I made this song in two hours with a premade amen break sample and two Moog Grandmother tracks. It is a silly, simple track, but I like it, and it was hella fun to make. Feel free to use it in your...
2025-02-14 04:47:48 +0000 UTC View PostEDIT: UH OH Don't know why the text in this post got deleted! 2025-02-14 04:44:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! This is gonna be a shorter Progress Report, because this month has been a very bad one!
Hey y'all, it's been a pretty rough start to the year here in LA (and also maybe everywhere), but Karen and I are safe. Our apartment is, by some unbelievable luck, still standing. Here are the lin...
2025-01-21 19:40:42 +0000 UTC View Post
GOODBYE TO YOU, 2024! HELLO TO THE NEW YEAR! If you’re reading this, you did it! You made it through another very challenging year in a string of challenging years. And that’s pretty incredible...
2024-12-31 18:07:33 +0000 UTC View Postokay don't tell anyone because we weren't supposed to film anything at the BLIB concert
but let's just say that a kind fan (cough cough karen in the balcony...
2024-12-29 17:24:26 +0000 UTC View PostPlease forgive me for an extremely unhinged brecommendation for the month, but Michael Bay's Pain & Gain is a Michael Bay movie that parodies Michael Bay movies, and it's astonishing. And since...
2024-12-17 21:52:36 +0000 UTC View PostHello and howdy! Sending out this Progress Report right before I go hang out with Jordan & Jarvis on Sad Boyz Live...
2024-11-30 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI had a ton of fun figuring out how to film/edit this video in order to make it look alright, so here's a video talking through the production of it! Hope it inspires you to make your own Honey-I-S...
2024-11-19 05:06:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's Talking Small! No stems this time since Louie did all of music work, but feel free to listen to it here or on streaming! (2024-11-19 03:31:58 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a new Louie Zong & BDG song!
This was extremely fun to make because we did the songwriting process in the reverse of what I'm used to: I wrote lyrics and a melody, and he wrote the m...
2024-11-15 18:43:51 +0000 UTC View PostI'm back to recommending things! And as always, I spent way more time than I had planned to answer some questions and talk about coming back from my break!
Links/media mentioned:
NOTE: I'll be catching up on the behind-the-scenes/blooper videos of the videos I posted during the hiatus starting now! It might take a little while, but I'll try to get them finished o...
2024-11-01 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the full track of Silent Love! You should also be able to stream it today! Enjoy!
2024-11-01 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
October is over, and the Patreon is back up and running! And that means it's time for a !!!!BIG PROGRESS REPORT!!!!
the boys, as they say, are back in town.
Ian "Worthikids" Worthington came through a few weeks ago to make a song with Louie Zong and myself that absolutely smacks of Steely Dan...
2024-10-30 23:27:37 +0000 UTC View Post
You might have seen the post on Instagram, but Louie Zong, Ian Worthington (Worthikids), and I are doing a little li...
2024-10-22 20:54:32 +0000 UTC View PostCome! A Jaunty Quest awaits you!
Here's a video that's about taking a daring quest, but it's actually about how I started getting weirdly self-conscious going to the grocery store after the p...
2024-10-18 22:55:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe BDG business groundhog has come out of his den and is predicting one more month of Patreon pause! This is a reference to Groundhog Day. The holiday, not the movie. I'm not stuck in a time loop....
2024-09-30 22:08:19 +0000 UTC View PostI've had this video ready for the past month, but I've been sitting on it for a while.
The main reason is because I haven't decided when I want to post it on my channel yet (or if I'm going t...
2024-09-28 21:08:31 +0000 UTC View PostI finally can share the kids show proof-of-concept that Karen and I got to work on earlier this year! It's called Outdoor Ed, and I play a 20-foot-tall mountain man. Here's the official copy from t...
2024-09-21 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostLook at that, I made a video this month!
Hey hey! I finally finished up this video, which will be going live on September 9th! I love to make a video that has a deadline built into it.
I'm planning to go through all of the footage I...
2024-08-26 19:15:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I'm finally writing that quick Progress Report I promised!
Thanks for your patience on the delay of this one—I've been busy working on the next season of Um, Actually, and I j...
2024-08-04 18:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
I'm going to keep the text part of this post quick since I go into more detail in the video above, but here are the main updates.
I'll be taking a lo...
2024-06-25 23:24:41 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time for another Brian Brecommends that goes long because I can't stop talking about a thing. That's right, it's MAGIC THE GATHERING.
Oh, and also Juanpalitoschinos, a great band that ju...
2024-06-14 22:44:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Phew! Made it through May. That's one extremely busy month down, probably one or two left to go.
It's a new Brian Brecommends! And I have once again fallen into the indie game vortex with a strange one, ANIMAL WELL.
Links mentioned:
Another dang month over! Hot dog!
Karen and I went to the renaissance fair so I included those photos in this post, because why not? Almost all of the clothing I am wearing is from Karen. I w...
2024-05-01 00:07:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The business begins.
(I'm making burgers)
2024-04-30 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post