Gaming, readings, music, and miscellany.
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Video Series
Staying on Theme
A video series exploring musical composition in media and how it relates to storytelling. Releases on YouTube, Mondays at 9AM EST.
Silent hill 2 (2024)
- White Noise (Actual Noise)
- What Lurks in the Forest
- Anam Cara
- Ordinary Vanity’s Solitude
- Promise of the Forgotten
- Laura Plays the Piano (2024)
- Beneath the Null Moon
- Lament of Heaven’s Night
- Shadow of the Lover’s Tree
- Echoes of Silence
- Magdalene’s Elusive Lament
- James Find Eddie in Prison
- After Daddy
- Fermata in Mistic Air
- Laura Plays the Piano (2024) [Revisited]
- True (2024)
- Blank Fairy
- Theme of Laura (Repetition)
- Unhinged Betrayal
- Umbra Veil
- Love Psalm of Eternal Devotion
- Overdose Delusion (Existence & Truth)
- Promise (Pragma Version)
Ian Reads…
Dramatic readings of stories from literature, the Internet, and beyond.
Scary stories for halloween (2025)
- The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Pooka (abridged), by E. W.
- High Beams, as told by Alvin Schwartz (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark)
- NoEnd House, by Brian Russell
- The Disappearance of Ashley, Kansas, by CoasterKid93
- SCP-3300, by rumetzen
- The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe
Video Game Playthroughs
Musician Plays Silent Hill 4: The Room
SPOILER WARNING: Medium spoilers throughout. Watch at your own risk!
My full Twitch playthrough of Silent Hill 4: The Room, the last game made by the original Team Silent (and something of a spinoff to Silent Hill 2), including music commentary, story commentary, and full spoiler discussion from the very beginning.
- Preamble
- Part 1: The opening “dream” sequence, Henry’s apartment, and the Subway World
- Part 2: The Forest and Water Prison Worlds
- Part 3: The Building and Apartment Worlds
- Part 4: The Hospital World and the Subway World – 2nd Time
- Part 5: The Forest World – 2nd Time
- Part 6: The Water Prison and Building Worlds – 2nd Time
- Part 7: FINALE (Streaming 4/15/26)
Silent Hill 2 (2024) FULL SPOILER/MUSIC COMMENTARY
SPOILER WARNING: Major plot spoilers FROM THE OUTSET. Watch at your own risk!
My full Twitch playthrough of the 2024 Silent Hill 2 remake, including music commentary, story commentary, and full spoiler discussion from the very beginning. Also includes non-gameplay chats with Andy Sudol, a sound engineer, and Vic Frederick, an English/Creative Writing MFA.
- Part 0 (Preamble)
- Part 1: Opening, the Graveyard, and reaching Neely’s Bar
- Part 2: Exploring East South Vale and completing the Jukebox puzzle
- Part 3: Woodside Apartments
- Part 4: Otherworld Blue Creek Apartments and Rosewater Park
- Part 5: Traveling South Vale with Maria
- Music Production Discussion with sound engineer Andy Sudol
- Part 6: Brookhaven Hospital
- Part 7: Otherworld Brookhaven
- Part 8: Otherworld South Vale, Rosewater at night, the Historical Society, and the descent
- Part 9: Toluca Prison (Part 1)
- Storytelling and Gameplay Discussion with English/Creative Writing MFA Vic Frederick
- Part 10: Toluca Prison (Part 2)
- Part 11: The Labyrinth (Part 1)
- Part 12: The Labyrinth (Part 2), crossing Toluca Lake, entering the Lakeview Hotel
- Part 13: The Lakeview Hotel, the Dog Ending, and the Bliss Ending
- Part 14 – FINALE: Room 312, the final Boss battles, and the Stillness Ending
- Part 15 – LOOSE ENDS: The Rebirth, Maria, UFO, In Water, and Leave Endings
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