Lessons from the Old School

One thing that just occurred to me, while working on a writing project and having a western playing in the background is that the internet is actually taking music back to an age before corporate backing ruined music. Isn't that strange. Hear me out on this before you realize that I am completely insane.

Long ago, before corporations really started throwing around their influence, in order for artists to get known, they had to play the clubs, travel the roads and perform their songs for anyone who would stop and listen. After travelling from city to city, they would build an audience. In building their audience, they would increase their income and would be able to continue doing what they do.

Thanks to the internet (and piracy) the corporate influence on what music people buy and listen to has dramatically increased. Signed artists aren't pulling in Michael Jackson 1980's numbers. They are increasingly being forced to stepped out of the music video and get their ass on the road to build a fan base.

This is the best time ever to be an independent artist. The internet allows those who can't afford to get on the road physically, blaze a trail throughout cyberspace without needing a record contract. Those who can afford to tour physically from city to city might even make more money than their signed counterparts, because they don't have the overhead that comes with paying the record company first and the artist last. Blaze your trail...

Ruin My Whole F**King Sunday!

When I'm writing, which is a twelve to eighteen hour a day thing for me, I'm listening to music. Since my love of music is so broad, what I listen to will change from day to day. I will pretty much flip a coin to what I will listen to. Sometimes, it will be a set of podcasts, an internet radio station, or I will cruise through different sites and just let music play. It's an amazing way to discover music. That's how I discovered Wolfmother - who kicks international, rockin' howlin' ass and is one of my favorites forever and are working on their new album right this f**kin' minute...


I rarely, ever listen to traditional commercial radio. I don't have the patience to listen to the same crap over and over again. Here's my problem today. I was listening to a college radio station that I have never listened to before and they were rocking all night long. These morons don't have a "Playing Now" list so that you know the name of the artist and the song that you just heard.


What a waste of time. I don't want to hear music that I can't own in some form or fashion. It's bull. I've made it a new rule not to listen to radio or podcasts that don't tell you who the artist or name of the song is. Anything that will eliminate anxiety, stress and disappointment, I'm all for it.

Love's Beautiful

If you're been blinded by love, then you understand Randy's plight.  If you've never been blinded by love, then you've never been alive.  Wrong or right, sane or insane, you will follow Randy's journey with intensity.  We can always see what's the best move for our friends to make in their love lives, but we throw out all the rules when it comes to our own.  Is this really love or stupidity.  You decide.  Click the title or the picture to download this story and you let me know.

Unique Collaboration Opportunity

Unique Collaboration
Opportunity for

New York Based Artists

Work with Me on Short Video
Movies Based on Your Musical Style

 Revenue
Share Opportunity Available As Well

 As
an music artist, you have to use every avenue possible to expose your music to
potential fans.  Every creative way that you can utilize opens the doors to new
opportunities and fans that you never thought you had access to.

Build Up Your Reel
of Footage to Market Your Music

My team and I will take
care of scripting and locations.  All you have to do is show up, read the lines,
and bring your fire-brand of personality.  My bread and butter business is a
marketing service, so I am definitely good and getting the word out and getting
more exposure.

 Show
Your Talent In a Different Arena

 You
and I have the same goal.  To create artistic expression through our chosen
avenue.  Yours is through music.  Mine is through the power of word and the
visual artistry.  All I’m trying to do is test a few cameras and microphones and
things like that before I start on a much larger project.  Why not create
something meaningful in the process.

Indie, Low-Budget
Short Movies

Don’t get all excited
about making tons of money.  That’s not what this is about.  These are
low-budget productions (30 minute short films), shot on video, and edited with a
semi-pro equipment.  Of course, we’re not trying to just throw something
together.  You can get all the garbage you want anywhere or on YouTube.  We’re
trying to have a good time with this, as well as create something that people
will start talking about.  That’s what we both want.  People to start talking
about your music and people to start talking about the productions.

If you want to be a part
of any of these collaborations, hit me up at

info@yasheve.com or leave me a message on

www.myspace.com/yasheve01 and I will check out your music and see if it will
inspire me to write something that can be filmed.  If I’m not feeling the music,
then we wouldn’t work well together. 

Ask me how we can make a
little bit of change from this collaboration.  Don’t expect Hollywood movie
royalties, but we can both get something financial out of this as well. 

