ABOUT

 

Hi!

My name is Nikola. I am a 25-year-old oddball struggling to make it through this pandemic in the capital of Czech republic.

What am I doing here?

I am massive music fan! Before corona decided to flip us all off, I was basically living at live shows, planning trips all over Europe to see bands. My life was one huge countdown essentially. 

God, I miss that kind of stress. Like buying a ticket to a show on the other side of Europe with virtually no plan. Good times

Oh I am sidetracking... With COVID making us all prisoners of our own homes and 2nd lockdown looming ahead of us, I was trying to figure out what to do with all the free evenings that I had due to no shows. And marking all of them with selfcare&wine started to get old and it made me sound like an alcoholic.
In the spring I taught myself to do my nails and became three times better make-up artist than I was before this coughing-world-mess and picked-up digital drawing. And it dawned on me that if I cannot go to live shows and enjoy music that way, I can write about it on-line!

I had a blog on and off for almost my whole life. I started my first one around the age of 12 or 13 - it was your stereotypical teenage girl diary that turned into obsessing first about Twilight and later about Tokio Hotel (good grief, how painfully European am I?). But my longest endeavour was my beauty/lifestyle/turned music blog written in Czech that is currently 8 years old. Mad! 

Growing up on the international/English speaking side of the internet, I am much more comfortable (and funnier!) writing in English. To be honest, my Czech vocabulary is laughable (which is sad considering I am Czech). I know it is not the case, but rather a consequence of me not using the Czech language enough, I am way more expressive and articulate. And I wholeheartedly believe that by speaking several languages you develop a separate personality for that language alone.

And that's how this came about!

I consider myself to be pretty tone-deaf so I am not gonna be reviewing music to that degree - I either like it or not, usually with no slight idea why. But I am awfully awkward human so I have a never-ending reservoir of embarrassing/funny stories connected to music. And on top of that, I happen to be quite opinionated about a handful of topics (not that the world needs opinions of another white girl... but hey hou). That handful is a mixed bag of seemingly unrelated things - feminism; dumbing down culture (hot take - American comedies are not funny), the nosedive in quality of what we are presented and following is a downgrade of our own minds since we are not forced to think about books, movies, lyrics; gate-keeping; large dislike of several people/celebrities. I may sprinkle in some lifestyle/fashion/beauty posts here and there as it is something I am still really into.

I often joke that I judge people first by their music taste rather than personality. Is it even a joke at this point? Anyway, I thought I will wear my heart on my sleeve and give you the chance to judge me on my music taste. As a part of getting to know me, ya know.