Get Your Own Personalized Song by B. Tyler Margison!

btyler is writing songs about you and for you!




This idea comes mostly from Say Anything lead singer, Max Bemis, who did this same thing earlier last year.

I decided to use this same concept to assist in funding my [hopeful] trip to New York to attend the 789 YouTube Gathering during the week of July 8th, 2009, since I am experiencing some incredible difficulties in getting a real job.


Here's the gist.

• Every song will be full-length and personalized for he or she who purchases the song.

• Songs will be $30 USD each. PayPal will be used for transactions.

• When you buy a song, there is a text box above the "Buy Now" button where you insert your e-mail address.

• Soon after payment has gone through, I will send an e-mail from btylermargison [at] gmail [dot] com to the e-mail address given to get information.

• After you receive your e-mail, you reply with 2-3 paragraphs describing a situation in your life or a general issue about which you think should have a song written.

• In around 1-3 weeks, you should receive an e-mail with your personalized song inside, as well as lyrics and a title. If there are any errors or the process is taking an abnormally long time, I will send a message to ensure that I am still working on it.

• All lyrics and music will be written by me (btyler, B. Tyler Margison), and will be self-recorded.

• All music will be acoustic, played on acoustic guitar, with varying styles and tempos, and sung by me (btyler, B. Tyler Margison).

• Under most circumstances, no song will go unwritten. Above all, I want to please the customers and fans.

• This song will be written from me to you, and I will not be releasing it to anyone else. This is YOUR song, and you don't have to share it with anyone else (unless you want to, of course).

Here are a few items to include when responding to the initial e-mail:

• Name
• Age
• Gender
• Location
• Favorite bands
• Style of your personalized song (serious, comedic, parody, etc.)
• Maximum profanity level ("G", "PG", "PG-13", "R", or if you want more fun in it, "Wall-E", "The Simpsons", "Yes Man!", "Scarface")

And, of course, what you want your song to be about. This can be a song referencing a specific situation in your life (include deep details), it can be a song just about you (wherein, I would need information about you), or it can be about an issue that you have strong beliefs in (political, economical, comical, etc.).

Remember, this song is yours, personalized just for you, and no one else. Under no circumstances will it be released to the public for commercial purposes.

One thing I'd like to include is that, whether you want a song or not, pass this song along. I mean, really pass it along. Make this a forward e-mail, and send it out. Because even if you don't want this at all, maybe someone else will. Go on Facebook or MySpace and post the link as many times and as often as possible.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Let's make this viral.


Now, if you're interested, feel free to insert your e-mail address below and press the "buy now" button to begin the process.

Again, I greatly appreciate all help and all customers that come through. And I hope to see a lot of other YouTubers at the 789 YouTube Gathering in a few weeks.

email address to contact

NOTE: The current cost of a personalized song ($30) is temporary. If the demand starts to increase, and I become overloaded with songs, I may need to increase price. In this case, get songs soon to guarantee a low price.

Thanks again for all your help.

-btyler

Big New Thing

Knowing that I won't be able to get a job and get paid soon enough before financing for the 789 YouTube Gathering should begin, I've decided that I'm going to sell one of my biggest skills.

I'm not going to give too much away until tomorrow, when a new video will be up, but let's just say that it's going to involve music, and YOU, the viewer/reader/listener/consumer.

Have you ever wanted to have a song written just for you?
Now you can.

See you tomorrow.

-btyler

Mommy always said I was unique...

I received an e-mail from an unnamed source recently that simply had this link:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/12/813/27b

Now, I already knew there was another Brandon Tyler Margison in the world. But for there to be three total Tyler Margisons is just too many. I went from being 50% of the world’s Tyler Margisons, to 33.3% of the world’s Tyler Margisons. That’s too much of a drop.

I have assassins on their ways to respective houses. Soon, I shall once again be the only one left.

Vote for Corey [PRIZES!]

My friend and fellow YouTuber, Corey Vidal, has been nominated for a 2009 People's Choice Award for Favorite User-Generated Video for his video, "Star Wars A Capella Tribute".

One thing about it is Corey is giving away lots of cool prizes, including a PS3 and Xbox 360 to supporters on his Facebook group and subscribers on his YouTube channel. Well, I really want a Playstation 3, so I should probably keep the supporters to a minimum so I have more of a chance, but I'm really excited to get Corey to win.

Voting ends on January 7th, 2009 at 9 p.m., and you can vote once every 24 hours. So please vote by going to www.pcavote.com and voting as much and as often as possible. Even if you don't like him, help get the YouTube community out there. And maybe I'll get a PS3 for what could be considered a late birthday present.

I appreciate it greatly, and so does Corey, I'm sure.

Here are some links for you:
Corey Vidal's YouTbue Channel
Video Encouraging Voting
Facebook Group

Thanks a lot.

NOW GO VOTE!!! ;)

/btyler

Bliss.

I'm not going to write a huge, extensive vlog like the one I transferred into handwriting last night. But I just want to say that I had an amazing Christmas, and I hope everyone else did as well.

