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Name: Steve
Country: United States
State: North Carolina
Metro: boone
Birthday: 5/1/1969
Gender: Male
Interests: God, my wife, my son and daughter Plus: Simple church concepts theological discussions music computers golf podcasting
Expertise: music, computers, not golf yet ;)
Industry: Other
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
2/1/2006
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| For those of you following our adoption process, you may want to read this! | | |
| It's been a LONG time since I posted here. And I hate that my post is mostly self-serving. But here goes...
Indieheaven is an organization that aids independent artists (like me) in their careers through networking, resources, etc. And each year, they have what they call "Momentum Awards" -- sort of their version of the grammy. ;)
I was nominated this year for an award, and there was an early round of voting. Starting February 1 and running through March 1 is the second round of voting. The top vote-getters from the first round are in the running as finalists.
I was pleased to find out that I am one of four finalists in the
"Instrumental Artist of the Year" category!!
So, if you don't mind, please head over to http://www.indieheaven.com/momentum_awards.php and cast your vote before March 1.
I'm honored to be nominated for this award, and appreciate those of you who are supporting me in this.
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| For those of you interested in following our adoption possibilities, you will want to read my latest post on Love Each Child. We are rejoicing at the work God is doing. And as you will see by that post, the news is even better than what we thought the best outcome could be!
We anxiously await the next step in the process... | | |
| I can't resist posting this. But first a little background:
Now that my music is getting out there online, I've started to get emails from "promoters" and other people desperately wanting to represent me or to have me hire them to promote me.
I don't think for a minute that they really care about me, so most of them just go to the email version of the circular file. Like the one that said their friend had suggested they check out my music because they might be able to promote me. The problem was, they referred to me as "you guys", thinking that I was a band. And even more telling was the subject line: "Breathe Rocked!"
Now, people may really dig my rendition of "Breathe", and it does happen to be the first track on my PureVolume site (where they said they "listened" to my music), but I'm not sure that anyone who actually listened to it would use the term "rocked" as a description. But then, what do you expect from someone who thought I was actually a band? ;)
So, anyway, one today really caught my attention, and I decided to have a little fun. Below is the entire email conversation, with only the name of the "promoter" changed to protect the dishonest:
Email from I. B. Lyon
Hey,
Just wanted to tell you I enjoyed your music. Did you write your own lyrics and music? Let me know, also if you need any help recording or promoting yourself. Let me know, I can help.
Thanks,
I. B. Lyon
[I.B.'s myspace address and phone number removed]
My response to I. B. Lyon
I. B.,
A little friendly tip. If you want to mass email musicians to see if
you can get business from them, and you use phrases like "I enjoyed
your music", it would be more honest to actually LISTEN to their music
before emailing them.
If you actually HAD listened to my music and enjoyed it, you would
know that my music is instrumental, which means there are no lyrics.
So why would you ask me if I write my own lyrics? It's a like a big
red flag that says, "This guy is trying to scam me."
Sending out emails like this that clearly show you don't know anything
about my music are a sure way for me to NOT ask you for help recording
or promoting. And if anyone were to ask about you, I would tell them
to look for someone who is honest and ethical.
Good luck with your business, Mr. Lyon. Try being personal, honest, and
ethical, and you might actually succeed.
Sincerely,
Steve Sensenig
The incredibly verbose response from I. B. Lyon
Noted.
Thank you,
I. B.
I can't stop laughing!!
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| So I was perusing CNN's online headlines today, and saw this headline: Chinese rocket blasts off to moon. Interesting, huh? Check out this paragraph:
The launch comes just weeks after China's regional rival Japan put a
probe into orbit around the moon in a big leap forward for Asia's
undeclared space race. India is likely to join the regional rivalry
soon, with plans to send its own lunar probe into space in April.
For some reason, that just struck me as really funny. It's like some strange time warp. Almost 40 years ago, the US, in a "space race", lands on the moon. Now all of a sudden, Asia is having a "space race" to the moon? That is soooo 1960's! ;)
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