Well, by most people's standards, perhaps Seattle did not just experience a full-on blizzard. But by Seattle standards, I would say that Monday evening was as close to a blizzard as I have ever seen in the pacific northwest. For most folks, it was probably a hassle. But for Scobra and myself, it was adventure time (and maybe frozen toes and nose time). Scobra busted out some epic snow-driving skills in my little Geo Metro (think go-cart car) in a city full of hills. The worst part of it was the other drivers on the road... Not trying to be mean here, but if every other car on the road seems to want to make it impossible for you to get where you need to go... well then... Do a Scobra! Pass all 18 cars that were clumped ahead of you up the hill, using every lane, park, and then watch as only 2 more of the 18 actually make it up.
The other nice thing about this weather, is that it gave us extra studio time. We recorded two new songs, and have been working on several more. We had a kick-ass rehearsal on Tuesday night with the whole band, and are getting ready to rock out some brand new songs in our live set!!!
Oh, and yesterday was turkey day... I was unfortunately under the weather myself. I made some sourdough stuffing for the family feast. But by the time I got there, all I could do was sleep on the couch and drink tea. Kind of pathetic. But everyone took good care of me, and I am happy to report that 12 hours later, I am on the mend. I may even get a chance to eat my first bites of stuffing for left-overs lunch.
What I am buzzing with excitement about right now however, is how wonderfully team RTB is growing by LEAPS AND BOUNDS! It seems as though all of these people with wonderful taste, personality, and skill, are coming together to CREATE. Create what they do best and what they love. And it all comes together into a larger concept. As I may or may not have mentioned before, I believe we are leaving the information age, and entering the conceptual age. What a concept, eh? And I am pleased as can be to have so many people around, full of information and a discerning eye, to create such concepts. :)
But now it is time for me to go, and create some more!
xoxo
-Dion
Friday, November 26, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Focus
I admit, it has been a few weeks since my last post. So much has happened within those few weeks, that I am hardly even sure where to begin! Scobra and I went on an adventure out to Montana, where we played a short set in a biker bar... HILARIOUS!!! And also a good story - 5 minutes after we pulled into Butte at my friend Emily's house, we were greeted by a stretch Hummer that took us to the Party Palace. Busted out a song there, and checked out a few other local spots with stages before getting back into the HUGE limo and getting some shut-eye. That was my first hummer limo experience... but not the first time I've sang in a biker bar... Montana was a nice breath of fresh air though. Scobra and I got both some literal fresh air out in the country, and also left a nice path of new friends of RTB along the way. So look out Big Sky country! We'll be back with a sweet vengeance.
I would also like to shout out and show our appreciation to Emily and Mike Mulligan. They were our kind and generous hosts in Montana, and Emily was, and continues to be, a great resource for booking and promotion. I feel very lucky to have such kind and helpful friends!
Other quick and pertinent update: We have a show coming up this Wednesday at Contour in Seattle. This will be our second show with Luke on stage with us, thus filling out the sounds of the set along side Brett. I'm diggin' our ever-growing line up, and I truly enjoy the added energy and company on stage :) I'm also very excited for everyone who is coming out to the show. I'm excited to see and hang with folks, and to wrench it up a notch and put on the best show yet!
Scobra has also kicked our online interaction with folks up to 5th gear! He has put soooo much energy into the organization of everything RTB and internet related. What I can say about that (other than my everlasting gratitude for the painstaking work that he has done) is that now we have the ability to really reach people, have them reach back, share, etc. via the internet in both world-wide, and location specific scopes. It has been very powerful to realize the... well... POWER, that it is giving us. Communication is key, and Scobra has really spent some time creating that very key. So I guess this is both a "thanks" and a "look what we are up to!" paragraph.
We are continuing our diligent work on putting final puzzle pieces together for our album, and the launch of it as well. Starting to get together the tour, website, merchandise, and all of those little details that can boggle the mind if you look at them all at once. However, the boggle is becoming clearer by the day, and we are suddenly finding brilliant friends and cohorts to jump aboard at every turn. This network is becoming a versatile and diverse dream team.
