Green Day: Bullet In A Bible

I'm just going straight to the heart for this one....


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

Life and Happiness - don't settle

I think Life is a balance between a ton of different things... and I think Happiness comes from achieving that balance. 

  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

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

 

 

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

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      

                                    
                                      

                                        -Almost Famous Sauter

Vocal Breakthrough

Another Quickie: 


         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!

Just a quickie:     I'm kinda stunned at the incredible jump of of hits jellimusic.com  has had in the month of march:

Month              Unique visitors    Number of visits

Jan 2009                453                        969

Feb 2009                466                        821

Mar 2009                884                      1646

So in march 884 DIFFERENT computers accessed jellimusic.com 1646 times...   nearly double from February!!   What happened in march?!   well march did see a lot of great promotion from a lot of different people...

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

This is not a blog...   This is what happens when i'm still up at 5:57 in the morning..   I don't know what this will be... let's find out... 

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