOOTT!!!

thanks so much misa im finally back from the mysterious world of anonymous commenters lol

evann has been pulled from the wreckage of his silent reverie!!

@ thuff7 i’ll fix it and do you know some viet and ur sons seem cool and i like bun with seafood im not good with viet writing but can talk 75% of it and understand all just not reading and writing except food!

@ newbie yea spring rolls are awesome i roll it like thuff7 and dip it in hoison sauce and chili.

@thuff7 visit Los Angeles and the OC there is a huge communnity of viets in Little Saigon selling che to banh mi its all awesome.

@thuff7
yaya cuz misa is terrific at life!!!

i alsoi tagged you on the request thread so get on it!! lol

@ newbie i was hugry so sorry haha! =D

hey, shouldn’t we be talking about kina?

yay kina is awesome! =)

@ap

you ever see her live?

@ newb nope want to soon since i live in LA and go to the OC alot so hopefully =) so i bet you have?

@ap

no, i haven’t…i’m a noob remember?

haha! @ newb i want to but hopefully its not that far well i went to vegas for a killers concert before how far would yo travel for a concert?

@thuff7

Dac Biet.

…
@Alexpham

Bolsa, Bolsa, Bolsa. Gala is my favorite place for cafe sua da.

@ap

i would travel to socal to see kina.

@ wwar1ace yea my grandma from my mom’s side lives on down bolsa onCarnation street 10 min. away from the asian mall well i can’t spell so here goes phuec le tot? idk haha! love all cultures and i like to eat new things.

@ newb i’ll buy some tickets haha! =)

how tall is kina?

@ kina for newb and i how tall are you?

hey, don’t bother her. she’s busy in the studio recording my favorite song.

Closed voting/democracy can be so cruel = look at this:-

The Goldfish Song (39%, 158 Votes)
Stay Just A Little (31%, 126 Votes)
Together (23%, 93 Votes)
Delicate (18%, 74 Votes)
Down and Gone (14%, 56 Votes)
Cambridge (13%, 53 Votes)
People (13%, 51 Votes)
These Magnet Hearts (12%, 48 Votes)
Heart and Mind (11%, 45 Votes)
Walk On (9%, 36 Votes)
Genevieve (8%, 33 Votes)
No Matter (7%, 30 Votes)
Memory (6%, 25 Votes)
Protect Her (6%, 24 Votes)
Please Remember (6%, 23 Votes)
Running Away (3%, 12 Votes)
Living in Dreams (3%, 11 Votes)

so, MOB RULE is required here to boost votes on the following:-

No Matter
These Magnet Hearts
Living in Dreams

thanks to someone temporarily blowing open the obviously flawed/fair voting system in favour of ye nay fo olde Irish way, which will hopefully include the backing of all 1/32nd’s worth blood line here at least, if not then blame the banshee for squealing this obviously incorrect (by the time it is posted) information or demand a recount based firmly on who can press the buttons the most times to match their own choices!

sounds like sabafa

Kina’s almost 5′4″. :)

Thanks for the shout out evann. Really, it was nothing :)

Sabafa–I feel so bad for your dog (and your mom!) It makes me sad every time you talk about them having problems. :( I hope both of them return to good health soon.

asdf–I’ll try. For some reason comment numbering turned off when I activated another plugin, but i know there must be an easy way. Seeing as I’m now newly unemployed *koff* *koff* I’ll have a leeeetul more time than usual to check it out. (Then again, I also have apps to work on, so my work is cut out for me anyway.)

thanks misa. how tall are you and emi? i think kina’s the shortest of the three.

@ confused newbie & alexpham
sadly i used it today and i got some very minor scratches but they are scratches nonetheless. I am planning on buying the invisible shield soon, hopefully. But I can’t just let it sit there all alone on my desk, I have to use it.

public class yo
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println(“Misa’s tall, but not abnormally so.”);
}
}

import java.io.*;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintStream;

public class GrammarNazi
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
BufferedReader MisaComment = new BufferedReader (new
InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream ()));
String temp;
while ((temp = MisaComment.readLine()) != null)
{
response += temp + “\n”;
}
temp = null;
MisaComment.close ();
int left = response.indexOf(“(“);
int right = response.indexOf(“.”);
// pull out the text inside the parens
String correct = response.substring(left, right);
correct = correct.replaceAll(“time”,”work”);
System.out.println(correct);
}
}

@Misa:
Man, unemployed and a bit of a cough. When it rains it pours! Kidding. Good luck with everything!

hee hee code makes me giggle, even when it’s making fun of my typos. you can’t blame me, I was novocained today! Plus I’m still reeling from the shock of losing my job. I deserve a grace period. ;)

Emi and I have agreed we’re the same height. We’re both marginally below 5′4″ and prefer to not know who’s a millimeter taller than the other. ;) Kina is about 1/4″ shorter than the two of us, so yes, she’s the shortest but not by much.

All this talk of Vietnamese food is making me hungry. I wish I could go to one of the good restaurants near me with someone who knew their way around the menu. The only things I’ve ever gotten besides pho is some sort of roast pork, spring rolls (wrap ‘em in mint leaves!), the sandwiches OF COURSE, and some really yummy thing in big flat rice noodles that wasn’t even on the english menu (I was lucky enough to be able to point to someone else’s plate).

no no misa.. its wasn’t nothing!! your sucha thug at technology.. (thats a good thing haha)

@banshee

YES for these magnet hearts!! its my favorite…well top three haha

“Vote or die”

Oh, and @blew, I’ve put Invisible Shields on both my iPod Touch and my iPhone. I like them a lot except for the fact that if I fail to get the corners to lay down perfectly they collect dust and look icky. Oh well. It’s worth being able to rub it on my jeans to clean off the fingerprints without worrying about scratches, even if it does add that odd orange peel finish to it.

Haha, entirely understandable. These things happen of course. C’est avec plaisir que je vous accorde un délai de grâce.

Hope you feel better soon!

@ misa wat did you major in college? and how much are the invisible shields?

@ misa i should make some spring rolls and some other types for the grannis family if i go to kina’s concerts.=) oh and was the big flat noodles like paper with vietnamese ham and a seasoned sauce covered it?

@Misa

I think SOMEONE *cough* *cough* could pay you as a back-up singer while recording an album out here on the West coast.

I bet they could even find a place for you to stay. ;-)

Oh, and if you’re looking for something besides pho’ on the menu, try the “Com Bo Luc Lac”. Won’t be disappointed.

@ blew i no how hard it is not to use the iphone or itouch cause i cant open mine until christmas.

@ misa what “com bo luc lac” is a dish of rice withcubed beef on a salad and you should have some cafe su da or vietnamese style coffee.

Okay, you guys are killing me!!! XD

(what’s the emoticon for drooling–not the 90 year old man drooling but licking your chops drooling) :-)~~~ or is that slurping noodles???

@alexpham – I saw a PBS show on American sandwiches. Little Saigon was on it, esp the banh mi. my mom-in-law brings me banh mi all the time. wow. just the baguettes are good enough on their own. the combo of the meats, pate and the pungency of the daikon, carrot and cilantro . . . we have Eden Center in Falls Church, VA which is the right-coast version. it’s wild and very intense – great crafts and lots of chintz – if you get past the day-glo paintings on black velvet there are really some nice things

@wwar1ace – she also brings me pho dac biet. am I corret that pho tai is the raw eye round that you put into the broth to cook at the table? It’s my favorite part. my wife used to call it round eye until I pointed out the cultural significance!! teehehehe

@ thuff7 fixed my link and your right about pho tai and did u and ur wife have a american type wedding or the vietnamese tradition with the whine drinking? and the long dresses cause i know i dont want to wear that well the guys version is the same ewww… haha!

@misa – thx for bringing Evann back into the fold. we were worried he’d go rogue and become a double agent for some other blog.

@evann – of course if you ever did go rogue, we have a genuine wwar1ace on our side, so don’t go getting any ideas now.

@alexpham – help me out here . . . I used to get these plastic cups of sweet sticky rice with mung beans in it and coconut milk floated on top. do you know what I mean??

@alexpham – ur cracking me up. got some plans coming up??

we had a mixed wedding ceremony. it was in a small white church in a small virginia town in horse country, and the minister was a friend of mine. we had the traditional vietnamese altar with the buddha and persimmons with pictures of her grandparents and mine. we honored her aunts and uncles one couple at a time in chairs by the alter and we poured them tea. then said prayers to our ancesters all this was mixed in with the traditional protestant ceremony with the usual except NO WEDDING MARCH MUSIC. my friend played some CDs with acoustic songs we chose.

I did go to an all out traditional Vietnamese wedding for my wife’s cousin. It was gorgeous. I was the only caucasian there and every single one of the dozens of people all wanted to know how I liked it. it blew me away.

@ thuff7 its a mungbean che (well can’t spell it in viet so yea sorry maybe wwar1ace can help with spelling) and the older generation likes it, my great grandma loves them and they are so good the rice only though haha! yea there are many places in the OC but my favorite place to get it is at Che Cali near a store called ABC market on burshard i think…

@ thuff7 that is kickbutt so yea glad you like the culture so did you ever go to Vietnam or you can wait until the boys grow up. well the older generation say that the younger one is spoiled so i went to vietnam to visit and see the country in 2005 for the first time i was 13 at the time. it was a inspirational experience because im catholic and i went to the place where Mary appeared called La Vang and there were poor ppl all around and begged for money. I remember an old woman begging and crying for money and food for her grandson that had third degree burns all ovr his face so when i came back i told myself that i would become a pediatrician and help as much as i can all around the world and plus i like to travel to any country and eat. o and i went to thailand days before the tsunami hit it was an amzing place i would go again. =(

I had butter beef once, pretty good. It was an appetizer, thin slices of beef, cooked around the edges but raw everywhere else. I guess like seared tuna tataki loins.

@ thuff7 two weeks ago i went to New Orleans for a wedding and we had vietnamese kareoke it was horrific cause all the older generation would sing haha!

@ newb dude you always make me hungry when i get on here thx very much i am gonna chow down on some porridge be right back lol!

*ahem*
Sorry to be a grammar nazi, but it’s porridge, not porage…makes me think of blackhead cereal…not very appealing.

@alexpham – oh yeah, the karaoke. hehehe that’s a given. in NoVa, the vietnamese folks go to weddings the way people go clubbing. anyone is invited and there is usually around 150 people there. but you have to give bride a red envelope with $100 bucks. that buys you a banquet meal and the karaoke. the newlyweds make out pretty darn well.

sometimes a young band will do vietnamese pop and then leave the karaoke to the old folk. My wife and I went to one like that. the food was chinese, but really authentic but we had to excuse ourselves when the lights went up and the karaoke started.

@ jmesteban my bad thx for the correction now i feel stupid haha.And plz dont call yourself a nazi hate ‘em and the KKK.

@thuff7 well here in cali the most recent wedding was in november we have a bash playing techno and hiphop and trance by the end and i like eating the shark fin soup at vietnamese and chinese weddings. but there was a good band that was in paris by night that played there it was great! =D and add me on myspace anyone, fixed the link.

@thuff7

rogue? me? oh yeh all day, everyday haha

@jmesteban–

sorry to be a semantics n**i, but I think you meant “spelling,” not “grammar” ;)

@Alexpham–

OMGYESSSS <3<3<3 we could have a potluck with vietnamese food and pastries and tim tams :D

I majored in Japanese, and an Invisible Shield (full coverage) for an iPhone costs about $25 iirc.

I love how we’ve totally hijacked kina’s blog and turned it into the “let’s talk about vietnamese food” forum.

@ misa thats funny and i dont mind making food to kick@$$ ppl like the grannises.O and was it fun because i want to learn japanese and manderin those are the hardest i have seen next to thai.

did the family travel alot when you girls were small and what was your favorite place and this question is to kina too?

