Happy 20th Anniversary, id
id Software literally changed my life when I got out of college and likely has led me to where I am today. Thanks, guys.
They have a 30 minute video that you just have to watch.
Tell Me about your Adventure, Klem…
Ok, maybe a little too much of a play on words. Mark Klem and I along with some very talented friends have completed the first two songs of a small "starter project" that will hopefully lead to some more content.
Tell Me was the first song that we worked on which Mark had lying around.
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The second one is Adventure, which is still in production. This version is the "B-Side" synth version that I was just having some fun with. The guitars you hear on this version are done by my good friend from College Mike Ruscio.
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Thy name is idiom…
There's this saying that pretty much defines my life. No matter what I do it seems like it's the wrong thing to do.
My wife was coming home today from working really hard in Spokane. I knew we were doing yard work, and I knew her parents were coming over to get some lilac, etc. Now, I'm the first to tell you I'm not a green thumb. I despise yard work. But I knew that we were going to be doing some weeding, I was supposed to do some spraying, and I really wanted to impress her that I was out at least trying to show that I knew what I was doing.
Instead of just doing what I was supposed to do, I decided to pull some "weeds." Now, I use the term "weeds" thusly: any plant-like material that isn't near any other plant-like material planted on purpose. Meaning, if I see something away from the rest of the group, I'm pulling the sumbitch. My wife did the same thing a few weeks earlier... she called them "suckers" or something like that... meaning a plant pee'd into the wind and an offspring sprouted up where we didn't want one.
I'm out there attempting my best, pulling this and that, got the spray stuff down from the garage, and I wanted to look really "husband-like" when she drove up (she's kinda hard to please, you see). As it turns out, I pulled the lilac that she wanted for her family. I didn't know, it was growing 6 feet away from any other plant. I figured it was a straggler, and I was doing my due diligence getting my Herbert Spencer on.
I'm writing this post because I got summarily dismissed to the house lest I fuck something else up. Sigh...
Love, of All Things
It's not like me to post something so personal. Maybe I'm just getting older, or my own life experiences are equating to me thinking about such things more often. But I was thinking about how to articulate love into a metaphor that could be universally understood. Here's what I came up with. Read all about it after the jump (click the title).
Reduce Heat and Simmer
Still got the proverbial (music) "bun in the oven" happening at Studio Tolwyn. I'm currently on vacation and although I've received word that the drum tracks have been baked and are awaiting transfer to my FTP. So, hopefully (perhaps) as early as Monday all will be ready for the guitar stuff (if our guitarist is available).
Tolwyn and Klem at it Again
Back in another life, I used to write music for video games. I got involved in doing so by listening to Mark Klem's great stuff for Doom II's Momento Mori. Lately, Mark and I have been conversing on Facebook and recently, I've started to rework some of Mark's original songs. These aren't for video games, kids, but actual real songs, the kind you might hear on a radio, at a college radio station, or maybe just when you're trying to impress family members.
I don't have anything really to share with you right now, but hopefully soon, if we can get JD Herrera to lay down some additional guitar work, and we can nail down the arrangement and the mix (right now it's more in "demo tape" status).
Keep coming back to this site, as you don't want to miss anything!
New Song Update
Just wanted to post a note that there are some new songs that I've done over the past 6 months or so. I think there needs to be more people hit by buses, but I'm just saying.
Hopefully you all enjoy!
Super-sized, Long-lasting, and Built to Last
This is one of the best videos and remixes I've ever seen. Being a long-time George Carlin fan, this is just amazing.
I Remember My Place
Warning: I start many sentances with prepositional phrases. Sorry about that.
I've been pretty blessed musically in my life. From the 80s, I was a camp counselor at the Lake Wenatchee YMCA Camp and was told that I changed the lives of some kids. In the 1990s I had the fortune of being able to leverage my home recording studio to write music for video games and challenge my musical skills. In college, I got a (minor) degree in music. My nine-year-old is now taking piano.
I have a Roland D50 keyboard that is older than most of you reading this post, I have a Kurzweil K2000 keyboard, the 5th production keyboard off the line (#2 was Stevie Wonder). I've had a recording "studio" for 28 years. I don't do this for a living, I do it for fun.
In college, my friend Mike and I tried to be recording artists. At the time, I would tell you I couldn't sing my way out of a wet-paper sack. I still don't think I can, but friends and acquaintances close to me now say I can. So, I wanted to share one of my favorite songs I've ever recorded. It's a song by Chris Rice called "Other Side of the Radio." Enjoy!
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Backing off of Facebook
Although I know I don't spend an inordinate amount of time on Facebook, I've realized that it just isn't for me. Maybe it isn't for anyone around my age. I've had this site for over 16 years, and I know I've been neglecting it long enough. Facebook is great for High School reunions, maybe finding that buddy of yours you grew up with, but using it as a blogging platform is sketchy at best.
As my friend Colin Cowherd says, "I try to avoid sketch." My music and thoughts should be centralized to one platform, and that platform has always been this site.
Of the four releases of Tolwyn-Klem, which is your favorite?
- Her Song (50%, 1 Votes)
- Blackbird (50%, 1 Votes)
- Adventures (0%, 0 Votes)
- Tell Me (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 2
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