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Tim Fatchen

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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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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 organ with a full pedalboard because nowhere can I fit it (and I would have to start practising Bach again, I admit.)
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BLOGGERY: 13 March 23 Okay, back from teh 1000km Macci the Milch Dog pickup, she's now sleeping on the makeshift bed in tehround floor music studio with me (stairs aren't allowed) and I'm more or less occupied, have got the commenting over 400 (just) trying to clean up the post-FAWM mess before yet more renovation mess and ...sheesh...I just don't want to get up...
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Your gmail account seemed to work, but let me know if you need me to try something else.
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Hi, Tim. My emails to you keep bouncing back, even the one without an attachment. Can you whitelist me or give me another option as to where to send the mp3? Thanks!
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Tim, So glad I hopped back on FAWM to check messages. Thank you so much for your advice and support about singing your own songs. It was a big leap for me, and I'm pleased to hear the "FAWM Friendly" comments! A good place for a debut. Thanks for the encouragement.
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Hi, Tim. Thanks for the suggestions about future collaborations. I will do my best to remember them for next FAWM. Also, thanks for tossing out the idea of a collaboration in the first place. It was a great experience and it's always a good idea to move out of one's comfort zone.
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@beacon
Awesome! Let's chat when 5090 comes around.
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@beacon
Hey Tim, listened to your Slide (alt.callahans reel) on your YouTube channel and it was amazing. What amazing talent you bring to instrumentals. As you seem to like my voice, if you'd like to do a collab in 50/90 or next FAWM, I'd be up for it!
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Thanks Tim! I hope to participate in more skirmishes in the future. It was a fun challenge!
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Hi Tim,
Yes, that would be fantastic. Look forward to hearing it!
Simon
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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.
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Thanks for your comments on 'My Cheating Dog And My Sodding Wife', and 'Zombies Would Come Alive'. They were both lyrics that were a lot of fun to write!
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Hi Tim, thanks very much for your comment on Stand Together :-)
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@cts
....is that the best way to prepare so that the texture isn't so off-putting. I tend to get thrown off by how "slimy" the texture is. Their suction pods don't help either!
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Appreciate it. Thanks
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@muz
Thanks for the heads up. I'm immersing myself in lantern mythology so as to do the remaining lantern songs justice!
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BLOGGERY: I March 23 (my time. Still not yet midnight at the IDL!) Good things after total upside-down processing of time and intentions, was able to generate yet more songs. Well, good for me. And now cleaning up odds left over or which I'd forgotten. A tasty meal can be made from leftovers, provided they haven't gone mouldy in the meantime,
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@jamkar
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Holy crap I guess you got going...34! Thanks for the listen on Let it Rain, I think it is a great metaphor for so much in life and yes especially in the desert...looking forward to listening to some of your prolifery
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Hi Tim, thanks for your response to my forum post (and your wonderful comment on my final song of FAWM 2023). I'm glad I could help bring a special aspect of FAWM into focus for you. I also miss some elements of the internet of old, and this feels like I've stumbled upon a part of it. Like a Lost World with dinosaurs roaming around or something.
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Hey, Tim - I was a full-time FAWMer this month. I'd love to collaborate sometime (maybe on something that bubbles up out of the hymnal.) I'll bug you about it at 5090 or next FAWM or sometime.
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Just had a listen to a stack of your songs while I was doing laundry. I'll go back and comment on the individuals. but wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed the TF channel. Hope I'll get to the rest before they turn the lights out.
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Well now, for someone who started late you aced the month!!
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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.
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May the bees also bee with you 🐝
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@crisp1
Sorry you missed out on the pub club lyric. But Berni did a wonderful job with it. In fact, I've been humming it off and on today.
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Happy now??
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@datsch
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.
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Thanks for the wonderful response to Monkey Brains. Much appreciated! Looks like you’ve been quite prolific this year. I’m behind on my listening as I’m behind on my posting but I look forward to listening to more of your songs after the madness ends. Let me know if you have any faves your itching to share.
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Thx a lot for comments! Much appreciated!
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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!
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BLOGGERY: 26 February 23 Amazed at how this has turned out from a late and bad start. But now, caught again, two collabs to finish and I have to depart, or at least become very intermittent. Not going to be available March. Trying to get commenting over 300 but that'll be it. And as midnight approaches...301 listens/reads/comments, and a triple fawm!
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@clioem
thx so much for your comment on Erratica!
