FAWM : Tim Fatchen (@timfatchen)

Tim Fatchen

@timfatchenMod

Songs

Joined

2007

Adelaide AU
www.flyingtadpole.com

BLOGGERY: 20 March 23 ...and this is the Last Blog For FAWM 2023. Yes, it's back to the Flat Renovation Treadmill, this time with the knee-reconstructed Macci the Milch Dog in residence. Asbestos, dust, concrete, white ant remnants, hard labour. What's not to like? And it pains me that I had to turn down a $0.00 fully operating 2-manual organd with a full pedalboard because nowhere can I fit it (and I would have to start practising Bach again, I admit.)

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.

No room for much bloggery right here, so updates are going here and past issues into the soundboard.

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@timfatchenMod 1d

@timfatchenMod 1w

BLOGGERY: 5 March 23 and winding down and out, earlier than normal. Family about to come and stay, then a dash into Victoria to pick up the convalescent Macci the Milch Dog and her titanium knee, with appallingly strict instructions re exercise and no stair work, and then defabrication as a prelude to renovation, Again. and that, friends is March wiped out. I'm now grateful for the squidding opportunities in February! oh...and...333 song comments given. I'm only half a beast, clearly.

@timfatchenMod 2w

BLOGGERY: 27 February 23 There's nothing chaotic or disorganised or accelerating-entropic about my existence. No, every movement, every moment, every activity is planned down to the timiest of details, nothing is unexpected, nothing is unplanned. We lead a fully organised life here, where time stretches equably with no bump, hiccup or glitch. A time for everything and everything in its due time, Nothing out of place, No sudden changes of programme. No departure from our carefully constructed, unvarying schedule.

@datsch 3w

Thanks for your nice comment, Tim. 'Orchitis' sounds like a painful disease. If it's the one where you get a compulsion in the summer months to spend hours rummaging around squinting at the ground on patches of downloand looking for rare orchids, going half blind in the process, then I definitely have contracted it! I do struggle with that genre field when uploading for streaming; some of them don't even have prog or trad folk as an option. You're either Folk or Rock or Jazz. But I'm not sure it really matters much what you put so I try not to lose sleep over it any more.

@deadhead 3w

Thanks for listening to Without Common Language! The "viola" is actually a violin. Sean normally plays the viola on our Lavish Dude songs, but he got a bit busy the last couple of weeks so I decided to take a crack at the part on violin instead. Unfortunately, my "two songs" of experience on the violin don't quite compared to the professional training Sean has on the viola 🙂

I think it ended up sounding weird from a combination of a real old bow that wasn't great to begin with, and well, you know, my lack of being able to play! It definitely leads to an interesting sound.

Either way, thanks for checking out our song!

@karan 3w

Dear Tim, I am indeed very familiar with Julian of Norwich and it was her famous "all shall be well" that inspired parts of my song! I feel it's no cheap consolation at all but points to a dimension where our earthly measures of what is well and what is not shall be transcended.

The billionaires' yachts must be very upsetting. I detest such blatant display of privilege, which always comes at the espense of others ... So hooray to the smaller vessels, and may they sail safely! In particular yours ... 😊

@musicsongwriter 4w

Thank you Tim, the same goes for you and for everyone in my mind. A comment for a comment is what I've always tried to avoid. I love your music and I would always listen to it regardless. I think I should write it on my wall that people shouldn't feel they need to comment on my music if I commented on theirs, only if they feel they would like to. I'm always happy to see comments but I would like to avoid anyone feeling they have to or need to...

@billwhite51 5w

thank you for your message. at last we at least received citizenship and an american passport for my daughter. you wouldnt believe all we went through to prove i was the father, everything short of a dna test. now my wife is working with an organization that will help determine which of the classes she took in getting a degree as a GP will be accepted as meeting the requirements neccessary for a nursing certificate. the biggest problem facing us is the insane increase in housing costs, as well as my wife's addiction to overspending which she will have to curtail. at least i will be able to start earning moneyto supplement my social security. there is really nothing i can do in peru that pays enough to be worthwhile, as my social security checks are equal to four times the average wage here..but in the states i should be able to get even a crappy job on a newspaper and ir shouldnt be hard finding a spot playing in a cover band on weekends.

@berni1954 5w

Glad you liked my song "String 'em up!". You are right to warn about the dangers of sardonic satire. Did you ever see "Till Death do us Part". It was a supposedly comic 1960s sitcom in which the central character, Alf Garnett (played by a staunchly left-wing Jewish actor) was supposed to be abhorrent and rejected by the audience for his racist and chauvinistic views. Instead, he became the darling of the very people who I portray in my song - small minded bigots. Slogans were painted on walls saying: "Alf tells it like it is!" or else. "Alf says what people are really thinking!" Sigh... I think a similar thing happened in the American version with a central character based on Garnett called Archie Bunker. Satire is often too subtle for the likes of my narrator to recognise as such.

@mishykatz 5w

Yah getting picked up by Crucial was quite exhilarating, however the song was actually a cover of Harry Nilsson's "Think About Your Troubles" one of my childhood faves and one I just happened to choose to cover and submitted when they opened up to allowing you to pitch covers. Its possible it will never go anywhere but it feels good anyway and sounds good to brag about. The response was from a VP and she invited me to participate in some sort of program for writing to briefs, my producer/collaborator has gotten onboard for that, so I am thinking about that, meanwhile I intend to pitch some originals and see what happens. No real agenda other than a sync of any kind would be a bucket list check. Hallelujah for FAWM for helping me get here from where I was seven years ago wow.

@vikkiflawith 7w

*Puts her head inside the refrigerator for better acoustics and sings "TIM, oh TIM, did ye walk the dogs today... or did they run away... I told ye before to feed them bacon - I thought ye heard, but was mistaken... I hope ye write some rubbishy songs... wishin' ye a fine '23 fawm." (Sorry to hear about the funeral, good the flat reno's are done (I just had to move (gah), what is IN all those boxes (there's another song). Get some sleep! Check back on you soon :) )

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