What a good, good night. Sang for the 4th of July party with the finalists from Akademi. Was within shoe-throwing distance of Berisha and Topi, and nut-kicking distance away from Edi Rama. Unfortunately neither type of violence was executed, but eh ( Read more... )

Guys, I am as depressed as I have ever been. I am REALLY REALLY down right now. I don't want to leave here. I have an awesome girlfriend, I have friends, and if I wasn't leaving, I'd have SO MUCH OPPORTUNITY in the Albanian world of music. When I go back to the States, I'll have friends, and I'll have a job, and even an apartment! But as far as ( Read more... )

Lots of shit. Got eliminated ages ago, but I wound up going on this show called "E Diela Shqiptarë", which means "Albanian Sunday". Lip-synced. All the finalists and I were there. I was eliminated in the semi-finals, but I won 'best rocker' on Akademi, so they had me on the show anyway ( Read more... )

HEY GUYS I GOT ELIMINATED ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT! :D So did Labi, actually. We tried to look disappointed, I swear.

BAHAHAHAHA THAT IS A FUCKING LIE WE WERE GRINNING SHAMELESSLY

Also everybody in the semifinals got a free skateboard from Pepsi, and I am SO not giving my uniform back to Akademi, and yeah basically I rock everything forever.

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DAY 87Reconciled with Labi, sang my shit. I left with Nita's family around 8 (they are hellof nice ( Read more... )

Sup guys, Albania has a suspected case of swine flu. This is gonna be fucking fun, nobody covers their fucking mouths when they cough and nobody washes their hands or does any basic disease-prevention shit. AWESOME!

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DAY 86 (before today's taping)

GUYS GUYS GUYS I won my battle last night, and now I am officially in the semifinals.

Repeat: I'M IN THE FUCKING SEMIFINAAAAAAALSDownside: Ardiana got eliminated. Fucking sucks. She is such a sweet girl and everybody hated to see her go. It's gonna suck to not have her around. She wasn't upset about leaving the show ( Read more... )

Uhhhhh fuck it I kinda forgot to update over the last week. Nothing cool happened on the show, really. Donika (mine) burned my arm with her cigarette accidentally like two days ago. And I don't have to sing that Elton John song anymore. I'm singing "In My Place" by Coldplay instead. Everybody's singing their own "choice" of song this week. 'Cept I ( Read more... )

DAY 77

Rehearsal. Couldn't finish the song the second time through, had to sit down. Shitttttttt. Didn't even get to see Donika, wtf. Had to go home early, we called the doctor over, he made a house call. He decided to run some blood tests.

DAY 78Woke up, did the blood tests. Big shocker, I couldn't even make it 5 minutes through rehearsal today ( Read more... )