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mastodon 4.7.2Hello, I’m Brian and I make music and pictures in a tiny room with the window open in downtown Toronto.
Lotsa guitars and harmonies.
I dabble in #synth stuff also.
I'm a #freelance #videographer & #editor and a #VoiceOver artist.
Chef School graduate!
#Music #MusicProduction #Video #Cooking #Baking
Teaching myself #StopMotionAnimation
Mastodonian since Apr 12, 2017.
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Joined January 07, 2025
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Sometimes even the most unlikely folks can become friends if they have something in common.
#Friendship
Half of the province is literally on fire and the Prime Minister is out there selling pipelines and scrapping environmental protections. We are unbelievably lucky to be out of the city this week which is simultaneously so nice and rather terrifying as everything is orange and smokey and very hot. I’m outside alternating with worrying and trying to brush up on my very rusty fingerpicking. Stay cool and safe everyone.
#AprilComeSheWill #smoke
Asparagus Now
#SideDishMoviesOrPlays
#HashTagGames
I used to be a boom operator in my 20s and in 1996 I got to spend an AMAZING two months in India working on this absolute garbage movie.
Hilarious that he’s going to put more tariffs on Canada because the smoke is blowing down there, as if this is not all a direct result of the toxic American fart cloud that’s been blowing up here for a hundred years. Anyway we don’t really care because we’ve gotten really good at not buying anything from there or ever travelling there.
And no one wants your creepy American diarrhea food.
Hey there, I’ve spent entirely too much time making a deeply weird 5 minute animated short film for which I will have the WORLD PREMIERE in a few days when it’s fully complete.
In the meantime, here is a rough sneak preview, which, *SPOILER ALERT* occurs at the end of the MAJOR MOTION PICTURE in question.
Enjoy.
I love you.
#bgm #StopMotionAnimation #music #TinySecretFriend #Evil #TheApology
https://makertube.net/w/ijFD6UR8vqrmDdB8wx6BNj
I mean, every day is #MusiciansDay here in my messy lair.
‘Night everyone, from air-quality 11.
Thinking of all the people who have lost their homes. Entire communities, gone, not too far from here.
Hope we can fucking breathe tomorrow.
I’ve never done drag but sometimes I like to think of drag names for myself.
They’re often food related.
like
Crème Pât
or
Barbara Ghanoush
or regional, like this one for Ontario peeps that travel north of Toronto on the 400:
Holland Marsha
Does anyone put out singles anymore?
🙋
Want a brand new song called
Afraid Of Hay?
Look no further.
https://bgmmusic.bandcamp.com/track/afraid-of-hay
Also for this #BandcampFriday : it’s been 10 years since I released my album Lemonade, in March of 2016. A few weeks later, Beyoncé released her surprise album of the same name. My joke at the time was that my next album would be called Abbey Road. Anyway, if you’re so inclined you can get it for 50% off with the code “hay” (no quotes.)
https://bgmmusic.bandcamp.com/album/lemonade
Replying to
@Undercat
Right? We’re kind of baffled that they can’t see this as conflicting with the art and artists creating vibe of their whole mission.
A peaceful morning coffee after cleaning a big mess. You’d never know the wild raccoon bacchanalia that occurred here at 3am. Several plants smashed and uprooted, votive candles tossed and destroyed and part of a HUGE wasps nest that, alarmingly, I can’t find the rest of. That probably would have been a more captivating picture. Anyway there are filthy paw prints everywhere and the dogs are on edge. Somehow we carry on.
Good clean fun over at #DisquietJunto
I grabbed this bleeps and bloops percussion track from Round 1 and added kind of a spooky cowboy thing to it. Who knows what will happen to it in Round 3? It’s in anyone’s hands now! Maybe yours!
New project to me but really digging it.
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0748-and-a-two-2-3/74562/41?u=bgm
Seeing a lot of this sort of thing, and I think if we look into our hearts we'll realize that Americans feeling a bit sad that the entire world hates them are the REAL victims in all of this.
@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world They also make Simon & Patrick and Art & Lutherie guitars! Great guitars!
