Please visit http://soundcloud.com/daniellemueller where 2 new fabulous tracks have been uploaded. One called Outside Your Door which is a classic 1950's sound style and writing form. The second song is called Shame which reminds me of Johny Cash, a modern twist on old country blues.
We have about 6 more songs to write before we hit the big stage in Manhattan. Keep you posted and hope you enjoy the new tracks, there is so much more to come.
-Dani
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
3,000 Views Moment!!!
Although it may not seem like a big deal but today I say thank you for those of you that continuously read my blog. A Window Opens hit 3,000 views today in multiple countries and I just want to express my gratitude for the support and the support to come.
This blog was originally created as an outlet for me while recovering from a hardship and it ended up turning into a beautiful place where I can express my music, thoughts and feelings about our current state of affairs. I write because I love doing it not because I feel like I need to. I write about things that inspire me, things that I love and also simple day to day observations. My adventures, falling from grace, picking myself back up while always wearing a smile throughout. You have experienced my very unusual situation while rekindling my love affair with music. You have seen me fail while turning to my art to breath life into me again. Its not from a bragging place or a place that's not sincere, I have great days and I have bad days..that's life. Its not to convince you that my way is the best way, it's to inspire thought while chasing a stage I hold so closely to my soul.
It's been an open book for me to share with you how hard it is sometimes to be 26 creating something out of thin air while mending a broken heart. It inspires me to read old articles of where I was to where I am now.
There's beauty in having your toes touch rock-bottom, evenually you will realise how precious that moment was for you gained humility in knowing that life is sometimes hard but you have the ability to bounce back when you choose to do so.
I say thank you, I get messages from you and you have no idea how awesome that feels to know that I have helped or inspired someone. Lets make it 3,000 more...
-Dani
This blog was originally created as an outlet for me while recovering from a hardship and it ended up turning into a beautiful place where I can express my music, thoughts and feelings about our current state of affairs. I write because I love doing it not because I feel like I need to. I write about things that inspire me, things that I love and also simple day to day observations. My adventures, falling from grace, picking myself back up while always wearing a smile throughout. You have experienced my very unusual situation while rekindling my love affair with music. You have seen me fail while turning to my art to breath life into me again. Its not from a bragging place or a place that's not sincere, I have great days and I have bad days..that's life. Its not to convince you that my way is the best way, it's to inspire thought while chasing a stage I hold so closely to my soul.
It's been an open book for me to share with you how hard it is sometimes to be 26 creating something out of thin air while mending a broken heart. It inspires me to read old articles of where I was to where I am now.
There's beauty in having your toes touch rock-bottom, evenually you will realise how precious that moment was for you gained humility in knowing that life is sometimes hard but you have the ability to bounce back when you choose to do so.
I say thank you, I get messages from you and you have no idea how awesome that feels to know that I have helped or inspired someone. Lets make it 3,000 more...
-Dani
Monday, November 28, 2011
Sleepless in Manhattan
So no one sleeps here. I have talked to countless people that just don't sleep, my roommate being one of them. Its like there nocturnal state of a wondering mind, of too many thoughts that can't be shut off. As I say its not like your going to loss those thoughts but rather shut them off so one can sleep. Your beautiful spirit is like a computer, it needs to reboot. I on the other hand don't know how to not sleep. Although I probably stay up later then I should, my mind slowly drifts off and once my eyes shut its lights out for this girl.
I wonder what mind can't be tamed enough to allow this nature progression. What could be so important that one would neglect such a beautiful state of recovery. Your mind needs to be protected, needs to be turned off. Is something so important that you can't deal with it in the morning when you've had time to recover. It's not like these people are on crack but someone I met the other day said they haven't slept in 3 days. How unfortunate and even more exhausting, then they start to worry about not sleeping creating even more anxiety about sleeping. The sleepless cycle continues and so on and so forth.
Sleep is as important as air itself. It's as important as the water you drink and the food you consume. Your body creates a sleep debt and keeps tabs on your regeneration. Why would you take this away? Why would you assume that this shouldn't be a priority. Do everything you can in one day and leave the rest to the next. Do your best everyday, go easier on yourself and breath for the next day is a new one. It's like all their days are running into one very long one.
People work very hard here, I will give them that. This is such an ambitious quality very unique to New Yorkers but I don't admire one that works so hard that they neglect themselves. It reads on their face how exhausted they have become and I wonder if they are truly happy running themselves on an empty tank. Even when I go into my local watering hole you will see people having a drink and writing notes on the bar napkins. They are constantly going, thinking, creating. I love the ambition but do they ever really soulfully enjoy the train they are on. Could they ever get off it, even if they wanted to?
DO a days work in a days time.
DO allow yourself time to relax.
DO believe that those thoughts won't go away.
DO sleep like a baby every time your head hits the pillow.
Don't be an idiot and think that you are superman and can go without sleep.
