highlighted in green
this one is an oldie! i guess in my mind i had just played this song to death, but playing it again was actually kind of fun.
here are some answers to some questions:
What type of plectrum do you use?
- generally i use orange dunlop picks. but i have a few special others. (but they are probably lost)
What is the largest venue in which you have performed?
- some outdoor area this feb in arizona opening for the counting crows
Can I have the tabs to your songs?
- if only i had the time to write tabs for them! some day… i really would love to share.
What is the most played song on your iPod?
- i tend to lose my ipod for months on end, but the most played song on my itunes is “Let Go” by Frou Frou with 640 plays.
kina, what ARE the many uses of pennies?
- well, one is spending them. but the BEST one is strategically leaving heads up pennies everywhere you go in hopes that you will make someone feel happy and lucky later when they find it.
why is it that sometimes when you’re playing a song [like in the part of the new song that you posted with the bleeding love video] you like slide down your left hand after playing a chord? do you know what i mean?
- yes i know what you mean, and the answer is… it feels right? haha. i’m actually not very conscious of the movement but i have realized that i do it, and it doesn’t actually accomplish much. except feel good.
do any bugs/reptiles just gross you out?? or just plain annoy the heck out of you? because.. i mean you wanted to be an entomologist or a herpetologist but dont you find them annoying??
- i strongly dislike mosquitos. ants are annoying but are totally necessary. mosquitos are just awful. also, there are a few that i would prefer to not be ON me. such as: spiders. i like to carry them by their little web strands, but don’t like them to crawl on me. cockroaches. fine to look at but when they 1) fly straight at my face 2) grab onto my big toe in the dark or 3) are chilling on my hand when i wake up, then i have a problem. all reptiles are great unless they are poisonous and biting me. :)
love love
kina
May 5th, 2008 at 2:25 am
kina, glad you’re posting more originals, even if they do seem old to you. the thing is, i’ve only been listening since january so there’s a lot of catching up to do. you looked like you were having lots of fun singing it!
so much more of the song comes through when it’s performed live… until you get some bookings in OR / WA, the videos are the next best thing. also in the meantime, yay, another radio live set!
May 5th, 2008 at 2:26 am
i’m on the phone with kina and she wanted me to see if i could post the first comment and i have already failed.
le sigh.
hello out there. :)
May 5th, 2008 at 2:28 am
That’s okay, it doesn’t mean you’re a bad sister =). Just a slightly late one.
and hi.
May 5th, 2008 at 2:31 am
Ya know, I don’t think I’ve actually seen you play this one live before, so this is quite a treat. You know what else is a treat? Your super random cake. What flavor did you make it?
Oh yeah, now that I’ve heard both versions of this song (studio and live), I kinda don’t know which one I like better. Or I’ll just like both. Kinda like the unplugged and studio versions of Hands Down.
May 5th, 2008 at 2:32 am
Ohh, an Oldie!
:: Wondering if the bottom half is as presentable as the top half this time ::
and hooray for another friday radio show!
hmm…i dont believe i have anymore comments for this evening as my movie is put on pause to comment…perhaps later i shall add more?
…hmmm, wonderful song! (as usual)
tty soon
-)
May 5th, 2008 at 2:34 am
what movie are you watching?
i watched ‘the darjeeling limited’ tonight and ‘into the wild’ a few days ago.
wheeeee movies!
oh netflix, how i love thee
May 5th, 2008 at 2:35 am
oh no, so sorry emi! i wish i could take it back… i’d already seen it on youchoob so i knew she was about to post here.
and on the bug thing, kina, the current refrigerator art exhibit in the dow house is dedicated to you! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KXu-xxSEXg
May 5th, 2008 at 2:38 am
Netflix is awesome. Except for the part where they’ve pretty much put almost all physical rental stores out of business.
Into the Wild was great! I’m surprised it didn’t get much viewing though.
I should sleep. I have work in the morning. Too bad my biological clock is all over the place.
May 5th, 2008 at 2:39 am
no, no! you got it fair and square, i was too busy checking facebook :|
i’m glad you got there before me, because i had nothing interesting to say :)
May 5th, 2008 at 2:41 am
yeah i work at 8am and have to get up at 6. why do i do this to myself?
May 5th, 2008 at 2:44 am
haha, in that case, yay! i don’t think i’ve got 1st before ;-)
it’s been a really good day!
May 5th, 2008 at 2:45 am
Deana, hurry up and visit your mom for Mother’s Day next week! You’re taking too long to come back =P
May 5th, 2008 at 2:47 am
hey, where was everyone last week? it was just me and rumin….
and i love not having work on mondays.
