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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
christmas day and after
well, there went christmas
felt kinda quick this year for some reason.....maybe it was just me. i'm not sure what the reason was---it was great spending time with family, exchanging a few gifts and all.....
but for some reason it kinda felt more like "mini-christmas"....
it's hard to judge how significant a thing is until you've had time to process it and move on past it.....but for some reason this year didn't seem to feel "slow motion" enough to be significant....
who knows. it did feel christmasy when i watched Elf and Home Alone. However, most of my TV watching over the holiday was spent on the Discovery Channel. I couldn't peel my eyes away from this program about deep deep sea life (the kinda stuff that glows biolescently or whatever they say.....unreal...), and also this program about these 2 tame tigers that get put out into the wild to see if their instincts will kick in---and they did---these huge cats that had been fed like dogs all their lives made a few kills (small stuff at first--porcupine, baby deer or something---then something clicked inside them and they slaughtered a whole flock of antelopes--reminded me of that old disney cartoon Lambert the Sheepish Lion)
anyway.....
all to say, Christmas was great. but i wish it would've slowed down a tad more.
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CONTEST UPDATE CONTEST UPDATE CONTEST UPDATE CONTEST UPDATE CONTEST
Ok so the official CONTEST page is up on my new youtube account (youtube.com/andydavis) under groups. Today is the first day you can join the Group and post your videos, so have at it!! I've seen a few videos, and let me say, I'm proud to discover that people who listen to my music are chock full of creative juices. Creative fruit juices in some cases, and probably high in antioxidants. But seriously I've been really impressed by a few of the videos that I've seen---keep em coming.
There's still plenty of time to get a bunch of people to view your video, so have at it people.
Here's the link to the OFFICIAL CONTEST GROUP :
http://www.youtube.com/profile_groups?user=andydavis
ps. I'll be uploading my new videos from now on at youtube.com/andydavis, so if you're a friend/subscriber at the youtube.com/jarvisweaver account, the party is moving. So don't get left---
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Well, I'm going to go play with my new toys that Santa brought me--drive my hot lamborghini-
ps. I had this great idea for a video that I was going to post---I was at the mall and I saw this white Lamborghini, like straight out of Dumb and Dumber, but white---I was going to video myself in front of it, coffee in hand, talking about how I had gotten it for Christmas and all......but as i walked over there and got my camera out, the owner walked up and gave me a strange look. So....I made a forrest gump wave and ran away. I should've dumped my coffee on his hood just to see what would happen. It would've made a great video)
pss. i may or may not be coming into dallas jan 2-5 to work on a music video. if there's anything really exciting going on that I should know about, or if you forgot to mail my Christmas present and you want to drop it off, please let me know (andy@andydavisonline.com)
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Alternative pop songster Andy Davis returns this fall with his piano and soaring falsetto for his first full-band LP. Recorded in 10 days in Los Angeles with legendary producer Mitchell Froom (Sheryl Crow, Los Lobos, Elvis Costello, Crowded House, Randy Newman), "Let The Woman" is a collection of songs that separates Davis from the crowd.
Earning comparisons from Ben Folds to Paul Simon to Badly Drawn Boy, as well as the classic story-centered songwriting of Billy Joel, this Nashville-based 25-year-old embraces a range of times, influences and genres, his distinctive melodies and infectious layered vocals anchored by personal yet universal lyrics.
Andy has recently signed a deal with bigHelium records and Barnes & Noble, who will exclusively release and promote "Let The Woman" this fall in their more than 700 stores located throughout the United States.
Look for Andy Davis on tour through the spring and summer, and pick up a copy of "Let The Woman" -- on sale at Barnes & Noble Booksellers and at www.bn.com. The album also just released to iTunes on February 5th! |
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| Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
christmas day and after
well, there went christmas
felt kinda quick this year for some reason.....maybe it was just me. i'm not sure what the reason was---it was great spending time with family, exchanging a few gifts and all.....
but for some reason it kinda felt more like "mini-christmas"....
it's hard to judge how significant a thing is until you've had time to process it and move on past it.....but for some reason this year didn't seem to feel "slow motion" enough to be significant....
who knows. it did feel christmasy when i watched Elf and Home Alone. However, most of my TV watching over the holiday was spent on the Discovery Channel. I couldn't peel my eyes away from this program about deep deep sea life (the kinda stuff that glows biolescently or whatever they say.....unreal...), and also this program about these 2 tame tigers that get put out into the wild to see if their instincts will kick in---and they did---these huge cats that had been fed like dogs all their lives made a few kills (small stuff at first--porcupine, baby deer or something---then something clicked inside them and they slaughtered a whole flock of antelopes--reminded me of that old disney cartoon Lambert the Sheepish Lion)
anyway.....
all to say, Christmas was great. but i wish it would've slowed down a tad more.
