late night

just because i haven't done this in a while, and i'm bored.

i had a lot of meetings today and have a bunch tomorrow, everything is as it should be. Record deals being completed, tension, inspiration, me and my band mates having mutual respect and short fuses for each other. It seems like it's up to you whether you walk around content and engaged with your world, or isolated and distraught. I tend to walk the line in between, occasionally slipping to one side of the other for a few hours, never days. A good nights sleep can cure almost anything, a fever or a depression, a heartbreak or a headache....i need a few more to become a real person again....i could stop blogging at 3am. Anyways, the dreams are becoming realities and the realities are starting to feel like dreams.
fuck it

i love everything
one

P.S. "Do you feel me" anothony hamilton is my favorite song right now.

Love Poem

UNREAL MACHINES

I am a creature of another machine.
when i dream, time stops.
and i don't know when I'm sleeping

but i'm sure my love for you is real

some added dimension is created when i stare at you
some potion that allows me to feel in a way i have no way of knowing
yet in a way becomes the only thing i know

i'm not for certain that you are real
but my love can never be in question
i is a feeling that is indescribable yet so obvious
so unknown but so powerful

when you run across my mind

i die a thousand times
and am born a thousand more.


and you <> time.

Single Mother's Day

Just finished watching obama give a fathers day speech ata church in south side chicago. I have to say, he is really fucking good at what he's doing. It's really interesting watching a politician be good, in some ways it tells you that he is good at deceiving but in Barak's case i feel a truth permeate every political mask he must wear. Being at a black church he changed the his rap a little bit, he put a little more on god then he normally would have (maybe it's cause he was in a church.....i'm an idiot), he had a little more swagger, but it was real and really touching. Did you know more then half of all black children in this country are raised by a single parent, and that's double the number from the 70's. It really made me think about the kids i grew up with, who is where and how their home environment had an effect on there lives. Sometimes i like to say that people raised by single mothers are stronger, and in a way they are, but looking at my troops.....it's a sad story. I was talking to my mom the other day about how i have two sets of friends. One set is amazingly talented but never accomplishing anything, one is somewhat talented and graduating college moving to new york and working on wall street........you can guess which set was raised without a dad. Every single one, all my friends who sell drugs, are in and out a jail, fight, they were all raised in single parent homes. Makes me think.

peace
marc

First Meeting with Record folk

Had a meeting today with Myspace Records....was very good. They basically want to offer us a deal we can't do (lawyer wont let us) but just being there was dope. It felt normal, something we should be doing. Tomorrow it's atlantic, lets get this deal soon so we can move out of the cockroach den.
I love everyone.

TP2 Weekend

Tiny Porno 2 was off the hook. The people dancing, singing the songs back to us...it was magic. It was a nice way to end what has been a very trying few weeks as we have parted ways with our drummer (one of my favorite people of all time) and had to go on like everything is still the same. It's hard when you begin to feel guilt over not feeling guilty at all....that sounds crazy but it makes sense if you think about it. I know we have made the right decision, we have always been good as a band about these choices. As I get older I begin to realize that separating from a situation you know is not the best for yourself, is usually better for the other party as well...and I take some solace in knowing this.

All the record business stuff is going well, who knows if we'll all go insane. Meetings this week with Myapace records and Atlantic...craziness.

i'll start keeping up better.

check out the the video of Tiny Porno from Friday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_S3u2vJAUg

peace and love

R.I.P The Transfer

As we close the chapter of The Transfer and prepare for 2AM CLUB and the insanity that will accompany it, i'd like to share some fond memories of my time as The Transfer, or as we were often referred to back in the days...The Lost Boys.

Spliffs with Garan in the Garden (what we called our hot boxed room) at all hours of the night watching Dog whisperer.

Staying up so late and realizing that Micky D's was open for breakfast....walking next door to fuck up a egg mcmuffin.

SIx people in the two bedroom.

Pureic making me sing in front of 2000 people at the Magic Johnson Celebrity bball tourney.

Puric almost lighting the house on fire when the oil exploded from the pan in the kitchen.

The fried chicken phase.

Our first rocking show at Chapman where we stood on chairs and chanted their frat calling before killing It's What for the first time.

Not going anywhere in the business but never having a doubt we would.

Parting ways with our best friends when we knew it was the right thing to do.

Mr. Time moving to LA and sleeping on the couch, beginning the real grind.

Deciding that The Transfer should include T-Time and beginning to gig, traveling in the subaru 7 deep with all the equipment.

Traversing the LA BS as a band and starting to be able to distinguish it from the realness.

Starting to get good live, touring through Grants Pass or The Sherwood forrest as we like to call it.

Getting calls from email from Leor Cohen as we arrived in Vegas listening to summertime by Will Smith.

Dave Joining the band.

Drinking smoking loving hating screaming punching sexing, growing up big time in two years.

Goodbye The Transfer you were a great band.

I love you.

