What's up?!  Hmm.... things in my life have been pretty amazing lately!!  My website www.sarahdylan.com is under construction and should be ready soon.... I went to EMI studios and recorded vocals and guitar for six of my bestest songs :) Don't know what the finished product will sound like yet.... I don't really know what I want my music to be...hmmm this is such an exciting process.... 

What else?  um... I'm done school for the semeter and I just registered to do 3 courses online next semester so I can have tons of time to do my own thing... practice piano/guitar/singing lessons/hip-hop class and all that fun stuff !! yay!!  this is all amazing stuff... I'm only going to have to go to like, one day of class each week which is kind of amaaazing and I'm still doing everything that I need to do to get my BCOMM.... haha it's so funny that I'm doing the school thing, but like I really just want to write songs lol education is important too though..... this way I can't really get screwed over in the music business.... i'm actually reading a book called "everything you need to know about the music business" - pretty awesome stuff.... aah yay! i'm also going to have a ton of time to read.... lol this is amaaazing... I'm very happy ;)

.... anyway... I saw second city last week... it was pretty amaazing.... last night I went glow in the dark mini-golfing... it was pretty awesome.... um... had a bunch of really good dinners lately..... family birthdays and such.... 

lol anyways.. EMI was so much fun..... we pretty much just joked the whole day... oh yeahh... i'm singing at massey hall in a charity concert next november, so i've been rehearsing for that ... doing a joni mitchell medley....she pretty much blows my mind !

Hope all's well!!!  Happy Holidays :)

Peace and Love Always,

Sarah Dylan   

So this week has been pretty crazy!! Um... let's see... I had an exam last thursday.... Info Tech Management yayy.. um.. I had two hours to write it and left after one, because it's no use going through a multiple choice exam and re-thinking answers.. cuz who knows if i'll change a right answer to a wrong one.... i also handed in my paper on "the sound and the fury" last thursday. good times... 

um.... my weekend was pretty fun... went to go see fiddler on the roof with my family for my mom's b-day... it was really good :P

what else?  well... life is pretty good... I went out for dinner to "house of chan" with my grandmother and music producer on sunday night!! um... it was very interesting haha oh man..... funny discussions about life and politics ... oh man...  

i had an my statistics exam on monday morning at 8AM...that was a little bit insane haha.... i didn't study for that at all.... well i study all semester and then i know my stuff for the exam.. there were two questions that i had NO CLUE how to do.. but hopefully I got the other 48 exactly right.. which would give me 96% haha just kidding... although i think i must have gotten an 80 which is not bad at all... can't wait to get all my marks...very exciting stufff!!!!  

anywayss... today was my first day off... and i woke this morning.. went to the kitchen and asked my brother.... "is it saturday..." haha he's like what planet are you on, it's tuesday... must have been the dream that i had.. like i really thought it was the weekend, probably because i'm done school.. but yeaaah it was pretty funny....

hmm... what else?  well..... im going to EMI this sunday to record songs for my EP ... yay!!!!!

... also, i rearranged my room today and got rid of old stuff, so that was pretty awesome.... still working on going through stuff actually..... should try to get organized.. think i'll finish that tonight, and i'm going to the art gallery tonightttt!!!

happy holidays!!!!! 

Peace and Love always,

Sarah Dylan 

Sooo... this week has been a little bit crazy... i've been very emotional for some reason... aah!!

Um...I have to start trying to clear my head of negative thoughts!! Since I read the secret I've really been trying to be grateful for everything that I have.... but when there are negative things happening around me... it's a little bit difficult....oh well.... I definitely have amazing friends... and I'm very very lucky for that..... plus my family is really awesome so that helps too! :)

Hmm.. blogging actually helps my mood a lot!!

