Ashamed, embarrassed, and pretty much over it.

March 28, 2010
Ah, wishful thinking, thou doth enter mine noggin overmuch.

I said (actually, I promised) I would write more blogs.  I would write more often.  Write, write, write, write, WRITE.  That's what I said.  Pinky-swear.  On my mother's grave.  A bird in the hand equals two in the bush.  But what did I actually do?

Nothing.

That's right.  Not one new blog since February 4th!  I'm ashamed.  I'm embarrassed.  I'm also pretty much over it.  I hope that you'll get over it too.  Even though you're scratching your head wondering why this intro is so long and pointless, and probably asking yourself if the rest of the blog is gonna be like this.

Yeah, kinda.  You can stop at any time.  No pressure.

I have plans to, in the near future, go back on the Jason Rosenberg show.  I don't know how many of you heard me the first time I was on it (the MP3 is on my website, go take a listen), but if you did, then you probably understand why I have a few reservations about it.  Nothing to do with the show or Jason at all, but my reservations all stem from my inability to incorporate tact into my daily life.

For example, the first time I was on the Jason Rosenberg show, I incriminated myself by telling him that I was 20, and then shortly after telling him that I was cracking open a beer.  I also think I openly expressed the desire to be deaf.  As I was talking about being a music composer. 

Professionalism, to this day, eludes me, because I think swearing and being crass is funnier and it's what everyone wants to hear.  However, it doesn't really get you far when you're talking about being a classical music composer.  They want poise, structure, elegance.  I have none of these things, and I don't know where to get them.

I'm also sad to say that my website will be "hasta la vista, babee"-ing it in mid-May.  I'm not going to terminate it (pun), per se, but I'm moving it to an even fancier and difficult to navigate website!  Isn't everyone so excited!

I'm not writing music at the moment, unfortunately.  I'm too busy with my jobs and trying to get my life in order.

Speaking of life...I'm also trying to set up a team for the ever-popular Relay for Life at Pius XI High School in Milwaukee.  I'll have a little donation box deal on the website so y'all can donate whenever you please.  And I will be sacrificing cigarettes for this event...well, at least during it.  They don't allow the use of tobacco during the events.  Quel suprise.
 

New, but nothing particularly important.

February 4, 2010
Whoa.  Ever since I started doing vlogs, I sort of became estranged from my blog.  Well, no more. 

And you know...I wish I had something excellent, something groundbreaking and ridiculously exciting to post here that will make you jump out of your chair and pee yourself, but I don't.

I have a video though...will that suffice?

It's...erm...well, basically an embarrassing video of me trying to play Bach's Badinere, Mozart's Concerto in G, I., a flute solo from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, ...
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Resolution? Revolution.

January 2, 2010
I haven't posted in a few weeks, and since it's now the critically acclaimed 2010, I figured I would share my new year's resolutions with you.

My actual new years was kind of a bust.  I ended up going to work and getting done around 11:45, so when it was officially 2010, I was standing at the bus stop, freezing my ears off.  However, it was then that I had my first epiphany, and my first resolution.

-Focus attention on your passions

I am and always will be a music composer first.  I cannot forge...
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Tomorrow is the big day...

December 15, 2009
Ladies and gents...it's December 15th.

Tomorrow is the official release of my FIRST CD EVER...Untamed.  I honestly never thought I would make it this far.  I never thought I had it in me.  I figured I would dip out early, be too afraid, too worried, too stressed...but all I feel is this wonderful calm and a sense of achievement.  I've done it.  And I'm very proud, and well, slightly surprised.

That isn't to say I did it alone...of course not.  I had quite a large team help me with this project,...
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Another really really fast update...

November 25, 2009
The CD is almost finished!  Just four tracks left!

I'm sure you've already seen, but I've also booked the Milwaukee Gay Arts Center for the Untamed Album Release party!  If you can make it, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE come!  The more the merrier!  Bring friends, family, co-workers.  Grab a CD, have some drinks, have some food, and enjoy yourself!  More information is on the homepage of the website.

Posters should be going up tomorrow.  Not to mention Will Elwood has been amazing with helping me market...
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A glimmer of an idea...

November 20, 2009
My mind is going a million miles an hour at the moment.  How do I know this?  Well, Project Untamed is currently moving at full speed ahead, I can barely keep up with what's going on around me, and yet...I've just thought of a new project I want to work on after I release Untamed.  I know, I'm nuts.

Anyway, more pictures have been updated in the gallery.  And if you haven't yet, make sure to reserve your CD!  Head to the home page and follow the instructions there.

I'm still working on the mixi...
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The price of greatness is responsibility.

November 19, 2009
I never thought I'd say this, but I'm starting to find Untamed to be...well, more of a chore than it seems like it's worth.

Don't get me wrong.  I'm still excited, I'm still pushing forward, still working...but I'm having the biggest issues trying to rework the music for the CD.  I've tried almost everything I could think of, and I still only have one track finished.  Which is about three minutes out of the entire CD.  Three minutes out of an hour and a half.  Awesome.

I'm tired.  I'd rather no...
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"No Tresspassing."

November 17, 2009
So today, Sean and I did the shoot for the Untamed cover.  And let me tell you, it was an experience I'll never forget...for many reasons.

Sean had told me a while back that he had a spot that he loved to do really awesome shoots, and since I didn't really have any good ideas myself, I took him up on it.  When we got there, it was everything I could have asked for: slightly dirty, full of machinery, totally industrial and raw.  I was really inspired...which was totally opposite from the work w...
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A quick and dirty update.

November 15, 2009
I'm exhausted.

I cleaned my room a few days ago, and it is, once again, a complete sty.  There's szechuan chicken drippings all over my beautiful wood floor.  There's beer bottles and soda cans everywhere.  And cigarette ash covers pretty much every fabric covered surface.

Untamed is still moving forward, pretty much on schedule.  What does everyone think about smoked salmon dip as one of the appetizers for the party?

New to my page: reserve your Untamed CD!  Go to the homepage and send an e-mai...
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I won't waste your time with my revelation.

November 11, 2009
A lot of people have really great relationships with their families.  They're constantly spending time together, enjoying each others company.  I have to say that I'm part of that group, even though the family I'm referring to isn't necessarily my biological family.  I'm not talking about my mother and father or my aunts and uncles.  My family is, and has been for a while I think, my friends.

I don't want to be misconstrued here.  I love my family very much, and I know that they love me.  We j...
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