Jul 30 2010

Cross Over Criminal

Album Art_THE RESILIENCE

Music and Lyrics by: Matthew Mossotti

Produced by: Efekt and Matthew Mossotti

Vocals by: Matthew Mossotti

Acoustic, Rhythm, Lead, and Bass Guitars by: Matthew Mossotti

Beats and Synthesizer by: Efekt

Engineered by: Efekt

PLAY SONG 01 Cross Over Criminal

Cross Over Criminal (Lyrics)

By Matthew Aaron Mossotti

Come on, cross over criminal

The Son patrols your whole soul

“Listen, you wanton creature

Lounging in your security

Saying, ‘I am, and there’s none besides me.’

You have said, ‘No one sees me.’

You have trusted your wicked ways.

Saying, ‘I am, and there’s none besides me.’”

Come on, cross over criminal

The Son patrols your whole soul

“From birth you were called Rebel.

Keep on then, with your magic spells

There is not one that can save you.

In spite of all your sorcery,

Stargazing counsel, astrology,

There is not one that can save you.”

Come on, cross over criminal

The Son patrols your whole soul

You’re mind’s eye is corrupted by diseased evolutionism

Spinning, coiling, circular, serpentine logic has you hypnotized

You’re not the way!

You’re not the way!

You’re not the way!

You’re not the way!

Come on, cross over criminal

The Son patrols your whole soul


May 1 2010

Body Sculptor – the spirit of the artist and the mind of the scientist

Photography by Gary Trautman

Photography by Gary Trautman

I approach body sculpting with the spirit of an artist and the mind of scientist. My spirit is creatively inspired by symmetry, balance, and proportion, and my mind understands how to calculate the angles in a movement and produce set combinations to formulate a precise routine designed to carve geometry into my musculature. Body sculpting is for me a disciplined dance of heart and soul in harmony – the work is never completed, but it can and should be appreciated everyday.


Dec 5 2009

Rocking For Living Water

Photography by Amee Minton

Thank you to everyone who made it out to catch my set and for showing love to Living Water. If you are looking for a way to give of yourself this Christmas season, check out www.adventconspiracy.org 

As you navigate the nonsensical noise of Noel this year, consider this: Powers that be profiting from the pinching of your pocketbook provide no enduring pleasures. They rob you of your real chance to Give More, Spend Less, Love All, and Worship Fully. You have an opportunity this year and every year after to put on the virtue of the true Spirit of Christmas and shed the dark vice of frenzied flies buzzing around the contrivance of consumerism. Love like you were born to love, not as you’ve been x-conditioned.


Dec 3 2009

Help Me Help Living Water

LIVING WATER - "The pure force of all things good in the universe"

LIVING WATER - "The pure force of all things good in the universe"

Here’s a hardcore bottom-line: Water is the substance of all known life. Without water, life is simply not. Human beings who lack water are not living as much as they are merely trying to not die. Ladies and Gentlemen, let us always elevate our kind. Before we engage any other of the myriad manifestations of misery that maim this planet, let us be reasonable problem solvers and begin at this base; please help countless others and me resource the most-basic source of carbon-based life as we dive into the Living Water cause of digging wells wherever our brothers and sisters in human being are without this precious and rarified substance of the universe that we so commonly mistake as omnipresent.  

Living Water is the pure force of all things good in the universe.

If you want to know more, go to: www.adventconspiracy.org/water/  or www.water.cc  

 

If you want to help me help, go to: www.firstgiving.com/matthewmossotti

 

All of My Best Always,

 

Matthew Aaron


Aug 25 2009

Body Scuplting – An Art-Formed Discipline

lockerroom17-09small1The discipline of body sculpting for me is a creative endeavor. Like writing music or philosophy, in body sculpting, I find that the majority of creation-process derives from  intuition and practice – daily practice (lots of it!). The true artist, at the end of the day, can only hope to reveal something of God and/or nature in a uniquely individualized form through a particular medium - and if the artist is to ever have merit, he/she must perpetually and rigorously refine his/her skill of creating in whatever medium to which he/she is inclined. In the creative discipline of body sculpting, the nature of the God-given body is the medium with which the artist works. God’s beautiful nature can be revealed in the symmetry , balance, and proportion of the aesthetic human body. As in all human creation, God is the architect and we are builders – our work will be reflected in a pre-existing design or capacity. The body sculptor would never tamper with the architect’s blueprints (no steroids or growth hormones), not because of an ethical objection (although there may be one), but because the beauty of the creation will be synthetically diminished/degraded (and there is, at minimum, a subconscious recognition of this in the mind’s eye of the beholder).  Every dynamic of body sculpting should be approached from the creative perspective of any artist - there are basics to which the artist must adhere, but the nuances of the process should be entirely from the soul of the artist himself/herself.