May 5th, 2008 at 2:50 am
Im watching requiem for a dream, 25% done
May 5th, 2008 at 2:54 am
what’s worries me is this: what happens if i can finally go visit good old rowland heights and kina goes on an out of state tour! tragically i’m not going anywhere soon. that whole full-time job, mom and school thing… sleep is for the weak right?
May 5th, 2008 at 2:59 am
“sleep is for the weak”
my sleeping pattern is just rediculous…
-wake up at around 12pm
-work at 1pm
-off of work at 9pm
-photo work (at home) or just internetting, or movie watching movies till 4 or 5am
-sleep at 4 or 5am
of course there will be those times when i work in the morning…those days mess me up.
=)
May 5th, 2008 at 3:00 am
youchoob…? i think we have another happyslipper in here.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:18 am
I’m here, just woke up oO.
.eludehcs peels lamronba na hcus gnidael pots ot deen I !abmarac yA
May 5th, 2008 at 3:21 am
i know, everywhere you look there’s another one! i am feeling that happyslip vibe with mother’s day coming up. oh and i think miko should enter her contest.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:28 am
@Russ, how was that movie?
May 5th, 2008 at 3:35 am
@ deana - Cinematically, its crazyyyy…but im not done yet.
May 5th, 2008 at 4:30 am
Ok, Im Done…
…
…
… umm
… that movie was…
…umm… crazy? lol, a bit more that i was expecting. cinematically, it was shot very well. content, well, lets just say, “it aint no kiddie movie”. Perhaps i shouldnt watch these types of films before i journey to my slumber.
goodnight!
May 5th, 2008 at 5:03 am
Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Thanks Kina for making Monday a day to look forward to…such a great festive video for this week! So since its Cinco de mayo what are your party plans? Dodger game anyone?
May 5th, 2008 at 5:11 am
how was darjeeling?
May 5th, 2008 at 5:19 am
kina the wishmasterrrr. cake + music = wish granted.
ants can truly get annoying. the indoor variety anyway.
yess for more radio.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:30 am
we all do. sigh.
May 5th, 2008 at 6:27 am
Congrats on being #1, Deana! :D Woot!
May 5th, 2008 at 8:13 am
that movie made me feel like i was on drugs.
May 5th, 2008 at 8:19 am
yay an old song!!! i def loved it :) and i love the birthday cake/wishes part. im sure they all got their wishes dont worry ;)
so i was super excited that you were having a show on the 24th because im back in SoCal from school and everything was going to be merry but alas i cannot attend. which i am very upset about :/ my madre is making me go work with her…but on saturdays she drives down to the border…at 2 in the morning and we get to stay there all day…yayyyyyyy not. so i will be thinking of your show and music that day to get me through it :)
p.s. Let Go by Frou Frou = goodness. seriously, its just a feel good song, gets me through the day :)
May 5th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Kina! :)
♥ — great song & video
not sure if you’ve played that one in Austin or not
[to be sure, why not come back (some time soon perhaps?) and play it? :D]
ok! happy Monday / Cinco de Mayo!
p.s.: did you make that cake yourself?
May 5th, 2008 at 9:07 am
thanks a lot for my sister :)
(her birthday is tomorrow, so she hasn’t seen your video yet ^^)
lovely song, wonderful cake ^^
thanks again for everything :)
May 5th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Cool song Kina :). You got me hooked on the blogs now…
Roaches are nasty but there’s nothing worse then Giant Rhino Beetle Larvae. Bear Grylls ate it on the show Man vs Wild and the guts squirted out…ahhhh (sorry…hope you had your breakfast already)
Speaking of Cinco de Mayo…King Taco in LA has the best carne asada tacos w/ green sauce…Watch out for drunk drivers!
Wow Emi…6AM everyday? Do you have to go to school afterwards?
May 5th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Hey Kina!
I never got a chance to post a comment last week, My laptop is broken :(
But I wanted to make sure I said: This is one of my favorites of you songs…I love it! I am so glad you sang it!
Hmmm…yup thats it..
Oh and I just wanted to remind you have great you are!!! You totally ROCK!!!
Take Care,
Jen :)
May 5th, 2008 at 10:27 am
as far as spiders are concerned, tarantulas look pretty hardcore, but they’re great to handle. really gentle and they’ll walk all over your arm once they get over the initial shyness.
i don’t know about giant rhino beetle larvae, but i’ve had fried grasshoppers and frog-legs before…both were kinda…well, i wouldn’t try them again, unless i was trying to stave off starvation, let’s put it like that. bear is awesome (the man, not the meat. never had bear meat).
PS: never let one of those wasp spiders crawl on your arm. they pack a mean bite.
