Little Hardware Update

Recently pointed my head back to hardware and I just got myself a couple of Korgs... It's funny coz if you see my HW live set now, it looks like Korg's sponsoring me (I wish right?). Moving on, I got a Korg EMX and an ESX along with a Kaossilator, which I plan to use with my Kaoss Pad 3. All Korg products... wow. hehe The EMX is a music production machine with 5 part synth and 9 part drums whereas the ESX is a music production sampler. The Kaossilator is a fun little piece of equipment, which a lot of people see as a toy but I'm sure I could find some nice use for it for the live setting. Anyway, I'm hoping it'll jumpstart (it's working actually) my passion back for live regardless of venue, etc. I just want to play these days and get the music out again. Hopefully everyone can visit one time and say hi. God bless and that's it for the short update... Cy - silverfilter

lovecore update

Check out our latest BIG BIG update in my band's site. http://www.lovecoremusic.com Enjoy! It's still rough but we'll be building on it in the days to come God bless Cy

bored...

Having bought my guitar last December, I feel like I got bored now... Well, not entirely. There was something bout the search that kept me going for the guitars I've collected but as everything changes, my attention is now towards drum machines and synthesizers (once again). I didn't see the value in 'em "resalewise" which unfortunately is true compared to nicer guitars which can fetch almost the same, a little lower or possibly higher even after so many yrs. With electronic music gear, a few yrs down the line, it's old and dated and the producers are after what's new... that's why I love guitars. It's been the same since forever. Anyway, I wanna get myself an Elektron Machinedrum and an Elektron Monomachine. I dunno but I i suddenly wanted those two so bad that I'm now looking around what's left of my gear and selling what I could coz those two are awfully expensive. I don't want to go into detail here but I feel somehow, I lost the "fun" in music-making. I dunno why. I feel that I need to be a kid again and enjoy music for the sole of enjoying it and not thinking about other things like releasing material, playing out, etc. At this point, I feel like those two pieces would bring me back to being a kid waiting for his toys to arrive. It may take a while but I'm hoping it'll be sooner. I'm pretty excited if ever I do get them. All I know now is I have to be patient, wait, and attend to more important matters. I'm just looking forward to playing again like I used to, and fiddling with knobs and buttons with my new toys in front of me and all the time in the world. Cy-silverfilter

WANTED BAND

Hey guys! Helping out my tito here... We're looking for a back up band for Lou Bonnevie. Requirements: must be a full band for quite some time. You guys must be tight as a unit. With definite stage presence Into rock and roll/blues with the appreciation for the pop sensibility. New album will be touring soon so this is an immediate thing. Contact 09209268409 - Toto Thanks and God bless! Cy ps. pls don't email/txt me cuz I'm just helping out my uncle for this.

On leave for a week

I'll be away from the internet for a week so I'll be able to respond to any emails, posts by next week. Thanks. God bless Cy

Lovecore gig announcement Dec 17

Lovecore @ 9mile Bar

Start:	Dec 17, '08 9:00p
Location:	9mile Bar, Kalayaan Ave, Quezon City

Feeling a bit cold these nights? Well let us TURN ON THE HEAT!

Featuring:

Headband
Sando
Lovecore
Asking Maria
New Modern

P100 entrance with free drink. See you there!

Wala lang...

yesterday was ok.

In a nutshell

met up with a buyer
collected some payments
went to Yupangco
picked up Berns
went to glorietta to eat and finish xmas shopping
attended the local e xmas party
brought berns home

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It's been years since I last went to yupangco and I must say they finally made important changes. The showroom's better. The fine collection of Fenders were great! Being a fan of the Fender brand, it was nice to be around so many models especially the signature series models. I didn't bother testing some coz I didn't want to waste the time and energy of the salespeople cuz I don't want to buy at this time. hehehe

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I'm currently fixing the xmas gifts for people. kinda late but hey...

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It's quite a sacrifice selling my Korg synth to finance a guitar purchase but it had to be made :( The synth could find a better home since I don't get to use it anymore. It's just sad I have to let it go since it's part of my collection. Maybe in a few years I'd make it up and get a better one to replace that.

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My concern these days is how to get the gifts to my friends since I'll be leaving soon for davao for the holidays!!!

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Lovecore will be playing tom night at 9mile bar along kalayaan ave. see ya!

the weekend that was...

Friday...

Went with Bernice for her Highschool informal reunion dinner in Multinational. It was ok since I've known a lot of her batchmates from before so it was just like going out with my friends as well. Lotsa food... I couldn't stop myself actually and my tummy's a testament to that.

