January 28

Wrote a short song in about 15 minutes last night--was going to record it this morning, but it's hard to be motivated to play, record, and sing a song immediately after waking up at 5:30 in the morning. Maybe will record it tonight and put it up on FAWM tomorrow.

January 27

Listened to some Kris Roe (of The Ataris) doing acoustic songs. I don't think I can prepare for FAWM much more than I have been for the last few days. I'm still brainstorming ideas, but I'm READY for February 1st to get here.

January 26

Listened to some Something Corporate on the way to work, still working on building my desire to write some piano pieces for FAWM this year.

Other things of note: My parents got two new horses, bringing their total up to... I believe 2. In addition, here's a facebook account you should friend: http://www.facebook.com/#/profile.php?ref=profile&id=100000718780010

January 25

Catching back up with the FAWMcasts from this past weekend, since I was at the in-laws. Had a decent weekend, but I begrudgedly have to get back to work.

What am I doing today to prep for FAWM? Well, I listened to a few bands on the way to work this morning to inspire writing with basic chords (Counting Crows) as well as Acoustic solo guitar (Dashboard Confessional). The sorts of things I regularly listened to when I was writing my best stuff (circa 2004-2005).

I'm also going to start today in doing a little working out a little each day to try and build motivation and a little self-esteem, which are two qualities I'm desperately going to need next month. I'm going to try and write two songs this week as a lead up to FAWM--I might post those up when I get them recorded.

Finally, I saw that my friend Matt, who I used to play in a band with, finally signed up for FAWM. His name on FAWM is 'shade', so you guys should head over and check him out.