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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Summer Pick Of The Week - BOOK

Hello !

We hope that your summer days are going well so far! And today we are going to tell you what book is our Summer Pick Of The Week.

“Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.” 
― Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea

Yes, yes, it is The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway! He is my favorite American writer and this book was his first one i read and is sort of "classic" for me.

A perfect book for your summer days on the beach (i hope) or just those relaxing moments. For everyone who loves and lives the sea.

“Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old he is, he thought. Never have I had such a strong fish nor one who acted so strangely. Perhaps he is too wise to jump. He could ruin me by jumping or by a wild rush. But perhaps he has been hooked many times before and he knows that this is how he should make his fight. He cannot know it is only one man against him, nor that it is an old man. But what a great fish he is! He took the bait like a male and he pulls like a male and his fight has no panic in it. I wonder if he has plans or if he is just as desperate as I am?” 
― Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea

(is it time to go to the beach yet?) While i am writing this, i am looking at the ocean. It is one of it's best blue days. There is no boundaries between the ocean and the sky. Only shades of blue and white caps.

In the meanwhile we are presenting you our new "Friend" - a new piece of equipment. It is called Reverb Tank by Fender. We'll see what kinda jokes it got for us. It is specifically made for "surf" guitar sound and this is sound we are going for. Super excited to experiment with it.






We have been writing new songs! And in the latest one that 'came" to us the chorus is "mermaid is my girlfriend" :0 ! ha! i like it very much, it is cool and melodic and very catchy! (i've been singing it all morning today)

All the best, and
till the next post!!!

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Glen Landing And The Snowboarding Opossum

Hello!

Today we are going to reveal the connection between GL and The Snowboarding Opossum. No, it is not our opossum :( and we did not shot that video :( BUT

our new song is called "Pizza Without" - it is funny! And this opossum inspired us while writing lyrics!

The song depicts a TRUE story!!!!
and this is what happened - here is sneak pick of the lyrics:

Pizza Without  - by Glen Landing

Band practicing on Wednesday night
Got excited for a pizza slice
And Scott said he doesn't like pepperoni!
I said WHAT??! WHAT?! WHAT?!!!!

What's pizza's like without -
PEPPERONI!!! PEPPERONI!!

What's pizza's like without -
PEPPERONI!!! PEPPERONI!!

Posted on my facebook page
See what my homies had to say
it went viral like THE SNOWBOARDING OPOSSUM!!!!
They said WHAT?!WHAT?! WHAT?!!!!

What's pizza's like without -
PEPPERONI!!! PEPPERONI!!

What's pizza's like without -
PEPPERONI!!! PEPPERONI!!

Pizza without pepperoni
Is like koala bear without eucalyptus
It's like glen landing without Fender Rhodes
It's like Justin :0 without Bieber!!!!

Here it is! You can catch us jamming & dancing out to this song at our live shows :)))
And do you guys like pizza with pepperoni?!

Here are some shots from you from our show at Gloucester Township Day!!

Our drummer Scott, the one who DOES NOT like pepperoni! (;





Specail guest Rich Quick, awesome !!!!



Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Snowboarding Opossum = Summer Pick Of The Week - VIDEO

Hey Yall!!

Happy hump day :) and happy warm June Wednesday!

Today we are presenting you a Video - Our summer pick of the week! And it is featuring a snowboarding opossum!!



Isn't he adorable!!!! With a pass from Burton and his lime and blue striped sweater?
Did you guys know that opossum is the North America's only marsupial (have a pouch) mammal? Yes, babies live in a pouch until they are 2-3 month old, and then they are carried on mom's back for another few month. Opossum's only form of defence when attacked or scared is to open his mouth wide and show all his teeth (as you see in a video in the beginning :)  or play dead... That's about it, well, it's not good at defending itself :)))))
Anyway, with that amazing pink tail that he hangs on by, and pink nose, and pink feet  - we love these animals!!!

Well, what does a snowboarding opossum has to do with Glen Landing? You are probably asking this question.

Well, friends, that will be our next post tomorrow!!! We'll answer this question in our next blog post. The clues will be revealed and the truth will come out!!!!

All the best!
WE HOPE YOU LIKE THE VIDEO! cause we LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!



Sunday, June 3, 2012

Our Show At Gloucester Township Day

Hello!!!

Fresh report here from our show yesterday at Gloucester Township day at Veterans Memorial park!

It was a great begging of the summer celebration! The weather was gorgeous, fresh breeze and sunshine all day. We had our tent and table set up with t-shirts and seal gear :) and we had two contests going on: a FREE guitar giveaway which was such a hit! and also a huge gar of bubblegum, and you could win it if you guess the exact amount of pieces of gum in it.

It was awesome to watch kids trying to figure out how many pieces of gum is there. They were doing math, using a "Pie" method (?!) to calculate, they even asked for a calculator. Anyway, for everyone who guessed, there were 289 pieces of gum!!!! Right before BubbleGum song we announced the winner. A little boy won and he was so happy!

We want to thank ALL our friends and family who came to he show!! Especially our number ONE fan Jeff Knorr, our friend and our first bass player Brian Oberg now of The Wooden Owls , Neeka Caplan, and little Holly Evans. The stage was awesome,  lot of equipment there (well, that's how we roll). Also we got our sound engineer there, Ethan Caplan  - thank you Ethan!!!!!

The highlight of the show was appearance of our special guest Rich Quick, and WOW he killed it !!!! we played two songs together, and the energy there was unbelievable. Check him out! He is so talented.


Also we were happy to play our two new songs - Pizza and DiscoTeka!!!!! All little girls were dancing and having good time! yeah, that's what we want!

