Alexis Vear

Life is such a trip how sometimes the Universe guides you, and you don’t even know it. You think your lost, and then years later you find out that all these strange turning points end up being connected like a perfect constellation in the beautiful night sky.

I had received an email this summer from a friend telling me about a contest in Macon GA. The contest was created by the Gateway  Macon Initiative. You were to submit 3 songs, with one being about Macon, GA and it’s musical heritage, to be utilized to educate and attract visitors to Macon as a music destination. I got a little twinge when I read it, and thought, “I can’t do that, it would be so from my head”…. but while in Chicago performing, I woke up one morning, and the song just fell through me, like mist from the sky!!! So with a little time and few tweaks…… through my heart I submitted a song called “Sweet As A Peach”.

Since I moved to GA, I’ve been trying to learn everything I could about music from this region, and how it transformed music in general. In Feb, 2010 I went to an Otis Redding Tribute at UGA, and actually wrote a blog about the magical event. Click here if you want to read.  Over the past few years I’ve visited Macon several times specifically to learn about all of the heritage that exists there.

So I found out on Wednesday evening that I made it as one of the five finalists for this contest…… and one of the coolest things is that they are announcing the winner at Otis Reddings 70th birthday celebration. To me, that is just the icing on this incredible cake. If I win, it would be unimaginable because I would get to have the 3 songs produced by a super  two time grammy nominated producer named Steve Moretti, and mastered into a three-song EP (extended play mini album), an electronic press kit (EPK), and a professional music video of one of the three songs all worth 25,000. But most of all it would happen in this beautiful small town that has taught me so much about music.

Regardless how the competition finishes…… I am just real thankful to be recognized, through this leap of faith journey through the world of rock and roll!!! Being an artist is hard work, but these types of things remind you that the Universe has reasons for each of the dot’s that it reveals.

If you are on facebook and get a chance, go to their page and like them https://www.facebook.com/GatewayMacon. They are continually adding really innovative contests that are truly rewarding creative endeavors!!!

On a last note…… I just booked a show in Chapel Hill North Carolina. I will be singing on the patio from 6:30-8:30pm October 22 at a restaurant called Tarantini’s ….. with a merchandise show there on Sunday the 23rd. Also I am starting to book house concerts, so if interested please contact me. I have one out of town September 16th….. Finally I am hitting the road….. and I love every second of it!!! HAPPY September!!!

Peace,
Lex

Welcome :0) I am so honored you stopped by to visit!!! I have lot’s of new news and a ton going on. If you live in Atlanta…. Friday August 12 I have a show at Smith’s Olde Bar at 9:00. I would love for you to come. It will be alot of fun!!!

On my home page is a new video I recently made in my art studio. I LOVE making music videos, so I will be working hard on that over the coming months. Hope you enjoy it.

Lastly, if you get a chance, check out my new store page. So excited to finally be able to share this with you. I have worked endlessly creating this website in a way I can communicate all that flows through this head of mine. I hope you have fun checking it out, and thank you so much for stopping by!!!

It has been along time since I wrote a blog, because my life has seemed to be traveling faster than the speed of light, and I’ve been trying my darndest to catch up with it.  In less than a year, I’ve launched a merchandise line….. have written a bunch more songs….. performed some of them :0)……  Performed with people I didn’t know(Who I now adore)……Been on a TV Show (Vampire Diaries)……, Been in a movie (The Change Up)….. which led to some acting classes……. sold Pizza (At an awesome restaurant called Hearth), cleaned out 20 years of “Stuff” and put our house on the market, spent endless hours trying to get good at playing that darned guitar,  Whiiiiiiiile trying to be a good mom and wife.  (For my daughter, We actually started taking dance “funk” lessons……  Let’s just say that she laughs enough by my disastrous attempts to funk boogie, that I think it keeps a smile on her face for the whole week, so it’s worth every second of it.  Second best thing about it is this dancing is helping me with playing rhythm guitar.  :0)

I am really excited because I have always wanted to sing in my home town, and the Midwest in general.  I grew up in Indianapolis and think I am one of the luckiest people in the world to have grown up in such a wonderful town.  I was fortunate enough to ride my bike in corn fields…. And stand on Charles Chip cans, and sing songs as LOUD as I could.

