February Album Writing Month - FAWM.ORG

Jinx

progress: 15

winner!
joined: January 2006
location: Germany
website: www.artist.to/jinx
influences: Primarily the popular music of the twentieth century.

Bio

My email: jinxmontague at gmail dot com.

NEWER EDIT: I may be rather silent over the next week and a bit, so if I don't respond to comments or come comment on your songs right away, please don't take it personally! I will be traveling and living in a hostel, and I'm not sure what the internet situation will be like, but I definitely want to do a LOT of FAWM listening.

EDIT: Well, it looks like I'm not going to be able to post recordings for all my songs this year... I've been holding off on posting a few because I really wanted to record them, but I am not going to have the opportunity to record in the next two days, and after that I will be traveling so it probably won't happen during March either. I'll still post the lyrics for my last songs, though.

Question 1: my blog is called Mining for Truth and Delusion and lives here: http://chalissa.livejournal.com

Question 1-and-a-half: Wow, this is my fifth year FAWMing! Birthday cake please.

Question 3: "People say you're crazy."

I am. I am not. Heck, I anthropomorphize anything I can get my hands on, and ascribe wild Norse rituals to household objects. I dance in heated rage and only return smiles of the eyes. My beautiful female muse is feline, and the rest are imaginings. When someone says "I didn't see you around yesterday," I get trapped in mental quagmire and forget to even reply with the desired information. I can't stand gerunds, and am easily incensed but rarely get angry. I can't smell or feel pain. I can juggle three relationships and one silk handkerchief, as long as the handkerchief is wrapped around my eyes. I drew a picture of a meteorite and an exploding galaxy side by side in holy matrimony (and implied equality) and hung it at the end of my bed. I only change my sheets at two o'clock in the morning. I want to strangle, caress, and feed things. I can see cobwebs stretched between certain pairs of people, and develop a great reluctance to stepping between them. I make myself sick with my songwriting, repulsed by my own unoriginality, but couldn't stop if my life depended on it. I derive to the point of madness while conversing with a computer application named Jared. He doesn't pay attention to me. I try not to convince myself of anything. I revel in invisibility.

Question 4: "I need to talk to you."

Can you make it quick? I'm frying things.

2010 Songs

1	Death of My Life	24 comments // 1 month ago
2	Pact With Myself	19 comments // 1 month ago
3	Lycaeum	15 comments // 1 month ago
4	*As Good As Gone	10 comments // 1 month ago
5	Don't You Hate It (When Your Phone Goes Dead)	9 comments // 4 weeks ago
6	Night Train to Moscow	14 comments // 3 weeks ago
7	*Been Up Nights	12 comments // 3 weeks ago
8	Mighty Mountains From Tiny Molehills Grow (with tinkerbell)	4 comments // 2 weeks ago
9	I've Already Forgotten	zong // 2 weeks ago
10	*My Beating Heart	7 comments // 2 weeks ago
11	*Not the Type	8 comments // 2 weeks ago
12	*The Twister (Trouble Mary)	4 comments // 2 weeks ago
13	End Times	zong // 2 weeks ago
14	My Baby	8 comments // 2 weeks ago
15	The First	zong // 2 weeks ago

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AXL 8 hours ago

Die meisten sagen "der thread", obwohl ich auch schon "das thread" gelesen habe. Ist nicht so wichtig.

601 km sagt google maps. 7-8 Stunden mit dem Auto, je nach Verkehr. Du kannst auch mit dem ICE nach Frankfurt fahren und von dort weiter nach Heppenheim. Von dort würde ich Dich abholen.
Roy Estel Hughes 1 day ago

Hi Jinx,

Hope you are safe and happy in your travels. Yes, post-fawm is a most trying time. I'm still getting caught up with all I was not doing in February; so I kinda know how tough it is for you, especially with all your travelling on top of everything else. Do what you can, listen to what you can from everyone in Fawm-land, there's still some stellar updating going on!

