6000 days.
6000 songs.

A story that almost broke me:

The $3 million I made and lost.
My $1.1 million tax bill.
The Autoglyph that saved me

This is SONG A DAY #6000

🌩️CRYPTO TAX NIGHTMARE🌩️

The journey continues below👇

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Born and raised in Westford, VT. Hartford now. 

I am in my 16th year of writing a Song A Day.

Why use them? As a young teenager, I believed that getting a music video on MTV was how you knew you'd "made it."

Fast forward to 2022, when I made $3 million. For a moment, I felt like I had "made it." But even before the tax nightmare began, I remember thinking, "Now what?"

The music video—and specifically its near-obsolescence as a medium (especially as an MTV-based medium)—serves as a reminder that there's no such thing as "making it." 

Rather, I am "making it" every single day I sit down to write my song.

I hope you enjoy the song and the story!

The story behind this song ended in March 2024, when I sold my Autoglyph and used the $1.1 million proceeds to pay my tax bill. 

The day after I paid, I began writing the song. I've worked on it on & off for the past year and a half.

Originally, this wasn't going to be Song #6000, but as the song and video evolved, I started to feel the message was one I wanted to amplify with the hoopla of this milestone.

Something not everyone will notice: Almost every scene references a music video from the 80s or 90s (I’d love for someone in the comments to see if they can call out every single one with a timestamp).

Each reference has personal meaning—these are the videos I watched from childhood through my teenage years. They all contributed, in one way or another, to my dream of becoming a musician.

What a fucking roller coaster of a story. Forget all the books that are being written. Your songs are the best chronicle out there of the story of crypto.

Congrats on 6000!

🥰🥰🥰 que buena canción 
I loved it

My friend Tim is a professional musician out of New Haven. He plays lead guitar with Lotus, among other projects. I had him watch your music video and here's his reaction. Lotusvibes.com if you wanna check out their touring "jamtronica"

Love this. So much thought in this video. I could probably name a few of the music videos that inspired this but not all.