When I was little, my very best friend in the world was a boy named Tommy.  We went to preschool together, and his mom became a second mother to me!!!   Tommy and I would take all the pillows off their couch, and stack them one at a time,  to see who could jump the highest before they all fell down……or one of us broke something :0)    We would sit on the floor of the play room and eat split pea soup…….. Bang on their piano…….  And if we were lucky enough, we would sneak outside and watch the neighbors taking off in their hot air balloon.   I’m not kidding either….  The neighbors really had a hot air balloon,  but they never took me up!!!  :0(

At the end of first grade I got kicked out of the church school for the following year, because I couldn’t read ,  and those surrounding believed it would be impossible to teach me….  So off to my neighborhood school I went.  I never had so much fun in my life.  As we got older and into high school, the boys from my grade school created a band…..  and they were good….  Actually better than good.  They were INCREDIBLE!!!  The lead singer was a boy named Thomas Chang.  Thomas Chang could sing U2 almost as well as Bono….  And I just had so much admiration for all of them.  Their band was called “The Chosen Few”.  Secretly I wrote songs, and would always think it would be so cool to sing with them……  but was way to shy about it,  to even approach them.

Well on July 9^th, I am singing in Indianapolis…..  and Thomas Chang, and Matt Maher of the “Chosen Few” will be accompanying me,  and one of my dearest and oldest friends in the world “Tommy Glasel” will be playing on the same bill with me on a stage, rather than a potato chip can, with his band “19clark25”.  I was hoping I would return home as an opener for Tom Petty and he would teach me how to fly, But unfortunately that did not happen soooo…..  I decided to spread my wings ALONE, and am praying for a perfect landing, surrounded by faces I haven’t seen in over 20 years :0)……  The saying God doesn’t always give you what you want, but he does always give you what you need,  rings so true with this occasion….  Actually I never knew I needed this much……. To share my music for the FIRST time with friends who have known me my whole life, while being accompanied by 2 musicians I have admired as much as any rockstars in that era of teenage angst….  And then to have my second mother in the audience to HONOR, and to have my friend “Tommy”on the same bill, is just a gift I would have never imagined I’d receive.  I am just so very thankful.   And to top it all off… my OLDdest OLDEST friend (mom’s were dear friends and pregnant with us, same general due date, accept for I busted out 6 weeks early :0)) is having a merchandise show for me 2 nights before I sing.

Just so excited, and THANKS so much for dropping by….  And can’t wait to write about the evening!!!  This musical journey is a lot like a giant cake…..  I keep adding layers, and I’m just hoping that when it comes time for icing….  Their will be enough to cover it all…..  I certainly enjoy sharing the recipe of each layer ,with each and every one of you!!! :0D

Peace,

Lexers

Several weeks ago, I went out of town.  While driving to the destination, lightning was striking so close to the car, that I could smell the electricity burning.  I was really scared……….We finally made it to our hotel to check in, but could not get out of the car, because of the line of automobiles ahead of us.  As we were waiting, we noticed a tour bus beside us.  All of the sudden, it’s doors opened, and OVER 30 blind people started walking out.  They all had a stick, and started whacking my automobile…  One by one, they just kept coming, and coming, and hitting my car.  Just when I thought they had all passed …..  three more people slowly came out.  None of them hit my car, but one turned around…… centered in front of my hood, raised her stick in the air above her head… and then, right before hitting the car , in mid air, she just turned around and walked away.  Since she was not wearing glasses,  her eyes were giant and glowing this color of blue…..  like nothing I had ever seen before.  Since this occurred, I have just had so many flashbacks of her image. Over the next two days we continued to have UNBELIEVABLE encounters with this group.

I am a big believer that the Universe sends messages, if you pay attention…..  so this one really got my mind going.  After pondering the situation, I came to believe it was a sign that I needed to quit seeing with my eyes, and start using my other senses to guide me through situations…………while remembering that to truly see the truth, you have to take your desires out of the equation…  The desires are what muddy everything up, and get you into the real trouble.

