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Download SWIMMING WITH SHARKS from iTunes! Featuring music by DOE , FINESPUN , and A CONSPIRACY OF HOPE !
Purchase a 4-disc CD/DVD of SWIMMING WITH SHARKS from Stretch the Skies Entertainment! (Also available at FYE, Coconuts, Wherehouse Music, and more!) Also featuring music by DOE , FINESPUN , and A CONSPIRACY OF HOPE !
My name is Bernadette Giacomazzo, and I am the president and founder of AKASHA MULTIMEDIA , an NYC-based promotions, publicity, marketing, and photography firm.
I'm also the co-author of the critically acclaimed book, Swimming with Sharks: A Real-World How-To Guide to Success (and Failure) in the Business of Music . We are available through all F.Y.E. stores thanks to a distribution deal with Stretch the Skies Entertainment, and through all download outlets (including iTunes) thanks to a record deal with legendary punk label Conquer the World Records .
I never thought I'd have a record deal before any of my musician friends did, but it is what it is...
I've worked with major labels (Astralwerks), major bands (The Darkness), and booked major tours (Artimus Pyle). I'm an agency-represented, professional photographer , a poet, a priestess (trained in the Path by the Rev. Dr. Lady Auset), a lover, a fighter, a proud aunt, and a music industry professional who has remained in the game long after many of her contemporaries have fallen by the wayside. I recently went "back to my roots," so to speak, in journalism, and became a writer and photographer at The Herald. So far, I have done six cover stories, and have had two cover photos published. I have also joined the Triond staff as a syndicated writer and photographer.
And, as luck would have it, I've been re-bitten by the acting and modeling bug and joined Theatre 33's acting troupe and got cast in a movie, Witchmaster General (see the blog). I've also been lucky enough to line up shoots for several print campaigns (check the calendar, and periodically check the photo album A Work in Progress for tear sheets and the like). My latest book is THE GREAT SATURDAY NIGHT SWINDLE (formerly Shallow Water) (scheduled for first draft completion in April 2008; I've already got an interested publisher!). After the success of Swimming with Sharks, I figured the time was right to tell the true story of my experiences in the music business. As Willie (Shakespeare) rightfully pointed out, the pen is mightier than the sword (and many of you know I'm quite adept with the sword, too).
I'm also very heavily involved in licensing for television, film, and video games -- I licensed Tracy Johnson's song to the movie Winter of Frozen Dreams starring Thora Birch (American Beauty) and Dean Winters (Rescue Me). Recently, I helped license music for the soundtrack to the upcoming indie flick Walkin' My Baby Back Home (seen here on the top friends), and have licensing negotiations lined up for two more films and a -- wait for it -- soap opera (giggle). I was also involved with the contract negotiations for Finespun's worldwide commercial for Acuvue. In short, I expect nothing less than better than the best from myself...and I expect the same from everyone who has ever come in contact with me. This may be intimidating to some of you, but then again, a person of quality is not threatened by another of equality. If I intimidate you, move along, because I have no time, patience, or desire to associate with people who simply settle for mediocrity instead of striving for the best of what life has to offer.
In other words, you will come up to my level, because I will not go down to yours. I do not suffer fools gladly.
If you could begrudge me a bit of time to get metaphysical (well, really, what do you expect from someone whose company name is Akasha?): I believe in constant evolution -- spiritual, physical, mental, professional, sexual, etc. -- and I think half the problem with the human race is that they're content with being where they are, at the given time, and letting evolution come to them via some strange combination of predestination and Darwinism. I, however, view evolution as a process that one must constantly seek out -- it's up to us, as individuals and as a collective, to make it happen for ourselves. If you want something, get it -- and if you can't get it, it's most likely because you've not evolved enough to do so. The biggest impediment in your conscious evolution is yourself, and the people you surround yourself with -- if you insist on surrounding yourself with psycho groupies, drug addicts, drama queens, and people who otherwise rip apart your self-esteem and deny you even one minute of your conscious evolution and ineffable joy, you'll poison yourself on so many levels. And you will have no one to blame for you lack of evolution but yourself.
CONTACT ME!
E-mail: [email protected]
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