May 5th, 2008 at 10:36 am
I just want to say that I love all of Kina’s music, particularly the ‘oldies,’ even considering that some of the newer songs are positively mind-blowing. Each song is like a snapshot in her development as a singer/songwriter and it’s exciting/amazing to see how far she’s come and how much further she will go. Felt like that needed to be said.
May 5th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Hey kina, I really enjoyed this song, but I’m wondering the background/story behind it — that is if its not too personal to share (no worries if it is, i won’t think any less of ya)
lookin forward to the radio show!
Eric
May 5th, 2008 at 10:46 am
i completely agree
May 5th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Kina- Great to see you ‘rocking out’ on that song. Looked like it was big fun to play. Just curious…was anyone else in the room when you were playing? Because it looked like you glanced at someone a couple times.
Hope you enjoyed the cake, and no worries- real candles are harder to blow out than birthday candles!
May 5th, 2008 at 11:04 am
i know right, i thought i was trippin out at one point.
LOL
May 5th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Ack! My EYES!!!!…. Blast you, Red Baron!!!
May 5th, 2008 at 11:09 am
I thought Cinqo wan’t until the sixth…
May 5th, 2008 at 11:12 am
You left out that K.Taco has the best roaches, too…. outside of Chinatown, that is.
;-)
May 5th, 2008 at 11:33 am
*sinister chuckle* bwhahahaha.
*adjusts goggles*
Mein arch-enemy, prepare to be riddled with a barrage of agonizing syntax and grammatical torture! Mein Gott! Have I gone mad with power? Of course I have. Ever try going mad without power? It’s boring, nobody listens to you. At any rate, let the battle begin (or continue)! Schnell!
PS: I’ve taken a long time to memorize these villainous monologues in advance. Taking over the world wasn’t that practical, and someone stole my death ray, plus you can’t really do much from a triplane these days, so this was this next best thing.
PPS: I could have been really evil and done my tirade in german backwards ehehehehe….but i seem to retain a few slivers of humanity yet.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Yum yum. I love me a good roach burrito, adds a little zest to the flavoring.
on a more serious note, have you ever been to the plum tree inn? c’est magnifique! some guy proposed to his girlfriend at the table next to me last week. in french. it was beautiful.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:51 am
i always pick up pennies that are heads up. and everytime i see a penny that is tails up, i turn it over so that the next person that sees it can pick it up and have good luck.
and “let go” is such a soothing song. i listened to it along with some of your songs right before i took a nap at work this morning [15-hour graveyard security shifts are fun when you're locked in an exhibit hall filled lots of cool crap to play with].
May 5th, 2008 at 11:54 am
it made me tired, frankly. i ended up falling asleep halfway through it, then woke up halfway through “the science of sleep.” both halves were interesting, but i think i liked the “science” half a bit better.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:59 am
OK, I always liked most of this song, except for the electric guitar solo. I definitely like this version better.
OK, has anyone else ever noticed how wrong Rhapsody can be sometimes? even though I own the CDs, I generally just listen to Rhapsody instead, and I am fairly certain the similar albums section is just rubbish. Evidently in Memory of the Singing Bridge is similar to Press Play by Diddy, Shaggy: the Rhapsody interview, and Hung Up by Madonna…
May 5th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Where’s Mama G? She’s normally here by now. We miss her presence. =/
May 5th, 2008 at 11:59 am
i loved Into the Wild! kinda makes me wanna do what chris mccandless did.. except the whole dying in a magic bus out in the wilderness part.
May 5th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I have to ask… where do you work??
May 5th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Hahah…. we were standing in line for the movies Saturday night, and my wife spots a penny heads-up on the ground… says to me “Think Kina put that there?”
:-p
May 5th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I was the off-camera candle lighter… :)
May 5th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
I remember when this was the hit song of the Grannis setlist, back in aught four. In those days, we used to walk to shows at Ground Zero up hill both ways.
May 5th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
funnn! i trust the candle/cake-ornament-thingies frosting didn’t go to waste, i hope :)
May 5th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
In those days, we used to walk to shows through sleet, hail, and 3 feet of snow. and sometimes trogdor would hassle us. But it was all worth it. Totally.
May 5th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Actually:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Never_Rains_in_Southern_California
May 5th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
You’re not?! ;-)
May 5th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Did you decorate the cake, too? :)
And how was it? It certainly looked yummy from here
look at me I’m all cake questions ;P
May 5th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I like this! It is strikingly different from your more recent work and shows a completely different side of your songwriting ability and personality! I always shudder when I read comments from music fans and critics like, “[insert name of musician] should return to [insert particular sound in their musical career]” because I like musicians of any genre to evolve. Music is more interesting that way. Having said that, I will make an exception in this case.