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CONTEST UPDATE CONTEST UPDATE CONTEST UPDATE CONTEST UPDATE CONTEST
Ok so the official CONTEST page is up on my new youtube account (youtube.com/andydavis) under groups. Today is the first day you can join the Group and post your videos, so have at it!! I've seen a few videos, and let me say, I'm proud to discover that people who listen to my music are chock full of creative juices. Creative fruit juices in some cases, and probably high in antioxidants. But seriously I've been really impressed by a few of the videos that I've seen---keep em coming.
There's still plenty of time to get a bunch of people to view your video, so have at it people.
Here's the link to the OFFICIAL CONTEST GROUP :
http://www.youtube.com/profile_groups?user=andydavis
ps. I'll be uploading my new videos from now on at youtube.com/andydavis, so if you're a friend/subscriber at the youtube.com/jarvisweaver account, the party is moving. So don't get left---
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Well, I'm going to go play with my new toys that Santa brought me--drive my hot lamborghini-
ps. I had this great idea for a video that I was going to post---I was at the mall and I saw this white Lamborghini, like straight out of Dumb and Dumber, but white---I was going to video myself in front of it, coffee in hand, talking about how I had gotten it for Christmas and all......but as i walked over there and got my camera out, the owner walked up and gave me a strange look. So....I made a forrest gump wave and ran away. I should've dumped my coffee on his hood just to see what would happen. It would've made a great video)
pss. i may or may not be coming into dallas jan 2-5 to work on a music video. if there's anything really exciting going on that I should know about, or if you forgot to mail my Christmas present and you want to drop it off, please let me know (andy@andydavisonline.com)
Bye
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Posted By Andy Davis @ 5:37 PM |
| Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
christmas dance party
hristmas is a week away....wow---craziness
i went to the gym today, mainly because i decided to fight against the temptation to act like a kodiak bear getting ready for hibernation and storing up a bunch of reserves in my haunches (wherever those are).....casseroles and apple cobbler make great haunches (whatever those are)
the only problem with going to the gym, for me at least, is that since my gym visits are pretty sporatic (i.e. few and far between) i try to do every workout in the entire gym with as much weight and as many reps as i can possibly handle, to make up for all the time i haven't worked out.....and to prepare for the likely chance that it'll be a while before i work out again.....
the only problem with that habit is that it leaves me in an utter jello state for the next 3 days.
the good thing about the jello state of my muscles is that i kinda like the feeling----i imagine it's what Neo felt like in the Matrix after they let him out of that egg sac thing, using his muscles for the first time. so i kinda like the feeling. kinda.
IPOD VIDEO CONTEST:
...so some people i talked to asked for a little creative guidance on videos for this Official iPod Video Contest thing (for details, go to andydavisonline.com and read the news entry).
anyway, for you guys that might need a little jumpstart, here are some ideas i came up with. obviously, you don't have to use these, but they may spark some ideas.
Personally, I would love to see videos that feature:
-live chickens
-a cute girl eating something nasty and smiling
-sumo wrestling--fake or real--with or without mud
-a choreographed dance video for Beautiful Day For Bad News featuring only puppets
-a live piercing, or tattoo of my name on your body
-6 puppies pulling a sleigh full of my cds
-a person painting their face like the ultimate warrior while Our Love Is Not Their Business plays in the background
-a business meeting between a group of toddlers in business suits, discussing my career
ps. a video containing all of these things would definitely be in the lead for the Most Creative Award, which receives an iPod shuffle i think....i'll have to check the rules
pss. what would an iPod Shuggle do?
psss. if the song titles i've mentioned above sound vaguely familiar, you must not have my new cd. go to barnes and noble and buy like 16 of them to give away for christmas presents. then i won't be mad at you anymore.