Can’t Wait to
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Twin Chicks

I got twin girls running around in my head. They seem kind of cool. I'm not sure why they are there. It's early and my brain hasn't really focused. I'm not sure if they are asking to be characters in something new that I'm supposed to write about or if they are hanging around to give me incite about something in the physical world.

Other than that, I'm frightened out of my mind. I made a friend yesterday, who I'd been working with all year in a social group I belong to. Yesterday, we actually had a long personal conversation. Magic. It' like we've been friends forever or that are supposed to be friends forever. It's very strange, the comfort level between the two of us and the similarities in personalities. Both damaged for the sake of producing great art.

This is one of those incredible highs that creeps me the fuck out. It's the extreme lows that sometimes follow that have my heart racing right now. And I'm not a pessimist. I just don't have the stamina for the lows anymore.

If Only I Were a Sheep...

I've been told that I think too much. I have no idea what that means. I don't think I have any control of that. As long as I'm alive I think my brain is going to constantly work to solve problems, analyze, predict, etc. Doesn't everybody think 24 hours a days?

Obviously not. It so easy to pull the wool over people's eyes. As a copywriter, I do it all the time. I compile a bunch of bullshit words and trigger words in a formula and people eat it up. Because I don't like duping people, I'm phasing that business and services out over the next couple of months.

Corporate businesses do it all the time. Politicians do it. Instead of bullshitting, they call it "spin." Get someone beautiful (financially or physically)to agree with the corporation of hte politician and the Sheep fall in line. Yeah, yeah. yeah. I know the majority of people are followers It's one of those laws of nature, but damn it's annoying.

You probably recognize that you were being bullshitted for 90 minutes during the presidential debate the other day. Some bullshit you can smell miles away.

Hollywood movies work the same bullshit on you. There is a formula that has been created over time that is supposed to be a blueprint of a blockbuster. It pretty much dictates what should happen 15 minutes into a movie, 30 minutes in and so forth. The funny thing is not that the Hollywood Machine would think they could trick you into think a movie was great, therefore you buy the DVDs after you've seen it at the theater. The funny thing is that it works on you.

My "so-called" friends worry that I'm going to kill myself if I'm left alone for too long. I'm not going to kill myself right now. Relax. I was forced to go to the movie theater this weekend. Wasn't hard to convince me. One of the few things I still love in this world is movies. I did not want to see "Eagle Eye" though. I have a sixth sense about trash movies. (Movies I think are not going to stimulate me).

I was right. I'd seen this story before. People who know me personally can predict movies ten minutes in just like I can once I've explained to them how I do it. They're usually amazed that I wasn't kidding about the formula. I love movies, so it doesn't kill the movie for me just because I know what's going to happen. The performances are important to me and sometimes I actually surprised by a plot twist. This Artificial Intelligence story has been done a thousand times and I was nodding off through explosions and car cashes that were unbelievably boring to me.

My point is that I wish I could have been all engaged like the rest of the people cheering. I just couldn't wait until it was over. (Although I was like that for Batman: The Dark Knight - Couldn't wait for it to be over - Everybody else seemed to think it was the greatest thing ever - not realizing that they wanted it to be the greatest thing ever since Heath Ledger - one of the beautiful people - had just died - He was phenomenal in the movie - and I didn't just become his fan after he died - I was actually a fan since The Patriot)

This is my burdern. I can't just simply like something or hate something. I have to know where my motivations come from to feel that way.

I Haven't Been Writing... Am I Subconsciously Prolonging My Life?

Being that I'm not planning a suicide definitely until I have written my masterpiece (based on my judgements, not societal expectations) I have to wonder if I'm subconsciously allowing my business projects to keep me from writing on schedule.

My life is filled with these kind of subconscious acts. I often subconsciously sabotage things when they start going well. Maybe, I'm doing the same by not writing.

I'm writing. It's business writing, though. It's no fun. It doesn't do anything to make re-ignite my belief and love for humanity. If anything, it does the opposite. So many business owners that I come into contact with are crooks, that I see them as a reflection of a broken society.

Not broken because of the corruption, but broken because of the facade of morality. I don't mind the corruption. I'm quite okay with crooks, deviates and whatever else. It's the crooks demanding that everyone else follow a moral code, while the crooks pretend to be holy, that gets my blood boiling.