Did some Mario Kart hollerin' All the Course Overview themes, but a cappella!

2025 Great British Bake Off: “Your technical challenge is a Gâteau de Souffrance with exquisite fondant decorations, encircled by a sugarwork cage” Season 1 Bake Off: “Just make some scones pls”

Goldeneye N64 sometimes gets flak for not "aging well," but that doesn't take away from how important it was. I'll be clear, here. Goldeneye CHANGED video games—especially console shooters. It's not gonna hit as hard for new players, but it was WAY ahead of its time and I still enjoy it now.

In 2025, I: - Ran 400 miles - Watched 25 seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race / All Stars - DMed 24 sessions of my D&D campaign - Finished 8 books (three of which were the Red Rising trilogy) - Started 25 video games - Finished 3 video games (...hmm)

2026 will be the year that I finally release this dang track

Merry Christmas, folks! 🎄 Grateful for this VGM community and looking forward to making more cool stuff in the new year!

I’ve lately been using an app that has a paid subscription, but doesn’t automatically renew; you have to choose to pay for it again and again to keep using it More apps should do this, it rules

The Bob-omb Battlefield cover on TikTok took me from 37K views in all of 2025 to 81K. Feels good to get an algorithmic boost every now and then!

Here's my new version of Bob-omb Battlefield, featuring @stevenhigbee.bsky.social!

In May of 2009, I uploaded my first cover: an a cappella version of Bob-omb Battlefield recorded in my college dorm room on my laptop microphone. It's so bad that's it's kinda funny in retrospect. I re-arranged and recorded a new version and it's dropping this Wednesday!

At the art and crafts store supposedly stocked by local artisans, and at least a third of the stuff here is obviously AI-generated or resold garbage from Temu

Happy Thanksgiving, y’all!

Saw Wicked 2 and it reminded me of that Bilbo Baggins quote about “butter scraped over too much bread”. Too much padding was required to split the story it into two movies. I can’t wait to watch the inevitable single-3-hour-film fan edit!

Bought myself one of those retro game handhelds and so far, spending my downtime playing games from my childhood instead of doomscrolling has been a big life improvement

Best postseason I’ve ever watched. Go Blue Jays; y’all should be so proud.

Gutted by the outcome, but so glad I could witness some all-time baseball this week

The Bowser Battle theme from Super Mario Galaxy, a cappella!

spookypella VGM cover dropping on Halloween

NBC brought the NBA theme back from the 90s and I’m very normal about it This cover was requested and supported by my Patreon!

Sometimes I wish life were like Stardew Valley, where hard work always inevitably pays off And then I remember that in Stardew you're typically doing non-stop back-breaking labor from 6 AM to midnight

In D&D tonight I used a special ability to give myself a total of +13 on Persuasion checks for a very important roleplaying encounter, and then immediately rolled two Nat 1s in a row

Outlandish Nintendo Direct Predictions - Golden Sun 4 - Animal Crossing: Newer Leaf Horizons - Mario Kart World DLC - The GoldenEye XBLA remake gets surprise-dropped for some reason - At least three cozy farming simulators

Here's my take on Gerudo Valley, with help from my friend W. Mark Akin on guitar! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhJP...

More "Ph.D-level intelligence" on display from Google's AI when I'm looking for some sheet music Although I'd give @gabrielkahane.bsky.social an A+ for this score

I sang some barbershop for @tylermire.bsky.social’s score to this game! Definitely give this one a try.

There it is again, that funny feeling 🎵

Making fun a cappella videos so I don’t doom-scroll

Really enjoying the gameplay loop of Tiny Bookshop so far. There’s enough mechanics to make it feel like there’s actual strategy, but not too much to be overwhelming. It’s also very fun to go to an IRL bookshop after playing and see books you just recommended to the NPCs

BANANZAPPELLA! Here’s my cover of the Lagoon Layer theme! #dkbananza youtu.be/7jmZrq1A2I8

The thumbnail meta for cover artists these days seems to be: - Action shot of musician - Game logo - The main character Gonna try an A/B test with my usual format against my attempt at this meta and see what happens

One of my all-time favorite high-quality rips. It's gonna be m(ining melancholy)

This ended up causing a sixteen-session arc where the party had to go through three levels of Hell, but they got her back from the Void last night!

BananazapellaVGM in progress

Donkey Kong Bananza is FUNNNN I could probably lose my whole Saturday to this game easily

I saw this concert in person, and let me tell you, I pledged this Kickstarter *immediately*. This album is going to be fantastic!

The Mario Kart World soundtrack is such a good reminder that it's okay to change things up with our cover arrangements. Reharmonize the chord progression! Make it slower and groovy! Syncopate the heck out of the melody! Add some swing! Take the swing out! Go crazy!

Come to Nashville, where we serve Pulled Dork!

Sometimes people ask me for advice on creating, and the best advice I have is that there is no shortcut that will help you avoid the suck. I am sorry. You absolutely have to suck before you get good

Googled an FDR quote to find its source. The AI tells me the quote is actually a myth, FDR never said it, and to research my sources critically. The reason AI said this was because the same quote was cited in an article that had the word "myth" in the title. The quote's 100% real, btw. Awesome!

100% intended, absolutely how I drew it up, pro gamer strategy #MarioKartWorld

An unlisted vlog of mine got copyright claimed for featuring a preview of an upcoming arrangement, but the claimant is a remix artist, not even the original rights holder (Nintendo). Do I just dispute this?

Nintendo Switch 2 secured!

🏝️ New video! Kicking off my fifth year of A Cappella Summer VGM with "Toad Harbor" from Mario Kart 8! #vgm #mariokart #videogamemusic

I had a flat tire on the interstate today, and let me say: one thing that has REALLY improved the experience is owning my own tire inflator. Got it filled enough to drive to a tire shop, and I didn’t have keep trying random gas stations and hoping they had a pump that wasn’t broken.

My face hurts from so much laughing @dropout.tv

Join us tonight at 6 pm PT / 9 pm ET! On the Bonus Stage #Twitch channel: twitch.tv/bonusstagevan

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Lounging in the Velvet Room begins with @acappellavgm.bsky.social's incredible a cappella arrangement of Beneath the Mask inspired by vocal jazz groups like The Swingle Singers, Take 6, and The Real Group. Preorder today and get ACappellaVGM's track now! Preorder now: lnk.to/velvet-room #Persona5

I'm working on an album that has some new tracks, but also a lot of my old tracks, and it's so difficult to get them to all sound good together! The old tracks were recorded in a different room with a different mic and a very different level of technical understanding.