bla(h)g.

shoutouts and bdays coming later!!

kina

oh my goshh!!!!!
best birthday present ever!!!
http://www.youtube.com/user/tanjyoubishoutout
thank you all so much for your birthday shoutouts!! i think i will keep the playlist on repeat for the rest of the day. wow. seriously, i am such a sap, but i was about to cry on several occasions. i am so fortunate to have such amazing people supporting me. thank you!!!!!

Oovret Week 14: Birthday Edition!

Looking back on your 23rd year, what would you say was:
your greatest accomplishment? graduating college… or crashing the super bowl… hah.
your biggest failure? hm.
your happiest moment? graduating… crashing the super bowl…
your most depressing moment? no need to recount it :)

Looking forward, what are your goals for your 24th year?
get a new album out! tour! meet cool people!

i love you all!

kina

today david choi and i finished recording a song we wrote. we’ll be putting it up soon!

must embark on an hour long journey back home now. so very tired.

heart heart,
kina

p.s. that gigantic mic in front of me… it wasn’t actually on. oops. so it looks like its going to sound amazing. and then it sounds like JHSKJDHJSHDJHSD.

oovret: Week 13

What countries have you visited?
new zealand, japan, mexico, costa rica
How many states have you traveled? (Care to list them?)
California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Washington, Hawaii
What is your longest period of time without seeing any immediate family members?
5 months ish?
What is the furthest distance you have driven in one day?
something long on a road trip with misa. or perhaps when i drove to austin, texas last summer.
What is your favorite mode of transportation?
hmmm. running or walking or flying. not on a plane.

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more i forgot to talk about!!!!
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1. a lot of you are bringing up the video of message from your heart from my hotel cafe show. it was one of the neatest things ever. the place was sold out, so there were about 170 people there, and i swear, not THAT many people didn’t sing. so imagine somewhere over 100 people singing, practically in perfect tune, the bum bums. yeah. i wanted to cry. so freaking amazing. i love people.

2. i forgot what number two was but i think it was important.

3. marathon training is going well! last sunday i ran 11.5 miles! now i just have another 15 or so miles to tack onto the end of that…. haha. fundraising is going well too. i think i’m going to have a benefit show in august or september and just put all of the door charge to my Team in Training account for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. i think that’d be fun.

4. i finally set up my stickam.com account. that means we can start having live shows!! and everyone all of the world can be there together in one chat room! go sign up so you will be ready when the day comes. here’s my page: http://www.stickam.com/profile/kinagrannis

5. why do have i have a cold?

6. i will be 23 really soon. i feel weird about that.

7. i just want to keep going now, but i cant think of things to say.

8. fine. you’re cool. bye.

Hey everyone! You may notice a new thing at the top of the sidebar called “Wall.” This is a little shoutbox I just added in case you randomly feel like talking to each other outside of the comment thread or the forums. *shrug* The more communication the better, right? (Shh I don’t want to hear about decentralization.) Anyway, I’m working on getting on on the forum front page, too, since that seems like a slightly more logical place to put it (though perhaps a bit cannibalistic?). I figure that topic-relevant comments can still go in their proper threads, and that random, “I’m bored at work/school someone talk to meee” chatter can go there. Sound like a plan? Good.

-Misa

ps—Thanks to angloman for the suggestion.

wowwww. it has been BUSY!! i had a crazy fun weekend in denver at the mile high music festival– but i’ll tell you more about that later :) i am suuuuper tired. just got back from a practice with lady danville and the payphones for our collabo on friday! super fun!

tomorrow– meeting with interscope… hmmmm.

glad youtube finally decided to work!

heart you
kina.

p.s. my mother is the greatest sand sculpter of all time

oovret: Week 12- Emmy week

In concurrence with the Emmy nominations, earlier this week: what is your favorite television show and character in each category?

*disclaimer from kina*
i am far to indecisive to ever pick a favorite character. also, i don’t watch much tv.