2AM CLUB.....prepare yourself.

back in the bay.....good and weird

Moms moved into a new house so she could have room for the whole band...haha....crazy. I'm sure that wasn't her only reason. The whole family is behind the cause.
We have a big meeting tomorrow with a potential lawyer in San Francisco, very excited to start pushing our recordings to labels and see the response we get.

After last night's adventure with too short, anything is possible.

i love my family,


bless
-marc

sorry it's been so long

what's up everyone

So....i stopped doing my blog because i didn't really see the purpose, but it turns out I have an uncle who was reading it the whole time...haha....so, I'm back to it. Everything has been getting crazy with The Transfer, as we move closer to a record deal more and more interesting things pop off. Last night we performed 3 songs as Too Shorts backing band for Corey Dillon's retirement party, i was singing the chorus' of Too Short songs like I did in my room when i was 8. FUCKING CRAZY. I'll have some pics and video of that posted as soon as i get it.

The living situation is still the same, one small room, four dirty men, ten thousand dirty roaches. Thank god for the top bunk. Anyways, we're heading to the bay right now to record more with Jerry Harrison. Holler if you need me.

bless
marc

Hollywood

Hollywood is the kind of place where the fake is cool. The actor is the star, and the truth doesn't matter as long as the lie makes money. Hollywood is where you find people wearing the exact same American Apparel Zip Up Hoodie as you, the exact same Levi 511's as you and the exact same low top cons as you. It's where you lose yourself, to be famous. If you think about it, the idea of being successful in music or entertainment is inherently about losing a piece, or i guess about giving a piece. We stand on stage in front of people to give them what no one else will, honesty and vulnerability, without even knowing them. The crazy part is, the more we give of ourselves the more people connect and the more successful we become. So basically the more you are willing to let go and be completely open with strangers (which basically is being crazy) the better your career will be. Hollywood is about going fucking nuts.

i'm down.

holy shit

hey everyone
The EP is complete, well, not packeaged and all that but you know....sonically complete. DAMN...... the feeling is incredible. We just finished playing it for Dave (our new keyboard player and family) and his family and it gave me the chills. I'm really proud to be able to hand someone a CD like.....there you go, that's what i do. It seems like a lifetime ago I was in North Hollywood with with only half a band, and no idea what the fuck I was doing. We have really been through it, you know....the broke, the cold, the roaches, the angry landlord, the trees....the life. It's time for the next phase. Not gonna lie, it's a little bit scary. I know we all get scared of our own success at times, we keep ourselves at bay, but it's time for the transfer to arrive and i'm really proud of us for that.

We got a big show on Feb. 8th at The Derby, come out. I love everyone.

Winding down in the city with the rain

Just a few more days up here in seattle. Some shit is going down when i get back to LA. I think the time has really come for the transfer to make their mark, we have worked hard and we're finally at a place where we have a product we can be really proud of. I'm so thankful for my band and all the people around me whose talent make me strive to be excellent at what i do.

I've been listening to Young Murph's new track different every night before i go to sleep. Murph has a crazy ability to make a song that is hella good in every enviornment. Listen and you will know exactly what i mean.

"I was hoping to get her open like a book and just read wasn't knowing she was a poem my illiteracy"
That's my dude always getting better and blowing me away.

Also....GMK.....checked out the show tonight, godamn. Go see for yourself.

I miss my cuthan

peace out
marc

purpose time

Sometimes.... you give advice that you yourself cannot follow until you see that advice helping out another individual. I'm so lucky to have people around me that don't just talk the talk. Me and Murph talked about making sure everything we do has a purpose, and he has really pushed me to view this as more then a concept but a way of life. It's like, everytime you choose to do something, what are you doing it for? Are you gonna just kick it, or get up and go work on your game whether it be hoop, singing, or school or whatever? Are you gonna do those small things that hurt your body just cause you feel like it, are you gonna go out when you know you need rest to kill in the studio the next day? I think It's the people that can discipline themselves into making the right choices and staying with a purpose that become great, and that's what family is aiming for....greatness. So i guess we know what we gotta do.

peace out

for murph and the the family

a wall

Today we hit a wall....all good.

Naima is the best song of all time.

When do we grow out of wanting what we can't have?

That's all i got for today.

Peace out
marc

inspiration and my 100 person family

what's up everyone
MLK day....inspiration.

What's up with not having any great leaders anymore, why is everyone numb to the things that matter. I'm no different, I'd rather be famous than righteous at times. I wonder if we will change though, what does it take? Are we gonna wait till there is no chance, till there is no way for us to reverse the troubles that plague us? Everyone is so skeptical and cynical, maybe we need a little blind faith....something to make us people of action. Well....like my homie says, treat the 100 people closest to you like family, make sure they are always good. That's my new years resolution, to love my 100 person family. If you're reading this you are most likely a part of that family, so, much love to you and yours on this day of inspiration and remembrance.

peace out
marc