Per usual, I suppose, I have close to a zillion things on my plate - all of which are creative. A more recent, personal creative venture that I have undertaken is free-lance writing. In fact, I am currently working with a writer on several screenplays, and looking to expand my professional writing prowess even further. I have been realizing with startling clarity that I can actually create and encourage creativity as my day-job! Now I also want to be careful about my use of the word "day-job". When I used this label before, it generally pertained to a work situation that garnered stable pay, but not necessarily dealing in the work that I would like to be doing.... Can anyone say waiting tables... ? But now I find that my outlook is changing. I am beginning to believe that I can create my own job that serves me both financially and creatively... that I would do during the day time... So I am reinventing my perception of the phrase 'day-job' into being: What I do during the day to get paid. I am not big on thinking about money all of the time, and money does not govern what I create. However, the reality of every independent individual on this planet (that I know of...) includes some form of payment for goods (food, shelter, -the basics-), and I want to create a new way of earning my living on this planet that feeds not only my belly, but my soul!
As I look up at that last paragraph, I feel a little funny. It is the longest paragraph in this post, and yet I am not writing directly about RTB. I would like to add that my ultimate vision for this is to create a platform through RTB and all of our collective creative endeavors that enables creative individuals of all formats to be able to live their lives sustained from their true work. -True work meaning what they really love doing - something that comes from their soul. A few weeks ago that would have seemed much more abstract and unknown to me. As in, a nice idea that I will struggle with for a long time in order to manifest it into being. But now I am feeling that it is a nice idea that I am engaging with, interacting with, and creating amidst the struggle the very fabric of my dreams.
-Dion Vox
I would also like to shout out and show our appreciation to Emily and Mike Mulligan. They were our kind and generous hosts in Montana, and Emily was, and continues to be, a great resource for booking and promotion. I feel very lucky to have such kind and helpful friends!
Other quick and pertinent update: We have a show coming up this Wednesday at Contour in Seattle. This will be our second show with Luke on stage with us, thus filling out the sounds of the set along side Brett. I'm diggin' our ever-growing line up, and I truly enjoy the added energy and company on stage :) I'm also very excited for everyone who is coming out to the show. I'm excited to see and hang with folks, and to wrench it up a notch and put on the best show yet!
Scobra has also kicked our online interaction with folks up to 5th gear! He has put soooo much energy into the organization of everything RTB and internet related. What I can say about that (other than my everlasting gratitude for the painstaking work that he has done) is that now we have the ability to really reach people, have them reach back, share, etc. via the internet in both world-wide, and location specific scopes. It has been very powerful to realize the... well... POWER, that it is giving us. Communication is key, and Scobra has really spent some time creating that very key. So I guess this is both a "thanks" and a "look what we are up to!" paragraph.
We are continuing our diligent work on putting final puzzle pieces together for our album, and the launch of it as well. Starting to get together the tour, website, merchandise, and all of those little details that can boggle the mind if you look at them all at once. However, the boggle is becoming clearer by the day, and we are suddenly finding brilliant friends and cohorts to jump aboard at every turn. This network is becoming a versatile and diverse dream team.
Per usual, I suppose, I have close to a zillion things on my plate - all of which are creative. A more recent, personal creative venture that I have undertaken is free-lance writing. In fact, I am currently working with a writer on several screenplays, and looking to expand my professional writing prowess even further. I have been realizing with startling clarity that I can actually create and encourage creativity as my day-job! Now I also want to be careful about my use of the word "day-job". When I used this label before, it generally pertained to a work situation that garnered stable pay, but not necessarily dealing in the work that I would like to be doing.... Can anyone say waiting tables... ? But now I find that my outlook is changing. I am beginning to believe that I can create my own job that serves me both financially and creatively... that I would do during the day time... So I am reinventing my perception of the phrase 'day-job' into being: What I do during the day to get paid. I am not big on thinking about money all of the time, and money does not govern what I create. However, the reality of every independent individual on this planet (that I know of...) includes some form of payment for goods (food, shelter, -the basics-), and I want to create a new way of earning my living on this planet that feeds not only my belly, but my soul!
