Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 10:27PM Here are a couple new punk ditties I've been ironing out. I'm not particularly proud of the mix on either of them, but punk is supposed to sound like shit, right?
That was a rhetorical question.
punk stuff in releases Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 2:50PM Yep, it's semi-annual blog entry time! Let's begin with a brief recap of what's happened during this latest interim...
The Timmys (the band I play in) released a 5-song EP called That'll Do! You can check it out and/or buy it from CD Baby at this self-referencing link. At the very least you should give "Rudie Failed" a listen because the main riff and chorus bits were shamelessly rehashed from my song "Homemade Toilet" and transmorphified into some sort of ska ditty.
Speaking of "Homemade Toilet", I found this neat (though unfinished) cover of it on YouTube that someone made with the music editor from Mario Paint. Weird.
Anyways, back to Timmys stuff. The full length is coming along slowly but surely - mostly because we're all getting long in the tooth and have things like RESPONSIBILITIES and JOBS. That said, I have a rather ridiculous amount of time invested in it. The drums were the only thing I didn't have a hand in recording, aside from sitting in on the session in a half-drunk stupor and offering what little advice I could muster. And once all the recording is done, guess who gets to lock himself away from society for weeks to mix all 16 of these damn songs? If you're like me, you answered ME, and thus, you were right!
I think next time we do this we'll have to hire someone, because I'm getting burnt out on it hardcore. I find the initial burst of creativity exhilarating and addictive. The recording/mixing/polishing phase... not so much. I feel like a comedian nullifying his own joke by meticiulously breaking down its inner workings.
But hopefully once this album is done, I'll finally have time to work on an actual TylerK album of electronic madness. I think it would be a lot of fun and, in a way, an even bigger challenge. Stay tuned, because I think I'm going to start dumping all sorts of shit onto this blog in the very near future!
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 3:59PM Yep, it's gone. A few days ago I received a letter from one of Nintendo's attorneys stating that my use of the term "Picross" was in violation of several of their copyrights. They had no problem with me calling the game anything else but that, and even suggested I use the more generic, less infringing term "nonograms" as a suitable replacement. I'd be fine with doing that... if I hadn't lost the source files for the game years ago. So since I can't take the word out of the game, the entire game has to come down.
Meanwhile, lots of music stuff going on. Right now I'm mixing a 5 song EP and by the time that's done we'll be ready to start recording a full length. It's looking like it's going to be 13 - 15 songs.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 4:31PM Put up a new section for the Phun videos. I think it speaks for itself.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 11:55AM Sorry for the lack of updates! I've been extremely busy writing/recording a lot of new material for the punk band. I think we have about 13 new songs at this point. Several of them reuse bits and pieces from my electronic material, and it's very surreal to hear them all blown up and rockin'... especially with lyrics. I think that people who've heard my electronic material are going to be pretty damned surprised when they hear it. Hopefully in a good way!
I'll have some of this stuff up for download on here very, very soon. Keeps your eyes and potatoes peeled!
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