OK not much on tap but........

THE EAGLES WON YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!

woot woot.......so we play the giants this weekend.

today is gonna be a fun day, gonna see the film MILK with a bunch of friends this evening. and writing during the day. MOWO! ALBUMS AINT GETTIN' MADE BY THEYSELVES YO!

lots of hard work going on.

other fun stuff going on as well.

so check in.......gonna write on this site everyday this year if I can......off to a rocking start , yesterday entry was 10 star , magnificent genius shit if I do say so myself.

truly inspired and genius.

hahahahaha..........ok I will shut up now.

be well,

MOWO!™

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2 things on tap for today

1. My eagles play the vikings and well........you know what that means.......BAD NEWS FOR THE VIKINGS!

After a rather up and down season for my football birds has me wondering what the hell is on tap for todays game. THEY are nuts they look like total shit one week and then the next week they beat the dallas cowboys 44-6! ( which by the way was the closest thing to a religious experience I fell in all of 2008 )

and now for my next thing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/arts/music/28pareles.html?pagewanted=2

have you read this? This is interesting to me. Obviously I fall in the category where as an indy artist I find a bit of my success. I have always had a bit of a weird feeling about the new york times music section. let's face it they usually only write about Philip Glass or Rufus Wainwright........once even about rufus shopping for a broach. So , I don't really look to the times to inform me to be honest. Call me bitter or whatever you like but it just feels like the paper has such a blinders on agenda and snottiness to it. But that's just me. Obviously if they decided to write about me for a change I might change my tune....hahahaha.....Im such a mimbo.

Anyway. the gist of the article is talking about how music has really turned into something used for tv commercials and marketing for video games. How major artist and indy artists alike look for what's called music licensing to help add to their bottom line. It's VERY OLD news.....very very very old news. As a matter of fact I sort of don't even understand why the piece is news wothy. It of course has the obligatory mention of how MOBY licensed all of his music from "PLAY" a decade old story. The one angel I understand is that labels JUST do not sell music anymore. It's a real fact. Sure itunes has sold 5 billion tunes since 2003......but think about that for a minute. 5 billion divided by the 300 million people that live in this country for example is only really 16.6 tracks per person over the course of 6+ years.......NOT EXACTLY something to write home about when you consider folks very very commonly used to buy maybe conservatively 10 albums a year ( mind you , I suck at math and welcome being wrong about this.....but I think it is right ) So itunes , it not really making a dent in the fact that people just DO NOT BUY ALBUMS

SO..............................................

is a band like SANTOGOLD selling out by letting someone use their music for a beer commercial? They arent going to get radio play........they aren't going to get on mtv , they aren't going to get any love from BEST BUY probably.......what it comes down to is THEY ARE SIMPLY NOT GOING TO GET ANYWHERE without getting some help from ad agency's and or company's. I submit that MILLER or BUDWEISER could easily go into the record business and put out music and it would be a smart marriage. They would know more about their user and the end buyer than any record company. Especially now a days. THE REASON why Starbucks venture in music has basically failed is because they hired music business professionals to run it, who after a little bit of success crawled so far up their own asses thinking they were "the new black" that well.....we got stuck with Paul McArtney albums and Carly Simon albums to buy.

What is indy cred in 2009? what does that mean in 2009 if you cannot pay your rent and make your label who has signed you, given you money to make an album that you have to pay back with an interest rate of upwards of 88% no incoming money to offset essentially the loan they've given you to make the record in the first place. INDY CRED doesn't feed SANTOGOLD. WE GOTS TO EAT MR PARELES.

So, as I want to be hip, I also want to be responsible. What irks me is that maybe the members of SANTOGOLD have children to feed? Maybe they have a sick parent? Maybe they just want to be able to continue to fund a career in the arts and well if Miller Genuine Draft wants to help them, why the fuck do you care? What makes it news?

It's easy for me to be sensitive about this. I've worked outside of the major record business for years. I get it. I built my own little house out of bricks. But when Metallica , Chris Brown , Madonna , Guns and Roses all let their music get used in a different way. So be it. its not news. It's called a paradigm shift and btw.........IT HAPPENED A DECADE AGO. AS far as Im concerned it happened much much longer ago than that......it happened when MICROSOFT used the rolling stones ( THE ULTIMATE SELL OUTS?!?!? ) us "Start me up " for Windows '95

Im just confused. Long gone is the artist development of make 3-4 albums , build a fan base and and sell records looking for the time for your breakout album. IT DOESNT HAPPEN. But what does happen , sometimes, is a nice story like a band like MY MORNING JACKET who in despite having NO airplay, NO licensing , NO mtv.......still crawled up out of the mire and now can happily say they played MADISON SWAURE GARDEN this past new years eve and can pay their bills.

