Well, Here I am

So here I am, all blogged up and nothing to write. The purpose of this little corner of the web is to keep track of my "song a week" experiment. This is inspired by one of my favorite artist jonthan coulton, who decided to force himself to create a song every week for a full year.

I've found that I'm extremely lazy unless given the proper motivation, so I've challenged myself to try to keep a schedule, and record a song once a week. I don't expect these songs to be good, but I do hope that in 52 weeks I'll have at least a few that I can be proud of. I also don't expect anyone other than myself to visit this site, as I won't be linking to it from anywhere. This is more for me to keep track. If you happen to have stumbled here, have a listen to anything I have up, if you like it, stay awhile. If you don't, no hard feelings.

So, ground rules. Starting 12:01am on April 7, I will have exactly 7 days to record a song of some sort. I'm going to try to make original songs as often as possible, but it doesn't have to be. These songs may just be little ol' me and an acoustic guitar, but I hope to get better at producing and embellishing as I go along. My hope is that I'll see an upward trend in quality.

The home studio is little more than a couple mics and a couple guitars, but if I can stick with this I'll invest in making things a little better as I go along.

So I'll be taking this week to get the studio in recording shape (right now I've got a mass of wires, mikes, and mixers all jumbled up). I'll post my progress if I have anything interesting to share.

Edit:
A friend suggested I make a penalty for missing my song deadlines, and it makes a lot of sense. So as a penalty, I will not allow myself to watch any TV until I post the song for that week. TV includes video games as well as normal tv watching (even internet tv). So there you have it, a little more motivation to stay on the ball.