I wondered what the Universe wanted me to see, that I was so blind too, that it felt the need to send over 30 people whacking my car…  and leaving me with an image stuck in my head, that made me feel as if my life were a Harry Potter movie.   Then……….. BIG things started happening.  All of the sudden I started to see EVERYTHING, without the rose colored glasses, in a GIANT way.  My vision became more intense than it has ever been!!!  I started seeing sides to others that I never even imagined possible…….  People whom I had had great respect for……..  Turned out to be people I would be happy if I’de never known….  I had been so focused on what I was trying to accomplish, that I became completely blind to listening to what the Universe(God) had to offer in  guiding me to the placement of my goals!!!  I spent the summer working harder than I ever worked before…..  getting about 4-5 hours of sleep a night…..  only to end up running on empty, and losing my ability to see with things other than my eyes!!!

Life is such a trippy place.  At the snap of a finger everything can change……  You can see something or someone in a completely different light, when you change your VISION.  I have so much respect for blind people, and the struggles they must work through everyday of their life.  The fact that I can see……  and still at times can be so blind to something obvious,  really makes me just in aww of what REAL vision is all about!!!   The world is so full of deception, and it takes great skill to SEE IT, UNDERSTAND it, without BECOMING it…… while PROTECTING yourself from it,  and maintaining the ability to live life with an open heart!!!

I am humbled to know that the Universe sends us all messages everyday, such as this…..  We just have to listen, and see with more than our eyes.

Thanks for reading my blog……  I wish for you, and also will wish for me,  that we  learn how to see with more than our eyes……. Taking the desires out of the equation, so the water is beautiful, clear, and pure……  without anything to muddy it up!!!

Peace To You,

Lex

Attached is a link to an organization that helps physically blind people see…….  Check it out…..  It’s a super organization!!! An Eye Opener In India – Unite For Sight

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I Love Mother’s Day!!!  I LOVE being a mom….  and I LOVE my MOM!!! I think the best part of being a mom, is celebrating with your kids, that everyday is an opportunity to learn, love, live, and just cherish this adventure of life…..  and when things get difficult, to teach your children there are wonderful possibilities that always exist beyond that rough moment.  I just want my children to dare to dream, believe in themselves, and follow their calling!!!  I made the above video to celebrate my MOM!!!  My mom and I are real different, which always leads to lots of interesting situations…..  but one thing that is the same, is our ability to dream, and see possibilities, and the love we have for each other. I couldn’t have asked the Universe to have blessed me with a better teacher!!! :0)  Feel Free to copy the attached link, and send it to your mom.  Make sure you do SOMETHING for that special woman….. Cause On Mother’s Day…..  You need to make sure you ROCK Your MAMMA’s World!!!  Sending you giant hugs all over the UNIVERSE!!!

Peace To You,

Big Mamma

Hey There…..  I LOVE being a Mother, and I LOVE my MAMMA…..  So I made a video to celebrate MY mom, and that day.  To me, being a mom is the greatest gift I was ever blessed with….  I thank the Universe so very much for that….  and I am also thankful that I’ve gotten to spend my whole life with that special woman (My Mom)  that brought me into this big wide world of adventure and mystery!!!  If you feel the same about your mom…….  Feel free to pass the link on to her, and tell her how much you LOVE her!!! If you want to more about what I think is great about momhood, then check out my latest blog!!!

On another note…..  Many of you know, one of my  greatest passions is education and children.  I was asked last week to sing with a new band for a benefit this weekend called “Corporate Battle Of The Bands”  It is an event which will raise money for “A School Bell Rings”….  This event in particular will raise funds for the children of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.  I am just so honored and thrilled to participate.  So honored that I am singing some cover tunes that I would normally not do…..  but for a cause like this…..  What the heck.  Children are WORTH it!!!  They are our FUTURE!!!

Check out the link and come to the show if you can.  It will be an incredible evening!

http://www.aschoolbellrings.org/events.html

Hope You Have A SUPER weekend and to all the Mother’s Of the world…….  HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!!

Peace To You,

Big Mamma

Hey There…….  I’ve attached a video to a new song I wrote, and recorded on garage band called “Swept Away”.  I hope this song sweeps you away to some kind of beautiful place.  The video incorporates 2 of my most favorite things in the world.  The ocean and the stars.  Wishing you a week filled with all the things you love!