Really, I have yet to hear you do anything bad. So, press on forward. I will be here to admire.
BBL!
P.S. October is really far away, but I’m already looking forward to my birthday wish from Kina.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
is it just me or does anyone else wonder if Kina feels silly or weird doing all these blogs? and I just listened to that frou frou song and it made me feel like i was in some disco or upbeat rave party.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Hey kina,
i thought of you when i came across this penny story! i think the title is really fitting too. . . hope you like it :)
http://www.linkslearning.org/Kids/2_Reading/2_Audio_Stories/9_Change_of_Heart/index.html
May 5th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Wow! Monday early evening EST and I’m already 60 comments down. Great song and I don’t know if I could ever get tired of hearing it. There are a few of your songs that when they play on the iPod I repeat once or twice more. The songs have worked out well. It lasts about as long as a race on the new Mario Kart for the Wii. Great combination. Have a great week all!
May 5th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
my company does security for different events throughout the bay area, e.g., sporting events, concerts, festivals, parades, etc. the event i just worked was the Maker Faire (http://www.makerfaire.com) at the San Mateo Event Center. i like the graveyard shifts because they give you more hours and it’s easy money, depending on where you get posted. i was lucky enough to get locked in one of the buildings where all the cool stuff was in. if you get posted outside for graveyard, that’s the worst.. since it gets cold at night here in the bay. haha
May 5th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
I’ve been on here on and off all day. And for some reason haven’t posted til now. Oops. sry! :]
Lovely song. I think I like all the songs better acoustic and live!! :]
yummy cake!! looks perfect. haha and kina would have lizards on the cake.. and then suck the icing off the feet. but that’s what makes kina so freaking awesome and unique!! haha. can i have a cupcake for my birthday?? :] its sept. 15… i have awhile to wait haha. AHHH i just realized my birthday’s on a monday this year!!! woohoooo!! haha
ok now i’m done. and i’m off to study more history for my IB test tmw. woo! wish me luck!
May 5th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
thanks for the birthday wish
that cake looks delicious
good old classic song
May 5th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Definitely a beautiful song, and you’ve gotten better at it, too. I just wanted to say thank you for posting your songs every week, and that it’s definitely the highlight of my week when I see there’s a new post.
BTW, lizard feet? Probably tastes like chicken and birthday cake. There’s two flavors you shouldn’t mix!
I still have the CDs you sent me, I keep them in my car’s CD Changer, on numbers 1, 2 and 3. I listen to them every week as I travel in my job. Thank you so much, and have a good week!
PS, If you do a show in Northern Indiana, post and I’ll get a whole crew out there to cheer you on and enjoy your music!
May 5th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
darn that trogdor. He’s always burning up my thatched roof cottages.
May 5th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
i really love hearing your old songs because ive only been listening to you since the super bowl…
dang it! i was gonna write something else, but when i was reading all the other comments i got distracted. o well… basically your amazing and rock my socks :)
May 5th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
frog legs are good with some butter and garlic, but i stay away from the insects.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Were you wearing green when you were singing that song?
Was that deliberate or just an amazing coincidence?
May 5th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
you mean BURNINATING!
May 6th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Happy National Teacher Day to all the great wise teachers in the world including myself.
May 6th, 2008 at 9:45 am
wow i’ve been gone a while now, so i’m popping my head back in and saying hi. good choices of songs! feels like it’s been forever…
May 6th, 2008 at 11:39 am
These updates really do make monday more enjoyable.
Good stuff kina : )
May 6th, 2008 at 11:50 am
this song is so catchy… it reminds me of the song “lose yourself” by eminem… not the same beat/tempo but the same message..
kina’s like “wow meex, that is totally off” hahaha but i am weird! i LOVE the part where u start singing “if i tried… etc”
that part is so hell yeah to me haha…
May 6th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
It’s always awesome to watch your blahg. I think everyone here would agree, it’s awesome that you’ve adopted us as your internet friends =) You are such a charmer, you pretty much ooze charisma. Who wouldn’t want to be your pal?
Stay rad,
-Jon
May 6th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Your video amendments are so …. you ;-) There is nothing like making sure you include all that you want to include.
Entomology, reminds me of the insect display we once had to do back in grade school… poor bugs, each pierced through the heart… er… nerve center(?) I forgot what those bundle of nerves in insects are called. Technically, I guess you don’t really pierce them through there anyway but I digress. I am reminded of the museum displays I used to go to, all the different kinds of insects, a cacophony of color and yet I would feel slightly sad that they are in that state. I am fascinated and at the same time sad when I go to museums. That is my eccentric moment for today.
May 6th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
happyslip…today was the first day i had ever heard of happyslip.
…
…
SHE’S AWESOME!!!!!
