Expecting nothing from strangers and friends is the key to happiness.

There are plans to complete the blogging area of Artist Directory and to conclude its function, a posting area so you can share with others.
I believe this completes what was intended all along.
Reports will be done soon as this is done.

I knew around Feb when this website was created that this would be the last place I go. All the major websites make you a product. I can't accept that.

I cut my teeth on NIN, but I became the musician I am today because of Severed Heads.

There is freedom in acceptance, and being a musician, this is what keeps me sane.

New blog post
Music is part of who I am

https://synthoelectro.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/music-is-part-of-who-i-am/

Being a musician has always been with me, it’s simply who I am, but my love for music was long before I realized I was one. During the early days of my life I was listening and hearing music I heard on the radio, tv, tapes and records. But music in my blood due to my Father and Mother both being musicians. There is certainly music and talent in my family, but what I have never had was success in that field.

Sure my Mother played at Camelot Hotel in the 70s, played as a piano lounge artist (well paid) in those days and my Father attempted the limelight in a club with guitar and singing, later to agree on making music in silence in the home –

Older actors speak about something that is not well known today. It’s part of the old way of thinking. “I did my job, I should expect nothing.” I did my acting, I came to work, I should expect no praise from anyone, I shouldn’t expect an award or even better pay.

Right now, this mindset has become something I realized, it is true, no one owes me a thank you, any kind of that’aboy or you did well. If I feel confident in my own craft I have done well, I have made the mark, I have touched my own soul inwardly. The accomplishment has been met, the years to create that album (done) but there is no one who needs to thank me for it, or give me hope or pat me on the back.

This society we now live expects praise more than ever. What we have here is an upgraded glory-hound world that was just starting in the 70s, when more people wanted stardom.

The old movie stars were fading, people were moving to tv. If you were an actor of the 40s you found success on television and tv movies, and if you denied working in that field, sadly you were a washed up actor and no one wanted to be a washed up actor in those days. They were forced to move to television and it was just starting to look good in color as the black and white days had faded, it was all a transition, a slide into the next format.

Today as musicians we weren’t given that luxury, there was no fade into the next format, we were put in a place where artists of tomorrow had to adhere to guidelines, without a lawyer, without any kind of legal guide, and much of what we have now would have been frowned upon. The sharks of the internet today are stripping away the rights people who work in any art-form but where doe this lead? Back to square one – I did my part, I did my job, I expect no praise, and I’ll go home.

We for a time online had that luxury, we found openness, people who discovered by mere luck, organic reach. What people today are given is a dictated software driven online world that doesn’t promise or provide any such privilege. If artists of yesterday had to deal with what we deal with today and I don’t mean streaming, but I’m speaking of not allowing connection, we wouldn’t have such love for those early films from the last 60 years and before.

Make no mistake, we’ve lost that connection. I was a musician long before this change and like they said before. I did my job, I did what I was suppose to do, I’m going to go home now. Music is in my blood. I will forge my own way like Prince did, when he didn’t adhere to the rules of Warner Bros, the largest record and movie company in the world.

Until next time

Almark
6.19.2026

This was not part of the blog post but I did add it here

people today, not in the past want workers, they want someone to entertain them. Get your ass on IG and entertain me. If you don't I'll look for someone else. Entertain me, get me moving, tell your story, divulge yourself to me, I need it, I'm a junkie, put that shot in my arm, now.

As an artist I must forge my own path in this compromising thing called the internet, I must do it my way, in an unorthodox manner.

Musicians who support other musicians are rare, and when I choose to step back from one thing to another, that support is appreciated more than gold.

https://synthoelectro.wordpress.com/2026/06/13/im-done-fighting-the-past/
I am done fighting the past.

as the founder - WEATNU did not fail, the people whom it helped failed it