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Thanks for checking out my lyric! An impressive outpouring of creativity here. Props!
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It was a male singer, but thanks for introducing me to @fearlessflight2014 !
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@audrey
Thank you so much for listening and leaving such great comments on a couple of my songs. I really appreciate it.
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Wow! Absolutely gorgeous! So moving. The music is perfect as you capture the movement and the sentiment so beautifully. Thank you for this gift!!!
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Tim, thank you for all your positive comments. Looks like you had great fawm.
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@scubed
Tim, thanks so much for your generous comments on my songs, especially for the lovely, lovely things you said about “We Waltzed on the Banks of the Hudson.” That song is definitely a product of FAWM’s magic - I’ve cherished that memory for years but never wrote about it - and today the song popped out of nowhere. Thank you again!!!
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{waving back belatedly also}
Frankly I haven’t been here much or doing much of anything to attract notice. But you are going gangbusters!!
Thanks for sharing the image of your garnet-winged love! That’s quite a long history you have! :)
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BLOGGERY: 22 February 23 Got the long-waiting collabs done. Time to turn to new stuff, now the druids and their sickles have been told to bring wine into the grove instead.
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Okay ir is yours! Yea! I will mark it taken!
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That sounds great! Of course there is a lot of music out there and I don’t try to become famous or make a living out of it, but as you said, it’s nice if your music finds its way out there, a bit of appreciation and maybe a coffee here and there. Thank you for helping!
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Haha! Yea I'm great at doing skirmishes ... as long as you don't look too closely at when I did them or how long I actually took. Glad we both made this one - and congrats on winning twice over!
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Thank you so much! It means a lot to me, because I put so much effort in that one, my ears are still tired. I will definitely think about synching. Never did that before, but it’s my aim for this year never the less to get my songs out there.
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@johns
Thanks for your comments, Tim.
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@karan
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 ... 😊
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Thanks for the encouragement and feedback! It's always a bit nerve-wracking working in isolation, hoping something is working out. Thanks! 👍
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Thanks, Tim, for the kind words on my half of our collaboration. It was a lot of fun! Great lyrics!
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Thanks so much for listening to My Summer of Love, and your kind comments! I’m glad you enjoyed it 🤗

ETA: The bit at 2:00 is meant to sound like...a distant (in time and space) radio playing Donna Summer's I Feel Love. So it seems like I accomplished that somewhat!
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@nadine
Thanks for your comment!
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Hi, Tim. Please disregard the "dulled out" part of my previous message. I forgot to set it back to public when I updated it. Seems good to go now, thanks to the FAWM hivemind. Sorry for the delay (and the music!). Enjoy!
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Hi! Calamari Rhymezone is up, although it's still appearing as dulled out on our songlists. Not sure why. But see if you can have a listen. My apologies in advance!
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Hey Tim, thanks so much for saying Hi on my profile and for listening to my songs! So glad to hear there is relatable content in there! Will definitely check out your (ill-fated?) musical attempt and look forward to hearing more of your stuff here as well! Would be happy to keep in touch!
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BLOGGERY: 19 February 23 A slowdown on the writing front due to other life happening. Not done yet though. Two collabs almost ready. No new ideas yet.
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"Easy to achieve such ice" - ha, I love that phrase. I'm a master at achieving that ice, sometimes!
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Thanks 😀 Luckily enough it's an interlude in an album otherwise made up of Nu-Metal, so there's only so much chill one could reasonably expect 😂
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@suziek
Thanks for your kind review of Tripping Around The Sun…
Regarding the doubling… Not sure if there is tech term other than “internal rhyme” , but that doesn’t seem exactly correct, either. In Hip-Hop Music it’s a “multi” but that’s not quite it… how about we call it - mini-multi
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Hey Tim! Thanks so much for your comment on the "duty" #skirmish :-D (btw - wow: 21 songs in 21 days, man. That's no mean feat. I'm still wrestling with letting the ideas be embryonic/unfinished and moving onto the next. But that's a tough ask thanks to good-old ADHD hyperfocus 😆)
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Hi @timfatchen, yes, I'll be able to set the lyrics to music. Just struggling with it. But I will get it done!
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a little bit of lonely now has the demo with vocal
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appreciate comments about Main street
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@kiffa
Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment on "Easter Sunday". It was important to me to tell that story the right way, and it means a lot to me that people seem to feel that I succeeded in that.