@thuff7 lets get some recipes from your wife for che or other food and my mom and grandma taught me how to cook my food yay! love them both. =D

@alexpham – never went to vietnam. My wife’s family went last spring and had lots of fun, but they forgot how hot and humid it was and it put a hurt on them.

Don’t think my wife would go. (the reason I think this is that she said no way!!) But I would love to. She was about 4 years old when the war ended and her family was put into a re-education camp. They escaped by boat to the Philippine and then eventually to the US.

@blew

sorry about the scratches but like i said, sooner or later they’ll come. i was like that with my new cell phone but after a few drops here and there, it was like ‘oh well’…

did someone say potluck??

@misa

when i first saw Gotta Digg, i actually thought you were the youngest sister and emi the oldest.

hmmm…what kina grannis song do i feel like right now?

@Misa

Aww… I’m sorry to hear you lost your job. Time to go on a Vietnamese food bender!! Pho anyone?

@ap

is pho really pronounced ‘phuh’?

hehehe…there’s some swearing in this but it’s a classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Kjq4sGO44

don’t watch if kids are around.

@misa

first of all, hi! so sorry to hear you lost a job *and* had some dental work. hope the job issue works out for you and you feel better. but you will be in our good thoughts.

ur right about the hijacking!! to me it feels like we’re all hanging in kina’s living room, just having some good conversations and enjoying the company and where we are. we’ll keep the seats warm while she’s away!! of course we all seem to be migrating to the kitchen!

since we are graced with your presence, do you mind a few questions on the music?

@confused newbie
Yup, that’s how you pronounce it. Or my friends like to call it: P-Ho. ;)

@thuff7: What kind of questions on the music? :) (Do you notice the cool new feature I just added where you can respond directly to a comment and it’ll include a link back to the comment you’re responding to? Use the gray arrow to do it!)

@Harold Bareng:

hey i see little reply arrows!

@ thuff7 that kinda sucks well same as my family my great aunt was in the philippines and my mom’s family was in indonisia and she was 16 and they came to illinoise.

@ newb yup thats how you pronounce

@ misa sorry about the job loss where did you work if may ask?

@confused newbie: Yeah, is that new or am I more of a newbie than I thought? :)

I worked at the corporate office of a retail company, and it’s not a great time for retail right now, obviously :)

@Alexpham:

i’ll have to pronounce it that way next time i order.

@misa

are you being affected by the whole downturn in the economy right now?

@ Harold Bareng ill pass on pho i rather have miso and ramen soup by my lonesome in the kitchen while others eat pho in the living room keep my seat warm then we will havehot chocalate with bannana cream pie or apple for dessert haha!

@Harold Bareng:

misa just put it in. i like it.

@Alexpham: I’m hungry now…

@confused newbie: I like it too!

@Misa:

i do have question about kina. if you can’t answer it, that’s fine.

before the whole crash the superbowl contest, did kina ever think that maybe her dream of becoming a performer may not be unattainable? and maybe that she had to go get a 9-5 job?

reason i ask is because when i watch those old videos of her performing at the malls, people just kind of walk on by…so was just wondering if this got her down at all?

i’m glad she never gave up though because her music is amazing.

@confused newbie: You know, that’s a good question, and you’d have to ask Kina that one. :) I think she knew it might be a longshot, but it was her dream and she at least wanted to pursue it for as long as was realistic and/or practical. Come to think of it, she did tell me once (after graduation, before superbowl, when she was thinking of moving to Austin) that she figured she could pursue her dream of having a performance career for maybe a year, and if it didn’t pan out she’d find something more mundane to do, but if she didn’t give it a fair shot she might regret it for a long time, you know? We should all be very happy that she decided to stick it out. :)

@alexpham: I’m kind of a ramen addict myself, but there’s very little good ramen in NYC.

@Misa:

sweet plugin. My music question: you played fiddle on the Nickel Creek cover “why should the fire die” and I thought it really made the song fly. It sounded a little folksy or had a touch of blue grass. did you ever play with a group? Do you think you’ll use it on another vid with kina?

Also Give me back from the marathon had a pretty tight band on it. What’s the history/origins of this recording? Electric kina was so on the money.

@ misa that sucks little tokyo has many so nxt time you visit go to littletokyo in downtown LA. and so you were in the common cubical type job? and as a kid wat did you think about ur future you know? like a firefighter type question.

@ Harold sorry for your need of food

@ newb wat do u do for a living?

@Misa:

i remember last xmas i was at a mall and there was this girl performing. the mall is an older mall so it’s not as busy as the newer, bigger malls around here but the girl who was singing had a terrific voice. there were only maybe 3 or 4 people watching her. i walked over and stopped and stood there and watched her sing 3 or 4 songs. i felt if she was nice enough to come out and perform that the least i could do was to give her my attention and time for a little bit.

i’m definitely glad that kina stuck it out. it would have been such a waste if she was stuck in a 9-5 job while all these wonderful songs sat in the closet of her room.

@ misa is it pretty in the nyc with snow now since i live in socal no snow well except bigbear and mammoth. well wat are you planning to do nxt week for turkey day and you, emi, and your parents deserve presents from us too cause you guys areawesome on theblog and forums =D

@Alexpham:

payroll, consolidating financial statements between our various companies – so basically accounting related. yourself?

oops i meant around last xmas

hey, where did everyone go?

*flips on Give Me Back*

@newbs

Good for you. I always love to support anyone with the guts to stand up and sing their song.

I thought Kina’s mall visit wasn’t set up to her advantage as far I could see. It was in a high speed traffic spot where people would zip through to buy their stuff with their minds focused on a destination and getting there quickly. If she was tucked into a visible corner with a cozier backdrop and some tables and chairs, I bet she would have stopped more people to listen. I would have stopped in my tracks.

But I am so glad that didn’t get her down enough to bag it. I saw a YouTube “bootleg” of her singing “Message” at Hotel Cafe with the audience doing the “bum bums” and it was such a magical moment. I have had friends play for years and play very well, but rarely can someone connect with a crowd like Kina did right there.

@thuff7:

neither was this mall that i was at. it was an older mall, older crowd, way less traffic than the hipper malls so big disadvantage right off the bat

this is so weird.
it’s like we just went back to when we were all new to the bla(h)g after moving from “twoweeks”.
talking about food, misa’s job, adding/removing new features in the comments, kina’s height, 200+ comments….

@nimur:

sorry nimur, we’re noobs. moreover, i’m a confused noob.

whoa, english alert…i meant ‘may not be attainable’ up above

@confused newbie:
no need to apologize. i was just pointing out the parallels.

@Alexpham:
best ramen in socal is in gardena.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OpehrmC-3k

@nimur:

best burger?

@ newb high school and im a senior 18 almost and have the best mentors as an accountant teacher i think its easy and many say its boring so i stepped into your shoes plus my teacher was an accountant in the oil industries in the 70s.

@thuff7 it does feel like we are great friends conversing at a party haha!

@ nimur thx i just had my crappy ramen fix it was a nasty cup of noodle hey but i needed somthing to eat.

@ newb Best burger would be burgers from in and out.

@ nimur ur user name is similar to the marvel version of aquaman do i smell copyright infringement? haha!

@ thuff7 are your sons going to learn vietnamese growing up and how much can you understand?

@Alexpham:

animal style? heh heh

@ newbie yup heehee so do u live near LA well im in the sanfernando valley to be exact.

@Alexpham:

i’ll have to keep that one a secret for now

@alexpham I have little or no foreign language skills. My wife only speaks vietnamese with her mother and father, or if we go out to eat. I can pick up stuff but can’t speak it. But it’s probably cuz they speak their own mix of vietnamese/english.

funny: when we first got married, she and her mother would chatter away on something and look at me and laugh. hehehehe but I could figure it out by the context and facial expressions so for a while, they thought I could speak it. It stopped those games tho.

well, to borrow kina’s phrase, it’s late o’clock here in Virginia so beddie bye.

@nimur – if yer around this weekend, I’d love to hear some early days stories about the twoweeksforkina days!!

i think this should be my graduation song.

@ thuff7 good night buddy safe dreams.

and everyone else ill go to sleep bye for now.

@ newb its ok i like to share info so it doesnt mean everyone else does thats my nature.

@Alexpham:

if i told you, kina might know who i am….

@Alexpham:

do only socal people know the term ‘animal style’?

wahahahaha!!!

@ newb so u no her in personally so its ok. no more location questions i get that well what made you go into business my interpretation for business is that when you get higher you get greedier and i dont like getting greedy so no business for me except the need to know stuff thats my opinion on it o and they just figred Einsteins E=mc(2) theorem was correct sorry nerdspasm haha! well seriously school tomorrow see you all this weekend!

@ newb no Vegas has an in and out and man i wish they sold some burgers for 5 cents that Oct.22 day darn!

@Alexpham:

no, no…i don’t know her.

@Alexpham:

i like tommy’s.

i guess i have to lock up here tonight…

@kina

thanks for sticking it out! <3

@ kina
hey kina i think you should do the tutorial on stay just a little, i love that song, and i would love love love to play that on my guitar!!! =] oh and i would love to have that song on my myspace, i am making a request for you to add it to your playlist on myspace! please please please please that would be awesome!!! =]
Jess

@Alexpham: Haha, no worries Alexpham, some people play sudoku, some folks collect stamps; I point out spelling/grammatical errors online. Of course, it’s all the more embarrassing when I make errors of my own, but it serves to keep me humble. ;P

Favorite pet peeves:
1) Your vs. You’re
2) Too vs. To vs. Two
3) ArEn’T I coOL foR WriTIng LikE ThIS?
4) I DON’T KNOW HOW TO TAKE THE CAPS OFF

Of course, LOLcats grammar is just too cute to correct.
“I can haz cookies pwease?”

@Misa:
Alas, my laziness has gotten the best of me. You are, of course, correct ;)
Semantic Fascism FTW!

AGH!
*You are, of course, correct.*

Period. Period. Period!!!!

*Gasp* drums and a cello on the album! I absolutely love the cello, don’t play it though. It just has the most gorgeous dark rich melodic tone of almost any instrument, it’s definitely one of my favorites, can’t wait to see/hear how i comes out on the album.

@jmesteban… here are some of my personal favorites:
there vs their vs they’re
our vs are (seriously)
who’s vs whose
and what about those random apostrophes!!

@Misa:
A year? That´s a frightening thought… I mean, what do people usually accomplish in a year as a performer..? I´m not sure if there are any Dorito products in the shops near me, but if I can find any, I´ll buy some to thank them for arranging the competition at the right time. And whoever told Kina about the competition – please someone give him/her a Nobel prize or something.

Sorry to hear about your job :(

i love this. i speak in complete sentences too. i love grammar and spelling. i realize i am not capitalizing the i in any of my sentences. i am ashamed of being recognized by Sarah Palin. i love obama. i love kina. i love building. i love everything.

@misa zomg ill bring porcupines to the potluck … they wouldn’t go with the Vietnamese foods at all but its okay i it’ll work haha–so wrong its right kinda thing ;)

@mamag
=( i’ love m’y r’and”om a’postrophes’ hahah

@Mama G:

My biggest peeve is the death of adverbs! I know an entire college (St. John’s in Annapolis) that boycotted Apple Computers for the slogan “Think Different.”

It’s obvious that grammar standards were well maintained in the Grannis household, to wit “Don’t break me, I bruise easily.” I think if she had said “I bruise easy” it would have been the same as performing the song with a big nuoc mam stain on her blouse–just too distracting to ignore. Who knows where we would be right now if that had happened?

Poetic license aside, it shows a respect for the written word when an artist crafts their work with a love for the language. So a debt of gratitude is owed to you, Dr. G and Kina’s teachers!

And for goodness sakes, we owe so much to Kina for using those language skills in a way that has touched all of our lives so graciously.

