October 2010
14 posts
Oct 27th
Oh yeah, and I did a cover song last night →
Follow the link to read about the project and see the videos!
Oct 19th
The Results & Moving On
Well, if you didn’t figure it out from the reviews I posted from the judges, I didn’t fare so well in SpinTunes 2.1.   The rankings can be seen here: http://spintunes.blogspot.com/2010/10/spintunes-2-round-1-totals.html I WOULD like to point out that I was in the top 6 in terms of the popular vote, which didn’t count towards the final scoring and would only have been used in...
Oct 19th
“Heather Miller (Fairfield) - This song is very much a bit of homespun Americana....”
–  Dr. Lindyke
Oct 19th
“Heather Miller - Fairfield: Out of all the U.S. residents submitting songs here,...”
–  Kevin Savino-Riker
Oct 19th
“Fairfield - Heather Miller Challenge: A - A song about fairfield. Lyrics: B -...”
–  Jeff MacDougall
Oct 19th
“25th place 5pts - Heather Miller (Fairfield) - Yikes! Pitchy vocals. The...”
–  Glen Phillips
Oct 19th
“23. Heather Miller: I gave it a chance, but I really didn’t like the...”
–  Zack Scott
Oct 19th
“Heather Miller: Fairfield Two songs about Fairfield, do you two know each...”
– Emperor Gum
Oct 19th
SpinTunes #2 has Begun!
It’s true!  I went back for more!  I had a lot of fun and learned a lot of things the first round, so when SpinTunes #2 was announced I jumped on board. The first challenge was to write a song about your hometown.  I was super pleased that the first challenge was theme based, because I definitely do way better with themes than with technical challenges.   You can listen to the song while...
Oct 18th
“Pay no attention to what the critics say… Remember, a statue has never been set...”
– Jean Sibelius (via livejamie) I should add that I don’t think one should pay NO attention, just don’t let it control you or get you down. :-) ~ Hum
Oct 18th
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Challenge of the week...
I am currently working through the book “The Artist’s Way” with a group of people in town. If you haven’t heard of it, it is a very amazing 12 week workbook type thing that is great for working through creative blocks.  Life transforming even! There are many tasks set out each week to help you examine your personal crap and get over it to create more space for being...
Oct 6th
The Ballad of Skultar
So, between rounds of SpinTunes, a few of the participants decided to hold some one-off challenges to keep us on our toes! Russ Rogers created a contest to help some indie comic book artists spread the word about their project featuring a hero named Skultar.  Not exactly my typical subject matter, but if it was, it wouldn’t be a challenge now would it?   Here is what I came up with.  I...
Oct 6th
“On September 10, 2010, nine songwriters gathered together in a Ustream chatroom...”
– http://spintown.bandcamp.com/album/a-songwriting-cycle
Oct 6th