I love my Kaitlyn. She's just too amazing for words. :)

Happy Holidays, everyone.

/btyler

Transcript: "An 'Exclusive' Survey"

Video:


YouTube Video Description:

The B.eaT. with btyler
a btmzx production

Just a little bit about me. More information coming soon.

Video response to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DBS8u...

With help from:
http://www.youtube.com/PDXvlog


For transcript, answers, and explanations, visit:
http://www.btylermargison.com

Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/btyler

Facebook fan:
http://www.tinyurl.com/btylerfan

BlogTV [live on Sundays @ 9pm]:
http://www.blogtv.com/people/btylerma...

-btyler

Transcript (+explanations):

Cut: This is an exclusive survey... sorta.

INTRO

Cut: Now, I'm going to try to do this as fast as I can, there's a link over in the sidebar to where I got this from. My good friend, JP, PDXvlog, is the one who sent me there, go ahead and check him out, he's in the sidebar as well. I am NOT going to repeat the question when I answer them, I'm just going to answer them as fast as possible. But I will put something down around in this part what the question is, so you can keep up with what I'm saying... so here we go!

Name: Brandon Tyler Margison
Nickname: btyler, Tyler, b.Tm, B. Tyler Margison, and "Hey Get Outta My Way"
Birthdate: December 28, 1989
Birthplace: Corbin, Kentucky
Hometown: Nashville, Indiana
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 185 lbs.
Occupation: Student, Vlogger, Freelance Videographer.
School: Indiana State University as of next semester.
Righty or Lefty: Righty.
Heritage: I don't really have a heritage, I'm the mutt of a lot of different cultures.
Favorite Color: Green
Favorite Animal: Penguin
Favorite TV Show: I hate television. (Although, I do enjoy The Office, but mostly watch Sportscenter and NBA games)
Favorite Movie: The Dark Knight (The first that came to mind, but I have a lot of other favorites)
Favorite Cartoon: I don't like cartoons.
Favorite Song: Tiffany Blews (by Fall Out Boy from their new album, Folie à Deux)
Favorite Sport: Basketball
Favorite Actor / Actress: Johnny Depp
Favorite Musician: Fall Out Boy
Favorite Athlete: Gerald Wallace (NBA player for the Charlotte Bobcats)
Favorite Comedian: Bill Hicks (The late great)
Favorite Food: Anything Greek, Italian, or Chinese.
Favorite Drink: Coke (-a Cola)
Favorite Number: 11
Favorite School Subject: English
Favorite Clothing: Hats (Duhhh)
Favorite Book: Paper Towns (by John Green, vlogbrother!)
Favorite Snack Food: Anything that can be considered snack food.
Favorite Season: Summer (I hate the wintertime with a passion. I can't stand cold weather.)
Hobby: Making videos.
Talent: Playing guitar.
Age of first kiss: 2
Age you lost your virginity: Not applicable.
Age you got married: Not applicable.
Age you had your first kid: 18 (I'm the proud father of two baby stuffed koalas, Zero and Lacey Ann :D)
Have you ever been drunk: Yes
Have you ever gotten high: Yes
Have you ever been arrested: No
Have you ever been in a fight: Yes... sorta (I've been punched in the back of the head twice, but never fought back)
Have you ever been in an accident: Yes (Twice, once, someone backed into my car, the second, my ex wrecked into a ditch.)
Fears: I have a lot of them, but there's a video coming out about that soon.
Most important possession(s): My laptop and my car
Pet Peeve: I have a lot of these as well.
Number of Tattoos: None.
Number of Piercings: None.
Best quality: Sense of humor.
Best physical trait: My hair...? (I'm one of those people who don't see anything interesting with their own bodies. I hate my body.)

In the opposite sex...

Cute or Sexy (In the words of the guy who made this, "sexy girls can't be trusted")
Taller or Shorter (Height doesn't entirely matter, but I've always prefered short girls.)
Lips or Eyes (I like staring. Is that creeper?)
Petite or Big (Doesn't really matter, I've had my share of both.)
Sweet or Caring ("Sweet" is compassionately faking it. Caring is real.)
Easygoing or Serious (Both, when each is respectively necessary.)
Sensitive or Loud (Again, both, when each is respectively necessary.)

Thoughts on...

Abortion - Pro-Choice (You have no right to choose for other people.)
Gay Marriage - Pro-Choice ("The sanctity of traditional marriage" is a hock of crap.)
Gun Control - Pro-Choice (Just don't kill ME)
God - He exists. (It's my belief, and I have faith.)
Aliens - They might exist. (We haven't proved it, but there's no way we were the ONLY planet created)

CUT: So if you happen to have missed any and or all of this video, go ahead to the sidebar, there's a link to my website, where you can find the entire transcript of what was said during the video. So go ahead and go there and check it out and visit often because I tend to put a lot of stuff on there. I'm btyler, and this has been The B.eaT.

OUTRO

NOTE: Bloopers at end.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoyed the video.

/btyler.

