Cowboy Steven Yep - Steven Fedrick's MySpace Blog |

Cowboy Steven Yep - Steven Fedrick's MySpace Blog |

We celebrated Halloween at work yesterday. I wore my beat up Stetson. That's about the extent of my creativity. Although I did have a real tumbleweed to use as a prop which got laughs and an A for originality. Some people do it up right. My friend Greg came as Billy Idol and pulled it off beautifully. Another friend came as Rick James. Cool costume. We had a group contest too. Legal dept. won with a movie theater theme showing of Thriller (even served popcorn). They performed the whole dance sequence. It was hilarious seeing a bunch of middle aged attorneys in full horror drag dancing Thriller. Wish I had photos.

Global Distribution Update for Fedrick, not Fred

You can now purchase Fedrick, not Fred at the following websites: CD Baby, tradebit, cd universe, great indie music, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk (England, buy it in sterling pounds, ha) answers.com, allmusic.com, AOL Music, Napster and Napster Japan (buy it in yens!) Swat A CD.com, and imusic. .

Big news broke this week with Google. They added the Discover Music Search Engine. It's sure to give music and musicians a much needed shot in the arm. I'm in the mix! The two primary sites Google directs consumers to for purchasing are ilike and LaLa. You can findFedrick, not Fred at each location.

I like Google

I gotta say that I've been seduced. Google does all sorts of neat-o stuff for me like tracking all kinds of various cool stats on Fedrick Not Fred website. It even tracks stats on this site but I don't remember how to check. I use igoogle a lot. I use Chrome. I use gmail. They are by far the best at what they do. And who doesn't love freebies. This looks like an advertisement for google and maybe it is. An unpaid commercial to one of my favorite web places. If your listening Google (or crawling, whatever the case may be) you can pay me for the endorsement if you want. :)

Rainy Mondays and Mowing Always Get Me Down

I hate people who bitch about the weather. You know who you are. But rain has been steadily falling for this entire month and it's even wearing me down (although I am loving these unseasonable autumn temperatures). See, the season here in DFW usually go something like this: July all lawns not watered for three hours a day turn from lovely green to yellow. August turns lawns brown and by October the trees are withering and the whole landscape is a hazy shade of dead. Because of this unseasonably wet weather I am going to have to get my lawn mower out of summer storage. See, my grass is waist high and my neighbors are starting to make threatening gestures when I get home from work. Rainy Mondays and mowing always get me down.

Tender Mercies/ Calling all Capitalist

I'm in E. TX visiting my brother who is in E. TX visiting my Ma and Pa. You might know Ma is having some medical and dementia issues. It's hard to see the ravages of time play out on the ones we love. It helps to be near and see it unfold so as to make it easier to process it all.

On a much lighter note, I have joined the i-like community of artist. I completed an i-like song promo for Train Wreck. The website allows me to track the number of listeners and the number of people who add me and/or my song to their i-like profile. I've been amazed at the number. If I had a marketing budget who knows what might happen. Calling all capitalists!

Fedrick Not Fred - Steven Fedrick's MySpace Blog |

Fedrick Not Fred - Steven Fedrick's MySpace Blog |

These days I don't hate nothin'

Where's my passion? The only thing that gets my blood up these days is Sunday Morning political talking heads. But mostly I avoid talking heads any day of the week.

Highs and Lows

"highs and lows

it's how life goes

when little moments shine

hold them close they should never be sold

they just get better with time

"Highs & Lows"Mindy Smith from Stupid Love.

East Texas Cool

The cold front which has descended upon the U.S. has made it's way to N. TX. What is normally a tepid October has turned into a more traditional fall month. Usually, by now the summer sun has baked the landscape to a crisp dead brown. With inches and inches of rain the landscape is prettier at this time than I've ever seen it. Cool and lush. Wonderful.

Fedrick Not Fred World Wide Distribution!

I just found out that Napster Japan and Amazon.UK.Co. (Britian) and AOL Music and Answers.com & Great Indie Music & CD Connections all have my CD Fedrick Not Fred on sale! How cool, right? Now if only I could push out some international publicity. If anyone has any ideas on how I can master the media please let me know. I'm proud of the CD, distribution is there. Just need to get the word out.

Fedrick's = Food

Diana and I are cooking up a bunch of sirloin steaks that are threatening to go bad in Dad's freezer. Diana made some excellent smothered steak and I grilled in the pouring rain. They will have food for the coming week with yesterday chicken and dressing left overs. We will leave as soon as lunch is over and the rain lets up. It was a comforting trip. Ma seems the better for it, Pa too.

Weekend Update

Got up at 6am and rushed to Brookshire's and grabbed a bag of green peppers, bag of yellow squash, bag of red pears, and a couple of bags of seedless red grapes. The price $1.00 per bag and $5.00 total. All these fruits and veggies at the peak or ripeness (hence getting them off the shelves). Then at 8:00 Diana (sister) and I met Donny & Fay and we were off 'rummaging' (garage sell-ing). I got an 8 piece glass dinner ware free, shower radio free, cat bookends free, some potting pots for ma an 50's Betty Crocker Cookbook, almost identical to the one Ma has. Diana got a love seat (like new, $50.00) and other assorted junk. We are home now and Diana and Ma are making Chicken and stuffing for dinner and Pa is watching CNN. I may have previously alluded to the fact I am boycotting news as it tends to make my blood boil with all the postering and name calling and general uncivility. Where are our statesmen?

Anyway. Having a good time and enjoying this time with the folks.

Times to Remember

Ma has had several mini strokes this week. Dad says it has devastated her emotionally. She is having great difficulty seeing out of her right eye which makes it extremely hard for her to read. She is an avid reader so this is a major blow. Our visit seems to be cheering her considerably.