Can you, or rather would you write an album in one month? Why? It is a proven and stated fact that albums no longer have any weight, nor matter, and the only thing that counts is one golden nugget of three minutes, a ninety-nine cent single, shuffled into an ipod, individual songs that cause train riders, fast walkers, aimless wanderers to create the ’soundtracks of their lives’. You can shuffle through moods, work-out, get fitter, feel happier, arrange your break-up songs. You no longer need be bothered with the one, out-of-place, dissonant track that somehow ruined an entire album, but in days gone by you had to get off your stoned ass and actually physically MOVE THE RECORD NEEDLE, often causing scratching and high-end sonic irritation, to avoid this disruption of bliss. Now a single thumb will dial, dial, dial, until the right mood hits and brightness is yours again.

RBM offers a yearly challenge to mentally ill musicians ( I mean really who would commit themselves to this???—it’s like the special olympics of home production!!) Make an album in 29 days. There is a little, count-down clock on the site, and much weird youtubeness, the likes of which I am not prepared to share. Check it yourself-my profile here, notice I have nothing up. In order not to clog up their bandwidth I am going to post/blog talk about it here-which makes way more sense.

(Update: This post was originally intended for publishing on Fenruary 8th, when I joined. I now have 35 minutes of music- 8 songs, 1.5 of which is not recorded, 2 of which are not tracked, 5 of which are not mixed, 8 of which have no vocals, and 5 of which do not have lyrics written. All of which are not mastered. Christ.)

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