Annika Socolofsky

Thank you!

TEMPTING

So my record label gave me a UPC number but no barcode. For the life of me I can’t figure out how to generate a barcode from an existing upc. Seems like everywhere online just generates a totally new/unique barcode with a new upc. Help!

FWIW, Scottish fiddling has helped a TON, and my rhythm has grown a lot from meticulous vocal tracking sessions. Looking for additional ways to push myself.

Rhythm musicians: I’ve decided my 2026 resolution will be to really get solid with my rhythm. As a vocalist and string player, I’ve gotten by with “good enough” for too long. Where do you suggest I start? Rhythm exercises? Drum lessons? Whatchu got?

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Thank you, Sam! Happy new year ❤️❤️

I was hurting so deeply when I wrote this entry. Now I’m snuggling with my baby boy in my house while on parental leave from my dream job. How is this even the same life? What will life look like in 10 years’ time? I cannot begin to imagine, but I will let myself dream because dreams can come true

June 2015. Same sex marriage had been legal for a month; I’ve since come out, found my person, married her, and adopted a child together. I hadn’t yet started my PhD at Princeton. I hadn’t yet left my comfortable community in Ann Arbor for the unknown. I’d only just gotten my first “big” commission

Been thinking a lot about my next ten years plan, and I think it’ll be along the lines of living in the present more than in the future. Enjoying the little moments, and enjoying this happily ever after we’ve made for ourselves.

Found the entry earlier this year—just a month before we found out we were becoming parents. It’s wild to think how different my life was just 10 years ago. None of this felt attainable back then, yet all but one of these became reality.

There. I said it. The only people I’ve EVER heard hate on this song are classical musicians.

People who hate “All I Want For Christmas Is You” just hate pop music and think they’re above it, genre-lly speaking.

*aperitivo

My favorite Christmas tradition! Christmas Eve aperativo with my better half

“Last Christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day, you gave it away”

WHAT

lol that’s the one. Wasn’t terrible, but when I realized the makers had just made the plot a literal realization of the words, I couldn’t stop laughing

I **** you not, my wife and I just watched a movie called “Last Christmas,” which was about a woman who was ungrateful for her heart transplant

Hey Bluesky! Been a second! Have a kid now lol. What’d I miss on here from the last 7 months?

Today, a lovely lady at my usual Irish session said something that assumed I was straight and I realized it’s been YEARS since someone assumed I was straight to my face and that actually made me pretty happy 😆

How does one approach management? Who should I approach? Any specific angles?

Alright y’all, I’m at a point where I’m in desperate need of management. Any tips? Ideas? Thoughts? I simply cannot keep this up on my own anymore.

Starting off spring break right by throwing my back out for the third time in the last 3 months. 💔

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

It used to not be for me, but I eventually ended up here haha

Indeed. A few years back someone offered to pay 20% of my commission rate and justified it by saying the piece could have a lot of improvisation in it

Hot take but commission fees shouldn’t shouldn’t be lower just because the composer calls for improv or uses graphic notation. Those things take just as much time and effort as conventional notation (if not more, tbh).

Congrats!!

Just FAXED Chuck Schumer! It’s free!! Took 2 mins on my phone. Felt GOOD.