I definitely think all your songs, ideas, lyrics (and your writing in general) are top-notch, unique, and powerful. You will go very far in whatever it is you deem important in your life, I have no doubts.

Thank you so much for your kind words on my songs; they mean a lot coming from someone as talented as yourself. Maybe if we're both around for FAWM next year we could do a collab? It could be a lot of fun...

Anyways, just wanted to say "Hi", have a blast in Europe, and be sure to try to hit some Fawm-over parties over there if you get the chance. They always sound like great fun!

peace out,
roy
AXL 6 days ago

Wow, Du bist in Deutschland?! Du musst unbedingt zu unserer kleinen FOP kommen. Ich habe die Termine, an denen ich Zeit habe, hier gepostet:

http://fawm.org/forums/thread/650/#c20042
ericd 1 week ago

Thanks so much for the comment.
Karan 1 week ago

Hi Jinx, don't worry, same here, because the post-FAWM days are always so busy - catching up with everything that was delayed for a month. Are you in Germany now? I'll let you know when we do the FOP (probably after Easter) - would be lovely to see you there!
tinkerbell 1 week ago

Hi Jinx, and thanks for stopping in!
Rick Amorphis 2 weeks ago

Have a wonderful trip! All the love and godspeed, Jinx.
Rick Amorphis 2 weeks ago

I'm purposely avoiding listening to your songs because I've got a lotta stuff to do yet and I know your songs will be freakin' awesome and will probably distract me because I give all your stuff multiple listens and y'know, that takes some time so until I can give your stuff the attention it most certainly warrants I'm staying away.

Oh alright...I snuck a listen at 'Mighty Mountains'...ugh...it's freakin' awesome!!

I'm leaving now...but I'll be back.
Mal 2 weeks ago

Hey, I'm sorry for getting back to you so late, but thanks for the great comment on Junk. I had actually tried to work some Burroughs and Kerouac quotes into it, but it just kind of cluttered everything up. Thanks for the listen!
tinkerbell 2 weeks ago

Hi, Jinx, I just listened and it's great! Many thanks. Splendid guitar, and you've got such an expressive voice.
tinkerbell 2 weeks ago

Great! Look forward to hearing what you come up with. And thanks!
tinkerbell 2 weeks ago

Maeflower has done a great ukelele take on my lyrics "Mighty Mountains from Tiny Molehills Grow." I thought it would also be fun to have a bluesyish version of the same lyrics alongside of this. I've got something knocking around my head but it's not completely formed. Might you be interested in having a go, Jinx?
Toby Vok 3 weeks ago

thank-you jinx. much appreciated. if you were to fancy borrowing any of my lyrics and adding some music, it would be a lot of fun I think. let me know if you're interested.
tinkerbell 3 weeks ago

Thanks for your comment, Jinx!
mijahu 3 weeks ago

Thank you very much
Steffan Pitzel 3 weeks ago

Your comment made my night. I thank you, kindly.
John Q 3 weeks ago

Thanks for that awesome Ben Franklin quote!
Michael Gutierrez-May 3 weeks ago

Jinx, thanks for coming by to visit. Will try and get the music up soon for the Idiot song.
Bruce H. McCosar 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the comment on "The Last Star Before Daybreak" -- you're right, and that's one of the obstacles I often face as an instrumentalist. I am evidently from the other side of the universe; I've heard perfectly good songs that were ruined by someone singing over them

Not to say I don't enjoy vocals, I do, but there is a capacity for music to store and capture memory. When there are words, and when there is a voice, the music directs you to a particular place, mostly of the author's choosing; an instrumental, on the other hand, becomes quite personal. Probably that's what got me to jazz in the first place. May be one of the reasons I liked Return to Forever so much -- Flora would sing and set everything up, then BLAMMO Chick Corea and the crew would take off!
Captain Vulpine! 3 weeks ago

And then I said to myself "What in the world is she talking about, I emailed her DAYS ago!"

And so I checked.

