Goodmorning!

I'm sure some of you have noticed my version of 'Mad World' in my player.
I've loved this song since I first heard it re-done a few years ago. 

The lyric and melody are so beautifully haunting and the song holds so much relevance for today's world that I felt the need to take it on. It's not gonna be on my record. But who knows, you may here it elswhere in the near future.
But so we're clear I DID NOT WRITE 'Mad World'. It was originally done by Tears for Fears in the 80's and re-done a few years back by Gary Jules.

I originally planned to cut this song around the time I did 'Preacher Man', but was inspired to do that song and the few that followed after it before now.

Anyway, I hope you like it :)

I think the older you get the more you realize that you want someone to share your life with. The more you realize how comforting and lovely it is to have someone there for you on your team. The more you realize you want to be happy with someone else.

I know for certain that I'm that person I just described. As I'm reaching another birthday I feel like I'm mature enough now to have that relationship that I've been flirting with and craving for years.

It's time. It's time for love, dammit!! It's time for me to feel love and give it back in such a way that creates waves and moves mountains. In a way that moves birds to fly and moves the ground to shake. The kind of love that makes your head split!

Don't get me wrong, solitude is great. And sometimes needed. But, I'm just at that point where I'm needing someone to know me better than I know myself. Someone to violently argue with me. Someone to stand up against the world with me when I feel like I'm the only one. 

Is that asking to much?

So.. I've been getting messages from a lot of you since yesterday about my song "Preacher Man". Like, "what is it about?", and "why do you want to take my money and my soul". Ha ha!! It's not like that.

I wrote preacher man from the perspective of a pastor or religious figure that abuses his or her power. Whether that be stealing money from their church or orginazation. Or cheating on your wife or husband with say a "choir girl". 

Ever since I was young and the concept of church made its way into my consciousness, I've heard stories of these figures abusing their position by committing acts that are not only illegal but immoral as well- I'm thinking this is a real reason why religion(any and all) is looked at as such a joke to a mojority of the population. It becomes really unfortanate when someone that you're supposed to be able to trust, like a pastor, is a huge hypocrite.

For the record, I'm not bashing religion, church, or god AT ALL. I do have my own faith and beliefs that I practice at my own pace.  For the song, I'm just taking on the role of these individuals I just desribed and painting a picture of how things can and have been since the beginning of organized religion.

So it's official. I didn't win or place in the top 5 in the Rock The Space contest I was in. Yeah, it's a bummer but I guess it just wasn't for me to win or place in it. Ah well.

I checked out the final five that placed in the finals of it and honestly I didn't really see anything that stood out. But that dosen't mean I wish anything but the best for the finalists. They obviously were doing something right in how they got the attention of their fans, friends and Myspace Records. So good for them! 


I've always been taught growing up that where one door closes another one opens. So, it's all good. There are a few things in the works that have come to my attention. Nothing serious yet. And apparently the whole Rock the Space thing generated some interest in what I do. I've been extremely flattered by everyone's comments and messages with words of encouragement or praise. It really does mean ALOT!!! Thank you!!!


I'm still writing and recording and collaborating with other artists, so that's kept me pretty busy. I've got some stuff on a couple records coming out in November that I'll inform everyone on the closer time gets to their release, so that's pretty cool and something I'm excited about!

Oh! I uploaded a new tune today called "Rewind" today too!! If you get a chance check it out!! I'm really proud of it! It definately has a couple strong meanings to me. And touches on my current situation and my living/working situation from the summer of 2006. 

Well, that's it for now.. Later!
 

Last night I had one of the weirdest dreams I think I've had in a long while.
So after the smoke cleared and my body declared me aslpeep, my sight cuts to me driving down central avenue. Funny enough, I'm hungry and I'm wearing a mickey mouse t-shirt.
I'm driving down looking for just a snack type of food. Fast food preferbly.

I pass by this huge and apparently new building with a "Taco Hut" sign on it. So I pull in get out and walk in. I walk through the doors to this massive building looking to grab a quick taco and leave and to my surprise I see a huge Mickey Mouse at the register checking out. Blew me away! It was a guy in a Mickey Mouse costume, but nevertheless Mickey Mouse!!! He looked at me and saw my shirt and gave me thumbs up.

