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

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Open D and Lemonade
Current mood:  enlightened
MMMMMMMMMM……I was REAL disappointed today. It takes a lot for me to get disappointed!!!!!! I was working on a song…… and in the midst of it…. a light bulb turned on in my head. The problem is……. the light bulb illuminated something I couldn’t or didn’t want to see before….. and now that I see it….. It is bad, bad, bad!!!!!!!!! I hate it when that happens! Bummer for me…. Now I have to make some changes!

Interestingly enough……… I was working on a song with an ALTERNATE tuning, when I became enlightened to the fact….. that I need to find an ALTERNATE route, to address my present disappointment! I found great comfort in this because……. if my new path sounds as beautiful as an open D tuning sounds….. In the end I will not feel this sad feeling I feel right now! I REALLY hate it when I have to learn something ugly!!!!!!

Sooooo if you are reading this…… maybe you could help me find some more tunings that will make me smile!!!!!!!!!!!!!If you can please send them too me, I would be grateful! I want to write a whole series of songs using these tunings, as I choose to find this new Alternate path! In the end I’ll have better music, and a better road to ride on!!!!!(smile) I am going to go make the best lemonade right now with all those ripe lemons…… I will be thirsty tomorrow on that long road into the unknown? Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a nice week!

Love,
Lex!

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