Living Sedative @ MindSay 
Levelling Up!
Hi. I've been away a while, and I'm sorry. It seems every time I say I'm going to update the blog more often, I don't. That said, it sounds rather typical of me nowadays.
Anyway! I come bearing news, which kind of ties into the title of this blog: I'm leaving home. It's a bit of a long story, so I'm not going to bore you with the full details, however here's the basic jist of it. Somebody I work with was looking to sell his two bedroomed house with little success, and I was looking for a place to buy, only to find out that I couldn't afford to, and the Government won't help me out. Turning my attention to renting, I found out that I would be able to rent off of Mike, the guy I work with. We sat down and worked some details out, got a contract filled out, and here we are now.
I was given the keys on Saturday, so officially I can move in whenever I'm wanting, however I'm actually going to be moving out this coming weekend. If I'm to be honest, I'm really excited. It's going to give me a chance to spread my wings out fully, and do anything I want to do without having to clear it with anybody. I'm 23 now, and I really can't stand to be here anymore. My life has to progress, and I'm certainly making tracks. Coupling moving out with travelling to Las Vegas in October, it seems the second half of 2009 is going to be everything I said this year would be. January to June wasn't exactly progressing the way I'd intended, but that'll all be forgotten come December.
Anyway, moving quickly onwards to stop this sounding like another one of the "Hyping Myself Up" blogs that I seem to have been writing for years now, progress on the two Living Sedative albums has slowed. I am still having ideas, though, which is a good thing. In fact, only yesterday I had an idea for a track where the drums would be the lead instrument, which is certainly an interesting concept I would like to play with. I also keep coming up with some pretty good track names that I'd like to use. My current favourite is Teach the Stars to Shine, which would be the title of a dreamy, ambient track. Nothing heavy, no drums, just a few soft synths tinkling away.
Finally, before I go, I've been working on a concept track called The Hare vs The Tortoise. If you know the fable of the same (or similar) name, then you'll know what this song is. If you don't, a brief rundown: It's about a race between a hare and a tortoise. The hare races into a strong lead, and ends up falling asleep believing his lead to be unbeatable. Whilst he's asleep, the tortoise overtakes him, and eventually wins the race. Moral of the story is to never underestimate your opponent. Anyway, my track takes the story and tells it through music, with the hare being represented by a heavy rock track, and the tortoise by a slow, bass lead track. It's currently in Third Demo status, and is actually nearly finished. I just need to finish up the end of the track and clean a few sections up, and then it'll be ready to roll. The full, finished track will be nearing 6 or 7 minutes, I'm hoping, but we'll see when it's done.
And with that, I leave you. I'll try and blog once I have internet set up at my new home, and after that I will honestly try and be a lot more regular. I'll also update the layout of the blog and give it a new theme, as this one's getting a bit old. So, until next time, whenever that may be!
-=Gavvie=-
Anyway! I come bearing news, which kind of ties into the title of this blog: I'm leaving home. It's a bit of a long story, so I'm not going to bore you with the full details, however here's the basic jist of it. Somebody I work with was looking to sell his two bedroomed house with little success, and I was looking for a place to buy, only to find out that I couldn't afford to, and the Government won't help me out. Turning my attention to renting, I found out that I would be able to rent off of Mike, the guy I work with. We sat down and worked some details out, got a contract filled out, and here we are now.
I was given the keys on Saturday, so officially I can move in whenever I'm wanting, however I'm actually going to be moving out this coming weekend. If I'm to be honest, I'm really excited. It's going to give me a chance to spread my wings out fully, and do anything I want to do without having to clear it with anybody. I'm 23 now, and I really can't stand to be here anymore. My life has to progress, and I'm certainly making tracks. Coupling moving out with travelling to Las Vegas in October, it seems the second half of 2009 is going to be everything I said this year would be. January to June wasn't exactly progressing the way I'd intended, but that'll all be forgotten come December.