So in closing, instead of writing about how artists , by finding alternative ways to create money for themselves and for their labels with licensing and being somewhat snotty about it and finding something wrong with it. Why dont you write about artist nobody knows about yet and write about their art. Im sure you do more often than not, but I cant help but think an article like this, feeds the problem instead of starving the problem of illegal downloads. If I wasnt in the music business I would be inclined to steal more music than ever now thinking, hey......they're now selling out and all making money licensing and now officially "SELL OUTS" so why bother buying their music. They're fine on another end now. GUESS WHAT....THEY AREN'T.....All the majors are scrambling for any money they can find, the recession that everyone is now talking about that started in Dec of '07 has actually existed in the music business since easily 4th quarter 2000......Welcome TO OUR WORLD let us make some money.....and not be judged.....BTW,everyone shoots for licensing, indies, majors unknowns.....Its been this way for eons and with the economy the way it is, those fees have dropped tremendously. SO THANK YOU NEW YORK TIMES........thanks for coming down to where I work and peeing in my coffee. Im sure the next beer commercial i'm offered instead of money Im gonna get 3 six packs and some lap dances. So, in lieu of all of this , I eagerly look forward to your next article about rufus wainwright's wardrobe HATS OFF

thanks for the help

love,

be well,

MOWO!™

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NEW YEARS RESOLUTION and SELF HELP

well well well,

I went into Barnes and Noble today and I realized that this is the time of year everyone takes the bull by the horns for upwards of 3-5 weeks. That's right. It's self help time! And how did I know this you ask me? Well it was made perfectly clear to me by the strategically placed SELF HELP BOOK TABLE about 4 inches from the entrance. Peppered with about 30 different books on how to do everything from how to make 56 billion dollars without leaving your couch to how to wipe your ass with more confidence all the way to why you aren't fat and a horrible person after all ( you aren't, I like you ). Just like music, I find there are too many people out there offering YOU, their help or vision. THANKS guy in weird shirt , cowboy boots and sun glasses for telling me about how my success is MY FAULT! hahahah.....prick.

Here is one rule about self help books.......

THEY ALL HAVE BLURBS ABOUT THEM ON THE BACK BY OTHER SELF HELP AUTHORS......or a note from Orpah...... it's like they all keep each other in business by giving each other love., it would be like ME REVIEWING MOBY's NEW ALBUM or worse HIM REVIEWING MINE ( sighs, and awaits horrible review! ).....or

DONALD TRUMP is somehow involved

who the fuck is donald trump to think that he has ONE fucking thing to offer me? Anything at all for that matter?! one of the truly worst human beings on earth and im including famed Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and Pol Pot in the mix. ( how could I leave out my man Hitler? )

Know one thing. I know Donald Trumps bankruptcy lawyer ( no, not the bankruptcy of his soul.....thats a lost cause and not the bankruptcy of his terminally terrible hair either ) The man eats children for breakfast!

I think its hysterical that at this point there are people out there who have failed so badly in life that in fact they are allowed to write self help books. Im amazed at this point there isnt a CHICAGO CUBS "its ok, pick yourself up by the boot straps and try again" self help book.

that'll be the day!

So, if you are getting back in shape , or finally telling yourself you are a good person or eating better or whatever...........JUST FUCKING ENJOY YOURSELF AND GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK. somewhere in the sudan someone has A REAL PROBLEM.....and it has nothing to do with your inability not to eat an entire bag og GOLDENBERGS PEANUT CHEWS in one sitting!

be well,

MOWO!™

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TYLER PERRYS ANYTHING and EVERYTHING........the man has a MARS landing in the WORKS for a new show

hi,

So....is it me or is 2009 just dragging along? Slowest year ever!

In other news......

Have any of you noticed that every 4 seconds TYLER PERRY has a new show or MOVIE? Are any of these shows even remotely funny? I've never actually seen ONE second of what he does. Im sure it must be funny on some level. BUt its just reached an interesting point of saturation.

"tyler perry presents meet the black family living in the white neighborhood"

or

"tyler perry presents a different black man other than tyler perry dressed up as a woman and being really annoying "

or

"tyler perry presents black family's go to the movies and scream at the screen and throw out plot suggestions"

Is 2009 the year of Tyler Perry? Or were 2007-08 also the years of Tyler Perry. Who is Tyler Perry anyway?

Have I written enough about TYLER PERRY ALREADY!?!?!

I hereby announce and want everyone to know that every 9 minutes on the CW network or on TNT rather I will be announcing new MOWO! SERIES of TV SHOWS and mini series.

here are some of the early concepts we are playing with.