Anyways... I had an accounting exam this morning at 8AM at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre..... it was actually kind of cool to  walk through the skywalk from union station to the MTCC ..... tomorrow I'm writing a philosophy paper... about a book called "The Sound and The Fury" - William Faulkner.... it's actually quite an amazing book.... made no sense to me the first time because time flips back and forth without actually telling you haha and a lot of the characters have the same name.... so it's a little bit crazy.. but since I've been going to class and discussing the book... I actually find it really awesome.... I'm already getting a B+ in the course, so hopefully I'll write an awesome paper and keep my mark up for that course :)

aaah I have an exam on Thursday - info technology management - think it should go well....and then a statistics exam on Monday morning at 8AM ..... but then I'm done for the holidays... and I'm going to the recording studio on Sunday Dec 20th at EMI to record six of my bestest songs!!!! crazinesssss... i'm super stoked... I actually am very very lucky... wow......  

aaah and I get to see my pictures from the photo shoot this week I think... hopefully they're great so that I can get awesome modelling jobs!!! that would be amaazing eh?

soooo.. this sunday I'm going for dinner with my friend/music producer james and my grandmother - she's such an inspiration to me wow 

soooo hmm.. what else.... well I've just been teaching a lot of music lately, as usual.... but I seriously love my job!!!!! all of my kids are so talented !!!  maybe i'm a bit biased.. but I don't really think so... I really think they're just awesome .... 

hmmm .. my life has just been weird... really cool things happening to me... but I'm super emotional.. in a negative/positive way... I think everything is just kind of balancing out - my dog at my favourite dress!!! haha like it has this really cool metal shoulder thing..... and he totally bit through it.. maybe i'll cut it and make it into a one-shoulder dresss!!!

aah this week is going to be a little bit crazy.... my dad's birthday tomorrow, mom's on saturday, stepdad's on monday.. so i better go out and get them lots of presents, they deserve it!!!  um.. yeah i'm seeing fiddler on the roof on saturday night... I will let you know how it was next week.. kind of random, i've actually been in it twice!!!!  

have a great rest of the week!

Peace and Love always,

Sarah Dylan

What's up?!!!  

oh man! .. my week has been absolutely crazy!!  sooo.... I had a meeting with this modeling agency called M-Models .... and I met with this really cool woman named Vanessa... and we were just talking about like what I want to do... and she saw on my resume that I teach music... so she was like.. oh yeah.. what do you teach.. and I told her that I sing... and she asked to hear.. so in the middle of the interview I belted out "I turn to you" by Christina Aguilera haha.... kind of random, but I totally impressed her..... because a lot of people say that they can sing.. but like.. I don't think she was expecting me to like actually sing that song well.. actually.. it is kind of tricky.. but it used to be my favourite when i was like 10 years old.. hah so anyhow... i got asked back for a second interview with a senior manager/model (so pretty) ... and at the end of the interview I got offered a contract!!!!! it's for 6 months and hopefully i'll have some sweet modeling jobs... they're paying for my portfolio, which is kind of insane! and aaaah I can't even believe it... except that I sort of can.... because.... after reading "the secret" ... it's really a little bit crazy like what's been happening in my life 

so the secret tells you to be grateful for what you're going to have in the future.. like you have to really believe that you already have what you want and then be greatful for it.. and really FEEL that you have it.... like aaah i encourage you all to try this because you really can have anything you want... everything I've asked for so far has worked!! 

so anyways... before my interview with the senior executive at mmodels.... I pretended in my head like i was already signed... and I was SO grateful that I had just been signed to this modeling agency.. like i really felt it .... so maybe that just made me more confident in the interview or something.. but i honestly felt so happy that i had ALREADy been signed.. and then when she offered me the contract... i was like AMAZED because "the secret" actually worked haha you can think that i'm crazy if you want to... but it seriously amazes me.. and now, every day when i wake up I am extremely grateful for everything that I've been blessed with in my life - because it's no use to think of anything negative that ever happened in my past - I just have to move forward and aaaah the secret is just so amazing... like it says that anything you can think of, you can do .... and aaaah lately i've been feeling very grateful that I've written a song that it's the top ten on itunes .... and that I've been getting more plays on myspace.. like a couple of days ago.... I thought to myself.... I really would love to have 50 plays on myspace tomorrow.. and I had 60!! and I usually only get 20/30 day.. which is still pretty cool that people are somehow ending up on my page and listening to my songs everyday... but aaaah can't wait for my photoshoot tomorrow...so excited!!! 

