Thursday, May 21, 2009
Green Day: Bullet In A Bible
Tonight, I watched Green Day's live DVD called "Bullet In A Bible" .. The effect that this had on me was absolutely profound... I don't know how to explain it... they played in front of 65,000 people for two nights, totaling 130,000 people... The reason this DVD made me feel the way it did, was because of the connection Green Day has to their audience...
I don't know if i'm just more sensitive than people, or if everyone can feel this, but when watching this DVD, I felt, like i was 65,000 people... I felt like I had the heart and energy and soul of 65,000 people... The connection, that this band fosters amongst their audience, and between themselves as well, has got to be one of the most amazing examples of hapiness, love, fun, pain, and beauty that I have ever seen..
If you haven't seen this DVD, I would recomend it to you... i'd reccomend it to goldfish who can't remember 3 seconds into their past, I can guarantee if you brought a goldfish to a Green Day concert it would transform into some type of super dolphin that could talk and thank you for bringing it there... mark my words... (don't mark my words, it's just an example of the power and unbeliveable love and personal connection they share when they're up there playing their music..) The reason this DVD has touched me the way it has, is because I saw myself up on that stage the whole time, connecting the way Billy Joe did... I was him... and I know that I can do what I just witnessed him doing... I am that... I pray I have the audience to demonstrate this one day...
It's not the music that moved me, so much as the members and the way they connect to everyone there... Billy Joe, Tre Cool, and Mike Dirnt... I've never felt anything like it...
I am going to see them on Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 at Madison Square Garden in New York City... both shows, are sold out... but if you can get tickets.. I don't care if you've never even heard of them/don't like them... I promise you, you will leave feeling better than you did coming into the show.. a whole lot better.. there's something amazing that happens at a Green Day concert that goes much deeper than just playing music...
-Christopher
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Life and Happiness - don't settle
At the end of the day, I think we all have the same wish: To meet someone who understands us, loves us for who we naturally are, and fulfills all of our wildest fantasies.
If a person doesn't fit with you, and you don't fit with them, then you shouldn't be together forever. Period. I'm a creative person.. I need a woman who understands that and can participate in someway with that... Ideally, I'd love to find a woman who can show me up! and she'd be like "Pshh... yeah i heard "Jenn", it's cool, but you ain't heard my song "BEN" and then BAM... she blows my mind away with the most amazing groove and voice that could give Adam Lambert a run for his money... Will I ever find her? I don't know... maybe I have already and I missed her... maybe she doesn't exist... maybe she's right underneath my nose, maybe she's a man dressed in womans clothes.. (LOL j/k it rhymed...)
You have to make yourself... you have to find out who you are naturally programmed to be and then work with that, turning yourself into the person that you are destined to be... Everybody is programmed... everyone.. for a natural inborn tendency towards something.. no changing it.. I am programed for music.. no changing it.. If I stopped playing music today, and I became a Museum Curator, you would see my smile melt away faster than icecream in hell... Could I live like that? Sure... cause I'd find another way to make myself happy in another area and then deal with this feeling of misplacement, but that's no way to live... no way at all... You have to try and get it all, you just have to... you only live once (i think..) Don't settle, unless you have no choice...
Find the Woman or Man of your dreams, and don't settle for anything less... Honestly.. I love marriage, I think its beautiful... and I want it... but it's not for people who can't connect in ALL three vital areas with a score of at least 8 out of 10... To me, the three vital connection areas of romance are the Spiritual Connection, The Physical Connection and the Mental Connection
Spiritual meaning understanding each others eternal souls and feeling that bond of being a soulmate, a partner though this journey of life on earth.. feeling that true love... Physical connection, well... heh... if you don't know what that means, then you're not my soulmate! ;) The Mental connection is the attraction that comes from the things you say and do and talk about, your interests and your body language and just plainly your personality.
If you can't connect with someone on at least an 8/10 in all three areas... then I highly advise that you don't spend the rest of your life with them... I'm a big believer in holding out for the best and fully satisfying yourself instead of settling for something just because its on sale or because it's here now... I say wait, and hold out until you get exactly what you need to feel complete.
