walking away
hello!
i just got home from a week in little rock, AR and dallas with my family. arkansas is SO pretty!! i would die of happiness if there was that much green here. it was awesome. the humidity, however, i could do without.
i met a bunch of my aunt’s awesome ballet students. watching their class made me want to be a dancer.
the dallas show was sooo fun! it was great to have my sisters with me on stage again. 112 people showed up, all of which were super amazing people :) thanks so much for coming out!
this song– “walking away” was written by the same two women that wrote “ours to keep”– rachael lawrence and deborah ellen. they are both awesome and i had so much fun recording it with them. it’s available on itunes here:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=310937220&id=310937192&s=143441
two free all ages shows coming up in LA:
Thurs, May 14th – 6PM
UC Riverside
w/Jane Lui, David Choi & Paul Dateh
UCR Belltower
900 University Ave
Riverside, CA 92521
Cost: free
3-4PM Artist panel @Highlander Union Building
6-8PM Artist performances @The Belltower
Mon, May 18th – 12PM
Free Show @UCLA’s Bruin Plaza
308 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Cost: Free!
Outside the Bruin Plaza from 12 noon to 1pm!
ok… i think that’s all for now. next week i’ll be telling you about a special socal meetup at the end of the month… and *hopefully* we’ll be kicking the street team into gear… finally!
if you’re interested in joining the street team to help spread the love… er… music… (both), you can email me at streetteam@kinagrannis.com!
heart,
kina
oovret: Week 51
What is the most memorable gift you have given on Mother’s Day?
hmm. i think that question should be directed towards mama g. one that comes to mind is a plaque i made when i was little. it was a drawing of two honey bees holding up a scroll that read something like “#1 world’s best mommy award.”
Does your family have any Mother’s Day traditions?
yes! but we didn’t get to do it this year because we were in arkansas, and then my parents had to fly home and the sisters and i drove to dallas. :( but usually we make her breakfast in bed on mother’s day. fresh squeezed orange juice, coffee, huevos rancheros, bowl of mango and a hand-picked bouquet of flowers arranged by emi.
Why did you stop ballet dancing?
you know, i was wondering that same question this weekend… according to my grandmother (who is a ballet teacher), after seeing our first recital she told my mom to make us quit because she didn’t like what they were teaching. :( i’d love to have been a dancer though. not too late??
Do you enjoy listening to Johnny Cash?
someone i should spend more time listening to!
Speaking of Dallas, do you know who shot J.R.?
…
@rissa
welcome! and thank you so much :) my myspace is http://www.myspace.com/kinagrannis
@dro
you can lucid dream every night!??! ahhh jealousy. i hope you’re fulling taking advantage of that! if i were you i would perform at the hollywood bowl… and scuba in the middle of the ocean… and fly to the top of mt. Kilimanjaro … and become a squirrel.
@nico
that sounds amazing. id love to get to that point.
@mojojojo78
i only impersonated tracy morgan because he was standing behind me at the airport for a few minutes talking REALLY loudly (his phone conversation went as follows: “HELLO? WHO IS THIS!? WHO IS THIS!? THIS IS TRACY MORGAN! TRACY MORGAN! …oh. ok.”) so when i retold the story i HAD to talk like him, naturally….
@timR
the system is down. the system is down.
i just had so many homestar runner flashbacks…
@deana
wow, very moved by that story.
@hannah m
oh no! you’re JUST missing two shows. ucla on the 18th and santa monica on the 31! :(
44 Responses to “walking away”
May 13, 2009
sounds great!!!
May 13, 2009
great song. awesome harmonies.
thank you!!! super amazing!!
May 13, 2009
Woo great song :)
May 13, 2009
Interesting story about Tracy Morgan. lol
May 13, 2009
ahhh i love this song!
May 13, 2009
lovely!
the humidity in the south really is a pain.
May 13, 2009
very interesting story about tracy morgan. great video!! yay i got here pretty early!!
May 13, 2009
omgosh it sounds so good! like freaking WOW <333
hahaha idk how else to say it =D
May 13, 2009
yay! been waiting for this one… thanks kina! :)
May 13, 2009
Hey Kina! Welcome home! Glad you had a fun and safe trip.
May 13, 2009
those harmonies sound amazazing.
you’re so cool!
May 13, 2009
To all those that love this song, you have no idea how good the version on iTunes sounds! I listened to it 10 times right after I bought it. Go get it now! Best $0.99 ever :)
May 13, 2009
That was lovely Kina. Glad you had fun recording it.
I can totally relate with the without humidity thing. I grew up in Indonesia where humidity is 24/7/365. Ending up in CA without humidity had me jumping up & down of happiness.
I do miss the green though. That’s life I guess, can’t have everything.
May 13, 2009
that was sung beautifully.
glad to have you all back at home safe.
May 13, 2009
Nice song Kina. Have a good performance at my alma mater tomorrow. I’d drive out just to see you and David but gotta prep for our Relay For Life this Saturday.
May 13, 2009
Hey :) I don’t know if you actually respond to your comments but I would love for you to email me back with an answer to one question. Is there anyyy way you would play for a Birthday in Houston? I love your music and all of your covers Kina, keep up the good work!