As I look up at that last paragraph, I feel a little funny. It is the longest paragraph in this post, and yet I am not writing directly about RTB. I would like to add that my ultimate vision for this is to create a platform through RTB and all of our collective creative endeavors that enables creative individuals of all formats to be able to live their lives sustained from their true work. -True work meaning what they really love doing - something that comes from their soul. A few weeks ago that would have seemed much more abstract and unknown to me. As in, a nice idea that I will struggle with for a long time in order to manifest it into being. But now I am feeling that it is a nice idea that I am engaging with, interacting with, and creating amidst the struggle the very fabric of my dreams.
-Dion Vox
Friday, October 29, 2010
Whirlwind
So while I had intended to post something weeks ago... My weeks have been chock full, and all over the place. Quite a whirlwind of activity has been going on in camp RTB, as well as in my mind. Since I last wrote with that link of the video of our show at the Mix, we have booked several shows coming up (we booked 3 shows in 2 days this week!). We are also quite the multi-tasking entrepreneurs, and so both Scobra and I have been working on several other projects as well. With a happy heart, I will proceed to list off a few of the projects that we are now working on.
We got a 'green light' so to speak on a job doing music supervision to a feature film. This is not only exciting because I love both film and music (thus making this job a perfect marriage of my pleasures) but because we are working with a long time family friend of mine, Josh Vancil. I must admit, having lived in NY, LA and Seattle, and with many family members in the film industry, I know what a potential snake nest a film production can be. Yet, knowing that we will be working with someone as solid and sound-minded as Josh, makes many of my worries fade away. I can handle the difficulty of creating illusion on a massive scale (something that goes rather unrecognized to those that have never done it), but I do not care to tangle with insanity and massive ego dictating from the leading position. This is not always the case in film by any means, but rather, almost always the case ($ people etc.). So I am happy to get the opportunity to work with Josh, as he is true blue. :)
Another happy thought, is that this coming new year will be bringing us lots of friends and visitors! All on the creative front at that! Our friend, and brilliant producer, David Hauser will be coming up to work with us this January. The details... well, I can't go too deep into them at present, but it should suffice to say that we will be working on our upcoming album (which has been a long time in the making, but when you hear it, hopefully you will agree that it was well worth the wait) as well as an original musical penned by Mr. Hauser, with yours truly singing the lead. I don't know if I have ever mentioned this on here before, but I fairly cut my teeth on stage by working in musicals for several years straight. While I am a staunch skeptic of the genre itself (I can't say that I like the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, even though I have performed in it...) there are some true gems in it as well. I would also like to add that it was the BEST training ground possible for performing. To put it simply: if someone has just payed $50 to see your show, it is a Sunday matinée, and the house is less than full of geriatric patients; you still have to give every single audience member their money's worth and more. Even if you think that the music, story, lyrics, etc. are ridiculous. If you can still manifest enough energy to pull off a successful show under those circumstances and to get everyone in the audience jazzed, even a tough audience in a club with your own music seems a lot more enjoyable! But enough about me, the point of this paragraph is really to tell you all that David's musical is NOT terrible, in fact, I quite like it. And I quite like the fellow as well. So look forward to the new year with posts of our happy progress with him-
In another vein of thought: I have taken on several jobs as a free-lance writer. I have discovered the perfect day job!!! (not that it is my only day job...) And so for these last few weeks, I have been working daily on that. These jobs have been mainly scripts for screenplays and television shows, which is right up my ally of training and preference. And through them, I have also come to realize a strength of mine that I hope to develop further into a job skill in the future. I am good at (and enjoy!) helping creative people get their ideas on to paper in an organized and timely manner. And then also being able to help them hone their ideas further through feedback and editing. Basically, while I now have a new part time job, to be added to the plethora of other part/full time jobs that I have (RTB being the fullest of them all) I am excited because I feel that this job could grow into a fuller job as well, thus perhaps cutting a less desirable job out of the picture... Hey, a gal can dream, can't she? And if it can be dreamed, it can be manifested.
