What? It’s December already?
Again?
Man, this year has flown by.
And what a year it’s been.

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Personally, it’s been a year with a focus on recording, filming, and releasing new original music every month.
Ok, so I did cheat a little, and one month I released a 35 year old song.
But it was original, and a new recording.
But I made it.
A new, original song every month for a year.
Starting with last year’s Twisted Christmas song.
Actually, it started with the release of eight loop-based songs, to pre-populate my YouTube channel.
I refer to them as The Stones, as they all have “Stone” in the name.
Building Stone, Made in Stone, Hot Stone, Not Set in Stone…
All have “Stone” in the name.
They were a series of experiments, to see what I could do with loops.
Some are more loopy than others.
And then followed by twelve monthly original songs.
Some serious, some silly.
So, twenty original songs released in just over a year.
And I still have another half-dozen at various points of production.
A couple of these, the music is complete, but haven’t been filmed yet.
The rest all need some parts to be recorded before they can be mixed.
So, I’m not done yet.
But I am going to relax the release schedule.
Things will be released when I get them to that point.
But I’m not going to keep to a monthly schedule.
At least for now.
And this year, I’m returning to form, as far as Twisted Christmas is concerned.
This year, one traditional Christmas song was speaking to me.
It needed to be twisted.
See, I’ve always heard about how this time of year is a popular time for suicides.
It seems that depression hits particularly hard during the holiday season.
And this year is likely no exception.
Considering how much gnashing of teeth I’ve seen over the past month.
It could be a problem.
So, if you know of someone who you think could be at risk, reach out.
Let them know that they are not alone.
And that things can get better.
If they just give it a little time.
Anyways, here’s this year’s Twisted Christmas song…

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Twenty years. At this point, it’s been twenty years that I’ve been creating twisting Christmas songs every year.

Twenty years…

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Some years have been better than others.

More inspired.

More twisted.

Some haven’t.

Some years I had more time to spend on it than others.

It’s hard to find the time when you are spending most of your time on the road, in airports and hotels.

It forced me to simplify things.

This year wasn’t one of those.

Looking through the list of potential song to twist, nothing seemed right.

Nothing was calling.

It’s not like I didn’t have the time to spend.

Well, time was available, just needed to put others projects on hold to take the time.

As far as music goes, this has been a particularly creative period, with a ton of new original music in the pipeline.

Joined a band, had to learn their repertoire, maybe get a few of my own additions added as well.

Said a sad and painful goodbye to a beloved pet, and a chaotic welcome of a new one into the family a few months later.

And I do mean chaotic.

Combined with the chaos of a one-year-old grandson starting to walk and get into all sorts of trouble.

And our house full of half-stairways.

In short, life is full of chaos in my house at the moment.

Anything that doesn’t have to be done, is mostly left undone.

So, to say the least, there was a good chance this would fall into that undone category.

As is, it falls more into the category of something to fulfil the obligation than inspired creation.

And it has me wondering how much longer I’ll be producing these.

After all, it’s been twenty years. How many more do I want to do?

Oh well, here’s this year’s Twisted Christmas song.

For the full archive of Twisted Xmas songs, click here.