May 14, 2009
Hmmmm, I have to say, her honey bee plaque was pretty darn cute. I have it framed in my studio. It says “Congratulations! You won the Best Mommy in the World Contest!!”
May 14, 2009
The best way to reach her is to email her at kina@kinagrannis.com :)
May 14, 2009
And by the way, Kina did not discontinue ballet due to her grandmother’s edict. She and Misa started martial arts.
May 14, 2009
lOVee!!! lOvee!!!<3
May 14, 2009
So you´ve been keeping this song a secret from us? ;-P
How many other hidden treasures do you have? Old songs we don´t know about? I really hope you go through your songs and see if there´s something the world would be ready for… I have a feeling there might be…
May 14, 2009
The Kina is GROOUUUNDED… We had that light-switch installed for you so that you could turn the lights ON and OFF…. NOT so you could throw light-switch raves!
May 14, 2009
Pretty song. I loved the harmonies. Thanks for the shoutout for my cousins, they’ll love it.
May 14, 2009
Agreed. I just put it on a loop when I bought it and listened over and over again. Never gets old. I think I like the strings better than guitar, but Kina’s subtle vocal changes in this video made the vocals better than in the iTunes version.
May 14, 2009
Loved this! The vocals sounded even more vulnerable than on the iTunes version. You have an amazing gift Miss Grannis!!
May 14, 2009
Now let’s go break open that glowstick and pour it into mama g’s mountain dew.
wwar1ace I could swear we already had this exchange in the bla(h)g comments before. Are we already out of material? It’s only been a year and a half!
May 14, 2009
agreed, timR! something about seeing the performance makes the itunes version sound better too :)
seriously, i can’t wait to buy that next album. after last week’s post, i started thinking a good name would be songs about dreams… but at least one of your dream songs have already appeared on previous albums (memory)
May 14, 2009
thanks :D
May 15, 2009
I always liked the line from Message as an album title, “Dreaming Pretty Things”
May 15, 2009
hi kina
I really love your song “together”. But I cannot find the notes. It’s such a pity.
May you send them to me? Or publish them?
Love your voice and your smile (I know, I’m not the first saying that :-))
But I hope you enjoy it anyway!
Have a sunny day,
yiannis
May 15, 2009
Aww. Darn. I don’t see when I’d be out to Cali again anytime soon (about to start law school in DC) .. if you happen to wander into a cafe somewhere in Southern California between next Thursday and next Monday to, ahem, practice or something.. please email me and let me know! hannah.milov@gmail.com
May 15, 2009
(I could do Carlin’s “Seven Words…”, but I don’t think it’d fit with the group…. think I’ll just go with)
HEY! The floating Swiss-Cake roll is TALKING to you!
May 16, 2009
nice, that’s so kina
May 16, 2009
try this.
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/k/kina_grannis/together_tab.htm
i hope this is what you’re looking for.
May 17, 2009
oovret: Week 52
Did you go to your senior prom? Where was it?
What is the first movie that comes to mind when you hear the name “Walt Disney”?
What charitable organizations do you support?
Do you enjoy listening to the “Glenn Miller Orchestra”?
Who has been the best Captain of the USS Enterprise?
May 17, 2009
kinnaaaaa! i am through the roof about being able to see you at UCLA :)! Will there be merch? I’ve somehow managed to miss all the LA shows… I’m so excited about being able to see you 5 minutes away now! Yay!
May 18, 2009
=)
you know, i could lucid dream every night, but i choose not to. firstly, performing at the hollywood bowl, scuba diving in the middle of the ocean , and flying to the top of mt. Kilimanjaro are all things we can do in real life. secondly, i’m already a squirrel. heh.
oh maybe i didn’t wake up yet. either way, i like having random dreams sometimes. wanna trade?
May 18, 2009
i love “walking away” and “ours to keep,” but is there any way to get them without itunes?
May 18, 2009
well iTunes is usually the best way, because it gives credit back to the artists. However, if its your own personal use and you aren’t planning on doing anything else with it, i’m sure you could always make mp3s of them yourself. But 99 cents for a song by Kina is completely worth it in my opinion :)
May 19, 2009
Can’t believe I forgot to respond to this video. Beautiful song!
May 19, 2009
Damn, Kina’s singing skills are really improving with each video she posts… I keep saying that, but it’s really impressive.
Good work, K. I love this song ^^
May 19, 2009
Have you thought about spotify, i dont have itunes so i cant listen to your musik. :) Love your voice by the way, you are uncredible. :)
Lillemor.
May 20, 2009
i can’t stay without posting a comment every week!!
fist of all nice video and the lyrics are beautiful,i think sometimes its interesting to hear you sing other’s songs (in terms of different points of view,poetry,language)”i think”.
and you’re a great songwriter too!! did you wrote for other artist?
secondly you deserve the best human award!! because i love you and you are !! :)
and for ended yeah.
and “Hey kina, don’t make it bad.Take a sad song and make it better.”
<3 cedric caidalica and panda beer .
May 20, 2009
haha that comment made me smile
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