friedroots.com » Integrity http://friedroots.com/blog independent music lives Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:11:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 It Is Hard Work http://friedroots.com/blog/2009/08/it-is-hard-work/ http://friedroots.com/blog/2009/08/it-is-hard-work/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:29:59 +0000 smac http://friedroots.com/blog/?p=623

Mornings at the Venice Boardwalk

Mornings at the Venice Boardwalk


Making a label and making ends meet are right now at opposite ends of the spectrum for me. I make music and push the internet work because I see my future in it. Alongside my partner Mario Mendoza, we both work hard to produce the music we enjoy and love and strive to make what we enjoy our livelihoods. You can’t be asleep at the switch.


We bring to the table a new perspective on life. We work to integrate livelihood with self-actualization. We are doing the hard work of aligning ourselves with our mission as a company. We are entrepreneurs who understand that music and culture are product whose reach is global and a language universal. We harness the power of the internet to bring our music forth and dedicate ourselves to the promotion and cultivation of a worldwide audience.





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Don't be afraid to get in the water

Don't be afraid to get in the water


This is not an easy task. Every day is a struggle to move forward and beyond. This work is deeply connected to our own development and growth as people. As our views change and our experience broadens, we gain new abilities and skills along the way. There are huge rewards when you apply yourself and take on the difficult work of success. We savor every moment and welcome the challenges that lay ahead.


peace

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Big Pimpin Vegas stylee

Big Pimpin Vegas stylee


You pour your blood sweat and tears into making music that you want to hear, you better be damn proud of it too. We all manifest our excitement in various ways. Some are more internal with their expression of joy while others are more external with their excitement. Either way, take pride in your work!

Leave your fears aside and allow yourself to manifest your goals and dreams.

We take the time to craft and build works of art such as paintings, sculptures and music; therefore we must enjoy the fruits of our labor. Let it be celebration, let the people gather in the square, celebrate the artist in all of us and be creative.


There is always a story to tell. That is universal and will be with us for generations to come. Technology has only made the ability to tell our stories more readily available to everyone who wishes to do so.


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Choose Your Mic Destiny

Choose Your Mic Destiny


The art you create is an extension of yourself. Art is a creation born from our imagination blessed with inspiration and made with human innovation.


The time has come to choose your mic destiny. Be the artist who you are to be. Leave your fears aside and allow yourself to manifest your goals and dreams. Give up on what you ‘think’ you are and be you. Take pride in you, in your abilities and talents and grow with them. You will be surprised how far you get and who be around on your journey.


The biggest part in taking pride in your music is the ability to let go of it as well. Allowing your creation to live and breath on its own, the proud parent of a human creation.

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At the speed of life

At the speed of life


“Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be by God…
They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other poet, some other saint…
They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavor to have somebody else’s experiences or write somebody else’s poems or possess somebody else’s spirituality.
Thomas Merton, “Integrity,” New Seeds of Contemplation, 1961.


We are musicians, writers and artists for a great multitude of reasons. What ties us together is the very struggle of expressing ourselves as an individual person or group. We work to understand our sound, the music we enjoy creating and feel good about expressing.


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Make Your move

Make Your move

Nevertheless there are times where that creative spark has dimmed. We seek an outside source for that energy; a muse, a pilgrimage to a place of inspiration or we turn inward and ironically seek light from the darkness within. This is where things can get ugly. Depression, lack of self confidence, low self esteem, the mind wanders more and more and you start to physically disconnect with the world around you. You know you are in the darkness.


I know, I lived in this darkness for a couple years. I internally shut down, no inspiration and no desire to continue… until one day I had enough! I was fed up with feeling sorry for myself, I was fed up with complaining and not doing anything about it. I activated myself. Now it’s time to make your move! Activate before you get trapped!

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