It’s been a gradual transition that wasn’t always even apparent to me, but I can definitively say now that my work will be focused more on my YouTube channel than this website. (Though a redesign is on its way that will integrate the two a bit more anyway.)

Of course, all the songs here will stay up for your enjoyment – some might even be made into videos in the near future. :) I will also continue to do commissions.

Thank you all for your support and encouragement over the years. Things are getting bigger and better and I hope you’ll stay on this magic carpet ride with me forever!

A few of the songs from my band Your Heart‘s new album Autumn have been posted here, but if you haven’t already, check out the whole album at our nice new website here!

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I have a brother called Dave. His girlfriend and I want to buy him a song for Christmas. It should be in a beat-boxing/rap style (he likes to beatbox and is much better than the teenagers on the bus). It should extoll the virtues of Samurai Dave, the badass-est badass Samurai never to be an actual Samurai.

- he collects and makes swords out of wood, metal, bits of chair, whatever he can find
- he has a staffordshire bull terrier called Nathan Explosion
- while we were in Japan we made up euphemisms for Japanese words that we didn’t want people to overhear us say on the train:
>>”serious man with a serious dog” = a samurai
>>”flash-stepper” = ninja
>>”colourful rogue” = yakuza
- instead of ‘no, no, it’s fine’ he accidentally said “No, no, it’s cake” to a (non-cake)shop assistant in Japan
- he isn’t afraid to dress up as a lady when the need arises or just because it would be completely inappropriate
- we have been calling him a corpse-dragger because in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. he fills corpses with items and drags them around behind him like macabre suitcases
- he likes to dress the pets up in outfits that he has made himself, like kimonos and robot costumes
- he likes snakes
- insisting on picking the best and prettiest roses for little phillip, haha (Phillip was a possum that was rescued from being pecked to death by birds and we had to feed her plants from the garden until she was old enough to be released)

The first time Dave went to Japan he burst one of his lungs and had to go to hospital in a town which had never seen a foreigner before; the ambulance people couldn’t pronounce ‘David’ so they just called him ‘Rabbit’. All the nurses had crushes on him and kept bringing him little presents and notes and things, including the cool male nurse who bought him manga. They actually had to operate on him and poke holes in his chest, and that was when Dave discovered that the Japanese don’t really believe in anaesthetic. Also, he now has wicked scars.

At an izakaya in Tokyo, Dave (and I) tried to order ‘various pig parts’ expecting different cuts of pork – which is how we ended up eating pig heart, lungs and intestines. Actually, here is a list of things Dave ate in Japan: bee larvae, teriyaki crickets (their knees get stuck in your teeth), ostrich, pig organs, snake wine, curry with cheese (EVERYTHING WITH CHEESE), and sake-in-a-jar

In Japan we sat in bus-stops and drank sake out of a jar like hobos. It was awesome.

Dave once bought sandwiches for the yakuza. It is his deepest shame.

Instead of finding out where a bar/pub is from, oh I don’t know, the internet, Dave likes to make me walk the streets of strange cities at two in the morning, turning down back alley after back alley because the perfect pub is ‘probably somewhere down there’. Also, Dave can wander through the streets of a strange city and find the same pub he visited last time he was there over a year ago.

Dave has twice fit through the nostril of the Buddha which is SUPER LUCKY. there is a giant wooden Buddha at Nara and out the back of the shrine there is a huge wooden column with a hole at the base of it the same size as the nostril of the Buddha. Usually only children can do this. I do not understand.

Dave’s hobbies/interests include: collecting dogs, hitting things with sticks, sword-fighting with bits of dowel shoved inside a pool noodle, leaping around like he is a samurai/ninja, beat-boxing, jujitsu, furniture making, climbing up things that are dangerous to climb, embarrassing his sister…

Dave once had a pet wolf spider called Bigby. ‘He’ laid eggs. They hatched. The house was then filled with baby wolf spiders. Dave cannot tell the sex of spiders, I guess.

He used to be in a children’s circus troupe. As a result he is stupidly good at climbing/swinging/leaping over things. Never tell him something like that is impossible. He will definitely do it then.

He hates lettuce, cucumber and watermelon — all the inoffensive fruit and veg. In spite of hating lettuce, Dave once attempted to make lettuce soup. It was a disaster. His dog, meanwhile, likes bananas.

Dave likes beer — but only ale. Lager is no good.

SWORDS SWORDS SWORDS

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I got Sarah (Dave’s sister) to sneakily record him beatboxing so I could use it in this song. How rad is that. Also this may be the most information about a person I’ve ever crammed into one song.

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I’d love a country song for my good buddy Wes, the most universally adored man on the planet.

I’m thinking the song for Wes could be one of those cheeky, funny, guys-guy country songs, like Toby Keith’s “I Love This Bar” or “I Wanna Talk About Me”.

Wes is an actor living in Marina del Rey (on Northstar) who is originally from Georgia. He was born in Savannah. Wes was in the Navy. I like to tease him that he knows a lot about “Grease” and one of his favorite movies is “Legends of the Fall”. If you can refer to Wes as “sexier than Tristan”, that would be very funny (Tristan is Brad Pitt’s character in that movie). Wes’s body is rock solid and his friends regularly refer to him as “a machine”. When Wes pats you on the back, you kind of stumble forward. Despite his brawn, Wes is the most sweet and gentle guy!

Wes throws incredible parties with his roommates JD and John. Flip-cup is a major party game at Wes’s house and he plays beach volleyball every Saturday. Wes’s two big nicknames are Wild Wild Wes and Chadillac (like Cadillac). Wes majored in History and is a big fan of Biographies of interesting people. I call him Peach! Wes is so laid-back and generous and caring and warm… He’s just the absolute BEST!

Wes likes country, but he also loves lite fm/easy listening songs. He swears there’s a harmonica part in “What’s Love Got to do With It?” (there’s not) and likes cheezey songs like Journey ballads and “If You Like Pina Coladas”.

Wes loves his mom, America and girls.

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An intro theme for a podcast. The podcast is called The Freakacast! and is hosted by Andrew and Matt.

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The song could be a callback to saturday morning cartoon theme songs.

I would like the phrase “Freaks in, Freaks out! as the closing lyric.

Some of our broad topics of interest: Movies, Super Hero’s, Lego, Video Games, cartoons

If you can fit it in, after our names the following phrases:
Matt- The builder
Andrew- The idea man

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I’ve never heard a really good Halloween song, so I was wondering if you would please make an awesomely Andrew-esque Halloween song. Totally legendary! Please? As long as it’s about Halloween, I wouldn’t mind it being scary or silly, but only if you’re not too busy. P.S. It could even be about a costume you would wear for Halloween that would fulfill your heart’s desire. Thanks for reading this…

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I’ve got another one for you. This one’s not mine, but a friend’s, and a bunch of us would like to pay you to turn it into a song for his birthday. The poem is called The Midnight Hunt:

When night’s dark has claimed the day,
When all the work is done,
It is time to fade away,
Or else it’s time to run.

You ran from demons, dreadful beasts,
But in the night you fell,
Now you writhe while they all feast,
The Hunt returns to Hell.

In my head, here’s how it plays out: The victim blasts out of a village and into the forest, an imp following him on the rooftops, then through the trees. This imp sings the verses. The refrain is sung by him and a pack of distant, deep-voiced horrors in the distance.

I think there should be a 10-20 second instrumental interlude, maybe a fiddle and an electric guitar between the last regular refrain and the final verse and refrain.

I thought long and hard about bands and, strange as it sounds, something like Evanescence with a touch of Breaking Benjamin?

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