I Hate Mornings

The Twitter song I wrote last week has been getting some serious and much appreciated Twitter love and even a blog mention. And within a couple of days I got a message from the BBC (delivered by a mustachioed messenger on horseback) asking if I would give them an interview for the Pods and Blogs [...]

Jonathan Coulton became an internet superstar by writing songs about computer games, programmers, Flickr, the internet and associated themes (mostly zombies). That’s what he cares about and that’s what his audience cares about. He’s being authentic and connecting with like minds. He doesn’t try to get the rest of the world to listen. There are [...]

I’m in the middle of a songwriting challenge. If I haven’t already told you about it, you can read why I’m doing the 50/90. Basically, I’m writing 50 songs in 90 days.
So far I have written 50 songs and I have ^KBCOUNTDOWN||fiftyninetydates$ days left to write the other 0!
Check out all the song demos and [...]

I’ve found myself writing a lot lately, both songs for the 50/90 Challenge and prose for the blog. My prose writing and songwriting skills are improving, and it’s mostly because I spend a lot of time actually writing. But I also study songwriting with berkleemusic.com and read about writing whenever I can. As any teacher [...]