Influences:   Elliott Smith, Guided By Voices, Pixies, Gillian Welch, Neil Innes, etc

My long, sordid history of speed-writing and speed-recording and speed-pseudo-mixing and speed-pretending-to-master songs to fit annual lyrical themes:

2022 FAWM COMPLETE - 14 songs about crap that happened in 2021
2021 FAWM INCOMPLETE - 8 songs about crap that happened in 2020
2020 FAWM INCOMPLETE - 5 drinking songs
2018 FAWM INCOMPLETE - 5 songs about globetrotting
2016 FAWM COMPLETE - 14.5 songs about New York City
2015 FAWM COMPLETE - 14 songs about Ballard, Seattle

2008 NaSoAlMo INCOMPLETE - 11 songs about random Wikipedia articles
2007 NaSoAlMo COMPLETE - 18 songs about NaSoAlMo itself
2006 NaSoAlMo COMPLETE - 12 songs about photography
2005 NaSoAlMo COMPLETE - 9 songs about watermelons

I'm so dependent on the deadline/excuse that I don't work on my own music outside of FAWM. So I try to get each piece as fully-realized as I can during the month. I mostly do short songs with full-band rock/pop/folk arrangements (plus occasional live-take acoustic tunes) and work with live instruments except when Logic plays the drum kit or maestro MIDI conducts a string section. I once had a home studio where I could track rudimentary drums live, but I've never had a home chamber orchestra - not even a rudimentary one.

Very open to constructive criticism - especially mixing tips!

https://soundcloud.com/pugetive

#1		You Can't Wait for Life rock groove	5 Feb 2022
#2		Astoria rock travel dark-humor new-york nyc	3 Feb 2022
#3		Long Winter folk folk-pop breakup moody	2 Feb 2022
#4		Apple Cider instrumental apple-loops samples groove	1 Feb 2022
#5		Down on the Corner folk simple minimalist downer moody	3 Feb 2022
#6		Nobody Gets Out of Here Alive folk folk-pop downer	2 Feb 2022
#7		What Could've Been rock funny dark-humor valentine anti-valentine	2 Feb 2022
#8		She Caught a Bug folk funny covid acoustic meta	2 Feb 2022
#9		Jazz Date pop folk-pop funny	3 Feb 2022
#10		Greet Ya rock alt-rock absurd covid	2 Feb 2022
#11		Old Enough to Know Better short experimental strings	2 Feb 2022
#12		I Caught On short folk folk-pop moody	2 Feb 2022
#13		Kiss Kiss Kitten punk political short	2 Feb 2022
#14		Look What I Happened Upon folk folk-pop	2 Feb 2022

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  @davewermers Mar 2022

  Thanks for the listen and comment!

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  @actualjulian  Feb 2022

  Hey Todd, congrats on finishing this year! Shout out to my fellow New Yorker! I'll get at you on Soundcloud so we can stay in touch. May the FAWM be with you ALWAYS

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  @fiddlerblick80 Feb 2022

  Hey thanks! I’m so glad you enjoyed it!

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  @paulharrison  Feb 2022

  Thanks for listening and commenting on Right About You! I know this is a busy time for FAWMers .

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  @beyondthelimes  Feb 2022

  Thanks for your comment on Tropic of Capricorn. Glad to see I'm not the only sucker for the sound of a Mellotron!

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  @mikeskliar  Jan 2022

  welcome back!