A few months ago, probably sometime during fall trimester, I went onto Purevolume (which I, apparently, pimp all the time) and looked at their featured artists. I stumbled upon an Indie/Acoustic arist named Kelsey Wild.
She's a seventeen year old artist from Byron, Illinois. Her music is basically her playing piano and her voice. She has a really unique voice that really defines her lyrics. In conjunction with her voice, her piano melodies give the perfect accents to her poetic lyrics. All her songs are very mellow, very stripped down and vulnerable and extremely pretty. She's immensely talented.
All of Kelsey's songs tell stories, in some way. They're all personal and have some kind of experience from her life to convey. Her music is mellow and perfect to listen to when trying to write a story, do your homework or any other time during the day. Once you start listening to Kelsey's music, it will be stuck in your head all day long, cycling through one of her five songs on her Purevolume.
The only depressing thing is that Kelsey's music is so good you just want more of it once you've listened to her five tracks. The sad thing is that she isn't yet signed to any record label. I think she'd be an immediate hit among mellow indie listeners, maybe even wider audiences, espcially in the Midwest because that's where she's from and where she's play shows. However, there is no news on new songs or a potential record deal. But she has many fans crossing their fingers for an album in the future.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Luther College Visit
I am going to take a quick break from my usual blog posts about music and movies and books to write about my visit that I took yesterday to Luther College.
I left my house, with my dad in tow, around 8:30 in the morning. It was a really nice day for a two hour drive. We were mostly on two-lane highways with 55 miles an hour speed limits. But the weather was perfect. It was nice and sunny and bright. The grass was green and I passed a propane truck after miles of slow-driving aggravation.
We got there at 10:40 and spent the next five minutes trying to figure out where would be the best place to park and then where to go from our selected parking lot. Eventually, we figured it out and then were on our way with our tour guide to sightsee around the campus.
It was a long hike around the campus, especially in the hillier bits. We went all through the Union building (where the food's at!) and their "wellness" facilities and some dorm buildings and some learning buildings and looked around basically all the campus, mostly. Everything was maintained really well and looked really nice. I dig/dug it.
After the tour, we were free to go get lunch in the cafeteria with little food card things they gave us. So my dad and I went to get food. The cafeteria only had a million choices. It was really good food too. Instead of the bland, plain, gross stuff they serve at our school cafeteria (which I decline to eat by bringing my own lunch).
After everyone ate, we went to an official "Welcome!" presentation in the Center for Life and Faith, which is a really pretty building. The told us all sorts of fun factoids about Luther and then sent us on our way to meet with various departments or to do a student-to-student conversation or go to a financial aid session. My dad and I went to the English department one together and then I went to the Education session while my dad went to learn about financial aid stuff (yet again).
After all the department sessions, you could go back to the Union, get free (COLD AND REFRESHING because it was hot outside) beverages and talk to the admissions counsellor who would be looking over your application, if you so chose to apply. So my dad and I did that for, like, five minutes. And then we left because we had to drive the whole two hours home. But first we drove all through most of Decorah. Which is a cute, small little quaint town. But it actually has a lot of stuff, at least more than I thought it would. And it's basically five minutes from the Luther campus (but then again, it is the closest town for, like, forever).
Overall, the visit was really fun and went really well. They ran everything really smoothly, with plenty of people there to help you get where you're going and feel really comfortable doing it. I had a really good time and I think that after my visit, Luther is definitely at the top of my "Colleges I Want To Go To" list.
I left my house, with my dad in tow, around 8:30 in the morning. It was a really nice day for a two hour drive. We were mostly on two-lane highways with 55 miles an hour speed limits. But the weather was perfect. It was nice and sunny and bright. The grass was green and I passed a propane truck after miles of slow-driving aggravation.
We got there at 10:40 and spent the next five minutes trying to figure out where would be the best place to park and then where to go from our selected parking lot. Eventually, we figured it out and then were on our way with our tour guide to sightsee around the campus.
It was a long hike around the campus, especially in the hillier bits. We went all through the Union building (where the food's at!) and their "wellness" facilities and some dorm buildings and some learning buildings and looked around basically all the campus, mostly. Everything was maintained really well and looked really nice. I dig/dug it.
After the tour, we were free to go get lunch in the cafeteria with little food card things they gave us. So my dad and I went to get food. The cafeteria only had a million choices. It was really good food too. Instead of the bland, plain, gross stuff they serve at our school cafeteria (which I decline to eat by bringing my own lunch).
After everyone ate, we went to an official "Welcome!" presentation in the Center for Life and Faith, which is a really pretty building. The told us all sorts of fun factoids about Luther and then sent us on our way to meet with various departments or to do a student-to-student conversation or go to a financial aid session. My dad and I went to the English department one together and then I went to the Education session while my dad went to learn about financial aid stuff (yet again).
After all the department sessions, you could go back to the Union, get free (COLD AND REFRESHING because it was hot outside) beverages and talk to the admissions counsellor who would be looking over your application, if you so chose to apply. So my dad and I did that for, like, five minutes. And then we left because we had to drive the whole two hours home. But first we drove all through most of Decorah. Which is a cute, small little quaint town. But it actually has a lot of stuff, at least more than I thought it would. And it's basically five minutes from the Luther campus (but then again, it is the closest town for, like, forever).
Overall, the visit was really fun and went really well. They ran everything really smoothly, with plenty of people there to help you get where you're going and feel really comfortable doing it. I had a really good time and I think that after my visit, Luther is definitely at the top of my "Colleges I Want To Go To" list.
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