Wizard Rock: My New Favorite Thing

This is an explanation of my new found love of wizard rock (wrock) music:
First I found Brotherhood 2.0. Then I found Five Awesome Girls. Then I found wizard rock music.
At first, I was sceptical. Thinking, "yeah, I love Harry Potter, but wizard rock? Really?" NEVER judge a book by it's cover. For some reason unknown to me, I was automatically hooked when I listened to The Parselmouths. Then the Moaning Myrtles. Then I remembered that I've actually seen The Remus Lupins at Warped Tour several years ago in Ventura. And I remember them being awesome.
More than anything, I love the togetherness of the wrock community. I love the dedication and the happiness that I see people get from participated in something so great. Wizard rock has truly changed my life in some ways, though I know that might sound weird. For those of you who know me, I know you think I'm a little insane when I tell you I like this music and want to be involved with it. It just kind of fits into my life perfectly, like a little piece of something that I've been missing.

Anyway, my brother Mikie and I decided we were going to start a wizard rock band. The only problem was that he doesn't play an instrument, and I don't play my instruments as well as a lot of other people. But I love to write, and I have a huge passion for playing my guitar and writing songs, so I figured we could just work with what we had. Lately, though, this little project we set out to do has become a one-man-band sort of deal. Mikie has kind of moved on, not maintaining the same enthusiasm for this as I have. Which is funny because I'm four years older than he is, thus, the more mature, so you'd think I would have moved past this as well. Alas, it is not so.

While choosing our band name, we were looking through all the other wrock band names on Wizrocklopedia, seeing what was taken already. Mikie came up with a list of possibilities before I did and showed them to me. One of them was "Fountains of Fair Fortune", from the The Tales of Beedle the Bard. I read it aloud as "Foundation of Fair Fortune".
We ended up really liking that, therefore, we decided to call ourselves Foundation of Fair Fortune. Well. I call myself that since he's somewhat out of the picture.

I've been writing a lot for the last few weeks, wrock songs and non-wrock songs alike. But mostly wrock songs. I want to keep writing more because I'd like to get some recording equipment and record a first album sometime next year. For now, I'll get some acoustic rough versions of them up on YouTube, the first of which is Magic By the Lake, as of an hour ago.


I love doing this. And I hope I get support from my friends and family to continue doing it, even though it's not necessarily the norm. But then again...so what if it's not?

My Words Intimidate Me

My application essay is literally scaring me. Not like, what I've written, but the idea of finishing, of tackling those last 50 words in the conclusion so that they sound just right. I keep putting it off.

I wrote another song today. It's about the trail of spiders that Ron and Harry follow in The Chamber of Secrets. It's a bit slower than I'm used to, and just...simple. Easy. I have realized that just because something is easy to do does not mean it can't be awesome too. Right? Right. I really can't wait to start recording my songs. I'm looking forward to it a lot.
On a similar note, I told Jenna I listen to wizard rock, and she thinks I am kind of crazy now. Maybe it was the shock of telling her something out of the norm, but over the phone she sounded a little weirded out. She'll come around though; I'll help her see how awesome wrock can be :)
I also told her that Nerdfighters changed my life. That may have been a lot to take in, I admit it.


Thanksgiving is...well, it's today, actually, now that it's past midnight.
My step-dad's brother and parents came to St. George to celebrate and eat delicious food with us. I'm personally stoked about the sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce.

I was a bit distraught when I went into Harmon's today to buy more California Chips. They were out. I couldn't believe it. And they told me they don't normally sell that brand unless they are having a special, like they just were. Bummer, er whattt??
Though the man that helped me used to live in Santa Barbara, so I felt a little better about the whole thing. It's always nice to meet someone from the Ventura, Ca. area. Like the random old tow truck guy that was from Ventura; he towed my Ghetto Honda, Calvin, to his death, unfortunately. In the middle of a snow storm...those were the days.


I still haven't even started my photo shoot that's due next week. I have to shoot and develop before Monday afternoon. GAHH.
I'm not taking photography again next semester, regardless of which school I end up attending.


I'm going to take a page from the 5AG book and say why today is awesome: I have my first subscriber on my YouTube channel. Granted, I have no idea who they are because their page is blank, I still feel happy about the situation. And apparently my aunt Nicole saw some of my vlogs as well? Mmk. Cool.

Today I did a Gaga Check (this is where I push all the presets on my radio to see if a Lady Gaga song is playing on any of them. There usually is. Alex came up with the idea, I just carried on the tradition) and it reminded me of Alex and how I've been meaning to call him but haven't. I kind of sort of feel bad. But at the same time, I take so much comfort in the fact that I know he's okay and alive and all that now, that I just forget about calling him and actually reconnecting with him vocally. I should get on that; I've been a bad best friend :/

And now, I need to catch up on House MD.
Later days.

Song of the Day: "Paparazzi" by Lady Gaga. I thought this was appropriate.
Film of the Day: Ghost of Girlfriends Past (2009). Quite funny, let's be honest here.