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| | Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 4:20 PM | | I just learned that there is some guy going on around here blocking anyone who claims to be friends with me. Oh well! I don't care about him, nor the people that take his side of that issue. I am only here to play my music...and to make my videos. THAT'S IT! I am a grown man who has not the time to be messing with that old~time, played out non sense. If you regret being friends with me....you don't have to worry about that. You know where the door is. However, I am happy to report that I have some more...REAL friends here. Because of them (amoung other reasons) I ain't going anywhere. I love it here...I thank God for the chance to play my music...and love the friends that listen to it. Keep hating me for my color...or whatever reason...I am above that. You can't stop me....I am taking flight...and flying amoungst eagles.
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| Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 12:44 PM | | As you either know...or don't, I had been on vacation for most of this month. It was a wonderful three weeks off to myself and with my family (see pics below). But I must tell you this one thing: I REALLY got to be with my passions ....my production work. Sheesh! I love making music...and setting it to pictures (or is it the other way around...filming moving pictures and setting it to original music?) Either way...I really got the chance to reach in deep and pull my soul out! This was a very humbling more...deal because i was then reminded of how blessed I had been to have this gift! I didn't have to have it....as well as I could have been born without it. So I just wanted to take this time to say that I am one greatful producer. I thank God big time for giving me the gift and talent...so that i can keep making these songs (and videos to the songs) for all of you! When you see one of them, i want you to remeber what I just told you....and realize that I will neither forsake my gifting, nor forget who gave it to me! MM less | |
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 4:52 AM | | With respect to the last video "Sweet Spirit of Phaedress" Phadress was ...and has been a friend back at you tube for almost a year now. I had always thought of her as a beautiful spirit. As a musician...I was jealous that someone else started producing original music in order for her to produce her videos with (I had wanted to do that for such a beautiful lady) That's how I knew that I was musically inspired by her. A true artist ...be it with notes on a piano, or paint on a canvas...lives and dies more...(or better yet....just breathes, or is driven) by their inspiration. She had already been driving me.
Well, I was devastated (for lack of a better word, or disturbed) by this video made by my inspirational friend....Phaedress...in which she comes clean with her true self image, which was at times not whole...."and nothing could ever fill the void" ever again.I was moved. As a musician / artist, as a friend...as a fellow human...I was moved! That's when I had to act on my instinct...to not only express myself theraputically, but to replace her void with something, even if it meant only partially. I had no choice. I would not be myself if I did nothing. The song came naturally in three days (after forcing it unsuccessfuly for the first two). If the life and/or light in the person is uplifting and/or celebratory, wouldn't the musical description of that essence be coresrondingly celebratory in an up tempo kinda way, as a kind of musical/poetic impramateur? The visuals and music in this video alludes not to tragedy, but to life, influence, strength warmth and benificence.
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| Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 9:43 AM | | Their marriage was good, their dreams focused. Their best friends lived barely a wave away. I can see them now, Dad in trousers, tee shirt and a hat and Mom in a house dress, lawn mower in one hand, and dish-towel in the other. It was the time for fixing things. A curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door, the oven door, the hem in a dress. Things we keep. It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy. All that re-fixing, eating, renewing, I wanted just once to be wasteful. Waste meant more...affluence. Throwing things away meant you knew there'd always be more.
But then my mother died, and on that clear summer's night, in the warmth of the hospital room, I was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't an y more.
Sometimes, what we care about most gets all used up and goes away...never to return. So... While we have it... it's best we love it... And care for it.... And fix it when it's broken..... And heal it when it's sick.
This is true... For marriage.... And old cars.... And children with bad report cards..... Dogs and cats with bad hips.... And aging parents.... And grandparents. We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it. Some things we keep. Like a best friend that moved away or a classmate we grew up with.
There are just some things that make life important, like people we know who are special.... And so, we keep them close!
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| Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 9:29 AM | | Man.....I hope you guys are having a wonderful and Happy New year so far! Can't wait to see what's going to happen in this year! (¯`v´¯) HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
`*.¸.*´PEACE
¸.•´¸.•*¨) ¸.•*¨)LOVE
(¸.•´ (¸.•´ .•´ ¸¸.•¨¯`•HAPPINESS
(`*•.¸( `*•.¸ ¸.•*´ )¸.•*´ )HEALTH
«´`•.* 2008 *.•´`»LUCK
(¸.•*´( ¸.•*´ `*•.¸ )`*•.¸ )FUN
ALL THE GOOD STUFF!!!