Olivia (Live 2020 Basement Sweatpants Version)
Back at the start of covid me and one of my kids did a sloppy semi-live version of my song Olivia for an online thing. Beer and many false starts but it’s an honest performance, aside from the bass track I put on after. So sue me. Thankfully you can’t hear the dogs galloping above us upstairs, which is one of the many fun perks of recording in our basement.
Felt saucy, might delete later.
#bgm #Olivia #live #FromABasement #music
Replying to
@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com
I have this Vox 4Watt tube amp that I bought for about $299 Canadian around 10 years ago. I see on the Vox site that it’s not in production anymore but I see them for sale used quite a bit. Nice clean tone, really portable, only 2 knobs, tone and volume plus a knob that switches it to 1 or even 1/4 watt if you want it to break up and distort without being super loud. Shame they aren’t making them anymore. https://voxamps.com/product/ac4tv/
Replying to
@lifewithtrees@mstdn.social
Mostly I’m just trying to dodge my wife’s elbow.
https://makertube.net/w/2tDzKoW3J5oxEnTtuNUXxf
Replying to
@strayhorse@c.im
I’ve got this mic!
I got it from Long & McQuade a few years ago. It’s OK! It’s kind of UA’s version of the Shure SM7b, so it’s sort of a broadcasty/podcast close-talking mic. I’ve used it on some voiceover stuff and under snares. I grabbed a desk-boom stand thing so I always have it beside me if I get vocal ideas, so I don’t have to set up a mic stand. Decent mic for the money! And you can use UA mic modelling. Doesn’t sound like a large diaphragm condenser at all though, obviously.
Replying to
@nigelharpur @elsemusic
Absolutely.
I used to joke that I’d be the last person on earth who’s never been on Facebook or got a tattoo…but a few years ago I surprised the family on Father's Day with a small tattoo that’s a version the same thing that my wife and 3 kids all have tattooed on them. heheh.
Anyway yeah, boo Facebook, boo ai.
Replying to
@Undercat
Yeah. I mean it’s a nice community event once you break through all the blues lawyers and old white dudes playing truly awful dad rock to see the more fun and interesting bands. I suspect it’s said old dudes using ai and gatekeeping the Facebook page. And Facebook is super gross generally but neighbourhood FB groups are their own special kind of pearl-clutching vile so it’s not surprising they deleted the comment. What are ya gonna do I guess.
LABR is over here streaming Fedi folks’ songs for #BandcampFriday, come check it out!
https://stream.labr.online/
Greetings to you and yours. Here’s a brand new song I made called Afraid Of Hay.
It’s maybe about rejecting your literal surroundings or maybe it’s a metaphor, I dunno I just write ‘em. George, my youngest, provided a tasty dusting of vibes from their pedal steel guitar. I hope you like it.
#bgm #music #NewMusic #IndiePop #country #guitars #harmonies #hay
https://bgmmusic.bandcamp.com/track/afraid-of-hay
Replying to
@frigginglorious
Hey thanks so much! I think I taught them one chord when we got them a guitar for Christmas years ago and now they’re WAY better than me, in several bands in Montreal. So much like me at that age, but a better, distilled version of me, heh heh.
Replying to
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
Yeah, block for sure.
The flipside of this are the “funny white guy” accounts with lots of followers who get boosted into my timeline repeatedly, and who maybe I won’t block but definitely won’t follow. Good for them I guess but I’m kinda not here for that, I feel like it’s a throwback to shitty Twitter times.
Replying to
@xenogon@sunny.garden @alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com
Celestion 10” Speaker.
Looks like there’s one for $350 on Reverb; in Quebec though.
https://reverb.com/ca/item/92235857-vox-ac4tv-4-watt-1x10-guitar-combo-2009-2019-tan?bk=
@jessamyn
So funny you posted this. Just last night I was asking my wife, “what would be the most embarrassing thing we could throw out on garbage day that all the neighbours would see.” I decided that a large portrait of myself would be the worst. Our garbage isn’t that embarrassing but i admit I peel the name and info labels off my prescription meds bottles before throwing them out, just because paranoia.