Logbook Episode 32 Out Now!

Week 32 of my weekly video blog is out now, demonstrating a quiet few days of nothingness, but peaceful ones! You can't have light without dark, and when the "dark" times are spent playing your favourite childhood game, visiting family and running errands with your friends, are they really dark times at all? 

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This week's Logbook Radio choice: 'Song For Sunshine' by Belle and Sebastian (2006)

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A record I ordered last week arrived on Monday and in spectacular condition! My copy of 'The World Of The Zombies', a 1970 compilation album of another of my favourite British Invasion groups, now sits proudly among my LPs. I particularly loved listening to 'Tell Her No' and 'She's Not There', two expertly-crafted songs which, for me at least, define that bowl-cut Beatnik lifestyle just about as well as some of the mid-sixties Beatles records do. After that, I dug out my old GameCube from under my bed! What a fantastic console! I loved it so much I played through the whole of Luigi's Mansion in one day... is something wrong with me? 

Tuesday didn't see much action other than the large majority of the "Hidden Mansion" mode on Luigi's Mansion getting completed. Some professional photos from the most recent Oddpulse gig arrived today however, so I had a great time flicking through those and downloading the ones I loved the most! We'll certainly be using those more and more throughout our marketing for the upcoming Odyssey project! 

On Wednesday I met with Lee Wright, keyboardist of Celestine and artist in his own (w)right. Since he doesn't own a MacBook or any advanced digital audio workstation software, he came round to my house to work on some of his music for an upcoming album project called 'The Start of Something New'. It was a lot of fun crafting basslines and guitar parts for his songs, and in the few hours we had together, we completed at least one guide track in full, which will help us when we inevitably begin recording live parts in September. 

On Thursday, myself and Jessie met with our classmate Reggie to help him with an extension he received on a university assignment. As well as helping to craft new lyrics (and babysit Reggie's wonderful dog Spike), we assisted as much as we could with the writing and the feedback of the songs we recorded that day. This was once again a case of the university not allowing its students into the complex during Summer, even with extensions (therefore disallowing them the usage of professional equipment like Mac computers or even basic necessities of our course like rehearsal rooms). It is, in fact, incredibly lucky that I have Logic Pro on my MacBook so that I can help classmates like Reggie to actually pass the course - the university don't seem willing to help, as evident. 

Friday was a hang-out day with Caleb, bassist of the Kaleidoscope Eyes among hundreds of other local projects. We had a coffee together and talked about the future, planning little parts of some video series that Caleb wants to produce and some live projects that I want to organise with a band of my own at some point in the near future. Caleb convinced me to ride an e-scooter with him, and I would be lying if I said that I didn't fear for my life at all during that ride. 

Over the weekend, in addition to meeting my best friends Max and Zach at the pub on Saturday for a catch-up (and inevitable emasculating session towards myself - I don't drink alcohol by choice, and no one around me ever seems to respect my wishes not to be humiliated for it or forced to do something against my will, not even my closest friends for some reason). On Sunday, I went to town with Zach. His shift was cancelled at work (an inevitability of the elusive zero hours contract which isn't even a contract - borderline illegal) and so we ran some errands in the city centre. I bought some gifts for fathers' day and my dad's birthday, Zach purchased some Warhammer paints and a new brush, and we even fulfilled a good deed - we gave directions to some strangers, an older father and his daughter (who looked no older than 28) who were looking for the Old Market Square. Since Zach and I were headed that way anyway, we walked them there and had some really nice conversations about being students in the area, what the night life is like and what we occupy our time doing throughout the week. Our friends from the station departed from behind the council house and we even received some handshakes and thank-yous for our conversations and our services of sorts. I felt really good afterwards. 

That's been my week! If you want to see it in arguably less detail, check out the vlog! Anyway, I'll talk to you again next week, take care! 

Thanks for reading! <3