Anyway, moving quickly onwards to stop this sounding like another one of the "Hyping Myself Up" blogs that I seem to have been writing for years now, progress on the two Living Sedative albums has slowed. I am still having ideas, though, which is a good thing. In fact, only yesterday I had an idea for a track where the drums would be the lead instrument, which is certainly an interesting concept I would like to play with. I also keep coming up with some pretty good track names that I'd like to use. My current favourite is Teach the Stars to Shine, which would be the title of a dreamy, ambient track. Nothing heavy, no drums, just a few soft synths tinkling away.
Finally, before I go, I've been working on a concept track called The Hare vs The Tortoise. If you know the fable of the same (or similar) name, then you'll know what this song is. If you don't, a brief rundown: It's about a race between a hare and a tortoise. The hare races into a strong lead, and ends up falling asleep believing his lead to be unbeatable. Whilst he's asleep, the tortoise overtakes him, and eventually wins the race. Moral of the story is to never underestimate your opponent. Anyway, my track takes the story and tells it through music, with the hare being represented by a heavy rock track, and the tortoise by a slow, bass lead track. It's currently in Third Demo status, and is actually nearly finished. I just need to finish up the end of the track and clean a few sections up, and then it'll be ready to roll. The full, finished track will be nearing 6 or 7 minutes, I'm hoping, but we'll see when it's done.
And with that, I leave you. I'll try and blog once I have internet set up at my new home, and after that I will honestly try and be a lot more regular. I'll also update the layout of the blog and give it a new theme, as this one's getting a bit old. So, until next time, whenever that may be!
-=Gavvie=-
Twittering Away to the Masses
It's been another long while since I wrote here (over 2 months, which isn't as long as some gaps go), but I have been working behind the scenes on a number of new bits and bobs in a couple of different areas, listed below for easy reading:
1 - Twitter
So I succumbed to getting a Twitter account. To be honest, I always looked at it and thought "What's the point of this?", but it's actually a really good way of keeping updated on lots of things, and lots of people, at once. Naturally, I'm going to plug my Twitter here. I can be found here, so feel free to follow me if you're so inclined. I'm intending to blog more often, and use MindSay and Twitter in conjunction with each other, so if you're wanting to keep up to date on Gavvie/Living Sedative news, following one or the other is probably the best way to do it.
2 - Living Sedative
Speaking of Living Sedative, a couple of blogs ago I mentioned how I'd been working on a track called Returning to Where We Once Began. Work on that track is ongoing, however in its place two tracks can be confirmed as finished, whilst I'm in the midst of working on a third. The two tracks are called Shut the World Out and Voyage into the Uncharted, whilst the demo track is called The Arrival of Death, and is a particular favourite of mine, so I'm quite looking foward to getting that one finished. Once it is, I'll stick the three into a RAR file and SendSpace them as a little Demo EP to keep you going whilst I'm working on some other tracks I've got in the works.
No release dates for either of the two albums I'm working on yet. I'm going to take my time with them, so I can be happy with the final result.
3 - RadioSEGA
As always, there's not an awful lot I can say about the projects I'm working on with regards to RadioSEGA. Some of it is in the "Worst Kept Secret" section, but I want to keep what I myself am working on to myself and a few close confidents for the time being, whilst the final bits and pieces get worked out. However, I am hoping to mention a bit more towards the end of July, so keep an eye out there.
Also, I've also set up a Twitter for RadioSEGA, so if you'd like to follow the developments of RS, then click here. It's also officially endorsed (what with me being a Staffer), so it's not just a fan-made Twitter account. It also has a pretty background, which looks a lot better than the shitty one I cooked up in MS Paint, lol.
I'll try and post a more personal blog before the week's out, but I'm off to bed now so it's time for me to cut this short. Night night.
-=Gavvie=-
1 - Twitter
So I succumbed to getting a Twitter account. To be honest, I always looked at it and thought "What's the point of this?", but it's actually a really good way of keeping updated on lots of things, and lots of people, at once. Naturally, I'm going to plug my Twitter here. I can be found here, so feel free to follow me if you're so inclined. I'm intending to blog more often, and use MindSay and Twitter in conjunction with each other, so if you're wanting to keep up to date on Gavvie/Living Sedative news, following one or the other is probably the best way to do it.
