...hehe...
Since, I have such close connections to our good friend Blub, I finagled myself an advance copy of her soon to be released album.
Let me just say, that I am so very pleased and proud of my friend. Fourteen songs in one month! I think that is way harder than NaNoWriMo. When I was in a joke of a band, it would take us around 4 hours or more to record a song that usually took us a couple of sessions to write, and weeks to "practice" so that we could have a chance of playing it through in its entirety to record it.
Or, once I recorded a song for a friend, that took about 6 hours.
Or, pro'lly speediest, working for Idiot & the Cone films, both of those pieces took a couple of hours to record each about an hour or two to compose.
All that -vs- how fast can you type 1667 words / day ...for me, at a slow 30 words a minute...about an hour a day for a month.
So yeah...FAWM is tougher.
Anywho...about the album. I've done a scan of most of it. Some of it is not my cup of tea, and so I would skip it 30 seconds into it. (Don't worry, I'll give more of a listen later.) There was one song that I swear was Joni Mitchell. (Not that I really know what Joni Mitchell sounds like, but it was folk song, also, not my cup of tea.) There were a couple of strange sounding entries that I skipped, that have potential to be cool, because I like Tori Amos and all that, but I was impatient. Now, I can say, there were three songs that I like.
One with Blub using power-chords! nice vocal melody about being afraid to go home.
The next one about dieing.
And another one with bongos.
No, I don't know the names.
And the beauty of FAWM, is that you don't have time to doubt yourself, or waste years procrastinating to make it "good", you just have to put out songs. I think it is a wonderful way of kick starting the creative engine. Just like NaNoWriMo, there is power in a deadline. I don't know what Blub is doing, now that February is done. I hope she is still writing and playing.
I am looking forward to the album release party on April 5th.
Posted by joncim at March 19, 2008 10:48 PM