SO....hope these get you started if you're stumped for an idea. again, you win the iPods by having the most views on your Youtube page, not just by being sweet or pretty.
CHRISTMAS DANCE PARTY:
this past weekend i went to a christmas party, and some dancing broke out. unfortunately, it wasn't good dancing, so my friend jeremy cowart and I decided to show people the real deal.
we couldn't remember the real deal at that moment, though, so we decided to come up with the most random, dumb dances we could think of.
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| Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
steeeeevieee!! wonder.
steeeeeviee!! wonder.
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so once again i missed tuesday. i think my calendar actually didn't have tuesday on it this week....not sure if that was a typo, but i went straight to wednesday. and....today happened to be wednesday as well
ok so a couple days ago, i had to rearrange my list of top life experiences.....i finally got to see stevie wonder in concert. and it was amazing.
seriously, he's one of my heroes, and has been for a long time....i tend to get hooked on an artist and then find everything they've ever recorded....all the deep album cuts that never get to radio.....random b-sides that were never released....I like trying to see them as a whole, rather than settling for the picture that their "hits" portray of them.....try to find the little mistakes or bits of humanity that can only be found by digging deep into their catalog.....not to the point that you don't like them anymore, or become less impressed, but for the purpose of reminding you that they are indeed humans, and aren't always as "on" as one hit recording might suggest. However, knowing that they recording the "on" recordings the same way they recorded the "off" ones makes the great performances that much more exciting for some reason....at least for me.
I guess for stevie (and any recording artist from back in the day), technology wasn't advanced enough to fix tiny details of recordings, so what you hear is, for the most part, what was played in person. I think that's maybe why i listen to way more old recordings than new---and maybe why on my recordings i try and make it obvious that I'm playing and singing everything honestly, rather than "fixing" stuff digitally....even if it means leaving slight imperfections (but who am i kidding, i never make mistakes, right? please do not disagree with this statement)
So anyway, the concert. stevie, in spite of being like 50 or 60 years old, sang all the songs in the original keys, full voice....KILLED IT. I wasn't sure what to expect, and kinda talked myself down to expect a less spirited version of a few old hit songs.....but seriously, on the first song, after kinda toying with the audience a little bit, he leaned back and belted this super high note as pure and strong as ever.....i got kinda emotional.....(not like the little girls who you see on the front row of michael jackson live concerts....i promise)
but really, i was truly floored---he still has it---the voice, the keyboards, the harmonica....he may be older (his daughter, who looked about 25 or 30 was singing background vocals), and he may be a little slower on his head-gyrations, but it was the real thing.
actually i kinda did a nerd thing and wrote down the set list on a series of 5 napkins so i could retell the concert to friends when i got home.
most bad-A moment of the evening: stevie, after milking the ending of "Living For The City" starts doing a "breath solo". not beat-boxing, not sound effects....just a solo of inhaling and exhaling.....unreal. i really wish i had thought of that and done it at my shows. i tried it after the concert and almost passed out, though.
also, random side note, mike tyson was at the concert and got up on stage at stevie's request....didn't sing or anything, although that would've been seriously entertaining.
i'll upload a couple videos in the next day or so.....including video of me singing like a crazie to stevie
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Posted By Andy Davis @ 5:33 PM |
| Thursday, November 1st, 2007
10/31/07--- sketches...
and another tuesday on wednesday blog
today i'm excited.
for a few reasons.
1. i bought a harmonica. a chromatic one
like stevie wonder plays. i really want to learn how to play it.
not sure if i'll use it on my records, but i just need to know, out
of respect for stevie, how to play it. i was trying it out in
traffic today at a stoplight. got a funny look from the girl beside
me. i was also wearing sunglasses and shaking my head back and
forth.
2. i found this tourvan on craigslist that i hope i
can buy....it's kinda expensive, and i don't really have the money to
buy a conversion van at the moment, but it is PIMP. i might start
sleeping in that van if i buy it. it's way cooler than my bedroom.
we'll see. don't get my hopes up.