I wonder what mind can't be tamed enough to allow this nature progression. What could be so important that one would neglect such a beautiful state of recovery. Your mind needs to be protected, needs to be turned off. Is something so important that you can't deal with it in the morning when you've had time to recover. It's not like these people are on crack but someone I met the other day said they haven't slept in 3 days. How unfortunate and even more exhausting, then they start to worry about not sleeping creating even more anxiety about sleeping. The sleepless cycle continues and so on and so forth.
Sleep is as important as air itself. It's as important as the water you drink and the food you consume. Your body creates a sleep debt and keeps tabs on your regeneration. Why would you take this away? Why would you assume that this shouldn't be a priority. Do everything you can in one day and leave the rest to the next. Do your best everyday, go easier on yourself and breath for the next day is a new one. It's like all their days are running into one very long one.
People work very hard here, I will give them that. This is such an ambitious quality very unique to New Yorkers but I don't admire one that works so hard that they neglect themselves. It reads on their face how exhausted they have become and I wonder if they are truly happy running themselves on an empty tank. Even when I go into my local watering hole you will see people having a drink and writing notes on the bar napkins. They are constantly going, thinking, creating. I love the ambition but do they ever really soulfully enjoy the train they are on. Could they ever get off it, even if they wanted to?
DO a days work in a days time.
DO allow yourself time to relax.
DO believe that those thoughts won't go away.
DO sleep like a baby every time your head hits the pillow.
Don't be an idiot and think that you are superman and can go without sleep.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Barbara Walters Is a Fan Moment
Direct quote-
"This isn't your real job, so what is it that you do?" said Barbara Walters.
"No just a temporary thing, I'm a singer/songwriter starting a 1950's blues band" I reply.
"Keep up with it and good luck to you, maybe one day I will interview you" says Babs.
(Dani smiles and shakes her hand and wants to jump up and down like a little girl). Yet another moment locked in my memory as pretty fucking awesome.
So I work with a lot of high profile individuals, while remaining unnamed the origins in which I work its pretty cool that I get to see some very amazing people. Not that the fame is anything but that I admire their strength and stubbornness with their art whatever that may be. Sometimes the secret while in transition is to always know that whatever you need to do to make money and support yourself is a temporary thing. People notice this, the way you carry yourself always exuding grace and positivity. People aren't dumb in fact they can read something in you or not. I know I can, what about you?
I got to meet someone very passionate about her art and maybe she saw "that something" that I hold with the up most protection in my heart. She was kind and smiled and although I can only hope to have a fraction of her ability, she still rubbed off on me a little bit that day.
I told her what I do without a flicker of nervousness or fear that she would shut me down, in fact she was the opposite of that. Being scared or intimidated is your own weakness and is caused by lack of confidence and fear for what it is your creating. You don't have time for this, in fact its something you yourself have manifested. Quiet this now or it will forever hold you back. In this life there is no time, jump without a net. Fall in love like a fool and tell everyone what it is your trying to create this only makes it more clear. Thats how I see things.
So maybe one day I will be on The View and I can tell Barbara how on that day I got a little more determined to conquer my dream. I got a little more stubborn in figuring out this process and how on that day I knew I could hold myself alongside someone like Babs.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Dani & The Mad Men™
2 Brand New Tracks for Dani & The Mad Men™
One dedicated to Etta James and the other original is a song called Home.
http://soundcloud.com/daniellemueller
Oh and my first fully written original called Replaced all recorded with a fabulous guitar player! Life is good..only 10 more to go and we got ourselves a Blues showcase!
For your listening pleasure, Stay tuned..
-Dani
Mind Body & Soul, The Checking In Moment
Doing a checkup on yourself with a honest look. Checking in since you work so hard sometimes without even acknowledging it. How beautiful your body still works under stress and pressure. Through heartache and pain sometimes you forget to say thank you for all its hard work. You beat it up, hold it down, eat like shit and drink more then you should. You tell lies, stay up too late and smoke too much but its still there. Still on your side even through some destruction. Its so resilient, quiet and calm as you sleep like a baby time after time.
Mind- Be careful of what you put in this space. Watch your thoughts as a guardian would do. You are what you think, you are what you believe. Not being in control of your mind is just as destructive as being too in control. Strike a balance with your thoughts, how you feel and how you choose to react. Your not on auto-pilot. Through meditation I have been taught this, probably why I stayed so sane after the destructiveness of my last breakup. Breath and always fill your mind with gratitude and peace in knowing that all happens for a reason. You are always taken care of, it always works out for you, if you believe this then you will always be taken care of. You are what you believe and what you perceive as truth. Regardless of what has happened, let it go and start fresh everyday while keeping those that genuinely love you close. Nothing is too extreme for you to handle, always be aware of how you view the things in your life. If you have a pulse, you are doing just fine. Be thankful for the small basic things while working on the bigger issues. Check in with yourself.
