Hey guys… i have moved my blog to my new website. Click on this link and it will take you there: http://www.jesseryanmusic.com/blog
So, no need to come to this site anymore.

Here’s a video me and some guys did for our upcoming youth series called Man Laws.

I hope everyone out there had a great christmas. I had a pretty good one myself. I had to work christmas eve and christmas morning, but i got to spend the rest of christmas day with angelika and her family. it was good food and good times.

all of us in the office got together and made a video for the youth group to show at our christmas services. we were just messing around and didn’t think it would be that great of a video, but it quickly shot to the top picks of all student impact videos. the students we falling out of their chairs when we showed it. so here it is… let me know what you think.

“There are three things that amaze me—
no, four things that I don’t understand:
how an eagle glides through the sky,
how a snake slithers on a rock,
how a ship navigates the ocean,
how a man loves a woman.”

This is quite true but you don’t have to understand something to be impressed by it, enjoy it, experience it, or love her.

Yes, I had my second show! It was an open mic night at a place called The Rubber Gloves. It was a short 20 min, 4 song set. We had about 15 people come out… pretty good for a show at 11PM on a Tuesdays while the temp outside is friggin’ 25 degrees! It was a good time, as well as IHOP after! Thanks to all you guys who came out! And thanks to the musicians:
Ryan Rijken – you’re drum solo made me tear up
Tom Atchison – you are forever the man of heavenly bass sounds
Daniel O’donoghue – dude, you are amazing! i love havin’ you on the team!
Dustin – you weren’t there, punk

Ok, well here is a quick video of a new song i wrote a few weeks ago called Coming Home, as well our regular one, Realize:

I had my first show last night at The Door in Dallas and everything went extremely well! Thanks to all of you that came and showed support! I guess-timate that we had around 30-40 friends come out plus others that were there for other bands. It was a blast and every song went off smoothly. It was a quick five song set but we rocked it out!

A shout out to the guys that played with me:
Ryan Westerman – your drum solo was SICK
Dustin Barrow – you made that guitar do things i did not know were possible.. thanks for coming all the way up to play with me man!
Tom Atchinson – you + bass = nasty
Justin Solano – the made that axe scream… with finesse
Angelika – thanks for all the PR and behind the scenes work… you’re wonderful

Well for those of you that missed, we have alot of pictures and footage coming. Here are soem clips of the show… so enjoy – and more shows to come!!!

Realize

Table Set for Two

Can’t Get Enough

Ok people out there, we wanna pack this show out! So invite everyone… we need TONS there. It will be a 30 min set. Doors open at 6:30 but be there by 7:30. David Villareal will be on drums, Justin Solano and Dustin Barrow (a close friend of mine) will be on electric, and Tom Atchinson on bass. Be prepared for a sweet show! See ya there!

Here is the most recent video I shot and edited for our “Games People Play” series.  Simon Says represents the voice of the crowd; the voice of peer pressure; the voice of any negative and outside influence on your decisions.  When I shot this video I didn’t have much time for very good lighting and not much time for editing either.  I tried to go for a feel and style similar to The Office.  Here it is… Simon Says.

Ok, here is the newest of my songs.  It just a demo… nothing professional about it.  Hopefully the guys will get together soon and get a good recording of it.  Look out because i’ll be playing around the Dallas/Fort Worth area quite soon.  My myspace music page will put up gig dates as soon as they are locked down.  Well, here is “Realize.”  Let me know what you think… leave comments people.  Just play the video below.  (There is no video… it’s just audio so don’t freak out if you don’t see anything.)

I’ve been reading The Silmarillion by J.R. Tolkien and it has been amazing.  It’s kind of a hard read.  Alot of info.  It’s not a detailed storyline.  For instance, if you have read The Lord of the Rings, it’s quite detailed and dramatic.  The movie caught the feel of the book very well.  Remember in the movie, in the the beginning Galadriel tells the story of the ring in her creepy voice…. she is simply telling the background of the story without much detail… just the important necessary things.  This book has been like that the whole way through.  I almost imagine Galadriels voice as I read it.  Creepy.  Anyways… Tolkien has finally been tell some stories in detail.  One of them was the story of Beren (a man) and Luthien (a female elf) and it was amazing.  I wish they could make it into a movie.  I did not feel like typing the whole story out for you guys… so i wikipedia’d it and they did a good job of summarizing the story.  So here it is… Beren and Luthien:

Beren was the last survivor of a group of Men led by his father Barahir that had still resisted Morgoth, the Dark Enemy, after the Battle of Sudden Flame, in which Morgoth had conquered much of northernMiddle-earth. After the defeat of his companions he fled from peril into the elvish realm Doriath. There he met Lúthien, the only daughter of King Thingol and Melian the Maia, who was dancing and singing. Seeing the beautiful Elf, Beren fell in love with her, for she was the fairest of all Elves and Men. She later fell in love with him as well, when she heard him calling for her in a longing voice. As Thingol disliked Beren and regarded him as being unworthy of his daughter, he set a seemingly impossible task on Beren that he had to achieve before he could marry Lúthien. Thingol asked Beren to bring him one of theSilmarils, the three hallowed jewels made by Fëanor, which Morgoth had stolen from the Elves.

Beren left Doriath and set out on his quest to Angband, the enemy’s fortress. Although Thingol tried to prevent it, Lúthien later followed him. On his journey to the enemy’s land Beren reached Nargothrond, an Elvish stronghold, and was joined by ten warriors under the lead of Finrod, who had sworn an oath of friendship to Beren’s father. Although Fëanor’s sons, Celegorm and Curufin, warned them not to take the Silmaril that they considered their own, the company was determined to accompany Beren. On their way to Angband they were seized by the servants of Sauron and imprisoned in Tol-in-Gaurhoth. One by one they were killed until only Beren remained.

When she was following Beren, Lúthien was captured and brought to Nargothrond by Celegorm and Curufin. Aided by Huan, Celegorm’s hound, she was able to flee. With his aid she came to Sauron’s fortress where Huan defeated the werewolves of the Enemy and Sauron himself. Then they freed the prisoners, among them Beren.

Beren wanted to try his task once more alone, but Lúthien insisted on coming with him. Through magic they took the shapes of the bat Thuringwethil and the wolf Draugluin that Huan had caught. Thereby they were able to enter the enemy’s land and at last came to Angband and before Morgoth’s throne. There Lúthien sang a magical song which made the Dark Lord fall asleep; then Beren cut a Silmaril from Morgoth’s crown. When they wanted to leave, the gate was barred by Carcharoth, a giant werewolf, who was bred as an opponent to Huan. He bit off and swallowed Beren’s hand, in which Beren was holding the Silmaril.^[2] Carcharoth was burned by the pure light of the Silmaril and ran off madly.

Beren and Lúthien returned to Doriath, where they told of their deeds and thereby softened Thingol’s heart. He accepted the marriage of his daughter and the mortal Man, although Beren’s task had not been fulfilled. Beren and Huan participated in the hunt for Carcharoth, who in his madness had come into Doriath and caused much destruction there. Both of them were killed by the wolf, but Carcharoth was also slain. Before he died, Beren handed the Silmaril, which was recovered from Carcharoth’s belly, to Thingol.

Grieving for Beren, Lúthien died too and came to the halls of Mandos. There she sang of her ill fate, that she would never again see Beren, who as a mortal Man had passed out of the world. Thereby Mandos was moved to pity. He restored Beren and Lúthien to life and granted mortality to the Elf. Lúthien left her home and her parents and went to Ossiriand with Beren. There they dwelt for the rest of their lives, and both eventually died the death of mortal Men.