Lordy! I could probably wax on further as to all of my exciting new ventures and adventures, but I run the risk of writing a short novella in the process. But one other VERY EXCITING bit of news that I would like to relay to everyone is the growth of our band. We now have live saxophone and guitar, amongst other instruments to be shortly added on stage. These are thanks to Brett and Luke who have joined harmonious forces with us. And of course, to top it off, we have Heidi and Marcia dancing with us, the little foxes that they are! Our production side of the show is also growing by leaps and bounds. Hair and makeup is all done by Marcia Burgess (this is her true art form!! Believe me!), and we have further fashion developments (as in costumes) coming our way thanks to Jennifer Charkow. We are looking to keep things growing, and to hit the road for some long awaited tours this coming year.
In short, I'll try and keep this short- so stay tuned for further details and developments!
p.s. Here's a shot from our last show :)
xoxo
-Dion
We got a 'green light' so to speak on a job doing music supervision to a feature film. This is not only exciting because I love both film and music (thus making this job a perfect marriage of my pleasures) but because we are working with a long time family friend of mine, Josh Vancil. I must admit, having lived in NY, LA and Seattle, and with many family members in the film industry, I know what a potential snake nest a film production can be. Yet, knowing that we will be working with someone as solid and sound-minded as Josh, makes many of my worries fade away. I can handle the difficulty of creating illusion on a massive scale (something that goes rather unrecognized to those that have never done it), but I do not care to tangle with insanity and massive ego dictating from the leading position. This is not always the case in film by any means, but rather, almost always the case ($ people etc.). So I am happy to get the opportunity to work with Josh, as he is true blue. :)
Another happy thought, is that this coming new year will be bringing us lots of friends and visitors! All on the creative front at that! Our friend, and brilliant producer, David Hauser will be coming up to work with us this January. The details... well, I can't go too deep into them at present, but it should suffice to say that we will be working on our upcoming album (which has been a long time in the making, but when you hear it, hopefully you will agree that it was well worth the wait) as well as an original musical penned by Mr. Hauser, with yours truly singing the lead. I don't know if I have ever mentioned this on here before, but I fairly cut my teeth on stage by working in musicals for several years straight. While I am a staunch skeptic of the genre itself (I can't say that I like the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, even though I have performed in it...) there are some true gems in it as well. I would also like to add that it was the BEST training ground possible for performing. To put it simply: if someone has just payed $50 to see your show, it is a Sunday matinée, and the house is less than full of geriatric patients; you still have to give every single audience member their money's worth and more. Even if you think that the music, story, lyrics, etc. are ridiculous. If you can still manifest enough energy to pull off a successful show under those circumstances and to get everyone in the audience jazzed, even a tough audience in a club with your own music seems a lot more enjoyable! But enough about me, the point of this paragraph is really to tell you all that David's musical is NOT terrible, in fact, I quite like it. And I quite like the fellow as well. So look forward to the new year with posts of our happy progress with him-
In another vein of thought: I have taken on several jobs as a free-lance writer. I have discovered the perfect day job!!! (not that it is my only day job...) And so for these last few weeks, I have been working daily on that. These jobs have been mainly scripts for screenplays and television shows, which is right up my ally of training and preference. And through them, I have also come to realize a strength of mine that I hope to develop further into a job skill in the future. I am good at (and enjoy!) helping creative people get their ideas on to paper in an organized and timely manner. And then also being able to help them hone their ideas further through feedback and editing. Basically, while I now have a new part time job, to be added to the plethora of other part/full time jobs that I have (RTB being the fullest of them all) I am excited because I feel that this job could grow into a fuller job as well, thus perhaps cutting a less desirable job out of the picture... Hey, a gal can dream, can't she? And if it can be dreamed, it can be manifested.
