Soda Sundays: Evan's Weekly Blogs

Posted by: Evan on February 01, 2010

Soda Monday????

Yes yes I know I'm getting bad at this. maybe it should become Soda Monday. Or Soda Saturday. It's just gotten slippery and tricky for me to settle down after the uStream and actually gather my thoughts properly enough to tackle the blog on the level of greatness I feel you deserve.

I'd say that the Grammy's, Obama, the iPad and other news items seem to be making this week giant but the truth is that the one item really buzzing up my forums and our family is:

"Starbucks Girl"

some of you LOVE. some of you HATE. some of you REALLY REALLY hate. and btw, I'm cool with all of that! I just saw the first cut of the video and i'm fucking STOKED to release it(iTunes 2/9!!) We're going to need YOUR help big to make this shit take the crown from "Merry Swiftmas" and since I'm not ready to be remembered as a country artist the rest of my life I'm really counting on us to come through!

February isn't just short and sweet, doesn't have only Valentines day chocolates and lots of pink, but it will mark the beginning of the W2BLC 2.0 push. I'll admit, it was right around this time last year where we were gearing up to take "Boy Meets Girl" head first hard to radio and I was preparing for glorious triumph over the entire music business but the results were unfortunately a little less than my ambitions and after being successfully smacked down we've collected, planned, retreated and prepared to attack from another angle. This time, they'll never know what hit em. See, the one thing I'll give myself credit for is this, if I want it, I'm never giving up. NEVER. I don't give a FUCK about statistics, about how hard it is, about the chances, about if people think I'm crazy or not. I'm not stopping until my record is huge and we've finally gotten what we wanted! "Swiftmas" "Starbucks" "Pumpkin Pie"

sounds like a Martha Steward special or something but instead its my 1..2..3.. punches of "Hi, I'm Evan, nice to meet you" :-)

good news is this, we'll back it.

anyway, not sure whats up this week other than getting the SG vid uploaded and ready to spread like wildfire and then conspiring where we go next from that point. They'll be a behind the scenes as always, the remix contest 2/16 and more but I'm just stoked!!

Has been fun, I'm just glad that out of my down time came two new songs that we get to mess with,
Love,
-Evan

Posted by: Evan on January 18, 2010

Soda Sunday(Monday) Thirty Five

I dunno why 35 was my sports number as a kid but I always loved it. 35's no 27 or anything, but I have a profound appreciation for the number. Even Mike Mussina(who unfortunately left the orioles to become a yankee) wore it proud.

Whoa, some cray shit is going down on my scanner. Anyway, sorry I slacked on this week's soda sunday. truth is, I was kinda spent. this week was filled with planning the SG video, getting all the mixes for the record finalized as well as prepping to master the whole thing tuesday(cause we changed songs etc etc we gotta redo it!)

uStream was fun, glad you guys have been vocal about how to make it amazing for ya! Also, it's been fun playing covers and unknown songs of mine though I don't want to get into the doing covers thing on video. it seems like so many shitty artists cover songs on their Youtube and it never really does anything except further spread bad music! ha, sorry. in a dick mood.

About to hop on a call with Apple to discuss our wonderfully exciting "Starbucks Girl" Garage Band remix. It's insanely cool the shit you can do with the song in that app, I couldn't believe it myself hearing like tempo and key changes along with replacing the parts with other loops. have fun! we're working on a cool ass prize for ya so just hold your breath for a moment.

It's raining like crazy outside, feels like the world is ending but there's something amazingly calm about watching it from my house. I kinda wish the world was ending sometimes, not in a evil kind of way, I mean I love you all and don't want anything bad to happen...just saying it feels oddly calming to think of the day this whole shenanigans just turns off. Scientifically speaking, I'm under the belief our present universe is a rapidly expanding plane of existence created when of some form of energy on the most subatomic infinitesimally small level (whether it be atoms smashing or god or whatever you want), now the only issue is that if we're existing in that universe we have to understand that it should and probably will at some point cease to exist or in a instant(faster then you can image) will collapse back down to the state it was in before it was created.... at that point everything will end. so like, I guess what I'm saying is fuck the small stuff. lines suck, drama is drama, friends are tiring, love can hurt, but just remember you're lucky to still be here and call your parents and tell them you love them right now!

hmm.... I think I'm going to go buy some shit. I don't know why that calms me, its a terrible habit but I suppose it beats heroine.

Your weird mooded love,
Evan

Posted by: Evan on January 03, 2010

Soda Sunday's Thirty Three

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Even though it's 3 days past I'd still like to wish you a wonderfully happy new year! Obviously, by now you already know that this is our year. We WILL be taking over, and the best part is...that is happening very very soon.

Think about the domino's analogy I use often, or more graphic it's like a gun. In it we've got "Starbucks Girl" "Pumpkin Pie" "The Best Years Of Our Lives" "The Story Of Me And You" "Evan Way" & the rest of the album. It's like "Boy Meets Girl" was a little blow that got their shields slightly deteriorated, "Merry Swiftmas" finally penetrated but didn't kill and now that we've finally got a shot at the linchpin we're gonna not use a bullet but a fucking nuclear bomb over and over and over and over.

Sorry, not trying to sound deranged or over aggressive, its just I'm really really excited. I'm not often excited like this but it reminds me of exactly how it felt before Avril released her first record. The calm before the storm, the pieces slowly lining up, and now, its up to you guys. Ultimately all my hype ass bullshit, statements, plans, whatever mean nothing, you guys will either like my shit or just think its O K. I can't really control anything else other than to try to do my best to make sure I make everyone a believer!

