Another year, different number

Starting to become an annual response.

Thanks for your submission. As you know, we had been looking at you for inclusion in this year's tour, and I think we had even been talking to you back and forth about the dates you would maybe be available. As of right now, we do not have a slot for you, but we had been hoping one might open as we started filling things out. This is why we had not yet responded to your app. However, our deadline has now passed (yesterday, actually), and Sonicbids has asked us to assign you a permanent status so that the application process for this year's tour can be closed.

Again, as I assume you were already aware of, we have been trying to work out a slot for you on this year's tour. But again, however, as it stands at this point (and again, this is the time that Sonicbids has required us to make the official final decision), we do not have slots for you.

Having said that, I want you to be aware that there is a chance that this could change in the near or semi near future. Due to the nature of a tour of this size and scope, and due to the very large number of bands that we work with, slots do reopen when circumstances beyond the control of the artists we have booked are, in fact, unable to keep their commitments.

You were an artist that our panel had really wanted to find something for, and we would like to find a place for you if one arises. The slots are full now, but life being what it is, we often have slots open back up. For that reason, I am placing you on a backup list of bands that we will contact when a slot opens up. You will have the option of accepting or rejecting that slot based on your desire and/or availability.

I know you probably wanted some feedback as to the notes our panel took when they reviewed your materials, and what, if anything, could be done to improve your chances in the future. With that in mind, I asked the Panel to give me at least a general sense of what they thought, and why you may not have been selected this time. I wanted to share with you the following feedback they gave me.

Here is the bottom line after our panel had listened to your music: They liked your music, and believe you have potential. You actually were in a pool of artists that they strongly considered and almost selected for the core of this Summer's tour, and they reached a consensus that they believe you are only going to get better and that they believe we would like to have with us in the future.

Due to the effort we make to blend the bands that are selected so that they complement each other, though, there simply were other bands that they felt were a better fit at this time, at the level they are currently at.

To be honest, this is a very contentious process and the competition for slots can be pretty fierce. There was some level of debate as to your selection, and I know that there was at least one or two of our panel who thought we should include you. It really was pretty close.

This is why we added you to the list that we would go to to fill the holes that I am sure will crop up over the next few months. Please be watching your email for us to contact you with offers of slots that may come available.

However, beyond any slots that may open back up for the tour this year, Extreme Tour Events also has some other projects coming up that we may be able to use you for. We have added your EPK to the list of artists we will consider for those opportunities as well, and I again encourage you to watch your email for our correspondence.

We will contact you in the near future should we decide to use you for those events. Thank you again for your application.

We would ask you to keep us appraised of the development of your music and career. We would like to consider you for next year's tour possibly as we believe you will probably only develop and improve. I especially think that we should stay in touch as there has already been real interest in you from Zach and Matt (our 2 primary A&R scouts. That bodes well for us working together in the future. So, this is not a no, it's a "not for now". Please do stay in touch. We will watch for your correspondence with us, and I will be in touch regarding these other opportunities.

Thank You, Again

Ted Bruun, and the Extreme Tour Team

Brother

My brother-
There's a number of them so I'll leave him for you to tell me of

Sister

My mother cared for her mother till the day she passed away
Cooked the meals and all those things my mother had to do

The story though is seldom told those stories rarely are
Yet there are some who know because I am one who knew

My sister cared for my mother till the day she passed away
So I write this story for my sister to let her know I knew

Mother

My mother
Was always near no matter the distance
Somehow, someway, I could always go and see my mother
I lived with my mother for many years till she finally made me able to live somewhere else
Yet my mother was always near no matter the distance
My mother
Was always making sure that the family was in order
Every duck was in a row and everyone accounted for
Always it was my mother making sure that everyone and everything was as it needed be
My mother
Now has finished all she had to do
All that God had planned for her my mother has seen it through
So now that mother finished all that God had planned
God has seen this job He gave done so very well
This job that God can only trust to mothers

Zero Ten Eleven Double Naught One Oh, One

01/01/10 01:01

Binary for 666

Just like G-d

Would it not be just like G-d (tongue-in-check) to Create Eve so that there would be two ways to worship Him?

To Discipline I go

Job and his friends sat around and discussed God. Not unlike things should be now.

Each one having their own revelation. Not unlike things are now.

I as a writer I tried, like Job, to reason truth and yet truth belongs to God, and God alone reveals it.

My decision now is not to know, but to find out.

I am looking at the God-who-sees-me which is the God of Hagar and is revealed in the Quran.

I am looking at the God that is, I AM THAT I AM, that is revealed in the Torah.

I am looking a the God who is to bring peace on earth and good will to man, of which the two, Ishmael and Isaac, are the picture of that struggle.

The one said to bring peace on earth and good will to man is Jesus.

However I write this knowing that this is the last I will write for a time, (maybe in song I will write), but in study from here I go;

"Placing my hand upon my mouth and listen to learn, and not to know."

I see to much uncertainty even in what people say is certain. I never liked that all my life. It causes nothing but strife, and subtly at that.

For no matter whatever you may think of John Lennon, and him as a man, I heard him as a writer, (put on this earth as such), and I read his meaning behind the song Imagine, and I too wonder, if all the religions would not talk too much, as Job and his friends, but listen. Then maybe there would be less dying for a belief, and less people who can not love God, because of all the dying of beliefs!

Also as a writer place on this earth, (John Lennon) I hear the song All You Need is Love, and wonder is that not the fulfilment of peace on earth and good will to man?

So as I study in the Quran, the Torah, and the New Testement and testimony I plan to discipline myself, placing my hand more on my mouth so to listen and not to know.