Breakfast: The Musical!

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 at 6:26pm

Yes, you read that right: a musical about breakfast. And why not? Who hasn’t wanted to break into song about oatmeal? Or yogurt. It’s 9:15 a.m. and I’m eating a Pop-Tart as I type this. And singing about it. See what I mean?

 

Late last summer-into-fall, I worked on a web series produced by Disney for Kellogg’s and Milk called CeReality. The 100-episode series followed the morning chaos of five families. Each family had a different concept – one spoofed horror films, another was a soap-opera parody, etc., and one was a musical. Yes, a family that would spontaneously break into songs about breakfast. It was all tongue-in-cheek and a blast to work on. I worked with lyricist Amy Forstadt to come up with 10 songs, in different genres: country, disco, ’80s pop, electronica, punk and more. For this one, we channeled as much Journey and Night Ranger as we could stomach and came up with a reverb-drenched rock ballad, called “Two Hearts, Two Spoons.”

 

 

Cary Okmin executive-produced for Disney, and Barry Samson and his tireless crew at Toybox Entertainment produced the entire series. Full cast and crew are listed here.

Morsel #3 – Lazybones

Morsel #3 – Lazybones: “Kit’s Upset”: This is a cue I wrote for Lazybones, a silent feature film I scored for 20th Century Fox, for a DVD boxed set called “Murnau, Borzage and Fox.” Click on the green button to listen, and see the Work page for project details.

I upload a shiny new piece of my music each week. You can sign up to be notified via email when a new one is posted. I’ll announce it on Facebook and Twitter, too. Oh, and remember, there’s always plenty more music on the Work page.

Morsel #2 – Death Match

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 at 10:19am

Morsel #2 – Death Match: I wrote this for a climactic fight scene for a film called Maximum Cage Fighting: The Movie. Don’t linger too long on the title, listen to the music instead. Just click on that little button.

I upload a shiny new piece of my music each week. You can sign up to be notified via email when a new one is posted. I’ll announce it on Facebook and Twitter, too. Oh, and remember, there’s always plenty more music on the Work page.

Morsel #1 – Pirates of the Caribbean

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 at 7:12pm

Morsel #1 – Pirates of the Caribbean: This guy George Vlosich creates amazing art with an Etch A Sketch. Disney hired him to Etch A Sketch their best-known brands and to create a time-lapse video chronicle as he worked. They hired me to score the videos. This one’s for Pirates of the Caribbean. Just click on that little button.

I upload a shiny new piece of my music each week. You can sign up to be notified via email when a new one is posted. I’ll announce it on Facebook and Twitter, too. Oh, and remember, there’s always plenty more music on the Work page.

Grand Re-Opening/The Third Rule Hits iTunes!

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 7:40pm

Cut the ribbon with the giant scissors and cue the marching band – my new website is up! It’s chock-full of my music, plenty of pictures and movies, my thoughts on various and sundry musical things, and what else…oh yeah, did I mention music to listen to? Enough of my music to keep you coming back from now until, well, let’s just say, a long time from now. A week, at least (see the latest Tim’s Almost Weekly Morsel o’ Music).

And now, an announcement: A film I scored recently, The Third Rule, will be available on iTunes in February. It’s a comedy short, directed by Aundre Johnson, starring Anthony Hopkins, Jason Biggs, Joel David Moore and Josh Hutcherson. As soon as I know the formal release date, I’ll post it here.

In other news, there’s lots of other news, none of which I can really talk about now. Top secret stuff, in differing states of doneness – and which, as soon as I can mention in detail, I certainly will. In the short time between now and the next update, please enjoy listening over and over to this jingle I composed for Hardee’s.