Apple iPod Hi-Fi was a wonderful purchase as was my Dandy Banana, new end table, tic tacs, chain link wine holder, and a large bag of packaging peanuts. If you aren't aware I'm one motherfucker of a shipper. My shit goes out so locked and loaded. Flight simulator kinda sucks so I'm switching to X-Plane cause its all Mac based, its amazing how fucked PCs are.

"Violent Female with Mental Illness" just came on the police scanner, I can't help but think its someone I know. HA!

Quitting things is hard, if you decided to give up something this year just remember this. ALL addictions can be broken in 14 days. (I'm not sure if thats actually true, I mean Dr Phil says it takes 7 steps, other places say 5 phases, or whatever).... but just remember this, you can do it! I PROMISE you can. I PROMISE it's going to be worth it, i PROMISE you're going to be SO fucking stoked and if you just BARE with it for the short short little while now you'll be infinitely happy for a long time to come.

I can't chew gum, it kinda sucks.

Erno Rubik needs a comeback hit for sure.

Wikipedia wants my money, and I want my mattress fixed.

Baltimore Ravens victories still feel like losses. I wonder if the rose bowl flea market is open next week. Driving friends to the airport isn't that bad if you love them and understand that they'd do the same for you.

Soldering and heatshrinking is much harder than you think, take a moment to really appreciate the usb cables in your life, they're works of art.

Gladwell's newest book kicks ass and I'm off to Zankou.

I'm back, We're taking over, and they ain't NEVER gonna see us coming. be stoked BLCers, its our year.
I love you,
Evan

Posted by: Evan on December 20, 2009

Soda Sundays Thirty One.

It's like our little snowball just keeps getting bigger and bigger!
the "Merry Swiftmas" song has over 450k plays on YouTube, the official video which we launched earlier this week ALREADY has 40k views(even without a Taylor tweet), not to mention that we got love from CNN, AOL, Yahoo, E!, People, MTV, CMT, Bop, Popstar, & dozens of other newspapers from cities around the country. To top off the little cherry(or in this case I suppose metaphorically I should say the hat on our snowman) I found out "Merry Swiftmas" is the #59 country sound and #74 pop song in the US! Not a bad little joke song turned serious right?

Don't worry, if you're concerned that it'll goto my head relax. I think the small amount of attention this has gotten us has only made me even more self deprecating and aware that my job, this whole music business thing, etc.etc is just one big comedy! I'm just glad I find it funny because it could be really frustrating if not.

I'm on an airplane on my way back form Lansing MI where I played Snowstock last night. I slept 3 hours, left my house @ 4am, airport, flight, connection, flight, drive, dinner, interview, show, drive, hotel( 5 hrs sleep this time!) airport, flight, connection and flight(that's where we're currently). this week brings a number of final fun phone interviews, radio call ins, and whatever else we can drum up before my little x-mas jams shelf life officially expires for the year! Not a whole lot of x-mas songs getting played in january and on :-)

The show was awesome though, kids were singing all the words to Merry Swiftmas, Cheater Of The Year, and Boy Meets Girl which was fucking awesome because I only played those 3 songs(well, I was in and out of like 15 covers cause of my on stage adhd but it was fun!) Just watched "Tyson" on the plane which if you haven't seen I'd HIGHLY recommend. I always like Tyson for his antics but never realized that the guy is a fucking artist. He's his own worse enemy but he's a real live artist, the purest kind. On the flip side of movies on the fight out I watched "Talhotblonde" which I'd highly recommend you never see, and infact, don't even waste your time watching the trailer. Its the real life story murder/mystery that could be told in 10 minutes stretched over an hour and a half. Lemme help you. "Jessie" is actually "jessie's" mom. shocker(only you see it coming the whole way).

I'm listening to Hans Zimmer's "Roll Tide" quite possible the best instrumental 8 minutes of music around.

What else I got? hmm. x-mas parties, gift shopping(which for me is easy since I have almost no friends and those who I really love know I don't like gifts), and a week or solitude! Its my favorite time of the year. I usually spend dec 23-dec30th alone in my house reading by the fire, reflecting, writing journals, doing misc shit around the house and just centering myself for the year to come. I can't wait! this year feels oddly well smooth as it winds down (usually I'm cramming like 50 projects into the last week of the year) and I guess it feels good to see some hard work finally pay off. Its funny, I can see what 2010 has in store, I wont spoil it. but I'm very fucking excited.

Can't wait to hear your entries into the Swiftmas song contest! I missed the uStream due to weather on the east coast delaying our flight :-( but I made it up by giving away "Love/Hate" !! Dude, I love WBR, they kick ass, but god damn they'd kill me if they knew I'd given you guys 4 songs on the internet and told you to run wild with them! lucky for us major record labels have no way of figuring this kind of shit out because by the time they understand what we've done it'll be 6 months from now. :-) so have fun!!

"Rest Stop" by Matchbox 20 just came on my iTunes. great song. reminds me of my first traumatic heartbreak post high school when everything I knew and loved(all of it) went off to different places and phases and I stayed behind in Baltimore to pursue my dream. Also it marked the official end to that wonderful period of my life and everything it represented(enter "Best Years Of Our Lives")... It was the darkest most confusing lonely period of my life and I could barely make it minute to minute but I always knew it was all in the name of blind love and the pursuit of my art and hell, it feels really good to be where I am this minute. Don't worry, I don't think I've made it, I don't even consider myself successful yet, but I definitely now know I was and have always been on the right path and that is a really special thing. Anyway, for whatever its worth, if you can't see light at the end of the tunnel(whatever tunnel you may be in) I promise you if you don't give up that one day it'll all be clear and you'll be rewarded greatly for your diligence. You only lose if you quit, and that my friends is why next year like it or not, I'm taking over the fucking world.

I love you all,
Evan