I miss the feeling of being in love... a lot... and I have so much love to give and no woman to receive it, but I know that will change... When? I don't know.. but one thing I do know, is that i'm not going to rush it, i'm not going to cry over it (too much...) i'm not going to have a crisis and say... oh my GOD i'm 30 and I'm not married, I need to meet someone right now... RIGHT NOW... and then marry the next woman that's willing to... that's as bad as going on ebay and buying a girlfriend... (the real kind, not the blow up kind...) I just don't care how long anything takes... I think we should all hold out until we are at least 90% happy with a person... At LEAST 90%... anything less is settling, settling leads to unhappiness and lacking, and that leads to wandering and cheating.
Goodnight
-Where's My Soulmate Sauter
Monday, May 11, 2009
Choosing the Tracks for "Jump Into The Fuzz"
Okay.. so I have 25 songs... (honestly.. more like 38 but, i'm not letting those 13 extra songs into this pool, they're for the 2nd or 3rd album... ) and I need to cut the list from 25 down to 12, 13, or 14... i haven't decided how many songs will be on the album... I want to go with 13, for the sole purpose of discrediting superstition of the number 13 hehe... but we'll see...
In case you are new to J.E.L.L.i. land, the full length album is called "Jump Into The Fuzz" and it will be coming out by the end of this year.. =)
Here's the status board as of now:
Jump Into The Fuzz Board as of May 2009

Potential "Jump Into The Fuzz" Tracks:
It's Not The End
Leaving Today
Down Up Again
New Dimension
Glassman
Almost Caught
White Lines
Raining Again
New Ground
I am Blank (Nothing)
Who You Are
Raindrops of Revelation/Autolife
Starlight
Sunburns
Unbeautiful
Can't Get Enough
Their Language
Eating a Cookie
By Now...
Earth
Shadow Factory
Breathe
Jenn
New Reality
All I Wanted
Starburst
Future potential tracks for the 2nd or 3rd album:
Cloves Kill
Ba Ba Ba Bye..
Pagnut
Get up and Go
Letta Me Out
The Sign
Too Tinted To Tell
CaryAnn
Another Hero
The Goodnight Song
Coming out of a Coma
With Broken Hearts and Angel Tears
Break Up Break Down
I really really wish that I could completely record and finish ALL of the songs on the first list BEFORE i choose what songs will be on Jump Into The Fuzz, but If did that... this album wouldn't come out till next year... So what I need to do.. is right now, listen to what I have recorded so far and then choose the best 13, and ONLY focus on finishing those so I can finally give birth to this album that has been in my spirit since high school..
Did you know.. I Am Blank (Nothing) and New Dimension were written in High School? circa 2001... isn't that crazy? I didn't have the skills or equipment to deliver them in highschool, or college... so I waited till after I graduated to record them... and I'm happy I did... they deserved the best of me, and they got it... Jump into the Fuzz will be an album of songs that span almost a decade...
Man I wish there was a way for me to open all these songs up to the public and have a "fan vote" album track listing... that would be cool... If they were all copyrighted, I so would.. I don't know how John Mayer is doing it... he's posting up songs half finished for people to hear... I guess when you're at his level, people won't even dare steal his music because they know he could sue the soul out of them.. lol
I have SO MUCH WORK TO DO!! AHHH!!! But it's WONDERFUL WORK that I am honored to be able to do... thank you for your support my J.E.L.L.i. Beans...
SPREAD THAT J.E.L.L.i. !!
-"Where do I even begin narrowing this list down" Sauter
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Things I need to do...
There's so many things I need to do, and I feel like writing them out in a public steam of consciousness will take some of the pressure off my mind... They aren't profound, but they're important..
I need to back up the hard drive on my Akai DPS24 Digital Audio Workstation where ALL of my music is recorded... I backed up the hard drive when the EP was finished in November.. and I don't believe i've backed it up since and a LOT of bass lines have been recorded... so I need to back that baby up God FORBID a hard drive crash strikes... man... that would suck more than loosing a toe...
I need to buy a 2TB Hard Drive with a RAID-1 configuration so that all my Life/J.E.L.L.i. videos/pictures and website files are backed up nice and tight.
I need to re-send all the e-mails to the music blogs who didn't respond yet, and get more reviews for the J.E.L.L.i. EP, I also need to network more and keep making connections.
