All day I kept busy as usual with my music "to do's" that never end, but I'm good with that because I am honoring my hearts desire and living a conscious life. I've always had a thing for numbers, despite being terrible at math and I couldn't figure out why April 6th meant something to me. I'm sure it will come to me.
I woke up with pep, and believe me when I say that is not normal behavior for me. It's not that I'm not happy or didn't get enough sleep, cause if I didn't watch out! It's just that I'm quite in the mornings, I move slow, I don't want to talk, I don't want to hear you talk either. All I want to do is pee, drink a big glass of water and take Sammy out for a walk on a tree shaded path with my dark Elvis glasses on to protect my eyes from the glorious sun playing games with me as it peeks through the shadows. Today I was smiling like a fool though and bouncing like Tigger on all four playing with Sammy before 9am!
Shortly after, I got the call from United Record Pressing saying that my very first every recycled vinyl 7" records are complete! I am ECSTATIC! I was only able to do this because of a documentary type show that I shot in November. I am SO grateful for the opportunity! First things first, I helped a friend move and grabbed a delicious slice of artichoke, feta, and fresh tomato pizza at 5 Points Pizza. When I arrived at URP, I was greeted at the front desk by a stunning lady, I always enjoy laying my eyes on beauty, it's like a pleasant little gift in your day. She paged Adam for me and out he came with my 500 multi-colored, musical toys! I couldn't wait to see what colors I got in the mix, I already new what it would sound like. I was bouncing, smiling large and I kinda wanted to scream, but I refrained only letting out a couple giggles. I know, who am I today? I quickly opened the box and started pulling out records one by one. This one is teal! Ohhh look this one is purple! This one is green! I couldn't have picked the color combos any better my self. They all match the branding for Moxie Industries and Vanessa Diaz Music sites.
I had been wanting to take a tour of the facilities ever since my friend Chris and I ended my tour together here in Nashville and now was my chance. There is a lot of history in that building, the only thing is, they didn't know it would be history back then so they didn't keep track of all the people running in and out of there during the Motown years. They did have a historian confirm some names like the Supremes and Barry Gordy the head of Motown Records spent nights in the rooms they had built for the black artists & execs. Segregation was still so prominent many hotels wouldn't take them. The decor made me feel like I instantly did a time warp in to the 60's. I loved each piece of furniture, mid-century modern, simple, low and streamlined. And the record players all over the place! So many different kinds! I really think I was an unfortunate 60's rock n rolla lost to overdose in a past life.
I also got to see and learn about the entire process and how many hands take part in the production of each record. Everything from the labels to the plating, stamping, cutting and recycling the excess vinyl. They even have in house guys to build new parts for these massive machines if they are no longer available due to the youngest machine being from 1980. I have a lot of respect for the industry. It makes me happy to know there is a place for people to put aside their most favorite songs through out the years and listen to them through the warmth of a record collection. Let it grow!
I went home early that evening, threw on my pjs and sat in the middle of my brand new living room floor (I finally got a real place to live last week!) with all 500 of my records. I went through each individual box for hours discovering new colors and organizing them while I listened. I looked at the label and read "written, performed and produced by... vanessa diaz". Yes! It is complete, in it's entirety, resourced from all of my lifes experiences and people. I feel accomplished and the ego loves it, but I won't let it get carried away....well, maybe for my evening alone with the proof I need to know that this is only the beginning of my magical music career. The passion has never been greater.
I guess April 6th really doesn't mean anything, unless it's the current day and you chose to do something worth giving up a day in your life for. Today was worth it!
If you would like "Roller Coaster" the record with singles "Days Go By" & "Say You Will" please email me at VanessaDiazMusic@gmail.com I am accepting $5 minimum donation plus shipping to cover costs & with a little more you are contributing to the continuation of sharing my life through music with you. The goal is to sell 100 records at an average of $8 per album by the end of this LA Love Your World tour May 1st! Do you think I can do it? Maybe with your help!