Comedy? the office or arrested development
Drama? grey’s anatomy
Game show? don’t watch any
“Reality”? hmmm… arg. i don’t know.
Cartoon? probably family guy

@Daniel J
little drawings of guitars and hearts!? what are you talking about! that’d be an awesome thing to send!
@sabafa
no more working at the coffee shop for me:( as fun as it was and as handy as some extra cash would be right now, there’s just no time!
@paid for in dollar coins
woww!! look forward to seeing you and amanda this friday!
@cassie
i hope “message from your heart” is coming along :)
@sherriekinney
still not over how beautiful your cover of ours to keep is. WOW!
@blew
on behalf of the grannis family, thank you!
@gregory mignon
hope you are enjoying the cd! hope to get over to france someday…
@aeglos
i’ve actually gotten way better at my over-apologizing! it used to happen about 15 times a show…. but i’ve cut down as i keep getting scolded from my family… haha
@gene parmesan
you’re alive!!
@glenn
i hope you’ve borrowed your brother’s guitar by now. but more importantly, your puppies are the cutest things that exist, and i show everyone i know pictures of them with the kg sticker everyday.
@libia!
congrats on the new job and thank you so so much! so happy you’re enjoying my music :)
@ta*be
thanks so much!
@dawnc
thaaaank you!
@becki
maybe one of my new favorite stories!! haha. tell your dad hello :)
@k
…..cookies???
@gruntled
my very own island!?
@j.c.
mmmm… takoyaki
@steph
i heart geckos

youtube is down! my video is ready! i board my plane in 15 minutes! i get home at 1am! nooooooooooo

sorry… this is really really long.

but it USED to be 40 minutes. i did my best.

learn how to play message from your heart:

i’m sorry i couldn’t give you all a heads up sooner that the blog was going to be up late. i’m in a tricky situation because i’m still not fully moved in to my new apartment and i have no internet access. so i record in one place, edit in another, and ultimately, post somewhere else. i spent the day recording and editing, then rushed to a starbucks to upload it before my rehearsal, but it didn’t finish in time and i had to leave. unfortunately the rehearsal space had no internet either, so i couldn’t upload it there either or post a heads up. luckily i can twitter from my cell phone… but that only reaches about… no one. :( i’m so sorry. i also missed seeing off my friend that was visiting from new zealand in all the craziness!! i was just one of those days… thank you all for being understanding though. i will try better to be on time. i have a feeling that once i am moved in things will be a lot easier for me.

in other news– the rehearsal was great (minus the discomfort of knowing that every minute it went on was another minute my post would be postponed). it was with the two bands i’ll be playing with at hotel cafe on the 25th– lady danville and the payphones. we’ll all be collaborating at the end of the night. it should be fun :)

tomorrow i am headed up to santa barbara to take some pictures with emi and perhaps record some singing for a future blog! wednesday i’ll be writing with rich jacques again and then having another rehearsal. thursday i need to catch up on sending out cds and tshirt orders, then i am attending a show at the mint! friday i leave for denver to go to the mile high music festival where i will hopefully do some networking in addition to hearing some wonderful music. the festival runs through sunday night, and my flight home leaves at 2pm and doesn’t get home until 8PM, and then i go straight to a rehearsal! i’m not quite sure how i will pull this off. hopefully sunday night after the festival i will have some time to blog… though i dont have my own hotel room so that might be difficult. i’m just giving you a super heads up… that my next monday is a little crazy, but i’m going to do what i can to get it done.

i hope this tutorial makes sense to you all! i think it should be pretty simple even if you’re a beginner. maybe you could pull it off even if you don’t play guitar. :) that would be fun. then we could all be a band someday!! haha.

happy…. tuesday :(
i’m sorry.

thanks for everything. po box video coming this week!

heart,
kina

oovret: Week 11

In which sports have you participated?
when i was little- gymnastics, ballet, tap
when i was semi-little- tap, karate
when i was more person-like- cross country and track competively, swimming for fun
What is the time of your fastest mile run?
5:41
What is the time of your fastest 100m freestyle swim?
no idea
How much weight can you bench press?
not sure
How many pull-ups can you do in one minute?
probably not many

@ajsea
thank you for sharing that with us all. i hope your recovery goes superbly well!
@love_cody903
welcome!!
@code2mind
your gravatar rocks
@kiyoG
i LOVE kaitenzushi but i don’t know of any really good ones in LA :(
@Jeffreyy !
hmmm… when i have free time…
i probably spend most of my free time trying to respond to as many emails as possible. i run. i play guitar. i sing. i write. i rest. i read. occasionally someone will convince me to attend some sort of social event…
@everyone
i really hope you accept my apologies. please know that these videos really are my first priority, but sometimes things just don’t work out in my favor. i really appreciate you all so much and i’m sorry i haven’t been too consistent or timely as of late.

