Without Further Ado...

Hey. I'm here. I haven't been. Now I am.



Since my birthday I made a decision to leave my job and pursue music fulltime. In ecoomic times such as these, and as much as I've cried my employment woes here on this very blog, I still did it. I felt it was time to give my passion the respect it deserved. Don't worry about me though, folks. I'm alright , financially. Living alone and still maintaining everything. I was SO nervous at the prospect of being unemployed again but, ay, I'm gonna make it after all.



More importantly my music is doing well. I've been writing a lot more and that feels great. Nothing beats that creative energy. I've been recording also, as much as scheduling and my voice permits, and that is an arduous, painstaking but immensely enjoyable process. Seeing a song I've written come to life is like giving birth. Beautiful.



SO the difficult thing, for me , is networking. I'm clearly not god with internet upkeep. But I've made a decision to be more proactive abut it. Besides, live performances notwithstanding, the internet IS the best place to get my face seen and voice heard. So here it is, guys. I may not be blogging often, but you can keep an eye out for me via these venues:



Myspace.com/omarramonmusic Here you can see what show dates I have coming up if you'd like to see me live. And , of course, you can check out my music as each piece is is completed.



Twitter.com/omarramon Here you'll be able to keep closer tabs on me and my business ... I promise not to be gratuitously random with my...er...tweets.



Youtube.com/Omarramon Check me out here to send me requests of songs you'd like to hear me sing and I will hook you up live from my very own bathroom, on my bootleg digi cam. LOL



There are plenty of other things going on in ya man's personal life, but damnit I'm hungry. Catch you guys later.



In Progression,

Omar Ramon

24

I always dreamed that I'd be slim and sexy. All grown and on my own and settled into my self confidence. I fancied that my place would be beautiful and open, full of sunlight and my peace of mind. I imagined myself a college graduate, teaching english and writing books. See, before I came out of my shell and embraced music/performance, I had resigned to a life more fitting to the reclusive child I'd been. The bookworm that always scribbled his own stories in whatever notebook he had with him at the time. So, the future self I cognized then, was a teacher of the language that was my solace and vendor of the tales that were my refuge. Only my lover would ever hear me sing. He never had a face because my self esteem wouldn't let me picture anyone who'd want even the grown-up me of the future.Now that I think of it, I'm not even sure it was a he! There was never a definitive gender at that time because I was still flip-flopping in my head. In any case whoever he/she/they were, they were perfect. Funny, attentive,intelligent and affectionate. I never pictured friends, because, well, I didn't have friends. lol

Looking around at my life now, nothing is picture perfect. Not even me.I'm not as accomplished as I thought I'd be in most aspects of my life or in the way that I assumed I would progress. Yet, I'm unbelievably grateful for all of it, no matter how I may gripe on a daily or spaz out here on my blog. I'm way more confident and comfortable with myself than I've ever been. I'm extra single but I have beautiful friends who I couldn't love more. I'm not financially rich (yet) but I have my independance. I have my space, my peace, my music, my words, my family, my friends and my purpose. I always dreamed that 24 was the perfect age and would be an astronomically important year in my life. I intend to make sure of it.

Happy Birthday to me.

In Progression

Omar Ramon

About My Bia

Aight y'all, I've handled a lil' business so I wanna keep whoever still reads this lil' blog of mine, updated.

It's goin down, man, and it's taking a lot of juggling but I'm makin' things happen. My latest batch of songs have ben copyrighted.So you know what that means. The myspace music page is up!

MYSPACE.COM/OMARRAMONMUSIC.

There are improvements coming to it, but it is functional as it stands. Also I have business cards coming.WOO HOO!

The 9-5 is a mess and a half, but I'ma ride it 'til the wheels fall off. It is a struggle everyday to go somewhere I don't want to be.Andeverytime something happens or someone says something out of the way to me, I have to bite my tongue to keep from saying "I QUIT!". lol Shoot, as much as I complain, I ain't no fool. I know what the economy is looking like, these days. My rent gotta get paid!

Meanwhile I am working on this body of mine. Ya know, I failed to include y'all in the revelry over my new body. Around november, ya boy had slimmed/toned down to a size 30-31 waist. And was working ontightening things up further, in the comfort of my own when I hadfree time.
Alas, stress and the holiday season brought out the emotional eater in me and I've only just recently gotten that hoe back under a degree of control.