Thank you for your continued love and support & remember, Love Your World!
Besos,
vanessa diaz
Vanessa Diaz Blog
Hibernate & Create.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
I've been creating patterns for 110+ Up-Cycled purses, accessories, record sleeves, art and more. It's been a PJ's filled, highly creative and productive 5 days, but now it's time to sew. My sewing machine scares me. I stare with attempts of a conquer, chanting "you will sew through any material I tell you to"... It's not working... I'll start fresh in the morning, yeah... that's what I'll do!
Coyote Disgusting
Saturday, December 17, 2011
If you have mad skills, good work ethic, and desire to make those around you also succeed beyond successes of the past... DO NOT APPLY!
I was initially excited to work at Coyote Ugly Nashville. I figured the job requires everything that I am good at and have made a really good living doing in the past, Emcee, singing, dancing, bartending, selling; why not?! Unfortunately, and as forewarned by the GM that hired me, "There is more drama here than you will ever experience." My bad, I thought my peace loving personality would be a repellant to that being an option in my life... and in the end it was.
There is a manager there named _______ , a girl that is initially pretty, until you learn a thing or two about her, then she just becomes utterly disgusting. She suffers from what I call cunt girl syndrome. There wasn't a single damn thing that I could say or do around this girl, without her having a problem with it. It started with lunch at BB Kings next door during a break from dance practice. There was conversation at the table about girls going to New Orleans for Mardi Gra and I was like "I'll go!, that sounds awesome!" Of course they aren't going to say "go new girl you got this!", but it was a comment in passing, you know, to join the conversation. That gets taken as "who the fuck does Vanessa think she is?!" Then... there are straight up lies told to my GM about me selling my CD behind the bar. If anyone knows anything about me, they know that I don't even sell CD's I do download cards and I wasn't doing anything like that. But if someone asks about me, of course I am going to share that I am an artist. _______ suggested I be someone different at the bar lol "I don't know you could be one person on day and another the next you don't have to be Vanessa Diaz" Why in the world would I want to be anyone but me??
I was then put on merchandising shifts for two weeks. I bit my tongue and after the first week, I had requested a real bartending shift because I was not hired as a merch girl. That was enough to have me pulled off the schedule for the week.
When I was officially fired today. I was told I missed a shift and regardless of the fact that I was never once sent my schedule prior to said shift, it's my fault. I apparently don't gel with the girls and don't know what I am doing on a mic or bartending according to them. I think it's obvious that I was set up to be fired. We are both Alphas, but I'm the kind that takes care of the young, not slaughters and feeds on them for an overindulgent snack.
In the conversation my ego wanted so bad to say but wait.... and try to prove my case and how I have been wronged, but instead, I gave up being right because it does not matter. There are few things that I believe in with certainty every day in life. One of those things is energy. We are all energy and vibrate at different frequencies. It's as simple as this, my vibrational energy rests in a higher frequency than most I was dealing with at Coyote Ugly. Just like magnets that repel from one another when not facing the proper flow, this job was quickly repelled from my life. Thank YOU!!!
I was initially excited to work at Coyote Ugly Nashville. I figured the job requires everything that I am good at and have made a really good living doing in the past, Emcee, singing, dancing, bartending, selling; why not?! Unfortunately, and as forewarned by the GM that hired me, "There is more drama here than you will ever experience." My bad, I thought my peace loving personality would be a repellant to that being an option in my life... and in the end it was.
