Little Bo

A few months ago, I put together a band! Bo & The Band of...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:38:08 -0800

A few months ago, I put together a band! Bo & The Band of Brothers will start playing shows again at the start of the new year! Follow us on twitter and like us on FB!

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This morning

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:59:00 -0700

at around 6:30AM, I was on the freeway headed back to my apartment. I hadn’t slept in a long time (for those of you who are familiar with “studio life” you know that most of us rarely sleep at all), and right before I hopped in my car, I joked around with Josh and Noah. “Dude, I hope I don’t die because I’m completely wiped out right now.”

To think that those words might have been the last words I’d speak to either of them, really freaks me out.

I never ever take the 405 home. Ever. I’ve always hated the damn thing but since I was so exhausted, I decided I would just deal with it to get home and knock out sooner. So I got on the 101 headed north and proceeded to make my way onto the 405 S. Not ONCE did I stop to think, “I’m really tired, I should crash at a friend’s” or “I need to be extra careful right now because I’m not totally aware of what’s going on.” I do this drive ALL THE TIME! My LIFE consists of staying up till after breakfast with my band, writing and recording like a bunch of studio vampires. I usually get home around 10AM and the drive for me has never been that big of a worry on my brain.

So when I reached about 65mph and realized that the lane I was in had just come to a screeching halt, I had NO time to step on the brakes before I slammed into the car directly in front of me. My airbags went off, hit me in the face, my seatbelt dug into my chest and I couldn’t breathe. As soon as I came to, I realized my car had jumped into the other lane, and there was a man who had come to my passenger door. He came in saying, “you need to get out right now. Your car is on fire.”

“Your car is on fire.” Hands down the most terrifying thing anyone has ever said to me. “Your car is on fire.” Laptop, cellphone, oh my God get this seatbelt off of me… I grabbed my things and bolted out. I couldn’t stop shaking. The adrenaline was pumping through me like heroine or something. I walked past the front end of my car and nearly shit myself. I walked out of that car somehow, and I didn’t have a scratch on me. No bloody nose, no cuts, nothing. Waited for the cops and paramedics who asked me if I felt like I needed to go to the E.R. I was quick to send them away because I didn’t feel anything wrong with me. Nothing hurt, at all.

As it turns out though, adrenaline does this thing where you can’t feel if you’re hurt or in pain. Adrenaline is nice, until it wears off. An hour or so after the initial impact, EVERYTHING was sore. I ended up swinging by the E.R just to make sure my chest was okay and that I wasn’t in any serious trouble. A chest X-ray and a prescription later, I was back out in the world… alive.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’ve known people to survive MUCH crazier and MUCH scarier situations, but this one really put me in my place. I can’t help but think, “if the person behind me hadn’t managed to stop, I would have been slammed into 4 lanes of oncoming traffic.” I could have been dead. Just like that, my life could have been over and what have I done on this Earth?

I’m seriously more motivated than ever. I’m inspired to be a better person, a harder worker, I’ve always strived to be the best at my art, but I’m on an entirely new level now. Every single day of my life, I’m going to go to bed knowing that I pushed myself as far as I could, that I learned something, and that I left something behind to be proud of. Today was not my day, it wasn’t my time and it was for a reason. I have a lot of music to bring into this world.

I’m ready for it.

I met Mickey Shiloh about a month ago and I still can’t...

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:03:55 -0700

I met Mickey Shiloh about a month ago and I still can’t believe the insanely amazing things that have happened since then. This girl right here, feels like family already.

Been MIA for a bit

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:57:00 -0700

sorry about that! A lot has been goin’ on! Updates soon <3

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Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:20:20 -0700

Noah’s 23rd BIRTHDAY! haha I wanted to remind him that he...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:00:57 -0700

Noah’s 23rd BIRTHDAY! haha I wanted to remind him that he was still young so I threw a Toy Story themed birthday party!

I've been gigging

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:24:06 -0700

a lot lately and I’m really starting to enjoy it. Since I moved to LA, I’d been focusing on just writing and writing and… writing. So its great to take at least one day every couple of weeks and dedicate it to sharing my music with the world, or the 8 people that show up haha. I think what I like most about playing shows is the fact that I’m not singing to get picked up by a label or become the next huge star, I’m doing it because it feels so awesome when someone approaches me to let me know they really related to a song I wrote. Writing used to be a purely selfish thing for me. I wrote to help myself get through tough times and I wrote to remind myself of the great ones. Now, writing has taken on this entirely new concept in my life. I know it might seem silly but if I manage to write one song, one line, one WORD that someone can grasp onto and feel okay again, if only for a moment… that means everything.