May 6th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I prefer the album version, and definitely love the guitar solo part :)) It roxx ;)
I was always wondering, what makes me to prefer a version against an other one, or a cover vs. the original. Is it on which one i’ve heard first? It’s true for a lot of songs (eg for this) . And false too (eg: Strong enough, i love the acusitic, but loooooooooove the fully produced version -at least that 30 seconds i’ve heard of it:)) ). I think there’s no pattern for it.
But about covers vs. originals, i would say, i prefer the covers.
May 6th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
so… i’m listening to k’s choice on rhapsody. can you play believe?? pretty pleaseeee?? :]
May 6th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Felt like adding that I went on an escapade to capture a hyperactive ant that attempted to share my bed last night. Coincidence?
May 6th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Kina-
Love your tunes!!
My daughters are now singing Message from Your Heart every time it comes up in the car on the iPod!
I would love to hear your version of Invisible by Taylor Swift!
Love your voice and keep up the FABULOUS work!!
:)
-Jeff
May 6th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
frog legs are pretty good. even though i have to say i have a deathly fear of frogs. but if i dont know that they’re frog legs before i eat it, or if i dont realize, i’m good. and no joke, i’m deathly afraid of frogs.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
kina, i would love to hear your version of any taylor swift song!!! :]
my favorite is “our song” :]…before it was overplayed on the radio. not to say i don’t like it now. but i didnt jump on the bandwagon. i promise!
May 6th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
I was rocking out to this one because I remember it from USC days. Way to go!
May 6th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
i ultra-mega dig this song kina! awesome job!
@KINA!!! my birthday is on May 17th!! can i have a BAGEL WITH CREAM CHEESE!!! that would be amazing!! and plus afterwards you can EAT IT!! haha
So that would be totally awesome
May 6th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
I agree except i like her other song tear drops on my guitar so steph I WIN!
May 7th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Hello!
I’m a girl from Sweden, I found out about you on youtube.
Just want to tell you I really enjoy your music, I’m going to tell my friends about your great music and maybee you’ll get famous in Sweden some day =) Have a nice day and keep up the good work! =)
May 7th, 2008 at 8:29 am
I had some at the orange county fair a while back, it was at that place where they fry EVERYTHING…but yeah, i suppose if they’re cooked right they’re probably alright, but the ones i had, not so sure if they were cooked right hah. i feel like i should make some obligatory statement about it tasting like chicken or something
May 7th, 2008 at 11:44 am
You guys are funny.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Hey… you mean when they cooked the bugs? I had chex mix with meal worms…. they were GREAT! Really crunchy! (Emi was pretty grossed out as I remember)
May 7th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Oh man…chex mix w/ meal worms? You ate it at the fair? I know they sell that stuff in a can…I’m getting the chills…
a)”umm you got something stuck on your teeth”
b)”what is it a piece of spinach?”
a)”no its a meal worm leg..”
May 7th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
that is maybe my favorite.
May 7th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
haha yeah!! when did you go?
THOSE were actually pretty good, kind of reminded me of bacon bits :D
i wasn’t that big a fan of the grasshoppers though, due to the consistency of the wings…i don’t know if you’re supposed to eat the wings haha, but i did.
i have had silk moth pupae before, sauteed. thai delicacy believe it or not!
gollllleeee…everyone’s going to think i’m uberweird now.
May 7th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
in light of my statements regarding insect cuisine, i would like to take this opportunity to clarify my earlier attempt at humor.
i have never, nor do i ever plan to, eat a roach burrito. unless it was cooked properly.
…KIDDING!!!…
thank you very kindly. :)
May 7th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
oh i love that one too!!! but i havent listened to it nearly as many times.
but i still win!! haha…i dont know what we’re winning about..?
May 7th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
lol me either i just thought i would say it
I WIN!
May 7th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
SWEDEN!!! that is amazing i have always wanted to go to sweden! is it awesome? haha
May 7th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
We all win in my opinion! We have Kina’s music to listen to which is definitely a prize I’d take over anything any day as far as I’m concerned. :)
May 7th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
VERY TRUE rumin! and i agree
May 7th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
this is too tempting. i’m taking the 100th again :]
May 7th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
omggg that is disgustinggg!!!!!!!!! hahaha that’s so gross. i dont think i can ever eat any kind of bug. ewww.
oh, and frog legs do taste like chicken. i thought that was what they were when i first ate them. only to face the horror of what i did 20 minutes later.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
haha very true!!! woo! yeah kina!!! its all thanks to you :]
May 7th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
lol 101!!