Just before our Pizza song we announced who won the guitar. And then a little rock star was born! you should see the excitement on the boy's face when he was running to the stage to get his prize!!!


GL and seals...
Seal shirt and Starr earrings that we sell at our shows 

My favorite quote by Walt Disney


Wishing you all the best!!!

Glen Landing

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Summer Pick Of The Week: VIDEO by The Movement

Hello friends!

Hope you guys are doing ok this Tuesday after such crazy weeeek-eeend!!
Ania is here, and hope you all feel good.

We had a chance to spend this week-end in Ocean City MD <3 and hang out there with our lovely friends   Josh Swain, Gary Dreddd aka DJ Gold, Jay Smiles, and Jonny Keys of The Movement.

Dann busy checking da phone under the palm trees

We know that so many things happened and it is not necessary to express my opinion about it. All i can say is I had really good time. We had a blast at Seacrets Jamaica USA !!! The Movement "MVMT" played there, and it was AWESOME!!! Dancing, palm trees, sand, warmth, ritas, and dancing, dancing again!

So today our Summer Pick of The Week is the VIDEO of a song Habit by the Movement, one of my favorite songs. And it is a live video, the way that i first met them and saw them playing live.

You guys are my true inspiration, and i have no doubt we'll hear more from you. All things do happen for a reason and there are great things to come. As for me, i'll be glad to  see myself at  GL+MVMT tour in Russia!! :)))) how fun will be that! (yeah, get ready,  Minsk and Russsss, we r coming!)

So, how do we know the guys and what is the connection between Glen Landing and The Movement? Well, my first memories of Jay and Gary are very vivid. I met them right at the beginning of my journey in America, and i kinda grew up with them here. Yeah, our first Glen Landing shows were  together with The Smiles Project with Jay on guitar and singing, and Garrr on drumz. It was fun. And then we met Josh when Jay and Garr joined The MVMT. Instant connection and i feel Josh is our closest friend!!! I remember Dan saying "I feel hair standing up on my arms when i hear him sing..." This says it all.

So to you guys, to music, to inspirations, dreams, and summer days that are waiting for us!!!



As for GL, we are getting ready for the Gloucester Township day when we are going to play before the  fireworks. Stay tuned as I am going to take you inside the preparations for the event. We are very excited and are planning lots of AWESOME stuff, like a FREE guitar giveaway by GL!!

All the best, Ania and GLEN LANDING

P.S.

Hmmm, a Beach club or a Night club?

Thursday, May 24, 2012

We Present: Summer Picks Of The Week by Glen Landing

Hello friends!!!

Ania is here, on behalf of Glen Landing - an ambassador of news, events, and spirituality!

Today i would like to start a new trend on GL blog for this summer. We are going to establish three categories as our "Summer Pick of The Week".
First, it will be a BOOK of the week, a book that i read and i really liked and i suggest you if you like reading. It will be probably more Russian literature, but i will try to be diverse.
Second, it will be a VIDEO of the week. We are going to share with you a video that caught our attention and impressed us the most this week.
Third, and of course, it will be a BAND of the week. We learn about new and existing bands all the time and will feature the bands that we like and hope you might like as well.


Today i would like to start with the first "Pick of the Week - A Book" we are presenting to you "Dark Alleys" by a Russian author Ivan Bunin.

"Dark Avenues" (or Dark Alleys, or Temnie Allei in Russian) is a collection of short stories by a Noble Prize winning Russian author Ivan Bunin written in 1937-1944, mostly in France. The first 11 novels were published in New York USA in 1943. The book's full version ( 27 stories added to first 11) came out in 1946 in Paris. This Bunin's masterpiece is "devoted entirely to the concept of love". This stories are romantic, vivid, sometimes sad, but absolutely marvelous! A perfect reading for this holiday weekend (Memorial Day weekend here in USA), especially while sitting on the beach, accompanied by the sounds of waves.

Here is a link to amazon if you wish to purchase this book in English. And here is an electronic version of the book in Russian (that thanks to our great Google can be translated into English or ANY other language on spot there!!!!)


Glen Landing wishes you great weekend and 


WE ARE INVITING YOU TO SPEND THIS FRIDAY NIGHT WITH US!!!

yes, we are playing this Friday, May 25th, on South Street in Philly, at Legendary Dobbs.

304 SOUTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19147  •  215.501.7288




The place is amazing! This is the stage where NIRVANA played!!! (there is even a DVD with their live performance) along with so many other great bands including Tool, Green Day, Incubus and etc.!!!
The walls are covered with different posters and it just sends shiver down your spine!!


Here is a video of Nirvana playing at DOBBS!!!!! (wooooowwww! gotta pinch myself!! Kurt WAS PLAYING on the same stage... )


It is an honor for us to play there too!!!!!

So hope to see you guys there!!!!!

Sincerely, Ania
and Glen Landing

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

A Big Reveal!

HELLO!

Right away - our big announcement:

TA-DAAAA!!!

We are going to perform at Gloucester Township day on Saturday, June 2nd at Gloucester County park ! It is free, it is all ages, it is FUN!!!!!

We are going on at 8pm right before the fireworks!

Also we are going to be there all day at our little stand, and have cool things going around, including
a free guitar!!!!! ruffle! also you can win a watercolor painting of our baby seal and if you guess how many pieces of bubblegum there are in the box - you will get 'em all! And of course some colorful new tees, including tees specially designed and handmade for girls!

We can't wait till the event and we are going to play a few new songs, including our new super jam "PIZZA WITH", and a new dance puppy "DISCO!"




AND again, here is our tune for you guys, BubbleGum, if u didn't hear it yet :))