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

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.
Enjoy my friends! MM  less

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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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
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(¸.•´ (¸.•´ .•´ ¸¸.•¨¯`•HAPPINESS
(`*•.¸( `*•.¸ ¸.•*´ )¸.•*´ )HEALTH
«´`•.* 2008 *.•´`»LUCK
(¸.•*´( ¸.•*´ `*•.¸ )`*•.¸ )FUN
ALL THE GOOD STUFF!!!
Best Wishes!! (((HUGS)))


Mello Mel and Fam!!!!!!

Man...I am feeling the love of the LV community! It's the way I felt at YouTube...in the beginning. This is special...and I hope it stays like this for a while. Still working on the other Christmas songs......they will be forth coming!