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A Nice Review

My latest song – End of the World – just got a very positive review over at Tunedloud.com. They say….

G. Michael Vasey is songwriter based in the Czech Republic. Vasey creates his songs using his home studio where he plays all instruments. The varied music and song craft in his catalog are many things: diverse, innovative, clever, intelligent, quirky, rocking, aggressive, subdued, subtle, melancholy and accomplished, to name just a few things; in short there is something in there for many of the moods you might find yourself in. His music is both exceedingly retro and thoroughly modern. Vasey’s playing is outstanding as is that of the supporting cast of musicians…which is in reality, himself.

And go on to say .. Vasey is a wonderfully creative musician. In his songs you will find flavors of Alternative and punk elements alongside the classic rock basics.

You can read the entire review here.

And you can listen to End of the World below……

 

Let me know what you think and if you like it, please share!

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When It Just Seems Dark

For the last months I have felt as if I simply wait to die. I have no interest in anything. I see negative everywhere. I sit and try to plan – after all I’m single these days – I can do or be anything that I want right – but I don’t actually know what I want! I spent a lifetime knowing what I wanted and achieving and now, I can’t plan a day ahead and if I do, I can’t be bothered to do it anyway. I want to sleep but my sleep is full of dreams that are painful and wake me up. Everything seems magnified and more difficult than it should be. I have also noticed that I have been shedding ‘friends’ at exactly the point when I need friends. Yet, these ‘friends’ I see are not my friends at all. I don’t need them in my life.

Last week, I wrote a new song – it’s still in draft form and needs recording. I tend to sing stream of consciousness lyrics when writing these days and I was quite amazed at what came out…

I gave you everything you wanted

And then I gave you even more

I thought of you everyday

And then thought of you some more

 

I worked my ass of every single day

I’ve been honest in every way

I put everyone else before me

Where the hell did that get me?

 

I’m done with putting myself last

Life is disappearing much to fast

I’m gonna live how I want

I’m gonna do things I never did before

 

It’s my life

It’s MY life

It’s my life and I’m gonna live it

 

There is anger in there. Both at me and at others. It is my life and I do want to live it….. but I don’t know how yet. Then, I literally forced my way to go visit an old friend. It seemed like a fight to get there too… and I reconnected – with the Earth, with me and with them. I’m still not sure what I want to do when I grow up….. but I have at least a start and I know that the rest of my life won’t be about chasing money, lifestyles, things…. but chasing the real me.

Wish me luck please….

 

 

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Ride to the Danube

Wouldn’t it be strange

If I found you alone on a train

Wouldn’t it be just like lady Fate

To send you to me too late

But, I believe in miracles

Guess I always did

And I believe in dreaming

You can think me stupid

Life is nothing but a dream anyway

 

When I look in a mirror

I don’t like what I see looking back

Mortally wounded – so very deep

But the mirror I met on that railway track

She can light me up

Alchemy on wheels

And I believe in dreaming

I just like how it feels

I’m feeling and dreaming anyway

 

A ride to the Danube

Clawing my way back from hell

A glimpse of heaven in you

Drinking at my wishing well

Not sure how to proceed

But maybe there is no need

For life surely is a dream

Made better by you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What’s On the Menu? Apparently, Me!

I have been asked many times ‘What is Magic?’ It’s a tough question to answer.

This weekend though, I think I experienced all aspects of magic.

There was the magic of a friendship of many years finally given quality time, there was the magic of a new and almost instantaneous new friendship, there was the magic of late night joyful discussions over alcohol and cigarettes, there was the magic of tears – mostly through sheer joy (but maybe also through an England berth in a world cup semi-final), there was the magic of the Earth and small rituals, there was the magic of renewal and cleansing, there was the magic of a heartfelt prayer answered immediately in a surprising way, there was intuition, strange coincidence, and much more….there was even the magic of finding a place to eat, only to find I was on the menu! (Yes – I really was)…

I came back a different person to the one that left just three days earlier – Now, that is magic!

 

 

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It’s My Life and Radio

A couple of weeks back, I was featured on Radio Memphis as a song writer. It was a fun 40 minutes talking with Dirty D over there in the USA. You can hear the interview as well now as a podcast. 

Meanwhile, I wrote another song called It’s My Life and it’s up on reverbnation.com for the time being. To be honest, I may yet tweak it further…..

 

 

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The End of the World

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Living Solo

For something like 35-years I have been in a relationship. For the last few months I have been well and truly single. At first, I was horrified and still find going to bed alone deeply troublesome but I have grown somewhat used to being single and begin to see many benefits.

No one tells me what to do

If I want to watch Hull City games, no one objects

If I want to have a glass of wine, I can

If I feel like eating, I do

I am under no pressure to get up with others every morning

I can play my guitar LOUD – and my music too

Yes. Actually, when and if I meet someone new, it might be difficult to shall we say, re-adjust.

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The Stream of Magic

I’ve talked in these pages many times about the stream of life and the song, row, row, row the boat. I confess to finding this little song fascinating as an esoteric writing.

Just recently, I have been through a very deep and long lasting depression caused in some sense by the break up of a long-term relationship and then the need to come to terms with being single, a bit isolated in the Czech republic and realizing I had lost sight of myself and what I wanted. Well, a few weeks ago, I woke up one morning and just decided that any rebirth had to start with changing a few basic things like diet, my weight and attitude. I woke up realising I was creating my own miserable reality by being miserable and sitting doing nothing in abject depression. I started walking 10,000 steps every day, cycling 10km and doing basic workouts with my body and weights. I cut out all bad carbs and moved to a low card diet rich in good oils, vegetables, protein and as much water as I could consume. I have lost weight already as I need to pull my belt in one notch tighter and my legs and arms have a hint of muscle about them too. I have not managed to quit drinking, but I did quite drinking beer. I have not yet managed to quit my on and off again smoking habit, but I will. I see myself in a few months as slim, some muscle definition and full of energy.

I also changed my attitude as much as I could. I started to try to focus on being grateful for what I do have rather than focusing on what I don’t. I started looking for the benefits of being single and I found quite a lot. I do miss not having that special someone, but I decided to quit looking. My desperation could be smelt a mile away and it was sending bad signals to the universal creation engine.

A couple of days ago, I had one of those revelations too. I am grateful for having had a rich and varied life full of magic. Coincidences and lucky breaks. Opportunities that arose from nowhere. For a working class kid from Hull, I have done rather well. Been a millionaire and lost it all and regained a fortune anyway – albeit of a different kind! The realisation was quite simple. My life has been magical.

I contemplated that in mediation and realized that the magic comes from hooking in to a stream of life in which you just go with the flow. Once in that magic stream, anything can happen. If however, you fall out of it, things get rough and rougher. As you fight against this natural magical stream of life, consciously or unconsciously, you fight against the natural pull of your destiny. Re-attaching to the stream is difficult, yet simple also – you just let go, visualise what you hope for, desire and need, express gratitude for what you have….. and let go.

Row, row, row the boat

Gently down the stream

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Life is but a dream

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Video for Girl on the Phone

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Girl on the phone

A new song….

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