“hallelujah” by leonard cohen

hello!!

ikea told me my mattress would be delivered today. today they said it’d be delivered on the 14th. :( i have an apartment and no place to sleep…. *tear*

thank you to everyone that made it out to the kaleidoscope last weekend! i had so so so much fun. let’s do that again sometime!

lately i’ve been thinking back on the past few months and really realizing how amazing this has been. i cannot thank you all enough for voting, tuning in, supporting me and spreading my music. i just feel so lucky.

i just wanted to take a second to say– SHIR! you rock! these are the coolest things ever! what a fun idea. thank you so much!

congrats on surviving your monday!

heart,
kina

oovret: Week 10

What is your…
favorite late night snack? hmm. cereal… fruit… left overs… whatever is around.
favorite elementary school lunch? i was famous for my mega-deluxe mama g lunches. people used to try to buy them off of me. they were always different but always amazing.
favorite vending machine item? nature valley fruit and nut bar
favorite type of sushi? hamachi(yellowtail) or sake(salmon)
favorite type of cookie? impossible.

@arch
you’re funny :)
@sabafa
you can download “strong enough” from my myspace page now!
@awake
misa- new york
emi- santa barbara, ca
me- los angeles
parents- mission viejo
@meeks
congratulations!! i can’t wait to see you on TV!
@mary
i wish i was fluent in japanese! i studied it my 4 years at USC, but i am quickly losing it :(
@ajsea
get better!! hope you’re doing well!
@mac c
yay! so glad you’ve been enjoying the cds!
@sherriekinney
i promise to come to idaho someday!

hello all!

here’s a new song i wrote. it is nameless thus far. if you have any suggestions please let me know. i was thinking about “when everything falls away from me” but that is incredibly long. hmph….

the marathon training with team in training is going really well! yesterday we ran 8 miles and aside from the gigantic blister that formed on my left foot, it felt great. i’m so glad i decided to do this.

as for “anyway” vs. “anyways”, i’m sure that i am horribly inconsistent and use them both randomly in writing and speaking. :)

anyway…

you can enter ben_from_canada’s contest to win a free kina cd by submitting a video about a message from your heart here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZfDaLSA0bc&watch_response

i think we should have more contests!! i’ll try to think of something fun.

next show:
July, 5 2008 at The Kaleidoscope, 7-9PM free!!
27741 Crown Valley Parkway, Mission Viejo, California 92691

i’m about to head out to practice with Lady Danville and The Payphones, the two bands I’ll be playing with at Hotel Cafe on the 25th of July! we’re going to do an exciting collaborative segment at the end of the night :)

@wwar1ace
you would be correct. (if you remember what you were talking about)
@tricia
yes, i forgot to feature a cover last week :( i realized about 5 minutes after i posted it. sad! i am so glad to hear that you are playing more and more guitar! can’t wait to hear some of it.
@glenn
yes i can definitely recall the locations that i’ve written all my songs in. pretty bizarre. i agree though, new apartment sounds like a great excuse to write another :) too bad i havent really moved in yet.
@JaY_Yu_eL
maybe i can get emi to sing a song with me this weekend when she’s home for the 4th. as for misa… i don’t know when i’ll see her again… she’s so far away!! sadness.

oovret: week 9

Do you wear corrective lenses? nope. but i did go through a period of time (high school) when i really wished i had an excuse to wear glasses. i convinced my mom to take me to the eye doctor but to my disappointment, i had 20/20 vision. looks like no cool emo glasses for me.
Do you have any fillings/cavities? yes. :( i blame genetically weak enamel. right emi!?
Did you wear braces when you were younger? yup.
Have you broken any bones? nope.
How many stitches have you required? i think 6? in my right knee. i went on a run by myself in the mountains (against my mothers wishes) convinced nothing could possibly go wrong. then i slipped on a rock and split my knee open. i was 3 miles out and had no cell phone service. i spent about 10 minutes lying on my back in the dirt, talking myself down, elevating the wound, applying pressure, just like they always tell you to do, before two bikers came around the corner. there i was covered in dirt, blood, and flies, laying on my back. it probably looked like i fell off the mountain. haha. one of them helped me back down. on the way back we had to maneuver around a baby rattlesnake in the trail, and that night i read that there had been a mountain lion spotting in those hills that day for the first time in a few years. HA. now i listen to my mother. (not that i didn’t before. except this one particular instance, of course….)