Aug 25 2009

Setting the Mind to Discipline the Body

Photography by Gary Trautman

Photography by Gary Trautman

Someone recently contacted me and asked for help getting jump started into a fitness lifestyle. Here’s what I wrote them.

 

Alright, you’re trying to get a jump start… Here’s what I would suggest:

 

1)     Decide that your fitness is a non-negotiable priority of your time here on earth. Like bathing, or making a living, automatically account for the time your daily regimen requires (6 days a week –lifting for no more than 45 min and doing cardio for no longer than 30 min) – consider it sacred time, devoted to the choice you’ve made to attend to your physiological machine – and know that the better you take care of your body, the better it will take care of the “you” inside of it.

2)     Maximize your effort during the time you carve aside to develop your body. It helps sustain the long-term viability of the decision to devote your energy to fitness in a tremendous way if your training routines can average one hour(ish) per day (resistance training and cardiovascular combined). However, if you intend to maximize results (and why wouldn’t you? – it’s time you’ve set aside), embrace every minute of cardio as an opportunity to take your body to its peak performance and every repetition of every set as an opportunity to make your machine fail. In the gym, getting to failure means you have succeeded. Your body doesn’t dig on failing. It builds itself in direct response to failure, so it won’t fail the next time at the same level of challenge.

3)     Get clever with your approach to creating your training routines. Learn how your body responds in specific ways to specific styles of movements and use your understanding to perpetually outwit your body, which you keep in a constant state of catch-up to the challenges you design for it. At the end of the day, most of the fulfillment of fitness is the recognition of the manifestations of your deliberate and specific objectives (performance and aesthetic). It will get really boring really quickly if you fall into a rut of the same routine week in and week out.

4)     Eat with an objective mind. You have to eat. But you don’t have to eat by the standards set before you by your culture. Rather, you embrace the science of nutrition and consider your body your guinea pig. Forget the dietery habits that your culture has installed into you. Relearn how to eat. You never decided to eat three meals a day – you were told that’s what humans do. Eat five to seven times a day. Prepare yourself to embrace every morsel of food as something that either edifies or corrupts your objectives for your physiological machine.

5)     Enjoy yourself. Rejoice in your suffering!!! From having great ipod mixes, to getting into good training partnerships (usually temporary, so that you never allow anyone else’s accountability or life-situation to influence yours), to asking specific questions to others training around you (and just getting to know them) – all these things enhance the quality of your spirit for the time you are present at your gym. Know that on the other side of every workout lies a natural euphoria – the endorphin rush, your body’s thank you card for the challenge you provided.

 

All of my best always,

 

Matthew Mossotti 


Aug 25 2009

Body Sculpting by Boxing (Core)

photography by Gary Trautman

photography by Gary Trautman

Working the heavy bag will do wonders for your core development. It’s always important to remember that your core (abdominals, obliques, seratus, inner-costals, and erector spineaous) are the connector muscles of your upper and lower body. Any movement that rigorously engages both halves of your body, that forces your legs and torso to balance each other, is going to beget the cultivation of the “in-between.”


Aug 25 2009

Body Sculpting by Boxing (back)

Heavybag Hardens Back

Photography by Gary Trautman

I find it super-crucial to find ways to engage different muscle groups when doing cardio. Hitting the heavy-bag is a unique way to burn rapid calories and simultaneously develop muscle definition. Boxing will inspire your body to develop an overall harmony among every muscle group while particularly shredding your upper and lower back.


Aug 19 2009

Gary Trautman Photography

Moving a Log

Gary Trautman is a St. Louis-based photographer and a friend of mine. This photograph one example of his work. If you’re into your fitness and are looking for some high-quality photography to capture the visual fruits of your hard labor in the gym, Gary is definitely a go-to guy. You can contact Gary at GdTrau@yahoo.com.


Jun 4 2009

Body Sculpting vs. Body Building

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Body Sculpting is all about symmetry, balance, and, above all else, NATURAL proportions of muscle to inherent skeletal frame. No steroids. No growth hormones. The body sculptor is distinct from the body builder in virtually every aspect of his physiological philosophy. The body sculptor does not seek size for the sake of size. He only seeks beauty in the symmetrical balance of proportioned size. The body sculptor does not seek to compete. He seeks his own development. The body sculptor does not train for events by getting huge to only cut out for a few weeks out of the year like the body builder does. He trains to walk around in the sculpture he works to refine everyday. The body sculptor’s physique never arrives at a final destination – it is always a work in progress.  Body sculpting is an art and a discipline that embraces the unique potential elegance of the individual body given by God to every unique individual.