kalhan’s Neighborhood

ENGLISH

Hello everyone ! I'm on the site called akamusic. The goal is to produce a CD single (3 tracks) that will be sold. Everyone can become one of my producers and earn money. My page is :

http://en.akamusic.com/MATT_SPRINGFIELD

It's easy : everyone can buy parts (1 part = 5 euros) and then will get a signed CD and 40% of the sales income, depending on how many parts you bought.

Important : At any time, you can get your money back if you decide !
Cheers !
Matt

FRANCAIS

Hello à tous ! ça va?

Vous connaissez tous Grégoire qui s'est fait produire par les internautes (C'est lui qui chante "Toi+Moi").

Du coup, je me suis inscrit sur akamusic avec l'espoir de faire un disque. Ce site permet aux internautes de produire leurs artistes préférés.

Le principe est simple : tout un chacun peut acheter des parts (1 part = 5 euros) ce qui lui permettra de recevoir un exemplaire du CD signé, ainsi que 40% des recettes nettes des ventes et des passages radios, TV, ... au prorata du nombre de parts achetées.

Important : A tout moment, vous pouvez vous faire rembourser vos parts.

Je vous propose donc de me retrouver, si le concept vous intéresse, et de me produire sur ma page ci-dessous :

http://www.akamusic.com/MATT_SPRINGFIELD

Je compte sur vous !

Bonne journée à tous !
Matt

I'll clear up a few things before I tell you what's been happening recently!

College Schmollage

I did end up leaving school after my "Sophomore Slump" post. I know what you're thinking, "What an idiot!" Well, I'm not completely irresponsible!

Now

I took the semester off to look for a job, then just recently I was hired back to my old job. I applied the other day for a local university that has a new music program! Woohoo! I'm pumped to go back! I'm living back at home, which I feel kind of lame for, but I'm going to try to find a second job so I can afford an apartment (My friend, Calculator Girl, is in the same boat right now.).
I also picked up my guitar again and I'm getting fairly good at it. I don't feel I need to be awesome, but I enjoy singing along to my guitar whether it's an original song or the newest (or any) song out on the  radio.
Drove my sister to Columbus this past Wednesday for some insurance test she had to take for her new job. I'm one of those people who have to have the window down ripping through my hair if it's super nice out. I also hang my arm out the window. That explains the massive sunburn on my left arm! The sun was hitting it all day. I work at a Grocery store where old ladies always feel the need to rub my arm. Enough said!

Scary Slice

So my family decided to have a cookout yesterday, because my mom had to work today (Memorial Day). Well, my mom decided to bring her mom some pasta salad she had made and while she was gone my dad started to prepare the food to bring out to the picnic table. All of a sudden I hear, "Oh, SHIT!" I ran into the kitchen to see what had happened and he explained that he sliced his finger open while cutting onions (which is weird because my mom was cutting onions earlier that day for another dish and thought that she had cut her finger). He said that he felt like he was going to pass out so he went and sat down. I noticed that he started sweating profusely and I ran and got him a cold towel. When I turned around he had gotten up and walked into the dining room table. He was sitting half-way on a chair and rocking back and forth. I asked him what he was doing with laughter in my voice because I thought he was joking. My dad has never passed out from seeing blood ever. I remember one time he ran a carpet knife right into his leg and it hardly phased him. My dad started to turn pale and I tried to readjust him on his seat. I couldn't, I'm a strong girl, but his entire body was limp. Then his eyes rolled back into his head and he made a weird moaning sound and then a noise that sounded like he was going to throw up everything he had ever eaten. This freaked me and my sister out and she called 9-1-1, but she didn't think it went through, so she hung up and ran to get her cell phone. All this time I had been yelling, "Dad, can you hear me... Dad." Olivia walked in and was about to press send and I yelled, "DAD." Startled, he answered "What?" Like nothing had happened. "Are you okay? We're going to call an Ambulance." "No, don't I'm fine." My sister shuts her phone and goes to the house phone again to call my grandma's to see if my mom was still there. She wasn't. She was tanning (She had gone to my Grandma's and then tanning. She never tells us, because she knows we hate that she tans). My sister called her cell and got a hold of her. After she hangs up, the phone rings. It's an EMT calling to see if everything was okay. We told them it was, but they still ended up sending an officer out to check it out.
My dad thinks that the medication he was on for tendinitis in his arms (it had been making him feel weird) was the cause for the weird reaction, but I'm not so sure it was. I feel like it might have been a mild stroke, but he swears it wasn't. It was the most bizarre and scary thing I've ever seen him do. He says he feels fine now, it's been a day, but I'm going to be keeping an eye on him just in case.

Summertime Singing

I went to a friends bonfire and one of my other friend's twin brother wanted me to sing for some reason. I get nervous when I sing in front of fans but if I'm singing for a total stranger, I'm fine--weird, I know! So he wanted me to sing to all these songs I didn't know and then he said, "sing some Taylor Swift." Now, I like her songs, but I thing the songs that I write are much better suited for my voice then her songs. I told him I could sing one of my songs A Capella and I did. I was so relieved when they said they liked it! One kid even said something about having an "Angelic Voice, baby-cakes!" He was most likely drunk. I've never heard him say "baby-cakes" when he is sober!
I was pleasantly surprised at how fun the party was! I hadn't spoken to a lot of the people that were there in ages!
Oh, I also hit a possum that night, but I was going about 5 miles an hour and didn't get him with the wheel, so there's a good chance he's still out there somewhere! I wasn't drunk--I'm the designated driver every time!

I'm going to have to start writing on vox again! I miss it!

  College. Not a requirement for all jobs, yet I still feel scared that I wouldn't get anywhere without it. I'm in a bit of a slump right now. Maybe because I'm finishing up my pre-requisites and haven't started any classes that have to do with my major, maybe because I'm not sure what my major will be, or maybe I just don't want to be in college. I'm not sure. It's only my Sophomore year, but I don't want to get up to my Senior year and ask myself, "Why the hell did I go through all of that?".
  I don't feel like going to classes anymore or even leaving my apartment and I'd rather go home on the weekends than stay and hang out with friends. I rarely study for tests as well--there's no motivation there. I don't know why I feel this way. I feel bored with life. Maybe a little depressed. Not sure what to do. My mom asked if I wanted to go back next semester, which is quickly approaching, and I told her yes. I'm just scared of disappointing my family. Plus, my housing contract is already for the next semester... $8,000 down the drain if I don't finish this year.
 

  Wow, It's been a long time since I've written on Vox. I kind of feel like I've abandoned--I didn't even remember having a Vox account until I received an e-mail about someone adding me to their neighborhood. I'm going to try to write here more often. I know it helped alleviate some stress last year!
  I don't know if anyone actually reads my posts, but I promise you, if there is a "you", that I will try to write here more often!

This is the new version of my song 'Things I've Said'. It has been mastered in New York City by Tom Durack who worked with B-52's (Loveshack), Lou Reed, They Might Be Giants to name a few.

THINGS IVE SAID MP3tom durack master

MATT SPRINGFIELD

ma nouvelle chanson, en français :

my new song in french :

MATT SPRINGFIELD - MA CYBERGIRL

What's the best photo you took this year?  Show and tell!

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I took this picture of my friends at a local "hole in the wall" diner. It was our Senior Year (2007) and we all went out to breakfast on President's Day! It was a blast. I think it really captures our randomnes and craziness! And I love that Rachel (bottom left) couldn't keep a straight face!