and i'm almost done school for this semester...only three exams... and one more class.. and i'm totally ready for my exams.. and then I can start working on my six song EP with James Robertson (best producer ever!!) - I'm stoked 

night night everybody!!

Peace and Love Always,

Sarah Dylan 

So..... hope you're enjoying the videos that I posted on youtube of some songs from the concert!!! yay!!

Aaah!!

So can anybody believe that it's almost December?!! How did that even happen?!!!

Ok well would you like to hear a little update on my life?  Um.... this week has been pretty crazy... a lot of schoolwork as usual... final exams in two weeks.. accounting, statistics, info-tech management plus a paper for my elective.... anyways.. I'm SOOO happy because I just wrote my online final exam for a course called Business 100 which basically just talks about study skills and transition to university..... and it was actually not that bad.... although I actually have really good study skills already.. but it was pretty inspiration/motivational and the prof is funny....

anyways... you need 40/60 on the exams and there were 50 multiple choice questions and then a 10 mark paper.... and I got 44/50 on the multiple choice, which means that I could have technically not written the paper.... because I only needed 40/60...and it's a pass/fail course... but I decided I would write the paper just to be safe, so I did.. and it was sweet... and yeaaaah I've been doing like really well in school lately.... maybe because I've been going to class?!!

aaah!!

Things are good on the music front as well.....

I'm meeting with James tomorrow.... last time that we're working onmy songs before we go into the studio !!! so crazy... that might actually be next wednesday.... 

next thing you know I'll be writing my blog on mondays !!.... I'm kind of crazy like that.... I'm the opposite of a procrastinator .... is there an opposite... let me know if you know what it is.... I just really enjoy getting things done and being busy... which is why I'm writing my wednesday blog on a Tuesday night... so I won't have to do it tomorrow..... not like I HAVE to do it.. you know what I mean... I enjoy writing the blog!!! kind of cool because I don't write in a journal or anything... and it's kind of sweet that I'm going to be able to look back on something to see what I was up to every week!!

hmmm ok anyways.. I'm SO excited for the winter holidays.. my last exam in on December 14th.... and then I'm off until January 4th... gives me a lot of time to work on my music which is like... super exciting!!

oh and I totally sent my pics to a couple of modeling agencies... kind of as a joke to see what they would say... and now I have a couple of meetings with modeling agencies which is sort of insane!!! like WHAT?  I think it would be sweet to print and stuff... a way to break into the entertainment industry.. like if I was in ad or something people would recognize me.. kind of like how katy perry was in that music video for her boyfriend before she got famousss..... what's that song... hmmm it will come to me eventually.... sooo yeah..... 

hip-hop was really sweet this week... I think we danced to brandy?  

hmm anyways.. i think i'm just going to drink tea and go to sleep... do accounting chpt. 11 in the morning.. and maybe info-tech management chpt. 5 and 6.. oh and finish a philosophy book? haha as if I'm going to be able to do all that .. but one can dream .... and I will do it eventually !!! 

have a great day!!

peace and love always,

Sarah Dylan  

Actually,  last saturday when I was there..... we were working on a song that I wrote called "Not Enough" and he was like O.K I think you should write a bridge... and sometimes.. I don't know why... I get into these little phases where I'm kind of scared of my music haha that might make no sense... but I love the song ... and I'm thinking like "how can i write a bridge that is equally sick" you know what I mean?? Like it's kind of tough to write a good bridge...but anyway within two minutes of me being so ridiculous.. and James was just like "do what you do" ... so I did haha I wrote like the sweetest bridge for that song... aaaah I can't wait until everybody can hear it like it's seriously such a good song and I know you will love it!!!!

