The first blog of… 365 Blogs To Finding Pinocchio A Home                     

Who knows what will happen!  I am here to figure it all out as I go and share every step of it with you.  So what made me think of this title?  Well, I have a song called, Pinocchio, and in many ways this title connects to the driving force in me right now.  This will all come out as the blogs continue.  For now, let me just say that I am a singer, a songwriter and a guitarist who has a very solid purpose, to be of service to others through writing, singing and playing music.

I love music!  I love listening to it, I love singing to it, but most of all, I love creating it.  There is no better sensation then when I sit down to create something and have no clue what will come out and then realize a few hours have passed and I am left with this new birth of a song.  It is pure inspiration that does this.  It always finds it’s way gently inside my mind, my body and my soul.  There is no other feeling like it!  It’s pure happiness to me.

So, where am I gonna start?  I think I’ll begin with a conversation I recently had with a tv and film producer.  I have been refocusing my career path this past year and a half towards getting my songs placed and licensed to make a full time living as a musician.  Having my songs in projects like TV and film would provide me with possible passive income, residual money, and that could give me the opportunity to record more music, play more gigs and reach more people on a greater scale.  That is the goal, to share my creativity on a greater level.  I have been doing music for over 15 years and while I have learned so much, I feel as though I am just beginning.  So, then, where am I going to start?  Right from the beginning!

Today I finished recording a new song that I truly love and believe in.   More to come on that soon.  All I want to say about it right now is it’s done and I have a few ideas racing around my head concerning where I would like Pinocchio to be placed, ideally in TV land, and I will share my ideas on that with you soon enough as well.  This song totally excites me to no end.  The producer for it, Ron Zabrocki, truly understands my style as an artist and he nailed the production of this song.

The main reason I recorded Pinocchio was for a bigger purpose than just to release it to my fans.  I recorded it so I could send it to a TV show that is about to air in the next week or so.  I’ll tell you about the whole story soon, but for now, let’s begin this journey!

What to do!  Hmmm.  Ok, I am going to take the advice from the tv and film producer I met up with and spend time today by putting one foot in front of the other, rather than dive in head first and drown of exhaustion half way through the swim.  Today I will spend some time online getting familiar with the top music supervisors for tv and film.  I think I may spend a few days doing this, but let’s play it by ear.  Maybe a top 10 wish list of supervisors.

The goal here is to make this fun and exciting, rather than scary and confronting.  See, that’s what stops me many times from playing the game fully.  Fear!  So many kinds of fear have come in over me during the past 15 years, particularly when I was at the verge of being signed by a label or I was in the beginning of working with someone solid in the music industry that could have helped the advancement of my career.   Sabotage frequently crept on in, without a sound, and then WHAMO, the deal somehow crumbled and the project quickly dissipated.  Well, I am now aware of this, and as I have been working through these fears and allowing myself a chance to be happy, I am finally willing to let go and let the powers that be help me out.  It’s called having Faith and I am on board with it.  I am ready to try something new.  I am ready to follow rules, to be a part of the community, to play big and let go of being small to please other small people.  I am letting go of my ego so I can really play this game fully and no matter what, I can sit here and write to you day in and day out about what it is I am doing.  The result is no longer a major factor.  It’s the journey.  And while I have stated that time and time again, this time it means something different.  Now, the journey is me simply getting up everyday and following a path I believe in and sharing the steps with you, the reader.

I think that will be it for my first blog.  I look forward to meeting you back here for blog #2.

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