I owe an awareness of grammar to my sister who is the chair of the English department at a community college. Growing up, her looks of disapproval were as life-threatening as Emi’s are reported to be. ;-D

Of course, the fatal flaw of my writing is verbosity so TTFN.

Hi!!!everyones Hi kina’s family!! I suppose it’s the last post of this blog i’m sorry!!nobody will see it!!
i’m poor little french guy my english is very simple but i try to say how much i love kina!! it’s always a pleasure for me to read this blog but i can read it only the week end (coz i didn’t have internet installed in my apartment)too bad 8)
ps:i would like to know how i can change my profil’s pict?
heart to everyone
love to kina,misa,emi,mama g,daddy g
bye have a good week end and go to see myspace,my youtube channel http://fr.youtube.com/caidalica my twitter@caidalica.if i’m not too boring!!!

don’t forget this classic, no vs know.

@kina

two bad that your not here as often because i no their would be more people in here if you where. we no that your busy so we our happy for you.

the end.

@newb: haha… you got me there for a minute :D

This is an old one and maybe familiar to everyone, but still makes me laugh. For a non-English speaker, reguires a lot of concentration… about a spelling checker.

I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it’s weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o’er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checker’s
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we’re lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault’s with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word’s fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw’s are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.

@Mama G

Another one for you (this one REALLY bugs me)

Then vs. Than

…
One’s sequential, the other’s a comparison (that’s “comparagory”, for you dubya fans out there)

@FinnFan: haha oh good gosh, that was fun to read… that is going to make me paranoid of my grammar and spelling from now on haha

@FinnFan: yes you’r right English spelling require lot of concentration for a non-English speaker lol like my

@FinnFan: I’ve never seen that before…. that’s great! (but my brain hurts a little now)

another fine example:
“she must OF left” instead of “she must HAVE left” (obviously caused by the usage of the contraction “must’ve”)

wow…. these blog topics have wandered all over the place this time… haha…

@Mama G:

well, we all know kina’s awesome…so no use discussing that anymore.

let’s discuss off topic things….mwahahaha

for example, i see a little ‘indent’ between kina’s eyebrows, just a little up higher in the bla(h)g pic. did she get this from chicken pox? someone close to me has the exact same thing, almost in the exact same spot.

@kaneohe_grown:

How do you think it compare to the following?

Better Together (jack johnson home video) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zIDZre5lATE

Other than this one, I seem to have gone off his stuff, well, tonight anyway! :))

@FinnFan:

Brilliant and great timing! It was a challenging read.

@Mama G:

“went” instead of “said”
“and he went, ‘that’s so cool,’ and I like went ‘yeah!’”

@Mama G:

I think at some point, Kina is going to be asking her blog for a shout out!

@kina

We’re all here for you–having fun, listening to your songs in the background and enjoying good company and great hospitality. Thanks so much! <3

@newbs:

I thought you’d be all over that straight line Kina tossed out from Twitter. No one took the bait!! =D

@ newb yea i like tommy’s too. what do u like most from them mine is chili dogs.

@ thuff7 nice use of nuec mam how did you feel when you first tasted it?

@ mama g you guys want vietnamese food? =)

@thuff7: Or maybe even Noel Gallagher’s – She Is Love – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=m0abSyOcjk4 or Liam’s – Songbird – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eGi59PYz4ig Better still, I’m Outta Time – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBfAxGoGtw

@mama g:
These really bug me
its vs. it’s (I mean really. If you would say it is, use it’s. If it’s a possessive, use its)
lose vs. loose (I see this on message boards – less intelligent that this one, mind you – all the time, and it just kills me)

@thuff7:

Ease up on the morning coffee, fella! :P These people don’t know you and they’ll think your ranting. =D

@Alexpham:

Funny. Every time I eat with in-laws or their friends, they always watch me out of the corner of their eyes to see if I use it. I lurve it. We use lots at home in stir fries. We use full strength fish sauce in a seafood marinade to kick it up a notch.

@thuff7 dang! i am amazed buddy that you like it because other people of dfferent cultures ask what it is and dislikes the smell and never try it most of the time haha! so yea can i ask how you met your wife?and i can’t change my pic please help.

@ (everyone disliking spelling and grammar) i usually type quickly and never notice my mistakes except on a term paper.

@alexpham

I met my wife at college. We worked together on a long project. Lots of late hours . . . you get the picture. She has an MS in microbiology.

Misa has the gravatar image size set to 65 x 65 pixels. That will shrink your gravatar.com image down to that size. I would suggest you find a picture you like and shrink it to that size in photoshop or whatever image software you have. Be sure to preserve the aspect ratio. Then see if you like it that way. I played with the contrast/brightness on my heron to get it to show up better at that size. Images with good contrast or silhouettes like the heron work best.

@TimR: I of course meant less intelligent THAN this one. My own medicine tastes quite bitter.

@thuff7: I actually just answered this question in the forum, but I played fiddle for a celtic rock band in college.

Sadly I don’t know anything about electrified Kina in Give Me Back but I figure she may have used Garageband, since that’s her weapon of choice.

@Alexpham: I’m staying over on this coast for turkey day, visiting my dad’s cousin’s family in Connecticut. I’ll be home for Christmas, though. (You can count on mee…..)

@jmesteban:

My favorite pet peeves:

1) Lose v. loose
2) Sneak peek v. sneak peak
3) I’m very wary of those things v. I’m very weary of those things

(aside from the obvious your/you’re)

@thuff7 thx and that is cool that you met your wife in college many people do haha!

@ misa that’s cool never been to NYC or Connecticut is it better weather than LA now? Because it is still 80 degrees and 90 well in the valley and well Big Bear for the littl cousins o thanksgiving for me and lots of food.

@anybody if you see my post can you reply to me saying i see it becoz i don’t know if anybody see all my post or if you just don’t care of it!!!

@Misa: Thank you Misa but please don’t be saddened by such, you have more than enough to cope with regarding your new coughing regime, et al.

What will be, will be. Which I hope will not be to too early an appointment for titch to be put through – I’m sure you’ll have no trouble in understanding said!

All tickie, tockie parts are already as they should be:) Soiling is likely to remain a problem like before and although the gate is staggering/lurching, it doesn’t include the falling every which way that was the case previously, which was also an improvement on the inability to move at all that went before. Feeding is again by hand, but water is self managed this time around, and as for the dog, well … … …

;)

Joking aside, the above things happen with humans too remember, and regarding my Mom, time itself is now the healer and privacy is sought, but thank you for your empathy Misa<it3

Have you noticed that You Tube are restricting the features of videos on my channel this time? A viewer could go blind trying to watch Kina there, perhaps that is why all the click links for covers/originals have been removed = they know what I’m like given half a chance;)

@ misa any place you love in SoCal?

@caidalica:

To give yourself a user image instead of that gray box, go to gravatar.com and register using whichever email address you used to register for this blog. You can upload a picture there (here the images are 65px by 65px) and then as long as you’re logged in here or type your email address in the “Mail” field it’ll show up to the right of your comment.

@caidalica: Are you talking about the one where you said about posting at weekends? Sorry, but that is the only other one of yours I’ve seen so far, and I’m clearing off now.

@caidalica: @caidalica:

Welcome! Sorry you feel left out. What is the weather like in France today?

@Alexpham: Food-wise or otherwise?

@ misa food and otherwise for me i like santa monica pier and food in and out.

@ caidalica i love france have family in paris and went there when i was 8 and will come again maybe this summer! =D

@Misa:

My bad! I skipped the “instruments that you play” topic since my musical talent is limited to listening to others and foot tapping. The riff you played stuck in my head one day and it was a good thing, so really, thanks for that! I couldn’t wait to get back to hear the song again.

blushing(tight band) indeed. If that’s Garageband, then she must be having the time of her life in the studio. Give Me Back is a great mix and incredible editing. wow. really? Go Kinaaaa!!

oh. and you’ve been tagged in “request tag”. Play or pass, either way you like.

@ kina love your song strong enough been listening to it for days now and my friend is hooked on together so he is dedicating the song to his girlfriend it’s going to be cool.

@sabafa:

Thanks for the Noel Gallagher links. Quite kind of you to think of it. Don’t think we’ve chatted previously. Sorry to hear you’re family isn’t well. I wish all the best for you and them. We’ll keep good thoughts for you.

@ kina if you can do a cover of jimmy eat world’s hear you me that would be awesome and here is a video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OQH0jXNViA

@TimR: OH! Those are some of my favorites as well (but I didn’t want to sound like a whiner and list all of my pet peeves). Although, definitely not common, I wince at something that “peaks” my interest, rather than “piques” *shiver*
It is interesting to note on the it’s/its issue that apostrophes usually denote possession, except in this case!

How about persay v. per se? Or segway instead of segue?

@thuff7: Thank you for your kindness. Possibly not, I’m not keen on this sort of thing. Do you think the G girls are too tall to manage this Little Titch’s party piece:-

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tpnjB5MsOh4

If Misa and Emi take up running, I guess they would have to run together so that neither one becomes smaller/taller than the other, and best not mention about being in dif time zones is likely to make one of them taller than the other relative to time;)

HaHaHa The old Gravatar/publishing thang:))

Personally, I think “I seen” rather than “I saw” or “I have seen” is the worse.
For example “I seen this movie last week” or “I think I seen that somewhere”

…Gah

Anyways, I’m so sorry to hear about your job Misa. Canada’s being hit pretty hard with job loss as well.

@ wwar1ace and @ thuff watch the video of this viet pop star and show it to your spouses and it is freaking hilarious! O and tell them to translate it so funny roflmbo!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPomA-UPI7A

well its really annoying when people say like : anyways instead of anyway

and i don’t like it when people say “i could care less” bc that means you care a some level.. whereas if you were to say ‘i couldn’t care less” that would mean you are at your least ‘level’ of care–there is not care to spare lol

@evann: you do have a good point lol!

.tsrow eht saw taht .sdrawkcab stnemmoc eritne etirw dluow nimur nehw rebmemer

@nimur:

I kinda like it. It makes it much harder to criticize your grammar.

.tsrow eht ti ekam ot evitanretla driht a deen dluow uoy tub ,sdrawrof gnitirw naht esrow eb nac sdrawkcab gnitirw taht tuo tniop ot redrah eb dluow ti ,elpmaxe roF

Random fact: Kina is extremely good at writing backwards… but now come to think of it, I can’t remember if it’s left-to-right with reversed letters or right-to-left with flopped letters….

flopped letters? that’s impressive.

if i recall correctly, its right to left…but old age might be getting to me.

HAHAHAHAHA….

I just watched the Blindly vid…the car keys!!!! hahahahahaha!!!!!

Mmmm, bamboo. om-nom-nom

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Goodbye.

@ thuff7 (= !!!elbirret skool tub waya ni nuf si siht

@ap

next time i’m in your area, we go for viet food!

@Alexpham:

let’s open a viet restaurant in socal and call it:

The Goldfish Castle

@ newb there are to many pho places that serve all types but not all so thats a good idea and im a good cook. Plus you are a business man so financing would be easy. so 50% profit for us only no need for workers it would be family only so paying workers come out of my 50%if i new was nationality you are we can make both types of food and free food or speech lessons for the grannises right? haha!=)

@mama G: Gene’s right. Her left hand mirrors her right, so while her right hand moves across the page left to right her left hand forms letters as a mirror image, right to left.

@Alexpham:

i hope you’re not giving the speech lessons!

free food? what if they come every night???

and of course, kina’s music in the background…no vietnamese music from your relatives.

@ newb heck yes i won’t give the lessons it’ll be my little baby cousins auditions are tomorrow haha!!! Also if they come everynight will be fine all we need is a heads up and get a VIP room set and let the other customers enjoy themselves. Though the problem of no supplies is easy lessen the demand for awhile like take an item of the menu for awhile then make it for a limited time offer.

ok..i have to ask this…it’s bugging me!

why did greg jardin put kina in a greenhouse with lamps??????????

idk too, but the heart beat effects with the lights were awesome!!!

