End of January "Saying goodbye to the resolutions that didn't work out" Checkpoint
Friends and foes it is nearly the end of January (jesus, did that month both zoom and crawl simultaneously what the fuck) which means it's time to give thanks and pay respects to any and all resolutions you made that you've already left in the dust.
I'm not big on new year's resolutions personally, but I have a special place in my heart for them because they helped make Twelve Months happen, one of the bodies of work music-wise I'm probably the most proud of having a hand in.
The project itself was kind of accidentally a resolution (write and release monthly songs / videos based on randomized restrictions between Jan and December) but because that first song's randomized restrictions were:
142 bpm, No electric guitar, and vibe of "That feeling you get when you're super on it at the beginning of something and it goes south"
my brain immediately latched on to the concept of new year's resolutions and failures thereof and I sat down with my gameboys and guitar to come up with something - in the end it's both silly and amazing to me that a technical new year's resolution that was successfully completed [watch the whole thing here or buy the album version, I got a lot of cats to feed] started with a song about failing your resolutions.
Anyway, every January I think about this song and I'm thankful for it. I can think about other resolutions I've made over the years and how they did or didn't work out but this is the one that's meant the most to me.
If you're interested, I also did handwritten lyrics for each song in the project. Here's the January one if you can read it.
