Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Firsts and the 22nd!!!!!!!!!
Current mood:  adventurous
Hi There….

I can’t wait to share some pretty cool stuff with you….

First of all… My website has been hit by over 51 countries…  Can you believe that? There are 191 countries on this planet… so this is a nice start!!!!!

I decided to make this a year of firsts…….

Which leads too……One week from today…..next Thursday, January 22nd, I will be singing in Atlanta, GA at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Atlanta room at 8:00pm,  with a musician I have never performed with before!!!!  One of my goals this year is to work with different musicians.    I think as an artist I need to experiment to grow……  So I have been in the lab mixing up some interesting compounds……  and I believe you will enjoy the concoction that this chemical reaction will make…….  Personally I think it is smoking……  in a beautiful way…… (smile)  If you didn’t understand that…..  I am going to perform several new songs that evening with my new friend and accompanist Matthew Smith!!!!!!!!  I am so excited and just can’t wait to share some new songs with you!  The hardest part for me about being a songwriter is that I just want to record and sing all my new songs…..  but I still got to nurture the old songs!!!!!!!!!!!  It’s like giving birth!!!!  A lot of work taking care of the babies!!!!!!!

Which leads to another first…..I have been taking A LOT of guitar lessons and am really trying to make that guitar sound beautiful…..  I have always written everything on my piano and guitar, but have not been able to make my hands work as well as my voice……. So I have always had other people play my songs for me……   This year at some point, Maybe the 22nd,  I am going to take the stage and accompany myself, and just go for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (smile)  Not all my songs…..  just a few……  I love working with other people too much to want to do it alone….

Which Leads too…….  One of the greatest things that has happened…..
I was reconnected with an old friend that I have known for almost my whole life!  This friend is an entertainment lawyer, and has started helping me!!!!!!!   We are having a lot of fun….. We have some BIG surprises we are working on!!!!!!  Hopefully I will tell you about them soon!!!!!!

Lastly, Another Goal I have this year, continued from last year……. is to go on tour and open for someone REALLY super!!!!!(smile)  So if all works out…….  I will come play in your neck of the woods soon!!!  If you can help make that goal a reality……  please contact me!!!!!!

I am going to start a contest right now!!!!!!!!!!   If you do something really cool for the first time…..  send me a picture or email me…….  At the end of the year I am going to write a song about someone’s wildest “first”……. Won’t that be interesting!!!!!!!!  Ummmmmmmm……….  It is going to be an awsome song…… so please send me some very cool stories!!!!!!!!

One of my friends from college set up a fan page on facebook and you can join if you want……www.facebook.com/group.php   .. also you can visit my reverbnation site and join my mailing list @ www.reverbnation.com/alexisvear This is where I send out my personal emails to my supporters!!!!!!! 

I so hope I see you on the 22nd…..  Thanks so much for your support…… You have No idea how much it means to me!!!!!!!!! 

Love Ya,

Lexers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Currently listening:
Human Touch
By Bruce Springsteen
Release date: 2008-02-01

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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Next Week………….
Current mood:  pensive
Category: Music
With Thanksgiving coming up next week……. I’ve been thinking about what that means!

In April I went to Japan, and China……. Both countries taught me so much!!!!!!!!!!!! Tokyo is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been….. and I met the COOLEST musicians there!!!!!!!! Tokyo is just something you can’t even imagine, until you go!!!!!!! They really do eat A LOT of raw fish….. I like raw fish, but by the third day… I’de see a piece of fish in the window…… and I would get the shakes…. my whole body would shutter…. but by the 5th day…. I was all better!

After we left Japan, we went to China. China was COMPLETELY different from Japan!!!!!! Beautiful in it’s own way……… But it was Chaos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I got home from the trip……. I was just so thankful to be born in this country…… To be an American……. I’ve written a couple of songs about the trip. Someday I will share them with you. They will give you an idea of what I learned…… But until then, I wanted to share some of my photo’s from the trip with you! I just uploaded them this evening!!!!!!! If you go to my pictures you will see an Album titled Japan and China!!!!!!!! I hope you enjoy them!

