Hello Top Tier Gang!
Blimey. Well, I think I'm out the end of what has been a relentless and turbulent few weeks. Or, if not out of it, at least there's signs that things are calming down. Of course, now I get the "ARGH! SHIT! I'VE NO PAID WORK!" anxiety instead. Always fun.
It was a perfect storm of multiple work deadlines - plus sudden Covid-related rewrites of in-production scripts - coupled to my parents requiring repeated hospital trips and suddenly needing near constant care...
2021-03-05 12:31:28 +0000 UTC
View Post
Sorry about the week off. Here's this week's video. There'll also be a Patreon exclusive, most likely tomorrow, explaining all, and announcing the winner of the Tickle-Me-Terminator... plus Top Tier people will be getting a big chunk of outtakes from this ep.
It's a weird one. Sanja and I think it's hysterical... but I wonder if anyone else will be as amused as we are by it! By the end we get way, way too far into the food we're testing, and completely lose track of the fact we're meant...
2021-03-02 21:23:16 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello, Top Tier gang. Well, I've had one of those weeks. I shall not bore you with the details - though as you've probably ascertained, some of it involved hardware stress... and some of it involved my mother coming out of hospital after breaking her hip (given she's now partially sighted, they wouldn't let her home until we'd made the house safe for her with panic buttons, and booking carers and the like). And some of it was just... I dunno. Stuff.
It's one of the curses of my day job ...
2021-02-25 11:28:23 +0000 UTC
View Post
And here's the other one.
2021-02-23 13:22:14 +0000 UTC
View Post
In lieu of a new video this week, here's some music. This, and the next track I'm going to share with you momentarily, will probably be on an album I put out later this year. These are, essentially, just demos. If I can, I want to replace some of the virtual instruments with real ones at some point (looking at you, CJJC)...
But these kind of represent, for the first time, the kind of music I really want to be making, and are the closest I've managed to get to what I hear in my head. I'm...
2021-02-23 13:20:45 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello, gang. Some of you will have seen on Twitter yesterday, that I had a bit of a catastrophic hard drive failure this week, which - coupled to MASSIVE day job stress, coupled to dealing with EQUALLY MASSIVE elderly parent stress - means that there probably won't be a Digi this week. I was even hoping to get the deleted Third Bird footage to the higher tier gang, but... that's stuck on the dead hard drive.
Sorry. GAH!
Sanja and I will try and film before the end of the wee...
2021-02-23 13:11:07 +0000 UTC
View Post
Meet Third Bird! I was hoping for a Gannon vid this week, and the one we filmed would've been a change of pace after the manic ones in recent weeks.
Unfortunately, due to reasons... we've got another mad one instead.
This was a bit of an epic edit, mainly because Sanja just wanted to keep asking Third Bird questions, which meant the video ran to well over an hour. It's still longer than I would want, but it was hard to know what else to cut. Nonetheless, we're preachin...
2021-02-17 16:51:55 +0000 UTC
View Post
How is anybody meant to introduce a video with a giant bird sat next to them? Not easily, it seems. Here's a few minutes of bloopers from the start of this week's video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5j-N8EMpAo
2021-02-16 16:59:07 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hi y'aaaall. Here's a Patreon video for you all. I was hoping to get you early access to this week's ep, which was going to feature Gannon... but unfortunately he sent through his video files in some weird format, that's taking ages to convert to something Final Cut will recognise.
And the video we want to replace it with is somehow over an hour in its un-edited form... so that'll need to come down to a manageable length, which takes time.
Aaaaanyway, Top Tier Patrons will get som...
2021-02-16 16:57:43 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello all! In lieu of there being an early access video this week (I was waiting to film with Gannon, which we did today over Zoom), here's an exclusive - which includes your chance to nab some exciting popping candy. Basically, we had a ton left over. It hasn't been in my mouth.
First six people who comment below will get a bundle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvKGGAfKWA4
2021-02-12 20:22:54 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello top tier, chums.
This was meant to be with you earlier in the week, but I've been locked out of my Patreon account. Back now!
This is an extended version of the location footage from the recent Slinky ep. We chopped out a few minutes, mainly because Sanja's eyes were watering so badly they puffed up, and she looked like she'd been sobbing for days!
Anyhow - enjoy!
https://www.youtube....
2021-02-12 20:20:55 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello top tier, chums.
This was meant to be with you earlier in the week, but I've been locked out of my Patreon account. Back now!
This is an extended version of the location footage from the recent Slinky ep. We chopped out a few minutes, mainly because Sanja's eyes were watering so badly they puffed up, and she looked like she'd been sobbing for days!
Anyhow - enjoy!
https://www.yo...
2021-02-12 20:20:12 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello... EVERYONE.
There won't be an early access video this week, because we're not filming until Friday - when we're doing some Zoom-based stuff with Gannon. Hurrah! We're also doing some more location stuff, if our back garden qualifies as on-location.
We do have a Patreon-only video for you though, which should be up tomorrow. I'll make it available for everyone, in lieu of an early access one. Top Tier peeps should be getting some deleted scenes. Might even share with them th...
2021-02-10 14:30:20 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello, gang. I'm 50 in August. Like many of you, I had planned to do *something* for what I'm told is a landmark birthday. Not a party, because that feels like a whole lot of organisation and money for an event I wouldn't much enjoy anyway. We had sort of semi-promised ourselves a special holiday; perhaps another go at the honeymoon, which was upended by near-death and serious injury.
That's obviously not going to happen either, even if I could afford it, which I can't after the p...
2021-02-10 11:09:19 +0000 UTC
View Post
Well, you asked for it... for the first time in six months, Beanus is back - as you've never seen him before! And you lot get to see him a week earlier than everyone else.