@Alexpham:

we can have karaoke nights with kina songs

@Alexpham:

i found the lights blinking in the greenhouse a little strange. kinda felt like kina was trapped in the twilight zone.

the video should have been about her attaining her dreams of becoming a singer…by listening to her heart and chasing those dreams. perhaps show her waitressing but not liking it while she wrote songs in her room and then making it big…

@ confused newbie we can have karaoke! that would be awesome with every type of song and kina,misa, and emi should come to and anyone who lives in the LA/OC area. Dang no wonder your a business man. And twilight zone feeling eh… i did too but i actually watched twilight zone hee.hee..

@mama G: re:kina’s writing skills
ffwd to 10:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjeeCwi0V8g

i guess he had a budget to work with so probably couldn’t make it too fancy schmancy.

@not a confused kin00b:

you must not be related to me.

Unfortunately, the cool heart-beat lamps didn’t really show to their best advantage in the Super Bowl commercial version of the music video because of the heavy editing. You get what Jardin was going for in the long version. Sitting there, watching all the people make that video happen…. it was amazing. We were on the roof of an abandoned toy factory in LA with the production company and the Doritos bigwigs watching Greg’s vision unfold…. it was pretty chilly and they built this awesome greenhouse and filled it with plants and old lamps. It was just a fanciful little scenario of Kina creating a magical moment with her music.

@not a confused kin00b:

I was struggling in my mind to come up with a context for which she would use that talent, but there you have it! answered before I could ask. I guess there is a limitless supply of kina-isms. thanks for sharing that!

@ mama g what was going on with your mind when she won?

@ thuff7 your always invited to the restraraunt that newb and i are collaborating to make.

@Mama G:

that song is too good for lamps and a greenhouse but that’s just my opinion.

@Alexpham:

is he VIP material?

To be honest, I was numb with disbelief…. then ecstatic, of course… then we were a huddled mass of blubbering Granni*
*plural for Grannis

@Mama G:

I saw pix somewhere of many folks bundled up in the cold and Kina calmly sitting there in short sleeves. How long did she endure it? I thought the green house setting was perfect–a beautiful place hidden in the middle of the dreary and mundane from wherein life, light and creativity beat constantly.

@Mama G:

did kina ever consider american idol before the super bowl contest?

@ newb idk ask thuff7 lol! well he seems chill so yea.

@Alexpham:

what if thuff7 and family and the grannis family arrive at the same time? we only have one VIP room!!!

@ mama g that is so kool my family is exactly the same with support and love to we are united and are one we lift each othr up when one has fallen and help others to brighten our day.O and i hate it when it is cold during january-february ugh…

@ thuff7 what new thing are you doing at work nxt week anything planned i am very intrigued in your line of work.

@Mama G:

I favorited this b/c it was such a incredible moment to watch, and yes, I must admit to having some genuine misty-eyed moments watching it. I feel so redundant saying this but these real-people moments are so amazing and why I like watching Kina and the Granni so much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaoPPHoTp30

@thuff7:

if you cried to that one…wait until you see this one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loQRxLYYTn4

@ newb thuff7’s family is of 4 we shall make it 250 square feet for VIPs and with a bar/grill

@Alexpham:

uh? i meant ‘thuff7 and HIS family’

@Alexpham:

250? that’s it?

@ newb i no i messed up rad it again fixed it.

@Alexpham:

once you edit, my replies don’t make sense.

@ newb it can be more idk what now but if you and i are serious about this i can probably make a blueprint by monday though this weekend i will be in corona visiting family.

@ newb yup sorry haha!

@ misa is it to hard to have a delete messed up comment app?

@confused newbie:

No brainer, newbs. We ask them to join us for some apps and then leave them alone to enjoy themselves.

@ap:

OK, since it’s late & quiet, I can go all geeky here. I have three projects going next week in the two days before holiday. One is helping to analyze the efficiency of a method for synthesizing nanoparticles that will be used to detect cancer markers in blood serum. The other is working with a grad student to detect toxin buildup in fish from a place where the fish have excess parasite infestations. Then the 3rd is to help my two mentees (2 women high school seniors from a prestigious sci and tech magnet school) work on their projects that will be entered into a state science fair. Together, we are looking at hormones that may be leaching into a river from old sewage disposal ponds. (Not very glamorous sounding is it!)

@Alexpham:

you work fast

@thuff7:

now i know why kina wanted to become a singer

@thuff7:
Yeah, that´s such a great moment… When I first found out about Kina, I went through her videos non-stop, and it all happened, for me, in just a few hours: oh she´s in some kind of a contest… videos after videos, she´s trying to get people to vote for her… then a found this one… and I went grazy: SHE WON, YEAH!!! And I, too, got tears in my eyes watching this… And all this for someone I didn´t know even existed, a few hours earlier! :)

@ thuff7 dude awesome if i get in to UCLA you must come over to cali and i want to do a project with you one of these days or experiments and we can pig out with viet food haha dude what does the hormones do to the river is it pollution that can carry harmful bacteria? what parasites are in the fish? As of now? And what plans are you going to build to synthesis the particles?

@ newb im bored so conversing is fun for me i like gaining new information to expand my knowledge MWAHAHAHA!(@ kina sorry for copy infringement) =)

@Alexpham:

and here i thought you just liked talking about viet food…

@ newb your right i do a lot dont i funny thing i usually dont but if someones interested im just like an encyclopidia haha!

@Alexpham:

nothing wrong with that ap. next time i’m in your area, we’re going for a beer and some good viet food, my treat (or if you’re too young, some good viet drip coffee).

@ newb your going to sneak some right cause im 18 haha!

@Alexpham:

bubble tea for you, coffee for me. kina grannis fans don’t break laws!

@ newb i was joking i’ll pass on tea but will get cafe su which is milk and coffee and did it with sweet bread childhood classic for me. yea and viet food too.

@Alexpham:

bubble tea isn’t necessarily tea…ever been to tastea?

@newb o boba yea tast tea is great its far from bolsa but is always great planning to go there tomorrow to treat some little cousins. i always get lychee

@Alexpham:

dang, i feel like one now! tommy’s chili dog and a strawberry mango bobba!

hey ap, heading out. i’m going to catch some sports highlights before going to bed, see if the celtics won again.

@ newb good night friend see you nxt blog on monday bye!!!

@thuff7: Wow…. you put that so nicely. Well, the reason Kina seemed okay in a short-sleeved outfit while everyone else was bundled up was that she was being trailed by a guy whose job was to follow Kina around with this gigantic heater on wheels…. and also, whenever they stopped shooting, people with hot tea, a warm jacket, and gloves rushed in to keep her warm. While we were watching, the food service brought around trays of warm quesadillas and hot chocolate. Just that little bit of catering to was enough to show you how easy it must be for celebrities to get wrapped up in that privileged kind of lifestyle. The Doritos people truly treated the finalists like rock stars: 5 star hotels, limos, incredible dining, unbelievable gift baskets, personalized electric guitars, not to mention that all of them were the most down-to-earth, friendly, amazing people.
Okay, that may have been TMI, but oh well….

@newb: no… Simon Cowell scares her.

Simon Cowell is cool. I like him :) Wish we have that kind of judges on hungarian talent shows ;) (or at least one…)

@Misa: thank you for this precious help!!i will do that nowbut i need to find a nice pict !!:)
@thuff7 and @alexpham thank you i don’t feel left out anymore and it’s sunny day but quite cold glaglagla!!! summer is the good period for visiting paris without parisian!!!haha

@FinnFan:

Exactly! It’s a classic literary theme unfolding before our eyes in real time. Like any great story, it touches the emotion center in our hearts. (I would’ve said “psyche” but there’s a theme going on here! hahaha). You simply can’t help but be drawn into it.

I think the curtain is about to go up on Act III, and I’m cozy in my seat waiting and watching to see what happens next! But hey, no need for us to put any pressure on Kina to best her previous accomplishments. She could fold her cards now and be declared the winner. It’s just that I think the best is yet to come!

Oh, and it looks like the audience not only watches the show, but is an actor in it as well. Isn’t that awesome? We have the power to change the storyline. Let’s do our best to make the lead character look good!!

@Mama G:

No, not TMI at all. Fascinating, really. After watching the vid so many times, it was amazing to see the reality behind-the-scenes. She was so warm and glowing as she sang. Seeing the contrast between that and the scene of people huddled up with hot chocolate was quite unexpected. Thanks again for sharing.

Hi Kina,

I’m a beginning guitar player, or rather I’m trying to be one :P
I stumbled onto some of your vids while looking for guitar learning stuff and really enjoyed your songs, voice and energy.

You seem to give a lot back to your fans and I think that’s great. In response to your poll on what song to make a learning-vid of, I might have a different suggestion, not sure if it is possible ofcourse.

I myself don’t have a good voice, and at the moment, I am too busy with hitting the right strings, chords and rythm to also be able to sing at the same time (having to remember the words and everything is too much).

Would it be possible that you made a vid or mp3 or something, where you are just singing, maybe to a beat, but without any guitar play. I could then play the vid/mp3 and fill in the guitar bit myself, or at least attempt to.

Again, it’s just a question, not sure if that’s hard to do or not.

Oh, I also love the birthday wishes you do, my birthday was the 2nd of october and I don’t feel like waiting 10 more months, so could you possible put my name up on your next bday greetings?

hehe, it’s Adriaan by the way, just in case you’re crazy enough to do it :P

Take care, the best of luck with your career and I hope to be back here many more times

@Alexpham: I could probably find a way, but it’s more fun to watch you flounder ;)

@thuff7: That actually sounds awesome :P

@Alexpham: The first time I got that I was like “wtf where’s the sweetened condensed milk?” then I stirred it and was like OHHHH.

@caidalica: How’s the weather in Paris in midsummer? I went once in early June and it was beautiful. Does it get humid at all? I’m spoiled by California’s mild winters and dry summers. :)

Whew, Man its getting so hard to keep up now poor Kina

yes, the video needed a ‘beautiful place hidden in the middle of the dreary and mundane from wherein life, light and creativity beat constantly.’ the greenhouse and lamps just didn’t potray that vision for me.

@confused newbie: The greenhouse was very magical for me :)

@Misa:

i only use sweetened condensed milk for my coffee at home. i also bought the little vietnamese coffee dripper thing that the restaurants have. can’t go back to sugar. the condensed milk is sooo much better.

@Harold Bareng:

i guess it just wasn’t that magical for me.

Jealous of warm cali weather right now.. and i got sick from it =P

I’ll take “People”, please. hehe

@ misa thats kool just hoped you liked it. and @ newb lets all go for boba at tasttea!!!

@confused newbie:

To each their own, newbster. Some peeps like nuoc mam, some peeps like ketchup.

Some purists would prefer to just hear the music and create their own mental images. I like watching songs played and sung live by the artist. It’s kind of a “book vs. the movie” thing, too.

But I loved the “Message” vid b/c there is quite a bit left for the viewers’ interpretation. I also really liked the scenes when she was traveling there like a commuter going to work for the day. Another day at the office, taking blood and making art. That’s just one way to see it.

I could go on and debate it widja, but I used up all my rant minutes on
the death of adverbs. ;-D

@misa
You and Kina both have iPhones, what about the other Grannis siter??? Or is Emi the typical third child like me and doesnt get what the older siblings get. Also, I did order that invisible shied, but the down side is its not coming for a week maybe two, which means I still have to be extra careful with my new iPhone. I wish we had virtual scanners and you could buy something and scan it and BAm there it is rite in front of you.

@Misa: last year the weather was horrible with lots of rain but sometime it’s too hot,it’s like a big raffle every summer!!!
8)global warming!!!if you need a guide next time i’m here haha!:)

@blew:

I dunno blew, I got rapped on the knuckles pretty hard for antics that were nbd by the time my younger sibs recreated them. Two sides to the coin! =D

But I’m there with you for the virtual scanner aka magic wand!