2 - Living Sedative
Speaking of Living Sedative, a couple of blogs ago I mentioned how I'd been working on a track called Returning to Where We Once Began. Work on that track is ongoing, however in its place two tracks can be confirmed as finished, whilst I'm in the midst of working on a third. The two tracks are called Shut the World Out and Voyage into the Uncharted, whilst the demo track is called The Arrival of Death, and is a particular favourite of mine, so I'm quite looking foward to getting that one finished. Once it is, I'll stick the three into a RAR file and SendSpace them as a little Demo EP to keep you going whilst I'm working on some other tracks I've got in the works.
No release dates for either of the two albums I'm working on yet. I'm going to take my time with them, so I can be happy with the final result.
3 - RadioSEGA
As always, there's not an awful lot I can say about the projects I'm working on with regards to RadioSEGA. Some of it is in the "Worst Kept Secret" section, but I want to keep what I myself am working on to myself and a few close confidents for the time being, whilst the final bits and pieces get worked out. However, I am hoping to mention a bit more towards the end of July, so keep an eye out there.
Also, I've also set up a Twitter for RadioSEGA, so if you'd like to follow the developments of RS, then click here. It's also officially endorsed (what with me being a Staffer), so it's not just a fan-made Twitter account. It also has a pretty background, which looks a lot better than the shitty one I cooked up in MS Paint, lol.
I'll try and post a more personal blog before the week's out, but I'm off to bed now so it's time for me to cut this short. Night night.
-=Gavvie=-
The Old and the New - A Living Sedative Blog
As an addition to the blog I wrote two or so days ago, I'm just posting here with a quick image I've knocked up on MS Paint, showing off what fonts I'm going to be using for the two upcoming albums.
On the top half of the image is the current Living Sedative logo, along with the font that's going to be used for The End of the Old. This is a final decision, and probably won't be changed.
The bottom half of the image is currently subject to a little bit of change. It showcases what I believe is going to be the new Living Sedative logo, and the font style for the album Starting Over. These two fonts could switch places, or I could find two entirely different ones. At the moment, I'm not 100% sure.
So why am I changing the LS font that I've used for the majority of the band's duration? Well, it's to do with the album title really. In my opinion, Starting Over isn't just the name of the fourth full album I'm working on. It's like a new beginning, something that's pretty much discarding what's gone on before it and starting afresh. With that in mind, I decided that everything had to change, including the current logo. I hope you like it.
Here's the image:
On the top half of the image is the current Living Sedative logo, along with the font that's going to be used for The End of the Old. This is a final decision, and probably won't be changed.
The bottom half of the image is currently subject to a little bit of change. It showcases what I believe is going to be the new Living Sedative logo, and the font style for the album Starting Over. These two fonts could switch places, or I could find two entirely different ones. At the moment, I'm not 100% sure.
So why am I changing the LS font that I've used for the majority of the band's duration? Well, it's to do with the album title really. In my opinion, Starting Over isn't just the name of the fourth full album I'm working on. It's like a new beginning, something that's pretty much discarding what's gone on before it and starting afresh. With that in mind, I decided that everything had to change, including the current logo. I hope you like it.
Here's the image:
Day 3: The End of an Era
My tenure at TK Maxx has come to a more than welcome end, yay. Unfortunately, I was unable to go ahead with my plans to screw them over, as I ended up being in the middle of it all, and they'd gone and ordered some change anyway. Nevermind, it's the thought that counts.
OK, so I still haven't taken an MGS4 picture, and I don't think I'll bother now. To be honest, if you look on eBay you can find a picture easy enough anyway. It's already doubled in value, so the £80 is most definately money well spent now. I think it might settle around the £100-150 mark once the initial rush has died down. Not a bad investment at all.
I'm going to tell you about Overdose. A few weeks ago, I was sat in the cash office at TK Maxx, thinking about how I wanted to try my hand at some heavy metal tracks. However, the more I thought about it, the more I realised that heavy metal was never going to be a genre that suited Living Sedative, so my thoughts started to drift towards starting a new project to cater for it. And that's how Overdose was born. Unlike Living Sedative, there's no set release date for any music as yet, though I'm looking at having an EP out early in 2009. I'll tell you more as and when I'm able. There's only the one track produced as yet, which is the one I told you about yesterday (A Sombre Introduction).