Also, it doesn’t hurt that I get to play music with two people who mean so much to me. Noah and Jake Bartfield are part of my family out here on the west coast and two of the most talented, awesome people I’ve ever come across. I love them both :)

Basically what I’m saying is I think I’m going to keep playing shows regularly in the LA area. I wasn’t sure about it at first, not to mention a little insecure about it, but I can’t imagine being without it anymore.

Audrey Hepburn grocery shopping with her deer photographed by...

Sun, 06 May 2012 21:45:56 -0700

Audrey Hepburn grocery shopping with her deer photographed by Bob Willoughby 1958

from my last gig at Room 5 Lounge THIS FRIDAY MAY 4 @ 7PM...

Tue, 01 May 2012 19:20:00 -0700

from my last gig at Room 5 Lounge

THIS FRIDAY MAY 4 @ 7PM I’m playing again!!! Come out!

“Cross your heart.”

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:45:44 -0700

“Cross your heart.”

Seriously,

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:24:00 -0700

regardless of all the drama and unnecessary b.s going on in my life, I have never been happier. I don’t have many friends, but the ones I have, truly are the greatest.

I know that I rub people the wrong way. I know that my personality is pretty abrasive and a lot of people have an issue with my lack of fake smiles and sugar-coated answers. Truth is, I’m fine with that because over the past couple years I’ve made a serious effort to be a better listener and to apologize when I know I’ve wronged someone and I’ve learned when to swallow my tongue. At the end of the day I know that I have grown as a person and as long as I’m doing that, I’m happy.

A lot of the time though, I think people misread me and write me off within the first few minutes of knowing me. I’ve always had a difficult time making a good first impression on groups of people. I would consider myself a social person but I get pretty anxious when I’m introduced to a really big group. A group that has loads of history and inside jokes and a bond that was formed long before I walked into the room. So sometimes I freak out and I talk too much, end up cursing too much. All I want to do is make an impression but I usually end up making the wrong one.

I’ve been lucky enough in life that every now and then, someone will sit down and talk to me one on one. These are the people that have made an effort to get to know me just as much as I try to get to know others. These are the people who have looked past my defensive front and ended up liking what they saw and who they had just met. I am forever grateful for these people. I think most of them would say that once you get to know me, you’d know that I’m not trying to be rude or mean or angry. I just don’t like to be fake and a lot of the time that translates into a bad attitude to people. I know I’m not a perfect person and I have a lot of growing to do. I hope that I continue to grow throughout my entire life and I hope to be a better person tomorrow than the one I am today.

Yes, I can count my friends on one hand. Yes, if I have a problem with you, I will tell it to your face. No, I won’t put on a smile for someone that doesn’t genuinely make me happy and if you ask me for my opinion or advice, I will always give it to you straight. If that isn’t something you’re interested in and if you don’t value totally honest people in your life, then we will probably never be friends. And you know what? Thats okay.

This is to my friends:

Thank you for understanding me and for helping me grow to be a better version of myself. It makes me happy that I don’t have to be anyone but the person I truly am when I’m around you. Thank you for sticking up for me when my back has been turned and I wasn’t around to defend myself. I love you.

-Aly

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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:41:57 -0700

JOIN THE EVENT!

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:36:00 -0700

JOIN THE EVENT!

Living in Los Angeles is SO EXPENSIVE! Part of me just wants to...

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:02:09 -0700

Living in Los Angeles is SO EXPENSIVE!

Part of me just wants to pack my things and move to this awesome lakefront bungalow in Nashville…

what.

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:48:20 -0700

ever.

Its always different

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:43:33 -0700

from the outside looking in.

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Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:39:00 -0700

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Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:43:21 -0700

Forgiveness

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:05:56 -0700

is something I had a difficult time with when I was younger. At 16 if someone betrayed me in any way, I would have held that grudge for as long as humanly possible and I never would have tried to see things from another perspective. I’ve always been stubborn and stuck in my ways so the ability to “let it go” didn’t come until college. When I was 18 some personal things happened that made me realize how incredibly short our lives are. Every single day that I wake up, is a gift and I didn’t want to waste my gifts away with negativity and old, useless grudges.

Now at 21 years old, I continue to face forgiveness and I’ve gotta tell you, its still not the easiest thing in the world for me. Pride and forgiveness don’t usually go hand in hand and I’m TOO proud for my own good. Oddly enough, today I’m PROUD of myself for truly FORGIVING someone who had hurt me and it feels great. We all make mistakes and do things we’re not thrilled about at SOME point in life. If there’s anyone out there who hurt you, take a second and think about a moment where you F’ed up and wished for a second chance. Forgiveness is a beautiful thing.

Saving up...

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:24:36 -0700

for this beauty