I need to CLEAN MY DAMN ROOM
I need to finish writing the bass for these last few songs and then decide what FINAL 13 tracks to focus on for "Jump Into The Fuzz"
I need to join "Taxi" so that I can submit my music to FILM/TV Shows and start making some real $$$... I probably have over 150 instrumental pieces of music written that I need to record so that I can send them in as well...
I need to start J.E.L.L.i. Live Rehearsals
I need to find a way to sell more EP's so that I can buy a nice P.A. System for J.E.L.L.i. Live
I need to finish watching Oprah and Eckhart Tolle's chapter 10 webclass of "A New Earth"
I need to figure out how to make merchandise... J.E.L.L.i. T-Shirts and Buttons and Stickers
I need to find a way to get my songs onto 101.9 RXP because all my friends say that they play local artists all the time...
I need to submit "The J.E.L.L.i. EP" to college radio stations everywhere
I need to save up for a new Laptop... this computer is dinosaurs... 2003
I think that's all I can think of right now... i know there's more.. but i'm not remembering... (Hey... thanks for reading my blogs, even the non-funny ones =)
Do YOU know anyone in TV/FILM who would want to use my music in their production? =) Because if I could just get ONE song on a hit TV show, or Film, i'd be set forever... Please let me know if you have any connections... thanks guys...
I was writing the bass line for my song called "Earth" today, and it's coming out really great... i'd say 80% done... This song ROCKS!! I think it might be my biggest song on the album... it's funny, because right now reading this, you don't know what it sounds like... and less than a year from now, you will.. and two years from now, who knows maybe it'll be EVERYWHERE on every radio station... I'd like to look back on this blog in a few years and see where "earth" has taken me... hopefully very berry far...
Goodnight everybody..
-Chris
Monday, May 4, 2009
Let's discuss this phenomenon of "fame"
I'd like to say that it takes talent to become "famous"... but that's only a piece of the puzzle, sadly... because there are tons people who are famous that don't have much talent, and there are some unbelievably talented artists that will never ever be famous or heard across the world... The name of this game, is "Connections" it's all about who you know and where you can get that "big break" from..
If you see me become "famous" in the next year or two, do you know what that will change? Only A few things:
How much money I have
how many people are listening to my music
how many people I can "tweet" to on twitter
how many people I can spread my joy to,
and lastly: how many people want to know what I eat for breakfast/what brand of toilet paper i use...
But do you know what it won't change? The fact that the music that made me famous, was already written and finished, while i was "un-famous".. So what does that mean? Fame doesn't "make you amazing", add talent or self-worth to your life, it just adds popularity, money and power.. it does not make you, and it can surely break you.. Famous people already had what ever it was that made them famous, BEFORE they were famous. Ergo, all the famous people that you idolize and look up too, were all "ordinary" before the big record label in the sky shot them to the stars...
I find it amusing how some people will knock other people down for trying to "make it" saying things like "You'll never do this, why are you wasting your time? You're just a dreamer... you'll never be as big as them..." These people are under the impression that every famous person was never an ordinary person.. They think famous people were born on f***ing "rockstar island" and automagically inducted into TV/Movie land... (an unobtainable place for everyone but the "chosen" ones...)
But the truth is, every famous person, was an ordinary person before their fame... Just like you.. The reason why some people can't comprehend that their brother or their friend can be the next John Mayer, is because TV (w/ the exception of American idol n' shows like that) doesn't show us the uphill battle of "making it".. all people see is the finished famous product, not the years of rejection and poverty and humiliation until the person finally gets their break... Can't show that on TV.. why? Because TV loves to make us think that Brad Pitt was born sexy on a movie set wearing sunglasses out of the womb..
There are future "rock stars" "movie stars" and public icons walking around in the same places as you, doing the same things you do, the only difference is..... NOTHING!! to quote a "famous" person, Regina Spektor:
"People are just people like you..."
and to quote another famous artist, from the same island as me, Ingrid Michaelson:
"we are all the same. we all poo. we all eat. we all sleep. we all cry. we all fear. we all love. we all need love. it's ok."
Summary: Fame doesn't make you talented, it just magnifies your music and the details of your life to everyone in the world ..
