Sep 18

My First Time In A Professional Recording Session

20150904_182628_001-1I want to thank the fellows funky Christopher Troy, Barry Chenault andAnthony Sanders, etc for last Friday’s session. The bottom line is that was the first recording session that I sponsored, hired and was the focus of and I learned a lot. I was able to see the working parts of musicians at the next level and a bit of the protocols and match it with my intentions and needs. Funding the project was the easy part in this instance. the tricky part is there were a few moments where my input was needed for direction. not so much to be a micro-managing bossy type but also not being completely absent either. i need to be able to articulate what i want more concisely and this would make everybody’s role easier (including mine!).

but overall i’m very happy (yes, this is all about me) with the way things went. we definitely hit at least one unique high and when i listen to the session im sure there will be more. and though im more of a “just jam and let’s see what happens i’ll make it a song later” i got to see the process of how a song is done at the next level. and i mean a “song” with parts and bridges and changes and a whole bunch of other stuff that i knew not what they were talking about. LOL

the musicianship was so pleasing that i might have taken it for granted. and i feel i should address just how damn good i thought the players were. the talent and the way they brought the funk that i liked was overwhelming. i even said out loud a couple of times that this is too easy and that was because of the level of musicianship assembled. i guess i am highly favored to have access to such talent and i must not forget to appreciate the skills i can reach out to.

so there was a point there when it clicked and i was like WOW SHIT this is damn damn good what more can i do with it? how do i take it to the next level now that this part works. balancing excitement and focus while enjoying but working.

the music was soooo beautiful to me there were moments i was overwhelmed

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Sep 18

Random FB Posts:

20150908_192921So now you get in trouble for what you don’t say?

I need to be careful who I outshine…
This little light of mine can be blinding.

Receptivity

I think I hope not.

uh, oh. i’ve reached the comfort level where i sing and talk to myself outloud at work without even knowing it. having playful conversations with myself and laughing even. which is a really good thing for me and my energy and productivity and capability going forward, but AS ALWAYS how it’s received by those around me is key…

ain’t been on public transit in so long i feel bad. at 9.95 a day im keeping this rental car like its part of the family, my metro pass even expired. it’s nice but it’s making me soft a lot of my daily exercise was done metro’in. pushing a 2015 loaded Nissan Sentra, 9.95 a day comes out to about 330 a month which is less than a car payment even with good credit with no maintenance, licenses, etc. enterprise rental they know me by name been going there for years soooooo ill get the weekend special and they’ll be like “keep it! you know you want to” LOL

It’s called “rain,” I think…

Jesus at quarterback on a team full of archangels with God as coach could not have beaten Tom Brady and the Patriots last night.

people need solutions not hope

everybody needs a little bit of evil in them to survive (and to be happy). and the world needs evil. God needs evil the most.  sometimes you have to be cold and calculating, sometimes you have to hurt and banish people from your lives. sometimes you have to kill. sometimes you have to let bad things happen knowing you will benefit at another persons pain. etc etc To me there really is no evil, just evil acts. And is malice a requirement of evil? Does the person carrying out an act see it as evil?

If i cared i could wear a bluetooth earpiece so when people see me talking to myself they’d think i was on the phone.
But i don’t.

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Aug 04

Nothing Is Going To Come From The Sky And Save Us

20150720_140421There is nothing above or higher than us and we need to start acting like it.

Meditation yes, prayer no.
Reflecting internally yes, expecting externally no.

We Are Higher.

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Aug 04

What Go(o)d Comes From Prayers?

Our leaders on the scene asking multiple times for prayers, why?

It’s a pacifier.

And what exactly are we suppose to be praying for? And praying to what for what?

And to be elected to a leadership position you must display a strong belief in prayer.

Prayer is completely self serving

Prayer and meditation may be cousins maybe, but there is harm in praying to and relying on an external source, expecting action from that source and doing nothing. Being subservient to a higher being is de-empowerment and esteem lowering, there is nothing higher than us (consciousness) and we need to start acting like it.

The underlying problem also is that there is something out there that is going to come and save us or helps us. We need to realize that we are all we have and step up to the plate and not pacifying ourselves waiting on the savior.

