Redditor stringy-pants, who lives in the upside down world of Australia, commissioned his technician help desk themed love song. He also sent me chords, and told me to make it cheesy. I worked on it a while, but it wasn’t coming together. Finally, I decided to try something else, and I think it came out sort of like a Prefuse 73 song if he did cheesy love songs. So, here’s the Git Song!

Hope everyone had a good holiday time thing. Thanks to the people that rented out my song writing, I was able to get my 4 year old everything that I wanted to get him for Christmas! It was looking like a banner year for Bleh at our house, but you guys helped to turn it around in a way that I didn’t think was possible. My son now has his first ever guitar! Its made of plastic, its blue, and it was super cheap, but I couldn’t be prouder.

First, I’d like to thank everyone for the support that they’ve shown me on reddit. The submissions I’ve already received have insured that my 4 year old son and my wife won’t be left out this Christmas! This is something I’ve always wanted to do, and I hope that I can continue to do so. So tell everyone: this dude will write you a song! Cheap! And it probably won’t suck!

Which brings me to my first collaboration! happyfreud, a generous reddit member, commissioned me to write a song for his girlfriend as a Christmas/birthday gift. Even better for me, he generously offered me double for the service! I decided to record a song for someone else for free as a way to pay it forward. I’ll get to that in a minute. First, here’s the song, Cherry! (If you listen carefully at the end, you can hear my cat, Waffles, contributing as well.)

Which brings us to the part where I paid it forward for another reddit user, Mesonoxian. He wrote this song after a nasty breakup, so it seemed like a nice thing to do. I was feeling a little prog-rockish, so I tried my best one man prog rock song. I had to do this one in a hurry, so I didn’t get to really go deep into it like I wanted to, but Mesonoxian said it was better than he had hoped for anyway, so all’s well that ends well. He didn’t give me a name for it, so I just called it Mesonoxian. Also, my prog voice is…questionable. Either way, here’s the song!

There will be more on the way soon!

December 22, 2010 at 8:08 pm