May 7th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
ARROWED!
problem solved…
May 7th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
i want it to be monday again already. :(
May 7th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
i know!! i cant believe its only wednesday. i think this week has gone by slower than any other week. prob because i’ve been taken exames all week. boo!
but my soccer team won a super important game today!!! WOOHOO!!! :] … i am so sore.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
GO STEPH’S SOCCER TEAM!!!!!
it seems like me and you steph are like the only ones in here on the weekend lol and i agree that mondays come really slow
May 7th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Originals are always encouraged (I’m still anxious for Goodnight to become buyable :)), but was just listening to “Somewhere North” by Caedmon’s Call, and I thought a cover by you might be nifty
May 7th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Hey Kina,
I was wondering if you use a humidifier to maintain your guitars. Do you think they are necessary?
May 8th, 2008 at 1:37 am
haha i’ve told you already, but i can’t sleep and i’m bored.
love it love it love it. one of the happiest songs on the album.
i’m not saying anything, but i’m super excited. i know that you know i am, but i’m so excited that i have to say that im excited. is that creepy?
it’s because i’m sleepy. kbyenow
dr oryan
May 8th, 2008 at 7:33 am
gahhhh school is so boring!!!!!!! XP
May 8th, 2008 at 8:48 am
well, since it’s only Thursday and the wait has been interminable this week for some reason!…
I propose we ask more questions of Kina to pass the time.
1) What are the top 5 tracks on your ipod right now?
2) Do you use last.fm?
3) Are you more of a city person, beach person, or forest person?
4) Do you have any pets besides your snakes?
5) Do you have a favorite Disney movie (or top 3?)
May 8th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Hello, Anna. Don’t be a stranger!
May 8th, 2008 at 10:58 am
That was me! I forgot that I erased my browser history and no longer had my name saved. Problem solved.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:03 am
I do have to agree. This week has gone slower than others. Actually, I’m upset about it. Time decides to seem slower after I’m done for the semester. Normally, with a lot of work to do, time runs so fast leaving a student’s frantic to get work done. Now that there is no work to be done, time slows down. I have learned to expect these kinds of things by now, but it doesn’t mean I’m happy about them.
Oh yeah, and I want time to go faster to see more Kina.:-)
May 8th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
The art of the cover has been lost over time, in my eyes. Hurt by Johnny Cash is the only demi-recent cover I have liked (not counting Kina’s, of course). It used to be that I would have a hard time choosing one or the other, or I prefered the cover outright. Now, I just find bands ruining songs I like. Then again, I dislike bands now…that probably plays into it
May 8th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Perhaps you will see this, perhaps you won’t, as it’s buried in a multitude of other comments. But…
When on the world the mists began to fall,
Out of the dreams that rose in happy throng… :)
May 8th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
the scariest thing happened to me today, I was in class taking the CST tests for highschool and my phone got a text message and it was from that twitter thing telling me that kina posted something, I was so embarassed because if you get caught with your phone texting, all of the students taking the test in my class get their tests invalidated, luckily my teacher either didn’t notice or didn’t care. That scared me though, I thought to myself darn Kina for having to post at that exact moment in time.
May 8th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
just got another text go look at the cool shirts kina made for us to buy they are at kinagrannis.com, I want to buy one but they don’t seem to manly I don’t want my friends to make fun of me for wearing a shirt with hands in the shape of a heart or a cartoon drawing of a girl and a guitar
May 8th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
haha, but didn’t you know? real men wear kina shirts! :D
i think it’s about as manly as building a log cabin or jumping through rings of fire to save a damsel in distress…
May 8th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
haha true, true, maybe i can buy them all and then wear them to school and just wear a sweater over them or something, but I guess that kind of destroys the point in buying the shirts anyways. When I go to one of her concerts I will wear it and have her sign it, then I will never take that shirt off and wear it everyday since Kina signed it haha jk that would be kinda gross.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
im assuming it has to do with her going to NYC and u live in NYC…
lol… i am sure u guys are planning something together… a collab perhaps… lol hahaha… im just speculating haha
ur very lucky and fortunate and blessed =)
May 8th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Hi Kina! I recently “found” you on YouTube because my guitar loving friend sent me a link to your videos. You are SO talented & totally an inspiration for me to pick up my guitar and really learn to play :)
anyone ever told you that you kinda look like tia & tamera mowry? (from the show Sister Sister)
one random question - Is your hair naturally curly?
May 9th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Actually, I’ve got one of her shirts (the one with the hands in the heart shape) and I surprisingly get compliments on that shirt all the time.
And you know…. girls dig shirts with cute symbols on them. =)
May 9th, 2008 at 6:15 am
The logo tee looks manly enough.
