July 4,

Sound Advice

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An addition from the last post.

Here’s a tweet reply from Music Artist Kina Grannis.

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Yeah, I like being on the Tweetie.
Because of stuff like this.
People whom you’ve never met, take some time from their life
to respond to random strangers,
and without them fully knowing how it helps the other person.

I should follow her advice, eh?
She’s very good at this song writing thing.
She knows what she’s talking about.

Check out her album and you would see how amazing she is.

Oh and thanks to my friend Jojo Ellis
for introducing Kina‘s music to me.

Song Writing

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One thing I’ve never really spent much time on
is song writing.

I have always been fascinated with musical instruments.
How they blend together.
How they can be used to carefully modify songs that we know.
I like arranging them into one big musical chorus.

I have never dabbled much on song writing.
I tried. Once or twice.
But I have always been spoiled with other people
who can easily write songs and give them to me.
Then I can arrange the music or at least suggest how it should come about.

I may have an idea on how the plot of the song might be,
but I just always end up going in tangents and lose my focus to actually complete it.
Most of the time, I just get angry. Or sad.
That I just leave the whole idea and just play.

It must be so nice for these artists who can just sit down and write songs
like it’s just a normal thing to do.

I would like to be one of those someday.
I want to work at it.
And not just depend on other people’s work and ideas.

I was going through my song archives under the Originals Category,
and I came across again with one original song that me and my friends did,
and I am mighty proud of it.

It was really an idea I always had, and I pitched it to my friends, Raymund and Melvin,
and one day, I came home and they told me they worked on it.
Had the words done and a starting melody.

We worked on it, and before the day ended,
we had this song done and we started jamming.

This one is called,
If I Don’t Have You.

Maybe someday, I will get the inspiration I need,
or the heartache I may experience,
to sit down and start writing words
and could eventually turn into music.

Song Lyrics start here.
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Video Recording

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One of the things that annoy me when I make Video Song Covers
is that I cannot, for the life of me, get a good angle or set up.

I have already accepted the fact
that I cannot make my appearance any better,
but at the very least, I could try to make the scene interesting.
I am also not good at that.

That last cover I did for Father’s Day was actually a Video one,
but I decided on not to go with it
and it all ended up in my trash bin.
I just ripped the music out and played with it.

My point to all of this is,
I need to learn some of this Video editing stuff on this Mac.
I am slowly learning the Music Editing bit, so that’s good.
But this video editing has to make me look at least, half way decent.
I may need more help than I thought.

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Yeah that’s me trying to record that Father and Son song.
Don’t be scared.
That’s just how it is.

I am sorry.
I should have warned you with some Health and Safety Precautions first.

Check out my Youtube Channel for videos.

More Birthday Greets.

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Yesterday,
We trimmed the trees around our house.

And I must say,
For an amateur,
I did pretty good, cutting that damn forest,
with only a minor scratch injury.

Which was entirely my fault.
I realized I miscalculated the length of that huge ass branch
right after it fell on me.

Also considering that there was a freakin’ chain saw
held by only four screws,
on a questionable 10 foot pole
right on top of me,
I think I did quite well.

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What I’ve become

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In honor of yesterday’s celebration.
I did what any stay-at-home dad would do.

Right when Tyler was taking his nap,
I had me some microwave-nuked leftovers,
Popped in the DVD,
Grabbed the remote,
Sat on the couch.

Ahhhhhhhh…..

What movie you ask?

Well, what else?
ID4 – Independence Day

Pretty good movie.
Not bad at all.

Although, I realized something.

At the scene where, the First Lady dies,
and also the scene where the President was giving that speech
before they all go up to fight the aliens.

I started crying.
And I mean crying with a “pause”.
You know, the “pause” that you have to do to catch your breath.

But I did not give in.
I fought it like a brave soldier at the beach of Normandy.

As I finished the movie, I turned it off,
and the TV kicks on to it’s regular broadcasting.

Oprah was on.
And it was about lost family reunions.

When the daughter finally saw her dad after 20 years,
my eyes started to water again.

Damnit!!!!

So, now I realized what being a “Stay-At-Home” dad has done to me.
I comprehended what kind of transformation I have identified.
I became aware of the predicament I have become.
There is no sense to remedy this dilemma.

I have become a WOMAN!

Hear me roar!

Ooohhh, my wife is gonna get some good lovin’ tonight.

Here are some cool links for some better amusement.
Because, I surf the interwebnet, so you don’t have to.

Shoot some fireworks at different places —> Phantom Fireworks
How about a game of Crazy Golf? —> Crazy Golf
Or a new game of Pinball? —> Pepsi Pinball
A cool link for Bass Players —> UBP
Mix it up with Tyrone —> Dave Chappelle Sound Board
Signs that you should know —> Government Signs
Port-a-Potty of the future —> Toilet
Know the Speed traps in your area —> Speed Traps
There is no “I” in TEAM, (yeah but there’s “M” and “E”… ME!) —> Cheerleader mistake
10 Foods you shouldn’t eat —> Nutrition Action