FAWM : Tim Fatchen (@timfatchen)

Tim Fatchen

@timfatchenMod

Songs

Joined

2007

Adelaide AU
www.flyingtadpole.com

BLOGGERY: 2 October 2023. Soooo out of it I missed the site closing. I had some plans to write and listen before disappearing for a month but no...it was back to Port Augusta for an urgent quick fix on yet another flat. we're hoping that when we finish (mid-November) that'll be it for a while, and we've threatened terrible things to our long term tenants if they die on us and force us up to refit their flats early...

I regret my inability this year to listen as once I could. Perhaps next year...?

BIO:
Influences: Classical , Percy Grainger, Mike Oldfield, Enya, Kate Bush, Cecil J Sharp, US Musicals, Gilbert & Sullivan, Tom Lehrer

Tim Fatchen: nice, polite, quiet, writes serious and often soothing music, good dinner guest.

Flying Tadpole (songs marked [FT]): anarchic ratbag, writes irritating and often nasty satirical rubbish, good kennel cleaner.

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@timfatchenMod 2d

BLOGGERY: 30 August 2023 Escaping durance vile aka flat renovation at Pt Augusta tomorrow. Looks like there may yet be another September run, depending on when the carpet people have finished, to furnish and finish bits. Haafta say, I'm sooooooo past this but needs to be done. Oh the nightmare of refitting taps and things. And hardboard sizes. And hinges. Reality: building stuff made in the metric era does not repeat not, not ever, properly fit buildings built to Imperial or US measurement systems. Music? Laughter hollow, ho ho ho and ho, to quote The Internet Opera.

@headfirstonlyMod 1w

Ha - I must admit to a certain fondness for Lynch's Dune, even though Kyle and Sir Patrick appeared to be the only ones taking things seriously (and of COURSE I'm going to love the fact that Gurney's baliset was a Chapman Stick with a bongo drum gaffa-taped to it). But if you think Lynch's version was a mess, you should watch the Thai "extended edition" DVD I've got which fills in the gaps with naff concept art and a lugubrious voiceover, and lasts for nearly three hours. And it's still better than the two mini-series, which were quite frankly, car-crash television. The guy they got to play Gurney Halleck was an ex-boxer, and dear God, it shows.

@thedustcollector 2w

<3 see, that would be nice, but unfortunately my brain is being a dick 😆. I feel bizarrely unable to construct music right now, and trying to prove otherwise has been a hard uphill slog against myself this whole 50/90! I'm at various places on seven different songs, though, so that's... something, I guess? Even if it's looking unlikely that I'll finish any by Oct 1. I'm hoping to work on some of them during FAWM.

And I know it's not close to your normal output, but I think it's excellent that you have seven finished songs, given everything you've been dealing with or healing from <3

@timfatchenMod 12w

BLOGGERY: 8 July 2023 Over the years, of which there are now too many, I've always adjured people to post it, regardless. For the first time in way over a decade, I'm not doing this. Reason: I'm relearning using mutliple synths and multiple keyboards, and the various tryouts are 7 minute technical exercises, some zsuccesful, some not. But basically, I'm so fed up with the world that I seem to ahve run out of constructive things to say with the music. It will come back, I'm sure. Perhaps Winter Has Come...

@billwhite51 13w

thnaks for you comment on the next voice. i wasnt really addressing the writing for posterity trope, but was partly inspired by a scene in one of those first planet of the apes sequels in which the apes discover the bomb...and i minagined in hundred of years maybe, after the human race becomes completely robotic, and all out history has been wiped from the computers, that somewhere somehow a trove of recordings of humans singing songs they have written about their condition is discovered and restored. add to this the possibility that we may be the last batch of humans to actually engage in such activities, even though the platforms for distributing our work have been seriously diminished. why do we keep doing it? maybe to tell the people of the future who we were.