Woo!! What a rant... done in love of course, this is not a personal blog... every one believes in me... (thank you everyone..) but I've seen other people doubt other people, and I've just been pondering the phenomenon of fame this whole day, and those two things mixed together were the inspiration for this blog... If you know you have great talent and offer something that will deeply connect with people, and you believe in yourself, and you have secured the faith of the person who will give you that "big break"... then that's all you need to make it to "Rockstar Island" ;)
People are just People like you... We are all the same...
- Regina Michaelson
Vocal Breakthrough
Tonight I had an amazing vocal night... my brother got on the drumset and we just started playing "Master Of Puppets" by Metallica... I've been working on my chest voice a lot lately and decided that i'm just going to go for it... so I did... and it sounded AWESOME
I sung the whole song straight thought, hit every note, aggressive as hell and kept going.. I couldn't believe it... then I was like, well, let's try "I Am Blank (Nothing)" and BAM!! Sung the whole song out, no problem... couldnt' believe it... usually I have trouble really pushing my voice, but for some reason tonight, My voice was SO ON!!!
Then I did White Lines, New Dimension, and I did Burden In My Hand by Soundgarden... all rocked... then after, I tried to sing starlight and I SOUNDED LIKE CRAP!! Because the way my voice works it's either PEFECTLY SOFT & SWEET or PERFECTLY LOUD & PROUD and I don't have a middle... I sang reallly hard and real loud tonight and it sounded great, but I lost my "soft" voice... So the challenge for me now, is to balance out the two... and I will..
TONIGHT WAS A MILESTONE!! I'm SO HAPPY!! J.E.L.L.i. live is going to ROCK
My Perfect voice: The Agression of David Grohl, the Range of Stevie Wonder, and the Softness of John Mayer
I will achieve my perfect voice.
-Super Singin' Sauter
A Quickie: JELLiMusic.com is growing!
Month Unique visitors Number of visits
Jan 2009 453 969
Feb 2009 466 821
Mar 2009 884 1646
In april so far, there have already been 1660 visits, with still a week left to go!! Every month, jellimusic.com continues to grow...
Thank you for all your help everyone!! Its really working =)
-Christopher Sauter likes Water
This is not a blog... This is what happens when i'm still up at 5:57 in the morning
I shall ramble crazily and make up words... let's begin..
BEEGIN, eating food like a vegan doing voodoo eating doodoo like a prophet in paris.. Can I make money selling music or loose it all selling clues, drinking shoes, walking in booze, break away from the enchanted tree, tell it that it has no place with thee.. WOW!! How did you ever see, the park? Hi... my name is Mark...
(Now, two things come to mind here... Mark Hoppus from the newly reunited Blink182, and Mark from Rent.. a fork in the road of my mind... i choose....... rent)
Mimi says she howls like a dog in heat, I eat mystery meat from Costco, well that's what my cousin Danny calls it, because it's a bunch of different flavors in a package, flava flave is a train wraaackage... don't mean to put anyone down, or bury their their name in the soiled gound, but plants and trees grow better from organic musical sound.
ENJOY YOUR LIFE, IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY
LATER!
♥ Crazy Chris
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
What a huge double whammy of Love...
I'm like a bee in a florist shop right now, i'm spinning around in the air and i don't know which way to fly at the moment... i'm kinda burned out, but not bummed out... so much has just been going on between composing bass for the album, to doing vocal rehearsals for J.E.L.L.i. live, connecting with fans, to seeing a J.E.L.L.i. fan club spring up, and then reading the most wonderful review of my EP on a Music Blog site... at the moment i'm a little overwhelmed (in the best possible way...)
The Music Blog that reviewed me is called Heavier ~ Than ~ Air , and there is a lot of great music to read about on this blog. The words written about my EP were absolutely beautiful, I'm so grateful for the wonderful things said about my music... You can read the review here:
Unsigned Uncovered: J.E.L.L.i.
and if that wasn't enough to set me walking on clouds all day, I then found out that a J.E.L.L.i. fan club has sprung up!! My German J.E.L.L.i. spreader Natascha from Hamburg created it... Anyone can join!!! Become a J.E.L.L.i. Bean!! especially if you know me personally because then you can tell embarrassing stories about me to all my fans =P I will definitely be posting some exclusive stuff on this fan club page... poems that i've written throughout my life, pictures i've drawn, behind the scenes pictures and videos and maybe even sneak peeks of the upcoming album... check it out!