There is a manager there named _______ , a girl that is initially pretty, until you learn a thing or two about her, then she just becomes utterly disgusting. She suffers from what I call cunt girl syndrome. There wasn't a single damn thing that I could say or do around this girl, without her having a problem with it. It started with lunch at BB Kings next door during a break from dance practice. There was conversation at the table about girls going to New Orleans for Mardi Gra and I was like "I'll go!, that sounds awesome!" Of course they aren't going to say "go new girl you got this!", but it was a comment in passing, you know, to join the conversation. That gets taken as "who the fuck does Vanessa think she is?!" Then... there are straight up lies told to my GM about me selling my CD behind the bar. If anyone knows anything about me, they know that I don't even sell CD's I do download cards and I wasn't doing anything like that. But if someone asks about me, of course I am going to share that I am an artist. _______ suggested I be someone different at the bar lol "I don't know you could be one person on day and another the next you don't have to be Vanessa Diaz" Why in the world would I want to be anyone but me??
I was then put on merchandising shifts for two weeks. I bit my tongue and after the first week, I had requested a real bartending shift because I was not hired as a merch girl. That was enough to have me pulled off the schedule for the week.
When I was officially fired today. I was told I missed a shift and regardless of the fact that I was never once sent my schedule prior to said shift, it's my fault. I apparently don't gel with the girls and don't know what I am doing on a mic or bartending according to them. I think it's obvious that I was set up to be fired. We are both Alphas, but I'm the kind that takes care of the young, not slaughters and feeds on them for an overindulgent snack.
In the conversation my ego wanted so bad to say but wait.... and try to prove my case and how I have been wronged, but instead, I gave up being right because it does not matter. There are few things that I believe in with certainty every day in life. One of those things is energy. We are all energy and vibrate at different frequencies. It's as simple as this, my vibrational energy rests in a higher frequency than most I was dealing with at Coyote Ugly. Just like magnets that repel from one another when not facing the proper flow, this job was quickly repelled from my life. Thank YOU!!!
Hello Nashville!!
Monday, December 5, 2011
The past month and a half has flown by! Let me catch you up, I could use a recap myself! After coming to Nashville for my last tour show for the year on 10/14, I was presented with a wonderful opportunity. I'm not allowed to say too much at the moment, but I will be in a documentary type show about what I have been up to, that airs in the Spring! I'll fill you in on more as I am contractually allowed. With that said, I look forward to the next few months of prepping for miracles.
I've started working on the record with Pino Squillace at Boom Lab studios in Music Row. Him and Jerry Navarro, who once played together with Muzic Mafia, are now partners and creating an amazing space for Music, Integrity, Love, Diversity and Growth at Boom Lab. I feel like I found a family with them and am very grateful.
Read about this sick Harrison in the studio.
To help in getting settled in financially, I picked up a side job at Coyote Ugly. I've had a great time dancing and having dance practices again, it's been a long time. I forgot how much I love it, but I also forgot about haters lol... I have a couple of those there...pretty ridiculous. I have surrounded my life the past six months by so many amazing new friends and lovers, probably because my vibration was at such an elevated level while I was doing exactly what I wanted every day. That kind of energy is like a "good shit" magnet lol I'm there with the hopes to be able to continue practicing at my performance craft by singing, playing guitar and dancing, doing some covers while bringing in cash. We'll see how it goes. I was considering Rolling In The Deep and Shout Bamalama (Otis Redding). Do you guys have any suggestions?
Here's Shout Bamalama . I Freaking LOVE this song! I figured I could learn the sax part on it and sing. Just sounds like fun to me : )
I have Sammy with me! We got a place that is perfect and private. While I was on the road I began making a wish list of what I wanted in my next place to live. I have them all! There is a sewing area, studio, den, art studio and bedroom split into four little rooms that link in a circle on the second floor, perfect for ADD beneficiaries like me!
Today I'm blogging (Yeay! Captain Obvious!) and working on patterns for some new up-cycled bags I'm making. I saw these guys taking down the banners on 2nd street and was like "hey! hey! Mr.! Mr. sign man wait up!!" I asked and received these once doomed to a landfill banners! I can't wait to see what the final creation will look like. Due to the materials always varying in size I'm not in the business of making two of a kind ANYTHING and I love it!
Hope you too take the time to do one thing that makes your heart sing every day!
Always with Love y Un BESOTO!
