I don’t know man, I just want to write more songs for the album

Continuing the discussion of folk art, my girlfriend Joyce turned me on to a very interesting website, Album-a-Day from the website “Crap-Art.” As the moderator states in the opening page of Crap-Art “The name “crap art” does not mean to indicate that crap art is somehow worthless or foul-smelling (indeed, we believe that it is more worthwhile than most of what is commonly considered “art”). The name is meant to sound honest and down-to-earth; to make you think, “I can make crap art!” perhaps. And you can! Anyone can participate in the movement, as long as the attempt is honest.” Joyce is a wonderful woman and somehow spurs on my interests like no one has before. Apparently the Album-a-Day site is the only part of Crap-Art that is up and running, but I am truly in love with this concept. Also, the guy who runs the site is superbly ugly, but the fact that he inspired me (as well as Joyce) to pursue this idea totally outweighs the fact that he is very ugly. OK, never mind about the ugly thing, I saw him with his head shaved (he has rotating pictures on his homepage) and he’s not half bad looking, but if you click on the link and see him standing with his hands on his hips in front of a bunch of vegetation with long hair, you’ll see what I mean.

My sincerest apologies to Tom Murphy VII!

Back to this Album-a-Day deal. Basically all you have to do is create an entire album in one day. Grab a bunch of people you know who play instruments (or want to) and start from scratch. No prewriting, just go into a room, set up a couple mics, and go. Whatever you come out with at the end of the 24 hours will most likely not be of excellent quality, but it’ll definitely be the most fun (hopefully) art you’ve ever created. It’ll be an awesome memory, at least an extremely unique one, that you and your mates will remember for a really long time.

This is a super cool type of folk music, as I had spoken of in yesterday’s post, a bunch of people making music for purely the fun of it. Not to make money or look cool or pick up chicks. As Michael “The Toledo Twister” Goldense posted in his July 9th post of A Small “x”, life’s about creating awesome memories, or as he calls them “snapshots (don’t get it? I said read the fucking blog, dude).” This experiment will be one long, frustrating, loud, 24 hour snapshot.

Oh, by the way, I’m doing this very soon. Mike and I are getting our friends together the next free weekend day we have and making an album. Anyone who’s interested, let me know. We’ll definitely get you in somehow. Even if you can only do it for a little while, we’ll do our best to feature you somehow.

Stay different,

Tim!

Tags: A Small "x", crap art, memories, Music, Toledo Twister