Lady Gaga is going to copy me?

Been there, Done that! I was just reading in the latest Rolling Stone magazine that Lady Gaga will reveal the name of her new album on NYE 2010 by tattooing it on herself. Yeah well I got there first...huh! Jokes and Jealousy aside (oh to have her album sales! lol!), I initially was going to get a tattoo with ‘Soul’ on it....just love the word on many levels - it’s many meanings and connotations. Anyway, I had just finished my album and thought why not tattoo the whole title? So I did! Megs from ‘Bondi Ink’ in Sydney did it for me. She’s done all mine. She is an Amazing Creative tattooist & does such Beautiful detailed work. Look her up...

http://www.bondiinktattoo.com.au/

Anyway, ‘Soul Tripping’ is a song about dealing with depression and not being afraid to sit with yourself and your emotions and not being afraid to reach out to someone when life gets too much and before you do something really destructive and regretful, like committing suicide. I burst out crying after I’d done the vocal session as I felt every word I sang. I truly believe we are all on a Soul Trip and we gotta keep true to ourselves throughout our travel on this earth. The more we do this the more we enjoy our lives - flow and feel calm and centred.

And Yes - Copy me Lady Gaga! - in all I’ve read or heard about you...you do your own thing and I soo admire that. Go Girl!!

Maz...xx:):)

Cool Quote:

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."... Ralph Waldo Emerson

Follow your Bliss

'Follow your Bliss' is tatoo’d on my lower back - not too many people know this - well they do now! 8 Tatts in Total! My favourite number. Where are the others?....mmm....to be revealed...

Anyway,

This quote 'Follow your Bliss' has always resonated strongly with me. Here's a little info on its origins.

Joseph Campbell, The late Great American mythologist, writer and lecturer said:

“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell

All I can say is, that for me, everytime I Follow my Bliss - that ‘inner feeling’ - things just seem to flow. Go against it and bad shit starts to happen....simple really.

Maz...xx:):)

Cool Quote:

"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness."... Shakti Gawain

'The Fighter Within'

So how did I come across the book 'The Fighter Within'?

And how has it changed my life?

In my last Blog I mentioned that an '11th hr gift' as I call it, arrived in my life at the Perfect time. I'd recorded my album 'Soul Tripping' and was doing the last stages, Photography, Artwork etc. and things just kept on getting delayed. F*****k! I was so frustrated and it was really beginning to get me down. Out of the blue I got a phone call from an uplifting guy who said his guitar teacher had recommended me as a teacher and could he come and have singing lessons with me. Rocky Warren, the author of 'The Fighter Within', came bouncing through my door the next week. We had a Great first lesson and at the end he mentioned he'd written a book and gave it to me that night.

I couldn't put it down! I started reading it that night, finished most of it by 3am and completely finished it the next day. It made me cry - in a good way - and laugh too! And changed my understanding in a way that made me flow with the delays...and create less delays.

I continue to teach Rocky and he continues to teach me through our chats before and after each lesson. His book I flick through daily and his audio book I have in my car! He really is a Great example of a person living his truth - he teaches by example - check him out at www.thefighterwithin.com


Maz...xx:):)

Cool Quote:

'What you fight for you get to keep”...Rock Warren

DONE!!

Woo hoo!...I have just finished my first album 'Soul Tripping'!

My name is Maz Mazák and yes it's been a Soul Trip for sure!

As I have been quoted:

“This album comes from a very deep place and hopefully not only will people want to move and groove to it, but find solace in the words and emotions behind it.”

The book 'The Artist's Way' written by Julia Cameron and Mark Bryon has had a huge influence on me. It focuses on living your life as an Artist authentically and believing you can actually be an artist and make a living. It deals alot with unblocking the crap that comes with growing up and past conditioning and focuses you on being true to your yourself. Sounds deep!...IS deep! I like Deep! lol! Through reading it and doing the 12 week course by myself, it changed my life BIGTIME! It really helped me shape this album. I had done heaps of gigs singing others songs. I knew the style I loved and had heaps of melodies and words pouring out of me but couldn't quite put it altogether. The Artist's Way made me see things in a new way....I did songwriting workshops, attended music seminars, went to the US 4 times for music conferences and to songwrite, met up with people and listened to their stories, found an Awesome producer 'No Qualms'...all these things a direct result from doing the exercises of self discovery throughout the book.

I also set a Goal - it went something like this - "I choose to make an album that is cool, contemporary, commercial, soulful and with substance."

I really feel I have achieved this.

Quote: “‘Soul Tripping’ is a collection of my stories about love, loss, lust and having the courage to be yourself'"

It's such a spin-out how much a book can change your life. Anyone out there read 'The Artist's Way' and been affected like me? Be cool to hear from you.

Also, I've got another book title to share - an 11th hr gift - it came just before I was finalising my artwork for 'Soul Tripping', I will reveal this in my next blog!

One more time....Woo hoo!....Album Finito!!

Maz...:):)

Cool Quote:

'Leap & the net will appear' ...Zen Saying