The First Official J.E.L.L.i. Fan Club
Oh by the way... I'm sure i blogged about this before, but just in case... I'm recording a full length album right now called "Jump Into The Fuzz" and it will be released by me sometime this year... the songs already on the J.E.L.L.i. EP will be on this album, but played with real drums instead of digital drums, and also some new twists and turns... harmonies for "Jenn" ? and I believe "Starlight" will undergo a blooming transformation... hehe you'll hear...
Love to one and all, it's 3:51 a.m. need to get to sleep so I can wake up and get back into Sunshine Studio and pump out those bass lines!!
Infinite love to you all...
Christopher
P.S. I feel like i'm forgetting something... I'm sure i'll remember soon... =)
Thursday, April 9, 2009
It's all too much.. for me to take.. the love that's shining all around you...
There's so much going on... I keep getting offers from various booking agencies to play live, but I can't do it yet, because J.E.L.L.i. live has not been rehearsed or even thought through thoroughly yet.. I'm upset, because I HATE turning down opportunities.. but what can I do? I'm just not ready... I will be for the summer, but not yet..
My friend Krissy interns for indimusictv.com she says that if I make a music video, she can hand it off to them for me.. I got three different offers to record music videos for this summer, but i'm so pre-occupied with recording, rehearsing and promoting that I have spent less than the time it takes to eat a cookie thinking about concepts for my music videos.. (hehe subliminal preparation.. don't worry about this parenthesis...)
Not to mention J.E.L.L.i. is in the beginning baby stages of its business and income from "The J.E.L.L.i. EP" won't cover the cost of making a video.. hehe unless YOU BUY IT!! =D (if you already did, thank you... if you already didn't... well =( Please?
I've also submitted "The J.E.L.L.i EP" to dozens of online music blogs and am awaiting replies... I already got one reply and they said they'll be writing a review about it sometime this week!! I'll be sure to post that.. but the hard thing about submitting stuff to music blogs is that you just gotta keep sending and sending and sending and submitting and submitting and submitting until you finally get a reply... and that's just the way those things go...
I have also decided that i'm not going to go on the internet until the evening of every day... Because when I log on in the morning, i have a barrage of e-mail myspace facebook twiiter smashingpumpkins.com messages, and don't get me wrong, i LOVE talking to fans, i LIVE for connecting with people and enjoying them... but three hours fly by before I even know it.. and that time needs to be spent RECORDING BASS!! I only have like 8 more songs to record and then i'm DONE with bass for all 25 songs!! I'm SOOOO FRIGGIN CLOSE!!! So going on the internet will be a luxury reserved for when all my recording and rehearsing is done for the day... it just has to be that way... ...don't know what else to say... i'm just going to rhyme myself away.... here is where I cannot stay... J.E.L.L.i. is an all-you-can-eat musical buffet, good day.. ;)
Oh Yeah!! and "Aussie" Dave Kirwan (the late great K-ROCK JOCK)
wants to use my music in a documentary that he's shooting... Nice!
-Sailin' Away Sauter
P.S. I had to put this in here... look what someone wrote on the "What Does J.E.L.L.i. Stand For?" part of JELLiMusic.com !
su amigo, Pancho
Méjico
Thursday, Apr 9 19:58 PM
That translates into this:
"The giant ears like little ice cream. I just have a small library in my village. I walked here to write to your website. Thanks for the music!
-Second Seeya Sauter
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
I feel so toasty warm...

Life always seems to be changing... it's because we are always growing... When I grow, my life has a "refreshed" feeling that follows that growth.. I love this thing called the internet, it has the power to keep us connected to people, no matter how far away they are... old friends can come back into my life, I can see into another's world with the click of a "play" button on youtube... so many worlds to see, so little time... so many people I wish to experience in my life, so many faces to see, lips to kiss, hands to shake and hugs to hold... I want everyone... everyone.. but there's not enough time in my life for everyone... I miss the people I've left behind, I can't wait to meet the people on their way to me... my life is always changing, because i'm constantly growing... If i wasn't growing, my life would feel stagnant.. My life is anything but stagnant..