Today's been a pretty slow one. I actually finished eating around 20 minutes ago. Dad said this morning that he'd ring me when he was finished at work/boozing, and then he'd go to get tea. I found out at around 6 that he'd gone to the pub, and was about fed up of waiting and was starting to get ready to make food around 10, which is when he called me. I spent the next hour or so listening to him babble on about shit I didn't care about, and trying to explain to him that there wasn't any football highlights on because they show the highlights of the first match after the second one. This didn't sink in at all, and he must've spent around 5 minutes scrolling through every channel he could think of trying to find highlights. Idiot.
Work was surprisingly good natured. It was confirmed that nobody had bothered to get me a card other than Sam, which I will be going to pick up tomorrow. Quite looking forward to seeing what they are, actually. But yeah, Tash couldn't even find in herself to say bye. I even had to walk past her twice to get my coat and MP3 player and stuff. Still doesn't bother me, because I was never expecting her to say anything, but it would've been nice had she just said "Bye", or "Good Luck". Everybody else was kind enough to say one or the other. Dad, in his drunken state, reckoned I should write a letter to TK Maxx's upper management. Not quite sure why I'd want to do that, but ah well, I can't be bothered to argue with him. It wouldn't get me anywhere.
Right, I'm gonna be shooting off now. Not really got an awful lot to say today. I bought myself some new clothes, figured I best put my staff discount to use one last time before I lost it, but that's about it really. I'm sure tomorrow will be more eventful. Pressies and driving lessons, and stuff. I'm gonna try and get some more music done as well, though how likely this is depends on what ideas I can come up with.
Ten days tomorrow until my baby comes back :D Yes, I am counting down the days until I get to speak to her on the phone again. Call me sad, I don't care.
G'night people.
-=Gavvie=-
OK, so I still haven't taken an MGS4 picture, and I don't think I'll bother now. To be honest, if you look on eBay you can find a picture easy enough anyway. It's already doubled in value, so the £80 is most definately money well spent now. I think it might settle around the £100-150 mark once the initial rush has died down. Not a bad investment at all.
I'm going to tell you about Overdose. A few weeks ago, I was sat in the cash office at TK Maxx, thinking about how I wanted to try my hand at some heavy metal tracks. However, the more I thought about it, the more I realised that heavy metal was never going to be a genre that suited Living Sedative, so my thoughts started to drift towards starting a new project to cater for it. And that's how Overdose was born. Unlike Living Sedative, there's no set release date for any music as yet, though I'm looking at having an EP out early in 2009. I'll tell you more as and when I'm able. There's only the one track produced as yet, which is the one I told you about yesterday (A Sombre Introduction).
Today's been a pretty slow one. I actually finished eating around 20 minutes ago. Dad said this morning that he'd ring me when he was finished at work/boozing, and then he'd go to get tea. I found out at around 6 that he'd gone to the pub, and was about fed up of waiting and was starting to get ready to make food around 10, which is when he called me. I spent the next hour or so listening to him babble on about shit I didn't care about, and trying to explain to him that there wasn't any football highlights on because they show the highlights of the first match after the second one. This didn't sink in at all, and he must've spent around 5 minutes scrolling through every channel he could think of trying to find highlights. Idiot.
Work was surprisingly good natured. It was confirmed that nobody had bothered to get me a card other than Sam, which I will be going to pick up tomorrow. Quite looking forward to seeing what they are, actually. But yeah, Tash couldn't even find in herself to say bye. I even had to walk past her twice to get my coat and MP3 player and stuff. Still doesn't bother me, because I was never expecting her to say anything, but it would've been nice had she just said "Bye", or "Good Luck". Everybody else was kind enough to say one or the other. Dad, in his drunken state, reckoned I should write a letter to TK Maxx's upper management. Not quite sure why I'd want to do that, but ah well, I can't be bothered to argue with him. It wouldn't get me anywhere.