I’m back home from my trip near the equator!!!  I’m sitting here in my special room with all the candles lit… I actually attached a picture of one of my candles.   I think it’s the perfect time to share the final blog about what I’ve learned from the sea.  This last blog, is about the lesson that causes me the most frustration.  

With all these scary , and crazy things that happened to me in the sea, one experience sticks out the most. When I was 9 and in sailing school……  I loved spending time in my sunfish alone.  I would just sing to the fish and the birds and feel the wind.  One day I felt this INCREDIBLE peace come over me.  All my friends jumped in the lake to swim, but I just stared at the water,  and felt myself melt into some kind of ecstasy.  In my life, I had never felt a peace like this, and to this day I have not experienced it again.  The sun just melted me.  The next thing I knew, the instructors were carrying me to the club house.  They laid me down on a lawn chair and covered me in Ice.  Turns out I had a Heat stroke.  My temp was over 105……

This experience really taught me that just because something FEELS really good, doesn’t mean it’s good for you at all(The Heat)….  And that  something that FEELS bad, might actually be good for you(Ice)….  This lesson is one of the most frustrating paradoxes in my life.  I think too much…..  and this is the  lesson I am still trying to figure out. Honestly makes me really irritated.  But then again………  The heat would have been fine in moderation, and there would not have even been ice in the equation……… But the problem was, I didn’t know I was over doing it, until the ice woke me……..  See what I mean?  ….. Lastly……  I must honestly tell you, that I am not upset that I experienced the stroke, because the peace was so incredible.  I would rather feel that experience, than never feel any of it at all, but I can say that, only because I ended up not hurt….. My head is starting to swirl.  When I figure out this lesson decisively…..  I’ll write another blog or song…. but until then…… I wish you JUST the right amount of sunshine and warmth……  One that WON’T and CAN’T hurt you…. And I’ll wish the same for myself!!!  :0)   Thanks for visiting……. and I hope you enjoyed my 3 part blog about The Sea and I….. and what it has taught me! :0).

Peace To You,

Lex

In my last Blog, The Sea and I: Part 1…… I spoke about the wind, and how if you try to control it, It’s going to let you know what’s up……. Part 2 is a different story….. But still a little lesson I’ve learned from the beautiful sea!!!

When I was 15, I had this giant crush on this boy that was 1 year older than I. All the kids from my school went to this camp with our youth group. They had sailboats, and so I signed up for sailing. My crush got wind that I passed the test, and was allowed to take boats out alone, and so he joined me. This camp was in Minnesota, and we were on this giant lake having a blast. He kept saying,,,,, “I can’t believe you know how to do this”, and then…… the sky turned dark, and a storm blew in really fast. The wind was so strong that the boat turtled and was STUCK upside down. We kept trying to climb on the dagger board and turn the boat back up, but we would just get knocked off by the humongous waves. My crush started freaking out. We were so cold, and lighting started striking down everywhere, and the thunder boomed as if it was coming from hell. He kept saying….. “I thought you knew how to sail”, and then he would say”, “we‘re gonna die from Hypothermia”….. I just couldn’t stop laughing. I started laughing so hard I started to cry…. And he started getting so scared and mad at me for laughing that he started to cry. The madder he got, the harder I laughed. Finally the camp came for us. Turned out the Master Pole broke, and they had to tow us to shore. My crush was traumatized forever. We stayed friends, but it was never quite the same after that.

That day I learned several things about myself. I could list them all….. But instead I’ll list the one I feel is the most important lesson. Never be TOO confident in life….. and ALWAYS have a plan for that unexpected storm…….. Then it is not a storm…. Just a beautiful display of electricity….. and mother nature at work!

Attached is a little snippet of some footage we took, for my next Music Video, for a song I wrote called “Swept Away”…… Hope you enjoy it…… I’ll be honest though….. I still suffer a little PTS from the incident I wrote of above. That adrenaline  just always rushes as the wind  picks up in my sales!!!!  :0)

Peace To You,
Lex

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