There will be time for love, there will be time for work, there will be time to appreciate the beauty of simple things like a flower on a restaurant table, put there to make your life just a little more pleasant... the beauty of the first time you meet a new person, and the limitless possibilities you think about when you look into their eyes... the beauty of walking outside and smelling the air, feeling the wind, and opening your eyes to the reality that you are alive, you are here, in this world, in a body that people have come to call: "________" (fill in your name there..) You are a member of this club, you are an actor in this worldwide play, a star in your own life... you are a human. The most complex, amazing and power creature created by the creator of all creations. We are all connected... I hope you make a cameo into my story.. I'd love to meet you.. every last one of you..
A time to breathe and enjoy yourself,
With true universal love,
Christopher Michael Sauter
Saturday, March 28, 2009
The Most Amazing Month of March and New Opportunites for April
Most of the time, when a new person hears my EP, they'll listen to it, love it, and then say something really nice to me, and then usually that's it. That has been the typical reaction from the majority of new internet fans.. They stop in now and again to talk to me, touch base and say what's up... But some people do more than just that.. some people take their appreciation much further, and I wanted to take the time to write this blog and thank them.. First to my wonderful friend from Hamburg Germany, Natascha... She's written about me several times in her Art Blog, and on other German blog sites.. she also drew me this beautiful picture and sent me this card..


Natascha started talking to me about 2 months ago... Towards the end of January.. and since then, I don't think I can remember a single day that's gone by that she hasn't written something inspiring, kind, loving or beautiful to me.. In the card, she placed one of her prized possessions, a guitar pick that was used by Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins... (which is our favorite band..) She wants me to use this pick to write more beautiful music with... and I promise I will... Natascha you've been one of the truest fans I have and I love you for all you've done for me..
My other amazing fan is IZZY! (Aida) but I call her Izzy... we started talking just a few weeks ago around my birthday, and since then she's already written about me in her school news paper, got my music to be played in her school during passing in between periods, and created the very first "J.E.L.L.i." T-shirt!! and to tell you the truth, the number of visits to JELLiMUSIC.com this month are almost DOUBLE the number of visits from last month.. and I do think Natascha and Izzy have a lot to do with that.. Izzy Shmizy, I can't thank you enough for all you've done.. My love and appreciation goes out to you, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart...

MARCH has been a FANTASTIC month for J.E.L.L.i. FANTASTIC.. and it all started on March 1st when I called up K-ROCK and got plugged on the air, ahh... and by the way, i've been in touch with the DJ that plugged me ("Aussie" Dave Kirwan) and check out this message:
YO
JELLI
whats your number... i wanna call you and run something by you which could get your music some publicity...
cheers
Dave
Let's just say April is going to be a very interesting month... I'll give you more details as I get them...
WOOOHAAA!!!
-Super Sauter!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
I feel another studio isloation week coming on...
I can feel another wave of that coming.. pretty soon i'm going to ride a light beam into sunshine studios and lock the door, writing and recording bass line after bass line, and maybe even get the 8 songs that I have left for bass completely done!! and then it'll be onto drums...
A one man band is an extreme situation, and it needs to be met with an equally extreme focus and dedication to succeed. I can't be a part of regular social behavior until this album is finished, for sale, and my live show is ready to hit the road.. it's time to really pick up the pace..
I'll still be talking to people online at the end of the night, but only if and after my work is finished for the day... I need someone to keep me accountable... so i think i'm going to post a list of goals in the morning, and then at the end of the night, i'll post how many of them I finished...
I like the thought of being accountable to you because it'll make me work more seriously.. and please, if you see me slacking... smack me (with love) Thank you..
The other day I wrote part of a bass line for a song called "Who You Are" and it really adds to the emotional impact of the song.. it's a very deep song with a lot of purpose.. I think it has the ability to help people unplug from the 1000mph pace of society and really just stop, disconnect from it and re-define themselves. Because sometimes you get lost in your life and society shapes you without you even realizing that you're becoming something you don't want to be... I want this song to be able to give people a new found sense of purpose and honesty with themselves..
In the words of incubus: "MAKE YOURSELF"
I wish all of my songs were therapeutic like this, but some are just for fun.. but you know what... fun IS therapy! so I guess all my songs are therapeutic.. I want to be a musical doctor when I grow up...
-Soon to be Isolated Sauter
