"WHERE SOME OF MY DREAMS BECOME REALITIES...AND SOME OF MY REALITIES BECOME DREAMS..."

October 12 , 2008

Been awhile since I've put anything up here (as if anyone would notice, ha ha) "Cirque Du Freak" is done--what a fun time that was. A lot of work, but the good kind. Now I just hope it gets released, and that all my stuff doesn't get cut out, as usual! As of Monday, after a nice 3-week hiatus, I'm on "Night At The Museum 2."

Meanwhile, I finsished another musical monstrosity...whew, this one was a doozy! I'd been wanting to do it for ever but knew I couldn't unless I could get it right. My goal was to do an hommage to the funky/tacky early 70's synth songs, combine elements of all the stuff I love like Perry-Kingsley, "Popcorn," Billy Preston and even the soundtrack to "Tommy." My inspiration was a remix of the song "Kelly Watch The Stars" by Air and old Fatboy Slim tracks. I suppose it's actually a rip-of, but hopefully I added enough of my own touches to make it weirdly familiar but still original. Bonus points if you get all the references! It took a long time to get right and was really complex, so I'm rather proud of it. Hope you enjoy it! Next up, something downtempo...

June 28, 2008

I took part in an art show last weekend. Here's one of the drawings I sold, I called it, "The Frique Family Take A Vacation." I'm proud to say it even made my sister laugh, she's sicker than I thought!

Here's my latest musical monstrosity in the "dancey" vein--I built a song around the acapella vocals of "I'm In Heaven" by N-Trance--except for the vocals it's all me (well, and my synths and samples). The melody is stolen from an old song by Berlin, "Like Flames," which is also where the whistles at the end come from.

By complete contrast, and purley for any thrasther fans, here's one of my mom's favorites (ha ha), a high-speed, hardcore, "who needs cafeine when you have this" tech-nightmare called "Slaughterhouse." It's actually two songs, the second half is a cover of "Outlaw Man" originally done by the Eagles in the 70's. I've never actually heard the song as they did it--I recorded this guy singing in a music class, cut out his guitar and replaced it with "William Orbit"-esque synths, and changed the key from minor to major. And drowned him in reverb, of course! Take some aspirin and enjoy!

June 15, 2008

Good times! Things seem to be going strangely well, which always makes me nervous, ha ha. "Hulk" came out and was great, looks to be a big hit. Working on "Cirque Du Freak" and having a great time. Fun stuff going on outside of work and lots to look forward to. I'm going to be participating in an art show in 2 weeks--my first! Will anyone buy any of my silly drawings, I wonder? Not that I care much, but it'll be interesting all the same.

Lots of projects in the works but nothing really done yet--mostly I've spent my free time doing my drawings, which I'll share more about later when the show is over. My Youtube vids (see link below) seem do be getting a ton of hits, which is awesome. I have a new musical monstrosity in the works but until then here's an oldie but goodie--an old school techno-electro thing I did some years ago. I call it "Kozmic."

May 5, 2008: 1,000 VISITORS!!!!

I can't honestly believe over 1,000 people have visited this page. Who are you? Ha ha...well, at least half of them are me CHECKING my site for all the damn FLAWS in it. Ahh well. Thanks for stopping by, I enjoy knowing I'm infecting my madness on SOMEONE out there, mu hu ha haaaa...

"The Hulk" is done! There for awhile I was wondering if it was ever going to end! But, really, it was only about eight weeks and wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. My co-workers were awesome and I think the project is a good one--guess we'll find out in a month or so. Meanwhile I've been on a 5 week hiatus. It's been fantastic--the highlight, other than *sleeping in, going out every night and being a hedonistic slob* was going up to SF to visit my friend Charles at "Skywalker Ranch." He's working on the new "Indiana Jones" movie there. He says it's really good but that's about all he could tell me. The complex was really beautiful and peaceful, like an oasis in a desert or something. George Lucas knows how to live, I tell ya! No pictures were allowed but I wasn't there for that anyway. I just relaxed and enjoyed hanging out.

Meanwhile, I've been working my tail off on my usual mindless projects. I'm trying to put together a book of my drawings, I finished writing another novel I've been working on for no one to read and, of course, more musical monstrosities. Here's the latest:

I got the vocal acapella of Debbie Harry's latest single, "Two Times Blue" off iTunes. I had a loooong time to kick it around while I was working, so I really enjoyed finally sitting down and doing it. I used my Korg mini for the appegiator and "Reason" for the other sounds. You also may hear some wacky samples I snuck in: "Practice Music" from the soundtrack of "The Trip" is the goofy prolog and ending, "Windy" by the Association and "Guide For The Married Man" contribute the "bah bahs" and the bridge is "The Swinger" by Ann-margret! Not sure why I felt the go-go 60's belonged on this track and not even sure it's working but I like it a lot and hope you enjoy it too. Actually, I thought I heard it playing at "The Abbey" last night--hey, things move fast these days! Here's the track, which I dedicate to Francisco in Argentina, because he's crazy about Blondie (well, maybe not THIS song but whatever, ha ha):

So,I've also been busy posting my other tracks as videos on Youtube. We'll see how many hits I get...and how long until someone sends me a cease and desist order! Meanwhile, here are all my videos on Youtube for your perusal:

For the sake of convenience I've listed all the (free and downloadable, folks! I just do this for laughs, not for profit!) tracks I've put up so far WITHOUT all my annoying comments attached. If you want to know more about these songs, or my rants that I attached to them as I was creating them throughout the year, you can go to my old homepage (which looks pretty much like this one only more full!). First the songs:

Here's the link to my old homepage:

Up next: back to work on May 12th for..."Cirque Du Freak!" !!!! Until next time...