Whatever happened to my musical venture? I've been wondering the same thing. My reader will recall* that last year I was talking about how I had recorded about a dozen songs and had gone huntin' on MySpace and Craigslist for a singer. One fellow replied who was really good and had a couple dozen songs of his own on MP3.com that were at the top of their charts. I was really excited about his interest and went to work making the project "official."

I registered a domain name and put the finishing touches on a MySpace page. To make sure no one squatted on my great band name idea, I registered it with every MP3 distributor I could find. Right now I'd be ready to sell MP3's worldwide in five minutes. The singer said he was really particularly into one of my tracks and urged me to send more. This was all back in October or November.

Then in December I wrote to ask him how the tracks were coming, and I haven't heard anything from the bastard since. Looking at his MySpace page he hadn't logged in once since January sixth, and I started wondering if he might have had an accident or serious illness, but I see he logged in again sometime this month, so that's not it. I think he was originally from Australia and had moved to Atlanta, and that would match the description of Michael Johns on American Idol. Is that the same guy? They're banned from posting on the Internet while they're on that show, so could that be it? Nah, that's not him.

He had wanted me to re-record one of my songs a little faster, but redoing a whole song could be really time-consuming, plus I thought it would ruin the Mogwai vibe I was going after. Did that piss him off? Hey, sorry I didn't bow down.

So...I don't know. Same thing with group projects as ever. So I turned towards something that didn't rely on the enthusiasm of others, and put more work into this blog.

* Yes, I stole this phrase from William Smythe.