Radiosega @ MindSay

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=-

My Internet's being sucky, so I wrote this blog in WordPad. This isn't going to mean anything to you, nor has it affected the blog's quality in anyway, I just thought you'd like to know before we got into the meat and balls of it all.

So, the blog title today comes from a quote I read on NME today. Apparently the original members of Limp Bizkit have all reformed, and are planning a world tour and are also recording a new album. Yep, it seems Fred Durst and Wes Borland are both in need of pay packets, and some publicity. What really made me laugh was the joint statement they released though. It's almost as if you could tell they were lying. Allow me to paraphrase:

"We decided we were more disgusted and bored with the state of heavy popular music than we were with each other."

Yes, quite. I hope you enjoy being banded together with all the other pop groups who were in need of cash quick. At this rate, we'll be seeing the reformation of B*Witched next...

Moving swiftly onwards, I'm very pleased to announce that I haven't fallen over since my last blog. My apologies for not blogging sooner, but as I said earlier, I've been hit by a sucky Internet since Tuesday, and prior to that I'd been putting it off. Whoops. I'm not exactly sure what's the matter, but at the moment I'm going to blame Virgin Media and/or the crap weather, whichever one owns up first.

I'm sat here, listening to Celldweller through headphones, because literally there's nothing better to do. I'd turn my Xbox/PS3 on, but in all seriousness it's just too much effort. Besides, I quite like listening to the song I'm listening to, and I don't really want to stop playing it just so I can play some...well, whatever I'd end up playing. Just in case you're wondering, I'm listening to Frozen (Mass Panic Mix by Skeel), which is on the album Take It & Break It Vol. 2. It's a pretty good remix actually. It turns the track, which was originally very electronica based, into a heavy rock track. I love it, it sounds awesome.

I suppose I should fill you in on the past week. Work has been a bit poor this week. I'm not sure exactly why, but still, it's not been a good week, so I'm glad that I've got a week off next week to recharge my batteries and not get too frustrated with it all. Some people have been a bit on edge for no apparent reason, and we've had some arsey patients as well. Patients with no patience, it seems. OMG U C WHUT I DID THAR?!?! ...I guess the snow brings out the worst in people.

Yesterday, I had to take four rather heavy boxes of A4 paper upstairs to the storeroom. As I said, they were quite heavy, and on the fourth box I had to stop at the contact lens department to catch my breath. Yes, I am weak, there's no need to tell me (although you probably will anyway). I didn't think much of it at the time, but I think I might have actually done myself some harm, as today my upper left arm aches, as does my left knee. Of the two, my left knee actually hurts more, as it hurts everytime I bend it. Even now, just being sat down is giving me a very slight pain. Still, because I'm a stupid fucker, I'm just gonna battle on and get on with it. I'm sure it's nothing too serious. Oh, and I've just noticed my back aches too. I might as well've called this blog Aches & Pains Vol. II.

Mena's coming to see me tomorrow :D She's going to be staying with me for a week over half term. I'm very excited about it, because the weekend we spent together in December was ace, and this week's gonna be better, purely because we're spending longer together :D I shall let you know how it was when it's over, as I don't think the mixture of Mena and Sucky Internet will let me blog a lot, if at all.

I'm gonna wrap this blog up with two semi-announcements. I'm calling them Semi-Announcements because I'm not really announcing anything, except that I'm not announcing anything. Still, I'll put them in seperate paragraphs, as it'd be easier to read that way, and it makes this entry longer, as if it wasn't long enough already.

ANNOUNCMENT #1
I might reform Living Sedative. I was thinking about it the other day, and when I get a bit more free time, I want to actually finish the tracks I was working on, rather than leave some good ideas behind, never to be heard from again. I wouldn't release them as two seperate albums though. Instead, they'd be put into one album, which I reckon will be called The Final Resurrection of Living Sedative, seeing as after that I would kill the project off until I could make something even better.

This album would then be followed by a "Greatest Hits", if you want, called R.I.P. I'm not too sure how that would work out, but then, this is just something I'd like to do when I can get my tools back together and find the time to do it. It's very unlikely, but still, it would be nice to go out with a bit of a bang. We'll see.

ANNOUNCEMENT #2
I still can't tell you about this one yet XD I'm waiting until it's made public, but I'll give you a few cryptic clues. After all, you've read this far.

Basically, I've been made a Moderator at RadioSEGA. This is a pretty big deal for me, as I've been a fan of the site since I stumbled upon it's radio station via my PSP in December 2008, and as I got to know its members, I felt like I could offer a lot to them, either as forum staff or as a contributor, and the more I fit in, the more I felt I could do.

So, I could be doing a bit of both. I've been made a Moderator, and because of this I'm now privy to a lot of internal discussions as to how the site should be improved and built upon, in order to really grab a hold of the increasing traffic and popularity we seem to be getting. I mean, we're getting mentioned in magazines for fuck's sake. Could AWFF and its self-centred arseholes lay claim to that? I thought not.

Anyway, in the future we're planning a pretty big deal that's going to make the radio station something really special. I'll wait until Mark makes it public on the forums. After all, I'd hate to be the one who lets the cat out of the bag. It is a big deal though, and something to get excited about.

On that "cryptic" note, I'm going to head off, and see if I can get this blog uploaded the next time my laptop decides to connect to the wireless router. If you see this blog on Thursday 12th February, I was successful. If not, then I obviously failed, and I have hung my head in shame.

Till next time...probably a week.
-=Gavvie=-