We have Dangermaker, Roosevelt Radio, and Loftin giving us same great music.

We also have a bit of Feb 8th history and celebrity birthdays. Also, I talk a bit about our new show, Behind the Scenes which is at the blog. This show talks about RfL, the web, and all kinds of other stuff. Check it out at Eban Crawford dot Com.

Roosevelt Radio

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Music on the show

Dangermaker : Your Not There and Wake Up

Roosevelt Radio : Deadlocks and The Siege

Loftin: Grind

Dangermaker

Loftin

Reaching for Lucidity Indie Music Blast Episode 422 is going full throttle featuring the tunes of Electric Frankenstein! Enjoy!

The tunes on the show today are Electrify Me and Coolest Little Monster

Keep checking back for more goodies from RfL in 2012. We have graphic novels, more radio, and some animation heading your way. Don’t miss any of it.

Thank you for hanging out here while RfL had a bit of downtime over the last 18 months. Now, get ready as we ramp things back up.

2012, the new “Year of RfL Productions!”

Cheers everyone.

I swear, I am not done producing RfL 2.0 or the Animated Adventures. I am just 100% focused on building my business and getting new clients. Luckily for me, that side is going well.

Now, I have to get back to paying the bills. Back to the client work, in other words.

Cheers,
Eban

It is funny how honesty works. But, I am not only confessing things I once hid, I am also rejoicing. You see, once I stopped playing at being successful online, I freed up a lot of time to actually become successful online. I just had to stop trying to do things the way I thought things should go and get out of the way and let life happen.

Funny how that works.

Anyway, that is where things are right now. I am riding a wave from win to win and sharing the recent past of fail to fail with you at the same time.

Let’s just say I like the win to win much more than the fail to fail. I am not as much as a masochist as people think.

Cheers,
Eban

Songs
Demons and Illusions, Machine, and My Everything

Be sure to check back in next week as we will have a couple of full episodes for you. That is right, SJ and all!

Enjoy today’s show and have a great weekend!

Cheers,

Eban

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We have an all new equipment setup, and now we can get back to work. The last couple of shows have had horrible sound, and I tried to mask it, effect it, crunch it, whatever, but the fact is my equipment needed an upgrade. Upgrade now done, it is back to the grind.

We are going to have three Quickjab artist spotlight shows this week, starting with this one.

Today, we have the Japanese band President Gas in our Quickjabs Artist Spotlight. Any longtime listener will know I have a strange fixation with elements of Japanese culture. If you are not a longtime listener, well, now you know as well.

With that out of the way, Let’s get to the tunes, eh?

Songs on the show

Pig, A Stellar Dream, Badge, and Hanage Man

I hope you enjoy this show. I will be back Tuesday, and then again Friday with two more Quickjabs.

Full shows coming soon, as is the re-boot of the animated series.

Cheers,

Eban

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Today is a Coffee House Quickjabs artist spotlight on Italian artist, who comes to us by way of the UK, Cris Tanzi. Great, haunting, acoustic tunes are dead ahead!

Today we hear Dropped In, Push Me Away, Enough, and I Am Great

Enjoy!

Oh yes, it is the Juggernaut, which is normally Hard Rock and Metal Friday, but this week it is Hard Rock and Metal Saturday. We have music from around the globe to kick your ass today.

We have bands from around the world for your ears. From The Netherlands, we have Chiraw and Non Devine. From California, we have favorites In Silence. From Nevada, we have royal court members Darque Carnival. From Washington, we have Lucid. And from Norway, we have K9!

That is a lot of great hard rock and metal music! Seriously!

But you know it would not be RfL 2.0 if that is all we offered you. We have our look at celebrity birthdays as well as trivia from Jan 24th. How about the first beer can? That is interesting, right? How about the gold rush? What about the product that got us all saying “anal Leakage?” Even the Eskimos, pies, and indirectly, Steven King, play into all of this.

Sj takes the reigns to tell us what happened to the stars of the movie, “The Breakfast Club”, and even confuses Judd Hersch with Judd Nelson. What an idiot! And just for kicks, he also let’s us know just why Andy Dick is, well, a total dick.

That is a lot to fit into a show, but we do it, mistakes, mis-takes, and all.

It may not always be pretty, but it is always fun.

Cheers!

Music on the show!

Lucid – Sirens

Non Divine – Visions

Darque Carnival – Down Driven

In Silence – To Walk Away

K9 – Fraction of Time

ChiRaw – Domination

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We are back, and we are starting with an artist spotlight quickjabs, episode #403. Thgis is all about Richard Seypka from Canada, who just happens to be the perfect match for our long awaited return, and first show of 2009.

We are returning with our first full length episode, including SJ, on Friday as we have to come back with a Juggernaut. Until then, we will have one more Quickjabs.

Also, on Thursday, I am hosting the Inside919 Business Network January Social. It will be a red carpet kind of broadcast live on the net. If you want to catch it, I will be posting info soon. It will be available on the Inside919.com front page. It should be a lot of fun!

It is great to be back in action.

We missed ya!

Check out Richard at http://www.reverbnation.com/richardseypka

Songs on today’s show:

Minds, Flashback, and Halos

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How?

Well, you may have noticed that I did not do a “Happy New Year” post. That is definitely a good way to start the year, at least for me, by not actually acknowledging it.

And no, that was not a joke.

I know, that probably sounds a bit insane to some, but it is a big part of my belief system. People put too much stock in the while new year, new me, new world supposed reboot. It really is bull. When you wake up on Jan 1st, all the problems, challenges, struggles, achievements, and so on that existed the year before are still there. And better yet, your desire or ability to deal with things, whether good or bad, are still the same.