3. Most excitingly, I
got a call from my buddy Tim in Omaha, NB today--he said that he was
meandering through the Omaha Barnes and Noble and started chatting
with the guy at the music counter. Low and behold, on the counter,
an advance copy of Let The Woman. He had been listening to it (never
heard it before), digging on it, and was about to put it in the
store's overhead CD player. That made my day.
So huge props to
that music counter guy in the Omaha B&N!! I love you and I don't
even know you.
That gives me an idea---make friends with the B&N
music counter people---if they are supporters and play my cd in the
stores for all to hear, give them a hug or something. In fact, take
a picture with them, send us a link, and we'll put it up in these
blogs. Those guys have the power to pick the music in the stores,
and with a little lovin from you guys, they can jump on the bandwagon
and help out a ton---littl bit of in-store recruiting!! (PLAN IN
REVIEW: 1. Make friends with them. 2. Get em to listen to Let The
Woman. 3. Encourage them to play it in the store as much as they
can stand!! 4. If they agree, take your picture with them (with
their permission) and get their name (plus nickname if they like).
5. Upload it to a site like photobucket and send a link to my
myspace messages. 6. Check in and see yourself)
Ok,
that was a lot of instruction, but i think it could be fun. At very
least, ask them if they've listened to the record when you're
checking out and buying it.
Ok so this video is
kinda special---I included snippets of tracks from the new
album.....including some brand new, unheard tracks.....AND.....i made
drawings to go with them. sort of. hope you like
it.
REMEMBER---THE CD COMES OUT NEXT TUESDAY!!!! ONLY AT
BARNES AND NOBLE (and www.bn.com)
sorry for yelling. i love you guys.
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Posted By Andy Davis @ 10:14 PM |
| Thursday, November 1st, 2007
10/23/07--- weird
so i'm in los angeles at the moment.....filming some commercials for the barnes and the noble......
i actually flew in last night into burbank right above the brush fires on the mountains....pretty crazy...especially when you realize how far up you are, and how big the fires look even from that height....pretty crazy. it's also kinda crazy to me that the fires were burning in the same pattern that a front yard would burn if you set the grass on fire.....kinda like little walls of flames going outward in all directions, slowly crawling outwards in a circle....crazy
even today the sky is kinda orange/brown....pretty weird
so in spite of that......today was actually an exciting day, because.....i got the first copies of Let The Woman in hand....pretty exciting! feels good to hold the final product of a long time of work in your hands....
so i realized last night that i needed a video for today, and didn't have one.....so...what do you do when you need to be creative on the spot? find a funny hat and some glasses, then walk backwards around the house and make up random words to a song. Then put the video in your computer, decide that the song was a little too random and spooky, and then replace the sound with one of the new radiohead songs.....then cut it up a little bit and make it slow motion to make it even more spooky and weird.....then realize at the end that you've created some kind of disturbing music video that doesn't really go anywhere, and only is for the creepy factor....and then think to yourself, "maybe i shouldn't upload this".....
then decide to go ahead and upload it.....i got an idea for a future video thing from it, so it wasn't worthless.....you gotta just follow the creative impulse in those situations, even if it leads you to some place that's going to make you look like a weirdo....there might be something to glean from it all
hopefully
Posted By Andy Davis @ 10:13 PM |
| Thursday, November 1st, 2007
10/16/07--- fake spanish
i'm impressed with people who can fake spanish really well....i think it's a gift. a very useful one. not for communicating with spanish speakers, i guess, but for impressing nonspanish speakers. I wish i could speak spanish fluently. if i could fluently fake spanish, that would be cool as well
this whole conversation is probably ridiculous to people who speak spanish as their native language....who obviously know english as well (if you're reading this, you understand english), and probably 3 other languages....all of a sudden i'm feeling kinda like a dummy american who only speaks english and thinks it's funny to fake other languages.....that's pretty much all i've said in this blog so far isn't it......hmmmm maybe i should've taken a different approach to the video
all this "Let the Woman" madness is fun.....glad you guys are digging on it...my mom says it's one of my best songs thus far, so you have to trust that opinion. mama don't lie
i had a long trip to starkville, MS this past week.....i stopped at a gas station somewhere in Mississippi and bought 2 cassette tapes---beach boys hits and the drifters hits......brought me back to childhood...i think i actually had that actual Drifters tape.....
i forgot about how on side 2 of cassette tapes, sometimes the songs don't make it all the way to the end of the tape, so you have like 5 minutes of blank hiss before it turns back over to the other side again.....weird. i wonder how that made people make decisions on sequencing albums back then.....imagine if you had to listen to 30 minutes of blank noise at the end of a cd.....maybe it's good, b/c it let's the music kinda drain out of your head, so that when it comes back on, you're ready to hear it again.....a breather before you go to round 2....
ok it's ridiculously late right now....almost 4am.
