Friday, February 20, 2009

Another concert and my first writing experience.

Well, after a few days of nothing happening, I had a couple pretty cool events. First and formost, I have begun trying my hand at song writing. As I've mentioned before, I can't write music to save my life but I can write lyrics pretty well. So I wrote some lyrics and managed to find myself a guy from my church who can write music. So I may be on my way to having an original song soon. I'll let you know once I hear from John, the guy who I gave the lyrics to.

In other music news, it would appear June 7th will not be my next concert. I now have another performance before that. On April 17th I will be performing at the Linger Longer Cafe in Allegany, NY. I will be performing at 7 pm and I highly recommend people come and check it out, not so much to hear me but to try the food and great dessert drinks they offer. The cafe and bookstore have not been doing very good business-wise and I want to help in any way I can because it's a great place and I'd hate to see it go. So even before my concert, if you live in the area, check it out. It's got wonderful food and a very nice, though dwindling bookstore.

Well that's about all that's going on right now. Everything else is pretty much same old same old. School's going well, my jobs aren't giving me a lot of hours but with the economy the way it is, I'm not surprised. We're doing pretty good getting Kali to take her heart medicine...oh and by the way, never trust a cat to sleep next to you when you're sleeping. I thought Bummer was trying to suffocate me today when he decided to sleep on top of my face. lol.

Anyway, till next time.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

An opportunity?

Interesting day today. While in Jamestown I found volume one of the Gaither Vocal Band Reunion DVD. I've been looking for that for a while so I was quite pleased. Ironically, at the same store, I bought "His name was Jason. 30 years of Friday the 13th." Quite a contrast there, eh?

It's not news that I'm doing a concert in June but it seems I may be doing a little singing work sooner. It was suggested to me that I should make a CD to send out to some people, specifically the Gaithers. So this week, I will be in the process of recording. Who knows...this could be a big start for me.

Today I also went to see Paul Blart: Mall Cop. The movie was hilarious. I highly recommend it. It also featured some good previews(which are my favorite part of a movie anyway) including a preview for Dragonball Evolution. DB was the series that first got me interested in anime so I'm extremely excited for that movie which comes out in a little less then two months.

I'll keep the two people reading this up to date on my recording this week. Till next time.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

My own concert and a better one I don't get to see.

Well, the bad out-weighed the good for me today. Why couldn't it have been the other way around?

I've been job searching lately since the two part time jobs I have are both failing to give me any hours. True, it's not their fault as the economy has hit them just like everyone else, but still. The problem I'm facing is that most of the good full time positions require experience. As I see these things I ask myself, "How can I get any experience if they only want to hire people who already have it?" Doesn't make sense to me.

On a fairly good note, today I began picking out songs for my June concert. I'm studying music at college, but right now I couldn't write music to save my life so most of my performances are done using soundtracks. They're kind of like karaoke CDs except they're specifically designed for performance use. Anyway, I have four songs already available and ordered two more online. Along with an acapella song I'm planning, I think I should pick one or maybe two more songs to do. I'll keep you posted.

The other bad thing I have to share is that I found out one of my favorite Japanese bands, Morning Musume will be performing in America for the first time. The bad thing is that the performance is in LA. Why did I have to go and live in stupid western NY? Knowing my luck they'll never come anywhere remotely close to me.

I need to drown my sorrows in junk food. Until next time.

Meet the kids





I thought I'd take a moment today to introduce you to my "kids." The white one is Kali and the black one is Bummer(nice name there, eh?) Kali is 13 and Bummer is almost 18. His fur used to be almost all black but as he's aged, he's gone gray. Even the vet says it's rare for a cat to get as gray as Bummer has. I think the gray around his mouth makes him look distiguished.

Kali on the other hand has recently begun getting daily medicine for a heart murmer and over active metabolism. Unfortunately, the medicine is in pill form, not exactly easy to give to a cat.

Anyway, those are my "children." Hope you enjoyed meeting them.

It starts



Greetings to probably the two, if that, people actually reading this. Your presence is appreciated. Well, for the sake of anyone who might be reading this and doesn't know me, I'll give a little discription.





The picture above is me along with Kappei Yamaguchi(the Japanese voice of Inuyasha)
I'm 27 years old and last fall went back to college after my first try didn't go so well. I work two part time jobs, one at K-Mart and one at Blockbuster. I'm also a singer of contemporary christian music. That's probably what this blog will be mainly used to promote.

Speaking of which, I'll be doing a concert in a couple months, specifically Sunday, June 7th at the First Church of God in Eldred, PA. If any of my readers will be in the area, feel free to come check it out. There's no charge for entry.

That's about it for my first blog. I'll try to update daily so those two people(love ya both) can know what's going on with me.

Till next time.