Nope. Totally spelled your email wrong Somebody one letter off from you is very confused. ANYHOW! I can be reached at deadworldanimals@gmail.com
Fine Excuses 1 month ago

Good thing too! Mercy me, I am impressed - Pact With Myself and As Good As Gone are fine songs, and once again, FAWM turns up someone with a resolutely distinctive voice. It's a good year for it, I think! Have you thought about collaborating with someone like Captain Vulpine? You two strike me as birds of a feather, and could come up with something special.

EDIT: hahaha. goodness me - I've just noticed the good Cap'n's comments below! Seems like the idea is already out there...
Captain Vulpine! 1 month ago

Well how do we get started m'dear?! Email? IM? Magic?!
Linzi 1 month ago

Hi Jinx, I'd like to hear your tracks too, but they won't work for me either. Thank you for your comment on 'Streetlight' and keep up the great work!

(Ah, you didn't comment on Streetlight, sorry, I'm getting way too excited for this FAWM business...or just plain tired)!
Fine Excuses 1 month ago

Cheers for the comment - would love to hear some of your tracks, but I can't seem to get them to play...
Potato 1 month ago

thank you so much for your comment
Rob Cooke - Boy@Heart 1 month ago

Thanks for the comment on Heartburn. I tried to listen to "Pact with myself" but it wouldn't play.
Wash Away 1 month ago

Hey, nice to see someone who enjoys instrumentals. But Im having a problem playing yours, I click play but nothing happens. I dont know if its my computer or what bc other people are having no trouble playing your songs. Anyway thanks again and sorry I cant hear yours
Karan 1 month ago

Schreib' mir doch einfach mal 'ne Mail: karan "at" singvoegel.com
Embers of Autumn 1 month ago

Thanks!
Shady Wilbury 1 month ago

Not siblings...but an avid fan. Hence "Shady Wilbury" was the logical choice for my stage name. Thanks for the comment.
Bruce H. McCosar 1 month ago

Thanks for your comment on "Burned Down to the Rebar" -- and by the way, yours is one of the best bio pages I've read Reminds me of Grant Morrison's "Doom Patrol" comic circa 1989.
testthebest 1 month ago

Thanks so much for the comment!
hbusse 1 month ago

Hey, thanks so much for listening to my song and for such generous comments! I really appreciate the encouragement.
Karan 1 month ago

Heeeey, da müssen wir uns treffen! Ich lebe zwar in Bayern, aber das bekommen wir schon irgendwie hin!
Karan 1 month ago

Dein Deutsch ist sehr gut! Ich wäre nie auf die Idee gekommen, daß Du diese Sprache erst seit zwei Jahren lernst... Komm' nach Deutschland, hier kann man gut üben!
Rick Amorphis 1 month ago

When someone whose stuff I enjoy and respect as much as yours says such nice things, wow...I had to put down my guitar last night and go fetch my head which had detached and was floating out the room. Thank you for that, really.

It's surreal too because I've awoken the last 5 days with 'Nowhere Street' in my head. I wish to all that is holy that I'd written that.
Captain Vulpine! 1 month ago

Interesting!
I used to have them where I would be the one running around doing relentless acts of horror and mayhem, but lately they are not me, but always personified. First I feel them for a while, and eventually I get a glimpse of them in the midst of their highest point of power and mayhem O_O

So! Shall we do this EP ma'am? =]

-Captain Vulpine
Captain Vulpine! 1 month ago

You have the same kind of dreams you say?
We should put together an EP chronicling the monsters! In recent memory, I've got three of the most terrible.

And what are yours like I wonder?
-Captain Vulpine!
Timothy Bracken 1 month ago

Hey, thanks! Just put my first song up!
cts 1 month ago

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet!!
cts 1 month ago

cool tunes from you?
AXL 1 month ago

Ich bin beeindruckt. Auch von Deiner Bio übrigens, obwohl die, glaube ich, noch von letztem Jahr ist. Ich wünsch Dir auch viel Erfolg und freue mich auf Deine Lieder.
AXL 1 month ago

Hi Jinx. Schön, dass Du wieder hier bist