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Posted By Andy Davis @ 10:01 PM |
| Thursday, November 1st, 2007
10/9/07
tuesday happens on wednesday this week. i'm not late i promise.
so the tour just ended with tyler james and our collective band, the biv. kinda sad to end such a fun run....no matter who you go on tour with, you kinda end up getting close......i guess you have to when you're sharing beds or squished together in vans for long periods of time. a person you don't know really well ends up being a really cool dude....then you don't really mind when they fall asleep beside you and their head falls on your shoulder. i'm man enough to admit that. i think
i didn't need to lay my head on anyone's shoulder, though, because before leaving, i invested in a space age neck pillow. this thing is inflatable, and battery powered.....it actually has little vents on the sides of the face area that not only blow air into your face to keep you cool as you sleep, but also put out "ions" or something that supposedly keep dust and bacteria away from your nose and mouth, purifying the air you breathe as you sleep. AMAZING.
at least it was in theory. it never really made me feel amazing to be honest.....i think i over-inflated it, making my head push forward at a 90 degree angle when sitting up.....and also, i didn't realize that the material it was made of acts like a winter scarf, so your bent neck starts sweating like gymshorts......also, the vents apparently shot air up my nose so much that my whole throat was as dry as a bone when i woke up.....
if it weren't for my lower lunbar pillow i also bought (which also is conveniently made out of winter fleece or something), i might have been miserable.....
so in case you haven't gotten the bulletins and stuff yet, my new album is now available at www.bn.com!! i'm pretty pumped. not as pumped as my mom when i told her---i happened to be on the phone with her.....right next to her oprah book club is my record....haha. proud moment. now if i could just get on oprah for a chat i could really move some cds!!
here's the link in case you don't have it:
http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?z=y&EAN=635961108726&itm=1&afsrc=1&lkid=J22772337&pubid=K134148&byo=1
ok it's like 230am here in nashville....i should be hitting the sack....if you guys have topics you'd like me to discuss in future blogs, make a request---as long as it's not politics or how to talk to you kids about the birds and the bees, i'll try and make a stab
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Posted By Andy Davis @ 10:01 PM |
| Thursday, November 1st, 2007
10/02/07-- on tour w/tyler james...
so i'm out on tour with my good friend tyler james.....swinging thru texas to hit up the main cities.....handing out paste magazines at every stop......magazines and love.
tyler and I are also sharing a band for the tour.....they call themselves The Biv (www.thebiv.com)
we had a day off today in the houston/woodlands area of texas....went and saw that western movie, 310 to yuma. we were literally the only people in the whole theater. it was one of those old school long ones....no stadium seating or anything. it was kinda liberating.....got to make our cellphones ring really loudly just for fun.....gallop around the front of the theater when there were horse scenes.....yell at the screen.....all good fun.
also walked around the nearby mall. i got new running shoes and headphones. ihave a weakness for headphones.....i can always talk myself into buying a new pair...different types of headphones fit different types of situations....1 for every situation actually....so now i have a pair that is somewhat hi def quality, yet grip on my ear for exercising, so now i can approve mixes of new tracks while jogging.
this week's video:
i have to admit, i upgraded my iMovie thing last night, and went to edit this video, and in the new version, all the controls are moved around.....so i kept the video kinda basic.....just threw in all the good footage we've been compiling from the last couple days of tour.....i guess "good" footage is a relative term---good could mean totally random and without any purpose whatsoever.
anyway.... fun. good times. on our way to hit houston, austin, dallas, waco, baton rouge, and birmingham over the next 7 days.....so come find us.
Posted By Andy Davis @ 10:00 PM |
| Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Tuesday Video Blogs!
If you're into laughing...or smiling, in general...then check out Andy's Tuesday Video Blogs over on his Myspace page!
myspace.com/andydavis
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