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