Steven Gauci - Artist, Designer, Internet Developer

We're Baaaack!!

Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

What can I say but I'm baaaack!! Back in BC, back online, back to my blog, back on track!!

Karen and I returned to BC in February and we are glad to be back. Everyone asks, because of the weather? Nope it's the food...fresh veggies and lots of variety. As a vegetarian in the middle of Saskatchewan it was not until I returned here that I realized how much we left behind.We have also recently left a bunch of great people we call friends behind in Saskatchewan, but thats what holidays are for, catchin' up.

Back online, yeah it is my old website but a new one will be coming soon with some exciting announcements, sqeeee!!

Back to my blog...blah, blah, blah and now Facebook and Twitter as well.

Lots of old and new here in the left coast, and Stevil is back, on track and motorin'

The Secret CD of 2011

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:00:00 GMT

In 2011

The Jazz Phantoms is just that a secret recording released in September last year and has a sound like that early 70's cool jazz style that smacks of Weather Report, Chick Chorea, and even strains of classic Wayne Shorter can be pulled from the melodies. Reed has moved on now, or should I say gone back to the shadows of his daytime meal ticket. The rest of the band has moved forward and will be present and up front in the latest Steven Gauci offering due in mid-2012.

For now enjoy the sounds of Raspberry Jam by The Jazz Phantoms. check out the samples of several tracks by clicking here.

The Finch! has landed.

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Over a year from inception to today's release Finch! has arrived. This is my latest CD and by far one of the toughest projects I have undertaken. Part of that was the concept behind Finch!, it was to celebrate my life with my wife Karen and our 20 years together. It was

Containing nine tracks and a couple of firsts for me, the CD contains a track that is a reprise, my first ever. This was not a throw away bit rescued for posterity, but rather I found myself reworking the song before I realized it was one and the same. Liking both the longer original and the fuller reprise it ends the CD. As well there are three tracks that made me realize that the potential for more lengthy

Spring Cleaning

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Well it ain't spring yet but it's time to clear out the closet.

Looking around the house I decided to make a trip to our rented storage locker to put away the last of the Christmas trimmings and decided to take along several boxes for items we have had sitting around. When I got to the storage facility I was shocked at how much stuff we had accumulated over the past four years that we no longer need or use. So I started sorting it out, donations to the local used places, pass off things to people who could use it? Well there is a lot, and most of it business, and computer, related.

So I decided to clear out the closet online. I've stated a "Steve's Closet" section, just email for the username and password. Then login and the menu of items will come up. So far I have some of the computer items

Another One Bites the Dust

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:00:00 GMT

That suns up quite a bit for me in the past 4 months that I have been lax in my blog entries. The last entry was about our new family member and he was still unnamed. Lester has quickly followed Henry to the auto graveyard. On November 21st, 2010 while attempting to make a left turn we were impelled into a pick-up truck by another pick-up truck, which quickly sped away. Which according to SGI, Saskatchewan Government Insurance, makes me 100% at fault for the accident since I did not get the plate number of the weasel. Even though a Police report was filed, I must be lying and people say this all the time. The battle continues but Lester is gone.

I have put to bed the last incarnate of my offerings in the world of Graphic Design, and have taken on full-time employment with a Regina computer sales and service company. So gone is long days and endless stream of clients who never understood the time and value of good advertising. To most people in

New Family Member

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:35:42 GMT

If you have been reading this blog; and I ask the question...why not?; we lost a good friend over the past two weeks. Henry our Ford Focus wagon was destroyed in an accident here in Regina. Being without a set of wheels for transportation in the Province of Saskatchewan is not ideal so the search was on for a new member to the family.

We studied various makes and models for fuel consumption, safety rating and then started our quest to adopt a new member of the family. After looking at several different private deals and dealer lots we narrowed our search to a specific diesel model coupe in the top of the model range with as many options as possible with the lowest possible kilometres. After narrowing it down, we discovered a newcomer to Saskatchewan just arriving from Alberta. After receiving a clean bill of health and a zero accident report this 2006 grey Smart Passion CDI Coupe with only 42,000 km is now living where

Reeling in the Years.

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:19:01 GMT

I always thought that with age comes the great spiral descent into the darkness. Today I realize that age brings many things and that the darkness can be all consuming long before you make that last gasp.

Without knowing it I have been, for years now, in a very dimly lit place and that came to an end today in a small room, where I worked away on a computer finalizing my second coming out. I have been a very frustrated artist for decades now, working hard to achieve the trappings of financial success as the world around me got darker and more chaotic. You only have to turn the news on to see a world quite different from the one just twenty years ago. I have always joked that I want to know where my flying car is, you know the one that folds into my briefcase, because I never seen it. My way of pointing out that the promises the world held in my youth have not materialized. So rather disillusioned with life in the big city my wife and I

Bird Brained

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:34:35 GMT

At the first of the year both Karen and I purchased a desk calendar, you know the ones where you remove a page each day. My wife, always looking for a challenge and some educational content, purchased the Vocabulary Builder Calendar with the promise of a new word each day. Me being more into the inane chose the Trivia Calendar. So each morning we tear off a sheet from our respective calendars and share the newly revealed gem, not much else to do in Regina at 6:00 am I guess. Doing so let's us share and Karen leads the way, and I follow.

Well the calendar regiment as gone past the half way mark now and I am greeted each morning with the tearing off of Karen's day-old word to be followed by a groan. You see so far after almost 200 words, she has had only two she did not know. She, and I, have been met with the likes of, overt, tepid, and posthumous. Unlike Karen's calendar my has been a success I have learned that snails have four noses, there are one million ants for each human

Finch!

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:25:06 GMT

Way back when, in the mid-eighties, I was very active within the Canadian music industry but only recently have I been inspired to create new material at the rate

So this bird brain has decided that a new CD is on the way and will be a loosely based concept album that traces the changes and stations in a normal day of Karen, my wife, called Finch! The new CD will be available February 14th, 2011,

Visiting the Sick & Injured

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:47:21 GMT

This morning I spent some time with an injured friend here in Regina. He has been with my wife and I for three years now. You might think I'm talking about a family pet, a cat or dog, but I'm not. Our injured friend is Henry our car.

We always buy used cars since the majority of the depreciation is absorbed by the previous owner and we can see if the model line is all lemons or gems. We take care of our possessions, like we would any object we value, and we even give them names after we have owned then for a bit. Once a personality seems to become obvious we give them names of friends and family that they remind us of. Before Henry there was Stanley, a 1979 Ford F-250, who reminded me of kindly neighbour who would move anything anywhere and would always lend a hand, he brought us to Regina. Douglas was his predecessor a 1996 Plymouth Voyager who was named for an old school mate who after spending four years with me in the same classrooms decided one September he wanted to