~Vanessa
I've started working on the record with Pino Squillace at Boom Lab studios in Music Row. Him and Jerry Navarro, who once played together with Muzic Mafia, are now partners and creating an amazing space for Music, Integrity, Love, Diversity and Growth at Boom Lab. I feel like I found a family with them and am very grateful.
To help in getting settled in financially, I picked up a side job at Coyote Ugly. I've had a great time dancing and having dance practices again, it's been a long time. I forgot how much I love it, but I also forgot about haters lol... I have a couple of those there...pretty ridiculous. I have surrounded my life the past six months by so many amazing new friends and lovers, probably because my vibration was at such an elevated level while I was doing exactly what I wanted every day. That kind of energy is like a "good shit" magnet lol I'm there with the hopes to be able to continue practicing at my performance craft by singing, playing guitar and dancing, doing some covers while bringing in cash. We'll see how it goes. I was considering Rolling In The Deep and Shout Bamalama (Otis Redding). Do you guys have any suggestions?
Here's Shout Bamalama . I Freaking LOVE this song! I figured I could learn the sax part on it and sing. Just sounds like fun to me : )
I have Sammy with me! We got a place that is perfect and private. While I was on the road I began making a wish list of what I wanted in my next place to live. I have them all! There is a sewing area, studio, den, art studio and bedroom split into four little rooms that link in a circle on the second floor, perfect for ADD beneficiaries like me!
Hope you too take the time to do one thing that makes your heart sing every day!
Always with Love y Un BESOTO!
~Vanessa
Love Your World Tour paused...
Sunday, October 16, 2011
For now, I'll book shows within a 6 hour radius of Nashville, find a gym to become a member so that I may have a lovely shower everyday, while I live in my teardrop and at the studio to make this album lucrative success. Somethings gotta give by the years end : ) I want a place to call home here in Nashville through March with a bathtub, a lot of natural light, a real mattress, parking for Blue & Zo (my teardrop camper) and of course Sammy my beagle! I can't wait to go pick him up!
Here is a list of all the awesome cities & venues that I got to play at! Each have a story that I will soon be sharing with you!
Fri Jul 1 2011
9:00p |
BackStage Lounge
Gainesville, FL |
Fri Jul 8 2011
8:00p |
Liquid Smoke
Murfreesboro, TN |
Thu Jul 14 2011
9:00p |
Aura Lounge
Murfreesboro, TN |
Fri Jul 15 2011
7:30p |
That's Cool
Nashville, TN |
Sat Jul 16 2011
7:00p |
The Commodore
Nashville, TN |
Sun Jul 17 2011
3:00p |
3rd Sunday at Doak's
Nashville, TN |
Mon Jul 18 2011
7:30p |
Dan McGuinness Pub
Nashville, TN |
Tue Jul 19 2011
7:15p |
The Rusty Nail
Hermitage, TN |
Thu Jul 21 2011
8:00p |
That's Cool
Nashville, TN |
Fri Jul 22 2011
9:00p |
Liquid Smoke
Murfreesboro, TN |
Tue Jul 26 2011
8:00p |
Fred's Speak Easy
Asheville, NC |
Thu Jul 28 2011
8:00p |
Deep South The Bar
Raleigh, NC |
Fri Jul 29 2011
10:00p |
Brooklyn Heights Bar
Raleigh, NC |
Sat Jul 30 2011
8:00p |
Parizade
Durham, NC |
Wed Aug 3 2011
8:00p |
Berkeley Cafe
Raleigh, NC |
Thu Aug 4 2011
7:00p |
Deep South The Bar
Raleigh, NC |
Sat Aug 13 2011
7:00p |
Fuel House Coffee
Vineland, NJ |
Mon Aug 15 2011 9:00p
|
Fergie's Pub
Philadelphia, PA |
Tue Aug 16 2011 7:00p
|
The Raven Lounge
Philadelphia, PA |
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