Body- What you feed it, what you put into it will reflect itself on the outside. Too much drinking, not enough water and eating shit for food reflects on your face and how youthful you feel. Make choices (and some bad ones from time to time) always keeping in mind that this is for energy not for pleasure (well sometimes pleasure). I live in NYC where the choices are endless but for me grabbing my knife and cutting through fresh produce makes me feel more fulfilled then eating the most expensive meal. Be careful of how you feel after you consume something this will tell you how your body digests it's nourishment. Watch your choices and if its not real in perception then why would you put something fake into a body that needs you. You can change that now each day offers you a chance to renew it that's the beauty in this whole thing. Just check in with yourself.
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Soul- This is my most favorite element, not to play favorites but this side of you takes more time. The mind and body can be switched on and changed just by bringing awareness to change. The soul is much more complex. Imagine a blank slate over the years it gets written on and its your only truth of what makes you well you. Some cultures believe that your eyes are the gateway to your soul, having children in my life makes me a believer of this. You can't bottle the way a child looks at things. I wrote about this before but if and when someone is stripped of everything they will not have the money they made in this life or their surroundings. They won't have anything physical all they will have is themselves whichever qualities that may be. Its not set in stone whom your meant to be, you can always be more honest, more real and more grateful. Whatever you want to be can be worked on here. The "bigger picture qualities" live here. Cutting out all the bullshit, how you were built has a home here. This center of yourself doesn't know how to lie, only your mind does. Your mind can make up many things to kill the blow of the truth. Just check in with yourself.
It's not so much too ask that from time to time you ask yourself where you are. It's a progression and nothing that should cause any anxiety for you. I just think its important to look with an honest eye after what you have been though if you have stayed on course or have gotten off a little bit either way it can always be fixed. If any of this seems like work, then you haven't done it in awhile so now is the time. Just check in with yourself.
Mind- Be careful of what you put in this space. Watch your thoughts as a guardian would do. You are what you think, you are what you believe. Not being in control of your mind is just as destructive as being too in control. Strike a balance with your thoughts, how you feel and how you choose to react. Your not on auto-pilot. Through meditation I have been taught this, probably why I stayed so sane after the destructiveness of my last breakup. Breath and always fill your mind with gratitude and peace in knowing that all happens for a reason. You are always taken care of, it always works out for you, if you believe this then you will always be taken care of. You are what you believe and what you perceive as truth. Regardless of what has happened, let it go and start fresh everyday while keeping those that genuinely love you close. Nothing is too extreme for you to handle, always be aware of how you view the things in your life. If you have a pulse, you are doing just fine. Be thankful for the small basic things while working on the bigger issues. Check in with yourself.
Body- What you feed it, what you put into it will reflect itself on the outside. Too much drinking, not enough water and eating shit for food reflects on your face and how youthful you feel. Make choices (and some bad ones from time to time) always keeping in mind that this is for energy not for pleasure (well sometimes pleasure). I live in NYC where the choices are endless but for me grabbing my knife and cutting through fresh produce makes me feel more fulfilled then eating the most expensive meal. Be careful of how you feel after you consume something this will tell you how your body digests it's nourishment. Watch your choices and if its not real in perception then why would you put something fake into a body that needs you. You can change that now each day offers you a chance to renew it that's the beauty in this whole thing. Just check in with yourself.
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Soul- This is my most favorite element, not to play favorites but this side of you takes more time. The mind and body can be switched on and changed just by bringing awareness to change. The soul is much more complex. Imagine a blank slate over the years it gets written on and its your only truth of what makes you well you. Some cultures believe that your eyes are the gateway to your soul, having children in my life makes me a believer of this. You can't bottle the way a child looks at things. I wrote about this before but if and when someone is stripped of everything they will not have the money they made in this life or their surroundings. They won't have anything physical all they will have is themselves whichever qualities that may be. Its not set in stone whom your meant to be, you can always be more honest, more real and more grateful. Whatever you want to be can be worked on here. The "bigger picture qualities" live here. Cutting out all the bullshit, how you were built has a home here. This center of yourself doesn't know how to lie, only your mind does. Your mind can make up many things to kill the blow of the truth. Just check in with yourself.
It's not so much too ask that from time to time you ask yourself where you are. It's a progression and nothing that should cause any anxiety for you. I just think its important to look with an honest eye after what you have been though if you have stayed on course or have gotten off a little bit either way it can always be fixed. If any of this seems like work, then you haven't done it in awhile so now is the time. Just check in with yourself.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
First Track of Dani & The Mad Men™ Recorded
Oh dear god I am like a kid in a candy store!! This is my baby, I could not be more excited to be working with Nicholas Lancaster. We are breathing life into this project and this is the first track recorded with a guitar in under 3 takes. I am so proud.
http://soundcloud.com/daniellemueller
WHHHHOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!
-Dani-
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