Learning in cyber

Okay actually I don't know if this should be called learning in Cyber or about Cyber. A friend of mine told me the other day about the value of Tweeting -- keep in mind, this is something I have avoided for so long. I think, as a matter of fact I know that I am from the school of thought that you keep your mouth shut about what you are doing until you have something to put in their hand. Now the funny thing is, I never took this approach when working on Mondisa's album when it was about process and letting people in to the process. I think I just take the approach for myself. Sometimes the concepts of Blogging, Tweeting, Facebook, etc. seem foreign to me -- letting people know what I'm thinking all the time? Shit it is an interesting pill to swallow but I'm getting to the point that I feel, no I know, it is a necessity these days. Considering this, I recruited some help from a friend who is a guru nerd, which is what he calls his business. The Brotha knows all the shit about social media and networking. He's schooling me on the ways of Blogging, Twitter, Facebook, Websites, etc., and how to link them all together. For example someone like myself one would have to consider out of the know when I have a Blog that I haven't written in for two years -- not good huh? Anyway, I thought about this because of the musical turns that have taken place over the past couple of years. It's amazing how my own music projects get pushed back as I find it impossible to turn down new projects and offers from other folks. I say this because if I had been blogging about the twists and turn more often, just being able to read my own entries may have very well focused me to the point of turning down those things that pulled me out of focus. Maybe someone out their reading would have said to me, "what the fuck are you doing, I thought you were about to finish such and such." You know a way to keep myself on track we could say. Well regardless I went over some of the tunes the other day to use for this long awaited project of mine and damn, I have some serious material. Sometimes I think I'm a bad Mo'Fo, well this is one of those times.

Once I get all this together -- the social media, the music, the acting, and KeepitHot. Unstoppable baby, unstoppable. If I sound boastful, how else can I justify this creative urge at 3:00 am when I have to be up and headed to the gym in one hour. Shit if I thought I wasn't good, I'd good the fuck back to sleep.

Oh yeah and since the last entry I am finally the owner of a beautiful, 73 Fender Rhodes. I have been working on my cousin Jerry -- the one from the Mondisa video's -- for a couple of years to give up this board. I don't think he has used it since he played with the Whispers, and he may not have used it then. Regardless after a couple of years of trying to get him to sell it to me, he called the other day and just said "Ant come on and pick up the Rhodes, you can have it." I had been pricing them on Ebay and Craiglist and he calls me when I'm about to drop about $1200. Nice. I can't thank that Brotha enough. The $1200 hundred I was going to spend meant that some bills might not get paid that month. He saved me. It is a beautiful instrument and definitely in the right hands. Okay, now I am done. Wait a minute, I'm not done. Speaking of digital, cyber, and I just realized today that I need to purchase an Akai MPK49, oh yeah this is one bad piece. Helps me out with Reason quite a bit on my Reason creative bursts. Speaking on that, more to come of my work with BrothaNat and Nick Baham. See ya, finally.