And congrats on your FAWM win!
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I love the emotion in your voice that made it perfect!
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BLOGGERY: 15 February 23 It seems the pink was too much, and #squidcore has finally released me. What with all the shambles this month, at least I'll make the 14 songs!!! And I've picked up my listening a bit, finally. Tomorrow we have power outages, I suspect, as it's a blowup day. So acoustic practice, possibly. Or not.
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Tim, the music is up for Light Still Shines The Same at https://write.fawm.org/songs/16909
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Thanks for listening and commenting on The Slump - it's good to know the harsh folk voice works, I usually avoid making angry songs as I've been told I sound like a girl guide and it stuck with me!
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Yes, please do!
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@karan
Do you know where in Devon and Somerset your ancestors lived? If there's anything I can so to help you with your research on the German part of your family, just let me know!
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@phylo
Oh, Tim. It's brilliant! I love it. Well done, Sir! Go ahead and post this, please!
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Do I have to promise to write about squid to get a collab this year?
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@sollis
Thanks Tim, but easy on the toasty summer talk! You're making some of us very jealous! Fancy swapping places for a while?
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@phylo
Absolutely! If you’d like to take a stab at Inside looking out, I’d be honored! Thanks
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@pippa
Haha, Tim. You found me out. I've written A LOT of tunes from road signs! Because they immediately give me a rhythm, and then, away we go. I thought of making a roadsides album but I have too many...
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Congrats on the win! You work fast, friend. 💯
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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...
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Hi Tim, you are very welcome. Please don't worry about commenting. One comment from you has so much more meaning than any of mine. I often don't know what to write, I just love what I hear on your page but I don't always know how to express it. Thank you for your songs. They are always meaningful and very special.
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BLOGGERY: 14 February 23 Yes, Valentine's Day here but the USof A, being a bit slow, hasn't turned us pink yet. Squidcore seems to have saved this FAWM for me but the compulsion is starting to cause domestic friction. I need to hide my tentacles, perhaps.
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Thanks for checking in. We're ok - I think the quake was deep enough that it just sent a few rolling waves our way. Nothing damaged and just a few items on the floor.
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I haven't really lived anywhere else, so I can't compare. But I do like it here.
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I get your meaning now! But i didn't take any offense, either way. ;) And now I want a piano on a boat!
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Thanks for listening to "Days of Kohl and Rosaries" -- it intrigued me to think about what you said about the uke seeming a bit odd, since that's all I feel I play well enough to write with. Now I am kind of hearing piano. Better start taking lessons on that again. ;)
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Go for it! 😀 Thank you!!!
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@mikeb
Thanks for the listen and comments on my latest rock opera song(s)!
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I've crowbarred her in!
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Thanks for your comment on 'Expectamus Dominum'. I think, in trying not to be too obvious, I've been way too obscure. The lyrics are about a visit to Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires (where Expectamus Dominum is written above the gates). The first three verses are descriptions of random (but spectacular) graves. The fourth is about Eva Peron's.
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that is pretty close to where you live, isnt it? it shows a lot of respect to have midway road intersecting yorktown road is it true that the australian soldiers were treated shabbily by the british?
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BLOGGERY: 10 February 23 LATE EDITION #squidcore is here but oh! I'm so out of practice esp. guitars, serves me right for not touching them for four months. And memo to self: take the ibuprofen BEFORE attempting an hour of fast piano. Still haven't got to much listening and commenting yet. But Feb is starting to look better than it did 2 days ago...
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regarding midway..both my dad and grandfather were there on the uss enterprise.
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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.
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I saw Suzi Live Nov 1972 she was second on the bill to Slade but before Thin Lizzy!
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hurry up i have not got all day! oh hmmmm yes i have!
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i am a bit of a compulsive listener anyway but my wife has been away for well over a week and i have the house and my new studio to myself so Fawm has been my occupation!
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Thanks for the Killer Sheep feedback!
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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.
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Thank you Tim. Sheila created her beautiful lyrics. We haven't posted them yet as we are working on the demo. I'll let you know when our collaboration is posted. It is always amazing to collaborate with Sheila. I hope you are enjoing a wonderful Sunday. If you ever have a chance, I'd be delighted to collaborate with you.
