Well, I did it.
I set out to write 14 songs in 28 days, and I did it in 24. With a little help from my friends.
They weren't all good, but I think a few of them were pretty damn good! I did a lot of genre hopping, covering pop, rock, blues, metal, country, folk and electronica. Got to do some writing and recording with Jordan, for the first time since high school. Got to push my slow and outdated computer to it's limits. Bought a domain.
And now, my brain is cottage cheese. I'm going away for the weekend for our ninth anniversary, and I plan to just let my brain refill a bit, preferably with beer and cheese. After writing maybe a dozen fragments of songs over the past 20 years, the pace was a little rougher than expected.
I've still got some ideas running around I want to play with. I have 3 or 4 half written songs, and 1 good idea I want to flesh out. But that can wait until March.
So, if you want to listen to some of the output, have at it:
http://fawm.org/fawmers/dasbinky/
Personal Faves are "Say That It's Over", "Utopia", "I Don't Know What to Do" and "I Had to Kill My Friend in a Knife Fight." Not that I don't like the others, but if you're only going to spend a few minutes, those are my faves. Four songs that didn't exist a month ago, and are now working their way through my head.
That feels pretty cool.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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2 comments:
Congrats, John, that's so exciting! Isn't it crazy how you can go from not writing at all (or barely) to churning out FULL songs at such a rapid pace? The human brain is an amazing thing!
Well done, and many congratulations!
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