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Just a little update in the music world:
My tunes are now up to buy on www.beatport.com www.audiojelly.com and www.chemical-records.co.uk The tunes available are "Tyler C - Elsewhere", "Tyler C vs. State Of Matter - Silver Sun (Ethereal's Forsaken Sunset Mix)", and "Orana Project - Blue Storm".
And regarding "the greatest news of my life" from my previous post: One of my tracks (Blue Storm) was picked to be featured on a compilation from Platipus Records in the UK. You probably have no idea what that is, but it's basically one of the most well-respected and classic electronic music labels in the world. The compilation just came out on the 7th I believe, but it's only available in Europe currently. You can find it online at www.platipus.com or google "Platipus - Tales Of The Unexpected" to find some other retailers. I have a few more tunes in the works that should be out shortly. That's all I got.
Also, I recently found out that I don't have housing at Belmont. That gives me 3 weeks to find and sign for an apartment from 800 miles away. This should be fun.....
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The last month or so has been far and away the greatest of my life.
I'm now absolutely going to Belmont. I'm done at Madison forever. And my favorite: I got a record deal! Yep, I am now signed to Trance Tribe Recordings in Australia. I've had a few of my tunes released digitally on Audiojelly.com and there should be a few more going up in the near future. Go to http://www.audiojelly.com and search for Trance Tribe and then buy Tyler C - Elsewhere and Orana Project - Blue Storm.
Also, I just found out from my label manager the greatest news of my life, but I'm not at liberty to share that info yet. Just wait...
Sorry this entry is so poorly written, I'm just reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally excited right now.
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I spent most of this weekend in the car traveling to Indiana for my first out-of-state dj gig, and holy freaking crap was it awesome. I ended up having a pretty shitty timeslot, but I did what I could with it. I finally got a chance to throw down some original tunes in a set and the crowd loved em. They went nuts for my remix of BT's 'Force of Gravity'. Hopefully I'll have a link to download my set in the next day or so. I also made some contacts at Soundbar in Chicago, which would be an amazing place to play.
My next event is at Party in the Park, which is WSUM's big annual outdoor event. It's on April 23rd from 11am-10pm. I'll be on the dj stage from 2-3pm. I saw a huge poster on State St. the other day for the event and it had my name on it. It was kinda surreal, but more accurately it was sweet. I'm also working on getting some gigs this summer in the Minneapolis area. In conclusion, I love djing.
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| Educating the youth of America... |
[17 Mar 2005|02:02am] |
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I recently received a panicked phonecall from a dear friend ( ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) takeonthefuture ). The following is a 100% accurate transcript of the ensuing conversation:
totf: O divine lord of knowledge and wisdom, thou must cure thee of thine wretched disfigurement.
me: From which ailment dost thou seek refuge?
totf: I dare not speaketh its name.
me: I fear that my powers are of little use to thee save thou proclaim the demons which hath enveloped thine soul.
totf: .......
me: Seriously dude, what the fuck is your problem.
totf: I have a small penis.
me: Ok.....you've always had a small penis...
totf: I know, but I'm worried it's gonna get smaller.
me: Why would you say that?
totf: I've been drinking a lot of Mountain Dew™.
me: There there child. Allow me to lay your ignorant fears and insecurities about your manhood to rest.
This rumor runs rampant amongst teenagers and other really stupid people. The alleged culprit is the additive Tartrazine, or Yellow No. 5 to the lay person. Used as a dye, Yellow No. 5 is what gives food, drugs and cosmetics their delightfully cheery yellow color. This coloring method has been in use since 1916, but until 1979 it was not required that companies declare the presence of this dye in their product. However, due to reports of allergic reactions from a bunch of pussies, the FDA (Federal Drug Administration) has required labeling to indicate its presence. Surprisingly, in its 89 years of use, not one instance of an "outie" becoming a "slightly less outie" has been blamed on this substance. However, it is estimated that as much as 50% of children ages 7-17 have accidentally chugged piss after being told it was Mountain Dew™ by their immature and dickhead friends. Also, according to Science Weekly, there is an 89% percent chance that I completely made up the previous statistic.
So rest easy my friend, you will not need to convert your penis size to millimeters to make yourself sound bigger when in reality everyone and their mom knows that there are 25.4mm in 1 inch, effectively ruining your scheme and exposing you for the short-dicked chump you are. Sweet dreams.
