I’m having this competition with Nicole on who is writing the last formal post first.
The one who loses have to treat the other one on a lollipop.

Here it goes.

My second and last formal post is about a great musician with the name Adam Young, known to most people as Owl City. Owl City is mostly synthpop but with influence of alternative rock and electronica.

Because he uses the name Owl City many people think it’s a group and not a single person as it actually is.

He was unknown to most of Sweden’s population until late 2009, when his song “Fireflies” started playing on the radio. I've heard him for the first time, in one of Mitchell Davis youtube videos in 2008.

Adam Young started his career on his own and released his first EP, Of June, in 2007. The year after he released another album on his own, Maybe I’m Dreaming, and in 2009 he signed with the major record label called Universal Republic. With their help he released his third album, Ocean Eyes.

Owl City is not the only musical project Adam Young has, but it’s the most popular one.

His other projects are Port Blue, Windsor Airlift, Insect Airport and Seagull Orchestra.

The majority of his song with these side-projects is entirely constructed from the sounds of a synthesizer and no accompanying lyrics.

He has created extremely great song with all his projects, but the song “Apple” with Insect Airport is my favourite right now. “Fireflies” with Owl City is my least favourite because I here it everywhere and most people just listening to that song. They miss out on greater songs of him. “Fuzzy blue lights” and “The Saltwater Room” for instance.

I hate that I have no inspiration to write here. I am writing one post right now, I don't mean this one, but it's just too short to post.

The only thing I’ve done this last week was watching movies and studying.

So I’m just going to write about some of my favourite movies. My absolute favourite movie is Keith but I’ve already written a little about that movie so I’m skipping that.

Another favourite movie is directed by Jeffrey Blitz and is called Rocket Science. It’s about a stuttering boy called Hal Hefner that gets recruited to the schools debate team by Ginny, who lost the state tournament thanks to her partner that got blank right under the debate.

I don’t know why I love it, but it’s so different to many other movies I’ve seen. And you can’t do anything else than feel extremely bad for Hal. (You'll know why when you watch it)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, directed by Michel Gondry, made me happy to know that Jim Carrey actually can do other movies than extreme comedies.

The movie is about Joel and Clementine. They broke up and Clementine erased every memory she had with Joel. When Joel found out, he wanted to do the same. But as he watched all the memories fade away he realized he still loves her and don’t want to lose her.

This movie is just perfect, bizarre and wonderful. I don’t know how to describe it.
I’m just astonished that Jim Carrey could play such a serious part, he’s an amazing actor!

Another movie you should watch is a John Hughes classic 16 candles, John Hughes 80's movies are the best high school movies ever.

A movie I can't leave out is 500 days of Summer, I love how they say in the beginning that it's not a love story but I still didn't believed it. It made me cry. It made me hate Summer. And it has the most awesome soundtrack ever!

You should definitely watch these movies and if you already have, watch them again!

My subject for my first formal post is Independent film, or you could call it Indie film.

That is a film that is produced outside the major film business in Hollywood.

They usually don’t get the economic contribution the big studios get.

For some reason they appeal more to me than all the big Hollywood movies. I don’t know why, but those movies seem to have more “feeling” and depth than the big movies.

Maybe that’s because they don’t get the economic contribution and that they’re not able to film in the big studios. Because of that they might work harder for a movie and they often have actors/actresses you never seen or heard of before which makes it more "real”.

I do like the Hollywood movies too; they just don’t speak to me in the same way like the indie films.

Almost no indie film have the chance to be shown in the movie theatres; instead they’re shown in Film Festivals. Nowadays there is a lot of different Film Festivals all over the world.

One of them is Sundance Film Festival which is the largest cinema festival in the United States. Movies such as Saw, Napoleon Dynamite and the Blair Witch Project have been shown at the Sundance Festival.

One of the first independent films I saw was Keith, and it has become one of my favourite movies.

Keith was first shown at the Palm Beach International Film Festival in April 11, 2008.

I'm writing my formal post. I don't now when It'll be up though, coz I’m going away and I don't know if I'll have internet where I'm going. I'm coming home Wednesday night or Thursday I think, so around then maybe.

Good Bye, see you on Thursday.

Whoa, a representative from Explorius, an exchange student organization, just called and now I have a phone interview on Friday. That made me kind of nervous and excited. Nervous because I failed P.E. in 9^th grade and I'll be sad if that would be the reason I couldn't go.
I’m still excited though! Well, of course I'm excited, I'm always excited, not always but most of the time.

I'm scared of Friday now, but at the same time I can't wait for it so I'll now for sure. The representive said that I'll find out right away if I'm accepted or not.

Now I’m going to Google different states and see which I’m going to choose, if I’m going to choose one at all.

(I'm sounding like I'm already accepted, but I'm feeling like an optimist right now)

BYE

It feels weird to write in English. It feels weird to write a blog.

At the same time it feels fun and kind of a challenge.

I really need to think before I write. Both to it’s an English assignment and to that I’m not used to English, not in this way at least.

Well, what else?  I don’t know.

All the white and empty space is going away slowly, to slow I think. But I’m getting there!

It’s hard to blog when you have nothing interesting to blog about and no inspiration for anything either.

This is my first post, and I have no clue what this blog is going to be about, or maybe it’s not really needed to be about anything. I don't know.

Inspiration where are you?

Good Night, or something.

(a picture of Totoro to make everything confusing, and give this blog some colors)