This Is Star

January 31, 2012

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Hey there, internet! It’s been a minute. & I’ve missed you so! Life in Starland has been…complicated, as of late. That said- lots and lots of good changes are in play and I’m really excited for all the awesome stuff I have coming up to share!

First and foremost- I’d like to tell you about this project. I haven’t tried to do a yearly project since the Tank Girls Calendar that I did in 2006. That went over really, really well back then- so I thought to myself that I was way overdue to try to do something like that again.

Any attempts to do a 365 photo project or even a 52 weeks project between then and now have lead to complete and utter failure, and as such, I decided a monthly project was as much commitment I could handle.

I also decided that I’ve wanted to work more on recording and music stuff this year, so it was a logical choice to do some kind of monthly song thing!

After tossing some ideas around, I decided to do a cover every month with the name of the month in it.

This month’s is 11:59 It’s January, by Scrawl.

Here are the words if you want to follow along:

January came too soon

Survived the holidays Without you

But who are you

You are anyone I wish I knew

And tonight I wish I knew

Every single one of you

First day Champagne Old acquaintances are far apart

Tonight Auld Lang Syne means Leave before the kissing starts

Last year went down the drain

They all do really

Why complain

Drink a cup of kindness (yet)

And say goodbye to our regrets

Ooooh, it’s January Ooooh, it’s January Ooooh, it’s January

11:59

8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Midnight

Was it a good year Do I really need to know ‘cause now it’s behind me forever

It was a good year because it was such a bad year

That this year could only be better

Last year went down the drain

They all do really

Why complain

Drink a cup of kindness (yet)

(And) say goodbye to our regrets

Ooooh, it’s January Ooooh, it’s January Ooooh, it’s January

But who are you You are anyone I wish I knew

Tonight I wish I knew every single one of you

Tonight I wish I knew every single one of you

Tonight I wish I knew every single one of you

It’s January

Every single one of you (It’s January)

Every single one of you (It’s January)

Every single one of you January (It’s January)

January (It’s January) January (It’s January) January

This song was suggested by the excellent Douglas Wolk. Thanks, Douglas!

I had previously been unfamiliar with the original, and if you are too, here it is on the youtubes for your listening pleasure. While I wasn’t super into the track, I thought the words were pretty spot on for where I am right now, and so it became the clear winner amongst an admittedly small group of January songs to choose from.

If you have a suggestion for a month-named-song you’d like to hear me do, please leave a comment, or drop me an email!

This January was a huge amount of change all at once.

This month I:

+ Moved to the mission. My house is number 12 1/2 & I adore that so very much.

+ Got a new input device to record with. (MOTU Traveller Mk3)

+ Celebrated Chinese New Year in the pouring rain- throwing fireworks into the street as part of the Chinatown bang. I got to share this with 3 of my favorite people in the world & it felt like the fresh start that I was really needing after all the craziness at the end of last year.

+ Got offered my first solo gallery show in years.

+ Booked a show with Corpus Callosum for March.

+ Bought more furniture than I ever have in my entire life thusfar- new house pictures coming after it all ships to me.

+ Found out a story I wrote and drew for an anthology about 5 years ago is finally going to come out this year.

All in all, despite a lot of transition, this has been a pretty great month.

Here’s hoping the next one keeps going in that direction!

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