 

So I'm playing a show at the Reverb tomorrow!! Crazy stuff!!! I'm playing seven songs.. made my set list .... it should be amazing!! I'm playing first, and then my friend Nathan's band "The Jayce" is playing after me.  They're SO talented! Nathan is a really great singer :)

If you're planning on being there..... you're in a great time !! 

So..... tomorrow is exciting because of the show, but also kind of stressful....but in a good way I think.... well.... I have Philosophy class from 10-12 (hmm maybe I'll get my paper back?), and I have Info Tech Management from 12-2 and then I'm getting my hair done at 2:30-3:30 - and then I'm going home to grab my guitar .. probably get home at 4, and then I'm leaving to go downtown and help Nathan with equipment aaaaah!!!  and I'm getting my makeup done at 6 at the Reverb... and I'm playing at seven fifteen!!! 

Does that leave any free time?  haha I don't think so.. but it's totally worth it because the show should be great!!! ... hmm hopefully I'll find time to eat at some point.... or maybe I'll just eat a good breakfast lol I'm just kidding.... hmmm I don't really know when I'm going to eat though, but oh well.

So I hope the weather is good tomorrow evening... so many people coming !!  ah!!!

I should probably go to sleep.... oh yeah so today I went to Indigo and bought a couple of books... and I got a membership card to Indigo... and apparently if you're a teacher you get a discounted membership card... so I told the lady that I teach music ... and she let me have a discounted membership lol 20$... and 10% of anything else I buy at Chapter's for the rest of the year.. and I like to read a lot, so that should pay for itself in the next year ! 

 

So... I wrote a new song.... don't think it's ready for the show tomorrow..... but I'll for sure try to record it to put up here for you to listen to .....

It's pretty sweet... just about how it's really important to live the life that you want to... and not really play by other people's rules.... something I'm kind of dealing with at the moment because I really want to be a musician/songwriter as my career!! ... and I'm going to do whatever I can to make that happen....

So anyways... I bought a book by steve harvey "talk like a woman, think like a man" haha kind of funny title...but it apparently helps you to understand boys better.. and a friend of my stepdad's said it would change my life ... so hopefully it will....

Also... everyone has been talking about "the secret" and people seem to find it life-changing ... so I might as well give it a try..... haha maybe one of those miracles will happen to me... like all those people who went on opera to talk about how the secret changed their life..... anybody see that last spring? kind of cool....

ok see you tomorrow!!!!!

Peace and Love always,

Sarah Dylan 

So.... just wanted to let you know that I'm playing at show this Thursday at the Reverb !! 651 Queen St. West, big purple building.. the corner of Queen and Bathurst ... 2nd Floor!!

I'm opening up for a band called "The Jayce".  My good friend Nathan is the singer in it...and he's literally like supernaturally talented! It's kind of unreal! 

I hope you can make it out!!!

Oh and check out my sweet pictures if you haven't already!!

Also.... did I really get 75 plays today? That's kind of insane!!!! 

I can't wait to start recording in a sweet studio... wow my songs are going to sound amaazing! hopefully you all are looking forward to that as much as I am!!

See you at the show! 

Peace and Love always,

Sarah Dylan

This week has been really exciting!!!!  

I got my pictures done last Wednesday :) Check my photos.... I put some of my favourites up... I'll probably put more up soon, so stay tuned!!!

Um.... I think they turned out like really really well.. I'm a very happy person at the moment. 

