On chilling

Tonight I have that stupid feeling that comes as a result of doing too much that says I should be doing something . It's one of them vicious circles. You do loads, really need to chill, but you're used to doing loads so chilling seems unproductive and wrong. Its a feeling I hate! I've been sitting here, idly surfing the net, reading blogs, checking emails, etc, and my subconcious is obviously thinking "right, just this one last thing then we'll do something useful". When my concious and my body both know that doing something 'useful' is a damn fool idea. But the subconcious has the upper hand as ever and it's spazzy reasoning is giving me that butterfly'y feeling. So I'm writing a stream of conciousness blog entry to smother it!

So I've been ridiculously busy lately building this Flash game with Andy. It took 3 weeks, shit loads of work, many all-nighters and several trips to London. But we pulled it off and await our handsome paycheque! Wahey! The result of being immersed in 1 project for 3 weeks is that I'm slightly behind in other things and have the above-mentioned 'Chilling Anxiety'. To top it all, this week is silly busy too.

I'm not used to working this much! It's literally the hardest I've worked since I quit my job and went travelling 2 years ago. That's not a bid for sympathy, by the way, infact I'm extremely impressed with myself that I managed to go 2 years without really stressing over a bout of really hard, intensive work. Excellent!

What else characterises planet Dave at the moment? Umm, I've updated my music site with some of my older tunes - click here. ("No! You will not relax and do nothing, you will update your music site dammit!") and I'm now 4th on the UK Google search for Dave House after, of course, The Other Dave House. I'm currently in the process of trying to make a Tech House tune for a genre-specific production challenge on a Discogs forum. That particular community recently remixed one of my tunes, too, which was interesting. It was cool to hear how other people interpreted my sounds (they were all recordings from my travels) - some of the tunes were great, others deviated from the original so much that remix isn't the word, not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

I like things with titles following the format of this post. 'on so and so'. It's kind of old-school scientific / philosophical.

I also like it when solids are measured by units traditionally associated with liquids.

I might be buying a king size bed.

Go and see Borat's movie film. It's very, very funny.

Well, thats about all I can think of for now. It seems to have done the trick - I'm no longer thinking I should be doing something useful. Infact I'm just tired now. So I'm turning in. Which is pretty useful in itself I suppose!