Soda Sunday Thirty One

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