Oh yeah traffic was so bad that day esp in alabang

Saturday...

Drove off to Sta Rosa for Our drummer's daughter's 1st birthday party. We all know those parties are adult parties cuz the baby hardly knows what's happening. It was a great road trip going there and the food was great... kainan nanaman. My tummy's happy hehe It was also the first time I saw their new house so it was great to finally make the trip.

Since it was in Sta rosa, Bernice and Ola da manager decided to team up and sweet talk me into going to Tagaytay. I was in shorts and I didn't bring any jacket... did they care? NO!! I had no choice so I ended up going to Paseo de sta rosa to buy a jacket at one of the outlet stores there and was able to find a decent Nike jacket. We then proceeded to the trip listening to a Rex Navarette CD going up and went to this place, which I forgot the name hehe Bernice just wanted to go there. She bought 2 rings, we hung out and enjoyed the cold air, took pictures, and when the venue closed the lights on the viewing deck, we went straight to Breton to finish the evening with food again! hehe Left the place around 1am...

Sunday...

Steady as always. I woke earlier than usual since I was tired from driving the night before and I had time to swing by SM to see where I could use the Gift certificate I got but I didn't find anythin I liked haha Proceeded to church, dinner at CPK, then watched The Day The Earth Stood Still... nabitin ako sa movie na yun.

ayun. hahaha nothing to promote here just bloggin...

cy

Been a while... gigs and new ads I've done

As I mentioned in the title, it's been a while. I haven't been able to update my blog and I sound like a broken record saying I feel bad about it. I always think about maintaining updates but I never get around to doing it...

Anyway, for all the cebuanos, I'll be there to do a show for SINULOG along with Neon8 and Couchlab so I hope to see you guys there. I'm hoping to finally revive my live set. Been very busy with work...

I recently just finished all (except for 1 cuz I had to go to baguio) the GMA christmas ads for the ff...

Aji
Fitrum
C2
Mr. Donut
KFC
Smart
Goldilocks
Solmux
UFC ketchup

I also did an Efficascent ad but I'm not sure if it's included in that.

It was quite a task finishing those that I had 2 17 hour days to do them. I was literally glued to my seat. I had other "easier" days. But it was worth it.

in other news, Lovecore recently played in Mall of Asia... Last wed to be exact. This was for the No Limits event of my church, New Life. Sitti played. Kitchie played. Jericho played... masaya... We didn't have Reg with us though coz he had work so it was quite a stretch for us to play as a trio. Hirap.

We had to leave right after the set though cuz we had to rush to the wolfgang album launch... WE DIDN'T MAKE IT!!!! Wasted money if you ask me... paid for ticket and gas and we ended up with nothing... Good thing they were selling the new batch of Razorback shirts so it was the highlight of the night.

Anyway, I'm off to makati.

Thanks for reading. God bless!

Cy

Shopping to Burn After Reading

spent the day with Bernice and decided to go to Festival Mall to have a change of atmosphere since we're mostly in Town Center. I had a feeling it would be quite "scary" today in the sense that we'd both end up shopping and we did hehehe She ended up buying a pair of boots at Nine West and I just bought some shirts in Giordano and one at a sale in Armani Exchange. Our last stop was in Puma where I was checking out this pair of shoes and I couldn't try it out cuz I didn't have any socks on. I didn't want to try anything without socks (I think everybody shouldn't hehe) So I rushed to Robinsons to buy socks and headed back to Puma to try em on. Unfortunately, they only had only one pair for my size which had poor quality control (for that size only. I'm not dissing puma cuz I love the brand). I didn't want to settle. Good thing I was eyeing this black jacket (cuz I needed one) so I decided to spend my money where it's worth it.

Berns wanted to watch a movie at Town Center so we drove there and saw Burn After Reading. I was quite hesitant at first coz a friend of mine said it sucked. I LOVED IT! hehehe

Anyway, it was my rest day cuz my weekend was more like a "weakend'  since we had out Lovecore photoshoot then I had to drive to Los banos for a function, head back to Manila at 7am then go to church in the evening and head to a stag party of a friend which I organized with friends. It was great to finally spend the day with Berns and just be "lazy" and just enjoy the day.

Today, I guess I'll be  back working on the album again. I'm now waiting for some windows updates to finish coz my computer's actin up so I'm doing updates hoping to fix it.

So there...

Don't forget the gig on the 29th in Festival Mall Alabang!

Cy