Thanks Cyruss!
Just wanted to send out my thanks to Ontario-based DJ Cyruss Sanchez, known for his work with the Wiseman and Mi Casa Records. Check out his MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/djcyrusssanchez. So a big thank you goes out to Cyruss for his kind support!
Fried Pies from God (pies in background courtesy of markwgallagher on Flickr)
Human: “What’s up with all of this poverty crap, Big G, I need me a job!”
After many months and countless hours working on the premiere track for my own label, Bloompocket Jazz, my tune entitled “All Around Us” has been getting some wonderful feedback.
The Famous Neve 8078 Mixing Console
I know that I’ve been rattling and rattling on for some time about this new single of mine entitled “All Around Us,” but at long last, I can happily say that this puppy is “out the door in a paper bag” and ready to rock dancefloors andearbuds.
A monstrous tower of ultra-professional-level rack-mounted audio enhancement gear, much of it from before the days of digital.
Now THAT's a BIG UNIT! While most reverb units consist of a rack-mounted unit or even a mere guitar pedal, this massive plate reverb takes things to a whole new level!
The infamous patch bay, where all of the individual tracks are routed to the nifty equipment you see in the monstrous tower of rack-mounted gear (pictured earlier in this post)
(which I suggest you do!), your new viewpoint will be “My life sucks BECAUSE I can’t live in the present moment.”
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Moi (sax), Charlie Peterson (trumpet), Duane Benjamin (trombone)
For those of you who have noticed me rattling on since this past April about a tune I’m working on by the name of “All Around Us,” you may be asking yourself, “what type of a whack-job spends 7 months on the same song and is STILL working on it?! Who does this guy think he is - Brian Wilson?!?
Todd Resnick, Jared, and yours truly after a great tracking session
Deep in the trenches of horny FUNK...
photo by e-strategyblog.com (click pic to see more from this photographer)
“It’s going to be a picture the likes of which Americans are not going to be used to. It’s going to come as a shock and with it, there’s going to be a lot of crime. And the crime is going to be a lot worse than it was before because in the last 1929 Depression, people’s minds weren’t wrecked on all these modern drugs – over-the-counter drugs, or crystal meth or whatever it might be. So, you have a huge underclass of very desperate people with their minds chemically blown beyond anybody’s comprehension.”
From: (hidden)
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:11 AM
Subject: Not to be pessimistic…But this is I just was reading..Can this be true?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ad_1226630673
From: Orenstein, Doron
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:29 AM
To: (hidden)
Subject: RE: Not to be pessimistic…But this is I just was reading..Can this be true?
This is CRAP! Ha ha, but seriously, I am much more optimistic. I see the opposite happening. All of the references cited as giving the author of these predictions credibility have one thing in common- they are in the business of mass-marketing fear and a mentality of scarcity to encourage people to purchase, hoard, drown themselves in work and stress, and remain transfixed to their CNN God!
Just as an alcoholic or a drug addict must hit a bottom before he makes the decision to make take responsibility for making his life a good one, I believe that our world is having a similar experience, hitting bottom with outdated concepts such as war, judgment, scarcity, and the “every man for himself” and “me first” mentalities. Remember, for every act of evil there are a million acts of kindness. The global level of consciousness is rising slowly, but surely, from where it used to be. If you’ll recall, the same man who would have been a slave 150 years ago is now our President, so clearly we’re moving in the right direction.
Additionally, it has been my experience that what I focus on has a way of showing up in my life, so if I can focus on joyous, loving, and energizing thoughts, that is what I will experience in my life, and that experience is extremely contagious. This law of attraction is finding its way into our mass culture along with things such as Yoga, meditation, and living in the present moment (Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purposehas been EXTENSIVELY promoted by Oprah Winfrey- she even gave it a 10-week online class and called it “the most exciting thing I’ve ever done in my life.”).
If the world does somehow come to a man-made end (very unlikely), it will be due to nothing more than our own pessimism and “intellect.” The world does not need a new political policy or an economic boost- those are merely symptoms of the new higher consciousness that we are acquiring as a human race. I believe that it comes down to finding our bliss as individuals by being honest with ourselves and helping others, and then the rest of the world will take care of itself.
(Whew! Thanks for inspiring me with that!)
Doron
- it was a song that we came up with as an intentionally-offbeat quasi-pop ditty chock-full of cartoonish sound effects, the most cliched-of-cliched house music samples, and inside jokes far too complex and twisted to even begin to get into in this post. The lyrics were written by our friend, the great poet, Alex Lang who used the name “Shuggie Love” as an alter ego for some of his more adventurous work and this tune was basically Shuggie’s theme song.
for him. On top of that, Erick was kind enough to fly us out to Subliminal’s recording studio in New Jersey to have it professionally recorded and mixed.
in 2004, besides hitting the #1 spot on the UK’s Music Week chart, it appeared on numerous radio shows and dance music compilation CD’s worldwide, and even ended up as a ringtone!
of original music.
I just wanted to let everyone know that I’ve done some research and put together a discography of all the recordings I’ve appeared on either as a producer or as a sideman. Noticeably missing from the list at the time of this posting are any recordings made under the name “Bloompocket,” but of course, that will be changing soon (you’ll be the first to know!).