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| Paper time bitches |
[09 Mar 2005|11:53pm] |
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Yes! Finally I have a paper I can procrastinate on and update this bitch.
2 quick things. I am definitely spinning in the dj battle at union south this saturday night. starts at 8 and goes till 2 am, so BE THERE! Also the Indiana gig got moved to April 9th, not that any of you guys care. Does anyone even read this shit? ok, idea. EVERYONE WHO READS THIS LEAVE A COMMENT IN THE LITTLE COMMENT PLACE. really no point, i'm just curious who reads this shit. if its more than like 2 people (unlikely) then i may make some effort to do it more (also unlikely).
i hate madison and the jerks at belmont still haven't gotten my recommendation, even tho i sent it 2 freaking weeks ago. damn you US postal service. rain sleet and snow my ass, it hasnt precipitated here in quite a while, get your act together!
i feel really old now too. i'm 20...thats old. it was better to be young. i wish i did cooler stuff back in the day. lots of weird memories have been coming back to me lately and i've realized that i dont remember a lot of my teachers names anymore....that shit makes me feel old.
shit, its midnight and i have 1 sentence done on my 5 page paper. i'm really really bad at skool.
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So I guess this whole music thing is starting to take off, which is frickin sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
March 12th - Spinning @ Club 770/Union South (not for sure yet)
March 30th - Spinning @ Stillwater's on State St. with Marscruiser, Dissolvent & Adam The Tree
April 23rd - Spinning @ WSUM's Party In The Park which is a huge ass outdoor event @ James Madison Park with 1000s of people
April 30th - Spinning somewhere on the Purdue University campus in Indiana (more details soon....)
Also, I just got a remix back of a collaboration track I did with a guy from Maryland over winter break. We're polishing off the original mix and then we're gonna shop it around to a bunch of labels. I'm also working on a collab with Luke Terry, who none of you have heard of, but he kicks ass and is starting a record label, which our track will theoretically be signed to.
I'm super busy with skool and shit recently which sucks. I did my first big film project today, cleverly titled "How to Defuse a Bomb that is Going to Destroy the World" starring the one and only Nils Espe. It's pretty frickin sweet. Too bad the Oscars were the other day, cuz we would've won.
I also had some Ben & Jerry's Half Baked today which was delicious.
This update was lame.
Oh, and I suppose I should add that I hate it here at Madison more than ever. No particular event caused this epiphany, I just really hate it here. All the girls look exactly the same and everyone is drunk all the time....NO EXCEPTIONS. Screw you drunkies, you threw up in my water fountain.
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| A conversation... |
[08 Feb 2005|11:52pm] |
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Journal: Hey Charley, long time no see.
Me: Yep....
Journal: Well where the hell ya been?
Me: I dunno, none of your business jerk.
Journal: Wow, you're a real jackass.
Me: Shut up.
Journal: Seriously, what have you been doing?
Me: I'd love to tell you, but it's been so long since I've written anything in here that I've really forgotten what's happened since then.
Journal: You're lame.
Me: Yep....
Journal: So who's this person who said 'update ho' in the little comments thing?
Me: I dunno, probably some hot bitch. There are so many hot bitches that want me, cuz I've got skills. Ya know, like ninja skills, hacking skills....
Journal: Don't you have a girlfriend?
Me: Just cuz you're on a diet doesn't mean you can't look at the menu..........and have sex with it.
Journal: She's gonna kill you.
Me: I know......
Consider yourself up to speed.
And oh yea, I'm moving to Tennessee next year.
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| My life is better than yours. |
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I'm not sure what I'm doing here, as I don't have a paper due tomorrow.... I will now summarize the past week allotting no more than one sentence per event:
My birthday was cool.
Kim got me Vikings tickets - the jerks lost but I still heart her.
The Lost Prophets album kicks my ass.
It's finals week.
I may have failed my first final.
Wow, that really put into perspective how boring my life is. Screw that, let's to the mega-happy version. *dudalado dudalado dudalado* (Theron will understand that, if not he sucks)
My birthday was cool.
Kim got me Vikings tickets and hooked up a threesome with Lindsey Lohan. I would rate the experience a 2 - 2 for the number of seconds it took me to ejaculate.
The Lost Prophets called me, I'm their new guitar player - leave for Europe on Tuesday.
