Formerly known as FFXFan

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=-