Anime Subs or dubs?

In the spirit of SakuraCon happening this week, help me settle a debate. If you like anime, do you prefer subs or dubs? And why? =) 

Oh yeah and I produced a new video about it too: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxVcrhVS59I

 

New Music Video: I want to be an elf

 Do you want to be an elf? Elves live far longer, and are better at pretty much everything. They're vastly more graceful, they're beautiful and surround themselves with beauty, they're keepers of wisdom, they're renowned healers, and they have magic powers (within limits). Why on earth would anyone choose not to be an elf?

Hope you enjoy my parody of Third Eye Blind's Semi-charmed life lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRHvsNmorag

Exercisin' Karaoke track

I'm excited to start working on some karaoke tracks for my parodies! 

The first one is one of the more popularly requested songs, Exercising. 

I hope you enjoy and sing along! I'm hoping to do this for several of my songs and hopefully add some better karaoke moving lyrics too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfB5iewP4c4

New music video: White Sands, Mystified

 Wow it's been a great gaming season where I didn't have to feel too constructive....but that time is over. 

I'm ringing in Song Writing Season with a new music video about my White Sands, New Mexico trip I did with a few friends a few weeks ago. 

I hope you enjoy! More songs to come!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50mBrN4QPI4

Giving Tuesday Donors Music Video

For #GivingTuesday, I did a fundraiser for CHEER Seattle and promised that every donor would be included in a special song I'd write/produce. Well here it is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5tQfUc98QI

Cosplay Medley

 Taking a few parts from my Turning 40 video, this is a medley about the cosplay things I've been up to over the years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Uw1rtwCOY

If you want to see the whole video, check out my Turning 40 video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIYWh4EgZIE 

This one is a parody of: 

Say So - Doja Cat 

Hall of Fame - The Script 

Watermelon Sugar - Harry Styles

I'm turning 40!

 If you didn't know, I'm turning 40 in a few days. So I wrote/produced a parody medley music video that goes over the highlights of what I've been up to over the last 5 years. 

It premieres on my birthday! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIYWh4EgZIE

Pills Pills Pills (Parody of Bills Bills Bills by Destiny's Child)

 I don't know about yall but I take a lot of vitamins. Sometimes I'm like, wtf are all these for? Can't I just eat more? 

Huge thanks to my girls, JJ, Abi Sue Costumes, and Mina P Cosplay for joining me in videoing this. It was great hanging out too! 

Abi Sue Costumes: http://youtube.com/abisuecostumes 

Mina P Cosplay: https://www.instagram.com/ms.mina.p 

JJ: https://www.instagram.com/vandersnark 

Also it was awesome to have my brother, Josh Truax with us too! https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2603750 

Note: No pills were actually consumed in the making of this video.

Pills Pills Pills (Parody of Bills Bills Bills by Destiny's Child) - YouTube

New Music video: Raising Funds

 I wrote this after 5 hours of sleep after the 24 hour stream haha. Hope you enjoy! 

Thank you again to everyone who hung out with me, donated, shared, retweeted, all the things! If you missed it, you can still donate till the end of the month: 

https://streamlabscharity.com/@jerikandra/jerikandras-cheer-seattle-pride-fundraiser

Or you can always donate to CHEER Seattle on their website: http://cheerseattle.org

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZsN38nK9Ww

Summer Brace Music Video

 I started writing this song because I was frustrated with being stuck not being able to enjoy my summer with this knee brace. It ended up going over a lot of activities I used to do pre-pandemic and when I met my boyfriend too....almost a tribute to our relationship haha. I hope you enjoy!

The truth is, I won't need the brace all summer so yay! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tmypQAM9y0

All out of Rum

 Pirates get upset about lack of rum. Vampires get upset about lack of blood. It all makes sense really. I guess we all have our things, eh? No judgement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wUKepFGDn4

Albuquerque - Parody of "Complicated" by Avril Lavigne

You might have already seen my post about my trip to Albuquerque and if you didn't, well this music video is another 'better' way to experience my trip!

I hope you enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21eNPIBR5xo

Play my Game!

Play My Game was released today! A parody of Destiny's Child's Say my name. 

I hope you like it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-jnX5Hu3QE

Filming a new music video

 Yesterday, I had some lovely friends come over and we filmed my latest music video parody. We played around on the green screen a bunch! 

Here's a quick preview. This video will have my latest latex crop-top I made too! But it's not in the preview ;) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7PBBzyL1j4

Look for this new video coming soon, Saturday, April 24, at 11am PDT! 

I'm Exercisin'

 Well it had been a couple weeks since I wrote any new songs or produced any new videos so this weekend was the time! 

I had Friday off so I ended up writing two new songs, one of which is about my knee and the impending knee surgery I'm going to be having. That one can wait cuz I'd love to include footage of pre-surgery and post-surgery brace to match the lyrics. 

So that's why I wrote a second song and then all day Saturday recorded it! 5 costume changes! haha

I hope you enjoy "Exercisin'"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBGwUENFebc

Latex girl (parody of Barbie girl)

This song was a long time coming haha. I really do enjoy making latex and the aesthetic of it but it's become kind of an overblown joke....me being the "Latex Queen" and now I even hand out "virtual latex" to all my viewers in my live streams. 

I like it though. It's something fairly unique about me and I own it! 

Anyway, this isn't a full rendition parody of Barbie girl since it only really has lyrics for 1 verse and some chorus/bridge action. In truth, I ended up having to cut this down even further so this could be under 1 minute and therefore eligible of being my Channel Trailer on Twitch. 

I hope you enjoy! And come by my live streams sometime and get latexed!

Not the Flu

Happy weekend! I wrote and filmed this really quickly; it fell into place quite nicely, haha. 

I hope you enjoy, it seems relevant to the times haha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKSgROm5W8I

I'm a greek hero today!

 Let's keep the music video parodies going! 

I've recently taken a liking to a new game by Ubisoft called Immortals Fenyx Rising. It's been criticized as a "Breath of the Wild knockoff" and well, it's similar in a lot of ways. 

But everything I liked about Breath of the Wild, I love about Fenyx....plus I love greek mythology so that adds even more to the experience.

So what do I do nowadays? I write songs about things....so here you go, I give you: "Greek Hero Today", a parody of Dierks Bentley's "Drunk on a Plane": 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHorDCJTbrE

Useless Costumes (Ironic parody)

Some of you might have noticed I haven't been as active in making or posting pictures of cosplays. It's been really difficult to get motivated to make things I can't go out and wear at comic-con. 

Instead I'm finding somewhat of a new hobby in making and music video parodies. I love writing lyrics that fit perfectly and videography and editing has been a fun way to show off costumes and dancing too. 

It's also been a great way to vent my frustrations.

Make sure to check out my youtube and of course sign up on my website to get notified when I release new content.

At some point I'll get back to costuming, I'm sure. Stay tuned ;) 

New Music Video: It's too cold to ride my bike

 I'm starting to really crank some of these out now! I have 2 more songs ready to release but this one had to do with the weather today so I was like, eh I'll release it now. 

Enjoy!