May 9th, 2008 at 9:51 am
I hope someone can record the lostcauseradio show. 9 pst is 6 am here in europe :(
May 9th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Yes, her hair is naturally curly. If you look the video from two weeks ago, she straightened it; it looked really nice, but only stayed that way until she washed her hair.
Welcome to the bla(h)g btw, Grace
May 9th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
I was just trying to try ahead of time, good thing I did. I can’t get the Lost Cause Radio to play. I don’t know how to. Help pleaseee!!!
May 9th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
it’s not working for me eiiiitherrrrr….
bummer.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
click on the chat room link on their home page. then click on the magnifying glass.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
click on the chat room section!
May 9th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
yay!! thanks!!!!!!!
May 9th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
im on stickam watching kina on webcam
May 9th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
yeah, stickam’s got a webcam going and that works
http://www.stickam.com/
May 9th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
ahhhh i wanna hear kina play!!!!!
May 9th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
haha kina the people in the chat love you!!!! as expected! lol
May 9th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
omg. this is so fun! haha i love that emi called. that was amazing!
May 9th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
emi and her wii…
May 9th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
i hope someone records this so that i can listen to it later.. my comp is really not getting along with me right now!
May 9th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
this is really… interesting?
i’m not a regular listener to this program (1st time actually) but they get off topic really easily
May 9th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
not going to be mean but i would much rather just listen to kina than them talk about which sports team is better
May 9th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
yeah its kinda annoying.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Boy, do I agree with you.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I didn’t know the street team idea was getting along so far.
I’d like to get involved :D
May 9th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Yeah, bad DJ luck lately.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
uhhh. im so pissed that im not able to listen in
May 9th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
its ok elevated it wasn’t as good as i had hoped only like 4 songs got sung and they were all good but in 2 hours it should have been all kina
May 9th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Kina was great, and the show improved, but they let the topic wander a lot.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
kina has never had a bad show and i don’t think she ever will on radio or live in person, if she messes up she uses her quirky personality to make everyone forget about it.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Hey guys, Yankeefan from the Lost Cause Radio chat. It was great having Kina on the show, she’s gonna be big one day! It was great meeting all of you too!
LCR is on every Tuesday and Friday, so be sure to come back and check them out. Hopefully Kina is on the show again in the future.
Sorry, about the sports talk too lol. But, it was a great show! One of the best.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
i’m so excited that kina knew who i was. haha. and a song just for me :] hahaha. it was fun! see ya monday [or sooner!]
May 9th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
yep she sails through it all.
it was awesome seeing all the love she got on stickam!
May 9th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
wait, do I need to e-mail kina to get involved or is just saying i want to here enough?
May 9th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Bwa ha ha ha
Thanks to the bla(h)g, I now have Boom Blox for Wii. Woohoo.
Great perfomances, as usual, Kina.
P.S. I am so pleased that you like Bon Iver. I really really love the album and I actually sent it to Ms. JW recently
May 9th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
@travis t!
and anyone else who is interested in street team!
email kina at the following email!
kina@kinagrannis.com
lol
right kina? =)
May 9th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
alrighty then
May 9th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
wow, yeah like watching the nascar rain delay… how many hours was that for one song? still worth it. great that she’s getting new fans right ;)
May 9th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
is the street team on and poppin?
May 10th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Aw man, so this is what I get for working from 6-2am? Boo, I missed the radio show. Again. Anybody record it, or are there archives on the LCR website?
@ Deana - I remember that too….. they didn’t ask her to name some animated Gopher and ask what her favorite movie was too, did they? =P
May 10th, 2008 at 3:02 am
i like re: stacks
:)
May 10th, 2008 at 3:05 am
good choice timmy ;)
May 10th, 2008 at 3:07 am
loved it :)
May 10th, 2008 at 7:16 am
man that is so weird, I was talking about that song with someone yesterday…
(good choice)
May 10th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Hmm, i guess, i found the pattern (or just a part of it)
If you like the original band, probably you won’t like the cover by an unknown/youdontlikethem/playing a different genre band
if your favourite band/performer does a cover, you’ll probably like it (i’m super lucky with my favourite band, they are doing awesome covers ;) ).
And (to be ontopic :) ), the other thing i like about covers is you get to know unknown performers/bands. I never heard about k’s choice, before kina played two songs from them. Now, cocoon crash from k’s choice is in my top 10 album ever ;))
May 10th, 2008 at 8:02 am
i never emailed her about it… hmm i just said i’m interested on here.
May 10th, 2008 at 9:26 am
haha, no gophers, just random sports talk and other tangeants. the chatter was just odd sometimes and there was so much of it. the whole time, kina was her gracious self. between the radio interviewers, i preferred the nervous student dj at kscr.
May 10th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Hey Yank,
do you have any idea if the show was archived or recorded at all?