Right, I'm gonna be shooting off now. Not really got an awful lot to say today. I bought myself some new clothes, figured I best put my staff discount to use one last time before I lost it, but that's about it really. I'm sure tomorrow will be more eventful. Pressies and driving lessons, and stuff. I'm gonna try and get some more music done as well, though how likely this is depends on what ideas I can come up with.
Ten days tomorrow until my baby comes back :D Yes, I am counting down the days until I get to speak to her on the phone again. Call me sad, I don't care.
G'night people.
-=Gavvie=-
Day 2: And Now It's Hit Me
You know, it's funny. In yesterday's entry, I was going on about how I felt fine, despite sounding mopey whilst I was writing my blog, and as soon as I press "Publish", I start to feel lonely. It's a feeling that hasn't left me alone today, so I'm assuming that Mena's absense has struck me now. I've not been in a particularly merry mood today, because I can't help thinking about how much fun Mena's having right now, and how little fun I'm having. As I might've said yesterday, she's out having fun, and I'm working which, whether it be at Specsavers or TK Maxx, isn't really going to be all that fun. Still, I'm not gonna dwell on that for the third day in a row, so let's move on.
It turns out I will be getting a card from work...well, from Sam, actually. He told me this morning that he's gone and got me a card and a present. Dunno what yet, mind, because he forgot to bring them with him to work, so I'll find out Saturday, when I take my uniform in. Naturally, I'll tell you then.
Speaking of Saturday, one thing I'm not looking forward to is my driving lesson. I've given it much thought, and I've decided that I'm probably just one of those Crap Drivers that people always moan about. Who knows, after some of the mistakes I've made, maybe I'm already moaned about. Still, I've had 13-14 lessons, and I'm still making basic mistakes, so something's up. We'll see what happens this weekend.
There still hasn't been anything monumentally important for me to talk about, I'm afraid. Work was pretty slow and boring, partly because of my state of mind, and partly because the jobs I was given to do were rather boring and uneventful in themselves. It will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow, though. In theory, I shouldn't be in the cash office anymore, but I don't know whether Tash will follow the rules or not. I'm not fussed either way, and I'm not quite sure which one I'd prefer doing.
One thing I am looking forward to is extra sleep :D You see, I don't start work at Specsavers until 9, so I can afford to wake up at 8, which is 75 minutes extra sleep than what I'm getting now, so I should start feeling more relaxed and stuff fairly shortly. Some days my mood is purely down to how tired I feel. It can make my happiness rather muted, or it can make my sad and lonely days worse, so having extra sleep is definately a plus, even if all it does is help me decide whether I'm happy or not.
I said I'd take pictures of my MGS4 Limited Edition boxset, and I didn't. I'm sorry. I'll take some tomorrow, I've got longer to do it. Not really been in the mood to do much today, as evidenced by the fact that all I have done today, since coming home from work, is watch three or four episodes of Transformers. I did have a bit of a headache though, so that's why I decided to take a day off from gaming. Normal service should resume tomorrow.
Oh, tomorrow's Friday the 13th, which I'm not looking forward to. I've never been superstitious, but apart from one or two occurances, there's always something that goes wrong for me. The mix of my last day at work and Tash seems less like a coincidence now. I have a feeling she's gonna bollock me for something, anything, just to try and stick the knife in one last time before I go. The joke's on her though, I've employed a couple of failsafes just to show them why they shouldn't rely on one person to do everything. I'll tell you more about it in the next couple of days.
In music related news, I've started on a few new tracks, one of which is a version of I Hope You Listen to This Song Everyday, the track which will eventually be about Mena. It's a bit heavier than I would've liked it to be, but at the moment I'm just toying with ideas, so I might tone it down. I've also completed work on the very first Overdose track (announcement tomorrow), which is called A Sombre Introduction, and I've got a couple more Living Sedative demos in the works, one of which is called Voyage into the Uncharted. I quite like that one, it's definately on my "To Finish Soon" list. Also on that list is Cold Spot on the Sun. It's 1:44 long at the moment, but I want the finished track to be around the 7-8 minute mark. I've got a track called Demo 2, which has a bit of a Final Resolution sound to it (you know, it sounds like it wraps things up), so I think that might be the track I end up calling Going Out With a Bang.
