This page used to be just music I recorded and posted, but now that I’ve started playing around with some other things I figured I’d broaden the scope a bit. So, if I create something I feel is worthy of sharing with the world, I’m going to stick it here.

Enjoy. For what it’s worth, I enjoyed making this stuff.

Writing

Occasionally, I write things, mostly to amuse myself. If I think it’s worth reading, I’ll post it here.

♦ – Rescue in the Feywild: A short adventure module for 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons; suitable for 4th and 5th level characters. A quick interplanar jaunt to rescue a baby unicorn from some suitably monstrous creatures. It’s pretty linear, but my players at the time were young and inexperienced RPG’ers. No statblocks, so you’ll need access to the sourcebooks. In any case, we had fun playing it.

♦ – Live, Without A Net: A quick little Urban Fantasy short story I wrote in December 2009; My nod to the classic “Devil Went Down to Georgia” trope; owing more than a little bit to Emma Bull’s excellent War for the Oaks. Just a vignette, with the suggestion of a larger world. Maybe I’ll run with it one of these days.

♦ – Get Out of my Head!: Here’s the first draft (shoddily edited for punctuation and stuff – I apologize up front for the many errors) of my 2009 NaNoWriMo novel project. It’s very rough, but I haven’t done much with it lately. Eventually, I’ll get around to a full-on re-write, but for now, I’m sticking it out there, because there are a few bits I quite like in amongst all the “first novel” garbage.

Tunes

I’ve been playing guitar and bass and stuff for more than two decades now, for all the good it does me. Actually I have fun with it, if nothing else, and once or twice in the early 90s, it made me enough money to buy a tank of gas.

♦ – Chuck Can’t Play Bass!: Back in 2007, I went on a recording kick. Some of the stuff below is the result, call it an E.P.. I dare you.

• Cookies and Porn: title inspired by something I saw on the front seat of a a car in the parking lot at work.
• Pullin’ Teeth: my little two-minute salute to crisp 80s instrumental guitar rock.
• CF Groove, v2.0: A tighter re-mix of one of my first attempts at home recording. Cool bit? Backwards drums.
• Reef Ridge Aeration: Another shuffly instrumental which proves I have exactly 45 seconds of second-rate lead guitar chops (hey, I’m really a rhythm guy, but I try…).
• Thursday: A consciously lighter, less aggressive pop instrumental; with a little bit of piano in the background for variety – of course, I couldn’t nail the simple five-note line, so what you hear in the track are the keyboard stylings of my lovely wife.