Lordy! I could probably wax on further as to all of my exciting new ventures and adventures, but I run the risk of writing a short novella in the process. But one other VERY EXCITING bit of news that I would like to relay to everyone is the growth of our band. We now have live saxophone and guitar, amongst other instruments to be shortly added on stage. These are thanks to Brett and Luke who have joined harmonious forces with us. And of course, to top it off, we have Heidi and Marcia dancing with us, the little foxes that they are! Our production side of the show is also growing by leaps and bounds. Hair and makeup is all done by Marcia Burgess (this is her true art form!! Believe me!), and we have further fashion developments (as in costumes) coming our way thanks to Jennifer Charkow. We are looking to keep things growing, and to hit the road for some long awaited tours this coming year.
In short, I'll try and keep this short- so stay tuned for further details and developments!
p.s. Here's a shot from our last show :)
xoxo
-Dion
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Underground Carnival
Hot Damn!!!! I'm not sure that I have the capacity to write much more than that at the moment. I've been grinding harder than a grain mill (I don't even think that qualifies as a nerd joke...) on our live shows and oh... about a million other details pertaining to the RTB outfit. I will write much more in detail later. But as it now stands, our show last night at the MIX was wonderful!!!! Live sax by Brett, and foxy moves by Marcia and Heidi. Good show all around!!!!!!!!
Click on the title of the post to see a little footage that a friend in the audience captured. It's rough, but glorious footage. No touch ups here ;)
xoxo
-Dion
Click on the title of the post to see a little footage that a friend in the audience captured. It's rough, but glorious footage. No touch ups here ;)
xoxo
-Dion
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Goodness!
Oh my Goodness!!! I have been slaving away lately at our live shows! We played a very memorable show at the Rendezvous on Wednesday night. Good fun was indeed had by all. Now this next coming Wednesday we are playing at Oh My Posh! fashion/art charity event. All of the proceeds go to Art With Heart, which makes MY HEART feel all warm and fuzzy. It is a very important and truly wonderful organization that reaches out to youth in life-altering and difficult situations, giving them the opportunity to use art and creativity to express their emotions. Plus, there's a gonna be a live fashion show, art galore, silent auction, drinkies, foodies, and some RTB thrown in the mix for good measure... Mix... Speaking of Mix - We are also playing later this month at the Mix in Georgetown. Here's where a lot of my preproduction energy is going right now! We are putting together a full-on underground Carnival act for this event. As in from 6-9pm, there will be freaks, fire, magic, and music coming atcha. But in short: for the present, I am swamped!
I am happily swamped - I can't complain. Although with only 24 hours in a day, it is hard to keep every horse in the race in equal standing. Some things are falling behind... Like dishes, sleep, life, food, brain... But I am also meeting and working with some of the best people yet! And I feel like we are building an ever stronger troupe of performers and artists to collaborate with for our live show. -But since I am so swamped, I must get back to my swamp-wading. The point of this post is Oh my goodness! I'm so damn busy! But I think that this busyness is leading me to more good-ness! ;)
xo
-Dion
I am happily swamped - I can't complain. Although with only 24 hours in a day, it is hard to keep every horse in the race in equal standing. Some things are falling behind... Like dishes, sleep, life, food, brain... But I am also meeting and working with some of the best people yet! And I feel like we are building an ever stronger troupe of performers and artists to collaborate with for our live show. -But since I am so swamped, I must get back to my swamp-wading. The point of this post is Oh my goodness! I'm so damn busy! But I think that this busyness is leading me to more good-ness! ;)
xo
-Dion
Friday, September 17, 2010
The Pathetique of POP
So this morning, Scobra and I have decided that it is our duty to listen to the top 40 songs on the charts. We are at about 20, and I can't tell if I'm enraged, or sick... or laughing hysterically. Oh my GOD! Is this a reflection on the market? On the youth? On propaganda? I'm not even sure if I can tell. None the less, here are my thoughts/criticisms of the current state of pop affairs.
Men and women all sound the same. And neither in this context sound like connected males or females. They sound like one of two things: wanky lilly-pad singers, or grating whiners.
There aren't actually any lyrics... I mean, there are words, but half of them... are they actually words? I swear that there should be intellectual property lawsuits against many of these artists from the likes of the Lifetime channel, Hallmark, Oxygen, and perhaps every other artist that has made an airhead hit in the last 2 years. It's like the Cat In The Hat challenge that Dr. Seuss accomplished. Can you write a song with less than 20 different words in the whole song? Children's stuff! And I mean UNDER THE AGE OF 7.