Speaking of going out with bangs, it's about time I wrapped this blog up. Tomorrow I shall tell you what Overdose is exactly, I'll get around to showing you MGS4 pics, and I might mention how my last day at TK Maxx went. God, how I've looked forward to this day. Since around December 2006, in fact :p LONG time overdue.
Until tomorrow
-=Gavvie=-
P.S. I promise not to feel lonely when I press "Publish" tonight.
It turns out I will be getting a card from work...well, from Sam, actually. He told me this morning that he's gone and got me a card and a present. Dunno what yet, mind, because he forgot to bring them with him to work, so I'll find out Saturday, when I take my uniform in. Naturally, I'll tell you then.
Speaking of Saturday, one thing I'm not looking forward to is my driving lesson. I've given it much thought, and I've decided that I'm probably just one of those Crap Drivers that people always moan about. Who knows, after some of the mistakes I've made, maybe I'm already moaned about. Still, I've had 13-14 lessons, and I'm still making basic mistakes, so something's up. We'll see what happens this weekend.
There still hasn't been anything monumentally important for me to talk about, I'm afraid. Work was pretty slow and boring, partly because of my state of mind, and partly because the jobs I was given to do were rather boring and uneventful in themselves. It will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow, though. In theory, I shouldn't be in the cash office anymore, but I don't know whether Tash will follow the rules or not. I'm not fussed either way, and I'm not quite sure which one I'd prefer doing.
One thing I am looking forward to is extra sleep :D You see, I don't start work at Specsavers until 9, so I can afford to wake up at 8, which is 75 minutes extra sleep than what I'm getting now, so I should start feeling more relaxed and stuff fairly shortly. Some days my mood is purely down to how tired I feel. It can make my happiness rather muted, or it can make my sad and lonely days worse, so having extra sleep is definately a plus, even if all it does is help me decide whether I'm happy or not.
I said I'd take pictures of my MGS4 Limited Edition boxset, and I didn't. I'm sorry. I'll take some tomorrow, I've got longer to do it. Not really been in the mood to do much today, as evidenced by the fact that all I have done today, since coming home from work, is watch three or four episodes of Transformers. I did have a bit of a headache though, so that's why I decided to take a day off from gaming. Normal service should resume tomorrow.
Oh, tomorrow's Friday the 13th, which I'm not looking forward to. I've never been superstitious, but apart from one or two occurances, there's always something that goes wrong for me. The mix of my last day at work and Tash seems less like a coincidence now. I have a feeling she's gonna bollock me for something, anything, just to try and stick the knife in one last time before I go. The joke's on her though, I've employed a couple of failsafes just to show them why they shouldn't rely on one person to do everything. I'll tell you more about it in the next couple of days.
In music related news, I've started on a few new tracks, one of which is a version of I Hope You Listen to This Song Everyday, the track which will eventually be about Mena. It's a bit heavier than I would've liked it to be, but at the moment I'm just toying with ideas, so I might tone it down. I've also completed work on the very first Overdose track (announcement tomorrow), which is called A Sombre Introduction, and I've got a couple more Living Sedative demos in the works, one of which is called Voyage into the Uncharted. I quite like that one, it's definately on my "To Finish Soon" list. Also on that list is Cold Spot on the Sun. It's 1:44 long at the moment, but I want the finished track to be around the 7-8 minute mark. I've got a track called Demo 2, which has a bit of a Final Resolution sound to it (you know, it sounds like it wraps things up), so I think that might be the track I end up calling Going Out With a Bang.
Speaking of going out with bangs, it's about time I wrapped this blog up. Tomorrow I shall tell you what Overdose is exactly, I'll get around to showing you MGS4 pics, and I might mention how my last day at TK Maxx went. God, how I've looked forward to this day. Since around December 2006, in fact :p LONG time overdue.
Until tomorrow
-=Gavvie=-
P.S. I promise not to feel lonely when I press "Publish" tonight.
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