Please check out my NEW Soundclick.com page!
Current mood: tired
Category: Music

Hey ghouls,
So I just spent half the night re-working my Soundclick page.  I actually put some money into this for extra promotion.  So we'll see how it goes...it's just an experiment for now, but I have to admit my page looks way cooler now:

http://www.soundclick.com/thegloom

Let me know what you think!

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Updating The Gloom MySpace page
Current mood: inexplicable
Category: inexplicable MySpace

Just letting you know that I'll be updating this page and working on it a lot more.  I'll be adding a new bio/info, plus a lot more stuff to the blog.  I hope you ghouls and goths and strange creatures will enjoy it...

Currently listening : Experience Hendrix Best Of By Jimi Hendrix Release date: 2000-09-12

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Newly-mixed tracks in the MySpace player
Current mood: musical in more ways than one
Category: musical in more ways than one Music

So I just remixed my Gloom tracks and uploaded them all to the player.  I have been meaning to clean up those tracks for a long time now, and I finally got around to it.  I may have to tweak Solitary Confinement again...we'll see.  I just basically boosted the levels, compressed everything and took away a bit of the noise.  For "Only Little Girls Cry" I added reverb to open up the sound and not make it so flat-sounding.  So have a listen and I hope you like what you hear.  If not, then fuck you.  Ha ha just kidding! 

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The Gloom NEWLY-MASTERED tracks inside
Current mood: musical in more ways than one
Category: musical in more ways than one Music

A while back I was fortunate enough to have my Gloom demo mastered by a fellow musician named Theion.  You can hear those tracks by clicking the links below.  I wanted to upload them to my player, but for some reason (probably because of the player), the tracks sounded tinny.  But they seem to sound good from my main site for some reason...Anyway, here are the mastered tracks:

THE GLOOM
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
BEAUTIFUL
UNSUNSHINE



http://www.emma-o.net/music_tunes_gloom.htm
http://www.myspace.com/theionspace

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Death Box
Current mood: ehhh
Category: ehhh Writing and Poetry

Death Box

Copyright 2005 Emma-O Productions

I open my death box
Play with the bones
Rearrange the rose
Bring it to my nose
And take a long whiff
Of the smell of funerals and death
Earthy, rich, fragrant perfume
Like a coffin exhumed
Filled with flowers in bloom
A smell that reminds me of the past
Antique books, things that last
Long fish bone
Fossil stone
Weathered, paled by sun, surf and snow
Nature's treasures collected
As a sacred offering to the dead
To be resurrected
For fortune and protection
The power intoxicating
Not to be underestimated
The darkness inside a jewel to cherish
Until fate calls my own body to perish
Return to sea, air, flame and rock
Embraced by the comfort of my death box

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Emma-O's Amazon.com store
Current mood: busy
Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping

Hey all you Amazon.com shoppers!

Last month I started building my Amazon.com store. Well I have been busy with it lately and there is a ton of merchandise to browse. So all you Amazon.com shopping addicts, please bookmark my page and shop through there if you can! I appreciate it a lot!

I am trying to have a fun, funky, eclectic assortment of goodies to choose from. Under "Music" you will find a category called "Emma-O's Picks" and "Emma-O's Favourites". These are my personally-selected CD's I want to sell, including some of my favourite albums of all time.

Under "Clothing and Accessories" you will find "Emma-O's Tickle Trunk". This is my "messy closet" of fun, interesting apparel and accessories. Check it out!

All you gardeners might like my gardening section, with categories for birdbaths, windchimes, even live plants.

And don't forget that I am adding more all the time...so please come back and shop any time!

Thanks!

http://www.emma-o.net/onlinestore_amazon.htm

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A Prayer
Current mood: ??
Category: ?? Writing and Poetry

Please God/dess, take away this ache I feel, inside my brain
And in my throat, a permanent lump of emotional pain
Free my soul, please free it now
I'm ready, God/dess, to leave this world
Where I don't belong and am not wanted anyhow

The future looks dim, I can't paint it gold
God/dess, please take me before I get too old
I won't be able to take the lonliness of being
By myself, all that I love gone, dead and buried
Just a miserable crone

God/dess I don't know what You have planned for me
I have tried to be the best person I can be
I have loved You, Your universe and creations
Lent a helping hand to all creatures great and small.
But no love for me, just cheap imitations...

Have You abandoned me? I often think
What have I done to earn such heartbreak
Forgive me, please for all my sins
I'm only human, I make mistakes
I'd give anything to start over again

I want to come home, God/dess, can't You hear me?
Why keep me here, when my days are devoid of meaning.
My well of gifts has dried, now all I do is cry
There is no more of myself to give
Please show me some mercy, I can't make it out alive

You have sent me so many demons to slay
And I wonder if they have really gone away
I'm begging You to let me know what I have done
Before they destroy me
I'd like to cherish a moment in the sun

Life, they say, is a privelege and God/dess You breathed Your soul into me
But sometimes life is a curse, and Death seems far more inviting
The black so calm, like a deep, still pool
Please invite me in, I'd like to go
But You keep me here, why, I don't know

Just let it be over soon, I'm ready to go anytime, really
I know to anyone reading this, I must seem silly
But no one knows the depth of this hell, that I live and breathe
And know all to well
All alone, no one sees, no one cares, so once and for all, set me free!



Copyright 2005 Emma-O Production

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Live version of "The Gloom"
Current mood: busy
Category: Music

Hello ghouls,

I have recently discovered an old live rehearsal version of the song "The Gloom" from 2004 mixed in with all my old jam tapes.   It features an original line-up of The Gloom, with myself on guitar and back-up vox, Edgar LeBel (who founded The Gloom with me) on bass and lead vocals, and guest drummer Ziggy Sweet.  I converted the old cassette recording to digital, and present it to you here:

http://www.emma-o.net/Music/TheGloom_live_mp3.mp3

Also, be sure to check out the new page for The Gloom at my main site:

http://www.emma-o.net/music_tunes_gloom.htm


Emma-O


UPDATE, Jan.21/08:  I've added this to my player!

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I need...
Category: Writing and Poetry

I need rain-dressed kisses on my face.


To stand atop a mountain peak,
with wind-swept words to caress my cheek.


A place pristine, untouched by any man.


Flitter, flutter fairy-land,
twitter, butterfly lit on my hand.


I need someone to water my heart and let it to grow


Open the windows, let in the sunshine,
And I can be happy to call you mine.



Copyright 2007 Emma-O Productions

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My graveyard pix
Current mood: creative
Category: Art and Photography

Just letting you know I have finally built my "Graves and Graveyards" photography section at my web site. Check out my pix of angels, statues, old graves and beautiful graves. I have a lot more to add too...

So if you are an inner ghoul like me then check out my pix!

Thank you!

http://www.emma-o.net/photography_graves.htm

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