It's finals week, but all my professors died.
I have no finals.
I'm taking a break from the tour with Lost Prophets for my dj gig in Ibiza.
Alright, I gotta go. I convinced Lindsey Lohan to give me another chance, I'm just gonna picture Bob Saget giving oral sex to Alf.
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| Breakin the law.....kinda |
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Here I am again with a big paper due tomorrow. Let's bring you up to speed. This weekend was filled with a lot of good tunage, which is good becuase it was really the last free weekend I had to do anything before finals and such. This week I am swamped with homework and papers, but I'm beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I might make it.
Now on to the good stuff: I was detained by the police last night. I've half explained it to a bunch of people so I might as well fully explain it here to prevent carpel tunnel (which I can't spell).
So I left College Library at around midnight last night with my lovely friend Cassie, and a few other people that I ran into on the way out the door. As we walked out we saw a cop car pull up and an officer walk into the library. We really made nothing of it and just headed home. Everyone went their own separate ways and I mozied up to my dorm. If you've been to my dorm you know that I live with mostly quiet dorky kids who leave their rooms only to dump their trash or if the Everquest server crashes, so it was quite the surprise to see two cop cars sitting in front of the building with their lights going. I wandered up the stairs to my room and ran into my neighbor. I asked him if he had any idea why there were cops there. "Why don't you ask him?" he said. So I turned around and there was a cop standing right there. I looked down the hall to see another kid being questioned. He asked for my ID, where I was coming from, all that good stuff. Then he asked me to come downstairs with him. So on the way down I ask him what the deal is. He responds with some super broad crap like "there was a crime;" a true Sherlock Holmes. Finally I get some more info out of him. Turns out something happened at College Library (explaining the first cop car) and the culprit (sweet word, eh?) was a tall white male with blue jeans, a grey sweatshirt and a blue ski vest. Ooops, that's me. The other kid from my building is also a tall white male but he had a tan jacket with a big stripe on the sleeve, so I dunno what he was doing out there. At this point I'm not really all that worried about anything, and I'm hoping that it's obviously just a bunch of bad coincidences. But hey, I'm sure this guy was thinking the same thing. Then the officer asks me to take my hands out of my pockets so he can look at them. What he was looking for I have no idea. Then another squad car pulled up. There was obviously a female in the backseat, so I'm assuming that this chick got assulted or had something stolen. The car then shined its big ass spotlight on me and the other kid and the officers had us slowly turn around. At this point I was getting a little freaked out. All it would take would be a simple "yes" from the chick in the backseat and I'd be facedown getting cuffed and eventually have my manhood violated in a pound-me-in-the-ass prison. Over the officer's radio I heard "nope, that's not them." Relieving to say the least.
Then the officer said, "sorry to detain you guys, I hope your night goes better." Which I thought was pretty funny. All in all the officers were super cool about it, which really surprised me. I've always had really bad experiences with cops (banned from Video Update for life...), probably cuz I'm a punk ass looking kid.
In the end it's not really an exciting story, but its definitely the most exciting thing to happen in my boring life for a while. Now the other detainee and I call each other "convict" whenever we see each other.
I have another paper due next Friday, so I'm sure I'll be back here updating then.
And oh yea, I killed a lot of people last night, but the cops didn't mention it. So I guess im off the hook...
PS: I'm sorry this update wasn't funnier. To make it up to you, here are some dead baby jokes:
Q: What's the difference between a dead baby and an onion?
A: I cry when I chop an onion
Q: What did the blind, deaf, parapelegic baby with Down Syndrome get for his birthday?
A: Cancer
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I played guitar for like 3 hours today instead of doing homework, it was sweet. I haven't played guitar in a long time. It's really heart warming to see my two beautiful guitars lying next to each other on my bed........precious. I learned how to play Ben Kweller - Lizzy. I have no idea why cuz I don't really like Ben Kweller, I guess I just like the guitar riff from that tune. I get to go see MCS in about 10 minutes, which I'm pretty pumped about cuz it's gonna rule ass.
I've taken a huge nosedive in my classes recently, it's getting pretty bad. Maybe I should start doing the work. I probably should buckle down with finals coming up in a few weeks and all. I told myself that I would dedicate 3 hours of my day to homework today, time spent so far: 0 hours & 0 minutes.......oops.