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Thanks Tim for your kind comments on my Little Miss Riding Hood and Mealworm lyrics. Andrew Taylor's working on turning Mealworm into a song, but no reason why there couldn't be 2 interpretations of it if you still fancy it and end up having time
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Yep, I can see the lyrics. Nice work! I'll put something together over the next week or so and let you know when I'm done. I need to teach myself how to write a musical number first!
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LOL on the vloggers parody. But it seems I got the part about 1000 vloggers wrong - they weren't all vloggers - most were groupies! I can't really wrap my head around anybody being a vlogger groupie! Yeah, I peek in to see what a certain ship is like or port is like and it helps when I find a channel that is pleasant enough but I don't really want to see the camera pointed up their nose - lol!
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@pippa
Hi Tim. If you'd like to add recorder or whistle, that would be wonderful. Yes please.
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You make good music so anyone would take you! 😄 Thanks for the comment!
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Also, thanks for the listens and comments on Wilhelm Scream and Farm to Table. I appreciate the kind words!
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Sounds good to me! I'm up for a collaboration.
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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.
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PS do you need to borrow a clean ukulele?
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Thanks for dancing the Cranberry Soiree with me Mucho appreciation
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BLOGGERY: 10 February 23. Back, and starting to at least generate lyrics. Trying for #slothcore but this squid fixation relapse, caused by the Wallaroo (South Oz) jetty, seems to be overwhelming me. #squidcore? I think I'll shut the cerebral processes down and just let Flying Tadpole loose....
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@karan
It is such a pity that Australia is so very far away! I'd love to visit all these beautiful places, and invite you and your wife for a coffee there! 😍
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Thanks for the comments on no comment! Looking fwd to exploring more of your music.
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BLOGGERY: 8 February 23. Lost week 1, yesterday and today are writeoffs, tomorrow a long day on the road, Friday a recovery from that , then I reckon I've got 10 days. I'm missing the time for listening/commenting too. Not A Good FAWM this time. And I appear to have developed a squid fixation.
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@rowanb
Thank you for your comment on my song Striptease. I agree, and I think I may be inching towards my own genre of music called Grannyrap!
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i didn't see that you had wanted to do music for the three chords and the tooth song (it was a note on sw's home page, not the song page) and i went ahead and set it to music... but hey, would love to hear another version so if the spirit and enamel move you, by all means, set it to your music! :) ,meanwhile , hope all is well, old friend!
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The tooth song is up: https://write.fawm.org/songs/15517

And no worries about PointlessFrog. I concede I scarcely have time to write lyrics under my main account this year. Not that it appears to be stopping me.
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@phylo
Thanks for your kind comment on my song "You"! I didn't try to put down my efforts, it's just after I finished it, I was struck by how cliche it was by love song standards. I meant every word though. Congrats on 50 years! That's really something!
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@mikeb
Thanks for the comment on 'Ghosts of Copper Mountain'. I never knew anything about copper mining until doing some research for this song, and had to ignore the 'open pit mining' info I found!
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It's a rented alto flute that I've been taking lessons on for a year. Overhead mic (eBay special) and a touch of ambient reverb. 😊
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We can still take a contract. I plan to write many more. Just pretend you've done 35 already, and let's go!
Thanks for the comment. :)
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Oh, I just read that you are away for a week cool-cool-cool....
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I'm not hassling or rushing you, just checking in to make sure I'm on your list. I have a super busy weekend and I probably won't get onto anything new now til midway through next week.
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@karan
Oh Tim, I am SO sorry that life throws so many roadblocks into your FAWM this year! Please know that your presence here is very much appreciated, no matter how many songs you l'll manage to write!
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BLOGGERY 6 February 23. Could it get worse? yes it could. Home for two days and it appears I've now also lost the last week in February and the first two weeks in March....sigh... :(
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Hi Tim, thanks for your comments on my song "This is how I start over." Really appreciate it :)
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Come on Tim! I can't be the only one writing rubbish this month :D
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Thanks for commenting on my song "Choose".
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@karan
Hello Tim, I hope you are well - it looks as if you're very busy ... I hope you can be back soon and catch up with FAWM. We're waiting for you! 😀
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Hey Tim!!... Lookin forwards to hearing a tune or two from you!!
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Not my bag either, but I was asked to write one so thought I would splat it dead centre of the genre.
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BLOGGERY: 31 January 23 Away for a week. So much for carefully keeping February free. It Is What It Is. DOn't expect repleis for a while folks.
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Tick tick tick
Where are you?
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Safe travels and look forward to your return!