Many of the "love" songs are actually about infidelity. Umm... I understand that many great works of art have been produced by the concept of being unfaithful. In fact, I love the book Anna Karenina. But that EXPLORED A CONCEPT. None of these songs have even come close to such endeavors. And so it sounds more to me like they are glorifying the concept of fucking around. I'm no puritan, but it's embarrassing when the opening lyrics to the "epic love song" by Enrique Iglesias is about his girlfriend and her boyfriend being out of town, and so they should just sleep with each other because they "feel" something.
Some of these songs actually just sounded like jokes, and here I am not joking. I didn't know what I was listening to for the first few songs, because I was washing the dishes. I thought that Scobra was listening to a parody for a song or two.
Here's a shocker: so far, the best song I have heard was a Justin Beiber song. GOD DAMMIT! The funny thing that I am noticing, is that the songs do get slightly better, the further down you go. None of them are good though. Also, no one wrote a new song. Not a one.
Panting and moaning while forming a word spoken improperly is not an original idea. Nor is it a good one. Are they all on cocaine, singing until they run out of breath, and then only recording the worst of it? Are they describing what sort of actions they had to take (or receive) to get signed? By the way, that one's not a sarcastic statement. I'm a witness to what low-class prostitution and exploitation can get you in the entertainment industry: success (if you care to call it that).
So here's where I am going to make my possibly offensive statement. And I will be happy to stand by it in debate... If that art form has not been completely lost to the general public as well. All I hear is a bunch of bitches. I'm not trying to degrade female dogs, or female humans. But the connotation of that word is the closest thing that I can think of to describe this filth. Not empowered, feeble, conniving, contrived, stupid, without brain fuction, poor taste, and overall: silly. I'm not going to pity it either. I have no patience for BS. And here I find my ears crammed full of it!
So here's statement no. 2: Popular music needs a full on revolution. I am perfectly willing to take on said "bitches" in this challenge. I make music... actually, I don't know exactly why I make music... But one of my favorite aspects of making music is that I can then give it to other people. If I were to make terrible food, would I want to give it to people to eat? NO! It would be embarrassing if nothing else. So I think that any rational person, when given a choice between something savory and well crafted versus something bland and poorly constructed, will choose the first. In a show down, I rather doubt that the two could stand very well side by side, and so that would explain the lack altogether of any artisan sounds in the top of the charts. It would be admittedly an "unfair advantage". But let's quit playing a fixed game here. Pop has become pathetic, and until that changes, no sleep for me ;) !
Eternally sleepless for the present, and Yours Truly,
xo
-Dion
p.s. Here's my challenge: If you click on the title of this post, it will take you directly to the Top 40 site that I used for this experiment. Listen to them, and if you find something debatable, then we shall debate it... But I'm warning you: good luck.
Men and women all sound the same. And neither in this context sound like connected males or females. They sound like one of two things: wanky lilly-pad singers, or grating whiners.
There aren't actually any lyrics... I mean, there are words, but half of them... are they actually words? I swear that there should be intellectual property lawsuits against many of these artists from the likes of the Lifetime channel, Hallmark, Oxygen, and perhaps every other artist that has made an airhead hit in the last 2 years. It's like the Cat In The Hat challenge that Dr. Seuss accomplished. Can you write a song with less than 20 different words in the whole song? Children's stuff! And I mean UNDER THE AGE OF 7.
Many of the "love" songs are actually about infidelity. Umm... I understand that many great works of art have been produced by the concept of being unfaithful. In fact, I love the book Anna Karenina. But that EXPLORED A CONCEPT. None of these songs have even come close to such endeavors. And so it sounds more to me like they are glorifying the concept of fucking around. I'm no puritan, but it's embarrassing when the opening lyrics to the "epic love song" by Enrique Iglesias is about his girlfriend and her boyfriend being out of town, and so they should just sleep with each other because they "feel" something.