May 10th, 2008 at 9:39 am
nobody knows lol miko was promoting the street team for people to join us Two Weekers and build it up more.
May 10th, 2008 at 10:41 am
sorry about the sports talk, and on Lost Cause Radio they talk about everything and anything. So yes theres sometimes odd talk, but that’s how the show has been since it started months ago. Pretty much why the name is Lost Cause Radio lol. But, hopefully Kina is back on again in the future, and hopefully you guys come back on Tuesday and Friday and watch the show also.
May 10th, 2008 at 11:37 am
i also missed it… for me, it was about 6am on saturday
Timmy, if you find a record, let us know
May 10th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Hey Yankeefan, no worries, I guess that’s why talk radio is what it is. I think it’s great that you’re a fan too and the exposure is good both ways. Some of the other music your channel features is worth catching. It’s just a tough mix for people who come for one format or the other. You’re the guy who could make it up to Kina fans though, if LCR is willing to post a recording. What do you say? If you podcast it I know I’d add the link to LCR on my blog ;)
May 10th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
i love that song, “where do you go to my lovely?”
May 10th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
WHOA! How’d you get the graphical smileys?!??!
Can I do that too? :) :( ;)
EDIT: I guess I can’t…. you sir, are too cool.
May 10th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Actually, I inserted them manually… you have to know HTML to do this
I just wrote a mail to Kina to see if she wants me to put those smileys on her blog
May 10th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Hey, yes sweden is pretty nice, I’ll enyoy it here but my english writing isn’t so good.. I really like Kinas music! :)
May 10th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Hey, I’m Anna from Sweden.. I prefer to be a stanger.. haha.. my english writing isn’t good.. I can speak pretty good but the spelling is hard.. sorry.. :)
Kina is a very good singer, Im going to tell about her good music to my friends :)
May 10th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Haha, weren’t you there when I bought the shirt? You were like right next to me I think.
May 10th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Nice show on LCR Kina, but what was up w/ that pervert who called in? That was out of nowhere…
Nothing like Guitar Hero on the Wii. Watch out Kina! j/k
May 10th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Attention original Tweekers/Kinaddicts/EAKs/Kinerds (if you have to ask, you aren’t one!): Please send your mailing address to mamageee@gmail.com. I won’t send you junk mail, I promise.
May 10th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
that’s the internet for you. anonymity & an audience :/
May 10th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
what will you send? is it a surprise? :)
May 10th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
such a tenderly motherly love for her original tweekers children haha.
and just what a mother would do - on a day we should be giving YOU our love and blessings, you plan to give us something… HAPPY MOTHERS DAY MAMA G!!! you are beautiful =)
whenever i watch the dancing baby on misa’s youtube, i love how mama g says “here is kina dancing for her little sister… eMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII”
its the most adorable way to say emiiiiii lol
May 10th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers all out there (especially mine! haha)! But no seriously, all you mothers are awesome. Thanks for giving birth to people and stuff, baking random goodies, kissing skinned elbows, listening to us yammer on and on about stuff we drew or dreams we dreamt, and holding our hands when we would cross streets. And last, but not least, making the most awesome peanut butter and jelly sandwich sack lunches ever (try saying that 5 times fast). :)
May 10th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
i mustve been high or something… when i watch it now u said “i want you to do it to emiiiii”
i confused how u said “dinner timmmmme” with what i thought was “emiiiii”
i suck haha
May 10th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Be on the lookout for an announcement from Kina on Monday’s blog about the street team. It is about to happen. There are some fun things for the people that choose to get involved.
Congratulations John on winning the Wii game last night. Good job.
Thanks to everyone else, and please accept my apologies for not listing my top 5 Kina songs, as requested a while back. I thought and thought, and the problem is that my top 5 are actually about 20. What can I say?? I tend to love almost everything Kina does.
Mama G and I look forward to seeing everyone at the El Rey. We will be at a table to the side, looking for you.
May 11th, 2008 at 12:08 am
yes.
May 11th, 2008 at 12:13 am
(…but don’t stand in front me!)
May 11th, 2008 at 12:38 am
awwwwwww x 1000
May 11th, 2008 at 3:25 am
Week 3:
Will be postponed, due to a possibly long and informative bla(h)g post.
No sense wasting time with random questions when there are more important things to talk/write about.
oovret subscribers: Thank you for understanding.
Kina: You ROCK!
May 11th, 2008 at 11:32 am
hey mama g did you want our real street mailing address or email adress? i don’t know which one to send haha., On the side when I first saw “tweekers” i got the wrong idea at first. and happy mother’s day to all the mom’s on the bla(h)g
May 11th, 2008 at 1:17 pm