"MOWO! PRESENTS - Balding Jews Move into your neighborhood and act loud and have wacky adventures"
in " MOWO! PRESENTS MEET THE JEWS"

"MOWO! PRESENTS - "A balding jewish man who dresses as a woman acts really outraged about everything he hears but lovingly solves all problems and has nuggets of folksey advice for everyone

"MOWO! PRESENTS DIARY OF A LADY JEW"

MOWO! PRESENTS - "A group of aging jews ( one of which is yet again a balding man dressed as a woman who is feisty ) all living together and have adventures where everyone learns something and each character has a loving lesson to teach you but , dont be fooled......these aginging jews will smack your ass , while they're touching your heart! "

"MOWO PRESENTS THE GOLDEN JEWS"

and last but not least....

MOWO! PRESENTS - A show where MRS DOUBTFIRE meets THE NUTTY PROFESSOR ( eddie murphy's version ) a story about a thin white man in fat person make up who plays a made in a house where he plays all of the other categories and is in black face ( a real groundbreaking , breakthrough in 2009!!!!

"MOWO! PRESENTS - MEET MRS GOLDSTEIN and HER SOUL FAMILY "

now, you might ask yourself why all the Tyler Perry observations? Well Im watching a movie on tv right now and literally all of the commercials , ALL OF THEM have at least one spot about a tv show made by tyler perry......the man has 394827650982347490837216498712634 projects going on.

just in case you read this tyler perry......I LOVE YOU and PLEASE USE A PIECE OF MUSIC OF MINE in one of each of your shows so I Can retire! 394827650982347490837216498712634 is a LOT of music being used!

so..............ok.........happy TYLER PERRY NEW YEAR everyone!

YAY!

be well,

MOWO!™

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So I played at Madison Square Garden last night ( coughs ) hahahahaha......( sort of )

not that its going on my resume or anything but :

So I had a very interesting way of bringing in the new year last evening.

My friends My Morning Jacket were playing at Madison Square Garden. Huge gig for them. I sort of wasn't going to go as I hung out with them in Paris earlier in the year and I didnt want to bother the fellas for a ticket or pass. I even brought Jim the lead singer to take part in a Bill Whithers tribute concert Hal Willner put together so all in all 2008 was the year of MOWO! meets THE JACKET! hahaha.....Turns out also though that my main man Steven Bernstein had been asked to play trumpet with them in the "NEW YEARS EVE HORNS" horn section........so well.........Bernstein ( as I love to call him ) called me up and was like..."hey..........you are coming to this with me , come on man.....come and and hang! "

( how many names did I just drop in the last paragraph? did I also mention that BONO and I were together last night with Q-TIP and we all got hammered? hahaha ) sooooooooooo

How could I say know. Bernstein as some of you may already know has worked on my last two albums , playing trumpet on SHAKE YA BOOGIE and RIGHT NOW......good times! We always did some score work together when I produced Jamie Cullum for MEET THE ROBINSONS for Disney........and..........MOWO! INC just released his amazing groups latest album "WE ARE MTO" ( killin' stuff ) So, suffice it to say......I was not going to let MR BERNSTEIN down.

To add to the merry mix up. Mark and Craig from VHS OR BETA were in town and they are really good old friends with the guys from MMJ.......so it was a hootinanny of all hootinanny's!

We arrived and it was like 15 degrees out. Both mark and I had commented a couple of fimes about not wanting to go out at all actually as new years eve represents amateur night for both of us. IM GLAD WE BRAVED THE WEATHER AND THE TOURISTS FOR THIS THOUGH.

what an incredible night of music , what an amazing way to usher out a difficult year and greet a new amazing one. MMJ killed..........the sound was amazing. We sat right at the mixing board for the majority of the concert and it sounded SO amazing. Hat's off mr sound man. YOU my friend are very talented.

The concert was split up into 2 sets.......the first set being the far heavier of the two. about 2 hours 15 minutes long and DOPE..........the second set started RIGHT AT MIDNIGHT and , I have to say........started with a bang........why you ask? well.......because I WAS ON STAGE WITH THEM SINGING BAKGROUNDS on two KOOL AND THE GANG COVERS they decided to do. MY VOICE BELLOWED throughout the garden.......quite a thrill.......all of us had a blast and were onstage for like 10-12 minutes just laughing and jumping around. TONS OF FUN.......such a great way to usher in a NEW YEAR. I have never had a new years gig as a musician. How random is that? I think I DJ'ed once, but in all fairness, THAT IS NOT A NEW YEARS GIG.........its not being a musician. ITS PLAYING RECORDS......so snore.

so yes.........got home VERY late. But luckily had not really had anything to drink and just was chill throughout the whole evening. Was a lot of fun

HATS OFF TO MY MORNING JACKET for being the best hosts of a NEW YEARS EVE concert / party I've ever been to.

happy healthy 2009 everyone.......be safe and be happy :)

be well,

MOWO!™

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