Ok, I really don't have anything else to say.....except that its raining here, which pisses me off cuz everyone else is getting snow. What a bunch of jerks.
Alright, off to rock out with my cock out.
peeeeez
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[01 Dec 2004|02:00am] |
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Well its 2:00AM and I have a paper due tomorrow, TIME TO UPDATE MY JOURNAL! I suck at school.
Nothing really exciting has happened. Thanksgiving was pretty kickass, I got to kick it with all my buddies back in the Hoodbury. Going back there really makes me appreciate how good I had it in highschool. My social life was definitely a lot more happenin back in the day. I'm starting to realize that I've been taking my friends back home for granted, so I tried to be cool with everyone and catch up with the people I hadn't talked to in a while. Devyn got headbutted in the face and bled like whoa, which was a combination of funny, scary, sad, and sexy...mainly sexy. The rest of that night was filled with vomit. Let's move on.
On the way home I met this kick ass kid on the bus, that was sweet. The dude at Guitar Center talked me into spending a lot of money on brand-spankin-new needles for my turntables, moderately sweet. I won over $200 playing poker in the last few days, uber-sweet. I started a remix of Justin Timberlake - Like I Love You, also sweet. There is a possibility that I will be seeing kickass shows for the next 4 NIGHTS IN A ROW, definitely sweet. Wednesday - Hipolito Sanchez @ the Cardinal, Thursday - Motion City Soundtrack @ Union South, Friday - Melodic Sessions @ The Casbah, Saturday - I Voted For Kodos @ Memorial Union (which leads me to believe they may have a new guitarist....maybe I should figure that out).
Anyway, that should be enough runon and fragmented sentences for now. Back to my paper!
Rock over London, Rock on Chicago
hugz n kisseszzzszzsz
btw, im not actually feeling quixotic, i've just been saying that word a lot so I figured I'd make use of it. $0.17, a can of coke, and half a cheeseburger* to the first person to say what that word means and where it came from.
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*Fuck you, I'm not buying you shit. Get the sand out of your vagina and get your own damn cheeseburger you whiny bitch. Shine my shoes.
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I go from no entries in a month to 2 within 12 hours.....interesting? No.
I ended up working on that damn paper until 4:30 in the morning, it sucked. And when I say it sucked I am referring to both the act of staying up that late and the quality of the paper itself. Then I almost overslept all of my classes until my awesome girlfriend woke me up. I also found out that I got a B on my accounting test! Now this may not seem very exciting, but it is. You see I scored 100/125 on the first exam, a score I wasn't pleased with, but deserved. Thats an 80%, but due to a curve manifested by satan himself, this ended up being a low C, nearly a D. Anyway, I scored significantly worse on this second exam (82 I think), but this time Jesus made the curve so I got a B.
I also found the greatest link of my life last night (http://www.chemical-records.co.uk/sc/servlet/Cutting if there are any producers out there). You can get a single copy of your tunes cut to vinyl for like $60 bucks. Now that is kickass. So now I'm sending off to have some official Tyler C vinyl that I can play out, which will rule a lot of ass, like serious amounts of ass.
I also learned that Kim knows the entire Fresh Prince theme song, what a mega-babe.
Ok, now off to do my radio show. Listen to it! -----> http://hum.wsum.wisc.edu/high.m3u <----- click on that @ 5pm or Bob Saget will kill you.
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| Welcome to mediocrity |
[22 Nov 2004|02:32am] |
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Note the time this is posted. Yea, thats right, its 2:30am on a Sunday night and I'm sitting here yapping about my pathetic life instead of doing my paper thats due in t-minus 7 hours.
It's been a while since I've updated this beast, so let's bring you up to speed. Bush won, fuck that noise. I had my first big dj gig at a hookah bar called the Casbah downtown. It rocked mega ass. It's not really a danceable venue at all but everyone was on their feet dancin away in between the tables and chairs, it was sweet. I also played at the opening of this little art gallery, but that wasn't as exciting. I also brought my electric guitar and amp to school. "Why is that important?" you may ask. It's not, but fuck you. I guess I'm cranky tonight, I don't normally say that shit...um..oops...moving on.
