A friend of mine told me just recently that a gift that is given without time and effort, that is a gift that has no real value to him. Now there is this app where you get the information about who has a birthday and they even come up with suggestions for gifts to that person. You can even share a gift for free.

Now what is the value in such a gift?

Well the people presenting you with the gift they do share something with you and in many cases they do it out of a pure heart. But the method of giving these presents are without a doubt only one more way to commercialize our private lives.

If we don’t look out in the future, all we will be doing is sharing things thoughtless and the chance is that it will be automatic and without a care. Because face it, if things are being made really easy, there is a chance that us humans will do things that way instead of actually making time and effort to do things that gives meaning and a feeling of concern.  Now ask yourself, is that the kind of gift that you would want to have in the future?

I am still grateful about the gifts I received this birthday because this is still such a new idea. Taking the time to find out how to do it and that it was actually doable to do it, give the gifts a sense of thought and consideration.

But I am not sure that I will feel the same way about automatic gift giving in the future.

There is a real good friend of mine who doesn’t give gifts that way and who doesn’t need an aid to help him remember important birthdays. He knows who he is and I really appreciate the way he does things. Maybe he can bring that feeling of thought and consideration to his new home.

Keep it up brother.

We hope that you will enjoy listening to it, just as much as we enjoyed making it.
As usual we have a hard time deciding in what genre it should be represented. But we don’t let that stop us. If you want to, let us know what genre you think we should put it in and we will heed to the votes of the majority.

One thing is sure though. We will remember your name, will you remember ours?

Keep on making the dreams that you dream real.

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Listening

So you add a new song to ReverbNation or you start looking around at all the fantastic artists that share their music on the network. Then you realize that if you stop doing either, you will start falling on the graphs. So you start to neglect doing what made you end up there from the start, making music.

It’s just like twitter. There you need to update all the time if you want to keep your disciples coming, you don’t want to lose any of them because that means the possibility for you to spread the things you do decays over time.

But what is more important, to make the things you want or to collect disciples? It’s rumored about some guy who didn’t need more than 12 disciples to spread his word to the world. I don’t think that any of you will have less than him, so I guess it’s a fair chance that some of you will spread your word to the world.

Anyway, don’t stop trying. Making music is what it’s all about. And remember that all comments about what you do are good. Maybe someday someone tells you, this thing you did is really good. But this thing is not that good. And when you check it out you realize, they are right! And then you go about making music in a different way, still in a way that you like. But now suddenly you get a lot more people to listen to you.

Ain’t that what it’s all about?
Stay tuned.

Otherwise some old songs never brought to the publics attention have been discovered passing the test of time, at least in our own ears. I hope that your ears will be just as forgiving as our own.

So next stage for this song is the making of a video.

So me and Ramin have arranged a new song. Not the one in the title, but a new one all together. Name of the song is ”Please just remember my name” A song about those 15 minutes that we all seem to hope for.

The reason that I titled this posting ”American Dream” is because that’s the name of a new video that we’ve posted to youtube. If you want to watch it you can follow the link up above.

Reason it  takes so long in between postings and video is lack of time, anyone familiar with that? I really wish we had the resources to make a lot more music, we do not lack the ideas. And a lot more videos, no lack of ideas there either.

But If you bear with us, we will continue to produce and share as much as we can. And we will be doing it in our own way, disregarding any trend. I believe things gets better if you do it the way you feel like.

So until the next time. Enjoy whatever you are doing, if you don’t enjoy, dont do it.

Studio

So I added a new song to the player called The Singer. It’s a song about all these people really trying to say something with their music, contrary to those who just want fame and fortune.

A really good addition to this song was made by a good friend Martin Oldsberg on harmonica. I really loved everything he did in his contribution and I stand in awe when it comes to the way he handles that instrument. Thank you Martin.

Why I used that characters name Jesus in the song is because I believe there is a bit of that fictional character in all of us, we just don’t know it. Or we are afraid of finding out because it would give us such a great responsibility. But if we don’t accept our responsibility for things that is happening in the world, then the world will never become that place that we would like to live in ourselves.

The bridge in the song is about loving everybody without the restraints of bigotry and preconceptions. We have crossed many bridges in this world to make it a better place to live. Although it’s still a long way to go I hope that every step along the way will become easier because good people team up and breaks down the remaining walls around the right to love whomever you’d like.

So go out there and find that person in yourself that you yourself would like to meet. And if you do, maybe we all can too. So please, tell the world about your journey.

The Singer.