I don’t know about you, but every so often I have one of those days where I’d rather crawl in a hole and not face the world. This morning sure felt like that. What exactly is it that triggers such a response in someone. Any shrinks out there know the cause of it? If so, I want you to bottle it up the cure in a pill and sell it. No Prozak, no Zanex, or anything else chemical. I’m not depressed. So it shouldn’t require that gunk.
How about you? Ever get that feeling that it would be best to sit out a day. Kinda like in a sport like baseball or even a game of baccarat. In a sport you might feel off and want the coach to yank ya out of of the game cause you’ll only bring the team down or something. Provided the team, the coach and your contract allow it, you could take that day off. In baccarat you might not be feeling the cards and decide to pass by a bunch of hands until you feel it. The bonus of baccarat is that the casino doesn’t care if you sit out some hands. Not like other games where they get impatient with you to continue playing.
In addition, my Myspace page contains a funny line from a movie called Big. I’m a kid, I’m just trapped in a big body. A lot like the character played by Tom Hanks in Big. I joke about having made a wish on the Zoltar machine. Yet, I would love to find one and make that wish to return to 13 or so. That might be why I’m figuring to sit in bed and say I’m not here check back later. Hmmm, could be.
Well, there’s a guy by the name of George who has written the song explaining the plight of those who wish to stay in bed. I met George online sometime after I went through my debacle with Buy Music and The Orchard. I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t know what that debacle is, so here’s a brief overview. I was the first non-signed artist from CD Baby to head to iTunes Music Store and many other digital download services. The contract requires that any CD is only presented by one company to prevent strange and bad things from happening when Apple pays me. Well one of my CD’s had a distribution agreement that I had believed to have been extinct. What I found instead was that The Orchard had it locked in beyond the physical delivery.
This was not a good thing for me in terms of that CD. So knowing that I wouldn’t get it resolved easily I made a PR release explaining the situation and what I figured would happen. Wouldn’t you know it, it caused a major uproar on a bunch of sites and started generating bad press for Buy Music and The Orchard. Upon the wave of the press, The Orchard let me out of the contract which was good of them. However, I would never recommend them to anyone – ever.
George unfortunately had a similar issue with the Orchard. In fact a lot of artists did at the time. So I kinda because a poster child for unsatisfied artists and how to get out of their contract with the Orchard.
Along comes the CD Baby event a few weeks ago, and George comes over to meet me and say hi and thank you for the information about the Orchard. In addition he gave me a CD to check out. Here it is. You’re listening now. Immediately upon putting the disc in, I begin to think its the Beatles. The Beatless with a heavy dose of George Harrison. It’s pretty consistent throughout the disc. George has some big talent playing on the CD. One of the guys is from the Hellicasters. Hmmm, I should feature them on the blog at some point.
I don’t normally wish to stay in bed for a grand length of time. But George’s song certainly makes me want to see this style of pop step beyond the modern sound music is now known for. I’m thinking that older and newer/younger listner/readers will associate with it. Even if you’re not older/younger/newer/etc. I think you’ll do well with addin this song of his to your playlist. It may even brighten up his day.