@thuff7:

Oh. Did I mention the part about Kina being in it?

Thanks for our shout-out! So cool to see it up there in Kinaland.

Wow. It’s been busy in the Kination.

@Misa. Sorry your job came to end though I had the impression you might’ve been half expecting it so hopefully it wasn’t too much of a shock. I hope that this turns out to be more of an opportunity for you in the long-term than anything else. And hey, it never hurts to have a bit of time off right? :-) (Especially since US companies seem to be such meanies with how much paid holiday they give.)

@Vietnamese Food Fans. I have to admit I have absolutely no clue about anything Vietnamese but there must be something to it since it seems so popular with you guys.

@syntax & semantics observers. I think there is a line somewhere but I don’t really know where it should be. I do think language is about communication, and as long as the message is conveyed, absolute grammatical perfection is not necessary. I also think that people should care about how they communicate and that lower standards is indicative of something. Language also evolves though – the english we speak in Britain today is markedly different from the english that was spoken here in the past. It’s also significantly different from the english spoken in the US for instance. I know that’s true of all other languages as well.

That said, there is a personal satisfaction in finding the right words and grammar to convey things in the most elegant way. Sadly, I know I fall short of this quite a lot on a day to day basis but that doesn’t stop me trying for things where I feel it most matters.

Hope everybody is having a great weekend, recording is going well, Hi to all the new people etc. etc.

so.. today it was 18 degrees in my town yay. =*(
but a mocha chai tim tam slam rocked my world and made it all worth is haha!!
who ever invented tim tams/tim tam slams deserves a huge high five and a day named after him/her <3

@Windscale:

Hello windscale. I wanted to say hi before it became too late for you. Thanks for the observations on language. Very well said. I think much of our discussion occurred with tongue firmly in cheek, but we do see so much IM speak spilling over into everyday life here. At university, we actually see formal reports written with LOL’s and ur’s and the like. It’s fun to play with online, but there’s a time and place . . .

My favorite discussion was watching British actor Hugh Laurie on TV (telly that is. See also: Penguin on the) talk about the tribulations of using an American accent and diction for his character Gregory House. In it, he uses his American accent to caricature a British idiom. It was a riot but it showed the worst habits of both versions.

Nice to chat. All the best to you.

@caidalica:

@evann:

Hey there! Aren’t you from Beantown?? This cold snap in NoVa is hard because we haven’t been acclimated to it yet. We always seem to go from hot to cold w/o a transition. Last week we had heat on in the morning and the A/C in the afternoon. Oy.

We ate the last of the tim tams last night. Bummer. We need to hit Target again!! You have me jonesing for one!

@thuff7:

lol yeh well im not actually from beantown (nvr really knew how that ever started–lol no one here calls it that.. some times im like beantown?.. oh! boston!! haha) ive lived about a half hour away by car for my whole life but its cool i love my town

today i made someone a mocha chai.. and i had some extra milk left over that didnt fit in her mug. I decided to try it out because I didn’t want to waste milk…as if that were the only incentive ;) and i happened to have a tim tam in my backpack haha… so deliciouss

the walk home( bout 1 1/2 mi) was soo cold.. i had a sweatshirt, flanal lined jeans, ski socks, mittens, a wool jacket, a wool scarff and a wool hat one lol!! when i got home i made some peppermint bark.. sooo good with hotchocolate and espresso mix mmmm;)

u hungry yet? hah

@ misa
ok so i was thinkin about it the other day when i was chillin out to kina’s music =] so have you and emi ever considered getting into the whole music scene as well??? i mean all three of you are so talented, has it ever crossed your’s and emi’s mind?
Jess

hola, Jess1225. Good to see you on this side of the fence! All well this weekend?

@evann:

Where at in Mass? I lurve Boston. Chau Chow’s in Chinatown is *the* best!! Is No Name seafood still around?

this must be the winning week. almost 400 replies

@jess1225:

Isn’t their cover of “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” awesome? I love the 3 smiles at the end. That, plus “Heart and Mind” are on my play list. The sound is sooo soothing.

@thuff – that’s why I tend to like formal and logical things since at least then correctness is a lot less subjective. I never really did amazingly well at English literature at school since I’m not that analyzing of that sort of thing. For me, “entertainment/like” things tend to fall into three categories – I like, I don’t like or “whatever” (said in Clueless style.) I found that teachers didn’t tend to give any marks for that though!

Still up :-(. Flew home from NorCal yesterday/today but my body still thinks its only 2100 despite not really sleeping on the plane. That and the small matter of going from 24-28 degC to 4 degC! Actually, I think its supposed to be something like 1 deg at the moment. Still, can’t complain, at least I got to get my summer running gear out again for an extra month whilst I was there.

@Windscale:

I can’t sleep on planes either. That’s a long flight. San Fran to Heathrow? That is a big temp change. We could use some NorCal or SoCal weather here in Northern Virginia. My wife ran a 5K today, and it was -4 degC and 15 knot winds. I felt bad until I saw a die hard 70 yr old man in shorts and T-shirt. He clearly beat the senior class. Hope you have a quiet day to regroup tomorrow!

@blew you should try to make the scanner and make millions =)

@blew im viet i just hungry and we started talking haha =)

:-). Good on your wife for running in that. This might be my coldest race of the year – http://www.ggac.co.uk/hogs-back_2008.htm. Could be cold or not too bad, its been hard to predict the last few years.

I got passed on the last surrey league cross country race I did by a guy in his 70s on the last lap and I couldn’t stay with him :-). (Bad day, started too fast.) You gotta look out for those vets – they can be deceiving! Can’t wait till I get out of the senior category!

Well, we left about 1900 Pacific and got in at 0510 Pacific so just over 10 hours. But, you tend to get the gulfstream coming back from USA to UK – I think it was 11 hours or so on the way out.

@AlexPham:

Hey AP! How’s the left coast tonight? Got the building plans on the restaurant yet? How about the menu selection? Could have really used a bowl of pho today!

@thuff7 yea its nice im in riverside right now nice night around 66 degrees temperature wise and no not yet on the building newb just gave me a thought but i am only 18 and have no clue on business and he just gave me a suggestion and well i made pho today my moomy taught me and ill make bun rieu tomorrow. =) it is my favorite

@ thuff did you watch the viet music video up top yet it is so funny and cute haha!!!

@ windscale how long was the trip the longest for me was thailand at 1 in the morning here and then getting there 13 hours later ugh i felt tired but then a tour started it was unbearable ugh! but great trip though.

I never heard of Regina Spektor…or “The Call”…so I “youtubed” the original and you put it to shame! Much props to the person who requested it…and to you Ms. Kina…congrats on yet ANOTHER job well done. You’re the best

oovret: Week 30

Thank you for answering my trivial questions every week.
Thank you for giving us a song to enjoy every week.
Thank you for allowing us to follow you on this incredible journey of yours.
Thank you for sharing your heart and soul through your music.
Thank you for being such a lovely person.

What are some things you are thankful for?

Not to go off topic on anyone here, but has anyone watched the latest vid that Kina favourited (yes, I know the spelling looks funny, but I’m Canadian) on YouTube?

His name is Chris Reyes (ChrisR612). The song he wrote is called “When You Wake Up”. The lyrics are pretty cool and his voice is really, really good.

Check it out (I apologize if someone’s already mentioned this and if I’m the last guy to know this)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1E1WhOLe7A

@oovret

We all thank Kina Grannis for the joy she brings everyone each week and for just being herself :)

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends! Everyone in this blog is awesome!

Hey Kina,

I was really glad to hear you’re going to be using cello! (that was me that mentioned it initially in the YouTube comments) Now this all feels way more interactive. I hope it all works out and you’re having fun in the studio.

Cheers!

@Kina:
Since Oovret asked you only one question (although a very good one)… Wait a second, I´ll change into my Oovret disguise… Ok, now… You´re probably planning to share your experiences of recording with a major record company some day later… but please give us a little taste of what it´s been like. My question: what is the main thing you´ve learned during these past few weeks?

@MikeJ:

Thanks for the holiday wishes from you and your fellow Canadians. It is so good to hear from you all. The spirit of your message is heard and returned many times over.

In all the planning and preparation for the holiday, I confess to overlooking the reason for having it in the first place. oovret has reminded me in a most gracious manner. I echo oovret’s thanks to Kina and her wonderful family in the sincerest way possible. But I am also grateful to all the fantastic people whom I have met in this blog for their kindness, patience and mutual appreciation for each other.

That is such a good question, but, if you were wishing to ape Oovret, surely you should have addressed yourself as naFnnif!

@jess1225: I can’t speak for emi, though I know she’d probably like nothing more than to not have to work and just hang out and tour and do musiciany things with Kina all the time, but I myself wouldn’t have what it takes unless I were in it solely to be kina’s backup singer. (Not quite a lead vocalist m’self.) Though I’m probably the kind of backup singer that would put their life on hold for a band, then when the band got big the manager would convince the lead singer that I was holding them back. I don’t really like the spotlight much anyway, so I’m happy to enjoy fame vicariously through Kina. :)

@confused newbie:
Hmmm, i guess it’s my lame ie6 again, but i see only gray boxes not arrows. But it’s ok for me ;)
@ Misa: sorry to hear about your job loss

@sabafa
Damn… I knew I was missing something! ;)

great going ChrisR612! you’re just a fan (*coughs* stalker) like the rest of us.

@Misa: I’m all about vicariously living! lol

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

hi i’m just checking if my pict is here!!
PS happy thanksgiving to everyone sniff what we don’t have this event in our country

@caidalica:

yes, you have it here. how is france today? tell us some good news.

@thuff7 hows the weather in NoVA?
@ newb wow a stalker? that sucks!!! haha? O_O

@AlexPham:

AP, the weather is nice, but a little cool. Very sunny and 41 deg. The wind died down. The visibility is fantastic, and I can see the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah National Park from our upstairs windows. Usually, it’s too smoggy in to see that far and at best, the mountains look, uh, blue. Now they look green/brown. We were there for the peak fall foliage which was great this year from plenty of rain in the late summer/early fall.
cheers.

@Confessions of Newbie:

You have the right to remain silent. If you choose to give up that right, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.

@asdf: Thank you, and thanks to everyone who’s given their condolences. I feel I should clarify, though, so no one thinks I was incompetent–they basically fired everyone in the entire company, so I don’t feel singled out. :) A year and a half ago, my company was overambitious and hired 130 people to bring our corporate office staff up to around 400. Last December they laid off about that many people when they realized their eyes were bigger than their stomachs. Then in July they laid off probably close to 100 more people and filed for bankruptcy protection, in August they were bought by a hedge fund and hired a couple new department heads, and finally last Monday they decided they weren’t going to make it through holiday so they kept on about 25-30 of the remaining staff (probably just under 100 since the whole time since last Dec. we’d been losing people steadily to attrition) and fired everyone else. They’ll close out the entire chain by the end of 08 or early 09, and then the company will be no more :)

So really, I don’t feel that bad. I miss the benefits of the paycheck, but the company was crazy and I DID make it through 2 rounds of layoffs before they threw in the towel. Now I’m freed up to work on other projects and take a little time for myself before I find my next opportunity. :)

@thuff7: some good new eh….rain and cold but i have a chimney!!!

@Misa:
I´ve been in a situation where a good company was destroyed because of bad management decisions… When it was my turn to leave, it was actually a huge relief. There´s nothing more stressful than a workplace where everyone´s motivation is nonexistent and you´re just waiting for the next bad news. It eats all your strength.

