Placement on TLC's My First Home

I was looking through my ASCAP account online and noticed that I had a new cue sheet listed. Looks like it was for an episode of TLC's My First Home that aired just a few weeks ago.

I tried to find the clip online but wasn't able to do so yet. I'm sure it'll show up at some point, or I'll get the episode on my DVR.

Once again, this was a result of being forwarded by TAXI to a music library.

Placement on HGTV's Real Estate Intervention

In addition to the MTV placement I also found out about another placement today on HGTV's show Real Estate Intervention.

You can view the episode online at the following link:


http://www.hgtv.com/video/do-i-stay-or-do-i-go-video/index.html

Their video player counts down instead of up. You can hear my track, "I Said Too Much," starting around the -20:26 to the -19:56 mark.

Placement on MTV's Pete Wentz: EMOgul

I found out earlier today that I had a track placed on MTV's Pete Wentz: EMOgul show and I was able to find the clip online.

You can view it at the following link:

http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/451732/ema-2009-pete-wentz-emogul.jhtml

My track is used from around the 0:13 - 0:39 mark. It's one of my pop-punk tracks.

Hard work really does pay off

Last night I tweeted that I was going to be re-mixing some tracks for my "band" Crushing Gray with the hopes to pitch them to a major music library. I ended up staying up later than I wanted to, which for me means it was pretty late as I'm your stereotypical musician when it comes to being a night owl, but it was necessary.

There was a "soft" deadline of today for this particular opportunity. Though I would have a chance to pitch to them again later in the year, I wasn't going to pass up this chance. So before I went to bed I submitted the tracks. We were told that it may take between 6-8 weeks before we would hear anything, though I suppose that probably is a disclaimer for people that submit after the "soft" deadline. Why would I think that? Because I heard back within a few hours...

I Need Your Help

I'm sorta having an identity crisis. OK, actually... I think I've resolved the crisis part, but now I need some help. Confused yet? Let me explain what's going on.

A few months ago I participated in a blog contest. One of the areas that we had to complete was coming up with a "perfect pitch." In other words, we needed to be able to describe our sound/music within 15 seconds. This is also known as the "elevator pitch." I actually didn't have too difficult a time coming up with mine (it's the phrase on my site that starts with "Imagine a steel cage match...") but that was because I had decided in the previous section that I was going to take on this contest as "Big Blue Barry, the artist" and not "Barry French, the composer."

Fast forward to a couple of weeks back. I found out that I was one of the 1st place winners in the contest and I was going to receive a free 6 week PR campaign. And that's about the same time when my identity crisis hit...