(it preferred, she accepted too) #noai #MALM

[EDIT 2026-03-01 ~1:30 AM: if you're getting notified for old comments under my stuff sorry it took me that long to reply, had personal crises all throughout the month]

This is my fifth FAWM, and my second solo! Last year, I did FAWM on my 4-track - unfortunately, between then and now it got more problems and is basically unusable for recording. Unfortunate!! Next year, I hope.

All my recordings will be digital this year. Expect #lofi #indiepop and #indiefolk with guitars, cheap toy keyboards, tiny drum machines, and myriad percussion.

INFLUENCES - The Beach Boys, the Apples in Stereo, the Frogs, Ween, Todd Rundgren, Guided by Voices, Beck, Car Seat Headrest, of Montreal, the Olivia Tremor Control, XTC, Simon & Garfunkel, Dutch Uncles, Dogbowl, They Might Be Giants, the Mountain Goats, Frank Zappa and the Mothers, Logan Whitehurst and the Junior Science Club... I could go on, but I don't want to make this whole bio influences!

If you wanna listen to some of what I did last FAWM, I have an EP called Five Big Ones that has four of those + the March Casio-doo-wop taster Remote Control. It's pretty swell. https://apersonnamedrose.bandcamp.com/album/five-big-ones

Oh yeah, also off-FAWM I do Adobe Flash preservation. Right now I'm trying to focus on digging up old computers that used MSN/Windows Live Messenger to try and archive what remains of the games available through that. Which is cool, I think!!!

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@theeverfreeforest: my band! @jaythejackalope: half of aforementioned band, piano player of cool @junoast: indie pop genius + my best friend @makessense: internet homie and incredibly talented songwriter @soapstone: bedroom psychedelic pop, similar influences to my stuff @oilybastard: alt-pop acquaintance from days of yore, unbearably talent