@thuff7: lol idon’t even know about no names
i live in beverly, its on the coast.. next to danvers, salem (home to the witch trials.. which actually occurred in danvers) and manchester by the sea… idk if this means anything to you haha but its w.e.

i just say im from boston on the internet bc ppl kno where that is whereas no one has ever heard of beverly ;)

@FinnFan: Ha-ha, you’re not the only one that missed something, for I now see that I didn’t end it with an F = oyvez, we’d best do some ducking and diving as we might easily be shot down for far less in this quality of fan base, + maybe even eaten before we’re well hung or even dead for that matter! So this turkey is hot footing it whilst still good to gobble!;))

@evann:

You *are* right on the coast! My college roommate lived in Lynn for a while. When we were in school, we lived on the NJ coast, and I pretty well grew up there (except for about 6 years outside Sacramento, CA when my father was a pilot in the air force).

I’m landlocked now, and never knew how much I would miss having the seafood markets so close, esp. for clams and mussels that need to be fresh.

No Name is/was a restaurant in S Boston near the waterfront where you could get a huge pile of seafood for a few measly bucks. You eat/ate elbow to elbow with whomever else was there on big folding tables and chairs. No amenities at all, not even a name.

@caidalica:

A nice warm fire sounds good. Enjoy,..

@thuff7:

lol yeh the city light house is like 3/4 of a mile from my house.. its pretty fun except i can’t smell the ocean anymore b.c ive lived here all my life lol

i couldn’t handle being landlocked.. i don’t even go to the beach thatt much its just i like the idea that if i wanted i could go there.. like right now lol i don’t think id like living far away from it ;)

i think that place is still around.. still nameless of course ;)

@Misa:

Good to hear you’re in good spirits. I feel bad about your job and definitely, good luck on future endeavours.

@confused newbie:

FYI, I’m not ChrisR612. I just found his vid by noticing that Kina favourited it. I think he has a good voice.

@ misa your old job seemed crazy through your interpretation and hopefully your having fun on the east coast. =)

misa i think you should just take a vacation lol

@Misa:

It sounds like you’ll land on your feet just fine. Thanks for updating us–we do care, esp. since you put so much time and effort into putting up with our random silliness on bla(h)g. And even though you say you don’t really like the spotlight much we are definitely your fans here. =D

@evann:

Yes, when I lived at the shore, I missed the mountains. Now I miss the salt air and the sand between the toes (and everywhere else). The one good thing about being landlocked is that everything doesn’t rust within a matter of hours!!

So next time you have a big bowl o’ chowda, think of us landlubbers. ;-D

After checking I just realized that the bla(h)g comment record is 478. Slightly fewer than 45 more comments are needed in this post to break that. So if you’re lurking and need even the slightest reason to comment, here it is. But don’t just post gibberish. That’s too easy.

Silly? Of course. But we can all use a little silliness these days.

@thuff7:
lol i deffinatly will.. its becoming time to break out the heavy soups and pasta gravies

maybe u oughta move to cali:
mountains and the beach, and kina too!!

@TimR:

TimR, you seem to be a long time Kina fan. Perhaps you could spend down a few of those 45 comments needed for the record by regaling us with some stories of the times you spent in kinaland over the months.

Have you had one of life’s greatest pleasures of seeing her live?

@thuff7: Gather round children, for I have tales to tell. ;)

Unfortunately I haven’t seen her live, yet. She’s done a lot of shows in the past year, but she’s only done a few outside California, one in New York, another one or two in Austin. I think that’s it outside CA in 2008.

I’ll add a few brief snippets of things I recall from “This Year in Kinaland” below. And of course everyone is encourage to chime in with their 2 cents.

@FinnFan: Yeah, you pretty much hit the nail on the head. :) My greatest challenge in my job search will be trying to convey that just because the company failed does not mean I was bad at my job :)

I’m not going to rehash everything, but I’ll add my experience following Kina.

Crash the Super Bowl #1:
I always looked forward to watching the then-daily blog posts at twoweeksforkina.com before going off to work. And even though they were meant to encourage people to vote for her on MySpace, I never remembered to vote until later in the day.

Crash the Super Bowl #2:
Being a statistician, I looked for data before they announced the winner to see what was going to happen. At the time, Kina has around 5000 Myspace friends, with the other 2 finalists, Nivla and Landon Austin, having about 10,000 and 3000, respectively. Then, I looked at the number of comments on the Crash the Super bowl MySpace page. About half were pro-Nivla, a third were pro-Kina, and the rest were pro-Landon. Given that data, I had pretty much convinced myself that Kina was going to come in second (and I’ve never posted that until now). That made it that much more of a pleasant surprise when “Message…” started playing after the first quarter.

Crash the Super Bowl #3:
A few months later, a lot of us who voted got messages asking for our addresses so that Doritos could send us iTunes gift cards. Most thought it was just going to lead to junk mail, but since I already get a lot of junk mail anyway I sent them my address. Sure enough, a few weeks later a $10 iTunes card showed up.

Should I keep going with these or am I irritating people? My feelings won’t be hurt if yes.

Please, go on, I’m all ears.

After years of playing the sport, watching it around the clock and then working in a sports bar, I just had enough football, so we stopped following it a few years ago. It ate into our mental energies and consumed too much time. So I missed the whole contest. Wow, total bummer. So hearing it relived from you, Mama G and others is fascinating. Do go on, sir.

word! continue, wise village elder!

Ok, one more, on a slightly different subject…

NASCAR Race:
The post with the most comments up until now (and maybe still now) was the week that Kina was scheduled to sing the National anthem before a California race in February, broadcast nationally by FOX. But there was rain. So that whole Sunday afternoon was – are they going to get the race started? Is Kina going to get to sing? Is it still going to be on TV? But finally, after a few hours – and believe me, to us non-race fans watching at home, it was a LOOOOOONG few hours of NASCAR talk – the rain cleared and Kina was on TV singing, and I guess they had a race or something, but I don’t really know because I stopped watching at that point. For everyone who hasn’t seen it, it’s on YouTube here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3y3vrrBm84

It’s still the only time I’ve seen her sing without a guitar/uke.

Anyone else wanna jump in with their unique perspective on anything I’ve typed, or the other stuff (live shows) that I could only make up? Someone should chime in with some Gotta Digg stuff. I’ll admit I wasn’t a fan at that point – only a few days later when I saw an online interview about it.

@MikeJ:

i know you’re not chris, you’re mikej. let’s go for the record peeps!! let’s hit 500!!!!

@confused newbie:

I like your style, newbs!

But let’s do it with class for Kina! As TimR says, it would be easy to fill this up with gibberish.

Did everyone see g3mini’s paperclip Kina logo in forum? way awesome.

I heard about Kina the day after Christmas 2007. The reason that’s relevant is that I managed to hear a song on her MySpace that I hope she’ll do a YouTube vid for in the next month – “I Know Who Took the Milk and Cookies.” Yes, newcomers, Kina’s very own holiday song. Request. Repeat if necessary.

Although maybe it should be called “I Know Who Took the Milk and Tim Tams.”

@thuff7:

class it is! c’mon, i’m a kina grannis fan! why do you think i like kina in the first place? it’s not just her music…it’s her class and the way she’s so GENUINE that i love most!

@TimR:

boxing day is also a very important day to me…

@TimR:

I can vouch for the fact that Kina Live is like 1000x better than Kina recorded (though you get a taste of it via youtube and people’s vids of shows). Hopefully one day she’ll be able to tour and come see all you loyal fans in hard-to-reach corners of the country (and world!)

@TimR:
Wow, I didn’t know about #3. That’s really cool. I was really impressed by Doritos’ attitude in the contest–I expected them to be controlling and bureaucratic, but they were super nice and generous and personable.

OT question here (if there actually is a T). I am an IMDb junky. (Internet Movie Database) I love randomly searching through shows and actors’ careers to see where it all leads. One of the few TV shows I like is “House” or as my sons say “How’s the Doctor?” So I was looking down the list of guest actors who just seem to give their best performances on this show (see Dave Matthews). One of the actors is Ken Choi. His bio led to a show called Samuri Girl and low and behold, Kina and David Choi played on the soundtrack. Are David and Ken related? Striking family resemblance.

This is one of those “Small World” theory questions like the 5 Degrees of Bacon. Totally fascinating to me.

@Misa:

i think that one day is fast approaching…her music is too good.

@confused newbie:

Wasn’t dissing you, newbs. Just rhetorical. Always love to read ur posts!

did david choi and kina go to school together?

@thuff7:

for sure, no worries! any fan of kina’s is a fan of mine’s! wait..ugh? one day thuff7, we go for a beer and viet food!…with ap.

@Misa: The message soliciting addresses kind of felt like spam wrapped in corporate-speak. I seem to remember Dr. G making some mention of getting one and ignoring it. But, yeah, I was stunned when it showed up in the mailbox. Doritos really did things right across the board.

the closest ive gotten to seeing kina live is on the like 7 minuets of recorded video from the LLS live show… which i promptly missed bc i had to work or go to my parents friends house or something catastrophic happened to my internet =(

@evann: Same boat evann, although technically the NASCAR race was live, so I saw that.

@TimR:

I was wondering what kind of Kina memorabilia is out there. I think I read something about guitar picks or some such thing. Do you guys have a collectors’ edition Kina souvenirs that will soon be worth a mint to pass down as heirlooms?

It looks like g3mini could start up a business with Misa doing the marketing!!

Speaking of Doritos, here’s something I always wondered (and feel free to count this as an oovreT question):

The rate to advertise on the Super Bowl was $3 million per 30 second spot. The “Message from Your Heart” commercial ran for 1 minute, meaning they spent $6 million to air it. If they had just said, listen, we’ll split the $6 million with you and not run the ad, what would you (Kina) have done?

@thuff7:

so big guy…how many times did you listen to Together today? haha…

@thuff7: Yep, I have one of those guitar picks. Kina sent them out as thank you’s to those of us there around the time of the contest. Apparently there was a table with a ton of them and Kina grabbed as many as she could. I posted some pictures in the forums somewhere, but can’t find the topic.

@confused newbie:

Only twice, but the evening is young!

I’ve been playing the directors cut of “Message” a number of times in the background. It’s like a favorite movie, each time I find some little nuance that I didn’t notice before, but which is just so cool. At first I thought the lamps were a discovery, but after looking, it’s clear she’s checking them to see that they are working the way they’re supposed to. Maybe I’m just dense and this is painfully obvious to everyone but me, but hey, it won’t stop me from hitting that arrow again!

@TimR:

I dunno, TimR. That pick, your iTunes card and an autographed copy of her new CD would make a great frame for the wall. We should petition Kina to grant one to you for your yeoman’s work here tonight! Or maybe a guest seat on her first VH1 “Storyteller’s” ep. hahaha ;-D

@confused newbie: did someone say peeps?

@thuff7:

zomg i love storytellers.. kina’s would be amazing and high deff!!!

@Misa: i vote that our first local street team meeting be at a hole in the wall place that only sells ramen, mmm. i’m a big fan of udon too.

mmmmm! noodles!

helloooo…helloooo…hellooooo….is there anybody in here? just nod if you can hear me…is there anyone at home????

When 98% of the people who watch your videos and listen to your songs can say: “You have a beautiful voice” or that they “love you”.. then you are doing everything right. The other 2% are the type of people who don’t have the ability (read: disabled) to appreciate or to compliment. But don’t worry, keep on doing what you do and they will learn.

Congratulations so far on all your progress and thank you for lifting up our spirits in this sometimes crazy cruel world.

@.:

how about the 1% that want to marry her?

Well, hopefully they fall into that “love you” section.. because marriage sucks without love.