But you guys can at least see what it WAS.



Nah, I wasn't all ripped up and thangs, but this was an achievment for me.



Sadly, my sexy "man v" now cowers under the shadow of my lil gut once again. BUT IT SHALL RETURN!!By the time the sun bumrushes the weather and turns up the heat around this mofo, ya boy will be on point. Thas my word!

Anywho, I gotta go to work. I'm not really in the mood, since I was not feeling my best yesterday at all and would much rather be in the bed today resting. *shrug*

In Progression,
Omar Ramon

Things to Do

1)Copyright the songs I've written so far since '08
2)SET UP MY MYSPACE MUSIC PAGE
3)Make better YouTube videos
4) Get business cards printed up.
5)Complete my album/build up my catalogue
a)Write at least 6 more songs
b) record all songs
c) find reference vocalists to re-record as needed
6) Find new places to perform.
7)Seek further training (voice,piano,guitar)
8)Schedule photoshoots

This, ladies and gentlemen, along with my stupid work schedule, is why I have absolutely zero time to blog. Wish me luck. I am truly grateful for all of the support. For real, kinfolk.

In Progression,
Omar Ramon

Dec. 19th @ Mango's in Newark NJ

On the Edge of '09

I had a performance on Dec. 19th. It went pretty well considering I was losing my voice.(it's my own fault. eating all that damn holiday food after months of being 95% vegetarian. Gave my body a shock and started getting me sick.) It was extremely exciting, since I was performing my own music for the first time. Good stuff, man, I gotta say. I'm pleased with the way it turned out overall. Definitely a learning experience. I have to start honing my performance skills. I'll post a vid from the show later, since MyShawn taped it for me.

I'm strongly considering pursuing music full speed ahead. which, for me , means, finding a decent paying partime job that will allow me to pay my portion of the bills, and still afford me the freedom i need in my schedule to devote more time and energy to performance, and studio time as well as organizational and promotional efforts. I'm a lil' scared but I really feel like it's time to excercise faith in myself, my talents and my destiny.

Christmas was amazing! It was really my favorite christmas ever. I bought a bunch of games for the entire family to enjoy. They actually mostly participated and we had a ball , man, for real. I was so happy, because there was no drama and everyone really got pleasure out of each other's presence the whole night. Which is exactly what i wanted.

I am dead tired. I switch shifts with a coworker so i have to be at work in a lil while, instead of later this afternoon, like usual. DAMN! This is not the way to start the workweek...especially after going hard drinking and partying all night (not clubbing but chilling with good friends) for the last three days. I am not a heavy drinker and my tolerance is not high so my mind is all screwed up right now.Hopefully the customers won't test me today.

I love my life right now...and I'm working on making it better.

BTW: I'm no longer leading on the boy I mentioned in the last post. And i've been dating more in general.. I've gotten bolder and more forward and aggressive... it's a reflection of where I am right now. Focused man, and going for what I really want. Unfortunately the guys who happen to fall short of my desires are made aware of it and tossed to the side. In as classy a way as possible, of course, but TOSSED nonetheless. lol Anywho...



In Progression,
Omar Ramon

just truth

without any explanations or justifications or excuses...

i am chronically late.

i am disorganized.

i can't stick to a plan or itinerary to save my life and almost always try to do too much at once.

when things don't come easily to me right away i get frustrated and put them off 'til the last possible moment or quit them completely.

i don't have nearly as much self control as i'd like to believe.

i am grateful to be employed but absolutely hate my job.

i am proud of my independance but often resentful that i don't have more help.

i'm often depressed but only succumb to it when i'm too tired to mask it. today was one of those days.

i have very selfish moments. there is a boy asleep in my bed right now (no we haven't done anything physical, not even kiss) that i have absolutely no interest in at all. I know he cares about me, or at least i know that he thinks he does, and although i've told him i wasn't interested in dating, i just can't bring myself to tell him the full out truth because i don't want to hurt his feelings. That might mean won't be around at my beck and call anymore. *shrug*



In Progression(?)

Omar Ramon