I have struggled with whether to modify the album since then (sitting too long with any product will turn an artist into a madman). This project was truly a effort of love for me. It was written & recorded over a period of aprox.4 months with 2 of my favorite collaborator’s David Ott & Jonathan Bengco of Mind Majors. We followed no format, drew outside of every line possible & simply followed our feelings. This process gave birth to many things for me; 1) great friend’s 2) a range of emotions from unbearable laughter to crying my eyes out & 3) this body of work. So after much deliberation, I am not messing with it. Any of it. I am simply going to allow it to live.

Below is a song titled ‘No Goodbye’. It was written and recorded in a single session. This experience was one filled with tear’s, propelled by a great love and feeling of loss over an estranged relationship in my life. It’s raw. Very lightly mixed and a little mad. I think sometime’s the imperfections in life can be the common thread that holds us all together. So if you are missing someone this holiday season know you are not alone.

I am right there with you.

Love and many many blessing’s to you all,
Amber

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I don’t.

I never have.

I guess all I can do is pack my lunch and wait for my next itinerary.

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Kara DioGuardi and Jewel’s reality-TV songwriting competition on Bravo, “Platinum Hit,” isn’t exactly garnering “Project Runway”- or “Real Housewives”-style ratings, but some really impressive music has come out of its three little-seen episodes. It’s too bad more people aren’t being exposed some of the contestants’ fantastic original songs. These talented kids deserve to be heard.

Case in point: This week’s “Home For Me,” a bittersweet ballad written as part of this week’s road trip-themed challenge by Jes Hudak (who came up with the main hook) with Melissa Rapp and Amber Ojeda. The song is simply gorgeous. Goosepimply. It even thawed out Kara’s icy heart, and guest judge Natasha Bedingfield said she could imagine herself singing it.

Watch Jes, Melissa, and Amber’s full performance of “Home For Me” below. You might like it so much, you’ll tune into “Platinum Hit” next Monday to see (and hear) what you’re missing.

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It’s funny, just when I’m certain I have it figured out I look at the ground and see my reflection in the puddle. Piercing thorough my eyes she’s gazing back at me, a spirit I know well. Her name is ego and she has had a hold on me for years. Charming little bitch, but like all the wildflowers painfully insecure. We fight like sisters all the time, she and I. She hates the bruises. I love to write their stories. The chord is strong between us and she knows it. Every night as I lay in bed meditating I pray for it to dissolve. She giggles in the corner of my mind.

Where does one find peace from such a boisterous trouble maker? Is it truly the human condition that created Ego? It serves no purpose. Creates havoc in our minds and literally drives me insane sometimes. She is like an unhealthy relationship I cling to because the sex is just so damn good. Deep down inside I know every time I connect with her it will end badly for me.

So here I stand. At the corner of Reality TV show & Everyone’s watching you. I feel like she has been waiting for this block for years. It’s a scary industrial street. With unfamiliar faces and alleys that I can’t quite see all the way down. I find it both thrilling and nauseating. Unfamiliar territory. A very important person said to me a while back (and I will never forget it) “Opinions make people feel important.” You need to look no further than the millions of blog sites listed on the internet to validate this statement. Even this one I suppose? Even though I tend to shift the focus to my own experiences with life and my connection to it, at the end of the day it is indeed simply a space that cradles my opinions. Sometimes that witty little bitch of an ego even has a thing or two to say .

What an interesting though.

What an interesting though.

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This does not need a brief synopsis from me.
Simply.
Press.
Play.

INFLUENCERS FULL VERSION from R+I creative on Vimeo.

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Cut to 4 months or so later… My grandfather (following another resort stay) and I are talking. I am telling him my same story—-> yes it’s an old one! and he has an epiphany. He says to me “Amber, I want you to write a play.” Ummm…. What? I don’t even read play’s let alone write them. My Grandfather replies “You will figure it out, and you will write one.”

I feel like I am living in my own play. Me of course being the uber dramatic sensitive artist unable to look at the big picture.

Maybe that’s where I should start sentence one… “There once lived a girl who held onto the words of her grandfathers years.. and began to write.”

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