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Timon Marmex
5+ albums
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From http://whitecollarpunk.com/wcpunk/timon.html : Timon Marmex is a high-powered programming contractor living in Los Angeles, California. That being said, indeed, many of the songs on White Collar Punk are, in fact, about the stress of working long hours as a programmer in the video game industry. Certainly, songs like Hello Sailor and Running Down wouldn't exist otherwise. In the past I've worked in everything from your typical large company "Dilbert-esque" environment to running my own little development effort. I've seen companies, large and small, crumble around me. These situations provide me with great musical inspriation to this day. The stress I felt was very real, and very intense, and the resulting lack of sleep had a tremendous impact on certain songs. More recent songs on my new album, The Drama, have been influence by my relationships with other people here in Los Angeles. Musically, I've been active since the mid 1980's as part of the Maryland-based band Hoi-Polloi... who were completely ignorant of the other band with the same name that actually had a recording contract. This band never toured or released any tapes except to a few friends, which is probably a good thing. Eventually, the band members went their seperate ways and can pretty much be considered disbanded at this point. Many of my newer songs deal with the growing physical and psychological distance between myself and my friends, including the songs "I Don't Think So (In the Mirror)", and "Ca
