Gotta love a milestone day. I just predicted it would happen yesterday, as I had 397 subscribers. Even as I write this now, I’m already up to 404! Talk about progress- that’s 404 people that took the time to watch one of my videos and decided they needed to be updated every time I post one! It’s so exciting to think about that, because I’m sure I don’t know anywhere close to 404 people…let alone 404 that ever gave our music the time of day here in CT. So, I’m very proud of our worldwide success.
I’m looking forward to more milestones in the near future, as these things seem to happen exponentially. So, we’ll look forward to the next great milestone very soon!
**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.
Well, after weeks of lessening views, I have finally achieved half of a hundred grand views on YouTube. By “a hundred grand” I of course mean 100,000 (as opposed to 100 grand views; although I’d love for all of my views to be grand…).
And, based on that confusing introduction to this post, you may be starting to see why less people view my videos than Jim’s!! Seriously, though, I’m very excited to hit the 50,000 view mark on YouTube, as I’ve had my hopes set on 100,000 for a long time. I think I would start to feel accomplished on YouTube if I were to reach 100 grand.
Then, once I reached that, I would look around and realize how insignificant even that number is. But, by that time, I’ll be aiming for a million views!
So, as session-a-day rolls onward — ever closer to the new year — I’m more excited than ever to make and break some new records for the Laptop Sessions music video blog…
…and you’ll see another reason if you’ll just read my next post!
Definitely not meant to show up Chris Moore’s acoustic cover song tonight, but I just found out that I reached 110,000 YouTube video views. I’m very excited about it and hope that this number continues to rise somewhat exponentially. It’s only been about 20 days or so since my milestone of 100,000 acoustic cover song and original music video views on YouTube, so it’s exciting to get another 10,000 so quickly.
I’ve said it before that I won’t feel like the “big time” until I get to 1,000,000 views. It’s going to take a while. But, whereas it took me nine months to get 100,000, I don’t think it’s going to take 81 more months to get to a million. I sincerely believe that I’ll be staring a half million in the face sometime next year.
Thanks to all who watch these videos and, to echo Jeff’s sentiment, come back on a daily basis to keep viewing more. I’ll keep you posted on new milestones as they arrive!
