February Album Writing Month - FAWM.ORG

Jinx (@jinx)

progress: 3

joined: January 22 2006
location: Germany
website: www.artist.to/jinx
influences: Fitzcarraldo, drinking toast after toast: "To your dogs' cook. To Verdi. To Rossini. To Caruso." Other guy, raising his glass: "To Fitzcarraldo, Conquistador of the Useless. Cheers!" Fitzcarraldo: "As true as I am standing here, one day I shall bring grand opera to Iquitos. I will outnumber you. I will outbillion you. I am the spectacle in the forest. I am the inventor of rubber. I will outrubber you. Sir, the reality of your world is nothing more than a rotten caricature of great opera."

Bio

[UPDATE: Due to various issues in my personal life, I won't be shooting to "win" FAWM this year; it's just too much with all the other stuff that's going on. However, I'm still going to post a couple of songs at least, because the energy of this month always inspires me. ]

This is my seventh FAWM. My FAWM album this year is called "The Light Fantastic." As in, what you trip, but also what you see when you die (complete with post-positioned adjective). Trust me, I know all about this stuff.

I moved to Germany in August and have been living in happy poverty and alternating stress and exhilaration ever since. I write a lot and think a lot and study for fun. I work for peanuts as a translator and enjoy every second of it, although you'll only ever hear me complaining.

My main interest besides music is languages. If you ask me how many languages I can speak I'll say "One: English", but I've been known to make sounds (at varying levels of intelligibility) in German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin Chinese, Esperanto, Catalan, and (my newest love) Croatian. If you want to talk at me in any of these languages or another one I don't understand at all, please go right ahead! I'm a Discordian; I relish confusion. And I confuse relish too.

What I'm trying to say is, I love life, in a passionate tragic way that doesn't make much sense. Indulge me, please.

2012 Songs

1	Skyline Love Song	43 comments // 3 months ago
2	My Fallen Angel	9 comments // 2 months ago
3	Street Thoughts	10 comments // 2 months ago

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sentense 2 months ago

Hellooohoo - another one - pleeeeeeeease
brzan 2 months ago

Thanks Jinx for listening to You Don't Kow Me and for the kind feedback. Much appreciated!
axl 2 months ago

Hi Jinx. If you have a lyric with no music, I would love to try something again this year. This time, I would actually get it posted

Anyway, looking forward to hearing from you.
sentense 3 months ago

WAKE UP CALL!!!
rickamorphis 3 months ago

Loved your comment...a day-making one at that!
timmyriordan 3 months ago

Thanks for the positive feedbake, Jinx. I appreciate it--specially since that's one I'm feeling a bit squirrelly on.
tinkerbell 3 months ago

Your chorus has been going through my head since the first time I heard this, haunting, and beautiful. It fits powerfully with your delivery and setting. Good to hear you!
captainvulpine 3 months ago

Alright Jinxy! So you caught me. But I'm not sharing my time travelling secrets. Well that depends really... How are your pie-making abilities? Also, I put up an improved version of that song just minutes after you commented. The new one is 5 seconds longer and twice as scary.
jramonewi 3 months ago

Here's to our SEVENTH FAWM, babe! Let's do this thang! \m/
sondresae 3 months ago

Hey Jinx, thanks for the message! Happy February!
roy 3 months ago

Good day to you Jinx! Looking forward to hearing your tracks this year... wait... you already have one... I'll go see...
karan 3 months ago

Hurra, da bist Du ja! Wie wunderbar! Jetzt hör' ich mir gleich Dein Lied an! *freu*
sentense 3 months ago

Juhu, auch wieder da - schööön
tinkerbell 3 months ago

Hi Jinx, happy February.
rickamorphis 3 months ago

Phew! I was afraid to look, but I'm so glad you're back...in any language, you ROCK. Now raise some hell and break some hearts!
lightpeak 3 months ago

tinc l'impressió de que ets una persona mooolt divertida. ganes d'escoltar quina mena de música sortirà d'aquesta ment discòrdica!
scottmcb 3 months ago

Jinx!
axl 3 months ago

Hi Jinx. Ich hoffe, Du bist wieder dabei.
brzan 3 months ago

Hi Jinx! Looking forward to the new tunes.
carleybaer 4 months ago

I know we're all, like, Facebook friends and stuff, but I wanted to give you an official FAWM hello anyhow.