Another milestone here on the best music video blog online: the Laptop Sessions! It’s been just over a year doing videos for me and I’m happy to say that I’m at 150,000 YouTube views! I know that’s not a whole heck of a lot compared to some of the INDIVIDUAL videos that are on YouTube, but for a guy from CT, it’s pretty cool. I wonder when I’ll hit half a million or even a million? How cool would that be?
Thank you, as always, to all of our loyal fans. We’re nearing the end of the Session-a-day project, but are looking forward to our once a week (each) schedule for 2009. That way, I’ll have more time to write on the blog and we’ll all have more time to perfect our videos.
**I hit 120,000 YouTube video views today! It’s another milestone and another testament to the popularity and success of the Laptop Sessions!**
Sorry for the late post tonight, but the video has been up on YouTube now for over 24 hours. I had to record the video late last night and publish it because I had a very, very busy day today. At least it wasn’t work! I had my usual “Luncho Marx”, followed by a trip to Becky’s house, a trip to my cousin Louie’s house, a trip to get my cousin Sarah (and see my cousin Gerry, of course), and then finally a trip up to Mohegan Sun casino for shopping, gambling, and a concert with one of my favorite bands: America! I got to get a t-shirt signed by Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley- always exciting!
I had fun playing on the new Star Trek slot machines, but not nearly as much fun as Chris “I win at everything I try except for PS2 baseball” Moore, who won big. I then had the task of dropping everyone off and am finally home. We had a great dinner tonight, too, at Sol Toro restaurant, which is a great authentic Mexican place. They have the best guacamole you’ll ever taste. The lime and the cilantro made it for me.
Tonight’s song is a great, albeit sad, one from Warren Zevon. Unless you’re a fan of his “Best Of” compilations and some of his albums, you’ve probably never heard of this song. It’s my favorite from him. I truly only listened to the “Best Of” CD, but I listened to it a lot. This song stood out the most.
One thing that I DON’T like about the song is one line in the chorus. He says, “Searching for a heart…searching everyone…they say love conquers all…you can’t start it like a *****…you can’t stop it with a gun.”
Okay, I bleeped out the word (don’t worry- it’s not a swear). Now, you would think by reading that line that the words “everyone” and “gun” would rhyme. They do! Now, that would leave the other two lines to rhyme: “conquers all” and the word in asterisks.
For me, I always thought that word was “call”. The idea I had was that love isn’t just something you can start up instantly like making a phone call. “Call” rhymes with “all”, so I thought it made sense.
As usual, I’m wrong, but I can’t understand why.
Instead, Zevon says, “You can’t start it like a car”. Same sentiment as mine, right? You can’t just turn love on like a light switch…or like starting a car…or like picking up the phone.
But it doesn’t rhyme! Since when does “all” rhyme with “car”? So, when I found that out, I was a little disappointed. But, it doesn’t take away the fact that I love this song and that it’s got a great message to it. Yes, I may have rhymed differently, but no one ever said Zevon was an “ordinary” guy like I’d like to think I am when it comes to matters like this.
Okay, I think I’m making less and less sense now, seeing that it’s 4 am. It’s time for bed and I have to just pray that tomorrow’s lunch meeting (our usual Burger King lunch today was halted by the fact that they LITERALLY had a sign on the door that read, “No beef or grilled chicken”) doesn’t begin with a call from Stuffy D. Bear at 10:30 am saying, “I’m hungry” over and over again! 🙂 See you folks on Tuesday for another great acoustic cover song from yours truly, Jim Fusco.
I finally pulled the trigger and purchased a new domain name for FMP Studios, the premier music, video, graphics, marketing, and photo restoration studio: FMP-Studios.com!
We’ll be updating links to this site soon and I hope you’ll check it out. We offer a ton of great services, all of which you can read about right here on the Fusco-Moore Productions cover songs music video blog by searching “FMP Studios” in the search box on the top of the page. You’ll be blown away by our unique combination of: fast turnaround times, professional custom results, and lowest prices anywhere!
Let me just say, as well, that running this website (and the other six we have) isn’t easy. Working full time, doing a video every three days, and planning a wedding all contribute to the difficulty.
But, over the past few days, Chris Moore has really stepped-up and has done some great things for the site. You see, my job here on the video blog is to come up with ideas for new features and more ways to get us noticed. And then, I have to figure out how to make those ideas come to life. We’ve seen many examples of this over the past two months or so. We now have a full sitemap, an incredibly extensive directory, links to every category, and so much more. Plus, we post at least once a day.
Chris isn’t a coding kinda guy like me. But, he really wanted to help. So, I gave him some large tasks to do. With some help from Jeff, Chris wrote literally 50 pages worth of unique and informative content to put on ALL of our category pages! It was an incredible amount of work and I want him to know that it was appreciated and will be very helpful to our cause very soon. He also made great descriptions for the site and is making great posts for WCJM Radio and FMP Studios. I’ve had so much of the burden taken off of me. I usually have to come up with the ideas, DO ALL THE WORK, and THEN implement it all.
With Chris’ help, I’ve been able to do so many more unique things to the site because I don’t have to spend my time actually making the content, like I’ve always had to do in the past. Now, I can focus on making the site work properly and getting these enhancements to really make the site better in the end.
I also appreciate Jeff’s consistency here- I never have to bug him to do his Session. I never have to tell him to do a better job. He just does it. And now, since Chris should probably get a break from some of this stuff, I might have to start bugging Jeff soon! 🙂
Well, we did it again- I predicted 55,000 YouTube views on my acoustic cover videos by the end of May. Well, here we are, and I’m at 58,000 views! That’s 3,000 above my goal, which was a pretty lofty goal to begin with.
By the end of June, I hope to have 75,000 views, which is gonna be tough. but, I think with a lot more promotion of my acoustic guitar music cover songs we can get there. Of course, the Laptop Sessions video blog will continue to produce the best acoustic covers on a daily basis, so keep coming back for more!