@.:

marriage without love is like a kina song without kina

I have to comment again on her happy anniversary video… Unless they find something better in some archeological excavations somewhere, I´m pretty sure that is by far the most adorable video in the history of mankind. If I´m ever depressed, I can imazine myself watching it to get a smile on my face :)

It’s late… can we really do this? I can do one of my infamous post-a-comment-10-times antics. But consider this, Kina doesn’t normally post her video until at least midday-ish and if she’s in the recording studio again, then not until later, so there’s still time to break 500 :)

It’s late… can we really do this? I can do one of my infamous post-a-comment-10-times antics. But consider this, Kina doesn’t normally post her video until at least midday-ish and if she’s in the recording studio again, then not until later, so there’s still time to break 500 :)

sorry… had to do it :)

TimR: that’s a tough question you pose. A video during the Super Bowl or 3 million dollars? That video got her a lot of exposure but I’m guessing 3 million could do a lot for getting your music/face/name out there too

… and btw, I got a Crash the Super Bowl itunes card too!

So… will this be the record post? Or will this dissappear, since I´m including a link here. Here´s a video of a singer that´s almost as amazing as Kina… The best part is towards the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y

@thuff7: I have a flyer from a Kina show circa 2006 in mint condition, and i had it signed for the sole purpose of selling it later at an obscene price. I’m a very shrewd investor.

Serious bids only, please.

Apparently I too have been stricken with some sort of anonymous problem, but at least I added an extra post to the total…

@Mama G: I know on the tough question, but I always wondered about that. I really don’t expect an answer.

@thuff7: Truth is, I don’t even know if I still have the iTunes card. It was just a basic card like you’d buy at Target, etc., with the generic iTunes silhouette and funky colors.

@thuff7: I’ve actually been meaning to put together a framed thing for myself, but just haven’t gotten around to it. I probably should pretty soon, just to keep the frame size from being too big!

@Anonymous a.k.a. Gene Parmesan: I bid two stale peeps and some Tim Tams! Of course, I expect that you will pay for shipping out of your own pocket. ;)

@FinnFan:

Hit the pause button when she tosses the leaves, cuz it makes the funniest/cutest freeze frames! I will never, ever look at a lemon the same again for the rest of my life. What a great memory for those who caught it. It was by far the most adorable thing I have ever seen on film/vid. Put that on the AFI list. hehehe ;-)

@Anonymous:

Shrewd indeed. Speaking of investments . . . when is the kinagrannisrecords.com IPO?

@Mama G:

You are too funny! =D Of course you have the inside line on TimR’s question, but I’m surprised you chose the money.

It depends on the terms of the deal — does she keep the studio time, recording contract, etc.?

I think she would stick with the air time. First, she came chasing a dream, not a payoff. Second, $3M won’t buy the same level of publicity as that time at Superbowl halftime and third, she gets a really great resume line for having it air.

@TimR:

You need to speak with Gene about upgrading your KG investment portfolio.

@FinnFan:

FinnFan FTW!!!! Wahooooo!!

(embed confetti shower, balloons and an orchestral version of “Message from your Heart”)

@Mama G:

BTW, I was wondering if your creation of the plural for Grannis (Granni) was a subliminal message to one or more your daughters to procreate???

I better let someone else on the East Coast take over some posts so I don’t look like a shill.

@FinnFan: Great video.

I’m about to make some bubble and squeek if anyone is interested.

Thought I’d ask.

PS

I’m playing along with your boats and birds vid and am getting better at it. It’s a nice way of learning a song instead of just playing solo.

Ladida

*raises hand* I’ll have some bubble and squeak, please :D

ANY1 FEEL LIKE THE WORLDS SMALLEST PUB QUIZ TYPE THING? iF sho, hic, dares you to have fun naming the video that these close enoughs came from:-

Happy St Pat’s day

We’re 1/32nd Irish

On the Japanese side

You’re dead, the snakes dead

Hey, you’re not sitting in snakes guts are you

Plus, who said which and also what was the name of the band that was covered in it?

PS Newbies, feel free to hazard amateur guesses and then go all pro like by monitoring this yourselves until agreement is met/fan infighting begins or the new video is u:P

PPS sabafa is excluded from this, as are all non combatants!

@FinnFan: Ha-ha! Maybe the missing species Ooh Aah bird was reallyt just a lyre bird living too near to Lovers Lane to be allowed to exist;)))

Can someone define bubble and squeek? I’m a little lost on that one.

That’s easy.

Gotta Have You by The Weepies. Recorded in Austin TX with Emi + house mate (of snake comment).

(Since Emi is in the thumbnail of the video that was an easy one to find quickly)

Hmmm. My bubble and squeak comment seems to be causing problems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_and_squeak

It’s mostly potato and cabbage but often other leftovery type things as well. It seems a bit odd but I’ve noticed you can now buy it pre-made in frozen bags in shops which seems a bit bizarre.

Wow. All hail the pros. We newbies were frozen like deer in the headlights!

Okay, cued up FTW, who takes it?

Me!

Yaayyyy for Screwy!!!!! You Kina fans really do rock!!!!!!!!!

Sadly it’s time to get back to work. /sigh

@Misa:
Emi and I have agreed we’re the same height. We’re both marginally below 5?4? and prefer to not know who’s a millimeter taller than the other. ;)
Millimeters? Do you use that unit over there as well?

500 ♥s for Kina.

Your fans love you, Kina Grannis.
Thanks for letting us all be a part of your life!

@asdf: lol we use both, metric and US retarded and outdated miles and feet measurements

Millimetre is so much easier than 1/32 of an inch or whatever!

Which makes we wonder something. Are running tracks in the US still 440 yards or have you bitten the bullet and converted to 400m tracks?

In the UK, road signs are still in miles,

Its still only legal to sell draft beers and cider in pints (we have an exemption from EU legislation for that – on the continent its half litres and litres),
but wine has converted to metric – 175ml and 250ml,
and spirits have converted from gils to metric units but I don’t remember what the measure is,
possibly you can still buy milk in pints too.

I think all other things sold by weights and measures have to be in metric although you can mark an equivalent imperial measure as well as a “supplementary marking.”

By the time I started school, they didn’t really teach the old imperial units so miles is the only one I really use on a regular basis and I find most of them quite confusing. Personally, I’d be happy if they slowly converted everything over but there are lots of people still who are clinging on to the past!

And a final random thought before I go back to tidying up and putting stuff away…

What happened to the Black Takamine guitar? The koa Taylor seems to be most popular at the moment and I’m guessing the other is a spruce top but what about the Takamine? Is it broken (pickup?), fallen out of favour? can’t get compatible strings anymore? (admittedly not likely!)

Can’t find no sleeves for my records
Can’t get no laces for for my shoes
Can’t get no fancy notes
On my blue guitar
Can’t get no antidote for blues

(One World, Dire Straits)

dang, over 500 posts…

@evann @ school:
Ok, its obvious that it’s much easier to use mm than 1/32″, but i meant do you use the others (meter, km, litre) as well? Or do you know if somebody is 190cm tall, how tall is he/she approximately in feet or vice versa? (i don’t :), the only thing i know is that a reel of utp cable is 305m which is 1000 feet -nerd alert- ;) but i’m ok with mph>kmph conversion, and totally lost in farenheit to celsius).
Here (Hungary) we use inch for buying a monitor for a computer (but the tvs are in cm -i guess because you can write a bigger number to it in centimeters :) ), or for some engineering stuff (for the heating system you buy a 1/2″ pipe), but everything else is in metric.

@Windscale: You would not win a pub prize by not answering the questions correctly now, would you? OYVEZ!

@confused newbie: & Windscale didn’t even answer the set pub quiz questions correctly, so definitely no cask of ale leaving the premises – OYVEZ!

THE WORLDS SMALLEST PUB QUIZ TYPE THING

SURPRISINGLY8o

Windscale did not answer the set questions correctly, so:-

CALLING ALL NEWBIES

The chances for delivering the kina pros an exagerated respberry is still up for grabs in the PUB QUIZ if anyone isn’t too drunk to answer correctly and keep their teeth in whilst blowing a raspberry or two that is;)

Windscale’s answers may well be the very thing to help you win and lay down some shame on the pros and who knows he may be too busy to win this one for the not so newbies:PP

@asdf:

I use metric exclusively for my laboratory research. Liters, grams, deg Celsius, meters. Actually, I work at very low measurements–nanograms, microliters. I need metric units since my measurements require many decimal places. But I also need to function in the outside world with miles, inches and 1/4 inch wrenches. But those darn fractions are nothing more than unfinished math. The problems come up in converting between the two. That’s why all attempts for the US to go metric fail.

But I guess the other side of the coin is that musicians probably would prefer to play in 3/4 time, not 0.75 time!!

@Windscale:

Tracks used to be 440 yards? I’ve only known them as 400m. I ran the 1600 back in the day.

Pah. Picky Picky:

Song was Gotta Have You by The Weepies

Happy St Pat’s day – Kina (though she actually says “Happy St. Patrick’s day.”)

We’re 1/32nd Irish – (again Kina – “We’re actually 1/32 Irish”)

On the Japanese side – Emi (“I think it was on the japanese side.”)

You’re dead, the snakes dead – ????

Hey, you’re not sitting in snakes guts are you – Dana (Kina’s housemate)

Plus, who said which and also what was the name of the band that was covered in it?

@aNun&aMouse:
“You’re dead, the snakes dead”
I believe you have misquoted Ms. Grannis.

“That makes kind-of-a muddy pink.” LOL

@Windscale:

Tracks used to be 440 yards (inside lane) which is 0.25 miles–so 4 laps to the mile. Didn’t run track, but was made to do laps by my other coaches for several brief outbursts of anarchism. It’s just a tad over 400 m (402.34 m).

@thuff7 Hello!

@jmesteban:
quote=verb
quotation=noun

anyone ready for blackfriday shopping? i am for early presents! =)

@Alexpham:

Hey AP! Missed you the past coupla days. In your honor, we are having traditional banh me tonight and also some bun bao. We also have a kind of meatball banh me (don’t know if it has its own name) all courtesy of my wife’s mom. Plus sticky rice with coconut milk.

I was corrected on the sticky rice. They have black-eyed peas, not mung beans. It sounds dreadfully weird, but there are only a few for a textural contrast and to cut through the sweetness.

To all: for the record, there are officially 500 votes on the Kina song tutorial poll. How many are actually guitarists and how many are schleps like me who just want to see how it’s done, I dunno.

@Alexpham: Shhhhh! Do Not speak its name!

@thuff7: that is awesome well i am making turkey this year and for left overs i will use turkey herb it with salt, rosemary, and pepper and add bbq pork in banh mi and i want xoi the orange one with coconut shavings and sesame seeds. plus i can make fried rice with left over turkey ;) yum! O the meatball sandwhich is called banh mi bo vien.

@Screwy: Why do you not want me to talk about it =(

@ kina and @misa wat do you want to try that i can make to bring to a concert sometime the usual viet food everyone likes or something different like spring roll or a special seafood crepe?

@Windscale: Nearly had it eh! Good going, but still not won this too drunk to pub crawl quiz as of your posting! Come on, down the chaser to cough up the winning answer – if it hasn’t already been done!

@a naughty mouse: So where are the quotes in the questions? OYVEZ, you’re supposed to sort it out between yourselves – think camaraderie:)

THE WORLDS SMALLEST PUB QUIZ TYPE THING

SURPRISINGLY Windscale’s SECOND STAB DIDN’T CLINCH THE DEAL80

He’s still fallen just a tad short of being a Kina know all on this one, so it should be that much easier for newbies to grasp the victory!

@ Kina

re:-

“More Keith Tutt in the studio! Don’t know how I’m going to pull off a blog…”

Thank you for informing us, but don’t worry about it = no set day anymore and fans busy enough on blahg anyway:)

@sabafa & Kina: Next time, she should just Twitter:

ARRRRRRRRRG. Stupid YouTube. This thing is taking days to upload!

@kina – put the CD as first priority. We’re cool.

@TimR: That’s a gem TimR<3 How about you step in and win that pub quiz thing for the old guard? Totally jealous of your Kina treasures! Were they only for US, as I soHhh didn’t even get a whiff = major blubbing going on behind scene:)) Oh well I suppose you’d better allow a big enough frame/cabinet to display Kina’s Tak that I’ve been killing myself not to mention about putting up for fund bids with her signature placed up in the upper left bout in either gold or white ever since she banged the koa whilst shocked about the (he-he) major camera shake incident by the pool! Respected u @ all .s here Timbo!