Here's a little tease: I had to censor something in the thumbnail to remove spoilers...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGW2CngTGOg
2021-02-04 21:45:15 +0000 UTC
View Post
Last year, you might remember an episode of Digi where Gannon and I talked about the history of poo-based humour. Within that ep was a sung, sung beautifully by Sooz Kempner, based upon the classic playground song, 'Diarrhoea'. Well, we had big plans for that. I wanted to release a Christmas EP called 'Brown Christmas', which would've featured some other tracks... but it all kind of hinged on Sooz giving me a new version of the Diarrhoea vocals for a bona-fide full-length version, which she s...
2021-02-03 21:02:06 +0000 UTC
View Post
I tweeted something the other day saying I'm worried that my sense of humour isn't normal, and that it scares me a bit. It was meant in a kind of tongue-in-cheek way, but, very kindly, lots of people replied reassuring me that not being "normal" - whatever that might be - is a good thing, and to keep doing what I do.
Of course, it is a good thing... to a point. I'm always striving towards creative freedom, and an honest expression of creativity.
But there is, very obviously,...
2021-01-30 11:46:11 +0000 UTC
View Post
I know you're all probably still recovering from the baby food taste test video... but to ease your path back into normality... here's Sanja and I trying popping candy, and testing the old urban myth about whether it's possible to eat enough Pop Rocks, and drink enough Coke, to make a person explode.
This will be up for the general public next week, so you're getting it well early, man!
https://w...
2021-01-27 19:36:43 +0000 UTC
View Post
Here you go, y'all; Sanja and I eating baby food, while I'm dressed as a baby. There's not really much more you can say about it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLuRstf0nM8
2021-01-27 13:24:10 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello top tier gang. This week's video will be with you as soon as it has finished processing. Which it has been doing for over an hour now. Until then... here's a short deleted scene from NEXT week's popping candy taste test. It's the bit we do before the video where Sanja and I try to work out which song we're going to sing. Thought you'd appreciate it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6XdM8yUwJs ...
2021-01-27 13:11:32 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello, Patrons! This week's ep might not be with you until tomorrow. To tide you over until then... here's a bonus. In this exclusive sort of sequel to last week's Slinky episode... Sanja and I decided to race the Slinkys at the infamous "drug stairs".
Here's how it went...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34q2TpA3ndw
2021-01-26 15:01:45 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello, gang.
As you know, my day job has been hit massively by Covid. The industry stopped entirely last year. I had shows cancelled, and others got hugely postponed... and then cut back.
I won't whine about the impact all this had on my income, but suffice to say... thank you all for your continued support...!
But anyway, though Covid still seems to be a way off of going away, which, let's face it, they're saying won't ever happen entirely, the industry is...
2021-01-25 16:28:20 +0000 UTC
View Post
...albeit a long demo. It still needs work. Not quite there yet, but thought some of you might appreciate hearing a work-in-progress.
2021-01-20 11:07:10 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello, gang. Been a while since I did a full blog, so I thought I'd update you on why.
Basically, I was late meeting a deadline - a script that I was due to deliver pre-Christmas - and I asked for an extension, after I got thrown off my stride by my dad's health news. And then, of course, coming back to work after Christmas meant that it took me a while to get a full head of steam again. I never miss deadlines!!! Except, it turns out that now I do. A mixture of this weird 12 months, and...
2021-01-20 10:27:35 +0000 UTC
View Post
Well here we go: I managed to get this week's video done on time after all, so here it is a couple of days early!
Top Tier Gang will be getting an uncut version of the on-location sequence, featuring EXTRA CONTENT, probably tomorrow.
Until then... please enjoy this: our inevitably shambolic and rambling look at the history of the Slinky!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSocRvqBzo8 ...
2021-01-19 19:03:36 +0000 UTC
View Post
Behold: a video exclusive... that was going to be just for top tier folk, but I don't think I'll be able to get you this week's video early, due to needing to do some extra filming for it. Sorry - this month's day job deadline put me behind with Digi stuff, and I'm slowly getting back on top of it all. So, you'll get this instead, by way of an apology. I know this means I owe the top tier gang big time. Expect at least a new blog, and maybe some work-in-progress music, and maybe some raw vide...
2021-01-18 17:22:00 +0000 UTC
View Post
Sorry I didn't get this up for you sooner. Been a hecticated week, and then the damned thing took forever to finish processing.
But aaaaanyway... should be able to get you next week's video early, and there should be some exclusive stuff for the upper tier gang. I'm going now so anyway bye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3VCikqvaRc
2021-01-14 17:12:25 +0000 UTC
View Post
New exclusive vid for you all this time, as I'm unlikely to get this week's video up early for you. Might be a little something extra for the top tier gang tomorrow.
Enjoy my ranting about TV magicians, and Sanja's private shame!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWU3WvN7Cq4
2021-01-13 16:54:47 +0000 UTC
View Post
I'm aiming to release one new song a month in 2021, with the aim of improving as I go. Here's me reaching out of my comfort zone a bit, attempting to evoke a bit of a Western/Morricone vibe. But, uh, proggier. And a punny title.
It's up on my Bandcamp, but you, my top-tier lovelies, do not have to pay extra for it. It's right here!
2021-01-07 17:23:46 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello, gang. Happy New Year, to those of you I've yet to wish it to. Hope you're all doing as okay as you can right now.
Finally.. some good news: I got my old Twitter account back. You know: my original one. Which is lovely, and means I can put the one I have been using back to Memory Assistant. It's kind of tragic in its way that something as small as getting my Twitter account back has bouyed me so much... but in these times I'll take any sliver of positivity I can get.
So, if ...
2021-01-05 17:50:20 +0000 UTC
View Post