Sleep and Sickness Never Happen at the Same Time

So I have a problem. When I'm feeling as sick as I am now, I can't sleep. It's not a normal whatever kind of cold or whatever, just bleh. I can usually sleep with that, because a bottle of Nyquil and two gallons of Coke is a combination from God.

The issue is that I get nauseated, and I can't sleep. My stomach is dancing around like Dane Cook on stage, and is just as obnoxious and annoying. So when I'm feeling this sick, we don't have anything in the house to combat it, so what do I do? I stay up, listening to stand-up comedy and playing NBA 2k8 on my PS2 until it goes away. If it doesn't go away, well, I'm screwed.

Regardless, sometimes, I manage to come up with ideas, though useless and irrelevant to anything that has ever existed.

For example, (trust me, you'll hate the following description) I was playing NBA, and I have a created player who has perfect scores in every single category (mid-range shooting, dunking, blocking, etc.). Well, I play on the hardest difficulty, and though I have this one perfect player, and a semi-stacked team, I still managed to lose games. And since I'm trying to get started in sports journalism, somewhat, and covering basketball games for my local newspaper (my dad's current job, but someone needs to cover the away games), I thought it would be interesting, at least slightly, to write sports articles about the games I play on my system.

Another example, what would happen is, I play a game and write things down as they happen, such as game-changing moments, etc. Then, afterwards, I write a however-many-word article about the game, the highlights and lowlights, being sure to talk about all the different blahbittybloo that happens in the game, whatever.

It may seem like a lame idea to you, and why I'm sharing it, I don't even know, but if I'm trying to at least pump up my writing ability, and get some experience, what better than a no-credentials-needed video game, played by me, where I can make up moments that happened in the game, et cetera and so forth.

I personally think this idea is just off the charts as far as my capacity goes for ideas. It's better than sitting around and playing Dragon Ball Z on my Playstation like a nine-year-old who still believes that Chewbacca's real, and the moon is made of cheese.


For another update on my life, I put in an application for Starbucks earlier today [12/9/08], which is probably the most-likely place I'll work. And I couldn't be happier if I got a job there. It's the perfect job for me, surrounded by unnaturally happy people and all the caffeinated beverages I could guzzle from a beer bong. A friend of mine told me about her experiences working there, saying that it's hard labor, but unbelievably worth it.

But looking at it that way, I worked at the worst McDonald's on the planet for two and a half years. And this isn't just an exaggeration. Have you seen the movie, "Waiting"? We were the McDonald's of Waiting. Or Waiting of McDonald's... something like that. But we were horrible. We didn't care. We couldn't give two damns and a side of bacon for what went on.

All we did was just gossip and fail at life, and after a while, I broke from the monotony, looked myself in the mirror after slashing my wrists with a grease-covered spatula, and said, "Listen, you've got to set yourself apart from these people. You have to be the best damn employee anyone's ever seen at such a horrible McDonald's." And I did. For a few months. And after those few months, I had taken a lot of time off to go to the 888 YouTube Gathering in Canada, and I had to send my girlfriend off to college, and everything just became a spinning mess of "I want to get the hell out of here".

So I quit. And I've gone on a tangent about all this, but the point is, I've worked hard before. I've worked my ass off for a bunch of people who had nothing better to do than judge other people based on useless crap, whether or not they'd been working perfectly for twelve straight hours without a break or breather. I think that, at worst, I'll be able to work my way through Starbucks to get money for Christmas. I can then transfer to Terre Haute next semester when I leave for Indiana State University, and if it's not better then, I will have learned my lesson, and will begin seeking out jobs before quitting.

Here's my final point. Life's about learning. Whether we learn from our mistakes, or learn from staying up late because our tummy-tums won't stop having burning feelings, we do learn. And I have a lot to learn right now. I have to learn patience, I have to learn to stop procrastinating, I have to learn how to handle jobs, I have to learn how to write articles, I have to learn how to handle life in general.

I'll leave you with a quote that is very possibly irrelevant to this subject, and this whole blog. But when I was filling out my Starbucks application, there was a question that asked, as I paraphrase, "What's a specific moment in which you have given excellent customer service? Why did this matter?" My reply was that I had very often been the person picked at McDonald's to be in the drive-thru, because I was very kind to everyone who came through. I gave them respect, and was as thoughtful as I would hope someone would be to me." And at the end, I put this:

"Positive attitude is received, only when first given."

Think about that for a while, if you will.

Please comment on your feelings about this blog, or just to tell me to f***off and that I'm a lamer, whatever. And if you could, I ask that you pray, wish, send positive vibes, whatever your faith, religion, or creed tells you, all in hopes that I get this Starbucks job. I'm resting a lot of my own faith on this, because it's really my last resort before I resort to prostitution, even though Kaitlyn said I'm not allowed. Mommy and Daddy probably wouldn't be too happy either. Nor God, Jesus, the Holy Ghost, etc.

If you read all this, I appreciate it, and I hope that you all have a nice restoftheweek.


/btyler