“Never wait for permission.” - Arlin Godwin

My name is Paul Arlin Godwin and I'm a full time filmmaker, writer, graphic designer, video editor, and electronic music artist living in Washington, DC.  If you're looking for my short films they're here on the FILMMAKING page. Dozens of my electronic music tracks are also here and at virtually every music service in the world.  I've had a decades-long career in broadcast television and a vast amount of experience in almost every area of that business. I worked for the ABC TV affiliate in Washington, DC - WJLA for more than 24 years. Prior to that I was at Atlantic Video, the largest production studios in the Mid-Atlantic at that time, where I produced every conceivable kind of graphics work, edited music videos for Donna Summer and Parliament Funkadelic, directed commercials, shot green screen, budgeted half million dollar projects, and served as Senior Designer for the company, working for The Discovery Channel, MTV, National Media, VH1, CBS, Sony Music, NBC, Polygram Records, ABC, Fox, Black Entertainment TV, and Ted Koppel Communications, to name only a fraction of my client list.  I also worked on hundreds of political television ads including extensive work on 3 United States Presidential campaigns—back in the roaring '90s. 

Today, I live about 5 blocks from the big white mansion (so far I have not attempted to borrow sugar).  I write and record original music in my mess-of-a-home studio almost every day of my life and somehow still find time 
to make movies and television shows. Life is good.

PICTURES + SOUND

Is this a blog or what? Am I just ranting? Pretty much. 
PICTURES + SOUND is the digital equivalent of that loud friend who talks through the movie but 
makes excellent points. I have opinions, far too many of them, and sorry but no apologies. 
It's called freedom of speech.

    THAT TIME I WORKED FOR DONNA SUMMER

    Springtime 1994. I’m sitting at a table with super-diva Donna Summer—in an absurdly expensive Italian restaurant in Manhattan. We're both sampling out-of-this-world spaghetti carbonara and discussing, for 2 hours, what I can and can not put on screen in a…

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    MORE ABOUT HOW I MASTER MY OWN MUSIC

    You might (or might not) notice, when listening to my music,  that I don’t master my tracks as loudly as they could be. 

    But first things first. You might be wondering, "What in the world is mastering?" 

    Well, mastering happens…

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    HOW TO RECORD AN ALBUM IN YOUR BEDROOM

    These days there's no reason why you can't record a full blown album in your own bathroom, if you know what you're doing. Actually, I wouldn't try it in a bathroom because there's never enough electrical outlets in there. 

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    CREATING "THE SECRET LIFE OF BOYS"

    Long before I DREAM DEEP this article focuses on the first album I recorded in 2001, THE SECRET LIFE OF BOYS:

    BOY SEVENTEEN 
    The first thing that I wrote in January 2001 - in my new apartment in Southwest DC…

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    MASTERING YOUR OWN MIXES: IT'S NOT THAT HARD

    Amongst all the mysteries in the business-of-recording-music there is one that strikes fear into the hearts of musicians and artists the world over to a much greater extent than just about anything else. Especially if you are a so called…

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    OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW

    The coolest thing I've done lately is upgrade my home studio gear. Out went the 10 year Dell and in came a brand new HP Z-Book Mobile Workstation and an external 20" monitor. I also stopped using the old SONAR…

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    SIGNING WITH MONDO TUNES

    After having been out of the on-line stores for a little over a month---3 of my albums (The Secret Life of Boys, Rush Push, and Remixes Demos & Bootlegs) are back in a big way.  Thanks to the fine people…

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    RETROSPECTIVE ALBUMS COMING IN JANUARY

    So I got the whole process of movie making a little bit out of my system by making a short film called THE MAN IN 813 which went on to screen at the 2011 DC SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL and eventually… Read more
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    MAKING MOVIES

    In the late summer of 2010 I decided that, after years of being a slightly successful indie music artist who made a steady stream of pocket change from the songs that I wrote and recorded, that I would like to… Read more

    3RD FULL LENGTH ALBUM DROPS AT iTUNES


    The 3rd full length album
    REMIXES, DEMOS & BOOTLEGS
    hit iTunes this week.

    This record has a collection of some old tracks, some new tracks and some bootlegged tracks.

    Everything was completely remastered from
    scratch.

    Enjoy.
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    BACK IN THE iTUNES STORE


    Just a quicky to let everyone know that my first full length album THE SECRET LIFE OF BOYS is back up at iTunes under my own name: Arlin Godwin.

    If you don't have this record you can now get…Read more

    NO PANTS

    Some of you might have heard of the NO PANTS events that have been popular in cities all over. Recently Capitol Improv (located here in my home town of Washington, DC) participated in their own version of what they call…Read more
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    "AMERICAN PSYCHO" REVISITED

    I watched "American Psycho" last night on blu ray. Hadn't seen it in years. The quality was amazing. Sound was excellent.

    I actually think this film is a near masterpiece. It was much, much funnier than I had remembered (time…Read more
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    SHIT IS EASY...PERFECTION IS HARD

    So after about 3 months of diddling around with a new track called "8 MINUTES TO ORBIT" it still didn't sound right to me this afternoon when I sat down to listen again to my last mix. Frustrating to say…Read more

    LET IT SNOW

    So amazingly enough it snowed all day long on Saturday. Unfortunately in the city of Washington, DC where I live it just barely dusted the ground. We just haven't had enough cold around to lower temperatures on the streets to…Read more

    BECOMING MYSELF: NO MORE FAKE BAND NAMES


    So after something like 7 years of being with San Fran label INgrooves---I've decided that it's time to move on and what's more it's time to be myself instead of Delphinium Blue. Feels good actually.

    Of course, leaving your label…Read more
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    DUBIOUS MIND BOMB: Hot Web Radio

    Did you know---there are some amazing people out there who are making radio safe for the masses again? I'm talking about Internet Stations and the incredible people who run them.

    I want to turn you on to one really great…Read more
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    NEW WORLD COMING Hits Radio World Wide

    103 radio stations around the world are playing the single NEW WORLD COMING from The Secret Life of Boys album. Thank you to all the DJs supporting the record.