**Update March 2012**

Hey everyone,

please watch this video... which will give you a quick update of what I have been up to. I am going to not be as frequently found on the blog due to my newest film project (also my first feature film I'll be directing!!!) I will keep you all updated on new developments, but because this is consuming most of my life right now, I can't commit to 10 songs a month. I will do my best to bring new stuff your way soon though! Keep checking back for new updates! And thank you for your continued love & support! xoxo!

-Mischa

Use Somebody

Okay.... last song for the three songs on the last day of February... seriously... this sucked.  I felt so stressed to finish on my deadline that I had to compensate and settle of mediocre sound quality since I recorded this on my iPhone. Anyway, I LOOOOOVE this song and had to finish Love/Hate month with it.

Just to fill you in if you didn't read my last two blog posts... I have been having tons of issues with technology. Apparently we should be on a "break" because this relationship is not all its cracked up to be:
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I had some crazy issues getting my last three songs up. Since my iMovie is being stupid I decided to use my mini HD camera from my college film school days. I got really excited and decided I could import the footage into iMovie and still upload it... Nope, wrong... turns out the firewire cable to my camera is so old it doesn't work in my current mac computer... so I decided to pull out my old mac... it fit but low and behold the software is so old I can't even download iMovie to it. Feeling defeated I decided to import it completely from my iPhone... so the quality isn't grand but at least I am finished on schedule. That's the whole story. I have no idea what i am going to do with this iMovie dilemma... if you have any ideas PLEASE shoot them my way... I am desperate!
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Songs for next month? Questions? Concerns? Ideas? Dreams? Fancies? Share 'em and let me know what should be just around the corner. :)

Song 10 of 10 complete.


-Mischa

Alibi

Okay... I apologize in advance for the poor quality but I was desperate to finish my ten by the end of the month so even though its not the grandest quality at least I meet my deadlines.


Anyway, to brief you, in case you didn't read my last blog this is what happened:
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I had some crazy issues getting my last three songs up. Since my iMovie is being stupid I decided to use my mini HD camera from my college film school days. I got really excited and decided I could import the footage into iMovie and still upload it... Nope, wrong... turns out the firewire cable to my camera is so old it doesn't work in my current mac computer... so I decided to pull out my old mac... it fit but low and behold the software is so old I can't even download iMovie to it. Feeling defeated I decided to import it completely from my iPhone... so the quality isn't grand but at least I am finished on schedule. That's the whole story. I have no idea what i am going to do with this iMovie dilemma... if you have any ideas PLEASE shoot them my way... I am desperate!
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So if you have any suggestions to help me out of this crap-hole of technology failing me please let me know!

I have wanted to do this song forever... have a mad crush on Jared Leto and those gorgeous eyes of his. Anyway, when technology and I are back to being friends I will probably redo this song to fully do it justice because the sound quality isn't that awesome since it was recorded on my iphone. Alas, I do the best I can.


What should next month's songs be? Send your ideas my way... :)

Song 9 of 10 complete! :)


-Mischa

Dream A Little Dream Of Me

I adore this song... it's simply perfect and was perfect for love month since the whole song is about not wanting to leave a lover's embrace because it's so wonderful. *Le Sigh...* hehehe....

But seriously, my favorite performances of this song are: Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (the duet is perfect), and Dean Martin with his incredible vibrato. So charming.

So I decided this absolutely had to be done. :)

I had some crazy issues getting my last three songs up. Since my iMovie is being stupid I decided to use my mini HD camera from my college film school days. I got really excited and decided I could import the footage into iMovie and still upload it... Nope, wrong... turns out the firewire cable to my camera is so old it doesn't work in my current mac computer... so I decided to pull out my old mac... it fit but low and behold the software is so old I can't even download iMovie to it. Feeling defeated I decided to import it completely from my iPhone... so the quality isn't grand but at least I am finished on schedule. That's the whole story. I have no idea what i am going to do with this iMovie dilemma... if you have any ideas PLEASE shoot them my way... I am desperate!

Song 8 of 10 complete.

-Mischa

Love

I adore Nat King Cole. I grew up on a lot of his wonderful songs while spending many of my childhood days at my grandparents house. I even still to this day play a lot of my grandpa's Nat records he saved for me.

I received some interesting messages on my youtube account the last couple weeks with people pointing fingers that I must be "altering" my voice to be able to do so many different genres.... so I decided to set the record straight after the third comment on it and decided to show what I sound like all natural.... no makeup.... no cuts... no nothing but an a cappella cover of Nat's classic "Love."

I figured I would nip it in the bud and squash any doubts people may have about what I can and cannot sing. So I decided to show the different sounds I can make within one song. I couldn't let February pass without doing this song... it's a classic for goodness sake! :)

Anyway, I had a great recording of "Use Somebody" but couldn't bring myself to upload it since the sound wasn't syncing up right with the video -_- But I did discover my mic isn't to blame... its my iMovie program... so I have 3 songs to do tomorrow to finish on deadline... I am actually going to try recording through my HD camera.... importing it into iMovie and seeing if the quality and syncing is any better. I hope so.... this is getting a tad frustrating.

Song 7 of 10 complete.

-Mischa

Wait For You

Okay... I love this song, always have... but I never expected to do a cover of it. It kind of happened by accident. See, what happened was I was actually recording a Kelly Clarkson song and when I played back the recording I realized the sound was out of sync with the video which was seriously frustrating because I had a perfect take (grrrr....) and because I am a perfectionist I ended up deleting it because I was so upset about the messed up audio to video.

So.... this song got recommended to me on the sidebar of youtube videos and I took it as a SIGN.... with my burned out vocals I did this song and my range was surprisingly lower than it usually is (probably from being overworked). Anyway, I decided to do one take and see how it came out... PRESTO! Not only was the audio good but the syncing with the video was perfect... Okay... I get it... Kelly Clarkson isn't on the setlist for tonight... maybe tomorrow, if my mic permits it.

But I seriously wish Elliot Yamin would make some new music soon! His voice is too beautiful for him to fall into the background somewhere. Hope you like my: wham-bam-one-take-this-better-come-out-good.

Song 6 of 10 complete. More to follow soon... with or without mic. But hopefully with. :)

-Mischa

Every Time We Touch

I have a secret guilty pleasure... I love music that makes you move. So it shouldn't surprise you that I love Cascada! She is awesome and her music makes you happy and want to dance... well, at least it has that effect on me. :)

Anyway, I decided to do the slower version for my cover because people have been requesting some more ballad stuff in the spirit of love/love-hate month for February!

Only a few days left to get those votes in! What should next month's theme be? It's basically right around the corner... shoot some ideas my way!

Song 5 of 10 complete!

-Mischa