Thanks for visiting….. And most of all…… Thanks for taking an interest in my music!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love,
Lex

Currently listening:
Imagine
By Eva Cassidy
Release date: 2002-08-20

Sunday, November 02, 2008

Interview With Alexis
Current mood:  fascinated
Category: Music

This is a trip!!!!!! I was just informed that a recent interview between myself and Juniors Cave is now traveling heavily through cyberspace! If you are interested in learning more about me and my music……. You can check out the interview by going to www.juniorscave.com/AlexisVear.html ! I hope you enjoy….. and if you are reading this…… Thank you for your interest and support! Have a terrific week! (smile)

Love,
Lex

Currently listening:
The Joshua Tree
By U2
Release date: 1990-06-1

Saturday, November 01, 2008

Costumes Of Life!!!!!!!!!!!
Current mood:  indescribable
Category: Music
Tonight as the tricker treaters were coming and going, dressed in their costumes…… I thought how ironic the world was.

Everyday people wake up and dress to play their part for the day! The business man wears his suit, the post man wears his uniform, the nurse and doctors wear their scrubs. Everyone dresses to play their part in life. On Halloween, they dress to be scary, or to be the person they secretly wish to be, or to be anything but who they really are…….. I thought today, that an interesting Halloween would be, when everyone dressed in the reality of who they are. Wouldn’t that be something?

The Business man might be a monster…. The Chiropractor might be an angel, and the Plumber might be a savior!!!!!!!!!! This year has been a wild ride for me. I went to China, and stayed at the Ritz. One day I walked a block and opened a beautiful door and found HELL. Here at home I have found people dressed in the finest garb, only to find that beneath it all was another kind of hell! I turn the corner and BAM….. I see the truth! I’ve been writing a lot of songs lately about the things I’ve seen! About the truths…….

I dedicated my CD “Let It Go” to all the woman in the world searching for, and living their dreams… and all the men that support them. I felt compelled to make that dedication… not fully understanding why. In the last year, it has come to my attention why this CD needed to be dedicated to the woman of this world, and to those special men!

Tonight I am going to make a wish that people quit dressing up everyday…… quit putting on their costumes every day of the year…. Start representing the reality of who they truly are….. and if they don’t like what they see… They will change what is beneath their costume of lies!

I hope you have a Nice Halloween weekend… and TRY dressing as yourself today……. I hope you LIKE what you see! I can’t wait to share my new songs with you someday soon! I might need to call it “Costumes Of Life”….. Happy Halloween! I will go to sleep tonight, thankful for the people that are not creepy goblins dressed in beautiful garb!

Love,
Lex

Currently listening:
Moonshadow: The Bluegrass Tribute to Cat Stevens
By Various Artists
Release date: 2001-05-29

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Yea!!!!!! I’m A Featured Artist… Soooo much fun!!!!!!!
Current mood:  ecstatic
Category: Music
Yahooooooo………. REVERBNATION made me a FEATURED ARTIST on their homepage!!!!! They pick 10 artists a week, and rotate 3 every 3-4 minutes……. How cool is that!!!! I am hanging with Alison Krauss …. She is a featured artist as well! They are the greatest people who own that company…. and they give you the most incredible widgets to pass around. If you are an artist, go to my myspace page, and to the left you will see one of their mailing list widgets. If you push on it…. you can go to the reverbnation site, and start getting your own widgets!!!!!!!

Last night when I was sad, I wrote a blog about starting down a new alternate route today ………. Then I made a bunch of lemonade with the lemons of my life….. and I drank it all morning! Then I got the letter from my friend at REVERBNATION, telling me they made me a featured artist!!!!!! I hope this is a good sign of things to come!!!!!!!!!!!!! They say when you close a door… a new one opens!!! I am sooooo Thankful to Big Daddy Angel… You know who you are!!!!!!!(smile) Also, if you read my blog…… I found a WHOLE bunch of info on the net about Alternate tunings!!!!!!!! Did you know there is a tuning called the SPIRIT, another one called The MAGIC FARMER and the one that cracks me up is called the BUZZARD!!!!! The BUZZARD is CFCGAF………. I hope you have a super rest of the week….. and if you are an artist…. I hope you discover reverbnation today…… and have fun using their widgets!!!!!!

Love Ya,

The Lexers!!!!!!!!

Currently listening:
She Talks to Angels
By The Black Crowes
Release date: 1992-06-10