So I met with my adviser the other day and came to some conclusions. First off, I need to inform you all that I'm taking accounting which is the biggest bullshit class ever to exist. I'll be lucky if I don't kill myself from it this semester, yet some morons spend their entire lives doing that trash. Then again, those are probably the people that leave their trophy wives lying in their mansion while they get sloppy sex from a strung out hooker in the back seat of their Lexus. Whoa, off topic there Charley. Back to the point. So I'm talking to my adviser about proceeding with the pre-business requirements so I can apply to the Business School next semester. She asks me what I'm thinking about business and I gave her a G-rated version of the above rant. Then God bless the woman, she told it like it is: "Why would you spend the rest of your college career studying something you think is bland?" Obvious? You'd think so, but I'm a douche. So then we start throwing out all these other options and I hate them all. I don't wanna graduate with one of these lame degrees and spend the rest of my life in mediocrity. I wanna be kickass. So that's it, I'm gonna be a musician. Fuck the naysayers. This is what I've wanted to do since I was a little kid when I would rock out with my cock out to Def Leppard.
So now I have a few options (I start a lot of paragraphs with "so"). My first option is to audition for this ska band in town called I Voted For Kodos. They've been around for a few years and have kicked ass all over the country. As luck would have it, they need a guitar player. Now my bringing my electric and equipment here has some meaning, eh? So I've talked to the singer and may be doing an audition with them soon. Then its bye bye school and hello rock super-stardom (or some super scaled back version thereof). Another option is do really bang away at this dj/producing thing I've been into. I've finally been talked into sending out some demos to some record labels. They're going in the mail tomorrow. I've had such awesome response to my last few tunes that I'm really starting to get hyped about this. And after playing my first big dj gig I really would like to persue this further. My final option is a sort of compromise between the music and the learning - off to Nashville for a Music Business degree. I visited the school over the summer and it was awesome. They have a sweet program and a killer reputation in the business. I would get some awesome internship opportunities and theoretically a job that I would be really into.
Well hot damn, I've now typed approximately 10x more in my livejournal than I have on my paper, better take care of that.
peez
Edit: Holy shit, I totally forgot that I went snowboarding when I went home last weekend. It was way super fun fantastic. Then I woke up and my back hurt cuz I'm a whiny bitch. The end.
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So, here it is. It's Saturday night at the number 3 party school in the nation, and what am I doing? You guessed it, sitting on my ass.
Anyway, this week sucked. The only thing worth noting happened this week on the way to my radio show: So I was done with class for the day and just came back to my room to chill. I'm sittin on my computer, listening to tunes, playing some online poker, and talking to a few people online. I start to get the feeling that I'm forgetting something, but I figure its just my homework thats piling up and will never get done, so I move on. Then I get an instant message from someone saying something to the effect of "hey, when's your radio show?" FUCK!! I look at the clock and realize I'm supposed to be on the air in 4 minutes. So I grab my cds and bolt for the door. Now the only number I know for the radio station is the one I give out on-air for requests and such, so I figured I'd better call it. The show before me is a political talk show; it usually gets done around 5 minutes before the hour and the dj just plays a few tunes until I go on. I figured this would be a safe time to call up and let her know I would be a few minutes late. So I dial her up. She answers the phone: "WSUM, you're on the air..." FUCK...AGAIN.... Now not only am I gonna look like an ass for being late for my show, I'm now proclaiming my idiocy to the entire listening audience. So I akwardly explain whats happening, failing miserably at not making an ass of myself. So I finally make it to the station, and as soon as I walk in the door someone yells "look who finally showed up to do their show!" I walked into the studio and there stand the dj, two guests and the general manager of the station....all laughing at me.
I also finally heard back from a dj buddy of mine today. He finally listened to my demo cd and said it was great, now he's getting me gigs for next month. BOO YA.
I feel like I'm forgetting something....oh well. I have another day of doing nothing to figure out what it was.
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| Welcome to my world.... |
[20 Oct 2004|05:50pm] |
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Well, I've given in. I've reached a point with school where I'm willing to do just about anything to distract myself, even if that means foregoing my usual introverted tendencies and telling my life to a potentially infinite audience. There are a shit ton of things I could ramble on about right now: how much I suck at school, how I have no idea what I'm doing with my life, how much I hate our president, etc. Instead I will just say hi, and I'm sure I'll post something of substance soon. So for those of you who have come to know me as the kid who doesn't talk much about himself, stay tuned.....
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