April 26, 2009

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  EDIT ADD:

  My apologies to those of you that read this blog before now...I was falling asleep at roughly 10PM when I wrote it (I know, it was early. I must be getting old) and I found incomplete sentence after incomplete sentence...the entry was a mess. A hot mess. But now..it should be mostly fixed. 
  

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  I haven't had a dessert in two weeks.

  No candy, cookies, cakes...you name it...I haven't had it. This is been a difficult two weeks, but I REALLY can see a difference. My blood sugar doesn't shoot up and down like the Dow Jones anymore...I feel better, and more energized for longer periods of time.

  I'm thinking about extending the time and doing it for longer. Why not? EH?

  In other news:
  It has really helped me that my BFF asked me to orchestrate part of his newest record. He happens to be pretty tootin' famous, so when people from Nashville find out that I worked for him on this project, I get some MAJOR street cred right away.

  Thanks, BFF.
  You're the best.

  Here's the story:
  So in 2002, after failing miserably at teaching K-12 band and choir at a small, private school, Christy and I decided that I should pursue arranging and orchestration in the Christian/church market, down in the Nashville scene. I had done enough arranging by that time during college, and sang enough of the songs published in this market, I was fairly confident I could do work as good as (or equal to) any of their top arrangers. I took 10 demos down to Musicalifornia that spring and met with all of the heads of the publishers from Nashville. It didn't go well.
  Needless to say, it was a disappointing time and I was just too naive to know better; the business doesn't work that way. I mean, you can't just walk in and say, "Hey, I'm great! Hire me!"

  Oh well. It all builds character...
  I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dog-gonnit, people like me...

  7 years go by...I figured that the door was shut for me in that arena...then Travis' project came on the scene.  Not only was writing for his record just AWESOME (which is titled "Jesus Saves LIVE" and you HAVE to get, btw. It comes out on June 2nd, and is totally blessed by the Lord...look for it!) but my orchestrations will be published by Brentwood-Benson to be used by churches worldwide! Now because of this opportunity, I'm getting to know the head people for a couple of the publishers out yonder, and it's very promising that I could do some writing for one or both of them in the future.

  Wahoo!

  Also--we're hatching a scheme to get Travis out to Midway in the summer of 2010.
  That is, if the aliens don't get us before then.

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