Also... some exciting news on the music front..... I met with a producer, James Robertson.. he produces Down With Webster ... and I played him basically all of my songs on the acoustic guitar... and he's going through them to pick his faves.... and then we're recording one at EMI studios!!! how crazzzzy is that?  He's also like, such a cool person I'm super-stoked to be working with him!!!

hmmm.... got back some of my midterm exams... (AH!!) I actually did pretty well...... although I didn't do so great in accounting... but I got like 8% more than the class average.... but I like to get A's and let's just say that I didn't get an A haha 

But I did do well in statistics... 92% yeaaaaaah

Although I really just want to be a musician and go on tour... but it does make me feel good to do well in school too.. and I study A LOT!!!

oh... also, last saturday I practiced a song that I wrote called "Nothing's Impossible" with a girl named Amanda Belzowski..... she does a a lemonade stand every year for the heart and stroke foundation and I wrote like the official lemonade stand song...... recorded it last may in my little studio.... but we're going to a professional studio to make the song "radio ready" this Sunday.. so that's pretty exciting!!

wow I'm so happy about the time change..... I've been waking up super early and going to bed early ...because on my old schedule.... it was like bed at midnight and up at eight thirty..... but since the time change... I haven't gotten used to it, so I've been waking up at 7:30 and going to bed at 11 ..... I feel like waking up early gives me lots more time to do music/studying/hanging out with friends .. and I even went to an early 8AM accounting class yesterday.....and I plan on going every week until the final exam... only like 5 times, not so bad and my accounting teacher is pretty cool.... 

although yesterday because it was kind of early..... i kept on calling out like completely wrong answers....and i really do know the right ones... hahah he was like "what's the normal balance of an expense T account" and i yell out like Credit like it's obvious... but for some reason... i was thinking of revenue... because revenue has a credit normal balance.... but yeah the answer is Debit and I felt kind of stupid .. because the class is pretty big..... but actually.. it was kind of empty ...

anyways... i'm going to eat breakfast.... then my boss/guitar teacher is coming over... i think we'll probably just talk about music stuff ... so excited to tell him all of my newssss 

aaaah this week I have like 4 new students... i'm now teaching on friday and sunday's too.... 6 days a weeek..... i like it though... teaching music is like my relax time ... so much fun.... yay!!  

hopefully i'll have more news afterwards.....ooh and I got a "Sarah Dylan" logo made by the people that are doing my website.. and it's seriously SO sick... like it's unreal... and I think I'll post the pic nowww... check that out eh?

Peace and Love always,

Sarah Dylan

So I'm very very excited because I'm getting professional pictures done today!!!! AAAAH!!

My photographer is Denise Grant, she's SOOOO good!!

Last time I had pictures done with her they turned out amazingly.... but that was 4 years ago.... and I definitely have  a new look now... so it's time for new ones!!

I'm getting my pics done at at 11AM this morning, should be superduper fun!!

..... still not done my midterms.. statistics this friday.. but that's my last one, and my midterms haven't been going too badly....at least I think they haven't!! I'll have to wait to get them back and find out how I actually did... although one of them was online and I already got my mark back and it was pretty good !!!!

Oh and I also wrote a 6 page philosophy paper yesterday about Heidegger, and "The Death of Ivan Ilych"..... it's actually a really great short story if you ever want to read it!!

hmmmm so yeah I've just been teaching lessons, studying.... and picking outfits for the pictures this week!!!  

Oh and I met with James Robertson.... he's a really awesome producer ... check out "Ashes" from Toronto, he produces her, and her songs are really great !!!!

.... meeting again with him this Sunday and playing him like all my songs and picking one to record! aaaaaah!! such exciting stuff happening right now!!!

I'm really excited for Halloween!! Probably just taking my little brothers trick-or-treating :)

I should go get dressed and try to fit all of my outfits onto 1 bag.... I also want to do some pictures with my guitars...... it's going to be kind of crazy... a lot of stairs, and me carrying 2 guitars and a huge bag of clothes....hmmm think I'll have to do two trips hehe

See you next Wedensday!!

Peace and Love,

Sarah Dylan