To my blown out eardrums, it sounded like Kina said, “No. It’s not funny. Someone’s dead. Someone said, and the snake is dead.”

I heard “No. It’s not funny. Someone’s dead. Someone’s dead, and the snake is dead.”

But I’ll be honest – I have no flinging flanging idea what she’s saying where I have “someone’s dead.” And I don’t think it will make much sense even if someone does decipher it.

are we seriously pushin’ for 600 posts before kina’s next post? :) (I think we can, I think we can…)

@shir: Why not?

whoa @ kina just do your thing for the cd we can hold out for another week it is not like we demand a video it is just you care for the common folk and try to make one every week just like thuff7 said it is all cool here. =)

@thuff7 thanks for inspiring me to type
this haha!!!

@a naughty mouse: Not necessarily, since quote can be a noun too.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quote

@ Mama G: Haha, I don’t know if you’ve seen them in AP news articles online or not, but those make me cringe whenever they pop up.

@ Misa: Oh brother… Lose v. loose. That really gets my goat sometimes, especially when you see it in gaming forums. ;)

@ Everybody else: Whoa…TLDR. No, I’m just kidding. Seriously though, the bla(h)g really blew up! Holy smokes Baman!

@sabafa: Thanks!

@Alexpham: I don’t think she’s actually missed a week yet. Especially from last week’s video, I get the impression that she really likes the stability of doing one every week. BUT, I totally agree that we all can hold out.

@shir: I bet we could.

Ps. This page takes forever to load on a phone.

you guys need help breaking 600? :p

@shir – your display picture is really cute!

@jmesteban: OMG steban r u gna psh 4 a 1000 cmmnts ovr grmmr & gt stff X agn = OYKNAVZ @ least if it were over food it could become a pub lunch quiz here 2nt instd o a teaching staff ding dong – NAH GO PRIME YOURSELF 4 A BZLLION COMMNTS COZ O THS, might get Kina a world rekhord holden blahg site by the time anover vids upMAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
oh my i’m out o puff after that n feeling dizzy 2 Argh u got me jms i fnk am dun4 .. Misa gt rdy 2 ctch hm out 4 us pls eyes fnkz its gna b ma dyn wsh by da theel o fngs

@jmesteban:

We seem to have, uh, sort of spent, uh, a little time here together this week. We’re kinda crashing at Kina’s pad. But we’re tryin’ to keep the place clean, and we brought our own food, right AlexPham?

So the deal is that we somewhat newbies here have been plying the old timers for your historical perspective. Any tidbits, trivia or full blown Kina, Misa, Emi or the ‘rents (Mama G and Dr. G) stories are coveted.

Please, regale us with your wisdom. We are trying to make up for the last 11 months of a void that can only be filled with Kinaisms.

@ thuff7 and @ jmesteban yea we were chilling over at kina’s and brought our own food just to share and have a fun time. =) thuff7 can you pass me the banh mi please???

@thuff7 it is pretty much a potluck just need to make my chicken curry now be back soon!

@thuff7: Starting to think
I can hear the keg being tapped
by a relative newbie,
but the answers aren’t all put together in 1 comment yet =
hmmm,
WONDERS IF NEWBIES ARE QUICKER THAN PROS
AT COPY/PASTING THE CORRECT ENOUGH ANSWERS
TOGETHER INTO 1 POSTING FOR THE
FULL RIGHT TO RASP;)

MSC’s input speed alone could clinch this before wwar1ace could draw a breath, so come on pros it’s gin seng time!

Song was Gotta Have You by The Weepies

Happy St Pat’s day – Kina (though she actually says “Happy St. Patrick’s day.”)

We’re 1/32nd Irish – (again Kina – “We’re actually 1/32 Irish”)

On the Japanese side – Emi (”I think it was on the japanese side.”)

You’re dead, the snakes dead – Kina (“No. It’s not funny. Someone’s dead. Someone’s dead, and the snake is dead.”)

Hey, you’re not sitting in snakes guts are you – Dana (Kina’s housemate)

@aNun&aMouse:
i think for us “pros” it was a bit too easy. i’ll let the kin00bs fight it out for the pint.

has anyone counted to see who has the most comments so far?

@thuff7: Excellent thuff7! TRUMPET THY RASP FOR ALL TO HEAR as you my friend are the W I N N E R !

NEWBIES
NEWBIES
NEWBIES

When dry from rasping/gloating,
place thy back to floor,
gaze upon the beauty of the tap’s flow,
and recieve in abundance!

Oh, erm, when you wake up,
lock the doors on your way out please,
and when sober enough,
bash out some kind of quiz that sour grapes nimur and the other pros can manage without losing through loss of pace/stamina! lol

PP sabafa

@nimur: I guess you’d been out of the loop for just a little bit too long hey – NAY MATTER!

No, not so, aNun&aMouse
There was no winner in the house
We knew t’was you, old sabafa
from whence we listened from afar
T’was you that uttered word OYVEZ
used far too oft doth give away.
It wasn’t I who won the quiz;
I’m new and not a Kina wiz.
T’was Windscale and TimR who knew
the answers I provided you.

(redacted version)

@shir: Brilliant! Where we go will depend on how many nuyorcians join us, I suppose…

you guyssss! youtube screens are now bigger!…. or is it just me?

hello…just checking in for a few mins…

@Alexpham:

hey! i had chicken curry tonight! totally serious!! haha…too funny!

@thuff7:
Aw, your a good, galant new fan<3

ON BEHALF OF KINA FANS NEW & OLD

C H E E R S

We’ll always drink to your sort!

@confused newbie:

sup, newbs?

@AlexPham:

yum. recipe?

@thuff7:

poet too?

@thuff7:

my better half made it!

@sabafa AKA OYVEZ & aNun&aMouse:

Well, to that, I’ll bow.
Well done, good soul.

@CVRDnIT: ARRRGHHHHHH.

*is now blind*

@thuff7:
*elderly man voice*
How wonderful to see such shining bright new faces :)
Come in, come in! *wheeeeze*

Tidbits:
1) Kina’s favorite color is cerulean.
2) Kina is really good at drawing.
3) Kina once met a hedgehog and named him Tim Tam. Unfortunately she wasn’t able to keep him :(
4) Kina is probably the healthiest and health-conscious person you will ever know.

ok, gotta run! be back later to check for kina’s video. have fun everyone, go for 600!

*most health-conscious*

@jmesteban:

Cerulean.
Curly haired doodles.
Non-indigenous insectivorous mammals named after non-indigenous foods.
Healthy. Very healthy.

I think I can get the hang of this thing.

@jmesteban:
Which cerulean?

PB35
or
PB36

PB35’s warmer and a healthier choice = not got the chrome,
so I guess that’s Kina’s choice, am I right?

@maryanne:
Hold on, it might be my fault, I’ve got it on at 200%! I’ll just go and put it back to normal. Right, tell the others if it’s made you grow relative to the You Tube screen, as I’m offskis nowsies:d

@maryanne: BACK & YUP TIS WIDESCREEN ON MINE WITH THIS’N:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmBkpXOP6EY

@jmesteban:

Got the tidbits, how about any historical references a la TimR??

@thuff7 recipe is i am not telling you a thing haha my family secret.

@ newb you serious? ownzors!!!! =)

@jmesteban: how the heck do you get this online???

@Alexpham:
hahaha! hmmmmmm. Ours is onions, garlic, bone-in chicken pieces, stock, thai yellow curry powder, turmeric and coconut milk. Am I close?

@ thuff7 yea but we add extra chili for a more spicyness and sweet potato to calm it down and now im stuffed and it is only 9:05 here in socal what about you buddy?

this is awesome how kina has over 550 comments. that is insane..

=)

kina. i long for the monday video! is it coming?

@Alexpham:

12:10 AM on Tuesday. Getting ready to call it a day. Lot’s of fun here today. Went to my son’s 1st grade Thanksgiving play!! Then telecommuted and had a chance to keep the bla(h)g up on one of my browser tabs while I worked from home. VPN lets me log into the lab computers and run my chem analysis remotely from home. I get more done home than in the office without all the interruptions. But there I go all geeky.

Talk to you soon.

@ thuff7 what did your son do for the play he was probably the main character huh?

@Alexpham:
hahaha! He was a pumpkin. But a singing pumpkin. Check out #2 son Alex in my avatar in the forum. He’s destined to perform.

@meeks: How’s this for a clue from Kina:-

“oh no i am so hungry. must… keep…recording…. ”

about 8mins ago!

@Kina:
Don´t worry about the blog. As you can see, we´ve found a way to keep us entertained… this is totally insane, but I would explain this as a psychological reaction: we want to show you our support but there isn´t really anything we can do to help you in the studio… and this is the best equivalent we can think of… we love you :)

@thuff7:
Wow… a SINGING pumpkin! Eerrr… I don´t know anything about American Thanksgiving traditions, but it sure sounds like an important role. Any plans trying for Hollywood next? Does he have an agent already?

@Alexpham:

yo dude! yeah, i’m serious man, had it for dinner tonight!

@thuff7
haha weekend was tiring i worked all weekend boo all work and no play for me…. hence why i wasn’t able to come in on sunday and check out the blog because i was soooo tired…. oh and yea i thought their cover to i will follow you into the dark was amazing!!!!

@misa
hey i wouldn’t think so, you might be stronger than you think! haha but i guess you’re right the spotlight is not for everyone…. i know i would love it by be terrified of it at the same time! haha but never the less it would be awesome to see all three of you making albums together!! that just my opinion does anyone else agree???

ooohhh p.s.
i just got out of work it’s a 11:30 p.m. here in good ol’ texas, what happened to mondays video blog!!!! i was sooo excited for today!! but it’s cool cuz i know kina is hard at work making an awesome album for all her fans!!! =]

@ jess1225 it might come later in the morning or sometime thisweek or nxt everyone could just chill here until then cause kina is busy so you can say we are chilling at her house having coffee and tim tams until she is home and we will through a surprise party yay!!!! =)

o and hopefully we will make 600 comments today!

@ jess1225 work lets you out at 11:30? do you close? and what do you do?

@jess1225:

Sure – that’s a given here!

@All

<3 Kina, she’s feeling bad about not getting a vid up 4 us, but that’s also a given here!

I’m likely to crash to sleep as soon as I get back to Gauguin doc, so keep up the good work guys:)

@0615hrs&notSLEPTyetGUY: well all we can do now is to give her our outmost support on her recording! And chilax

Almost to 600. 10 more! =)

whoo hoo yea okay i will stay up untill 600 is reached. Dang i am so PUMPED UHHH!!!! haha!

Someone want to talk i feel alone. =(

@ Misa do how do i show my coolness with my “about you” paragraph that i typed on my profile because it says that it can be shown publicly.

@Alexpham: I think you win for total # of posts… although thuff7 and newbs may be right behind you!

lalalala

@ kina
shouldnt you be resting, eating, or working on your album…?
or are you trying to get this to 600 comments too?

kina, what the crap? let’s get goin…

Well

I might as well be

No. 600!

@Alexpham:

Gr8 job helping the blahg along towards the 600 when all the food and drink was long gone:)

@ Ray LaMontagne

Immortalisation achieved, surely!

@ MamaG

The food and drink might have slowed the other two down a bit;)

@ Kina

Massive party had and look, no mess, breakages or fights:/ Maybe a perfect party has just been achieved:O

@mama g thx haha =)

@sabafa=0615hrs&notSLEPTyetGUY: it’s all cool newbs for life haha!

@Alexpham:

i work as a collections agent =]
haha yes i call you telling you
that you owe money and then you
hang up on me lol and yea i close
so i get out late blah =[