Best Wishes!! (((HUGS)))
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"You don't have to agree with me....you don't have to have much in common either. Just walk with me.....that's enough to start a great understanding." more...to have much in common either. Just walk with me.....that's enough to start a great understanding." less
Added: Jan 22, 09
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| | | | | | | |  | "Missy's Boardwalk" original tune by MelloMel 
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Don't you love walking under the "boardwalk?" Don't you just love the fresh cozy air, the friendly, loving people, the rides, the campfires, the ocean, more...the food, the food and most of all, the food? Lynn and I just happen to go to the coast for our anniversary month (Sept...8 yrs). On the last few roads trips, we have managed to catch a little board walk~time....as we would pass by (on the way back home). Missy can only remember the last few times in her almost seven years of riding along. Although Missy's attendance has changed the nature of our road trips from "Lynn and I" time, to "okay...it's all of us now" time, she has only added to the total enjoyment of getting away...and getting out there! There is something about the boardwalk that she plugs into; between all of the things to see, taste, and do, Missy becomes an aesthetic sponge and soaks it all up with eyes wide open! It is so hard to explain...you really have to just be there with her to experience the crazy fun she brings. It will turn you all into big kids guaranteed. Missy is the official owner of the boardwalk venues. She OWNS the board walk. She loves everything about it...and loves being in the midst of all the friendly people. This song came to me as I sat and thought about how Missy's soul was left...back at the place that I now consider "Missy's Boardwalk!" Please enjoy my friends!
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Added: Sep 15, 08
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|  | "House cleaning" An Original tune by Mello Mel (featuring my new fretless bass)
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I wanted to just do a jam featuring MY NEW FRETLESS JAZZ BASS! Yeah! Anyways....do you ever feel guilty when your spouse is cleaning the house...while more...you are just playin your new fretless jazz bass...and having fun on Live Video? Well, that was the point of this song; this song is not dedicated to all the hard working folks out there that clean the house, but to those IN the house that feel guilty about it, while they sit peacefully in the back yard....with their new fretless, Fender jazz bass. Cheers mates! (Truth be told...I do help out with stuff. I just wanted you guys to have something to laugh about for a second. I do all the outside work. Just ask Lynn :) less
Added: Sep 12, 08
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| |  | To Plant a Tree
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This is the story of a wonderful Birch tree that had become old. It was dried up and dead looking as well. Lynn and Missy were ashamed to even get caught more...looking at it. This tree had to go....in order to make room for the new tree.....what a sacrifice. Are you that willing to sacrifice everything, or anything you know and love for the sake of another? You don't hear about that anymore. Gone are the days when real people knew what sacrifice meant...and was still willing to do it for the greater good of another. Gone are those days. less
Added: Sep 9, 08
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|  | "Horse Happy" an original tune by MelloMel & friends
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(Pictures courtesy of wifey Lyn).
Missy was scheduled to attend a friends birthday party, which was on a work day for me...yeah..great! So when more...I came home that evening, I wanted to see the pictures Lynn had taken. Needless to say...I was amazed; I had no idea that this little kid's party had taken place at a horse ranch...complete with horse rides! So many thoughts began to race through my head: 1) any parent would want to be in attendance for their child's first anything...including horse riding....so imagine the feeling I had of being left behind and missing all that fun. 2) Just by looking at the pictures...I realized that horses are special creations. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think they are the biggest animal that kids can get the closest to i.e., right on the horses back. It's no question in my mind that a shy, little kid can gain the greatest confidence knowing that he, or she can ride on the back of such a strong, tall and beautiful friend (horse). This song was inspired at first by the sadness I had once I 'd realized what an awesome time I had missed. But as the music builds, it is inspired by the strong beauty posed by all horses (and other animals in general). I know first hand that Missy left her horse with so much confidence and happiness...it's hard for me to imagine that these beautiful creatures can give so much to a young person's self esteem, but receive mistreatment and abuse in return. I dedicate this song to the wonderful horses that made my daughter happy that day...as well to the people like Diane (Galaxy) who work hard to protect them. To see them as the strong creatures they are...but to get close to them as friends is a totally awesome feeling. Thus the term..."Horse~Happy." less
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