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Safe travels and I look forward to your fawmery this year!
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@clioem
Happy to see you here again!
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Hey there! have a great FAWM :)
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Hey Tim
I'm here and actually not at death's doorstep this year. And not being pulled into quicksand 😀
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Hey, there! I'm dropping by to say "Hi!" Have a great FAWM! I can't wait to hear what you come up with.
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@roddy
Back again!Have a good FAWM
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*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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Hi Tim. I just read about a funeral in your "bloggery" and I hope all is fine, at least as much as it can be under such circumstances. In the light of a tragic loss it might not sound "appropriate" to wish you a wonderful FAWM (though I would have liked to do that so much), but to ask you to accept my condolences and to wish you the strength that is needed in moments like these...
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@thetau
Hey Tim, Just dropped by to say hi. Have a great FAWM. I'll be listening
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Hey @timfatchen
Cool that you’ve rebuilt a banjo. I did the same with an old banjo uke, even put a real hide head on it.
Looking forward to hearing your songs this year.
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thank you for yout concern, mkost of our problems are simply inconvenience. the rioting mostly takes place in the center of the city, although there have been some events, likee the burning og a historic building, nearby. but they havent been kicking down the doors of residences yet. prices have tripled and movement outside of our home is severely limited, but we are in no immediate danger.
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I'm intrigued to hear how the whistles sound.

Bad? Basses? Surely that's an oxymoron? 🤣
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BLOGGERY: 25 January 23 In true TF/FT chaotic fashion, I'm going to miss the first week of FAWM =8-< I am soooooo...words fail me.
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That's fipplin' great news! I hope you're going to be using ALL of them? 😎
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Looking forward to both your beautiful music and your merry mischief making this year!
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@ryuu
re:collab – my voice is a bit rusty, but I'd love it!
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@audrey
Hi Tim. Have a great FAWM!
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Thank God for February FAWM!
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@ryuu
Hi Tim! Have a wonderful FAWM!
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Happy FAWMing Tim!!
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Hi Tim ‘n Tadpole! No fair, I finally clear a whole month, give or take a day, and you’re not going to be here for the first week. Oh well, I can wait, but I won’t promise not to sit here tapping my toe and counting the days. 😉
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@beacon
Looking forward to what you and that crazy tadpole will come up with! I'll check out your Spotify!
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lol pretty much! Even my W&W is almost black this year! haha!
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Just another piano song to write to, anything you’d like. Picture my voice and style in your head and see what comes out. :)
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BLOGGERY: 23 January 23 ...well lookitt that. I have an album "A little more incidental music--Tim Fatchen" releasing 26 Jan 23 on Spotify, Apple Music, etcetc. All FAWM/5090 derived, some from years back. Go spin on spotify and rack a few more thousandths of a dollar into the till!
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@tan482
Happy FAWM fellow Australian! Hope your month is productive!
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And we’re back again! Have a great creative FAWM!
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Boo! Better get ur best coffee goin' cuz it's gonna be a ride this year, me thinks!! Happy FAWM 2023, Tim!
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Hi Tim. Happy Fawm. Looking forward to hearing your new songs.
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Happy FAWM, Tim! No blog this year? I look forward to your thoughtful comments and music!!
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@mikeb
Happy FAWM 2023!
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Someone else starts FWMku every FAWM now, which is, shall I say “groovy” with me. It brings a warmth that some silly thing I started is enjoyed that much by others that they can’t wait for it to come around each year. It might be the only thing I’ve done in my life, besides my kids, that has a little bit of lasting-ness like that!
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Hi Tim! Will put my order in early for some tasty piano!
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We made another trip around the sun! Thanks for moderating!
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Happy FAWM, Tim! Looking forward as always to see what whimsy, poignancy, and idle merriment emerge from your creative spirit.
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Always a highlight! I am looking forward to hearing what you (and the other you) create this year. Welcome back to the madness! :)
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@scubed
Wonderful to see you again, Tim! I look forward to hearing your new work. Happy FAWMing!
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@max
Thanks for being one of the super friendly moderators on FAWM. Have fun Tim.
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@phylo
Can't wait for your lovely compositions @timfatchen!
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Hey Tim! Looking forward to hearing your songs this year :)
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Tim, thank you so much for all the help with testing and debugging the website! Have a fantastic FAWM, I'm looking forward to your songs!
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Hi Tim! Looking forward to hearing new stuff from you this year.
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