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BLANCA

My new cd Butterfly Core now at butterflycore.com!

About Me

Hi I'm Blanca. Welcome!...My brand new 2008 record "Butterfly Core" is here at last!!! This new cd includes my song "Sugar Painted Valentine" (as featured on KROQ 106.7fm) along with nine other new songs, some of which are posted above. For cd's, Butterfly Core t-shirts and posters go to www.butterflycore.com. :)....For more fun stuff (such as my 2007 Love Sick cd, children's books and art posters..!) go www.lovesickblanca.com :) .....I write my own music and sing, play the piano and the guitar in my recordings as well as in my live shows......I also enjoy collaborating with fellow muscians and creative producers. My 2008 cd is produced in collaboration with Bryce Soderberg of Lifehouse, Tommy Walter of the EELS and Glacier Hiking, and Jason Moore of AM Radio.......I love LIFE, my family and friends, painting pictures, making books, learning new things and especially, LAUGHING :)!...I love dancing, having a good time in my hometown of Los Angeles, writing to you here; illustrating, recording, dressing up and working with creative photographers; I love rollerskating, feeling healthy and being happy.....THANKS everyone, for your beautiful comments, messages and amazing support...Love, Blanca :)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/23/2006
Band Website: lovesickblanca.com butterflycore.com
Band Members:

Get Love Sick... www.lovesickblanca.com
Influences: LOVE...my sis: Rose, our Mom-n-Daddy; Smally; REAL friends, fearless DREAMERS, fearless lovers, fearless likers; pretty enviornments, BOWIE, Buckley, Kate Bush, Lady Day, Pearl, Nick Drake, Freddy Mercury, Missy Elliot, Francois Hardy, Bacharach, Charo, Prince, Sugarhill Gang, JT, Justice, Pretenders, Roxy Music, ABBA, Carpenters, baroque decadence, romantic people..Rock-n-Roll, MOd, Motown, Classic Rock, Classic Rap, Classic Hip Hop, Trip Hop; Classic Disco...60's Beat Poets, 20's/30's Paris/Berlin cafe scene, Golden Era Hollywood, 70's GLAM, Halston, flavored lipgloss, strawberry perfume, dancing all night, Lawrence Welk Show, Lucent Dossier, Billy, Warhol, Belle & Sebastian; films: Once; Valley of the Dolls; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Romeo & Juliet; Marilyn Monroe, Mother Theresa, Frida, early Blues/Jazz, Mr.Rogers, Dr.Seuss, Dr.Dre, pianos & guitars, science & stars; Dali, Einstein, Hawking, butterflies, Mozart, vintage burlesque/tats, dark circus imagery, fairies, mermaids, flappers, rocks, seashells, shadows, music boxes with spinning plastic ballerinas inside, ghost & fairy tales, costume parties; great books, Sanrio, Blythe, Jackie Mag, Herb Alpert, Brady Bunch, Hitchcock, powder pink, baby blue, unicorns, doll houses, lightning, clowns, owls, vintage records & turntables, 45 inserts, cozy brick wall theatres; making books, recording music, painting pictures, sleeping, dreaming; the stars & city lights from my roof; masks, silence, buttons, braids; Schwinn cruisers, legos, R2D2, skateboards, hiphugger jeans, nuns, Vans, breakdancers, high fashion, low brow, good wine & food, expensive cheese; night swims, moonlight, bedroom eyes, rainy days, grey skies, all things comfortable & delicious, pillows, the cloud, happy tears, sad tears, wildly imaginative/funny people, slapstick, LABORS of LOVE, random acts of kindness, artists with integrity, family time, silly time, Pippy, striped leg warmers, beach bonfires, rollerskating on the beach boardwalk at night, laughing with friends 'til no sound comes out...that's the best music of all.
Sounds Like: My first record "Love Sick" sounds like: it's raining outside...on a Sunday morning, and you're cozy in bed, half-dreaming...My second record "Butterfly Core" sounds like...music box dancers rollerskating across moon beams...urban dreamscape shadows...night club kisses, broken doll teardrops...bicycle magic....and laughter. Love. Blanca :) Layout Provided By FreeCodeSource.com - Myspace Layouts
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My Blog

Deli Smiles and Flower Wishes.

Enjoyed a little butterfly celebration last night that was really fun. Posted two new pics of my evening at the world famous Canters Deli on Fairfax, with our wonderful Mayor of Sunset Strip, DJ Rodne...
Posted by BLANCA on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:31:00 PST

Just One Hour a day, ok?

I love writing poems for kids...especially when I'm waiting for the metro...or here at this table, after lunch. I have so many little poems in this tattered old notebook, a notebook that seems to be ...
Posted by BLANCA on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:17:00 PST

A HAPPY POEM that I just wrote to cheer....YOU!

A HAPPY POEMby Blanca***Hello Butterfly!How are YOU today?Is your heart ALIVE with LOVE?Are you running out, to play?Are there rainbows 'neath your feet?That will dance you down the street?Is there *s...
Posted by BLANCA on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:53:00 PST

I wrote a poem just now called "Little Life"

'Little Life'by Blanca Apodaca***It feels like a dream,A small and quiet dream,The kind you have on waking From a deep and distant sleep.And in these fragile days,Of whirling-honey laughter, I'm wrapp...
Posted by BLANCA on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:47:00 PST

Sunset Gypsy Spirit....

Went to ballet this morning. Afterwards, some of the dancers shot hoops at the basketball court....my teacher too. I walked home halfway...and then my friend drove by. I waved him down and he was swee...
Posted by BLANCA on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:50:00 PST

Wowzers!

Hello Butterflies!Thank YOU so much for your orders today...you really made my day! Thanks also for your thoughtful messages...I'm totally floored by the LOVE...!:)I hope you love listening to "Butter...
Posted by BLANCA on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:01:00 PST

Butterflies released... like a rainbow.... >i<

Yesterday I came home in the afternoon, and guess what I found at my doorstep? Ten boxes full of cd's!Butterfly Core is here!I dragged the heavy boxes inside and called my friend to come over to my ap...
Posted by BLANCA on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:32:00 PST

Forgotten Rainbows...

The butterfly on my cover was a rainbow at first (as you can see in the photos I've posted) but later I painted over it with baby blue paint instead, when I decided to make the letters of the title in...
Posted by BLANCA on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:17:00 PST

Home now from my Monday at M Bar...

So, Jason Moore , (hear him play guitar on B-Core track 'Tender & True') played a live show tonight at the M Bar here in L.A. with his former AM Radio band-mate Kevin Rydell. Their new duo band is cal...
Posted by BLANCA on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:13:00 PST

Photos of the painting days at my kitchen table...

Hey Loves!I've just posted some photos from when I was painting my cd cover...enjoy! I'm going out now ...gotta run but I'll write you tomorrow...much love...have a peaceful evening with good food and...
Posted by BLANCA on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:30:00 PST