Yell and protest all you want, but it is true.

New Year’s resolutions? They are usually broken. All the grand statements? Forgotten soon enough.

So, am I being a New Years Scrooge?

No, but I am being a realist. True change happens when you are ready and able to affect said change, not when the calendar flips over. Truth is, nothing happens, whether good or bad until you shift your pain vs. pleasure response. In other words, when you are truly sick and tired of being sick and tired, you will get into shape. Until then you will find ways to medicate the pain of being out of shape away, putting the pain on health rather than being unhealthy. Finances, same thing. Scared of asking for a promotion or trying something new? Ditto. Until the pain shifts to inaction as opposed to action, you will be stuck.

There is nothing a calendar can do to help with this.

So, am I looking at this year with doom and gloom?

Hell no! I figure this will be a great year for Effie and I. Our trick is to go in with momentum. We started to tackle the things that were wrong, uncomfortable, or just nagging months before the New Year. We understood that to make the changes we need to make, we had to make them for the right reasons, not just some time appointed paper days reboot. (paper days? Watch AbFab for that one)

It is not too late for you, but you need to be honest with yourself. This year can be your best as well, but not just because of a date change. If you need to make changes, or do that thing you continuously put off, or anything really, you just need to get to work. Write down your goals. Ask yourself the why’s behind everything. Create action plans. As I said, be honest. (Just a hint, if you are totally comfortable, or even somewhat comfortable, you are not doing things right. Being honest with yourself is not comfortable, but it is powerful.)

So there you go, the trick is to move forward, but for the right reasons with honest motivations.

Here at RfL, things are moving forward. I am not giving anything away, but things moving in a very positive direction. I can give this hint, things are going in a different direction than I originally thought, but that is a good thing.

Ah, that is one more element to add to your action plan. Always be flexible. Just because things morph from your original vision does not mean things are not moving forward. Often things get better as they change, even action plans.

I can give one more hint about RfL. From now on, things will be much more about my vision, having fun, and good friends, and a lot less about who holds my damn contract. On that you can bank!

No longer will people with opposing, and often damaging views, influence my work.

Now let’s all kick ass this year.

Cheers,
Eban

We have music from In This Moment, Poisonblack, Into Eternity, and Attackhead. We are going to send you into the weekend with the best metal and hard rock stuck in your head.

Would you want it any other way?

I thought not!

No big celebration today, just great tunes. Again, would you want it any other way?

Again, I thought not.

We also have our regular segments, celebrity birthdays, trivia, and finally back from vacation, it is the return of SJ!

Yeah, you could have probably lived without that one, but we take the good with the bad, eh? (Yes, I will have to deal with SJ after writing that)

So, kick back, buckle your seat belts, and get ready for some brain scrambling music. It would not be a proper Friday at RfL otherwise.

Cheers!

Eban and SJ

Music on the show

In This Moment: Forever

Poisonblack: HateLove and Left Behind

Into Eternity: Splintered Visions and Time Immemorial

Attackhead: Waste of Life and Lead the Blind

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Anyway, can’t let illness block the show, so today we have an artist spotlight on Cush. Not only a great indie artist, but also a great podcaster that has been around since the early days.

So enjoy as we keep moving to #400!

Cheers,

Eban

Cush’s Myspace

Things I Say Podcast

Songs on the show

Won’t Let It Rain, Sweet Doomed Angel, and Sorry I ruined Your Life

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My current gig, well, just is not cutting it. Not the Reaching for Lucidity gig, but my current consulting gig. I am putting that away for now. I still like the man behind the company I was consulting for, and that is one of the reasons I have to look elswhere for a check. If I stay dedicated to this project, my friendship with the leader may go downhill.

The project is a good idea, and I am sure some day, it will be a great success. As for now, it is sort of a ship without a rudder, and that is never good.

So, what is next? I don’t know yet. I am actively searching for a new gig. I have my feelers out and have a few resumes out as well.

If anyone out there knows of a gig that needs filling by a web media guy with blogging, design, and copywriting skills, let me know.

Hopefully this transition will go quick. I am going to be putting out a new show tomorrow, and should be back on schedule next week. We will see.

We are still in the countdown to 400, it is just taking longer than usual. As for the show, I just re-signed with Mevio, so take that as you will. Reaching for Lucidity is going to be around for a long time.

Still, wish me luck on the job search. This is one area that I have not been in for some time, so job hunting is a bit of a rusty skill now.

Anyone have a can of WD-40?

Cheers,

Eban

Today we will here an uplifting tune by Air 5, a two-fer from both Mainstreet Exit and Easton Legacy, and we will close out with a tune by Frenzal Rhomb. Talk about a great song title, try this, “I Went Out With a Hippy and Now I Love Everyone Except for Her.

Great stuff.

Also, as always, trivia and celebrity birthdays.

Cheers,

Eban and SJ

Music on the show

Air 5–I Wanna Go

Mainstreet Exit–Summer Feelings and 3:AM

Easton Legacy–Code Black and Lost

Frenzal Rhomb–I Went out with a Hippy and Now I Love Everyone Except for Her

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Today,we have a great band out of the UK, originally from Australia, The Kits!Good old fashioned, sloppy, rock and roll for you.

Be sure to get back tomorrow for indie and alternative Tuesday.

Cheers,

Eban

Songs on the show

Primitive Tales, She’s the Number One, and Don’t Want to Lose This Fight

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