Thing-A-Week 5-8?
LETS MAKE A PETITION TO MAKE JONATHAN DO 4 MORE THING A WEEK ALBUMS! Hahaha. Bet he'd enjoy that... lol
Maybe if we all gave him $10 he'll do it... xD
It won't happen I know... but would you like it to happen again?
Maybe if we all gave him $10 he'll do it... xD
It won't happen I know... but would you like it to happen again?
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I'm just hoping we're gonna get a couple of new songs out of his summer vacation!
Of course, that still means six months of no touring-revenue, but as far as compromises go, it's a thought, right?
Maybe an alternating three months of Thing-A-Week and then three touring-months. I dunno.
more doable and more time to write songs :)
Regarding Rob's idea, have you tried donating recently? If you click on the Robots, Monkeys and Bananas link, you get the following message:
"I'm actually taking the summer off from touring, to do some serious writing. So expect a lot of new music."
No exactly a promise, but I think it would be fair to expect some new music!
I know we (the forum peeps) had an idea a while back of using a website where we donate money and when it reaches a set amount, Jonathan writes a new song. I spoke to Jonathan about it, and he didn't like the idea, and one reason was the being forced to write a song.
As much as I hate it, I suspect we just have to leave it to Jonathan to write songs when he is ready. Although I want new songs as much as the next man, so if you can find a way to inspire Jonathan to write new songs I'm fully behind it.
I don't really feel eloquent enough right now to make my case well, but Neil Gaiman made it quite clear in his George R R Martin is not your bitch blog post. It's a really good read, and I think it should be required reading for any fan who thinks they've waited too long for new content.
George R. R. Martin is a really nice guy. I have a whole bunch of his books signed because my aunt was his insurance agent. #lameclaimtofame
I can't speak for anyone else here, but I certainly don't think JoCo "owes" us anything, or has promised anything. On the other hand, I don't think there's anything wrong with brainstorming some ways to persuade him to get a few new songs out there. After all this is the JoCo forum, that seems like a perfectly reasonable topic.....
How about we fans somehow organise to do a thing a week, maybe with each of us being assigned a certain week, say... e.g. week 1 (being optimistic that we start immediately), Spiff releases a Soterios Johnson video, week 2, X releases the thing s/he's been working on lately using song Y, week 3 it's so-and-so's turn to do something. We could work out at the beginning who does something each week, and/or change it as we go along depending on who has an idea, who has something already in the works, maybe something crops up for the person who was supposed to do this week's one so somebody else volunteers to do a quickie (ETA: Either they create a whole JoCo-inspired song/video/story/picture/plushy/cake/feature-length film in one week like in the original Thing A Week, or they just record themselves singing a cover -- I am sure many of us are capable of covering some of his songs without much practice), or a group of people (or the entire forum) could contribute ideas/parts to one week (e.g. week 12 The Mandelbrot Set releases The Future Soon). We'd get quite a variety of different kinds of Things, some awesome and pre-planned, others hurried, and each one of us wouldn't have to work anywhere near as much as JoCo did for that year. In fact, there are enough of us that I bet we'd have more ideas than would fit into a year. It would give us incentives to finish any JoCo-related projects we had planned, or to come up with entirely new ideas. Basically we 'pay JoCo back' for Thing A Week (though many of us have actually paid money for that.) We won't get new songs from JoCo, we'll get new content from ourselves. And he'll be so humbled and grateful and admiring of us that he'll write some new songs.
We want 4 more Thing A Week albums? We make 4 more Thing A Week albums.
Honestly, if I had to come up with ideas for videos on demand and to a schedule, I'd be putting out some seriously crappy videos.
I think Angelastic's idea sounds pretty awesome if we could get it to work well. I would love to see some new creation every week be it big or small, not having been around back in the times of thing a week it would be nice to experience it in some way or another. It isn't even that implausible with the right person running it.
I have one video very early in development (delayed by several preceding non-JoCo projects which are taking longer than expected) and another idea for something to do with the source tracks which could probably be done reasonably quickly if a hole in the schedule needed to be filled.
I'm thinking that some Things would be more or less individual (but if they're finished early they could be posted here for suggestions for improvement before they're released as Things, though I guess we have to be careful that people don't have so many ideas for building on a Thing that it's delayed... there could always be later Things which are community remixes of earlier ones. Thinking aloud here, or whatever the equivalent is when typing) while others could be collaborative. There could be a schedule or something saying who'll do which week(s) and what they're thinking of doing on the wiki.