Some of these songs actually just sounded like jokes, and here I am not joking. I didn't know what I was listening to for the first few songs, because I was washing the dishes. I thought that Scobra was listening to a parody for a song or two.
Here's a shocker: so far, the best song I have heard was a Justin Beiber song. GOD DAMMIT! The funny thing that I am noticing, is that the songs do get slightly better, the further down you go. None of them are good though. Also, no one wrote a new song. Not a one.
Panting and moaning while forming a word spoken improperly is not an original idea. Nor is it a good one. Are they all on cocaine, singing until they run out of breath, and then only recording the worst of it? Are they describing what sort of actions they had to take (or receive) to get signed? By the way, that one's not a sarcastic statement. I'm a witness to what low-class prostitution and exploitation can get you in the entertainment industry: success (if you care to call it that).
So here's where I am going to make my possibly offensive statement. And I will be happy to stand by it in debate... If that art form has not been completely lost to the general public as well. All I hear is a bunch of bitches. I'm not trying to degrade female dogs, or female humans. But the connotation of that word is the closest thing that I can think of to describe this filth. Not empowered, feeble, conniving, contrived, stupid, without brain fuction, poor taste, and overall: silly. I'm not going to pity it either. I have no patience for BS. And here I find my ears crammed full of it!
So here's statement no. 2: Popular music needs a full on revolution. I am perfectly willing to take on said "bitches" in this challenge. I make music... actually, I don't know exactly why I make music... But one of my favorite aspects of making music is that I can then give it to other people. If I were to make terrible food, would I want to give it to people to eat? NO! It would be embarrassing if nothing else. So I think that any rational person, when given a choice between something savory and well crafted versus something bland and poorly constructed, will choose the first. In a show down, I rather doubt that the two could stand very well side by side, and so that would explain the lack altogether of any artisan sounds in the top of the charts. It would be admittedly an "unfair advantage". But let's quit playing a fixed game here. Pop has become pathetic, and until that changes, no sleep for me ;) !
Eternally sleepless for the present, and Yours Truly,
xo
-Dion
p.s. Here's my challenge: If you click on the title of this post, it will take you directly to the Top 40 site that I used for this experiment. Listen to them, and if you find something debatable, then we shall debate it... But I'm warning you: good luck.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Quickie
Hey, so this is gonna be a quickie - both random and poignant :)
I have spent the last few days canning and making pickles. I'm a bit of a nerd, but very proud of my pretty jars full of food that I will enjoy this winter... But because of that, I haven't touched a computer for a few days...
What I am really excited about though, is our upcoming show on September 22nd at the Rendezvous Jewelbox Theater. We will be playing with Naresh Michaels, and A Cedar Suede, both foxy accordion-tastic bands. It's going to be a proper carnival in there! And since I'm always trying to up the ante for our live show, I am now working madly on making this show even better than the last. Thus, this is short and sweet, because I've got to keep on it!
Also, to follow up on the Ben Pitching bit from the last few posts, I guess that he pitched on Thursday, so I missed out... But I do believe that we will be playing some shows with him in the coming months! Which to me, is much more exciting than a baseball game.
Also, here's a cool new picture that I found today from our Founders Day Festival show :)
I have spent the last few days canning and making pickles. I'm a bit of a nerd, but very proud of my pretty jars full of food that I will enjoy this winter... But because of that, I haven't touched a computer for a few days...
What I am really excited about though, is our upcoming show on September 22nd at the Rendezvous Jewelbox Theater. We will be playing with Naresh Michaels, and A Cedar Suede, both foxy accordion-tastic bands. It's going to be a proper carnival in there! And since I'm always trying to up the ante for our live show, I am now working madly on making this show even better than the last. Thus, this is short and sweet, because I've got to keep on it!
Also, to follow up on the Ben Pitching bit from the last few posts, I guess that he pitched on Thursday, so I missed out... But I do believe that we will be playing some shows with him in the coming months! Which to me, is much more exciting than a baseball game.
Also, here's a cool new picture that I found today from our Founders Day Festival show :)
XOXO
Dion Vox
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