There was a type of buffet like atmosphere. Kinda like a Ponderosa or something. There were several tables of tacos, burritos, nachos and other poorly made mexican food under heat lamps. So I proceed directly torward the taco table, grab one, sit down eat it in a second and start to walk to the register to cash out.

There are two prices on display for the tacos; $1.95 and $12.95. I was thinking $1.95 is pretty steep for one taco, but I had it in my wallet so I didn't mind shelling it out for what I ate. Plus it was this new huge eatery that had magically appeared on an avenue I had aparently thought I was familiar with enough to know if something new was there or at least a coming attraction. Anywho, when it's my turn to pay I have my money ready and the cashier takes my money and looks at me and says "I'm going to need some more money sir". I respond laughingly "but I only had one taco". She responds with "didn't you read the sign? It's $12.95 for one taco and $1.95 for twelve."

I didn't really have it in me to argue, being that my stomach was already starting to turn. So I took my money back and walked back to the table to contemplate whether I was going to pay that much for one terrible taco or go for the other eleven and get out of there before I was publically sick from the food. I decided to go with it and eat eleven more. I figured why not.

I grabbed a plate and grabbed three tacos to start off with. Sat down and slammed them no problem. I got back up to continue my eating marathon and for some reason the tacos on the buffet table somehow started to appear larger and larger. I was beginning to feel my stomach really starting to hate me but I continued anyway. I was determined not to pay that much. It was the principle!! So I filled my plate with three more tacos that appeared to be two times the size of the last ones I had.


One and a half tacos in on that helping my body told me enough!!! I just remember my stomach being in the worst pain I had felt in my life. I pushed the plate aside and put my head down for a few minutes. I then look up and I see all of these Mickey Mouses everywhere. Well many people in the costumes. They're all at the buffett tables, at the register cashing out and walking in from outside. Like, everyone had decided to all of sudden take a cue from the guy wearing the costume I saw when I first walked in.

I remember grabbing my stomach and putting my head back down. There really wasn't anything else. It kinda went to black from there until I woke up this morning.


The only things I can really attribute this dream to was seeing taco bell and disney commercials before I went to bed. And the fact that I got to sleep around 3:23am or something. But still, that's crazy! It's amazing what I guess the effect visuals you see have on you.

When I went to Detroit in March I was first exposed to slam poetry. It's a movement that is continuing to grow and show itself. I've always heard of the words "slam poetry" but never really took it seriously. Because I had never been a witness to it or it's power.
Where else besides maybe a concert can you hear and see someone on stage spilling out their soul to you in such an extreme beautiful relatable way??

It has the power to grab your neck and make you face forward and listen.
I sit here impacted by the words of these people. Not only does it make me want to rush into my room and start to step my game up lyrically. But it makes me want to throw bricks through windows, run laps and change the world!! I can't stop watching these videos!!

If you get a chance, the words "slam poetry" in the search box on youtube can get you started on experiencing the genius of these poets. Truly impactful, and incredible!!

What's up everybody!! My demo tape (as you can see) has been accepted into the Toyota Rock The Space contest. If seleceted I could be one, or one of a few to recieve a record deal with Myspace Records. What I need you to do is grab this and paste it to your page and your friends' pages and any other music blog or place to paste something.

I've been constantly hearing about the swine flu. Constantly. So much so I started buying into the hype and being scared to walk out of house even, in fear that the swine flu would appear out of no where and make it's way into my body without warning.
But after a day of thinking about it I feel that the more I hear about it in the news and things is just to grab my attention in order to buy into their broadcast, or their publication.

No doubt, it's real. And it's out there. But the living in fear part isn't what I'm about. It's no difference than when the bird flu was making it's rounds in the press and such.

Despite a brief decline in my confidence to walk outside of my house, this whole story has been hella inspirational- the concept of living in fear of the known(but far away) and the unkown. I bought a tambourine today and started work on something.

Also, I feel like I've been living under a rock. Why haven't I heard any of Oasis' work. I've just been tossed alot of their catalog. Sifting through it makes me think of Lennon and things he touched on and conveyed. It's all good stuff so far.

Oh yeah, I uploaded a new song yesterday called "SkyLark". It's one of the tunes if not the one that I'm most proud of that I've done.

Tomorrow's Friday, make it a good weekend!!

Later :)