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pray
1. address a solemn request or expression of thanks to a deity or other object of worship.
More: wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome or situation.
adverb: pray 1. used as a preface to polite requests or instructions.

med·i·tat·e 
1: to engage in contemplation or reflection
2: to engage in mental exercise (as concentration on one’s breathing or repetition of a mantra) for the purpose of reaching a heightened level of spiritual awareness

1: to focus one’s thoughts on : reflect on or ponder over
2: to plan or project in the mind : intend, purpose

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Aug 04

I Feel Totally Like A Mortal Today

i feel mortal today. mentally clumsy and unable to leap tall buildings with a single bound. when i go thru these types of episodes i imagine that this is what the overwhelming majority of the rest of the world feels like basically all the time. the keywords: “feels like.”20150705_105816

sure i may or may not be “immortal” and just a “talking hairless monkey” like other homo sapiens, but the key is what i feel like. belief is a powerful thing in that just as your faith in God strengthens and supports you, my deep belief in myself and my capability empowers me just the same. maybe my belief more so as i place nothing above me and i bow to nothing i’ve witnessed in this universe. i am indebted to no higher power and my behavior is not directly tied to an arbitrary judgement to determine my eternal happiness or well being.

this thinking gives me the foundation to achieve a freedom that most humans could never possibly attain. a freedom that just doesnt happen but needs to be achieved via effort and focus.

my future and the things that happen to me are not dependent on an unseen conscious being. the mere fact i’m not bound by an idea of a force that protects me from an evil is a massive freedom.

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Aug 04

Love One Another For What?

20150608_000832On my way to work I saw a guy wearing a t-shirt that said “Love One Another.” I thought to myself, what would that really accomplish? What does “loving one another” really get done? Getting things accomplished, fixed, changed, progress, etc may be the goal and that can be done if we love each other or not. More practical and tactical strategies are needed to “progress” in a global world consisting of thousands of cultures and billions of people. Then I thought there is a chance we have accomplished more things because of NOT loving each other!! LOL

When I was smoking weed daily I was deep into the whole hippy- new age- harmony- hugs and rainbows- depaak chopra- thing. But then I realized that whole “let’s get along” concept is just an operating mode. It actually is not a solution, action or strategy to get anything done!!
We don’t have to come together to get stuff done and things changed. And hey now that I think it may be even better if we DON’T kum-by-ya in sleep circles. It may be best if we address our social, economic, etc issues with opposing viewpoints, dispositions and emotions.

We are in this together and in the macro macro sense at multiple universe scales we are “a” one. But that may not mean that we are one. Sure it feels good to pursue the idea of solidarity, but possibly the only things we may need to be “one” in is communication and economic protocols. When it comes to the actual “get things done” practicals of exchanging with each other there we need to be one and on the same page.

We are past the “can we all get along” phase. It may not seem like it but we are already actually doing it. There will never be an “everybody is equal” or a “we are all a success” Utopia. Certain evils will always exist but should not detract from the parts we are getting right. And for the most part WE ARE GETTING IT RIGHT. We may not all love one another but basically we are getting along. A few acts of violence and the corresponding outrage are reminders of what “evil” is and can really be.

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Jul 06

God Is NOT Love, Love Is Love

10462901_10153238680367125_972386062570633939_nGOD IS NOT LOVE! Love is love, God is God. Accumulating favorable, “moral” and desirable qualities and then attributing them to God is an attempt to redefine what a “God” is.

In fact, “God is love” feels all new agey spiritual but it doesn’t mean anything. Let alone that there is no evidence of what God is or isn’t in the first place. Love is love and that’s enough. It’s all we need, no need to attach God to it. And we created love- we is the totality of life that evolved on earth.

If God is everything, then God is nothing.

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Jul 05

Black People And The American Holiday

11703031_10153517684697125_4352307154068708078_nSo basically now if you black you should only celebrate MLK day, Juneteenth, Black History month (but with a sneer because it’s the shortest month) and Kwanzaa. Did I miss any?

All the other holidays are racist, celebrations of American oppression or marketing gimmicks.

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