Timecat
2/2/10
Just finished the mixes for the new record, tenatively titled "whoaminow". Looking at shows this spring (and new website)...stay posted...
6/11/09
The meaning of life according to Kilgore Trout:
To be the eyes
and ears
and conscience
of the Creator of the Universe,
you fool.
3/18/09
Still working away at the new junk. For the time being, check out the media page for a video I made for my cover of "Let's Go To Bed" by The Cure. The original version of the song has not aged well...but still a great song. I tried to explore the creepier side of it.
2/25/09
Tons of new music in the works...so far things are getting weirder and more hip-hop-ish...samples coming soon.
It has been a turbulent year for me and my family, here is a video project which hits pretty close to home for me. It is pretty brutal stuff, so have some tissues handy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO2x38Lc7qI
1/11/09
Happy New Year. More video projects are posted on the media page. I've been having fun with Final Cut...
12/21/08
There's a big snow storm here in p-town and I have some time on my hands, so I have finally gotten around to finishing the video for "Curtains" on the media page.
12/14/08
Timecat is back from a long, strange trip with new music.
This song in particular seems to be both an addendum to This Should Mean Nothing as well as the start of a new direction--enjoy.
7/14/08
So I suppose an explanation is in order since it has been so long since I posted here and my promised video and other projects have not materialized. To be totally honest, I have been having a bit of a moral dilemma about the whole project. Here, for your amusement, is a partial sampling of my thought process:
REQUIM (or rebirth?) OF A MISGUIDED DREAM
Sometimes I wonder why I have devoted so much of my life to music...
Then I realize that I have things to do and I can’t sit around, dreamy-eyed, obsessing over my own boring-ass life. I mean, really, how vain is that? For years I based my identity on being in a band and being a working “artist.” What a joke. I am a spoiled middle-class American white kid with issues and emotional baggage just like a million others who are doing what I do. Why do I think I am worth paying attention to? Why am I special? Who is going to give my music the kind of devoted attention I presuppose from an audience?
Screw me. What a narcissistic clown I am! Don’t buy my record. Spend your money on something that matters. Like what, you ask? Hell if I know! That’s my point! I don’t know shit! In fact- go away! Get off of my website! I am going to take it down and burn the server to the ground. That will show me to impose my will upon the world.
But, then again... Who do other “artists” think they are? Screw them too. They are just as selfish and ignorant as I am. What do they have to say that is so special? What gives them the right to spill their guts into a microphone?
Maybe my stuff isn’t so bad if you look at it in context. I mean, it is still insignificant and petty in the grand scheme of things, but if lots of people are producing equally or more insignificant and petty work, than why not listen to mine? There must be something worthwhile in there or it wouldn’t have kept me up obsessing over it for the last umpteen years.
Is my music really going to prolong the humanitarian crisis in Darfur? Is it going to make people more likely to use chemical fertilizer on their lawns? Is it going to make the jackass next door beat his dog? Just because it doesn’t directly help doesn’t mean it hurts anything. Maybe I do deserve a little love.
Maybe my music will, at some point, in someone’s life, make them feel something or think something positive. Maybe someone will relate to the words and feel less lonely. Maybe it will inspire honesty with a loved one. Maybe my record will inspire someone to join the peace corps, or donate money towards civil rights advocacy, or set aside a new wilderness preserve, or end world hunger, or shit, I don’t know…uncover the true nature of God!?!
Of course! I am a genius unlike the world has ever known! I will catapult human evolution forward with a clever turn of phrase and a diminished C-chord! I have work to do! Get out of my way! Mark my every word!
…Then again, maybe there are better things I could be doing…
4/23/08
I have been hard at work on the website, among other things- beating my head against the unforgiving wall of technology. I did not start a new band to spend more time learning esoteric programs. I did it for the unconditional love of my adoring fans. Seriously, though, thanks to those who have bought and shared their impressions of the record. It has meant a lot to get feedback.
I plan on having some multimedia whatnot posted within the next couple of weeks. It is always a work in progress... -ro
4/7/08
So “This Should Mean Nothing” is officially out.
I am thrilled that it has finally moved out of my brain and into the world, whatever its fate might be...
-ro
ps- Welcome to the site. Enjoy the music and whatnot. Check back because I am planning on putting up some videos, photos and other weirdness in the near future.