Little sum-up: 2013

Lately I've noticed on my facebook timeline "See Your 2013 Year in Review". Firstly, I thought "Ok, facebook want to sum-up my life to collect the most important information about me and then sell it to some misterious organisation...", but when I clicked on this link, I was like "Seriously, who cares about my personal life? Besides, all those memories collected together is not such a bad idea." I saw many nice photos of me and my friends, different events, lots of funny quotes... It's good to think about good things happend last year and to hope next year won't be worse.

Crazy new year's eve and happy 2014 year!!! :)

"Things we didn't notice by looking at them."

The title of my today's note was also the theme of my first essay in primary school. I'll try to reproduce this idea in English.

Every day you wake up, get dressed, brush your teeth and comb your hair. Your mother make you a breakfast and give you a packed lunch. It's cold, so mum give you warm gloves, a scarf and a cap. Then, she drive you to school. There, you're writing an essay with a pen, you draw a picture with pencil and crayons - all those things are bought by your beloved mother. You came back home and your mom have a dinner for you. She can also help you with your homework, because she's the smartest person you know. In the evening, your mother plays games with you, reads books for you or watches movies with you. It's the end of the day, so she puts you in bed and tell you a beautiful story until you fall asleep. Mom kisses you for goodnight and finally she can rest. All this little things happens around you every day. You won't even notice how empty your world will be without your mom. So now you can hug her and tell that you love her. Do it now!

Jelonek

It's been a long time since I've read my last note. I know, I completely forgot about it because last week I had TEST EVERY SINGLE DAY. So... Let me tell you about...

Michał Jelonek.

People in Poland used to say we don't have the real musician in our country. If you're thinking the same, I have to introduce you someone really genious. And he doesn't play the guitar!

Michał Jelonek is a polish violinist who has been working with many rock, metal and folk bands. In 2007 he released his first so-called-solo album - Jelonek. Why "so-called-solo"? Because he doesn't play solo! He has a band composed of really good musicians, who usually plays some hard music.  You must wonder How violin metal sounds? If you like bands like Apocalyptica, Jelonek will be great for you. You can find on this LPs a lot of his own compositions, but also many classical covers (in fact he's an absolvent of the Musician Academy in Bydgoszcz), like Sabre Dance of Aram Khachaturian. I'd like to reccomend one of his songs from Revenge, second album from 2011 (by the way it's a little harder than the first album).

ViolMachine

Last week I was on his concert in Blue Note. The audience was really crazy, especially when they were dancing pogo. For me, Jelonek and his band were incredible, wild and - of course - genious. Violinist was using his instrument in many freaky ways - I mean ways I'll never do with my violin. In fact, they weren't just playing the music, they were acting it, having fun with all people and pushing them to do crazy pogo figures. Anyway, it was really great experience to enjoy the music with such energetic people. I can't wait for another concert!