F#ck AIG.

AIG Discloses $75 Billion in Bailout Payments

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Use what you got.

In these tough economic times, those who are out of work aren't finding much in the way of jobs suited for what they've been trained to do. It's probably a good thing that I never took any formal training. Then again, those who have are getting all the "jobs" that are out there right now. I am fortunate in that I am in a situation where I can focus on my true ability of being creative. I write songs. I also have learned that there is a weekly open Mic night at a local pub...okay, it's just a notch above a "dive" but they are offering space for me to play my stuff. I counted and have 19 and a half songs in my book. three and a half more and I have enough to place onto a first album. Either I do this or release all of them in the form of a double album. As to whether people will buy said album, that's beyond my ability to predict.

What's important right now is finding out what the public thinks of my music. I have a space in my home where I create, edit, labor and practice and in that space.....I rock. In front of other people is where I need to practice and truly shine though, because, let's face it...when you're alone with your guitar and you make a little flub in the chords or you forget a lyric, you just keep going and you forget that you even did it.

There is a way to hear what you are doing and it's called recording your work and listening to it. My bass player and I did this last week and threw together a slap-dash demo of one of my songs - well two actually. One without vocals (sounds great) and one with....(ick). The two of us are not engineers by any stretch of the imagination and after hearing that second version with the vocals, I'm not too happy about it at all. I know I need to re-evaluate my capo placement on some of these tunes, but then again, it's just the two of us. We may have another vocalist soon and it would be nice to see how his treatment on these songs will change them up.

Perhaps I'm being too hypercritical, but I've always said that when it comes to my creativity, I'm a perfectionist.

Practice perfect makes perfect...let's hope this translates to a great demo.

Wish me luck....

Okay, YOU TUBE

You Tube - you are a bunch of bastards.

A note to Blogspot

I think it would be really spiffy keen if I could just change the email address I use to sign on to blog because that address isn't valid anymore.

How about the fine folks at GOOGLE pull their big brains out of their big asses long enough to develop a help system that allows us users to actually TALK to a human


do no evil, my ass....