Fresh demos straight out of Problem Cat City.
My New Year's Resolution is to play more shows. Look here to find out where and when!
….but 941 isn't bad!
It was an ambitious goal, especially for a chronic procrastinator such as yours truly. However, I did successfully meet my goal of writing all 52 Bad Song Club prompts this year, so that's something. (Next year I'm not gonna wait until the last week of the year to write 20 of them)
Happy New Year everyone, may your goals be just outside your comfort zone, and may 2026 bring us some light in the darkness.
xo
Carley
Those who know me can attest to the fact that I am highly—some might say unreasonably—motivated by merit badges, tokens, and other arguably-inconsequential markers of achievement. When I was getting my degrees, for example, my drive to maintain a 4.0 GPA was not because I wanted to excel academically, but because if I graduated summa cum laude then I got gold tassels to wear at graduation. Things like that.
So when I checked my spreadsheet of songs and saw that I had not yet written 1,000 songs…
Read moreIt's been a long six years. Since 2019, I moved across the country, went back to school, got two degrees, landed a job as an elementary music teacher, wrote 537 songs, and completely forgot to perform or release any music. Before 2019, performing was my life, and it took the intervening half-decade+ for me to finally miss it. I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle, but we'll see.
I still play all the instruments. The ukulele and the guitar still play tug-of-war over who has my heart, though the piano might…
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