OK, so Operation 365... Take 1

So I've got tons of material (and a screenplay, two master's theses, 4 albums and a movie, but that is neither here nor there) that I've been wanting to share for a long time but havent; know how to do it. I thought a bunch about what would be the best way to do it so it was interesting and appealed to people in the most compelling manner possible. I talked to people. I asked friends. I decided for awhile I was going to make a website/network and try to share from my massive archive of original material, but "how would I get people to that site?" was always a question I knew I would have to answer eventually and I had no idea on that one.

I asked my good pal Dylan Avery, an accomplished video manipulator in his own right, what he thought the first step should be for me in this pursuit. He said rip all your tapes. SO I did. That is just the type of job that a multi-tasking, occasionally procrastinating, archivist who doesn't' know what to do with his material can sink his teeth into and I did.

So I ripped. And I ripped. And I ripped and I ripped and I ripped and I ripped and I ripped and eventually it was all in there. Great. I still didn't know what to do. In the meantime, months passed and little changed (well a lot changed, but...) my content (tons of videos, hundreds of original songs specifically) still remained unshared and I didn't have much going on creatively and I decided.

I was going to share. I had realized since January 2009 when a little birdie whispered to me in the shower that I needed to "put it out there". Now was finally time. I wasn't going to worry about the best possible presentation. I was just going to put it out now. Dylan and my other friend Wes Davis made a cool movie which will come out next year called "Buzzkill". I saw an early version and what I got from it personally was that if you do something today and then again tomorrow and the next day, it radically improves the likelihood that you will do that thing the next day after that and so on. I liked that idea and wanted to put that thought into motion for myself and like my friends in "Buzzkill", wait and see what would result.

Saying you're going to do stuff is scary so I didn't say much to anyone at first, but it's been a few days now, so I figured I'd catch the world up on what I'm up to.

I want to post 3 videos each day for a whole year. I will be posting them on youtube at my page jeffersonjaydotcom.

http://www.youtube.com/jeffersonjaydotcom

One of me playing one of my tunes. One of me playing a cover tune, which is a tune written by somebody other than me for those who don't know the lingo. And one clip form my archives which will usually spotlight one or more of my friends but may include me as well depending on how I feel that day. I am not going for greatness, but I am certainly not aiming to embarrass myself either of course (well not too much) I am not going for anything at all in particular beyond the goals I've already stated. I have no idea what will happen or what I hope will come of this but I figure something will and I am interested in seeing what that will be.

Challenges ahead: The clearest challenge is obviously doing something every single day. It's quite a commitment and I am am even a bit sheepish myself about it as we speak but hey, what the hey. The other biggest challenge I can see ahead is... I've only written about 200-250 songs at the most I think. So even if/when I get that far, I'm going to have to figure out a way to have a new song each day when I'm out of tunes. My archive is extensive so I will easily have enough material for that one and well, there are plenty of tunes out there to cover and I'm sure I can play 365 of them so that shouldn't be too hard either.

I may have some guests sometimes but it will mostly be me I believe and I'm going to try to blog about it all a lot because that just seems like a thing one should be doing with a project like this. SO i hope you enjoy my songs, my verbiage and getting to know me as Operation 365 marches on.

P.S. I wrote a new tune in 5 minutes or so yesterday while on of the vids was bouncing so that's #251 (about) and here I come. Hope to see ya all some time.

Peace